attorneys are grilling the wife of Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington III. The governor has filed bankruptcy. The attorneys don't believe he's as destitute as he has claimed and are questioning his wife under oath, looking for hidden assets.

"I have an investment in Melones Internacional," the governor's wife replies.

"What is Melones?" Goulder asks.
"It is a fruit-growing concern in Sinaloa," Mrs. Symington replies.
The business, she testifies, is operated by her stepson, J. Fife Symington IV. Mrs. Symington tells Goulder she invested $25,000 in the partnership, which her son was syndicating. The investment was made in November 1995, two months after her husband filed bankruptcy, claiming he had $26 million in debts and a mere $62,000 in assets.

During the deposition, however, Goulder did not learn several important facts about MelonesInternacional. He didn't learn that it is part of one of the largest farming operations in the world. He didn't learn that Melones Internacional is more than a simple agricultural partnership. He didn't learn that Melones Internacional's president, Alejandro Canelos, is one of the wealthiest and most powerful agriculturalists in Mexico.

And Goulder didn't discover that one of Mrs. Symington's close family members is on the board of directors of Melones Internacional. A family member by the name of "J. Fife Symington," according to incorporation records New Times obtained in Mexico.

Using the name "J. Fife Symington" in business documents without generational designation is a departure for the Arizona Symingtons. Here, the two men have been careful to separate their business interests. Arizona Corporation Commission records show the governor affixes


"III" and his son "IV" to their names in corporation filings.

The records obtained by New Times for Melones Internacional do not include a signature for J. Fife Symington. The Culiacan attorney who prepared the papers, Juan Jose Ruiz, said corporate directors are not required to provide signatures for incorporation filings. He said he prepared the incorporation papers at the request of attorneys who work for the Caneloses. He also said he was unaware that there was more than one J. Fife Symington.

The governor's attorneys have repeatedly denied that Governor Symington has financial interests in Mexican businesses. The governor and his son declined to return calls seeking explanation for the Symington entry in Melones Internacional incorporation documents.

Symington's bankruptcy attorney, Robert Shull, said last Friday the Symington listed as aSan Carlos and Puerto Penasco in the state of Sonora, are included in the list of cities that could receive casino permits. In fact, Governor Symington has been active in promoting resort development in Sonora, through the Arizona-Mexico Commission, a group of gubernatorial appointees that works to promote cross-border trade and cultural ties.

Mexican incorporation records also reveal a tight relationship between the senior Canelos and the "J. Fife Symington" involved in Melones Internacional.

J. Fife Symington IV has Arizona business ties with the younger Canelos, who is listed as secretary of Melones Internacional. Incorporation records for Melones Internacional, however, specifically link the elder Canelos and "J. Fife Symington," granting them the power to obtain credit from Mexican and foreign institutions and to open and operate checking accounts. The incorporation


papers do not grant the younger Canelos the same powers.

At a minimum, the corporate records for Melones Internacional show the Symington family has a significant financial connection to one of the wealthiest families in Mexico. And if the J. Fife Symington listed in those records is the governor, he could face criminal or civil penalties. Federal law requires him to disclose his business interests to the bankruptcy court, and state law mandates that he file his corporate affiliations each year with the secretary of state.

The governor has not listed Melones Internacional as a business holding in either forum.

Although it remains unclear which Symington is a director in Melones Internacional, state records reveal that Governor Symington has used his office to further the Canelos family business--an enterprise in whichhas used the state's nine-seat turboprop King Air for more important, and more clearly improper, purposes.

Those records show that the governor has used the state plane and other state resources to further the business interests of his son and one of his strongest financial supporters, Tucson business magnate Don Diamond, by bringing them into contact with influential figures in Mexico--including the Canelos family, the governor of Sonora, Manlio Beltrones, and the Mexican president, Ernesto Zedillo.

Governor Symington's most intriguing Mexican connection is based in Culiacan, a violence-plagued city located in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and reputedly controlled by powerful Mexican drug cartels.

Gangland-style murders kill more than 600 people a year in Culiacan. Victims have included the former Sinaloan attorney general. The city is well-known as a staging and


shipping area for narcotics grown locally, as well as those coming from Central and South America.

The governor and his son, Fife Symington IV, have become very close to one of the most powerful figures in Culiacan's legitimate business sector, Alejandro Canelos. Canelos and his brother Constantino control one of Mexico's largest and wealthiest farming conglomerates.

For at least several decades, the Canelos family has operated one of the largest produce farming operations in Mexico, if not the world. In 1986, the New York Times described the Canelos family as one of the world's largest growers of tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers and melons.

The family controls huge irrigated farms near Culiacan and Los Mochis, an agricultural center 100 miles northwest of Culiacan. The Caneloses also are developing new farms near ElFuerte in northern Sinaloa, a region where the government is completing a massive dam and irrigation project along the Fuerte River. The family also controls a large grape plantation near Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. And the Canelos operation extends across the Sea of Cortez to a large farming center in Northern Baja California near the town of San Quintin, about 150 miles south of Tijuana.

These far-flung farms allow the family to grow produce on nearly a year-round basis. The family ships the produce to North America through San Diego and Nogales, where it is distributed through a family-owned company, GAC Produce, under the ABC marketing label.

The Canelos family is secretive and shuns the press. Securities records and news reports suggest the family's businesses are privately held. Most


growers, including Canelos, of selling tomatoes in the United States below the cost of production in Mexico.

U.S. investigators determined that Mexican tomatoes were being sold to American wholesalers at a price averaging 18 percent below the cost of production.

Last spring, the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, a trade group made up of Mexican growers and their Arizona distributors, asked Governor Symington for help in fighting the Florida farmers. Symington took up their case and vigorously pressed the Clinton administration and Congress to allow Mexican farmers unfettered access to U.S. markets. At the time, it was not generally known that the Symington family had a financial interest in the Canelos farming operations.

In October, the U.S. Commerce Department and Mexican growers reached an agreement that sets a minimum priceshutting some of these growers out of the market.

Governor Symington reiterated his strong support for Mexican tomato exporters last month during a meeting of the Arizona-Mexico Commission in Scottsdale. "I'm so partial to Mexican tomatoes," Symington said. "Compare Florida tomatoes to Mexican tomatoes, and Mexican tomatoes always win in my book. Don't you agree?"

Governor Symington did not decide to take up for Canelos and the other Mexican growers on a whim. The governor and the Canelos family were well-acquainted, thanks to the taxpayers of the state of Arizona.

The Department of Public Safety owns a $1.7 million King Air twin-engine, turboprop aircraft that is stored at Sky Harbor Airport when not in official use. At 3 p.m. on October 9, 1995, Governor Symington welcomed two state officials--Dorothy Bigg of


hill next to a magnificent Catholic church, provides a panoramic view of the city of 600,000, spread out at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

That evening, state records show, Governor Symington had a private meeting with Sinaloa's governor, Renato Vega, and then attended a dinner sponsored by Mexican government officials and business leaders. The next morning, Symington got down to business--personal business.

State records suggest the governor and his son split off from the rest of the state delegation to have a private breakfast with Alejandro Canelos at the Canelos family home on the outskirts of Culiacan. The governor's agenda indicates the Symingtons and Caneloses were to meet for more than two hours.

Records obtained by New Times do not reveal the topic of conversation. But the meeting cameless than two months after a "J. Fife Symington" joined the two Caneloses on the board of directors of Melones Internacional, according to Mexican corporate records.

Governor Symington has taken great efforts to promote the business interests of the elder Canelos, at the same time he has strongly supported Mexico in the public arena.

In addition to lobbying in support of Mexican tomato growers, Symington vigorously pressed the Clinton administration and Congress to support Mexico with $40 billion in loan guarantees during the Mexican financial crisis that came in the wake of a 1994 devaluation of the peso. Symington also urged the Clinton administration this year to certify that Mexico has pursued a strong drug interdiction policy--a certification that Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole strongly opposed.

These two actions earned Symington


high marks with Mexican President Zedillo and opened the door for extensive communications. Arizona public records indicate those communications were not limited strictly to state business.

On March 3, 1996, President Zedillo sent Symington a letter thanking him for his continued support of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Before inviting Symington to a luncheon "with a group of good friends," Zedillo updated the governor on the business prospects for the Symington family's Mexican partner, Alejandro Canelos.

"I have asked our Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Francisco Labastida, to have a meeting with Mr. Canelos regarding the ethanol project," Zedillo states in his letter to Symington.

Public documents do not reveal what role Canelos or Symington have in the "ethanol project," or what that project entails.

After the breakfast meeting at the Caneloshome in Culiacan, the governor rejoined the trade mission, which included meetings with Mexican government and business leaders. The governor returned to Arizona later that afternoon.

But just as Fife Symington IV didn't pay for his air flight to Culiacan, he also didn't pick up his hotel bill. The state of Arizona did.

Her expense report sought a $659 state reimbursement for hotel, restaurant and bar expenses for the governor, Reuben Alvarez of the Arizona-Mexico Commission and herself. These expenses were legitimate. But records reveal she also included the hotel bill of Fife Symington IV in her request for reimbursement, without identifying that expense.

Emmermann declined to return repeated phone calls seeking comment.

