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Soprano Emily Hughes is thrilled to be performing again with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Last season, Emily received a Jeiven Award for her performances in the ensemble of Manon and as Lisette in scenes from La Rondine. Other past operatic roles include Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Despina (cover) in Così fan tutte with Connecticut Lyric Opera, Elsa in The Grand Duke with Utopia Opera, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel at Brooklyn College, and Messaggera in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with DePaul Opera Theatre. She has been a soprano soloist for Carmina Burana and Vivaldi’s Gloria and has given several world premiere performances of concert works. In addition to her work on new compositions, Emily is passionate about performing early music. She sings with the New York Continuo Collective and


Is something big coming related to heightened tensions either with Russia, Iran, or Syria? It appears the U.S. military is publicizing a "show of force" of sorts, but not exactly in the conventional way of deploying tanks, ships, and aircraft.

Instead the official US Air Force website, af.mil, has announced to the world late this week that Ramstein Air Base in Germany has received its largest shipment of ammo in 20 years. The official government Air Force website announced:

The 86th Munitions Squadron on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, received its largest shipment of ordnance in recent history. Approximately 100 containers with a variety of munitions rolled into Ramstein during the month of October.

Master Sgt. David Head, 86th MUNS Munitions Operations section chief, noted that a delivery of such magnitude hasTrump are set to meet in Paris on November 11 on the sidelines of commemorative events of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Until then we expect the build-up both in terms of rhetoric and possibly weapons transfers into Europe to continue.


effort to ensure what it calls “a level playing field.”

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A Twitter representative spoke to Politico about the new policy, apparently meant to promote Twitter as a social media platform that provides equal access to all candidates, regardless of their politics and ideology. Nevertheless, the issue of those banned before this latest policy announcement has not yet been addressed.

In the meanwhile, reports said that candidates in other parts of the world who had been previously banned by Twitter might reasonably expect the same fate as Loomer – such as Tommy Robinson and Carl Benjamin in the UK, who ran for European Parliament elections earlier in the year.

Twitter’s policy is not new, as other giant social media sites like Facebook haveStudent’s tenacity and drive were keys to success

With the help of several mentors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Aguirre also relied on his own drive and organizational skills that will enable the first-generation college student to graduate with honors and a degree in Information Systems Technologies (IST) later this week. A 2017 McNair Scholar who owns a 3.906 GPA, Aguirre also learned on his own to cope with dyslexia.

Aguirre plans to attend graduate school with a goal of becoming a university professor teaching information systems technology. He will be one of more than 860 candidates participating in commencement exercises at 2 p.m. Dec. 16 at the SIU Arena.

He links the start of his academic progress to Elk Grove High School. Aguirre said that until his junior year there


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worker. They arose, as the Economic Policy Institute has put it, as an "accident of history," after one employer took advantage of a provision regarding deferred compensation in a 1978 tax law.

So the pension went away, to be replaced by a wholly inadequate substitute. And still, four in 10 workers are left out in the cold entirely, with no access to either a pension or a job-based retirement savings account. The number of employers offering retirement plans is also dropping. So the entire private retirement system is basically built on a foundation of sand, leaving out many and underfunding almost everyone else.

This has left Social Security as the main bulwark against senior poverty. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Social Security provides the majority ofof the current system will contrast favorably with the GOP's insistence on calling for Social Security cuts. (Though Clinton did oppose now-President Barack Obama's proposal to lift the cap on the payroll tax that funds Social Security – a key component of Sanders' plan – during the 2008 campaign.)

In a way, Sanders can even do some of Clinton's work for her; he's already criticized now-official 2016 candidate Jeb (errr, Jeb!) Bush for suggesting a cut in Social Security benefits via raising the retirement age. "I have a hard time understanding what world Gov. Bush and his billionaire backers live in," Sanders said.


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The group's first album was Genetic World, with several singles from the album released subsequently. The group's second album, Angel Milk was released in 2005. According to Telepopmusik's official MySpace page, their next album will be available in September 2010.
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earning him college credits, though his 4+ GPA report card had already indicated that.

More than all of that is vindication. For him, for us, for every homeschooling family out there who is facing the suspicion, doubt, questioning, ostracizing, and judgment from the ignorant masses in denial of the overwhelming evidence of government school failure.

To our son, these scores are evidence and culmination of success of the last ten years. He's bold and confident about his homeschooling years. As the students in his class were sharing each others' scores he proudly exclaimed, "that's from homeschooling, right there!" He was surprised by some of his peers' scores, some as many as 13 points below his (score range 1-32). He knows he shouldn't be surprised but nevertheless, it is disheartening.

We startedthe homeschooling journey with him when he was five. Our youngest child was very ill and had recently been diagnosed with Celiac disease. We had contemplated homeschooling but put our son into our small town public school against our best judgment to allow me the time I thought I needed to nurture my daughter back to health. We noticed drastic changes in him immediately. He was missing his dog joy. He came home sad, got up in the morning sad, and was sad and withdrawn in school. RLB dropped him off at school one day, just a few weeks into the school year, and saw our son clinging to the fence screaming as he started to drive away. RLB stopped and ran to the fence. Our little boy


so he could play football and wrestle. The list of unbelievable occurrences started to rack up. We pulled him again. He had fallen way behind our standards academically though he was getting straight A's.

We caught him up to where we thought he should be and considered having him test for his GED so he could enroll in the local college. We found out the high school here has the AP program and again we wanted him to play sports. RLB was confident he was very well prepared for the politics of public school. Our son is a mature sixteen-year-old and is no longer influenced by the feminism that is ever present in the public schools. He's getting training that will be quite useful to him as he venturesgroups: the German Heart Foundation, the British Cardiac Patients Association, the European Heart Network, the Support Network of the American Heart Association, the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG), the European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNet), the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, the European Society of Anaesthesiology, the American Society of Anaesthesiologists, and to the Cochrane Heart Group. Participants were invited to forward the invitation to anyone whom they regarded as having the required expertise to substantially contribute to this eDelphi survey. Those who chose to participate were asked to respond with their e-mail address, country of origin and area of expertise. Participants were


Kaka, and it is well-trained, waiting for its owner in the shoe rack near the door when she and Roger go out.

When Ah Tao (Deanie Ip), a servant to the Leung family for nearly 60 years, suffers a stroke, her medical conditions eventually lead her to quit her job and move into a local nursing home. The man she cared for since he was a boy, Roger (Andy Lau), takes it upon himself to help her adjust to her new life, which involves getting to know her new nursing home family, a motley crew of unique and quirky residents. As Ah Tao’s health deteriorates, roles reverse, with Roger now taking charge of her care.
At one point, while others get to visit with extended families, Ah Tao remains inWritten by

Going into this season, Jerron McMillian appeared to have a decent shot at winning a starting job at safety for the Green Bay Packers.

But by early in the season, the second-year pro had dropped to the bottom of the depth chart, and Tuesday the Packers cut ties with the fourth-round pick from the 2012 draft.

The Packers released McMillian to make room on their roster for halfback Kahlil Bell. McMillian was expendable because he was the Packers' No. 5 safety after falling behind undrafted rookie Chris Banjo and second-year pro Sean Richardson, who returned recently from neck surgery in January. ...


The Faculty Research Interests Roster.
Profiles of the research interests of faculty at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) were gathered and organized into the three-part faculty research interests roster. Faculty completed a questionnaire detailing their current research activities and areas of technical expertise. The article describe difficulties encountered in gathering and organizing the information. Two editions of the Roster were complied. The second, revised edition consists of section listing faculty by department with their research interests as they describe them, by broader subject arrangement, and by areas of technical expertise. The article concludes wit the description of the positive and negative results generated by the Roster and a plan for improving the publication in the future.is not the first time the group has been linked to terrorism. Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A., who led the organisation and served as its preacher, was arrested in November of 2016.

Known across the radical Islamist scene in Germany as “Abu Walaa”, he was taken into custody along with four others who were all said to radicalise and recruit for Islamic State as well as help Muslims get to Syria and Iraq.

Before the December terror attack, an informant told authorities that Amri, who had been at the mosque, was plotting to drive a lorry through a Christmas market. He said the police should arm themselves with submachine guns, though the authorities thought the threat was exaggerated and chose to ignore the informant.

Radical hate preacher Sven Lau was also connected


to the group. Lau formed a “sharia police” group in Germany and was put on trial for allegedly helping Islamic State with recruitment and supplies including night vision goggles.

Since the December Berlin attack, the German government has begun to crack down on Islamists in the country. Authorities have made multiple arrests since the start of the year including at a Berlin mosque that was also linked to Amri. Over 400 police raided the now banned Fussilet 33 group in late February.

German intelligence sources have revealed the Islamist threat has grown significantly in Germany over the past few years. In 2013 there were reportedly around 100 known Islamist radicals, and that number has skyrocketed to over 1,600.

Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson@breitbart.comyou something." He handed me a large envelope. "What is it?" "Open it." Inside was a catalogue for an art school in the city. I looked up at him. "Go on, read it." I opened the cover, and a piece of paper fluttered to the floor. Uncle Julian stooped and picked it up. "Here," he said, mopping his forehead. It was a registration form. On it was my name, and the name of a class called "Drawing from Life." "There's a card, too," he said. I reached inside the envelope. It was a postcard of a Rembrandt self-portrait. On the back it said: Dear Al, Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you. Happy


I did not need my memory freshened because I already knew what it said because I'd done 9 drafts since I wanted to type it for officialness and I kept making mistakes. What it said was "Dear Mom and Alma and Anyone Else, I have to go away and I might be gone for a long time. Please don't try to find me. The reason why is I'm a lamed vovnik and I have to take care of a lot of things. There is going to be a flood but you don't have to worry because I built you an ark. Alma you know where it is. Love, Bird."

Dr. Vishnubakat asked me how I got the name Bird. I told him I just did. If you want towith that understanding, this particular snapshot of British history is unknowable. Nothing really explains it.

The wave of anger directed at the RF and the Queen is fascinating, particularly in this context. On the one hand there is this sense that Diana was mistreated by an unfeeling institution and cold group of people, and yet when the Queen actually puts self before duty – in this case, caring for her grandchildren before her people – she is criticized for it more harshly than she’s even been criticized before. It underlines the great hypocrisy of all of this – we call the media killers when we consume their content; we call the Queen remote but demand she put duty first.

In watching the documentary there was a mix of slightly stunned


cooperation with parents and their needs.

Include parents and teachers in the decision making process.

Involve parents on the Campus Improvement Team and District Improvement Team.

Provide a parent survey that allows parents to anonymously provide feedback to the school.

Collaborating with Community Resources:

Crestview Elementary school will maintain an active campus improvement team comprised of administration, staff, faculty, parents, community representatives, and business leaders will provide advice and guidance to lead the school towards improvement and goal achievement.

Involve community patrons in the campus improvement meetings

Work with community and business members to help with and promote activities within the school to strengthen school programs, family practices, and student learning.

Ask for volunteers to assist in the school

Provide opportunities for local businesses to participate in the education experience.6/29 Shore's Blog: There is no such thing as "pure wrestling," and if there was, it would not be in ROH

Members and those of you who follow me on twitter (@the_shore_slant) have by now seen me confronted about my opinion concerning the Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards match at ROH Best in the World. To quickly recap for those not watching ROH--and shame on you if you fall in that category--I felt the match, which was the main event and for the ROH World Championship, was an amazing display of athleticism and wrestling moves, but a pretty poor wrestling match when taken as a whole. To say that opinion is in the minority is quite the understatement.

Most accounts and reviews of the show, including by Dot Net members,


quick history lesson for those who don't know wrestling's roots. Professional wrestling as it is known today (or sports entertainment if you insist) traces its lineage to traveling carnivals where strongmen would wrestle audience members in legit matches. There was always a plant in the crowd in case no one would volunteer. If the plant had to be used, of course the strongman would not want to hurt his carny partner, so they would "work" the match instead. Somebody somewhere figured out you could do this all the time and never have to worry about your guy losing because it was all staged. At that moment, professional wrestling was born.

Wrestling quickly spread out across the nation as the territory system was born. Partnerships and alliances were formed topresented to our hospital\'s emergency service with progressive, painless vision loss in her left eye lasting for 2 days. She was diagnosed with FMF based on her clinical complaints, familial history, and physical and laboratory examinations 2 months ago. She was started on oral colchicine therapy. She had no other history of systemic and ocular disease. Her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/20 in the right and there was light perception in the left eye, respectively. Intraocular pressure was in normal limits in both eyes. Slit lamp examination disclosed few cells in anterior chamber (+1) and anterior vitreous (+1) in the left eye. Fundus examination revealed perivascular, white, severe, and continuous sheathing of vascular structures starting from optic disc and extending to periphery. Veins were dilated and tortuous.


Updated at 4:25 p.m. with comment from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has needled his Anglo Democratic opponent for a Hispanic-sounding nickname, has described his own Spanish language skills as “lousy.”

That may explain why El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke is now challenging him to debate in Spanish — twice.

In an April 24 letter to the incumbent's campaign, as first reported by The Texas Tribune, O'Rourke's campaign manager requested as many as six debates in all, with four in English, before Election Day.

The Cruz campaign has not formally responded to the request, a spokesman for O'Rourke's Senate bid said. But on Tuesday, Cruz — a college debate champion while at Princeton — all but dismissed the chances of such a match.

A "debate in Spanish"The Cursed" is a very unique FREE realtime-strategy game based on the Spring engine. The game is about bones, undead, demons, space marines and magic settled in a futuristic environment. It is a fresh mixture of gameplay elements from many popular RTS games.

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"The Cursed" is a very unique FREE realtime-strategy game based on the Spring engine (Windows & Linux). The game is about bones, undead, demons, space marines and magic settled in a futuristic environment. It is a fresh mixture of gameplay elements from many popular RTS games.

A new full installer for The Cursed is available now. In the first place it includes a brand new version of the game. Moreover it features a new version of


about the formation and evolution of other solar systems, and perhaps tell us if objects such as 'Oumuamua commonly carry the building blocks of life, or maybe even life itself , from place to place, scientists have said.

One team that looked into the feasibility of an 'Oumuamua mission back then was led by Andreas Hein, of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies in England. Hein and his team determined that humans could indeed send a craft to fly by the object using current technology.

For example, a probe the size of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft could launch toward 'Oumuamua atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2021 and get to 'Oumuamua in 2049 , the researchers calculated. The journey would be circuitous, involving flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, as wellUFN Dublin Main Card Fantasy Preview

It’s been five long years since the UFC last landed on the Emerald Isle of Ireland, but this weekend marks the return of the biggest MMA show to one of the biggest fan bases in the entire world, as home country favorite Conor McGregor headlines his first card inside the Octagon against former Ultimate Fighter winner Diego Brandao.

In the co-main event, grappling prodigy Gunnar Nelson takes on Zak Cummings in a pivotal welterweight matchup between two very tough competitors at 170 pounds, and also on the main card, England’s own Brad Pickett will face Ian McCall in a fight that could have title implications on the line for the winner following John Dodson’s unfortunate knee injury that put him out of action until


overlooked. Still, if there’s an upset brewing on this main card, it comes courtesy of Cummings. He showed no fear taking on another high-level grappler in his last fight, and if he can be confident in his attacks during this fight, he could give Nelson some major headaches while handing him the first loss of his career.

IAN MCCALL VS. BRAD PICKETT

The flyweight division is looking for a new top contender following an injury that put John Dodson out of the picture for the next year, and the next challenger for the title could come from this fight between Ian McCall and Brad Pickett.

This fight might also be the toughest one on the entire card to choose who comes out on top.

Pickett enters only his second fight at flyweightenigma in this fight, but it’s not based on his fight skills, which are excellent. He’s as well-rounded as anyone in the flyweight division with a slick wrestling game mixed with an above average kickboxing pedigree as well. McCall is never going to be an easy out for anyone in the division, but it also depends on which version shows up in Ireland. As witnessed in his debut fight in the UFC against Demetrious Johnson or in his last fight against Illiarde Santos, McCall is very capable of pulling off a nearly flawless performance against the best of the best in the division. Then again, McCall has failed to show up for some fights as well, just like in his rematch with Johnson or his fight against Joseph


to a Pickett win when the night is over.

NORMAN PARKE VS. NAOYUKI KOTANI

Former Ultimate Fighter winner Norman Parke looked like a very bright prospect coming off the reality show, but in his last couple of performances, the luster has been knocked off this Northern Irish lightweight. Saturday is his chance to polish his credentials again as he faces returning Japanese fighter Naoyuki Kotani.

Kotani lost in his previous two fights in the UFC in 2007, but a 13-fight win streak earned him a second chance, although it’s hard to tell if he’ll perform any differently this time around. Kotani is primarily a submission fighter, finishing 25 of his 33 wins on the ground. He’s got a variety of finishes in his bag of tricks, including a nasty heel hook,[Otolaryngologists -- victims of Stalin's NKVD crimes during World War II].
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wholly useless outside a film set.

How much Hollywood SFX will become part of pro games world will no doubt be subject to the traditionalism of individual sports. American Football has always led the pack in introducing innovations- college football harnessed the power of instant replay in 1963, whereas Major League Baseball didn't introduce it until 2008, and waited to actually use the thing until 2009. The NBA didn't catch on until the 2002-2003 season, and the NHL likewise waited years. In all of these cases, and international sports such as rugby, instant replays are rare occurrences only used to confirm goals or fouls, in fact FIFA is so old-school it doesn't allow IRs at all. Out of all sports, only American football could be said to have developedIrish economy. It says that regardless of the form Brexit takes, it will impact negatively on the Irish economy “which in turn will have implications both for other potential risks for the economy including the risk of overheating and loss of competitiveness on the one hand, as well as impacting on social risks identified, including expectations for public expenditure, and risks and issues around migration and integration, to name but two”. The report states that Brexit can be seen as “an overarching, umbrella risk, interacting with and amplifying the majority of the risks identified across the geopolitical, economic, social, environmental and technological spheres”.

Competitiveness

The report also warns of the risk of the economy overheating , causing risks to competitiveness. It also cautions that expectations of the extent of additional


life stuff was as I got into my mid twenties… Showing up at work, being sociable in real life, and my school work all took on this “why bother?” quality.

