Beloved outdoor filmmaker Warren Miller dies at age 93

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. — Warren Miller, the prolific outdoor filmmaker who for decades made homages to the skiing life that he narrated with his own humorous style, has died. He was 93.

His family says in a statement that Miller died Wednesday evening at his home on Orcas Island.

A World War II veteran, ski racer, surfer and sailor, Miller produced more than 500 films on a variety of outdoor activities. However it was his ski films for which he was most known. His annual movies served as informal kickoffs for the ski season for more than 60 years.

He is survived by his wife Laurie, sons Scott and Kurt, daughter Chris and a stepson, Colin Kaufman.The future of PRO Rugby is shrouded in uncertainty after the players were informed their contracts were being terminated by the league's owner Doug Schoninger.

A post on the PRO Rugby Facebook page read: "Unfortunately, due to issues beyond our control, we were forced to activate the voluntary termination clause in our player's agreements. We are hoping for a productive resolution as soon as possible."

PRO Rugby is adamant the league will continue in some form in 2017 but in the letter to the players, according to Rugby Today, Schoninger says the league is having "serious issues with the cooperation and the enforcement of our agreement with USA Rugby". Schoninger hopes those issues can be resolved prior to the end of the termination clause period.

USA Rugby has since its own


statement in response to Schoninger, saying: "USA Rugby categorically denies any and all allegations purported by PRO Rugby Tuesday, Dec. 20, and is saddened to hear of the planned termination of all valid contracts signed by athletes that have fulfilled their playing duties for season one and were scheduled to be paid through the duration of their 12-month contracts."

The first season of the five-team competition finished in July with Denver Stampede winning the title but since then one of those quintet -- the San Francisco Rush -- has folded.Lord is good as you eat and drink
his body and blood.

And the
wonderful thing about these gifts - the fruit of Christ’s victory from the
cross to you, the Good News that we are found in Christ not havinga righteousness of our
own that comes from the law, butthat which comes through
faith in Christ, that we are given the righteousness from God that depends on
faith – well, that is the one story that never gets old and never
ends.

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy
Spirit. Amen.

For
everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

A time
to be born, and a time to die;

A time
to weep, and


there is also a time to rise. Christ is greater than our sin
and death. Christ’s death overcame death. By his resurrection he thawed the icy
grip of the grave upon him and upon all who are called by his name. Yes there
is a time to be born and a time to die, even for God. God was born for you,
lived for you, suffered, bled, died, and rose for you.

For
everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

And so for Betty there was a time – September 22nd,
1922 – to be exact, where she died and was born all in a matter of a few
moments and three splashes of water. I baptize you in the Name of the Father
and of the Son and of the HolySpirit. Amen. Behold I make all things new. Betty’s Baptism was truly a time to
die. Her sin was drowned and washed away. And her Baptism was also a time to be
born. A time to receive the new birth from above, to be born anew by water and
Spirit, born a new creation by Jesus command and promise: Let there be life.
And behold, in God’s eyes, Betty was very good. In fact she was better than
good. She was perfect, holy, sinless. All of that because of all that Christ
did for her on the cross and poured over her at the Font and fed her with at
the Altar.

This faith in Christ is the confession of faith that Betty
received at Baptism. This was the faith that gave her strength when there was


a
time of depression or a time of plenty. She lived Solomon’s words about a time
for planting and harvesting, and a time for casting away and gathering stones.

This Christian faith is the firm foundation that Betty – and
countless young Lutherans like her – received as they learned and studied and
memorized each week in Sunday School and Church, in the home and later in
confirmation class. And she simply carried her faith everywhere she went, from
her family and friends in Lancaster, OH all the way to her family and friends
here in Huntington Beach.

This faith in Christ also led her to a life of service to
others. Freely she received Christ’s mercy, freely she gave to those in need.
Especially as a nurse, and a teacher of nurses. She knew that there’s a time
for14th Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

The 14th Cavalry Division (, 14-ya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya) was a cavalry formation of the Russian Imperial Army.

Organization
1st Cavalry Brigade
14th Regiment of Dragoons
14th Uhlan Regiment
2nd Cavalry Brigade
14th Regiment of Hussars
14th Regiment of Cossacks
14th Horse Artillery Division

Commanders
 18.10.1914—13.05.1915 : Ivan Erdélyi

Commanders of the 1st Brigade
1880–1882: Alexander Kaulbars

References

Category:Cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1918


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Asexual reproduction of the new and distinct variety of nectarine tree was achieved by budding same to xe2x80x98Nemaguardxe2x80x99 Rootstock (non-patented). This was performed by us in our experimental orchard located near Fowler, Calif. Subsequent evaluations have shown that those asexual reproductions run true to the original tree. All characteristics of the original tree, and its fruit were established, and appeared to be transmittedThe El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid is one of the biggest matches of the football calendar, and the first explosive encounter gets underway at Camp Nou this Saturday.

All eyes will be on the two players deemed the greatest in the world at this present time - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but focus will also be on summer signings Neymar and Gareth Bale, who moved to Barca and Madrid respectively for hefty fees.

Despite Bale's highly anticipated arrival at the Bernabeu following his £85m switch from Tottenham Hotspur, the Welshman has had an inconsistent start to his career in Spain due to injury.

The 24-year-old made an appearance from the substitutes' bench in Madrid's 2-1 victory over Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, but is unlikely to


start in this weekend's clash due to lack of match fitness.

While plenty of focus will be on the players, this is the first El Clasico for Barca boss Gerardo Martino and Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who has led his side to third in the league table after nine fixtures.

Barcelona remain La Liga leaders with an unbeaten record and 28 goals to their name so far, while their arch-rivals have lost once in their campaign so far.

Madrid secured last season's El Clasico 2-1 on home turf, as well as clinching a 3-1 victory at Camp Nou.went through the [study], we specifically precluded ourselves from using the word ‘fighter,’" said Air Force Brig. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, deputy director of global operations at the Pentagon. Grynkewich served as the lead chief of strategic planning for the Air Superiority 2030 Enterprise Capabilities Collaboration Team.

"Air combat is not all about fighter aircraft dogfighting anymore ... it's about bringing a network to bear, and attributes [penetrating counter air] needs in terms of range, persistence, survivability, lethality," Grynkewich said in July.

Next-generation air dominance was once synonymous with penetrating counter air, or PCA. To many, the concept of an advanced, stealthy and hypersonic fighter aircraft came to mind.

But the Air Force is keen on moving away from a "one-size-fits-all" idea and toward a family of systems approach. Officials have said


deadline of his defence pushed back to the day before the election. The suit, funded by the LNP, was dropped months later.

Newman did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

Bleijie declined to comment when contacted by Guardian Australia.

Neither of the Hannays could be reached for comment.

Newman’s remarks about lawyers provoked widespread ire in the legal community, with the Queensland Bar Association and the Queensland Law Society calling for him to withdraw them and apologise.

Peter Davis, the then president of the bar association, said he was contacted by Bleijie at the time and told there would be no apology from Newman.

“The idea that a lawyer, by representing someone who is accused of a criminal offence, is somehow or other joining the criminality is just misconceived,” Davis toldthe ABC at the time.

The fracas came at the height of the former Liberal National government’s political campaign against outlaw motorcycle gangs and uncertainty in the legal community over the scope of the anti-association laws.

A solicitor, Adam Magill, said he was forced to send home witnesses threatened with arrest by police at the Maroochydore magistrates court in late 2013.

Another solicitor, Andrew Bale, had written to the police commissioner and the director of public prosecutions five months before Newman’s remarks asking if clients would be arrested for facing court together but received no reply.