Governor Symington's interest in promoting Arizona businesses in Mexico doesn't stop with his family. The governor also has demonstrated


strong personal support for the Mexican business activities of Tucson business magnate and real estate developer Don Diamond.

A former owner of the Phoenix Suns, Diamond has numerous Mexican business interests, including a $3 million juice production plant in Caborca, Sonora, and extensive real estate holdings in Puerto Penasco, a Sonoran resort at the northern tip of the Sea of Cortez.

Diamond is also among the top Arizona contributors to state and national politicians, including Symington. And he has helped Symington in other ways, donating $10,000 to Symington's legal defense fund sometime between May 1 and July 31 of this year, according to state records. The fund was set up to help the governor pay legal bills stemming from a 23-count federal indictment accusing him of bank fraud, perjury andextortion.

Diamond's was the largest single contribution to the fund as of July, records show.

Diamond's clout with the Symington administration is well-known. In June 1995, one of the magnate's firms, Diamond Management Inc., sent a letter to Margie Emmermann, executive director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, seeking the commission's assistance in obtaining information on Mexican strawberry growers who could supply Diamond's Caborca juice plant with raw materials.

Emmermann immediately forwarded the company's request to her Mexican counterparts on the commission with a terse warning: "I can't stress enough the importance of Diamond Management Inc. as a major player in the Arizona market."

And Symington has shown an interest in Diamond's Mexican business activities--an interest that has extended all the way to the office of President Ernesto Zedillo. On May 14, on the


heels of a grueling deposition in his bankruptcy case, Symington flew to Mexico City to meet with Zedillo. Accompanying the governor on the trip were two Arizona-Mexico Commission officials, Emmermann and commission president Carol Columbo.

But the governor also brought two Arizona businessmen to the meeting with Zedillo--Fife Symington IV and Don Diamond. State records indicate Symington also invited the senior and junior Caneloses to meet with the president. But the Caneloses did not attend the meeting, Columbo says.

Diamond was to explain to President Zedillo the problems American businessmen face in Mexico, particularly the inability of foreign and Mexican banks to place liens on personal and business property pledged as collateral for loans, Columbo says.

After the meeting, Governor Symington had a private lunch with President Zedillo and Mexico's ministerof foreign affairs, Angel Gurria. The men reportedly discussed U.S.-Mexico relations, particularly those involving the states of Arizona and Sonora.

Diamond apparently was delighted with his opportunity to meet President Zedillo. The governor also was pleased that Diamond attended the meeting.

"I feel our private meeting with the President was fruitful for all involved," Symington said in a handwritten note to Diamond.

The governor seemed particularly pleased that he and Diamond had time to discuss other matters.

"I really enjoyed our extensive chats," Symington wrote.

Over the past few years, and especially in the past few months, Governor Symington and Sonoran Governor Manlio Beltrones have promoted efforts to bring major developments to Puerto Penasco and other coastal cities in Sonora, particularly San Carlos, a resort community north of Guaymas built around a beautiful


called Sandy Beach that stretches between Cholla Bay and the town of Puerto Penasco. That land lies near the proposed Laguna del Mar megaresort and would likely increase in value if the resort is built. Diamond was quoted recently in the Puerto Penasco Journal saying he supports Mexican efforts to bring resort development and casino gambling to beachfront resorts.

"It would be a phenomenal deal," Diamond is quoted as saying in the Journal. "The Sea of Cortez is a gold mine, a marvelous opportunity for all of us."

Business deals aren't the only attraction Mexico offers to Governor Symington. He also enjoys scuba diving and fishing trips in the Sea of Cortez.

So when an offer came from Sonoran Governor Manlio Beltrones to spend a few days at his beachfront houseon Miramar Beach in Guaymas, it was something Symington did not pass up. The governor, his wife and their three young children--Richard, Tommy and Whitney--all hopped aboard the state airplane. It was noon on Thursday, July 11.

The family, along with a DPS security guard, arrived in Guaymas 90 minutes later. The entourage headed to Beltrones' beautiful, modern home in an exclusive enclave along Miramar Beach. There, the palm-tree-lined beach curves gently around a wide bay. Cactus-covered buttes stand in sharp contrast to the blue water, making this an idyllic spot for a getaway.

The governor had no official business in Mexico the day he arrived. And none the next day, a Friday. According to his daily calendar, he met with Governor Beltrones for 30 minutes on Saturday morning over


coffee. Saturday evening called for a casual dinner at the house with Juan Alberto Gutierrez, Beltrones' chief of staff, and Gutierrez's wife.

Meanwhile, the Symington family enjoyed all the amenities of beachfront living, thanks to Governor Beltrones and the people of Sonora.

Symington and his family remained over Saturday night, heading back to Phoenix at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday aboard the state aircraft. Other than the coffee and the dinner, state records make no mention of official business being conducted during the governor's stay. Symington reported that no state expenses had been incurred during the trip.

DPS records show the state plane made at least two round trips between Phoenix and Guaymas while shuttling Arizona's first family on its Mexican minivacation.on Monday, accusing the US government of failing to provide food, medicine, surgeries and even basic accommodation for migrants with disabilities.

Food allergies. Melvin Murillo Hernandez, 18, has several life-threatening food allergies but was not given a special diet for more than six months in Ice custody, and was hospitalised four times due to anaphylactic shock.

No wheelchair. Officers at an Ice facility in California took away Faour Abdallah Fraihat’s wheelchair for more than two years, leaving him unable to visit the yard or the cafeteria. He also lost vision in one eye after being refused surgery.

Ilhan Omar urges lawmakers to visit Israel ‘to see the reality’

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The Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar has


urged colleagues in Congress to visit Israel after she and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rashida Tlaib were last week barred from entering the country by Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration – apparently at the urging of President Trump. “As legislators we have an obligation to see the reality there for ourselves,” Omar said at a press conference on Monday, accusing Trump and Netanyahu of “hiding the cruel reality” of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

BDS movement. The first two Muslim women in Congress were banned from visiting Israel over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) for Palestinian rights.

Tlaib offer. Israel later said Michigan-born Tlaib could visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank if she did not promote the international boycott of Israel, but she ultimately refusedHat-trick of awards

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By Luke Broadley

Leigh Halfpenny was named BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2013

Wales and Cardiff Blues full-back Leigh Halfpenny was named BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality 2013 at the Wales Sport Awards last night, on an evening that saw Warren Gatland and the Wales Squad also claim top honours.

Halfpenny succeeds 2012 Olympic taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones in taking the title which was determined by a public vote. It caps a stellar year for the 24-year-old who has already collected the RBS 6 Nations player of the championship, British and Irish Lions player of the series and Midi Olympique International Player of the Year titles in 2013.

At the awards show in Cardiff, Gatland was named Coach of the Year for a


year that saw him lead the British and Irish Lions to a first series success in sixteen years and also his Wales side - led by Rob Howley - claim a second RBS 6 Nations title in two years.

That success for Wales, claiming back-to-back titles for the first time since the late seventies, was also awarded with the squad picking up the 2013 Team of the Year award.

Wales can still win the Six Nations title in Rome, full coverage in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from coach warren Gatland, captain Sam Warburton, as well as front row pair Scott Baldwin and Aaron Jarvis, while Alun Wyn Jones reflects on the victory over Ireland. Wales U20 defence coach Richard Hodges and outside half Jarrod Evanslook ahead to Italy, while Wales Women's team manager Ben Rose looks at how their success has helped the game in Wales.

Gemma Rowland has had a 'whirlwind' start to her international career with Wales. Despite losing to France, she is confident Wales Women can bounce back and claim a rare Triple Crown against Ireland on Sunday, as WRU TV's Graeme Gillespie discovers.

The Wales teams return home for the Irish leg of their Six Nations campaigns in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We speak to Wales attack coach Rob Howley and defence coach Shaun Edwards, as well as flanker Dan Lydiate and full back Leigh Halfpenny. We hear from Wales Women's back rower Sian Williams and Wales U20 forwards coach Chris Horsman and flanker Ollie Griffiths.

Wales Women's


head coach Rhys Edwards has made three changes to his side for Sunday's Triple Crown clash against Ireland. He tells WRU TV's Graeme Gillespie he is hoping for a big crowd at Swansea to spur his side on.

Wales look to build on victory in Paris in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from coach Warren Gatland and captain Sam Warburton, as well as Wales Women's coach Rhys Edwards. We also hear from Wales U20 duo Dan Jones and Joe Davies, along with Wales U18s.

We look ahead to the French tests in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We look ahead to Wales France with Warren Gatland, Sam Warburton, Scott Baldwin, Rhys Webb and Jonathan Davies. Wales Women are the only team in red stillunbeaten in this Six Nations, we speak to captain Rachel Taylor. Wales U20 are looking bounce back from defeat in Scotland, we hear from coach Jason Strange, captain Rory Thornton and front rower Dillon Lewis.

We look back at a remarkable Six Nations finale in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from prop Aaron Jarvis and centre Scott Williams about the Italy Wales game and the few hours that followed, Ben Roach talks about Wales Sevens and Blues Ellis Jenkins and Dragons Andrew Coombs look ahead.