Not being a kid anymore I had nothing to hide behind except video games and I could see it for the first time as the real barrier to life it was for me. Eventually my shame amassed enough that I came to know real depression and neuroticism all the way up to suicidal ideation at one point which I stepped down from and never saw again as I began to take interest in my personal growth.

When did you decide to quit?

I decided to make 2018 the year to quit on January 3rd, 2018. I was laying in bed playingby Claudio Abbado; this Opera featured Wissam Boustany on stage with the baritone Samuel Ramey.
"HOMMAGE AT TARKOVSKY" (Deutsche Grammophon, released 1998)
SOUNDS FROM WITHIN (Nimbus Alliance, re-released 2011)
WANDERING WINDS (Nimbus Alliance, re-released 2011)
VIVALDI’S CHILDREN (Nimbus Alliance, re-released 2011)
MIRROR OF ETERNITY (Nimbus Alliance, re-released 2011) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Volodymyr Sirenko
THIS INVISIBLE WORLD (double-CD, Nimbus Alliance, released 2011)
GREGSON (Chandos, released 2014) with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Bramwell Tovey

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Boustany was Professor of Flute at Trinity Laban, London (1999-2009), where he was made an Honorary Member in 2011.  He also taught at the Royal Northern College of Music (2010-2015).

He gives masterclasses worldwide, having launched his In Search of Inspiration summer courses in Minnesota, Brussels, Penzance, France and Greece. He has also been giving yearly


"Work on the field and in the midst of victims of natural and other humanitarian disasters is an unparalleled experience for the workers who plant seeds of hope in the hearts of those in dire need of support," Kuwaiti humanitarian activists told KUNA.

The activists were speaking to KUNA as the world is set to mark World Humanitarian Day 2014 on Tuesday, August 19, as designated by the United Nations' General Assembly.
Volunteer, paramedic, and field photographer Abdulrahman Al-Yousef for his part said he started with volunteer work at the Abeer II Center in service of people with special needs where he discovered "a world that abounds with sentiments of fraternity and solidarity and a field of work that is full of smiles, free of grudges, and characterized by peace."Al-Yousef was awarded the Kuwait Volunteer of the Year trophy in 2008 and had been abroad part of several humanitarian missions.

He said he found inner peace through ten years of volunteer work. He is most eager to jump to action upon hearing of a need for humanitarian work anywhere in the world, he said, and the positive spirit of this line of action spills into all aspects of his life and even affects his family life, he noted.

The activist recalled working to help orphans in Yemen and to aid flood victims in Bosnia, as well as working to help families in need in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Bahrain. He also noted he had worked in England in the area of rehabilitation of hospital patients and serving them.

"I was fortunate


help in particular fills you with a sense of appreciation and gratitude for the education, knowledge, and resources you have access to as you actually help save lives, he continued.

Another activist, Abdelkireem Al-Shatti, said he entered this field with a feeling of being on the giving end, but now realizes he is actually on the receiving end. "In relief and volunteer work, you trade effort and sweat for contentment and true joy."

Working with people bearing the brunt of extreme poverty and others rendered homeless or on the run by war and strife puts you before the realization that they feel great joy at meeting the simplest demand and in the most modest of circumstances. "We in the more privileged societies, on the other hand, have an endless listWill Boris Johnson's Irish Border Plan Work? Journalist Who Revealed It On Where It Fails

The man who revealed a leaked copy of Boris Johnson's plan for the Irish border told James O'Brien where he thinks the Prime Minister's proposal will fall apart.

The Daily Telegraph's Europe Editor Peter Foster said that what Boris Johnson is asking for has already been rejected in the past by the European Union.

Mr Johnson and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker are to speak this afternoon to discuss the UK's latest proposals for altering the backstop in the Brexit deal.

The Prime Minister says the government will put reasonable and constructive proposals that will not see checks or customs posts at or near the Northern Ireland border.

Speaking to James O'Brien, he explained what he thinks will


Students Invited to CEO Network Luncheon

Jan. 28, 2014: The Greater Dubuque Development Corporation is sponsoring a panel and networking luncheon on Friday, Feb. 7, from 11 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. in Jansen Music Hall on the Clarke University campus.

The Clarke University CEO Network Luncheon is designed to allow students the opportunity to listen to the stories and backgrounds of local CEOs in the business community and to provide a networking opportunity with local CEOs and community leaders.

Students will have an opportunity to learn more about Dubuque’s top employers, interact with area leaders as they share their personal career paths, and give students advice for future career success.

The CEO panelists are Karel Czandema, president and CEO of Flexsteel Industries Inc., John Tallent, CEO at Medical Associates Clinics and HealthThe influential and controversial message board 4chan has been sold to Japanese web entrepreneur-turned-magazine editor Hiroyuko Nishimura for an undisclosed sum, it was announced today.

Nishimura, who was recently appointed editor of Variety Japan, was the founder of 2channel, the wildly popular Japanese image-board on which 4chan was originally modelled when it was started in 2003. 4chan quickly overshadowed its Japanese-language cousin in influence, if not in raw traffic, however, to become one of the most influential – and one of the most controversial – websites.

4chan founder 'Moot' bids farewell: 'This is it for me. This is goodbye'

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Revelling in its reputation as the filthy, sweaty engine-room of the internet, 4chan – and especially the /b/ (random) board, the site’s first board – was the originator and hub of


a vast amount of internet subculture including “LOLcats” and the practice of “Rickrolling”, in which an unsuspecting user is tricked into clicking on a link which takes them to the YouTube video of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up – a practice which re-booted Astley’s career.

4chan is also largely credited with being where the online hacktivist collective Anonymous originated, and it was at the center of the nude celebrity photo leak known as “the fappening” in 2014.

Today, it claims 22 million unique users every month and a million new posts every day.

In January 4chan’s founder, Chris Poole – who goes by the username Moot – announced he was stepping down as administrator of the site, and in a news post on Monday he announced the sale ofDisappointed in the church we chose today. It was a free church, obviously renting out space in a large building as there were other things advertised as going on there during the week. We had difficulty getting into the building and once inside had to follow signs up some stairs along a corridor and across a hall etc. No one around and it was deathly quiet. We both decided we didn't want to go any further so went back to Charis and off we went.

Found lovely mooring just a couple of miles out of Leigh, moored up and watched the Wimbledon final. Great match. I didn't really mind who won, just wanted to see both men play at their best. Enjoyed Wimbledon fortnight but glad it's over now


of not guilty were entered to all of these charges.
On August 2, 1973, appellant appeared in the court below and requested that he may be allowed to withdraw his pleas of not guilty entered as to count one, robbery in the first degree, in Cr. No. 45581, and entered as to the charge of attempted murder in Cr. No. 45583. After the court granted appellant's request he entered a plea of guilty to the charge of robbery in the first degree in Cr. No. 45581; and he also entered a plea of guilty to a charge of assault in the first degree in Cr. No. 45583, the state having agreed that appellant could plead guilty to this lesser included offense to the charge contained therein of attempted murder.
Inheld on September 19, 1973, on the imposition of the extended term sentences under the relevant sections of the code.[1] In that hearing the sole and only evidence presented by the state to prove the existence of the ground justifying imposition of extended term sentences was the presentence diagnosis and report prepared by the probation office for Cr. No. 45581. Such a report was received in evidence, notwithstanding the objection by appellant. That report showed appellant's alleged adult criminal record on pages 6, 7 and 8. It also indicated that appellant had been referred to the juvenile court about twenty times since he was nine years of age and that, as a juvenile, he was incarcerated at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility.
On this record the court made a


Australian drag queen Courtney Act keeps going from strength to strength, with the RuPaul's Drag Race runner-up announcing that she's signed on to host her own late night talk show for Channel 4 in the UK.

Describing herself as an "unreal girl", Act first appeared on Australian TV screens as a contestant on Australian Idol in 2003, making it through to the semi-finals and dazzling audiences with a rendition of 'You Don't Own Me' by Lesley Gore.

Act, who will be relocating to the UK for the program, told Digital Spy that she wanted everyone to feel welcome.

"This is my show and I say come on in, all you heroic misfits, those of you who are a bit chipped around the edges… I want to welcome you all," Act said.

Shecontinued: "You bring the open minds and I'll bring the open bar and we'll meet in the middle for a gay old time!"

Earlier this year Act appeared as a contestant on Channel 4's popular reality TV program Celebrity Big Brother, using the stint as an opportunity to educate the masses on issues concerning members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

She went on to win the audience-voted program.

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2014: Appeared in two games as a freshman while adjusting to the collegiate game … made her Brown debut against Columbia on September 20.

Before Brown: Totaled 31 goals and 27 assists at Ocean Township High School, including 13 goals and 14 assists as a captain in 2013 ... First Team All-Shore in 2013 ... First Team All-Division B North from 2011-13 ... Second Team All-Group III NJ ... Monmouth County All-Star.

Personal: The daughter of Christopher and Mary Ann Conway, Kelly has two sisters, Erin and Mary Kate ... concentrating in Political Science.they research the possibility of actually pulling off the heist. They decide to enlist the aid of two additional friends, Eric (Jared Abrahamson), a brainy accounting major studying at the nearby University of Kentucky and his wealthy friend, Chas (Blake Jenner), who can provide a reliable vehicle and be the driver for the heist. Each of the four seems to have a different reason for getting involved in the outlandishly ill-conceived plot that includes improvised architectural plans, a stun gun, and old-men disguises.