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Ballmer said in a statement on Friday that he would have timed his retirement in the middle of Microsoft's announced transformation to a devices and services company. But he said: "We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction."

The software company said its board had appointed a special committee to direct the process of appointing a new chief executive.

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During the summer I had the opportunity to revisit the life of this wonderful saint when I attended a monologue based on her life. I blogged about it here. Over the years, some modern Catholics have turnedaway from her because they associate her with over- sentimentalized piety and yet the message she has for us is still as compelling and simple as it was almost a century ago. However, if we were take the time to get to know Thérèse, we come to see and admire a strength and awareness of herself which marked her deep desire to consecrate herself completely to God. Thérèse may be known as the Little Flower but she had a will of steel. When the superior of the Carmelite convent refused to take Thérèse because she was so young, the formerly shy little girl went to the bishop. When the bishop also said no, she decided to go over his head, as well.She was not willing to stop, even


approaching the Pope himself to obtain permission to enter the Carmel, despite her young age.

Fast forward a few centuries and we see that she continues to touch the heart of yet another Pontiff. On Sunday 8th of September, the day after the long prayer vigil for peace in Syria – when some passages from texts written by St.Thérèse of Lisieux were read out, Pope Francis received a white rose as a surprise. Francis considers the flower to be a “sign” linked to the devotion of the saint. Pope Francis told Archbishop of Ancona and Osimo, Edoardo Menichelli about the rose a day before the prelate was due to present a book in Pedaso, in the Italian region of Marche. The prelate recounted the story during the presentation. TheLord who infuses interior strength into my soul and brings out a work of art which encourages those who look at it to be moved towards prayer and a deeper connection with the spiritual life. It i…

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Evidence of alien life on Mars may have already been found by Nasa’s rover but scientists failed to notice, a new study suggests

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The multi-faceted Jeffrey Tucker is an American writer who focuses on market freedom, anarcho-capitalism, and cryptotech. He is the author of eight books on economics, politics, and culture, a much-sought after conference speaker, and an Internet entrepreneur. Jeffrey is editorial director and vice president of the venerable American Institute for Economic Research, founded in 1933. His career has focused on building many of the web’s primary portals for commentary and research on liberty, and is undertaking new adventures in publishing today.

I have incredible good fortune, as Jeff has written the preface to my book “The Satoshi Revolution,” which will be published in early 2019 by


Question of temperament: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Credit:AP "This will cost him support among suburban white, college-educated women who are likely to play a key role in determining the outcome of the campaign. It goers much further – every man in America has a wife, a girlfriend, a daughter, a sister, a mother, or even just a co-worker or a friend who has gone through self-image issues, or has struggled with their weight at some point in their lives." The extent to which Clinton is ahead – just – in national polls is attributed in great part to her standing with white, college-educated women. Back in 2012, Republican Mitt Romney won this demographic, defeating Barack Obama 52-46, according to exit polls. This year, the GOP candidate trailsdubbing Machado "Miss Piggy, "because she had put on weight during her 1990s stint as Miss Universe; and "Miss Housekeeping", because she was Latina. It was celebrated instantly as one of the great acts of "political idiocy", particularly Trump's instinctive bid, as the debate closed, to put distance between himself and the Machado business by resurrecting the business of Rosie O'Donnell, the comedian he had condemned in the past as "a slob", "disgusting", "a fat pig" with "a fat, ugly face" – who he declared afresh deserved all she had got. The men in Team Trump, none of them paragons of virtue in the marriage stakes, piled on as Trump hurtled towards a cliff edge in a weeklong tirade against Machado – a spectacle Clinton described as "unhinged"


and others deemed as worse than might have been acceptable in the Mad Men era. Only one of the women, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, showed something approximating restraint. She told ABC's The View that she had personally reprimanded Trump for his language on women. Any policy message that Trump wanted to amplify was lost.

In the early hours of Friday, he set the agenda for the daily news cycle with a Twitter tirade against Machado and on Saturday evening he was slashing his wrists, politically, repeatedly interrupting himself with wacky asides and tangential taunts, as he tried to deliver what his campaign had billed as a debate-shifting, nine-paragraph message targeted at millennial voters – just as an editor at The New York Times was executing the keystrokes toupload a bombshell report on leaked tax papers that reveal Trump probably avoided paying any federal income tax for as long as 18 years. When Trump loses, his instinctive response is to lash out, much like a cornered animal. Having created a mess, he then cast himself as victim – "look what I get out of it – I get nothing", he said while being swallowed by the Machado madness. Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado is pushing back against the sexism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Credit:AP There's a pattern in the crazed manner in which Trump explodes into his schoolboy tantrums – the most excessive have come after clear instances of poor performance by him or by his campaign. Take his mind-boggling, week-long attack on the


Khan family, whose son died heroically as a US Marine in Afghanistan – that was after the Republican Convention, of which he was circus master, was judged a failure by comparison with the Democratic convention.

Take his week-long tirade against the beauty queen Machado – that was after Clinton cleaned up in the first of three campaign debates between the presidential candidates. There is a perpetual insecurity in Trump, the manifestation of which can't be explained away as locker-room blokiness. To the extent that he thinks beforehand, he genuinely believes it's appropriate to enliven campaign discourse with references to his penis size, a journalist's menstrual cycle and a beauty queen's eating habits. In offering himself for the highest office in the land, he believes it's appropriate to mimic aand notwithstanding all that – clang, clang, clang – his belief that they will vote for him in sufficient numbers to make him president. Inevitably this debate is peppered with coarse language – or with terms that possibly are acceptable in social science, but have yet to be used widely in the mainstream media. But Slate columnist, and author of The Goddess Pose, Michelle Goldberg wrote recently: "[Trump's] belief that Bill Clinton's affairs reflect badly on Hillary demonstrates something key to his psyche – for Trump, the only salient distinction when judging a woman's worth is whether she's f---able or unf---able." Quite apart from the Machado run-in, the latest insight into Trump's objectification of women is a long offering from Associated Press, which is based on extensive interviews


with cast and crew from Trump's hugely successful TV show, The Apprentice. It's a sordid account of a testosterone-infused environment in which Trump demeaned women with his sexist language; and rated them as potential sex partners – by breast size and other physical attributes.

Trump, second from left, with his son, Donald Trump jnr, far left, in a recent season of Credit:Screenshot In keeping with Trump's icky innuendo about his daughters, his repeated lewd comments about a camerawoman often were accompanied by a reference to how her beauty reminded him of his daughter Ivanka. Trump demanded that women wear shorter dresses and show more cleavage, and speculated about which of them would be "a tiger in bed". He would ask women their breast size and if their breasts werepapers revealing Trump's demand that women who were not slim, or who didn't pass his "pretty" test, should be fired from one of his golf clubs in California. The club's director of catering was ordered to sack a "highly competent and professional" woman because "Mr Trump does not like fat people" and Trump had "told manager many times … that the restaurant hostesses were 'not pretty enough' and that they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women". Instead of firing them, the club management took to hiding the women whenever Trump visited the club. In his habitual grading of women on the Trump scale of objectification, the GOP candidate declared one of the Kardashian women to have a "bad body", and at a time when she


The various tactics in Trump's post-debate eruptions were described as efforts to "fat-shame" and "slut-shame" the former Miss Universe. He demeaned her as "disgusting" and the "worst Miss U".