Dodgy tattoos, carthorses, Avatar and soft chins are revealed by Wales Sevens players Tom Williams and Sam Cross as they profile the Wales Sevens squad taking part in Hong Kong this weekend in the latest round of the HSBC Sevens World


Series.

Wales can still win the Six Nations title in Rome, full coverage in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from coach warren Gatland, captain Sam Warburton, as well as front row pair Scott Baldwin and Aaron Jarvis, while Alun Wyn Jones reflects on the victory over Ireland. Wales U20 defence coach Richard Hodges and outside half Jarrod Evans look ahead to Italy, while Wales Women's team manager Ben Rose looks at how their success has helped the game in Wales.

Wales Under 18 play their opening match of the FIRA-AER Under 18 tournament against Italy tomorrow (5pm, Graulhet, France) determined to continue the attacking approach that saw the side push France close and beat England in recent weeks.

Wales can still win the Six Nations title inRome, full coverage in this week's Principality Welsh Rugby Union Podcast. We hear from coach warren Gatland, captain Sam Warburton, as well as front row pair Scott Baldwin and Aaron Jarvis, while Alun Wyn Jones reflects on the victory over Ireland. Wales U20 defence coach Richard Hodges and outside half Jarrod Evans look ahead to Italy, while Wales Women's team manager Ben Rose looks at how their success has helped the game in Wales.


Russell Hancock, president and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, reflected on this dichotomy in his introductory letter for the report, which noted that the Bay Area has added 821,000 jobs since the recession of 2008. This, he noted, is the equivalent of dropping another city the size of San Francisco into the region.

"Against a flourishing economic backdrop, conditions are harsh for the broad peripheries of the population as inequality reaches new dimensions and wage gains are lost to the rising costs of living," the report's introduction states. "Despite recent progress, the region still has the nation's highest housing prices and our transportation challenges continue to mount."

The Silicon Valley Index , an annual overview of the region's economic and demographical trends, highlights some of the region's most notabletrends of 2019, including the continued expansion of commercial development and a slight decline in home sale prices after seven years of rapid gains. While the report celebrates the region's "upward spiral," as evidenced by a $17 billion increase in the regional gross domestic product, a slate of new hotels popping up around the region and 30,000 new jobs, it also details the dark side of the surging economy, including traffic gridlock and housing prices that continue to drive people away.

Despite a hot economy and a slight dip in home prices, 2019 was a year of reckoning for Silicon Valley's high-tech giants, with a growing number of residents and city leaders demanding greater contributions to combat the area's deep housing shortage, according to a new report from Joint


to traffic congestion: in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has tripled between 2009 and 2019," the report states.

The region's housing shortage also has compounded its traffic problems. Despite efforts by municipalities to discourage driving, the Index notes that the average number of miles driven by Silicon Valley commuters has remained steady over the past three years at about 22 miles per day. Solo commuting remains the most common way to get to work, with 73% of employees driving alone, and public transit use per capita has been on the decline since 2015 on almost all systems (Caltrain's ridership declined in 2019 for the first time since 2010).

Silicon Valley's share of foreign-born residents has continued to slowly rise, reaching 38% in 2018, according to the Index. This isfueled by employed residents and those working in technical occupations. According to the Index, more of the region's tech talent in 2018 was from India and China than from California and the rest of the United States combined.

The Index also highlighted the changes in Silicon Valley's population, which is becoming increasingly diverse. Growth has slowed, with more residents migrating out of the region than coming in for the third straight year. According to the Index, Santa Clara County ranked fourth among California's 58 counties for net domestic out-migration between July 2018 and July 2019, trailing only Los Angeles, Butte and Orange counties.

Several candidates for Senate District 13, which includes large portions of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, also have called for policies that would require tech companies


major tech companies have continued to expand their presence with an increasing real estate footprint," the Index states.

While residential development is rolling out slowly, commercial growth boomed in 2019, with 8.5 million square feet of commercial space completed in Silicon Valley in 2019 — an 18-year high. And more commercial construction is on the way, with LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Adobe and Nvidia all moving forward with constructing office space as 2019 came to an end.

The report points out that the shares of multigenerational and multifamily households remain high and that more than a third of all young adults live with a parent.

And while the affordable housing units made up just 17% of the total number of newly approved units, that is the highest percentage since 2010, when 23%UPDATE 12/7/17 @ 12:35 p.m.

A 92-year-old man accused of shooting and killing his own daughter will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

William Stuck appeared in a Kanawha County courtroom on Thursday.

He is accused of killing his daughter Sandra Nicholas in October 2016.

Stuck has been staying at the William Sharpe Hospital in Weston to see if he would be competent enough to stand trial.

The judge ruled Thursday that Stuck will never be competent enough to stand trial but that there is enough evidence in the case that if he would stand trial he would be found guilty of first degree murder.

Kanawha County Deputies say in October 2016, Stuck called 911 after shooting his daughter in their Mink Shoals home. They say when crews arrived on


shooting and killing his daughter and then turning the gun on himself has been released from the hospital and is now in jail.

Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies say William Stuck, 92, of Mink Shoals was arraigned Monday night at Kanawha County Magistrate court.

He was charged with first and second degree murder, according to a criminal complaint, and is being held at South Central Regional Jail.

Deputies say an ambulance transported Stuck to South Central Regional Jail Monday night.

Deputies say Kanawha County magistrate Kim Aaron met the ambulance and arraigned Stuck in the back of the ambulance.

The arrest comes after deputies say Stuck called 911 on October 6 and told them he shot his daughter Sandra Nichols.

When deputies got to the scene on Larwood Drive, they found Nichols dead from anapparent gun shot wound to the head.

They say Stuck was in the basement of his home with a self-inflicted gun shot wound to his body.

Murder charges were filed last week, but Stuck has been at CAMC general hospital recovering.

Stuck is being held without bond.

Keep clicking WSAZ for the latest on this story.

UPDATE 10/12/16 @ 11:35 a.m.

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The father involved in a fatal shooting that happened in Mink Shoals is now facing murder charges, according to deputies.

On Wednesday, Kanawha County Deputies announced that William (Jack) Stuck, 92, is being charged with murder. Deputies say he will be arrested when he is released from the hospital.

On October 6, deputies say Stuck called 911 and told them he shot his daughter Sandra Nichols.

When deputies got to the


scene on Larwood Drive, they found Nichols dead from an apparent gun shot wound to the head.

Stuck was then found by deputies in the basement of the home with a self-inflicted gun shot wound to his body.

He was taken to a Charleston hospital. Deputies say his condition is improving.

Keep checking WSAZ Mobile and WSAZ.com for updates.

UPDATE 10/6/16 @ 11:35 a.m.

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A father and daughter have been identified after a fatal shooting early Thursday morning.

Deputies say William Stuck, 92, called 911 and told them he shot his daughter Sandra Nichols, 68, of Charleston.

When deputies got to the scene, they found Nichols dead from an apparent gun shot wound to the head.

Stuck was then found by deputies in the basement of the home with a self-inflictedgun shot wound to his body.

He was taken to a Charleston hospital and is being treated for his injuries.

Keep clicking on WSAZ Mobile and WSAZ.com for the latest information.

UPDATE 10/6/16 @ 8:20 a.m.

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- One woman is dead after a shooting in Mink Shoals.

The shooting was reported just after 7 a.m. at a home on Larwood Drive.

Deputies say they responded to a 911 call from a man who said he shot his daughter.

When investigators arrived on scene, deputies say they searched the house and found a woman dead near the kitchen area. She had suffered a gunshot wound.

When deputies continued to searched the home, investigators say they found a man in the basement with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital. No word


Simone GJ van Breda PhDevent_seat Assistant Professor

Simone van Breda studied Environmental Health Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Maastricht University, where she graduated in 2000. In 2004, she received her PhD at Maastricht University, after 4 years of investigating the effects of vegetables on gene expression changes in the colon and lung at the Department of Health Risk Analyses and Toxicology.

After she finished her PhD, she received a fellowship “Talent for the Future” from the Faculty of Health Sciences, to work as a postdoctoral fellow for a period of ten months. During this appointment, she has worked at the Human Nutrition Research Centre at the lab of Prof.dr. John C. Mathers, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Next, she was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at thewhole genome DNA methylation, whole genome histone acetylation, and miRNA analyses. In line with this, she is currently setting up a DNA sequencing assay (Medip-SEQ) for whole genome analyses of DNA methylation changes in primary human hepatocytes.

Chemopreventive action of fruits and vegetables in general, and of phytochemicals in particular;

Role of individual susceptibility in cancer risk assessment

Since December 2008, Simone is registered as a toxicologist by the Netherlands Society of Toxicology and by the Federation of European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology (Eurotox). She is a member of the Netherlands Society of Toxicology. In addition to DETECTIVE, she is involved in the EU funded project PHYTOME.

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She performs various teaching activities at Maastricht University, at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), within the studies Biomedical Sciences,


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World top IT experts gather in IT conference

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Vietnam will present 30 reports – out of 125 total from 25 countries and territories – on information technology to the 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) in Da Nang on April 16-18.

A woman uses free public internet at Da Nang's Administrative Centre.

Deputy Rector of Korea-Vietnam Friendship Information technology College, Tran The Son said at a press conference yesterday that it’s the first time the conference has been held in Vietnam.