Actors and the People They Portray

Throughout the film, some of the real people involved in the case give their side of the story, which sometimes conflicts with another person’s version. The four thieves, their parents, a professor, and the librarian share their truth about what happened


kitchens in which lunch services are provided only for a particular school. The second type consists of services provided by medium kitchens and large kitchens, each of which delivers lunch service in large quantities to many schools.

The study sample was selected through the head office of the All-Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers Union. There are a total of 47 prefectures in Japan. All prefectures and municipalities were included in our study to obtain proper representation of all of Japan. The union leaders maintained a list of the cooks working in school lunch services. A total of 500 cooks from 47 prefectures were selected. Similarly 200 cooks from each of 10 prefectures were selected (total 2000), 300 cooks from each of five prefectures (total 1500), and 100 cooks fromfamily-related stress, financial constraints, health-related problems, and worries about the future. Symptoms related to LBP, that is, episodes of pain, stiffness, or discomfort in the low back that were experienced during the previous 1 month and included in the questionnaire were adapted from a Japanese edition of a questionnaire used in previous studies \[[@B19],[@B20]\].

Data collection
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A cross-sectional survey was carried out from September 2003 to February 2004. This study was supported by the All-Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers Union. A questionnaire was mailed to 7100 professional cooks through the branches of the union located all over Japan. The questionnaire form was enclosed in an envelope that also contained an informed consent form. The anonymity and confidentiality of the information to be provided was detailed in the consent form. The


Chapter 1

Nabiki found herself in a bit of a dilemma. Here she was, living with
a kindly old man and a drop-dead gorgeous boy. She was being offered the
chance to learn powerful magic that Horvath said was capable of miraculous
and deadly feats. Over the last two weeks, Ranma had grown much closer
to her. Nabiki might even dare to go so far as say that they were a couple,
or at least close to it. But through it all, she was haunted by her family.
How were they paying the bills now, with Nabiki gone? Neither Akane nor
Kasumi had any job skills, and her father was an emotional wreck, so him
teaching classes was an impossibility. Nabiki was worried about her family,
but what scared her the most was that she didn't miss them.

Shestill loved her father, but being away from his emotional outbursts
and foolish ideals was a relief beyond her imagining. Nabiki still loved
her sisters, too, but she had no desire to be around Akane and her monstrous
temper or Kasumi and her oblivious 'everything is right with the world'
attitude. The sounds of Ranma and Horvath walking up the gravel path from
the well brought Nabiki back to full awareness.

Today was the day that Andwywn, Horvath's conjurer friend, was visiting.
The old man said that Andwywn was the greatest conjurer who had ever lived,
and that he had agreed to apprentice Nabiki if she was willing. It was
such an amazing offer. No one had ever done anything for her like that.

Ranma had already accepted Horvath's offer to instruct him to be a wizard.
Ranma had


been literally bouncing off the walls with excitement. Despite
his upcoming education, Ranma had chosen to continue practicing the martial
arts. Nabiki could understand. They were a part of his life. She had been
slightly surprised when Ranma had turned down the warrior Horrendous'
offer to tutor him in the arts of war, but Ranma hadn't been very impressed
with the warriors of Nox. They fought with weapons, which he detested,
and he had told Nabiki that the day he wore a tin can to fight in was
the day he turned into a girl.

The door opened and Ranma came in, followed by Horvath and a stout man
with a huge red beard and a horned helm covering his head.

"Ah, Nabiki. This is my good friend Andwywn. I told you about him,"
Horvath said once the doorsheepishly, and hurried off to the room Horvath
had given him to gather his few belongings before he and Horvath set out
for Castle Galava and the Tower of Illusion, where he would learn to be
a wizard.

"So, what will it be, Nabiki?" Horvath asked as he levered
himself into a nearby chair with his staff.

"Will I be able to visit Ranma?" Nabiki couldn't believe that
she was basing her decision around Ranma. He was only fourteen, and she
had never cared one way or another about boys, but he was just… Ranma.
Anything else seemed to not quite explain him well enough. He was also
her only remaining link with Earth.

Andwywn grinned at Horvath, and in a whisper that could have been heard
across the room, said, "Ah, young love." To Nabiki he said.
"That, dearie, won't


necromancers
a decade earlier."

Ranma and Nabiki came into the room, each carrying a bundle of clothing
that Horvath had created for them. To Nabiki's amazement, there had also
been a leather pouch full to bursting with gold coins waiting for her
on her bed. Ranma told her that Horvath meant it for spending money while
she learned from Andwywn.

"We're ready," Ranma said. He couldn't wait to be off and start
learning magic. He would be the greatest martial artist ever, with Horvath's
instruction. He didn't want to leave Nabiki, the only friend he had had
since Ucchan, but she assured him that they would be allowed to visit
each other often.

Ranma and Horvath walked with Nabiki and Andwywn to the teleport pad
that would take them to Ix, Andwywn's village. The two old men exchanged
their farewells and Andwywnand followed Horvath into his study where the teleport
pad to his rooms in the Tower of Illusion was located.

Ranma's study of the magical arts began almost immediately upon his arrival
at the Tower of Illusion. Horvath escorted him through the building's
corridors, greeting several wizards along the way. They all welcomed Ranma,
and wished him success as a wizard. Finally they came to a huge, vault-like
library.

Horvath waved a glowing hand through the air, and a half-dozen books
flew from their places on various shelves and landed on a nearby table.
When he saw Ranma's disappointed frown, Horvath said, "Oh you don't
have to actually read the book. Just open it up and the thing slams the
knowledge right into your head."

Now that was Ranma's kind of book. It would have been difficult
to read any way,


especially since he didn't read or write the common language
of Nox. Ranma sat down the old wooden table and pulled the first book
from the pile. Strangely enough, he could read the book—well, the title
anyway. Missiles of Magic. Ranma opened the book, and true enough,
the knowledge was slammed into his head. Afterwards, he felt kind of woozy
and his vision was blurred, but he was reasonably sure that he could caste
the spell without error. Being in a room full of flammable books, he decided
to wait until later to test it out. With similar speed and efficiency,
Ranma learned the fireball, lesser heal, lightning, forcefield, and haste
spell.

The haste and forcefield spells were non-hazardous, so Ranma gave them
a go in the library. The forcefield formed a protective bubble around
him that, while helpful, alsoof his time on magic, though. Horvath had given
him a magic staff on his second day at the Tower. It fired out balls of
orange light that could knock a man off his feet, but Ranma didn't waste
much time learning its use. The flashes were easy to direct, so instead
he found the practice yard where the castle guards and knights practiced.
Ranma quickly became a legend among the men who frequented the yard. With
or without his staff, Ranma had defeated every man he went up against,
without the use of magic.

Nabiki's time in Ix had been differently spent, but equally informative.
When she and Andwywn had stepped off the teleport pad, they had been confronted
by plump, smiling woman that turned out to be Andwywn's wife, Rosalyn.
She greeted Nabiki with a quick hug


and, with an arm around her shoulder,
led her off into Ix.

"We must get you fitted for proper conjurer attire," she told
Nabiki as she led the girl through the quiet streets of the little village.
It was dusk and few people were out. "Andwywn was so excited to be
getting a new apprentice. Tell me about yourself."

Nabiki couldn't help but be infected by Rosalyn's cheerful nature. She
briefly described her home in Nerima and how she and Ranma had appeared
near Horvath's home away from home.

"Most fortunate that Horvath found you. There are few men as good
as that old goat." Rosalyn turned the corner and climbed a short
set of steps into what appeared to be a general store or armory, or possibly
both. Nabiki wasn't really sure.

Inside Nabiki was measured by an enormously fatman with a not-so-pleasant
smell. He went into the back room, the storage room, Nabiki guesses, and
came back with a virtual wardrobe, one of cotton and wool, another of
leather and steel.

Nabiki didn't know what the armor was for, but she welcomed the comfortable
cotton clothing over the copies of her school uniform that Horvath had
made.

The next day after a breakfast of eggs and ham, Andwywn took Nabiki out
behind his and Rosalyn's house. "Before I start teaching you the
magic of a conjurer, there are things you must first know. How to treat
your animals, creatures, demons, or whatever you decide to summon is most
important, but we're going to spend today acquainting you with the weapons
at our disposal."

By the end of the day Nabiki's arms were sore from repeated practice
with a bow and


the heavier crossbow, but she was certain that she could
use one proficiently enough if she ever needed to. The next Andwywn had
her dress in the heavy leather clothing before they went outside. She
soon learned why.

Andwywn, with a few strange words and movements of his hands, called
a wolf into being. "Every creature that you summon has a mind that
works differently than any other. To properly control your animals, you
must be able to give the proper commands."

That entire day Nabiki did nothing but learn how to control wolves, bears,
and some huge spiders. The leather clothing never was needed, but it did
make Nabiki feel safer around all those deadly claws and poisonous fangs.
After dinner, Andwywn brought Nabiki three heavy green leather-bound books.
She received the same instructions in their use as Ranmahad, and before
falling asleep that night, she could cast pixie swarm. lesser heal, and
charm creature.

The rest of the week Nabiki and Andwywn spent most of their time in the
forests around Ix. Nabiki had plenty of practice charming various forest
creatures. By the time they returned at the end of the week, Nabiki could
summon two attack pixies at a time and easily direct them with her mind.