Trump's claim that Machado's eating habits made her the "worst Miss U" is especially revealing given all the other charges his campaign has tried to pin on her. They would have the world believe that she's an accessory to murder, that she had threatened the life of a judge and that the father of her child is a Mexican drug lord – all of which she denies and none of which led to charges. Trump also tweeted that his millions of followers should seek out a Machado sex tape, which seemingly doesn't exist. There is some grainy footage, described as"risqué", of her in bed on a TV show, but unlike the wife of you-know-who, who has appeared naked on magazine covers, Machado was under the covers. In the past, Trump has been quite blasé about so-called sex tapes. He apparently watched one that featured Paris Hilton with his wife; and he happily suggested that a former Miss USA contestant release her tape. It was in searching for the purported sex tape that he attributed to Alicia Machado, that BuzzFeed came across the Playboy video that features Trump's cameo role. By Trump's world view, Machado's "worst" offence was her eating habits.

Trump claims Machado stacked on more than 50lb. Interviewed on CNN, Machado insisted she gained just 16lb, and there's some support for her in an interview Trump gave


to CBS at the time when, far from being the "worst Miss U", Trump said: "She's turned out to be one of the great Miss Universes ... [even though] she had a little problem … where she gained a little weight." All this is coming from the man who told a TV audience: "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps, I'd be dating her." He told a radio show how he'd been stunned by the beauty of a 12-year-old Paris Hilton, saying when she walked into a room: "Who the hell is that?" He's the same guy who told Esquire magazine: "You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." Trump even cast his newborn daughterTiffany in erotic terms, telling Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in 1994 that the child had inherited her model mother's long legs. Cupping his hands against his chest to hold imaginary breasts, he added: "We don't know whether or not she's got this part yet, but time will tell." And his inverted priorities were on display in 2005, when he spoke of his current wife Melania, telling radio host Howard Stern: "She's a great beauty, but she's a great beauty inside – which is almost as important."

Slate's Goldberg concluded: "If [Trump's] ultimately beaten by a woman, it will be in part due to his inability to see past the f---able/unf---able binary and [to] recognise women as fully human – it's hard to imagine justice quite so poetic."


There's a disturbing and continuous focus by the Trump campaign on the fact that Clinton, more than a politician or a candidate, is a w-o-m-a-n and that, of itself, makes her unelectable. As the campaign flailed in the weekend, responding to The New York Times' sensational story on Trump's non-payment of tax, lead surrogate and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani found Clinton guilty on the grounds of her gender, posing this question on ABC News: "Don't you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman, and the only thing she's ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI checking out her emails?" Likewise, much of Trump's assaults on Clinton consist of adjectives– "crooked", "incompetent"and the like, that are followed by a single incriminating noun: "woman". To the extent that it's possible, Trump attempted subtlety to generate debate on Bill Clinton's affairs and Hillary Clinton's response to them – resorting to apophasis, the rhetorical art of injecting an issue into a discourse by claiming you'll not talk about it.

Of course, being Trump he couldn't help himself and the media did its part too – publishing long, historical reviews of the Clinton sex scandals. Within days of the debate in which he said he would not say something "extremely rough to Hillary, to her family", Trump was saying rough things. Importantly, that this was a considered campaign strategy is proved by the talking points it circulated to surrogates – to counter


Trump's Machado mess, the talking heads were told to change the topic to Monica Lewinsky, and to include this line: "Mr Trump has never treated women the way Hillary Clinton and her husband did when they actively worked to destroy Bill Clinton's accusers." All the Clinton scandals, and Hillary Clinton's role in them, have been canvassed often and always have been such a dismal failure for Republicans that GOP strategists refer to the issue as "the nuclear option". Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Credit:AP For good reason – in the course of the Lewinsky affair, starting early in 1998, Hillary Clinton's approval rating rocketed from 42 points to 64 points by the end of that year.

"It's like a nuclear hand-grenade," Republican pollster David Winston told the Los AngelesTimes. "As Trump blows everything up, does he blow himself up as well – or does he only get damaged around the edges." A CNN/Gallup poll at the time asked if Americans admired how Hillary Clinton had conducted herself in the course of the Lewinsky saga – 72 per cent said yes. In a Fox News poll, more than 60 per cent thought she was a strong woman for sticking with her husband. And while the wife currently has a "favourability" challenge with the American electorate, the husband doesn't – Bill Clinton's favourability rating was 53 per cent in August. In the 2015 lead-up to the GOP primaries, Republican strategists dipped their toes in the Clinton waters again, testing the response of swing voters. "These voters were completely


turned off and disgusted by it," strategist Tim Miller told The Washington Post. "We found time and again [that] these attacks turned Hillary into a victim and that it engendered sympathy for her." That's not how Trump sees it. In September, he told The New York Times that he was raising Bill Clinton's infidelity for two reasons: one, it would unsettle Hillary Clinton; and two, it will repulse female voters. In the course of the primaries, he argued to reporters that while others had failed, he would finesse winning attacks on the Clinton scandals. There's a widely held view that Trump is falling into his own trap here. One of the complaints about Hillary Clinton is that she needs to be more human and likeable on the campaigntrail – and if he keeps up, Trump might do the job for her.

Charles Blow, a columnist in The New York Times, makes this argument: "In his anger and haste, [Trump] is severely underestimating the empathy people have for a betrayed spouse, who might, in misdirected anger, blame the victim, believe the unbelievable, and grant unearned forgiveness…a broken heart isn't a physical wound but a psychic, spiritual one. "It hurts like hell and people often respond in ways that are less than honourable, but ultimately understandable." Some accounts of Hillary Clinton's aggressive countering of women's claims that they had had an affair with Bill Clinton, which later proved to be true, define her role as that of a motivating political force; others cast her as a wounded wife


who believed her husband's denials, despite his form. This was when Hillary Clinton coined the term "vast right-wing conspiracy" to describe a well-funded and conservatively driven, but ultimately a failed campaign for Bill Clinton's impeachment. It's also when her response to one such woman's claim, reportedly was: "We have to destroy her story." It's no accident that several of the key figures in the Trump campaign are GOP veterans who were instrumental in the "vast right-wing conspiracy".

Given Trump's demeaning treatment of women over the years, his record as a philanderer and reported allegation of rape within marriage by his first wife, Ivana, any criticism on his part of Bill Clinton and/or of Hillary Clinton's response to the Bill Clinton affairs is very much a case of the potcalling the kettle black. At the time of the Lewinsky saga, Trump's only criticism of Bill Clinton was, typically, that people would have been more forgiving if Clinton's affair had been with "a really beautiful woman of sophistication". He wrote-off Paula Jones as "a loser", and he charged that Bill Clinton was being hounded by "a truly unattractive cast of characters". Note, it was the then president who had strayed, but it was the women who copped it in the neck from Trump. Maureen Dowd, The New York Times columnist who knowns when to dip her pen in acid, especially when writing about the Clintons, went for Trump and his surrogates on Sunday. Reversing all the gender insults that emanate from the cabal at Trump Tower, she demolished


him being out a little bit — he’ll still play good minutes, but not regular-season minutes.”

With Irving suffering another facial injury just a minute into his Nets debut despite wearing a protective mask, Jordan quipped, “That just means the mask was pretty sh-tty.”