It’s one of the biggest meet ups for top professors and scientists in IT, allowing universities to share research on smart systems, education and IT applications.

Son said the conference, which is hosted by the college and the City University of Hong Kong with thecomputer science, control and automatisation system technology, digital signal processing, IT in biology and biomedical engineering, speech coding, unsupervised learning and brain computer interfaces.

He said international experts will also discuss the robot industry, smart production, navigation, smart systems in health care sector as well as car and motor sense control.

Vu said all reports will be announced on the database of IEEE.

Last year, the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Information Technology College and Poland’s Wroclaw University of Technology also co-hosted the 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems.

In 2015, Da Nang also held the annual 2015 ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Ministers Meeting for the first time.

The Da Nang-based college, built in 2007 with initial funding of $10 million from the South Korean government, has been a major training centre for


of the schedule almost universally despised by players, particularly veterans. Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki and Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James voiced their opinion during the preseason that the league should reduce the number of games in the schedule to ease wear and tear on players.

Silver addressed the issue during his All-Star weekend news conference.

"The question is towards the end of this season, can we push a little bit further in June closer to the draft?" he said. "I think there had been discussions well, I wouldn't characterize them as discussions. I've heard proposals about them moving The Finals past the Fourth of July. Generally the view has been in addition it just feels out of sync once you get into the summer historically those haven't been viewed asgame.

Cuban said the owners and league officials have discussed the possibility of shortening the preseason and starting the season earlier.

"I'd rather us go later in the season into July," said Cuban, who still is in favor of trimming the preseason schedule. "Used to be, we had to be concerned about baseball. Now we don't. Baseball, particularly from a media perspective, has become regional, so it doesn't negatively impact us from a national TV perspective to go late."


Flying over Florence on a drone

Tour the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, from above.

Those who have had the fortune to be born in Florence, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, are quite familiar with Giotto’s Campanile (one of the three buildings that make up the impressive architectural ensemble known as Santa María del Fiore, the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flowers), the Palazzo Pitti, the Ospedale Degli Innocenti, the church of Santa Maria Novella and many other great architectural jewels.

But very few Florentines might have had the chance to look at their city from this unique perspective. Enjoy the video below!delivering a mail piece bearing a counterfeit indicium.
The typical apparatus for printing such xe2x80x9cencrypted indiciaxe2x80x9d postage includes what is called a postal security device or PSD. The PSD has a secure housing, and within the secure housing cryptographic authentication and signing for communication with an external device such as the computer of the meter manufacture or of the post office. The engine also permits creation of postal indicia which contain specified information and which are cryptographically signed. The PSD may well be physically small as compared to traditional postage meters. The PSD may be the size of a PCMCIA card or the size of a smart card.
Within the PSD the memory must be protected against unadvertent damage due to malfunction of tile processor of the PSD, for example


Ziggy had a rough start as a puppy, but 3D printing technology and a couple of clever people have helped him get up and running again. The two-year-old Border Collie was found abandoned in 2014 as a puppy, with a broken front leg that wasn’t correctly healing and required amputation. At three months old, Australian couple Rebecca Colvin and Glenn Althor adopted him from the animal protection agency, the RSPCA.Lil B tweets that he wants to go to college, the universities respond with advice and invites

Lil B The Basedgod performs during the 2016 Slingshot Festival at Georgia Theatre on April 1, 2016 in Athens, Georgia. Lil B The Basedgod performs during the 2016 Slingshot Festival at Georgia Theatre on April 1, 2016 in Athens, Georgia. Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Lil B tweets that he wants to go to college, the universities respond with advice and invites 1 / 3 Back to Gallery

Lil B, Bay Area rapper and #BasedGod, is known to frequently post tweets promoting positive thinking and self-confidence, but one of his most recent messages caught the attention of a number of established, prominent college universities.

Lil B clarified that he wants to learn


about biology and neuroscience one day, but notes that he didn't finish high school.

One of the first to respond was Indiana University, a well-regarded school in terms of both academics and sports, who wrote, "Get your GED, then give us a call."

Other schools followed suit, including Penn State and Washington State University, which encouraged him and his followers to check out their science programs. The University of Oregon tweeted the apply link, as did Butler, the University of South Carolina, the University of Dayton, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Louisiana State University — along with encouragement for the artist to get his GED first.

Then, Auburn University, DePaul University, Miami University, the University of Wisconsin, Brandeis University, Georgia Tech, Oregon State, Florida State, Mizzou, University of Coloradoparents of a male child born in New Jersey on February 18, 2015. Following his birth, the child lived in New Jersey with both petitioner-respondent mother [*2]and respondent-petitioner father. The mother thereafter relocated with the child to Steuben County, New York, and she commenced this proceeding against the father on January 8, 2016 in the Family Court of that county (hereafter, court). In her petition, which sought sole custody of the child, the mother averred that the child was moved from New Jersey to New York on July 15, 2015. Thus, the mother argued, the New York courts had subject matter jurisdiction over this matter because "this state is the home state of the child on the date of the filing of the petition." The father, who still


resided in New Jersey, thereafter cross-petitioned under the same index number for shared custody. In his cross petition, the father averred that the child was moved from New Jersey to New York on an unspecified date in August 2015.
The parties appeared before the court on six occasions between February and November of 2016. Throughout the hearings, the father expressed his frustration at, inter alia, the pace of the proceeding and the court's reluctance to fashion a visitation schedule that took account of the distances involved. When the case was called for the seventh time on January 19, 2017, the father did not appear and could not be reached telephonically. The court then dismissed the father's cross petition and granted the mother's petition from the bench. Notably, however, thewas then present in the State of New York for five and a half months. Based on those facts, it is undisputed that either state could assume jurisdiction as the child, in fact, did not have a  home state.' "
The court denied the father's motion to vacate and held, insofar as relevant here, as follows:
"[the father's] claim that the court lacked jurisdiction is raised for the first time in this motion. The subject child had resided in Steuben County[, New York] for approximately half of his young life and [thus New York] was the home state of the child on the date of commencement of the proceeding . . . [The father] failed to raise any jurisdictional issues throughout the numerous appearances prior to the scheduled hearing


defined as either "the state in which a child lived with a parent . . . for at least six consecutive months immediately before the commencement of [the] proceeding" or, "[i]n the case of a child less than six months of age, . . . the state in which the child lived from birth with any [parent]" (§ 75-a [7]). Section 76, together with the defined terms in section 75-a, "forms the foundation of the UCCJEA and governs virtually every custody proceeding" (Michael McC., 48 AD3d at 95).
The primary jurisdictional category of section 76, which is colloquially known as "home state jurisdiction," applies when New York "is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or was the home state ofAs far as we can discern, McGlynn is the only foreign case to squarely address the precise fact pattern at bar.
In McGlynn, the subject child was born in Washington State. After living in Washington with his parents for approximately 3½ months, however, the child was moved to Poland by his mother. The father, who still resided in Washington, then filed a custody application in Washington approximately 5½ months after the child's departure (id. at *1). Reversing the trial court's dismissal of the father's custody application on subject matter jurisdiction grounds, the Washington Court of Appeals held that Washington (which occupied the same position as New Jersey in our case) had jurisdiction under its UCCJEA equivalent of section 76 (1) (a) because Washington had been the child's home state


in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ranking of the 10 states that lead in opioid prescriptions. The correlation is most striking when examining both the overall population and whites specifically, the group hit hardest by the opioid crisis.

Data show that deaths among women from opioid overdose have increased at a much faster rate than for men.

California’s position in the middle of the rankings for both opioid prescriptions and gender-based disparities hides serious problems in rural counties. In tiny Del Norte County, 147 opioid prescriptions were written for every 100 residents. The rate was 137 per 100 residents in Lake and Butte counties, and 133 in Shasta County. Available health data for these counties aren’t broken down by gender, but they do show a high prevalence ofN. C. Wyeth House and Studio

The N. C. Wyeth House and Studio is a historic house museum and artist's studio on Murphy Road in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Beginning with its construction in 1911, it served as the principal home and studio of artist N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945). It was restored to its original appearance around the time of his death. The property is managed by the Brandywine River Museum, which offers tours. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1997.

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The Wyeth House and Studio are located in a rural-residential area southeast of the village center of Chadds Ford, on the south side of Murphy Road. Set on about  of land are the main house, art studio, barn, and pump house. The


A top United Nations official has called upon the Security Council to stop playing politics with the lives of Syrians and do everything in its power to bring an end to the violence in Aleppo.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien cast aside diplomacy Monday to speak bluntly about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Aleppo, which he described as a “slaughterhouse.”

O’Brien said he was at his "wit's end as a human being" in the face of continued violence in Syria and questioned the purpose of UN meetings on the conflict, if the international body was unwilling to act.

“Shame on us all for not acting to stop the annihilation of eastern Aleppo and its people and much of the rest of Syria too,” O'Brien said.