Ranma, his staff held loosely in his right hand, stepped onto the teleport
pad, and with a wave to Horvath, disappeared from the Tower of Illusion
and reappeared in the village of Ix. He was met by Nabiki, Andwywn, and
another woman. Ranma still remembered the peck of a kiss that Nabiki had
gave him, and blushed as soon as he saw her smiling face.

"We'll let you two


catch up," Rosalyn said, pulling her husband
into the house by his beard.

"Um, hi," Ranma said nervously.

"Oh, cut it out, Ranma," Nabiki said. "It was just a little
goodbye kiss." She walked over to Ranma, took hold of his and, and
led him towards the back yard. In truth, Nabiki was as nervous as Ranma,
but was much better at hiding her feelings than Ranma.

Once they passed through the gate into the back yard, Ranma was assaulted
by an overactive, coal-black puppy. It barked squeakily at him, jumped
up trying to snag his staff in its little teeth, and eventually settled
for gnawing on the leather shin guard of Ranma's left leg.

"Good boy," Nabiki cooed to the puppy. "Protect mommy
from the bad man."

The puppy seemed to understand Nabiki's command and laid into Ranma with
all themore force. "Hey, get this little monster off of me!"
Ranma cried.

"Don't be such a baby, Ranma. Char's teeth can't get through the
leather, and he's just having fun."

"What kind of dog is he?" Ranma asked while waving his leg
around in the air. Char held on, even as Ranma swung him around mercilessly.

"He's a wolf," Nabiki said excitedly. "Isn't he cute?"

Ranma, still flinging the wolf pup around like a doll said, "Sure…
cute. Think maybe you could get him off of me before he chews my leg off?"

"I guess. You should be glad that Rosalyn wouldn't let me keep a
bear in the house." Nabiki mentally commanded Char to release Ranma's
leg.

The little puppy let go of his new chew toy and came to a somewhat graceful
landing on his feet next to Nabiki.


spun through the air, knocking
most of the projectiles to the ground. Ranma saw a little creature behind
a bush and assuming that it was an urchin, leveled his staff at it, releasing
a handful of glowing balls of light. One of Nabiki's pixies trailed behind
the lights, coming a moment to late to do any good as Ranma's attack killed
their attacker. The pixie changed course and collided explosively with
another urchin.

The rocks were still coming from two separate directions, and Ranma couldn't
knock them all out of the air. The ones that did make it through didn't
hurt much, but they were an annoyance that could add up to major pain.
Ranma heard Nabiki caste a spell, and all of a sudden one of the urchins
turned on its comrade and began pelting it with rocksBy bringing a diversity of governmental agencies into one room, we hope that attendees will learn what each agency does.

SPRINGFIELD — Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, Jacqueline Berrien, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Charles Ogletree, of Harvard Law School, are among the participants listed to take part in the Northeast Regional Fair Housing and Civil Rights Conference scheduled April 10 and 11 at the Springfield Marriott.

According to a release, the conference, organized by two state organizations, as well as the nonprofit HAPHousing, in addition to other collaborators, will both commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that forbids "discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing," as well as address areas where


inequalities remain. The act also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to implement the law, that was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964.

Other organizers include the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, who worked with similar agencies in New England and New York, to create what is described as an "educational opportunity to learn, share information and network. “

According to a release, topics to be explore include fair housing, promoting safe and inclusive schools, health care inequities, and signs of human trafficking in a community.
Other speakers scheduled include:

United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, District of Massachusetts

Dr. Rodney Hood, author and civil rights activist

Lawrence “Larry” Watson, of Boston’s Berklee School Music.

During a plenary session on April 10, Ogletree, Hood, Amilcar Shabazz,South Korean Marines move into position on a beach during a joint landing operation by US and South Korean Marines in the southeastern port of Pohang, Korea.

The Pentagon defended the ongoing joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises Thursday amid North Korean threats of withdrawing from a highly anticipated summit with President Donald Trump next month.

"The scope of our exercises has not changed," chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said, adding that the annual drills are "longstanding and defensive in nature."

"These are alliance decisions, this is something that we do to ensure the readiness of both our forces as well as the South Korean forces," White said, noting that the training will continue despite the planned talks with North Korea.

Meanwhile, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday


that the administration was continuing to prepare for the June 12 summit in Singapore. Soon thereafter, Trump told reporters that if the meeting doesn't happen, the administration will move on.

At the Pentagon, White said the Defense Department has not held any talks to scale back its future training operations on the Korean Peninsula.

"There has been no talk of reducing anything, there has been no talk of changing our scope. These are annual exercises and we are very transparent about them," White said.

The North's state-run news agency described the bilateral military drill dubbed "Max Thunder," as a "provocation" and a test run for a future invasion.

Lisa Collins, a fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, described Pyongyang's reaction to the planned military exercisesas a "cover to express their dissatisfaction with a bunch of different issues."

"North Korea does normally take issue with military exercises, but these were announced several weeks ago and even the South Koreans said that Kim Jong Un was willing to overlook the U.S. and South Korean exercises happening in the region," Collins said in a previous interview with CNBC.

Collins also said she expects the reclusive leader from the North to attend the meeting with Trump.


to the stupa you need to walk about 30 minutes (at least).  Besides the remains of the stupa, there are some remains of the monastery. Nothing has been done so far to preserve the site, but the stupa itself is in a rather good condition.

Mount Elum, 2811 meter High Mountain is considered sacred since ancient times. In the valley of Amluk-Dara near the foot of Mount Elum is the ruin of a stupa.

Three kilometers from Barikot towards Saidu Sharif is Shingardar Stupa (on your right hand side). You can easily access up to the stupa by car. The site is close to the road and safe. 1.5 kilometers from Shingardar is a large Buddha Carving on a cliff facing the road.. Further after 6 kilometers is theBoth in the winter and in the summer, the family-run pension Schlossberg, located in the enchanting Mittersill, in the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park, is the perfect place for a relaxing vacation.

pension in the area

Welcome to the only bed & breakfast in Kaprun
with daily use of the new Tauern Spa included
inhouse ski school
offering the Zell am See-Kaprun Card
The Pension St. Georg is now managed in 2. generation from the Orgler family. Rosmarie and Manfred Orgler started in 1976.

Situated in Kirchberg near Kitzbühel in Tyrol, the famous 'CLUB HABITAT SKI CHALET' has been a favorite stopover for English-speaking guests for more than 30 years. Ideally suited to the 18 - 38 year age group, who want to ski / snowboard & party !

The unique location of our


Around 2:30 p.m., deputies responded to the home of Thomas Steidley after reports of a confrontation with his girlfriend and a call of “distress” to his parents.

Steidley's girlfriend told them that he was bipolar, off of his medication and had been drinking. She didn't tell them that he had pulled a firearm on her.

According to the sheriff's office, as the two deputies approached the home, Steidley, 52, came out of the front door holding a handgun. He ignored the deputies’ instructions and raised the handgun, pointing it toward one of the deputies.
Read moreFebruary 23, 1998, the district court entered an order reciting that trial was held on January 26 and determining that "the decision of Alvin Abramson, Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles which in substance provides for the administrative revocation of the Plaintiff Robert E. Kroll's drivers [sic] license under and pursuant to Neb.Rev.Stat. § 60-487 [(Reissue 1998)] is hereby reversed and vacated." The order further directed the Department to reinstate Kroll's driving privileges and enjoined the Department "from removing those privileges in the future as a result of the suspension of his driving privileges in the State of Georgia." No appeal was taken from this order.
Subsequently, on April 10, 1998, the district court entered an order reciting that trial was held on January 26, but finding in


The turmoil within Winnipeg's public works department last year is now reflected on the city's payroll, as four high-profile employees who left the city were compensated a total of $574,000 in 2017.

The city's annual compensation disclosure, published Friday morning, reveals former public works director Lester Deane received $196,969 last year despite leaving the city in May.

That's more than the $181,088 Deane received for the entirety of 2016, suggesting some form of payout following his falling out with chief administrative officer Doug McNeil.

The breakdown will not be made public. City council has asked the province to change legislation to allow Winnipeg to break down its compensation into various categories, in an effort to be more transparent about departure payouts.

Finance Minister Cameron Friesen rebuffed that request in May, stating itwould create too much of a burden in municipalities and other public bodies that are required to disclose compensation.

Deane was the first of four high-profile public works employees to leave the city in 2017. He was followed by transportation engineers Luis Escobar, Scott Suderman and Steven Chapman.

All four earned more in 2017 than they did in 2016, but only Deane's departure clearly suggests a payout, as the engineers could have received back pay as part of a labour settlement between the city and the Winnipeg Association of Public Service Officers, the union representing city professionals.

Again, the breakdown of their compensation will not be disclosed.

The city's 2017 compensation disclosure lists all city employees who received $50,000 or more in the form of salary or other forms of compensation, such


WICHITA, Kan. (AP) " Moving the only polling site in Dodge City, Kansas, outside the city limits will make it more difficult for the city's majority Hispanic population to vote because they tend to have less access to transportation and flexible work schedules, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.

The lawsuit also seeks a temporary restraining order that would force Ford County to open a second voting location in Dodge City for the Nov. 6 election after the county sent newly registered voters an official certificate of registration that listed the wrong place to cast a ballot in the general election.