In the latest GM survey, Brooklyn was picked fourth in the East and fourth most-improved. Irving was snubbed for top point guard, but was fifth among players to take a shot with a game on the line; Durant was second. Atkinson was among the top vote-getters for defensive schemes and motivator, as was Dinwiddie for impact off the bench.stipulated to between the parties and are essentially as follows. The Iowa Irrigation Ditch Company (Iowa Ditch) was incorporated in 1895. Its articles of incorporation provided as follows:
This company is formed for the purpose of locating, constructing and maintaining dams, ditches and flumes for the purpose of conducting the waters of Rapid Creek out upon the land in Pennington County, South Dakota, for irrigation purposes, milling and domestic use.
Iowa Ditch then began to obtain quitclaim deeds along the course of the proposed irrigation ditch. The various deeds obtained range from unconditional fees to easements with "reverter to grantor" clauses. Several tracts of land which the ditch crossed had no conveyances of record to Iowa Ditch.
On April 26, 1898, Jacob A. C. Smith (Smith) executed and delivered a quitclaim


deed to Iowa Ditch which is shown in the records of the register of deeds as follows:
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That Jacob A. C. Smith of the County of Pennington in the State of South Dakota, party of the first part, in consideration of the sum of Fifty Dollars in hand paid by The Iowa Irrigation Ditch Company a Corporation with its principal office at Rapid City, County of Pennington and State of South Dakota, party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, remise, release and quit-claim unto the said party of the second part, its successors and assigns forever, all his estate, right, title, interest, claim, property and demand, of, in and to the following real property, situate in theCounty of Pennington, State of South Dakota, and described as follows:
A Strip of land not exceeding forty (40) feet in width following the course of the survey of the Iowa Irrigation Ditch Co. as shown by the recorded plat thereof across lot four (4) Section five (5) in Township One (1) North of Range Eight (8) East B.H.M. to be used as a right of way for an Irrigation Ditch,
It is hereby agreed as a further consideration for payment of this right of way, that the party of the second part will furnish water at the regular established price fixed by said second party, for the purpose of irrigating all the land owned by the party of the first part, as soon as the ditch contains water that


can be used for this purpose, and the party of the second part also agrees to place a bridge over said ditch at such place as the party of the first part may demand.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto in anywise appertaining.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 26th day of April A.D. 1898.
Jacob A. C. Smith (SEAL)[1]
The recorded plat referred to in the deed shows only the location of a single line of the proposed ditch.
Shares of stock were issued to the owners of each tract of land irrigated from the ditch. Tom Phillips, a successor in interest to Smith, held three shares in the Iowa Ditch Corporation. Those three shares were assigned by the only heir of Phillipsto the defendants on January 1, 1977.
*144 In the flood of June 9, 1972, the head gate of the ditch was destroyed and portions of the ditch itself were severely damaged. On January 4, 1973, the stockholders of Iowa Ditch, finding the expense of reconstructing the ditch prohibitive, voted to dissolve the corporation and deliver quitclaim deeds to the stockholders who owned property adjacent to the ditch which was subject to easements for the ditch.
On February 12, 1973, the directors of the corporation adopted a resolution to convey "the real property owned by the corporation" to Kenneth Shabina and four others. At a stockholders meeting, a similar resolution was adopted. A quitclaim deed to the property in question was issued to Shabina, who in turn conveyed it to


plaintiff.
The land on either side of the ditch which had been owned by Smith was eventually replatted as Lots 5 and 6 of Campbell Square Addition to the City of Rapid City. Defendants acquired Lot 6 on October 19, 1973, and Lot 5 on January 24, 1975.
After acquiring the lots, defendants filled a portion of the ditch; part of the former ditch is now a paved parking area used in defendant's automobile dealership. Plaintiff subsequently brought this action, claiming fee title to the ditch, to have defendants remove the fill from the ditch.
The issue to be determined in this appeal is whether the Smith-Iowa Ditch deed conveyed a fee title or only a right-of-way easement.
The quitclaim deed in question contains a clause granting all of Smith's interest inThe SLC26 gene family of multifunctional anion exchangers.
The ten-member SLC26 gene family encodes anion exchangers capable of transporting a wide variety of monovalent and divalent anions. The physiological role(s) of individual paralogs is evidently due to variation in both anion specificity and expression pattern. Three members of the gene family are involved in genetic disease; SLC26A2 in chondrodysplasias, SLC26A3 in chloride-losing diarrhea, and SLC26A4 in Pendred syndrome and hereditary deafness (DFNB4). The analysis of Slc26a4-null mice has significantly enhanced the understanding of the roles of this gene in both health and disease. Targeted deletion of Slc26a5 has in turn revealed that this paralog is essential for electromotor activity of cochlear outer hair cells and thus for cochlear amplification. Anions transported by the SLC26 family, with variable specificity, include


BJP MPs came and stood there and Ali sat next to him and heard out Advani as he expressed his anguish again. “Mujhe bahut dukh hota hai (I feel very sad),” Advani said as Idris Ali and the other two listened in silence.

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Advani picked up the list of business for the day in front of him, glanced at it and put it back. Then he picked up the list for question hour and put that back, too, again in silence. At one point he rubbed his eyes. In the aisle a few feet behind Advani, MoS for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha was seen in a lengthy discussion with Jharkhand MPs Ravindra Rai and SunilMatthea Harvey's 'Tabloids' mashes word pictures with imaginative art

Author Matthea Harvey and the cover of her new book, "If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?"

Author Matthea Harvey and the cover of her new book, "If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?" (Matthea Harvey / Graywolf Press)

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If you care about modern American poetry, you should care about Matthea Harvey, says @DanielHandler

True story: A teenager saw me with Matthea Harvey's new book of poems as I sat with it in a café and asked if she could look at it. She was the scowly sort, angry tattoo on her shoulder, who I thought was going to ask me if I had a cigarette; not, offhand, the type who maybe cares much about modern American poetry.

I do, though,


and if you care about modern American poetry you care about Matthea Harvey. Her first collection, "Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form," put us all on notice, first with its name — still holding the crown for Most Delicious Poetry Collection Title to Say Out Loud, despite challengers like "Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread" and "Ooga-Booga" — and then with its cheerful, almost reckless breadth. Many of the poems, including the long title one, are free of punctuation, leaving you to decide when to take a breath; then you turn the page and there's something easier to get a grip on. It's a spiky, tangly book — no wonder that one of the best poems was called "In Defense of Our Overgrownthink about them. Then we think about mermaids — the book starts with a handful of prose poems called "The Straightforward Mermaid," "The Objectified Mermaid" and so forth, paired with silhouettes made, as with all images in the book, by the poet, depicting creatures that are half woman and half household appliance, such as hammer, surge protector and gun. Both image and text look askance at the narrative of a typical mermaid; rather than slinky, aquatic male fantasies, these beings are textured with the grit of real life:

If you care about modern American poetry you care about Matthea Harvey.

"The one time he brought her fries — delicious fries — she took them as if in a trance, and dipped them, two at a time into the ketchup. The


shared memory sprang to both their faces — two severed legs, blood everywhere, and his hand gripping the saw." It's a startling image, made more startling by that "delicious fries" interruption, and it's juxtaposed with a half-woman half-wrench silhouette, which is striking, not only by itself but because the poem begins, "The Homemade Mermaid is top half pimply teenager, bottom half tuna." It may be that the illustration casts doubt on the text, and vice versa; it also looks like maybe they just put two things next to each other, and that's that.

The collection has some wilder flourishes — Harvey whites out a few pages of a Ray Bradbury book, and there's a section of nothing but photographs of toys frozen in ice — but for the mostSurvey measuring impact of Internet, phone outages

County government and the Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County are asking county residents to fill out a quick online survey aimed at measuring the impact of the Internet and phone service outages that began Sunday, Aug. 3 and originated from the Comptche-Ukiah Road area. The survey is located at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/coastoutage.

"The purpose of this data gathering is to assist the alliance, in coordination with county elected leaders, to resolve this connectivity issue for many of the county's residents and prevent it from happening again," said county CEO Carmel Angelo in an Aug. 8 news release.

The Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce urges businesses, institutions and community members to participate.

"The fiber cut last Sunday, about 10 miles inland on Comptche Ukiah Road, created essentially a


shutdown of the telecommunications infrastructure on the coast from Elk to north of Fort Bragg. Much of 911 service was disrupted. In addition to the coastal shutdown, we also are hearing reports that the fiber cut caused the failure of the Verizon cellular service in the Laytonville area, thus having a direct impact on the Cal Fire operations at the Lodge Lightning Complex," says a Chamber of Commerce message, which also urges Laytonville-area residents to fill out the survey.

The coastal outage began about 5:30 Sunday, Aug. 3, and lasted until late Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 5.

For more information, contact the county CEO's office at 707-0463-4441.UN inspectors visit key Iran uranium mine

TEHRAN, Iran—A group of U.N. inspectors visited a key uranium mine in southern Iran on Wednesday, as part of a deal to allow expanded monitoring of the country's nuclear sites.

Nuclear spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the official IRNA news agency that the three-member team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog—the International Atomic Energy Agency—inspected the Gachin uranium mine, 50 kilometers west of the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.

Iran and the IAEA struck a deal Nov. 11 in Tehran granting U.N. inspectors wider access to Iran's nuclear facilities. The deal was parallel to an agreement reached with world powers Nov. 24 in Geneva to have Iran halt its most sensitive uranium enrichment activities in return for an easing of Western sanctions over its controversial


nuclear program.

Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said U.N. inspectors were given a "managed access" to Gachin site. The term refers to a level of scrutiny that provides IAEA inspectors with access to data while at the same time allows the host country to protect some information.

Next to Gachin uranium mine is an associated mill that turns the mined uranium into uranium ore concentrate, a powder known as yellowcake because of its mostly yellowish color. The processing is part of the early stages before actual enrichment of uranium.

In the past, IAEA has questioned whether the Gachin facility was linked to alleged possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program.

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"An army like this would help us to better coordinate our foreign and defense policies, and to collectively take on Europe's responsibilities in the world," Juncker told the weekly. "Europe's image has suffered dramatically and also in terms of foreign policy, we don't seem to be taken entirely seriously."

Juncker implied that a combined EU force might have altered developments in Ukraine

The European Commission president, formerly Luxembourg's prime minister, said that, with such a force, the EU could react in a credible manner when faced with a threat to freedom in a member state or neighboring country.

"You


would not create a European army to use it immediately," Juncker said. "But a common army among the Europeans would convey to Russia that we are serious about defending the values of the European Union."

Juncker added, however, that any such force should not be envisaged as a challenge to NATO's existing defense role.

Old idea, old objections, but new proponents

The proposition of a possible EU defense force was first formally laid down in the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which came into force in December 2009. Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy are among those to have advocated such a force, at least in theory at some point in the future. Joint missions abroad, only involving willing participants and often with a peacekeeping remit, have been commonplace forseveral years.

However, defense policy and military matters remain largely the domain of individual member states within the EU. The UK, generally a staunch proponent of keeping political power away from Brussels or Strasbourg, and also one of the continent's major military powers, might be a prime candidate to resist such a strategic integration of military and defensive assets.

In Germany, though, as the country seeks a greater international role than the sort of large-scale-Switzerland model favored in the post-war era, such an appeal might be more warmly received.

Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said last month, for instance, that a form of EU army should be a long-term goal for the block. Von der Leyen said that she was convinced about the goal of a combined military force, just


as she was convinced that "perhaps not my children, but then my grandchildren will experience a United States of Europe."

Defense Minister von der Leyen is already working on extensive reform within Germany's military

Welt am Sonntag also quoted Norbert Röttgen, the chair of the Bundestag's foreign policy committee, describing an EU force as "a vision whose time has come." Röttgen pointed in particular to potential synergies and savings in military spending.

"The European countries spend enormous sums on the military, many times more in total when compared to Russia. Yet our military capabilities remain unsatisfactory from a security standpoint. And they will for as long as we're talking about national mini-armies, which are often doing and purchasing the same things in their minor formats," Röttgen told Welt.

On Monday, according toholds at least 23 school records, including career marks for rushing yards (4,239), all-purpose yards (5,483), rushing touchdowns (48) and total touchdowns (52). He was the fourth player in school history to repeat as a first-team AP All-American.

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The continuing bombardment of civilian homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as the Israeli shelling of a hospital, add to the list of possible war crimes that demand an urgent independent international investigation, said Amnesty International.

The third floor of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah was struck by Israeli shelling, killing four people and wounding dozens, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson.

“Today’s attack on the Al-Aqsa hospital is the latest in a series of attacks on and near medical facilities in Gaza, which have been struggling to cope with thousands of injured people since the Israeli offensive began on 8 July,” said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.

“There can be no justification for targetinghotel. Cars will be parked in the large parking garage behind the hotel as part of an agreement with the parking garage operator. Plans also call for a 2600SF meeting room and terrace on the second floor, as well as a lobby bar with an outdoor patio.

The Residence Inn will rise to a height of 132FT. The cost of the development is $43 Million. Boca Raton, Florida based Base 4 Architects is acting as the architect on the project. Midas Construction will be the contractor on the project.

Midas is set to appear before the City of Clayton’s Architectural Review Board at their December 2nd meeting.


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Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, there is a known record of Othello's premiere: it took place on the 1st of November as part of the 'Hallamas Day' (aka All Hallows or All Saints' Day), festivities. In the record, "The Moor of Venis" was said to be written by a "Shaxberd".

8. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, Othello wasn't adapted during the Restoration period

"The problem with this tragedy is it's just too tragic..." Nahum Tate

During the Restoration and the eighteenth century, most of Shakespeare's plays were tweaked (and in some cases rather severely altered), to appeal to a more sensitive and sedate audience.

For example, click here for a taste of how Nahum Tate took a whopping pair of garden shears to King Lear.

Othello, though was not subject to similar treatment.Testament to the play's brilliance? Maybe, but does that mean King Lear is less brilliant?

In any event, Othellodid remain unmolested by the likes of Tate.

9. The first film version of Othello was made in 1909 and shot in Venice

Directed by Ugo Falena, Otello (as it was originally titled), was shot on location in Venice - and it's thought by some that this was the first Shakespeare play to be filmed in the play's actual locale.

10. There are currently 20 film versions and adaptations of the play, including:


European patent EP0959263B1 in the name of Orflam Industries, with priority dated May 22, 1998, discloses and claims a device with a compressible fluid that comprises a compression chamber that contains compressible fluid, and a piston that can be moved within said compression chamber in a first direction to compress said compressible fluid and in a second direction, which is opposite to the first one, in response to a force of the compressed fluid, the device comprising a safety element arranged so as to be struck by the piston if it performs an accidental travel that exceeds a preset nominal travel, said safety element being preset to cause the discharge of the compression chamber when struck by the piston.
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Ian Stimson can’t sing, so he had the opportunity to sample some geology instead of singing in the choir. His coursework steered him into taking geology, which at first he thought was all right. And later realized was completely awesome, of course. John at Karmasotra says he just knew he wanted a job outside. He decided to add geology to his coursework after reading a book that made it sound cool, and took a class from a teacher who was a little out of date and still teaching continental drift! crazy!

Michael Welland at Through the Sandglass says he had an early interest in geology, found through family trips and great books. And he acknowledges that after being discouraged for a


would last about an hour, and he would give big slide shows for the whole school in the gym/auditorium/cafeteria. They were the fanciest slide shows I had ever seen: two big projector screens with two slide projectors running simultaneously. He would get one student to work each projector and cue the slides by waving his arms. And the talks were always really well put-together. He was a reptile biologist by training (the one exception to the slide show assembly format was the reptiles one, when he would bring in his reptiles and show us some awesome snakes), but he had enough knowledge of general science to be able to teach on other topics. And one assembly he gave was about geology.