United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephenher own opinions and choices to cloud her objective mind set.
This project began during a lunch meeting between Ehrenreich and Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper’s Magazine. After being told that she should be the one to go into the field and research whether it is possible to sustain a living on little to no income, she thinks about it and then reluctantly says she will. (5) She explains in the first section that she was aware of the advantages she would have over the real people in her project. She had numerous advantages over her co-workers including a completed education, a car, good health, health insurance, and money to get her started. (7) This had to be the first step that she took before starting in on


video game series, BioShock Infinite, it appears on a metal plate in the early 20th century style dystopia, Columbia, set within the paving stones on the side of the main street.

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Todos Santos had its start in sugar – it was the Baja sugarcane capital during the 19th century when eight mills ran full-time. After the natural spring dried up in 1950 and the last mill closed in 1965, Todos Santos ran into decline. There are still remnants of old sugar mills to be found around town.

Luckily, the spring returned in the early 80’s and agriculture began to flourish again. Then the new 4-lane highway was paved through, which helped to encourage tourism. Today Todos Santos has completely transformed, with numerous art galleries and restaurants. It has been declared a Pueblo Magico, and a stroll around the streets is a feast for the senses.

While most of the buildings have been immaculately restored, there are still a few that aremarkets. Irony must be dead, as it looked to be long-shuttered.

Careful renovations have been done to maintain and enhance the integrity and beauty of the old brick trapiches or mills that are now re-purposed into shops, offices and restaurants.

And then, there is…the Hotel California with its many rumours about being the inspiration for the Eagles iconic song of the same name.

The Eagles have vehemently denied that this hotel (or any hotel) was the inspiration for their song and launched a successful lawsuit.

While the current owners continue to dispel that myth, the rock-and-roll whiff still clings. Originally built in 1947, the hotel sat empty for a number of years until the late 90’s, when Canadians John and Debbie Stewart (from Galiano Island), bought the crumbling property in 2001. They


took four years to meticulously restore it. Today it has 11 guest rooms, a gorgeous garden and swimming pool, restaurant, bar and gift shop and hundreds of visitors stream through daily. I had a chance to speak with Debbie and she filled us in on the history of the hotel, as well as her personal attachment to both the hotel and Todos Santos.

We did not stay at the Hotel California. After trying and failing to find a suitable campground in the area, we took the advice of a neighbour from La Paz and decided to try beach camping.

Here are the facts to consider about camping in south Baja – the more expensive and built-up the destination, the less your chances will be of finding a reasonable RV park.in their own good time.

In many areas of the park, especially around Lightning Lake, we saw an impressive system of tunnels, and every once in a while, up would pop a Columbian ground squirrel. They have no fear of people at all – as soon as this little guy saw me taking his photo, he started scampering toward me. I’m not proud to admit it, but I screamed and ran. I had an unpleasant image of those sharp little nails climbing up my leg.

Hiking in Manning Park this time of year is glorious – no bugs, comfortable temperatures and over 20 trails to choose from. Since neither of us were inclined to choose from trails that were 16 km. (one way), we chose a couple of 9 km.


around Lightning Lake – the central lake in Manning Park that is a magnet for canoes, kayaks and swimmers.

We followed this path to the end of the lake and onto the other side, to pick up the trail.

The water was like a millpond that day; we almost had the trail to ourselves.

A bridge at the halfway point.

Another small bridge in the woods.

We loved Manning Park – there is so much to do there and the campgrounds (there are four) feel like the wilderness. It was the perfect way to end our camping adventures for now. We would highly recommend this park to anyone, but be sure to camp. Manning Park Lodge (the only accommodation in the park) has seen better days.

We stopped in Hope on our way toand way more sociable. They bark and chat and chase each other, and have created a fascinating inter-connected community of big mounds and tunnels.

And of course the big draw are the bison herds. They were brought into the park in 2006 from Elk Island National Park and today the herd stands at about 350. We were given a dangerous animals brochure (bison and rattlesnakes) and advised to remain at least a football field away from bison, particularly at this time of year when they are calving and more aggressive. These are majestic creatures – woolly and shaggy and huge.

This one was right at the main gate, but we stayed in the car for photos – he was stomping and shaking his big head – clearly he was not


lived on the top floor.

Although Banff is in a National Park, there is little about it that speaks to nature. Masses of tourists pack streets that are filled with high-end shopping, souvenir shops and cheek-by-jowl hotels and it makes me sad. Someone got the planning all wrong.

After leaving Banff, we arrived at our campsite just outside Drumheller around 5:00 pm.

This is the landscape we came for, the stunning slash in the Red Deer River Valley that is made up of box canyons, hoodoos, coulees and sparse vegetation. The badlands are spread out over a wide area – an area that exposed coal seams in the 1900s, as well as the fossilized remains of dinosaurs.

After the coal disappeared, the area fell into decline until the Royal Tyrrell Museum ofMaguire, died in 1302. The Maguire's are indicated as the rulers in County Fermanagh (or what is Fermanagh in Northern Ireland today). How and when they migrated from County Westmeath to Fermanagh is not something that I have on hand. That is probably okay because it would be more detail that what I looking for at this point in time.

When I look up some factual history about the Maguire's of Fermanagh, I find that they were referred to as chieftains rather than kings. There was a Hugh the Hospitable and several other chieftains of various names. I came across another Hugh - Aodh Mag Uidhir (Hugh) - who died in 1600. What strikes me to be most interesting about Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, was that he was


the leader during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He died fighting the crown during the Nine Years War.

Reading biographical information about those considered to be "royalty" of Ireland does give you an insight into Irish history. It also makes you realize that the Annuals of the Four Masters are probably your best bet in understanding the "possible" ancestors of your own Irish line. At least, it is interesting!

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SOURCE: Healy, Margaret. “Pericles and the Pox.” In Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings, edited by Jennifer Richards and James Knowles, pp. 92-107. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

In the following excerpt, Healy asserts that in Pericles Shakespeare presented a veiled criticism of the efforts of King James I to wed his children to members of the Spanish royal family.

Louis MacNeice's poem Autolycus (1944-7) gives aptly magical expression to the dominant apprehension of Shakespeare's late plays in our century. Autolycus evokes a picture of the Bard at the sunset of his career mysteriously moving away from the ‘taut plots and complex characters’ of the major tragedies, conjuring instead ‘tapestried romances … / With rainbow names and handfuls of sea-spray’, and from them turning out ‘happy Ever-afters’ (ll. 3-6). MacNeice'sGay porn site featuring quality videos and live shows with all American college men and teen boys

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A publicty stunt which saw four bitcoin fans bury $50,000 in cryptocurrency on Mount Everest has ended in tragedy with the mysterious death of their Sherpa guide.

Ukranian social network ASKfm paid for the men to climb Everest last week, but they claimed to have lost experienced guide Lam Babu during the ascent, saying he went 'missing'.

However, other veteran mountaineers have come forward to cast doubt on that version of events, claiming that the Sherpa was struck by snow blindness and 'left behind' by the climbers.

Ukrainian social network ASKfm sponsored the four to climb Everest and bury the hard drive, in an effort to raise money through an initial coin offering

One mountaineer, Alan Arnette, a Colorado blogger who covers Everest, cast serious doubt on the claims of the 'cryto-enthusiasts'.

'ISex workers in the city's largest red light area Sonagachi have been asked by an NGO, working for their welfare, not to entertain Africans who are regular visitors to the place in the wake of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a forum of 1,30,000 sex workers in West Bengal, has warned of a life risk should they come in contact with infected persons. "We have requested the sex workers not to entertain Africans as it can be a life risk for them if they get infected by the highly contagious Ebola virus causing havoc in some West African countries," Mahasweta, a member of the DMSC, told PTI.

Durbar is presently training and providing classes to sex workers to identify the signs of an


WHO update, 128 new cases of Ebola virus disease as well as 56 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone between August 10 and 11, bringing the total number of cases to 1,975 and deaths to 1,069. The Ebola virus is highly contagious, but is not airborne. Jana said that the training programme, which started this week in Sonagachi, would be extended to other red light areas in the city as well as the entire state, especially in port and bordering areas.ANAHEIM – “I think we got caught with our pants down and that ended up costing us the game.”

Curtis McElhinney with the rare candid soundbite after a loss. God bless the man.

There wasn’t much said of note after yet another tough defeat in California tonight, the third straight loss for the Maple Leafs on this trip and the fifth overall. The Leafs now have only five wins in their last 18 games, dating back to the game before the all-star break in late January.

That’s five full weeks of suck – not just this one on the West Coast. It’s been bad enough that the Leafs have the 25th best record in the NHL since Auston Matthews went to the all-star game out here in Southern California.

Feels like a


By Rupam Jain Nair and Frank Jack Daniel

KOLKATA (Reuters) - An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.

An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan.

The group's strategy: To spread its Hindu-first ideology to all corners of India by propelling the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in as many states as possible. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) provided the foot soldiers in last year’s landslide general election victory by Modi, who joined the movement in his youth.

Winning states like West Bengal, outside the ruling party’s traditional strongholds, would give Modi greater control over Rajya Sabha, whichHosabale told Reuters. “The 2014 election victory should be seen as the starting point of a long term mission."

POLICY INFLUENCE

What also emerges is the impact the RSS is having on government rhetoric and decisions.