The southwest Kansas city, located 160 miles (257 kilometers) west of Wichita, has only one polling site for its 27,000 residents. For nearly two decades, that site wasat the civic center in the mostly white part of town. Citing road construction, the county moved it for the November election outside the city limits to a facility more than a mile from the nearest bus stop.

The federal lawsuit was filed by The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens and voter Alejandro Rangel-Lopez, and names Ford County Clerk Deborah Cox as its defendant.

"We understand that there are people who believe voting is a privilege, but we don't. It is a right that must be fiercely protected. We can and must do better," said Micah Cubic, executive director of the ACLU in a news release announcing the lawsuit.

Cox did not immediately return a call for comment.

The iconic Dodge


City of yesteryear embodied the romance of the American West with its cattle drives and buffalo hunters, but today this western Kansas town is 60 percent Hispanic after an influx of immigrants drawn to its two meatpacking plants.

The Wichita Eagle reported that after the ACLU initially objected to the Dodge City's single, out-of-town location. Cox forwarded to the state an ACLU letter asking her to publicize a voter help. "LOL," she wrote in an email to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office.

Cox told the newspaper she didn't mean anything when she wrote "LOL," and the move wasn't done with any racial intention at all.

The emergency motion for a temporary restraining order asks the court to order Cox to reopen the original polling location at the Civic Centerin town as a second site to avoid voter confusion by new voters who received an official registration notice that listed only their regular polling site " not the temporary site for the November election.

The ACLU argued in its filing that the court order was necessary to remedy the misinformation Cox sent to newly registered voters and to ensure all residents can access the polling location.

Dodge City's only polling site services more than 13,000 voters in the Dodge City area, compared to an average of 1,200 voters per polling site at other locations.

ACLU contends the county's actions have a discriminatory impact on Hispanic voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act because they are less likely than their white counterparts to have access to a vehicle, have lower


incomes and work in industries with less flexible schedules.

Alejandro Rangel-Lopez, a Dodge City high school student who turns 18 this month, will be a new voter in the upcoming election. As the named plaintiff in the lawsuit, he wrote in an affidavit that exercising his right to vote holds a special significance for him because his parents were immigrants who came to the United States at great personal sacrifice so he could be a U.S. citizen.

"My vote is important to me because it extends beyond myself," he said. "It presents the opportunity to speak on behalf of immigrants like my parents were, young people, and other members of my community who do not have the right to vote. My civic participation is for all of them."

The lawsuit seekspassion of the Church must occur but woe to those men through whom the betrayal occurs. It were better for them, if they had not been born. Mark 14:21

(Lancashire, England)"A Roman Catholic primary school could become the first in the country to be run by a mosque after a dramatic rise in the number of Muslim pupils, it emerged today.

"Church bosses want to close Sacred Heart RC Primary School, in Blackburn, Lancashire, because the number of Catholic students has plummeted from 91 per cent to just three per cent in a decade.

MK 14:21 And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man


Teddy Bear Museum

Although it may sound like the epitome of Jeju tack, the Teddy Bear Museum (테디베어 박물관) impresses even its most sceptical visitors. The main building is filled with floors of bears, but the diorama room is the museum highlight, with furry depictions of historical events – one for every decade of the twentieth century. Moving backwards in time, you’ll see teddies bashing down the Berlin Wall and fighting in World War II. Then following on from the battle, what appears to be a roller-skating teddy Hitler races into view, though he’s soon revealed to be a teddy Charlie Chaplin. Other delights include a teddy Elvis, a “Teddycotta” Army, and a vision of what teddies may be up to in the year 2050, as well as avessel is usually limited and not conducive to
hard-sided suitcases. Thus, strong duffel bags work best because they can be
folded up when not in use. In addition, their size limits what you can bring.
Most importantly, a duffel bag fits in the overhead bin of an airplane.

Too often, I have seen family and friends check luggage for a Caribbean
adventure only to have it not arrive. Islanders are laid back.

As one friendly airline agent on Beef Island, BVI replied to my sister's inquiry about her lost luggage "If it's not here, Mon, it's somewhere else." That somewhere else happened to be a round trip flight from Puerto Rico to Martinique and back before finally ending up back at her home in Wisconsin three weeks later.

Thus, the first tip is to use


a 64 acre tract of land, which he designated as his homestead. The court awarded the wife certain items of property and rendered judgment in her favor against the husband for $44,000.00 "to further equalize the awards herein made." Upon the husband's failure to pay the $44,000.00, the wife brought suit to foreclose her judgment lien on the 64 acre tract. The appellate court held, as a matter of law, that the husband had established a homestead upon the 64 acre tract which prevented the attachment of the judgment lien and in so doing said:
"`... The homestead right, when fixed, is an estate in land, and a creditor has no right in it nor to it as a security. This exemption from forced sale of a homestead issources told the Observer and ThatsRacin.com.

“I’m very confident they’ll be in (NASCAR) for many, many years because it works well - but obviously under different terms.”

France also seemed open to involvement in the future by other manufacturers and said some - which he declined to name - had expressed interest, particularly those trying to break into the North American market.

Under NASCAR rules, only cars manufactured in the U.S. are eligible to compete. Toyota joined the truck series in 2004 and, in 2007, became the first foreign manufacturers to compete NASCAR's the elite Cup series in 50 years.

"We'll have our philosophical approach to that in terms of welcoming new companies in as we did with Toyota," France added. "It is under a very clear set of circumstances that the


preapproved plan generally must submit its determination letter application on or before Jan. 31 of the calendar year following the opening of its remedial amendment cycle. The IRS intends to continue to publish Cumulative Lists for these preapproved plans in December of the year preceding the year in which the determination letter application submission period begins. Once the review cycle is complete, the IRS will announce a deadline (typically, within at least a two-year window) by which adopting employers must adopt the newly approved plans.

This IRS guidance also extends the third six-year cycle for preapproved defined contribution plans for six months, so it will now begin Aug. 1, 2017, and end July 31, 2018.

Observation: An employer that amends any provision of a preapproved plan (other than certain permitted2003 conference, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel’s finance minister, tried to defend the wall being built in the West Bank by contending it would help prevent a “demographic spill-over” of Palestinians into present-day Israel.

Shiraz Maher, a “senior research fellow,” at the ICSR has been in demand recently as a pundit on Syria. During an appearance on Al Jazeera, he denounced the Iranian government-financed Press TV and Russia Today as “propaganda channels.”

Echoing Israel

His description wasn’t inaccurate (numerous media outlets warrant the same label). But it is telling that he implied those hostile to a Western assault on Damascus were resorting to propaganda, when he regularly parrots Israeli propaganda himself.

In a blog he writes for the right-wing British magazine The Spectator, Maher has praised Netanyahu for bombing Syria earlier this year.


borrowed from
other trips and vacations that I took sometime in the past. So
instead of looking to the left here and seeing REO Speedwagon
at the Universal Amphitheater, pretend it's Sarah onstage with
her keyboardist, bass guitarist and drummer pleasing Atlanta.

Whoa! Karen here. I'll try to fill in
the gaps of the story for the Rossman when he starts to seeth
with anger or when her falls into his "Brightman Trance"
and begins staring intently at the wall with a giddy smile on
his face as if he were listening to some faraway Sarah Symphony
that nobody else can hear They both happen more frequently
than I'd like to admit and they're both scary as hell to actually
witness. Anyway, we got there, the Rossman put a few people in
their places by churning out Brightman trivia and factoidsshe didn't know the
lyrics (even to the songs in English) enough to belt one out
herself.
But enough about me, back to the show. The AoM pulled out all
of the stops. She flew around on the stage again, she had lots
of lithe dancing chicks prancing around, she had close to a 20
member chorus join her on a few songs and she had three (count
'em, three!) encores. I almost creamed my jeans when she did
Question of Honour (British spelling cause she's a Brit).
It's just one of her ass-kicking-est best! I was in heaven.

After
the show was over everybody in the audience rushed the stage
and tore the uprights down. Then they set fire to the curtains
and started chanting "We're number one! We're number one!!"

Actually
it was Sarah herself that started the fire. In her


now
empty Civic Center and found some company with the cool limey
audio and light guys. They told us some pretty funny Frenchie
jokes and I had the Rossman tell them some clown jokes and the
ChiChi joke while they passed around a bottle of some very expensive
Champaign. Soon though, we noticed a mini tour going around the
theater being led by some mid-twenties unbathed loser who kept
insisting to everyone he was guiding that the whole show was
"Sarah's and his" doing. They must have been family
cause they bought every line. My favorite was when he insisted
to Sarah that she sing a bit from Phantom of the Opera
(fyi, the Rossman insists on having me tell you that the role
of Christine was written for her and her alone end footnote).
"Sarah, I said, the audience wouldApex Flyfishing

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Then, chant a
mantra for a year that Obama and the Democrats are responsible for the hell of Obamacare and Republicans didn't want to inflict anymore harm on Americans by shutting down the government(!) While it's true that the Democrats shut down the government several times solely on the issue of abortion


stop bailing out those that smashed it down our throats in the first place by using reconciliation after Scott Brown was elected by the bluest of states to act as the 41st vote to prevent passage of this centrally-planned, top-down, one-size-fits-all piece of shit.