This was the mid- to late 80s, soas the Civil War. One year they started at the Civil War and made it all the way to the Depression, but except for AP American History, none of my classes got farther than that. Meaning almost all of the history I took in school was on the same exact subject, over and over, with almost no context. In 7th grade they jumped back to Ancient Civilizations, and in I think 10th grade there was some world history in there. But until AP American and AP Euro there was nothing connecting those things: a bit of ancient civilizations, a little bit of late European history, a whole lot of American history from colonialism until maybe the 1890s or so, and then nothing to connect it to my life


in the main zone to another 500 to 700 Meters extends west of the calculated resource, as can be seen on the map attached to the copper geochemical soil surveys.

The work program 2013 included first exploration, described briefly in the following:

1) Beating of corridors and the construction of a grid. A total of firebreaks on 74,7 Beaten and connected kilometers;

2) Geological field recordings. The entire grid was expired and mapped in July and August, to outcrops, To find boulders and mineralization. As required stream sediment samples were also taken from. This should be the Search outcrop sections of the favorable mineralized (or ore-bearing) Serve horizons in the west of the known mineralization. Was the aim of the program, to set the underlying rock types with the current knowledgephase anomalies. During the field recordings were also generally 19 Stream sediment samples and 10 Collected rock samples and then analyzed.

A quick examination of the geochemical data suggests, that in the area, wo circa 1958 or 1959 three holes were drilled, a relatively small soil geochemical anomaly is present. Three (3) more copper anomalies were delineated, as can be seen in the map attached to the copper geochemical soil surveys. In the northwestern part of the grid is in the ground and in local seasonal drainage flows before a copper anomaly. This anomaly is located near the grid center on a hill. From this hill it extends to the west along a sloping westward slope and then runs to the southeast, also downslope, and east of the drainage


flows. In the east it falls with a lead- and a zinc anomaly together. The Bleianomalie, where lead is the least mobile of the three metals, it tracks a southeastern trend over a strike length of more than 700 Meters from west to south-east, where they 5 Grid lines crossed. This is a potential strike length of up to 900 Meters from northwest to southeast, However, it also lies on the leeward side of the former glacier, which could stretch the string length on. At the western end of the anomaly, the drainage flows are for a grid line downhill sloping to the west slope, in the middle, however, the drainage flows and the leeward side of the glacier are in the southeast. The soil anomaly is alsoassociated with an abnormality, which was defining in soil surveys with the magnetometer and VLF ground surveys, in connection. The favorable volcanic rocks on the south side and the basement rocks in the north indicate an interpreted major thrust. In the center of the southeastern area of ââthe grid is another coincident copper- and lead anomaly ago. It is located approximately at the same height above sea level as the main anomaly mentioned above; however, is between these two anomalies, a valley and the second-mentioned anomaly is slightly on the windward side of the former glacier. In the area of ââthis anomaly favorable alteration of the bedrock were recorded in the context of topographic survey. Here were between 1956 and 1959 also drilled several historic shallow drilling, were


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(CNN) -- Fox News contributor and Republican as of 2012, black actress Stacey Dash proves she really wasn't acting in the movie "Clueless." Appearing on Fox News' "Hannity" show, Dash called all black people in Louisiana government freeloaders who don't work.

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breweries are spiking everything from chocolate and pasta to croissants and beer with sourdough's fermented notes and robust texture.

One such place to explore sourdough ice cream, London's The Ledbury, is another of the world's best restaurants (it was ranked number 20 this year). Head chef Brett Graham describes the ice cream, made with darkly toasted breadcrumbs, as tasting like "salted caramel toast" – slightly yeasty, slightly salty, and sweet – with a "silky smooth" texture.

The first of two dishes Graham serves with the ice cream was inspired by Provençal flavours of olives, herbs and, of course, rustic sourdough bread. Topped with shards of caramelised sourdough bread, the ice cream is accompanied by figs brushed with olive oil, thyme, caramelised black olives, honey jelly and vanilla cream. It onlyThe main reason why Williamson continually turns to it is that it is "a really lovely, natural thing – a living thing that's in your kitchen."

It is precisely this aliveness – and the resulting unique depth of flavour – that led Bristol's new Stock Exchange Bakery and London's Crosstown to use sourdough in their pastries. Both were frustrated with the ubiquity of conventional pastries – for Stock Exchange, croissants; for Crosstown, doughnuts – and saw a gap in the market for something different.

"The sourdough starter does definitely bring a unique robust element to the croissant," says Georgie Turner, head baker at Stock Exchange, which uses starter in all its pastries, including cinnamon buns. "You get a deeper flavour… a slight sourness mingled with a sweetness," she says, adding


because this works like a built-in quality control system: only the invested and talented can keep their starter healthy and balanced.

This requisite commitment and skill has resulted in a cult-like veneration of sourdough. One such self-professed sourdough addict is Chris Brennan, founder of Pump Street Bakery in Orford, Suffolk, who decided to incorporate sourdough bread into his chocolate because of striking similarities in the processes of making the two products: both result from the "identical" workings of a pair of yeast and bacteria, which form acids in the cocoa beans or dough.

The first of Pump Street's two bars featuring bread is made with dark chocolate and white sourdough, and sprinkled with sourdough breadcrumbs and sea salt; the second, milk chocolate and rye sourdough, and also dusted with crumbs.began experimenting with Herbert's nearly-60-year-old starter – in his beer.

It was no small task. One year of trialling different beer styles followed before they found a formula that worked: a high-wheat base mixture is left with the starter to ferment in oak barrels for six months. The resulting drink's delicate sourness "works better with people who have a pretty open mind about food and flavour…and appreciation for wine or cider… more than a traditional beer drinker," says Cooper. It was the brewery's bestselling beer when they recently showed at the London Wine Fair.


What Does it Take to Buy a Thimble Island?

The Thimble Islands
are the location of some of Branford's most beautiful summer homes – and many
locations are for sale. Here's what you can expect to pay for a house – or for
a whole island -- if they show up on the market.

By Alana Joli Abbott(Open Post on the Branford Patch) August 3, 2011

Between 2003 and 2007, Christine Svenningsen made national news when she
purchased nine of the inhabitable Thimble
Islands. From MSNBC to the New York Times, periodicals
speculated about this island buying spree. What would Svenningsen do with the
islands she purchased? The answer seems to be that she's renovating the
housing, usually using the same design as the original homes, viewing the
islands as an artistic project. During that four year period, Svenningsen spent
moreis not zoned for building a home: according to
the Thimble Islands cruise tours, that's something
the original owner was unaware of when he claimed it. After applying for home
zoning and being denied (due to zoning laws in place after homes were built on
other islands of similar size), the owner built a gazebo and dock on Cedar Island.
While not a summer home, the island could be an excellent getaway on a
beautiful summer day.


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Kathy Mathias Chemo Bill About To Become State Law

OCEAN CITY — In one of the few examples of unanimous support for anything in the current General Assembly session, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle last week approved the Kathleen A. Mathias Chemotherapy Act of 2012.

On March 9, the Senate unanimously passed the bill aimed at leveling the playing field for insurance coverage for both the oral and intravenous forms of chemotherapy with a 45-0 vote. Last Friday, the House of Delegates followed suit, approving the measure by a resounding 137-0 vote.