Once scorned as a right-wing fringe group, the RSS is the ideological parent of the BJP. The Modi government has appointed RSS sympathizers to prominent positions in recent months. This includes the chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, the chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a board member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

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Most of the ministers in the cabinet had their political consciousness shaped by the RSS and its affiliates. Modi spent his formative years as a full-time volunteer in the group, which he credits


for his work ethic, discipline and success. BJP President Amit Shah and seven members of Modi’s cabinet also joined the RSS in their youth. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who was once an RSS official and went on to lead the BJP, is now pushing for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.

The government has also taken up other issues dear to the RSS, like the search for the lost Saraswati River. Government archaeologists have been ordered to search for the river, mentioned in ancient Hindu texts. RSS members believe proof of its existence would bolster the group’s narrative of a Hindu-dominated golden age in India prior to invasions by Muslims and Christians.

A close aide to the prime minister affirmed Modi’s commitment to the group and its vision. The primeminister, he said, is “viewed as the RSS worker who will take bullets in the chest to protect the RSS. He believes that it is the finest institution, a think tank and an organisation that has the power to change India.”

INDIA'S GLORY DAYS

What is unfolding is a battle for the soul of India. Since independence in 1947, Indian politics has been dominated by the Congress party and its leftist offshoots. They have espoused a secular, multi-faith vision of the nation. Hindus are the majority, but roughly 14 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people are Muslim.

The RSS was founded in 1925 as an anti-colonial organisation. It promotes a fundamentally different vision that draws on a mix of Hindu legends and ancient Indian history, when the subcontinent was home to


accused Gandhi of appeasing Muslims at a time when Pakistan, an all-Muslim nation, was being carved out of India. The ban was later lifted in the absence of any evidence the group planned the attack.

NEW STRATEGY

Until a few years ago, the RSS had focussed on achieving its vision of a Hindu nation from outside the electoral realm. RSS volunteers would meet weekly at thousands of shakhas, or branches, around the country to talk about Hinduism and civic duty, and practice martial exercises and discipline. Those interested in electoral politics traditionally migrated to the BJP and its predecessor, Jan Sangh, which shared much of the RSS’ ideology.

That changed in July 2013. At a meeting in Amravati in Maharashtra, RSS leaders decided it was time for the group to startparties.

RSS officials have met at least five times this year with BJP President Shah, who many credit as the architect of Modi’s election triumph, to coordinate political strategy in West Bengal, said a party official present at the meetings in New Delhi and Kolkata. The BJP did not win a single seat in the last election for the 290-seat state assembly in 2011.

Shah described West Bengal as a gateway to forging political control in India's northeastern states that border China, senior party official Sidharth Nath Singh quoted the BJP president as saying in a meeting. Shah also agreed to grant RSS leaders a say in the selection of senior members of the BJP's state organisation, Singh said.

Shah did not respond to requests for an interview and did not


answer questions sent to his office. Modi’s office also did not respond to questions for this article.

In April, the RSS was deeply engaged in the municipal election campaign in West Bengal. For the first time, the BJP fielded candidates for every seat in the local elections. It more than quadrupled its seats in the vote, albeit from a low base – from 16 to 74 out of a total of 1,943.

When the leader of the party in West Bengal is chosen for the state elections, that person could be from the BJP or the RSS, said Kailash Vijayvargia, who was appointed in July to manage the BJP's political expansion in West Bengal. It needs to be someone who can fight against “appeasing Muslims” and against “allowing Islamic terrorgroups to flourish in our country,” he said.

RELIGIOUS RIOTING

Communal violence is never far from the surface in places like West Bengal. Some of the worst religious rioting in Indian history followed the partitioning of British India into predominantly Hindu West Bengal and Muslim East Bengal, which in 1971 became the new country of Bangladesh. More recently, Hindu-Muslim riots erupted in West Bengal in 2007, 2010 and 2013.

In the months after Modi’s victory, leaders of hardline Hindu groups launched a drive to have India officially declared a nation of Hindus. They also stepped up a campaign against what they called "Love Jihad" – a term used to describe what they claimed was an Islamist strategy to convert Hindu women through seduction, marriage and money. And they began a push


to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism, through a purification ritual called “ghar vapsi”, or “homecoming”, a concept central to the RSS since its founding.

Cow slaughter, another touchstone issue for the RSS and the source of many lethal riots, has again shaken India this month after a Muslim man was lynched in Uttar Pradesh on suspicion he had killed a cow, an animal holy to many Hindus. His death at the hands of a Hindu mob was deemed “an accident” by Modi’s culture minister.

Modi has been criticized for giving hardliners a free rein, but their zeal has also caused him headaches.

After meeting the prime minister in January in New Delhi, U.S. President Barack Obama urged India not to stray from its constitutional commitment to allow people to freelythe RSS at election time. Every evening, Shah checks the membership numbers. Even when he is travelling, one party official is expected to text him the number by 6:30 p.m., a close aide told Reuters.

At an early September meeting in New Delhi organised by the RSS and attended by Modi, however, relations appeared harmonious. Senior government ministers presented their plans and were quizzed about the steps they were taking in their respective ministries, according to two federal ministers who were both present.

Two long-awaited government plans were discussed that had strong RSS backing – the launch of a sovereign gold bond and improved pension rights for retired army personnel.

Shortly afterwards, the government publicly unveiled them.

(Editing by Bill Tarrant and Peter Hirschberg)


V1 data shown here has already been adjusted substantially from contemporary reports. First here is a report from August 1999 on the 1998 annual results. Hansen stated:

The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year was 1934.

Here is a graphic from the news release – I’ve been unable to locate a digital version of this dataset. In this image, the 1934 temperature is almost half a degree C (C not F) warmer than 1998, which was not even in second place.
From Hansen 1999 News Release.

The temperature in the United States was also warm, about 0.7°C above the 1951-1980 average (Figure 3). 1999 was approximately the 10th warmest yearof opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files


-16% below average. Average is based on records from 1951-2001. I hope our current drought does not last another 4 years.

The paraglider pilot was actually a German girl, in Australia for the world championships. They were able to download the complete log of the flight from her GPS. She was sucked up at an average speed of 20m/s, peaking at 33m/s. She lost consciousness for about an hour, topped out at 10,000m, came to at about 6,000m and was able to pilot the rig (which was covered in ice) to the ground. A Taiwanese pilot was sucked into the same storm and killed.

and that version has a 2006 number. It also has changes of numbers
for prior years, including the 2005 number being closer to what it was
last June.This picture of Liverpool to Birkenhead Tunnel comes from a short lived British magazine "Wonders of World Engineering". It appeared in the second edition published in March 1937.
You can get a bigger version by clicking here:- WOWE picture

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This is just an outline of the history of the Mersey Tunnels. Any one who wants to get more information is recommended to refer to one of the sources at the bottom of this page.

There are many tunnels in the Liverpool area, including sundry rail tunnels and those of the Mole of Edge Hill. Geologically the area is mainly a mixture of sandstone and clay. The area that the Mersey road tunnels go through is largely clay near the entrances, but rock (covered by clay) under the river. Some of the


areas of rock have faults. With or without faults, drainage can be a major problem in tunnels. It's not just the river water! Even under land, tunnels may be below the water table.

In 1866 an Act was passed for the construction of a railway tunnel under the Mersey linking Birkenhead and Liverpool. Construction started in 1879 and was completed at the end of 1885. The trains were originally steam driven. But the problem with smoke led to electrification in 1903. (Twenty years after the first electric railway opened at Brighton.)

Proposals for a road crossing the Mersey go back to at least 1825. It was nearly a 100 years before much happened. Passengers had 2 main ways of crossing from Liverpool. There were ferry boats to various points onthe Wirral peninsula; by the 1920's they were carrying about 35 million passengers a year. The trains were carrying over 10 million passengers a year.

Birkenhead Tunnel

In 1922 a committee was set up between Liverpool, Birkenhead, Bootle and Wallasey to draw up plans for a crossing. The crossing was probably intended as much for business use as for motorists. The ferries and railway could cope with the passengers, but they could not cope very well with goods traffic. There was to be a tramway in the bottom half of the Tunnel. The work during the construction would also help to reduce unemployment. The committee was chaired by Sir Archibald Salvidge from Liverpool. He was the main driving force in getting the crossing. When it was decided that the crossing


route would be between Liverpool and Birkenhead, Bootle and Wallasey left the committee.

A major decision was whether it would be a bridge or a tunnel. It was thought that a tunnel would be much cheaper to build and maintain. They also thought that a bridge could be damaged or block the river if there was a war. Any bridge supports on the river bed might have caused silting.

The plan for a tunnel was ambitious, it would be the largest underwater tunnel ever built.

Another major decision was how the construction was to be financed. The government wanted the crossing to be free of any Tolls, but after several years of negotiations it was agreed that the government would pay half the construction cost, one quarter would come from therates in Liverpool and Birkenhead and one quarter from Tolls for a period of up to 20 years. (The running costs of the Tunnel were to come from the rates.) This was authorised in a 1925 Act and a Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee was formed comprising of Birkenhead and Liverpool Corporations.

About this time the proposals for the tramway were put on hold. There were various possible reasons for this. One was opposition from Birkenhead who wanted to protect their Ferries, another was that the government had said that they would reduce their contribution if a tramway was laid. The Tunnel would however still be excavated and built for most of it's length with a massive space under the roadway designed for the Tramway.