Let the people get sooooo angry that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will
pray that the least that will happen to them will be that of former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who
was waylaid by a bunch of seniors livid with his Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. Fortunately, they could only chase
him the short distance to his nearby Crown Vic (or some same pol car) and beat on it until
he got away. Today's Democrats will WISH for the Rostenkowski Treatment. Of course, they
probably are unaware of the resultlearn if an overly-Botoxed face moves when
a political princess is being chased down by a band of sans culottes.

'I will not negotiate...and remember, it is MY military - not Congress', not the Court's, and, certainly, not the United States of America's and her people - in case you get any Chief Justice John Marshall ideas.'

The world misses the old America, the one before the crash—the crashes—of the past dozen years.

That is the takeaway from conversations the past week in New York,
where world leaders gathered for the annual U.N. General Assembly
session. Our friends, and we have many, speak almost poignantly of the
dynamism, excellence, exuberance and leadership of the nation they had,
for so many years, judged themselves against, been inspired by,
attempted to emulate, resented.

As for those who are not America's


are, have doubts about his seriousness and judgment, and
read him as unsure and covering up his unsureness with ringing words.

A scorching assessment of the president as foreign-policy actor came
from a former senior U.S. diplomat, a low-key and sophisticated man who
spent the week at many U.N.-related functions. "World leaders are very
negative about Obama," he said. They are "disappointed, feeling he's not
really in charge. . . . The Western Europeans don't pay that much
attention to him anymore."

The diplomat was one of more than a dozen U.S. foreign-policy hands
who met this week with the new president of Iran, Hasan Rouhani. What
did he think of the American president? "He didn't mention Obama, not
once," said the former envoy, who added: "We have to accept the fact
that the president is rather insignificant at themoment, and rely on
our diplomats." John Kerry, he said, is doing a good job.

Had he ever seen an American president treated as if he were so
insignificant? "I really never have. It's unusual." What does he make of
the president's strategy: "He doesn't know what to do so he stays out
of it [and] hopes for the best." The diplomat added: "Slim hope."

This reminded me of a talk a few weeks ago, with another veteran
diplomat who often confers with leaders with whom Mr. Obama meets. I had
asked: When Obama enters a room with other leaders, is there a sense
that America has entered the room? I mentioned de Gaulle—when he was
there, France was there. When Reagan came into a room, people stood:
America just walked in. Does Mr. Obama bring that kind of


mystique?

"No," he said. "It's not like that."

When the president spoke to the
General Assembly, his speech was dignified and had, at certain points, a
certain sternness of tone. But after a while, as he spoke, it took on
the flavor of re-enactment. He had impressed these men and women once.
In the cutaways on C-Span, some delegates in attendance seemed
distracted, not alert, not sitting as if they were witnessing something
important. One delegate seemed to be scrolling down on a BlackBerry, one
rifled through notes. Two officials seated behind the president as he
spoke seemed engaged in humorous banter. At the end, the applause was
polite, appropriate and brief.

The president spoke of Iran and
nuclear weapons—"we should be able to achieve a resolution" of the
question. "We are encouraged" by signs of a more moderate course. "I am
directingJohn Kerry to pursue this effort."

But his spokesmen had suggested the possibility of a brief meeting or
handshake between Messrs. Obama and Rouhani. When that didn't happen
there was a sense the American president had been snubbed. For all the
world to see.

Which, if you are an American, is embarrassing.

While Mr. Rouhani could not meet with
the American president, he did make time for journalists, diplomats and
businessmen brought together by the Asia Society and the Council on
Foreign Relations. Early Thursday evening in a hotel ballroom, Mr.
Rouhani spoke about U.S.-Iranian relations.

He appears to be intelligent, smooth, and he said all the right
things—"moderation and wisdom" will guide his government, "global
challenges require collective responses." He will likely prove a tough
negotiator, perhaps a particularly wily one. He is eloquent when
speaking of the "haunted" nature of some


nutshell.

What is the response from the Obama administration? State Department
official: This just shows the necessity of helping the “rebels”.
Unbelievable.

From The Blaze:

Terrorist fighters with an Al
Qaeda-affiliated group in Syria seized weapons and other supplies meant
for the secular Syrian Supreme Military Council, U.S. State Department
and other western officials confirmed to TheBlaze.

According to reports from Syria, small
arms and ammunition stashed at a warehouse located along the border town
of Azaz supplied by Saudi Arabia and Qatar were taken more than a week
ago by the Al Qaeda affiliate.

A State Department official with
knowledge of the incident confirmed to TheBlaze that U.S. ready-to-eat
meals, known as MREs, and other non-lethal supplies were taken by
fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS. The
group is extremely dangerous and threatened this month to “cleanse”
towns alongbefore Cruz
yielded the floor.

Cruz was speaking to keep the budget resolution from coming to the
Senate floor because it sets the stage for Reid to delete provisions
defunding Obamacare.

Had Reid allowed Cruz to continue his quasi-filibuster past 24 hours,
18 minutes, the Senate could have given Cruz the record with an
asterisk or something. But no, as it stands, Thurmond still holds the
Senate record for his anti-civil rights filibuster. Thanks, Senator
Reid.

The artificial limit on Cruz’s quasi-filibuster also means the record
still belongs to the Democratic Party. Thurmond was a Democrat at the
time of his racist filibuster.

No vote or debate was scheduled. So why couldn't read let Cruz precede and, in a bipartisan fashion, demolish a scourge on the history and records of the United States Senate - one that deserves no place of


honour or memory? A record-breaking racist diatribe could have been thrown upon the ash heap of history.

My takeaway: Senator Harry Reid and his Progressive Partners on both sides of the aisle, along with the Washington-Manhattan Establishment, hate Senator Ted Cruz so much that they would rather let stand a 56-year-old hideous relic of a Jim Crow past: One originating in the Democratic Party. Evidently, they prefer a filibuster record set by a racist Democrat than one set by a minority, whose own family escaped tyranny in both the forms of the Batista Regime and the Castro Communist Era.

On 28 August 1957, Thurmond mounted his historic filibuster in an unsuccessful attempt to derail passage of the Eisenhower Civil Rights Act of 1957, which, to be fair, was opposed bythe likes of Senator John F Kennedy, Senator James Fulbright, Senator Sam Ervin, Senator Richard Russell, Senator Russell Long, and Senator John Stennis. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes as a Democrat and proud segregationist. While Thurmond later - much later - apologised, he didn't do so until he left the party of which he had been a member for 62 years; however, the filibuster record remains to this day:

A) Second
place remains: The 23 hours and 30 minute filibuster mounted by Senator
Alphonse D'Amato (Democrat-New York) in 1986 to stall a military
appropriations bill
that cut funding for a warplane built by a company headquartered in his
district remains in second place.

B) Third place remains with Senator Wayne Morse (Independent-OR), who spoke for 22 hours and 26 minutes, to stall


debate on the Tidelands Oil bill on 24-25 April 1953.

C) Ted Cruz's 26 September 2013 'filibuster' of 21
hours and 19 minutes on the subjects of defunding Obamacare, debt, and
liberty did, however, dethrone an Early American Progressive Icon, Senator
Robert La Follette, Sr, of Wisconsin. La Follete had filibustered 18 hours and 23
minutes to block debate on the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency
Bill, which allowed the Treasury to lend currency to banks during
financial crises, whilst the 'fiery Progressive Senator' delivered a
stem-winding oration championing the 'family farmers and the labouring
poor.' La Follette had given the fourth-longest filibuster in history until Senator Ted Cruz passed the 18 hour and 23 minute mark.

I guess letting go of a vile, despicable, deplorable, disdainful, racist piece of diatribic tripe has - presumably - earned its place in SenateNew Delhi: India will soon provide medium-lift choppers to Tajikistan and dedicate a hospital there as part of efforts to build on the strategic ties between the two countries against the backdrop of US-led troops preparing to pull out from Afghanistan in 2014.

The 50-bed hospital would be inaugurated by Defence Minister A K Antony who is expected to visit there next month, Defence Ministry officials said.

The decision to provide the Russian-origin Mi-series choppers and build a hospital in Tajikistan were taken during the visit of its President Emomali Rahmon's visit to India last August, they said.

The hospital was airlifted by the Indian Air Force recently which would help in providing specialist care to the local Tajik population in the southern part of the country.

India had earlier also built


a hospital in Tajikistan in Farkhor there in the late 90s on the Tajik-Afghan border to treat wounded Northern Alliance fighters battling against the then ruling Taliban regime.

India has also developed the Ayni airbase near the Tajik capital Dushanbe, which provided it a foothold in the Central Asian region.

India had deployed its Army and Border Roads Organisation personnel to upgrade the airbase by extending its runway, constructing an air-traffic control tower and perimeter fencing around the base.

The Ayni airbase was completed by India in 2008 after encountering minor problems there and had deployed over 100 personnel there for facilitating operations there.

Thursday, June 11, 2015Tajikistan’s Army Incapable of Defending Country Against ISIS Forces

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 11 – Many regional experts say that Tajikistan is the Central Asian country ISISRussian and Tajik armed forces also held drone drills in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains to practice using drones against illegal armed groups in areas of high altitude.On Friday, clashes between Tajik government forces and an armed gang in the capital of Dushanbe and in the city of Vahdat, located some six miles away, left over 30 police officers and nine gang members dead.