Kathy Mathias, who passed away last August, was a longtime municipal employee for the town of Ocean City, including a stint as City Clerk, and the wife of former mayor and now Senator Jim Mathias.She was probably best known for her tireless efforts in fighting the disease and spreading awareness in Ocean City and across the Lower Shore. She was the founder and first president of the Worcester County branch of the American Cancer Society and spent countless hours advocating and fundraising.

“All of the people in Kathy’s organizations, from the American Cancer Society to the Pink Ribbon ladies to her family and friends, are all so elated for the people this bill will help now,” Jim Mathias said. “This will provide effective, efficient and affordable chemotherapy for so many people and improve their quality of life. Kathy is still at work and her inspiration helped get this important bill passed.”

The legislation will prevent insurance carriers, health service plans and HMOs from placing


Deputy Consul General in New York Devyani Khobragade was arrested by US law enforcement authorities on visa fraud charges and released on a USD 250,000 bond after she pleaded not guilty.

Outraged by the arrest and handcuffing of an Indian diplomat in New York in an alleged visa fraud case, New Delhi Friday lodged a strong protest as it summoned the US ambassador to India Nancy Powell and told her the humiliation was absolutely unacceptable.

Some angry MEA officials are even said to have urged the government to consider retaliatory measures over the incident which they said had humiliated and traumatised the diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, Indias deputy consul-general in New York.

There is no justification to what has happened to a young Indian woman diplomat, who had gone to drop herkids to school. We are shocked and appalled at the humiliation and have taken it up forcefully, MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters while Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh summoned Powell to her South Block office.

We have told them, in no uncertain terms, this is absolutely unacceptable, Akbaruddin said.

Khobragade was arrested and handcuffed in public on visa fraud charges Thursday before being released on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.

The 39-year-old diplomat the mother of two young girls was taken into custody on a New York street as she was dropping her daughter to school after the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Indian-born Preet Bharara, announced visa fraud charges against her.

Bharara alleged that Khobragades housekeeper had been given less than a fair


was paid about Rs 30,000 ($500) per month.

Diplomats and consular officers can get domestic workers on A-3 visas. They have to submit proof that the helper will receive a fair wage, sufficient to support themselves financially and comparable to that offered in the same area in the US.

Bharara alleged that Khobragade made false statements in a visa application for an Indian national employed as a babysitter and housekeeper at her home in New York.

Khobragade was serving as acting head of the Indian consulate at the time of her arrest. She was charged with one count each of visa fraud and making false statements, which carry maximum prison sentences of 10 years and five years, respectively.

The Indian Embassy in Washington said in a statement that it had immediately conveyedformer India-based domestic assistant, Sangeeta Richard, who has been absconding since June.

The Delhi High Court issued an interim injunction in September to restrain Richard from instituting any action against Khobragade outside India on the terms or conditions of her employment.

The US Government had subsequently been requested to locate Richard and facilitate the service of an arrest warrant, issued by the Metropolitan Magistrate of the South District Court in New Delhi under Sections 387, 420 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code, the embassy said.


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      coaches to retrieve a helmet from the locker room, located in the gymnasium to the north of
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       return, however, gate B was locked, and the plaintiff headed back to the field by using gate
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       on carrying thefrom avoiding the risk. In Ward, the plaintiff was distracted by carrying bulky merchandise
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send Evans to the Pelicans via sign-and-trade, with Sacramento receiving guard Greivis Vasquez from the Pelicans and Portland acquiring New Orleans center Robin Lopez.

Portland, to complete the trade, will send two future second-round picks to Sacramento and also will acquire guard Terrel Harris from New Orleans along with Lopez. The Blazers also will be required to pay the $1,568,999 trade kicker triggered in Lopez’s contract because he’s being dealt.

KNICKS: J.R. Smith and Pablo Prigioni are staying in New York to help the Knicks build on their successful 2012-13 season.

The Sixth Man of the Year and the point guard from Argentina both agreed to multiyear deals Thursday, their agents confirmed.

Smith helped shoot the Knicks into and then out of the playoffs, having the best season of his career butthen struggling through the postseason. The product of nearby New Jersey wanted to stay and the Knicks needed to keep him. They worked out a deal that will pay him about $25 million over four years.

Smith averaged 18.1 points during the regular season, second on the team behind Carmelo Anthony. But he momentarily lost his head and then his shot during the postseason, getting suspended a game for elbowing Jason Terry late in Game 3 of a first-round series against Boston and making only 29 percent of his shots in the final eight playoff games.

CAVALIERS: Agreed to terms on a two-year contract with forward Earl Clark, who played alongside Dwight Howard last season in Los Angeles.

Clark, who spent two days visiting with the Cavs earlier this week, is


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Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members.

Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Once a fundamentalist Christian, Shermer now describes himself as an agnostic nontheist and an advocate for humanist philosophy.

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Milos Raonic won an ace-laden first-round clash against Nick Kyrgios on Wednesday at the Aegon Championships to start his partnership with four-time former Queen's Club champion John McEnroe in style. Third seed Raonic hit 20 aces and converted two of his 11 break point opportunities in a 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kyrgios, who struck 17 aces, in two hours and five minutes. The match had resumed at the start of the third set after it was suspended due to bad light on Monday night. Raonic will next play lucky loser Jiri Vesely in the second round.

John Isner hit 25 aces in beating Juan Martin del Potro 7-6(2), 6-4 in the opening round. Temperamental weather forced two stoppages in the first set. Upon resumption, the players traded service(CNN) For the second day in a row, the Senate pushed back on President Donald Trump, showing stiff resistance to his key policy decisions on tariffs and NATO even as the President is at a summit in Europe wrestling with allies over those same issues.

Senators voted overwhelmingly Wednesday calling on Trump to get congressional approval before using national security as a reason for imposing tariffs on other nations, as he did recently with steel and aluminum levies against Mexico, Canada and the European Union

The bipartisan 88-to-11 tally on the non-binding resolution sends a message to the White House about how frustrated senators are over Trump's disruptive moves on tariffs.

However, future efforts to pass enforceable legislation likely face an uphill battle over Trump's objections.

"Let's be clear, this is a


rebuke of the President's abuse of trade authority," said Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican and a frequent and vocal critic of Trump's policies. "Can you imagine being Canada and being told your steel and aluminum exports to the United States (are) a national security threat?"

Read MoreFrench producer Madeon's prepping his debut LP, Adventure, for release on March 31. The album finds Madeon expanding the gauzy EDM textures explored by the likes of Porter Robinson to include even brighter, more aggressive (and friendly!) sounds; contributors include Mark Foster of Foster the People, Bastille—and Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos, who contributes vocals to the toothsome "Pay No Mind." "'Pay No Mind' is one of the earliest tracks I wrote for the album," Madeon said in an email to FADER. "I've been a huge Passion Pit fan for years so they came to mind right away. I wanted some extra guitars on the song and reached out to Sam from Two Door Cinema Club (I met them after producing their last single). It's one of those songs


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Thank you. Thank you all! I’m very excited to remain unseen behind the black and white of typed script.

I am a US citizen. I am not a patriot because most of the time I feel like I’m tethered to the world with the thinnest thread and I could float away at any moment. For me, patriotism is highly impractical.

I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, a state of regular size in the United States. My sister, who is an incredible woman and friend was also born here. We were raised by our parents, as were our brothers. My elegant and clever mother introduced me to fashion and beauty but I never took to it. My father had a passion for business and travel, which he did aContents

Yoshitaka Amano's artwork shows Banon with a mass of shaggy brown hair and a beard, wearing green clothing and a layered cape that is brown, green, and orange from outside to inside. He wears black pauldrons, red bracers, and a wide belt with a zebra-striped sash underneath. His boots are dark brown. His in-game sprite simplifies this look as well as recoloring his trousers red and his boots green.