A further Act was needed in


to last for up to 40 years.

While all these Acts were being passed the actual construction started at end of 1925. It was a mammoth undertaking involving thousands of workers. The engineers in charge were John Brodie, Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, and Basil Mott. The main tunnel (there were branch tunnels at either end) would be 2 miles 230 yards long, and it would be wide enough for 4 lanes of traffic with a total interior diameter of 44 feet.

The tunnel is not very deep, with the lowest point being only 170 feet below high water level in the river. (At one point, mid river, there is only 4 feet of solid rock above the tunnel. Perhaps they were lucky that they didn't get very very wet!) The pilottunnel between Liverpool and Birkenhead was completed on 3 April 1928 when Sir Archibald Salvidge broke through the last rock (he hadn't done any of the rest of the digging!). Margaret Beavan, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool then shook hands with Alderman Frederick Naylor, the Mayor of Birkenhead. There were in fact 2 pilot tunnels, with the one for the roadway above that for the tramway. (As the bottom pilot tunnel was dug first, did the dignitaries actually shake hands in what would have been the tramway, rather than the roadway?)

The construction continued through various difficulties with excavation and drainage, and the unfortunate deaths of workers.

1,200,000 tons of rock were excavated using explosives and pneumatic drills between 1926 and 1931. The rock went to fill in Storeton Quarry


on the Wirral side and to Dingle and Otterspool on the Liverpool side. The general technique used was to excavate and line the top (road) half of the tunnel, and then to excavate and line the bottom (tramway) half of the tunnel.

The main Mersey Tunnel has a circular section for most of it's length, presumably due to the tramway. There is a branch tunnel on each side of the river. The branches are semi circles with just a shallow space beneath the roadway. Part of the land sections of the "tunnel" were not tunnelled; they were built using cut and fill techniques; this includes the part which runs below Dale Street down towards the river.

The construction of the tunnel was massive in itself, but it also involved constructionof gigantic ventilating machinery, shafts and buildings. The final cost of the tunnel and all the machinery etc was just over £6 million. With land and other bits and pieces this came to nearly £7 million or £7.5 million if you add the cost of borrowing during the construction.

The Tunnel was eventually brought into use on 17 December 1933, with an official opening on 18 July 1934.

The King and Queen went on to open a new Central Library in Birkenhead, the original Carnegie Library having been chosen as the final site of the Birkenhead entrance to the Tunnel! At the opening the King spoke the words "Who can reflect without awe that the will and power of man which in our own time have created the noble bridges


of the Thames, the Forth, the Hudson and Sydney Harbour, can drive also tunnels such as this, wherein many streams of wheeled traffic may run in light and safety below the depth and turbulence of a tidal water bearing the ships of the world."

Use of the Birkenhead Tunnels built up to a higher level of use than expected. The result was that by about 1947, Birkenhead and Liverpool were not having to pay anything for the upkeep or debt on the tunnel. And by about 1970 the Birkenhead Tunnel should have become Toll free.

Photos at "Old Haymarket" of Liverpool entrance to Birkenhead Tunnel about 1960
They were taken by John Bythell who has kindly allowed us to reproduce them. You can see more of his pictures at More photosof Liverpool area

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Taken from top of old Co-op building in Byrom St on a miserable day.

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Taken from William Brown Street.

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Taken from William Brown Street on a wet night.

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Taken from St Johns Lane (note the traffic policeman in his box on far left)

Roads around Birkenhead Tunnel

With increasing levels of car use, the Birkenhead Tunnel could not cope, and by 1960s there was severe congestion on the roads around the Tunnel at peak periods. Liverpool and Birkenhead both decided about 1965 to build flyovers etc. This was to segregate Tunnel traffic from other traffic, provide queuing areas and thus reduce congestion. Liverpool and Birkenhead paid for these road works, but it appears that there was some agreement that the Tunnels would later reimburse Birkenhead for the cost of Birkenhead roadworks


which amounted to about £5.7 million or about £60 million at 2003 prices. (At the end of the 1990s Wirral demolished some of the Birkenhead flyovers.).

Wallasey Tunnel

At the same time as the work alleviating some of the road congestion around the Tunnel entrances, it was decided that a second crossing would be needed. Consultants were appointed and they recommended a 6 lane bridge. Because of the cost, and uncertainty as to which was the best route for a bridge, the authorities decided on a 2 lane tunnel. The new tunnel would run from just north of the old tunnel on the Liverpool side, and on the Wirral side would come out at Seacombe (Wallasey). The Wallasey approach would make use of a disused railway cutting to link upto what would be the M53.

The construction cost (excluding land) was estimated at less than £14 million, and an Act was passed in 1965 authorising the construction. Wallasey joined Birkenhead and Liverpool on the Mersey Tunnels Joint Cttee in September of 1965. The provisions in respect of Tolls were changed so that neither the old Birkenhead Tunnel nor the new Wallasey Tunnel would become free of Tolls till the debts on both tunnels were paid off.

It was later decided to add another 2 lane tube to the Tunnel. It would share the Approach roads etc of the first 2 lane tube. This was provided for in a 1968 Act. The estimated construction cost for this second tube was £7.5 million.

Compared with the construction nearly 40 years earlier of


on 24 June 1971. On Sunday 27th there was a charity walk through the tunnel, and it was really opened to traffic from midnight on 27th. About the same time, the Tunnel toll was raised from 10p to 15p.

Losses and Tolls

The Tunnels were now making substantial losses. There were various reasons:- the cost of the new Tunnel, the fact that construction cost was far higher than expected, traffic stopped growing either due to the increase in Tolls and or the state of the economy. Some limited power to add these losses to debt was obtained in a 1972 Act, but these powers were to run out in 1980 at the latest.

Adding the losses to debts further increased future losses. Unsuccessful attempts were made to get financial aid fromcentral government.

Tolls were increased again to 20p in 1975, 25p in 1977, and 30p in 1979. In 1980 Merseyside County Council had an Act which was mainly consolidating various old acts that applied within their area. They took the opportunity to have the powers to add losses to debt, extended to 1984, or such later date up to end of 1989 that the Minister might agree. Tolls were raised again to 40p in 1981, and 50p in 1986. (Merseyside also had the provision for Tolls changed so that when all the debt was paid off, the Tolls would not stop, instead they would be reduced to an amount sufficient to cover maintenance costs.)

There was some falling off in use due to all these increases but total Toll income


increased substantially over all these years. Despite this increase in total Toll income the annual rate of losses actually increased, mainly due to high inflation and high interest rates.

Eventually the powers to add losses to debt ran out, and they had to be met from the Rates. This was the situation between October 1988 and March 1992. But there were further Toll increases to 60p in 1989 and then £1 in April 1992. The combination of these further substantial Toll increases plus the 3 and a half year breathing space meant that losses had now stopped altogether.

There was a further Toll rise to £1.20 in 1999. The use of the Tunnels has crept up slightly in recent years, but is still far below that forecast when the WallaseyTunnel was built..

2004 Act and subsequent increases

In 1993 Merseytravel started to raid the Tunnels funds, originally with the aim of helping to pay for the losses on the Ferries. This was illegal according to the Mersey Tunnels legislation, but Merseytravel got a legal opinion to say that it was. They later decided that they would try and get the law changed with three purposes - a) to make it legal for them to take the Tunnels money, b) to make it easier to get toll increases and thus take more money, and c) to privatise the operation of the Tunnels. To remove some of the opposition to their scheme, they eventually dropped the third aim, and managed to force their scheme into law as the Mersey Tunnels Act


in 2010, and are now circling back in history to gather them all in one collection appropriately titled The Dawn of Eternal Summers. The 12 tracks capture a band still sharpening its sound, and also having fun—covering The Lemonheads, Guide by Voices, and Neil Young.

World-class producer Bassnectar is back with another dose of speaker-splitting freeform electronic and aggressive dubstep, which is something he’s done just about every year since the start of last decade. That persistence and large-scale tour domination has made him one of the biggest names in the EDM universe. Given the recent crossover of other industry superstars like Deadmau5 and the ever-divisive Skrillex, Vava Voom might be landing at just the right time. Plus Lupe Fiasco shows up on the massive title track.

Sisters Cristi Jotwo cops pulled him over for a traffic violation and found Wheatcraft sitting in the car with his wife, a friend and his two young sons, aged 11 and six

Officer Matt Schneider tazed Wheatcroft multiple times after he refused to show his ID or share his name and seemed tense

Wheatcroft is now suing the two Glendale cops for 'excessive use of force and torture'

Wheatcroft was tazed in front of his wife and his two young sons, aged 11 and six, who were crying in the backseat as their father collapsed to the ground

The officers asked for IDs and Wheatcroft refused to give his name or hand over an ID card saying: 'I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm not doing anything wrong'.

When Wheatcroft began to panic, Schneider pointed his


taser at his shoulder saying: 'Here's the deal. Listen to me. Relax your arm. I'm trying to do this as easy as I can.'

Then he accused Wheatcroft of stuffing something into his backpack.

Agitated, Schneider pulled Wheatcroft's arm behind his back, despite his arm being restrained by a seat belt, leaving the man howling in pain.