Monday, 1 February 2016Tajik and Russian forces to craft common approach to dealing with militants

The Russian and Tajik militaries will devise a common approach to neutralizing militants in inaccessible mountainous terrain during a combined exercise in March, Col. Gen. Vladimir Zarudnitsky, commander, Central Military District, told journalists on Monday.

Russia will do its best to provide aid to the Tajik Army in the form of arms exports, Russian


rebuke. He saw defence of the Australian Aborigine as a duty of his position. Mrs Bates also had great sympathy for the Aborigines, but there was a key difference. She was also staunch in her defence of the pastoralists, and was not receptive to allegations of widespread exploitation or mistreatment. She took exception to some of the bishop’s recent and not-so-recent remarks.[4]

Fresh from her Nor’-West study tour, Mrs Bates came determined to be heard; she found herself disarmed, not by logic or authority, but by natural affinity with her new acquaintance. In Gibney she found a kindred spirit: an intelligent, affable Irishman, as vehement as she was. She argued that cases of cruelty and exploitation were anomalies, and that the pastoralists as a group were honourable men. Thebishop did not contradict her, but spoke of mistreatment he had personally witnessed. He argued that both the best and the worst of human nature could be found by looking, and pointed out that in her recent travels she had remained very much within her social circle. By accepting invitations rather than choosing her own destinations, she had only visited stations that were recognised as models of humane treatment. If she were to range more widely, he suggested, she might come to a different conclusion.[5]

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Daisy Bates and Bishop Matthew Gibney.

The warmly defiant Daisy Bates was perfectly capable of resisting his argument, but she had no defence against the opportunity that came with it: to travel with the bishop and his associate Dean Martelli to the mission at Beagle


withdraw it. Instead, he left her in no doubt that she would come not as an observer but as a spade-carrying member of his team. He warned that £5,000 in improvements would not easily be demonstrated; she should expect to work hard.

On Friday, August 17th, 1900, Mrs Bates joined Bishop Gibney and Dean Martelli aboard the steamer Karrakatta for the eight-day voyage to Broome.[10] A few days later, Father Nicholas Emo and his novices sailed south from Beagle Bay to meet them. Their schooner Sree Pas Sair would remain at Broome for several days. There were tools and supplies to be bought and loaded before the combined party could sail north and begin its work.

When Karrakatta arrived at Broome, there was a great surprise in store for FatherNicholas. There had been no opportunity for Bishop Gibney to tell him that Mrs Bates would be joining them at Beagle Bay. Deprived of any opportunity for contemplation, Emo was quite undone by the news. In French, he tried to explain that there was no accommodation whatever for a woman at the mission; in fact, church law permitted only a queen or the wife of a head of state to enter its grounds. Bates struggled to hide her amusement:

However, there I was, and the dear little acting abbot took it upon himself to grant a dispensation, and went out to see what furniture he could buy for me, making wild guesses at what a female might need. His bewildered and exaggerated idea of hospitality filled me with astonishment.[11]

Nicholas


Maria Emo, of an influential Spanish family, studied medicine before entering the priesthood. After twelve years of service as a missionary in Patagonia, he returned to France and entered the Trappist monastery at Sept-fons as a novice. There, at 45 years of age, he declared his wish to devote the remainder of his life to the cause of the Australian Aborigines.[12]

In 1894 he came to Western Australia, hoping to minister to uncorrupted humanity. His superiors saw his role differently. He was sent to Broome, where a Spanish-speaking priest was urgently needed. Emo found himself confronting the same mix of disease and demoralisation that had dampened his missionary spirit in Patagonia. Nevertheless, he accepted his instructions and went to work. At first, his Trappist attire and observances were asource of amusement to the locals, but in Broome’s Filipino community he found affinity and support. Broader acceptance p90would follow; seen to be respected by some, he was soon helped and heeded by many.[13]

The reluctant parish priest set his evangelical aspirations aside to deal with humanitarian imperatives. He opened a school for black orphans, and from donations paid a part-Aboriginal schoolmistress. With early success came a setback: when town gossip regarding the girls and their guardian forced the school’s closure,[14] Emo saw no alternative but to place the girls in domestic service and send the boys to Beagle Bay. Over time, Emo won the respect of the pearlers; by their subscriptions he was able to build a church and a residence for himself. With money remaining he bought


seven or eight town allotments near the church, and handed ownership of the land to mixed-race couples whose conversions and Christian marriages appeared authentic.[15] Increasingly, the plight of part-Aboriginal children drew his attention. Aware of cases in which half-caste[16] babies had been killed by their Aboriginal mothers, he began visiting the outlying camps, advertising his willingness to accept—and if necessary, barter for—any child not wanted.[17] His foster family grew rapidly, as did his circle of dependants. After a few years he had established a new school, a home for half-caste girls, and a quiet seaside camp for the old and the sick.

Although Emo remained supportive of the mission at Beagle Bay, he hoped that a second mission might be established in even remoter parts. To that end heher vivid incantation of it: the shimmering heat, the incessant buzz of flies, and the Bishop intoning the rosary with a few straggling natives joining in whenever they knew the words. Even the horses were subjects of her wry observation. No thoroughbreds these, she mused, but “Trappists, too, skin and bone in their poverty, and stopped so often for their meditations and devotions that the bullock-team arrived before us.”[20]

The first indication of nearness was a great wave-like rise of birds, apparently from water. The Bishop, as if woken, looked up. “They’re swearing at us!” Mrs Bates quipped, but Bishop Gibney was oblivious to her mischief. A decade earlier, he and the Spanish Trappist Dom Ambrose Janny had chosen this site for the mission. They did not claim to


the new smoke-oh.

Beagle Bay, 1900: the women and children who worked under Mrs Bates’s supervision.

It is safe to declare that in the course of three months, powerful bonds of friendship and respect were forged, and that those bonds were further strengthened on the day of formal valuation. The government valuer, it seems, was surprised and impressed by what he found at the end of a desolate track from the ocean. Recognising the sheer determination that had brought it about, he approached his task more as a friend of the mission than as the agent of a distant government. Bates wrote:

He was surprised to see a thriving property where he had expected ruin and decay. Every screw and post, every fruit and vegetable, buildings, wells, trenches and implements wereand loam and a clay for the new convent and monastery.”

* * *

At Beagle Bay in the spring of 1900, Matthew Gibney, Daisy Bates and Nicholas Emo became influential in each other’s lives, but it was the influence of Nicholas Emo on Daisy Bates that would emerge as the most striking legacy of the Beagle Bay visit. Bates recognised that Emo’s keen interest in Aboriginal culture, custom and legend set him apart. He was not primarily an evangelist; rather, he drew sustenance from humanitarian service. Her enduring memory was of a humble man “sitting on the ground in the midst of his aged and decrepit natives, making homely jokes as he tended their sores and administered medicines.” Importantly, Emo had told her that in any clash of tribal


law and Christian teaching, tribal law would win, and that only by earning the respect of the natives would he—or she—be listened to.[26]

Although Nicholas Emo could not have known it, Daisy Bates would soon devote herself to the study of Australian Aborigines, as he had devoted himself to their care. For the next fifty years, she would immerse herself in black culture and language, adopting key elements of his vision as her own.

* * *

In late 1902, after an unsuccessful return to the role of wife and mother, Daisy Bates moved to Perth, took up residence in a city hostel, and tried to build a career as a freelance journalist. There was some early success. For The Western Mail she wrote a series of articles on the Murchisongoldfields. For the state government she wrote a paper on the Trans-Australian Railway. And for a few months the avowed Protestant was afforded her own page in The Western Australian Catholic Record. But all of this was not enough to sustain her; she supplemented her income by the sale of picture postcards on Nor’-West and Aboriginal themes, printed from her own photographs taken at Beagle Bay and elsewhere.[27]

While taking whatever work came her way, she remained keen to document Aboriginal customs and language. It is known that she received encouragement from Bishop Gibney and Dean Martelli, and also from former state premier and now federal parliamentarian John Forrest, whose interest in the Aborigines was, like her own, characterised both by great sympathy and great pessimism. This was urgent


became Western Australia’s first Labor premier. Some reorganisation of departments was inevitable; a few months later, Bates learned that her city office was to be requisitioned. Rather than risk the work for which she had waited so long, and which she had begun with great zeal, she put to Malcolm Fraser a bold proposal: that she be permitted to set up camp at Maamba, an Aboriginal reserve on the outskirts of the city, to live and work among the last living speakers of some south-western dialects. Her determination prevailed, and her boss agreed. Biographer Elizabeth Salter would later write:

On a winter’s day of July 1905, she set out with a police escort for Cannington. The men remained long enough to choose her site and pitch her tent forher. When they had seen her safely settled in they left her, a lone white woman, her tent a hundred yards away from the Government huts of her black neighbours. Impressed by the power of this white woman who could dismiss from her presence the policemen of whom they were so much afraid, the black people watched proceedings from a discreet distance. Daisy stood at the edge of her breakwind and smiled at them. Little by little they came closer. She did nothing to encourage or discourage them. Waiting patiently for her moment, she invited them to visit her. Then, speaking in the dialect of the Bibbulmuns, she asked them if they would care to join her for a cup of tea.[31]

* * *

p95While Mrs Bates scouted for