Banon is a man of determination and spirit, leading a small rebel group against the might of the Empire. He has his agents fight with diplomacy, sabotage, and spying more than brute force. However, the harsh conditions of the war makes him somewhat harsh himself; he is very blunt when speaking to Terra for the first time and speaks of


the atrocities she committed as an Imperial soldier, and brushes off Edgar's anger for not taking her amnesia into consideration. However, he does encourage her to join them by describing her as a ray of hope and doesn't intend to force her into it.

Players first meet Banon when Locke Cole, Edgar Roni Figaro and Sabin Rene Figaro bring Terra Branford to see him. He immediately becomes interested in Terra because he knows she annihilated fifty of the finest Imperial soldiers single-handedly, a fact which Terra denies due to amnesia. He asks Terra to join the Returners, and while it is up to the player to decide if Terra agrees or not, the story remains the same as she is forced to flee with the Returners. With Terra onhis side, Banon realizes he needs to protect the remaining espers from the Empire. He decides to go to Narshe to take a look at the frozen esper, and takes Terra, Edgar and Sabin on a raft ride down the Lethe River to get there.

On the way, the four meet up with Ultros the octopus, and a battle ensues. During the struggle, Ultros sticks a tentacle onto Terra's leg, forcing Sabin to save her. He then boldly jumps from the raft to teach Ultros a lesson, but is swept away, and Banon, Edgar and Terra continue to Narshe alone. Once they get there, they can not enter the town because Terra is recognized as the person who attacked Narshe earlier.

Terra shows Edgar and Banon a secret way in,


which they use to make their way to Arvis, a Returner living in Narshe. They then speak to the Elder of Narshe, who is reluctant to side with the Returners. Not even Cyan Garamonde, Gau or Celes Chere can convince the Elder. Kefka Palazzo attacks Narshe to claim the esper and Banon has to lead a defense, which consists of Terra, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Cyan, Gau and Celes. They succeed in holding back Kefka, but when they check on the esper, Terra reacts to it and turns into an esper herself, flying away.

A search party is formed to look for her. Meanwhile, Banon stays in Narshe and tries to convince the Elder to align the city with the Returners and by the time Terra is saved, Narshe hasdecided to do so. Banon formulates a plan to attack the Empire. Terra would plead to the espers in their home to help, and attack Vector from the east, while Banon would lead a coalition of Returners and Narshe Guards to attack from the north.

The plan works, and Banon eventually winds up in Vector to find it in flames, worried that the espers had gone too far. What happens to Banon after that is unknown, and it is possible he is either betrayed and killed by the Empire, or died during the end of the world. The developers actually refuse to comment on his fate, with Sakaguchi saying "Use your imagination."[1]

Banon is an Oracle, and as such his stats are heavily weighted in the magic areas, while having


It was almost ten years ago that we first profiled the most important trading desk in the world: not one situated in any of the (increasingly empty) massive trading floors of the world's commercial banks located in either the financial district, midtown or Connecticut, but the one inside the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, the home New York Fed, the one which is also known in trader folklore as the "Plunge Protection Team."

This is what we said back then:

Mr. Sack, 39 years old, is an economist who runs the markets group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The group runs the Fed's trading, making it the bridge between the marble corridors of the Federal Reserve in Washington and the bustling trading floors of Wall Street.The center of life in the markets group is a glass-enclosed conference room situated next to a small cluster of trading desks on the ninth floor of the New York Fed. It overflows with people for a daily 9:20 a.m. meeting run by Mr. Sack. A few stray pictures of Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, still hang on pillars nearby. The markets group grew enormously during the crisis, from about 225 employees to 400 people who monitor the markets for the Fed, manage its portfolio and run the many new trading programs it has started. The Fed holds more than 20,000 individual securities.

Of course, back then said "most important trading desk" was controlled by one Brian Sack, then only 39-year-old, who has since moved on to the


far more lucrative pastures of DE Shaw. Sack was replaced in the summer of 2012, by the levitating market wizard, Simon Potter, who promptly realized that to crush the bears one simply had to crush the VIX specs, and the rest would promptly follow.

Then, in the end of May 2019, something unexpected happened: Simon Potter, arguably the most important trader in the world, manning the world's most important trading desk, unexpectedly announced his "resignation." Not only that, but Potter took with him the second most important person at the NY Fed's "Plunge Protection Team", the head of the Financial Services Group, Richard Dzina.

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What was odd, as we briefly noted two months ago, was the sudden and unexpected nature of this departure: it came from nowhere, and promptedWars guy).

As Bloomberg details in a "must read" report, "an unusual level of internal tension broke out in recent weeks at the fortress-like Federal Reserve Bank of New York in lower Manhattan." This was prompted by the sudden departure of the two longtime officials mentioned above, which "shook staff, sank morale and drew attention to the leadership of the New York Fed under John Williams as he enters his second year at the helm." And yes, this is the same John Williams who two weeks ago prompted a mini market tantrum following one of the most epic communication fuck ups by a central banker.

As Bloomberg writes "the story involves Simon Potter, who ran the all-important markets desk, and Richard Dzina, head of the financial services group. Both were


abruptly relieved of their roles in late May by Williams. Little explanation was given, but according to current and former New York Fed employees, as well as those close to the bank, the nature of the exits, by fault or design, seemed to be a warning: fall in line."

It is not clear exactly what the two titans of US capital markets had to "fall in line" for, but two things are certain - i) Potter did not "resign", he was fired by Williams, and ii) now that an economist with zero capital markets experience is in charge, and following his termination of Potter and Dzina, the world is one step closer to collapse as a clueless PhD hack is in charge of the most important market in thefinance-industry background has traditionally been seen as a key qualification, something he lacked."

Bingo. And what's worse, Williams - in what was likely an ego tantrum - inexplicably fired the two most important people in his inner circle who have had their pulse on the capital markets for the past decade.

The consequences were immediate, and visible to all:

Williams, who during his San Francisco Fed days often mentioned his reluctance to pay too much attention to short-term swings in the markets, came under fire on July 18 after saying in a speech that central banks should act quickly “at the first sign of economic distress.” With the remarks coming just a day before Fed officials entered a quiet period prior to their July 30-31 policy meeting, traders immediately took his


comments to mean a more-aggressive rate cut was in store. The New York Fed issued a rare clarification walking back his comments later that day, causing another sharp move in the opposite direction.

As Bloomberg adds, the "kerfuffle prompted Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies, to say in a July 22 note to clients that “until proven otherwise, President Williams will remain a communication liability and a probable source of market volatility." This, again, is the guy who is in charge of the world's most important trading desk!

The Williams fiasco It also caught the attention of President Donald Trump, who has been openly critical of Fed policy. He tweeted, “I like New York Fed President John Williams first statement much better than his second.”

Williams inability to communicate withmarkets aside, Bloomberg correctly points out that "as Williams reorganizes the leadership ranks and puts his stamp on the New York Fed, the ousters of Potter and Dzina leave the reserve bank without two of its most experienced hands."

For those readers who are unfamiliar with our historical obsession with Potter, Bloomberg gives a broad overview of his background:

Potter, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, started at the New York Fed in 1998. As head of the markets desk, he oversaw the end of the Fed’s massive bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, as well as the unwind that began in October 2017. Potter was also responsible for briefing policy makers on the state of financial markets at the Fed’s rate-setting meetings. He met with