Schneider says 'he's going to fight dude' to Officer Lindsey, leading Lindsey to stun him with the taser. Schneider then grabs the taser and continues to fire.

His children are heard wailing 'Please stop! Daddy are you okay?' and their mother says 'He's not going to do nothing!'

Shots are fired over and over until Wheatcroft is laid on the hot asphalt on the 108-degree day.

Then Schneider kicks him in the groin, pulls down his athletictransatlantic project to counter Russian disinformation, showed tweets promoting both sides of the football debate from 600 accounts that analysts identified as users who spread Russian propaganda on Twitter.

A Senate aide said the website was viewed as credible among congressional investigators.

Facebook this month revealed that suspected Russian trolls purchased more than $100,000 worth of divisive ads on its platform during the 2016 election cycle. Twitter is expected to privately brief the Senate panel on Thursday, and the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday technology companies would testify about Russian interference in an open hearing next month.

Trump last week said that football players should be fired for kneeling during the national anthem. The players want to draw attention to what they say is social and racial injustice.

U.S. intelligence agencies have


The Vanderbilt senior heard her named called in the second round of the WNBA draft -- with the 24th overall pick -- by the 2013 WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx.

Foggie was the first player from the talent-rich SEC to be selected.

"I had no idea I would go that high," said an ecstatic Foggie just moments after being picked. "And the first thing I thought of was 'Champions!'"

Foggie -- who is Vanderbilt's career leader in 3-pointers and ranks No. 7 on the program's all-time scoring list -- said her emotions spilled over when she heard her name.

"I just started screaming," she said.

Foggie was 'FaceTiming' with her parents during the draft. But her parent's feed of the broadcast was slightly delayed, which made for a humorous moment.

"I think I ruined itfor them," she said with a laugh, "because I started screaming before they even knew what was going on."

After Foggie's name was called with the final pick of the second round, the first four players of the third round all came from the SEC, giving the conference a run of five consecutive picks (from the No. 24 overall selection through No. 28).

Kentucky's DeNesha Stallworth went to the Connecticut Sun, Tennessee's Meighan Simmons was drafted by the New York Liberty, LSU's Theresa Plaisance was taken by the Tulsa Shock and Missouri's Bri Kulas went to the San Antonio Stars.

Foggie recently closed out her record-setting career at Vanderbilt with an outstanding senior season. She led the SEC in scoring -- averaging a career-high 19 points per game -- and scored


in double figures in all but two of Vanderbilt's 31 games.

She, along with fellow senior Jasmine Lister, helped the Commodores post 18 wins and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the 15th consecutive season.

Lister was was not selected in Monday night's draft, but she is still likely to continue her career on a professional level. She said on Monday afternoon that she might pursue the possibility of playing basketball overseas if she did not play in the WNBA.ultimately go away. So The Last Guardian is certainly not going away but it is on hiatus right now."

Little has been seen of The Last Guardian since it was announced at E3 2009 for release on PS3 in holiday 2011. Game director Fumito Ueda later said it had been delayed beyond 2011 "to provide more challenging and better quality of content to users”. In December 2011, Ueda and executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama left Sony, though the former has continued his work on the project as an independent contractor. In February, Ueda said the game remained under his creative supervision and was still in development. Further, he hinted that an official update about the title could be on the way from Sony.

We recently listed The Last Guardian as one


The top congressional committee investigating Russian election interference had been probing the finances of a 29-year-old Russian gun rights activist before she was arrested and charged by the US on Sunday with being an agent of the Kremlin and attempting to influence US politics.

Federal authorities charged Maria Butina with working “as an agent of a foreign government, specifically the Russian Federation,” without notifying the US government as the law requires. Butina had helped try to set up a secret meeting between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 election.

Butina is being held without bond pending a hearing Wednesday. The case is not a part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, but was brought by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbiaand the Justice Department.

Butina, a graduate student in Washington, DC, is accused of attempting to set up a backchannel line of communication between the Russian government and US politicians “to penetrate the US national decision-making apparatus to advance the agenda of the Russian Federation,” according to an FBI counterintelligence agent’s 17-page affidavit filed in US District Court in Washington on Monday.

The Justice Department said Monday that from “as early as 2015 and continuing through at least February 2017, Butina worked at the direction of a high-level official in the Russian government who was previously a member of the legislature of the Russian Federation and later became a top official at the Russian Central Bank. This Russian official was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of


Foreign Assets Control in April 2018.”

The unnamed person in the affidavit matches the description of Alexander Torshin, Butina’s former boss. Torshin, a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, was hit with sanctions by the Treasury Department in April.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, which has taken the lead on congressional Russia investigations, took an interest in Butina and Torshin last year, requesting information on the pair from the Treasury Department. Butina, who founded a gun rights group called Right to Bear Arms, also has longtime links to the NRA. In January, McClatchy reported that the FBI was investigating whether Torshin illegally channeled money to the NRA to help Trump.

In a letter sent to a top Treasury official on Aug. 11, 2017, the committee requested details of any financial transactionsdating back five years related to Butina and Torshin that banks deemed to be "suspicious" or "derogatory." Additionally, the committee sought the same type of records on Paul Erickson, the Republican operative who also tried to get Torshin a meeting with Trump. Though BuzzFeed News has previously reported on the letters’ existence, Butina, Torshin, and Erickson’s names were not reported at the time.

In February 2016, Erickson and Butina, who would later attend Trump's inauguration together, formed Bridges, LLC, a South Dakota-based company that Butina used to raise money for her graduate studies. The Intelligence Committee also asked Treasury for suspicious financial records on that company as well as Investing With Dignity, a company Erickson formed in 2010 at the same address in South Dakota.

The committee's letter was sent


to Sigal Mandelker, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. The letter was signed by North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, the committee chair, and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the committee, and marked “committee sensitive.” Burr and Warner instructed Mandelker to send any suspicious financial records on Butina, Trump, Erickson, and 33 other people suspected of being connected to Russia's interference in the presidential election directly to the committee "without any pre-review by outside entities, including the Office of Special Counsel."

It’s unclear which documents the committee has received from Treasury. In a follow-up letter sent to Mandelker on Dec. 7, the committee said it had not received a response to its request for documents four months earlier.

A spokesperson for Burr declined to comment Monday. Butlawyer. “Ms. Butina has been cooperating with various government entities for months regarding public allegations related to her contacts with various American and Russian individuals,” attorney Robert Driscoll said in a statement Monday.

Members of other committees investigating Russian election interference have also taken an interest in Butina, Torshin, and Erickson. In December, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Butina for an interview and documents “to determine whether she used the National Rifle Association to establish back-channel communications or funnel Russian money to the Trump campaign at the behest of Alexander Torshin, a prominent Russian banker connected to Vladimir Putin,” California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the committee, said in a statement Monday. “She refused to comply, citing the lack of support from our Republican colleagues.”

Democrats


Mission impossible for Leverkusen at Barca

Bayer Leverkusen face what looks to be the near-impossible task of putting three goals past Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Wednesday and to do so they will need to dethrone the undisputed passing kings of Europe.

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6 March 2012

Holders Barca, who won last month's Champions League last-16 first leg in Leverkusen 3-1, have conceded just five goals in 13 home La Liga games this season and let in only two at the Nou Camp in their three group matches in Europe's elite competition.

A big reason opponents find it so difficult to score against Pep Guardiola's side is that they rarely go a game without having the ball for at least 70 percent of the time, their mesmerising passing game grinding teams into submission.

InEurope's top five leagues, Barca playmaker Xavi has completed by far the most passes in the opponents' half this season with 1,553, Barca's website said.

Their World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, Champions League top scorer this term with seven goals, is second with 1,351 passes while full-back Daniel Alves is fourth on 1,215 - sandwiched between Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso with 1,271 and Arsenal's Mikel Arteta on 1,207.

"The fact that it is a tough prospect is clear to all of us but it's not over until it's over, as the saying goes, and we'll wait and see what happens," Leverkusen forward Stefan Kiessling said in an interview on the club's website.

"We want to go there and do ourselves justice and look for our chances."

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after the Chile forward damaged an adductor muscle in the Gijon game and will be sidelined for between 10 and 15 days.

Fullback Eric Abidal picked up a groin injury while on international duty with France last week and is also out.White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation of our nation's irreplaceable historic and cultural treasures for future generations.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000.

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Interpretation & Design: The Last Residence of African-American Activist Paul Robeson – 2005 University of Pennsylvania Thesis in Historic Preservation on the proposed restoration of Paul Robeson House

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an extremely flat form. In the same drawing, the symbol 101 is a disk tray, and this disk tray is guided to a guide rail 105 and contained in a chassis case 106.
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Saku Ryojiro has just transferred to Kouka Academy, which is famous for theatrical activities. On his first day at school, he started a fight with Aoi Mirai. To make the matter worse, it was seen by Aizen, the head of the Drama Club. All of Ryojiro's classmates are problem students, and he thought he could use the fight to rid himself of them. Then, Ryojiro is assigned to direct the classmates in a drama competition against the Drama Club. If they lose the competition, they will be suspended. However, because they are problem students, he has difficulties directing them.


Mythic Entertainment has released an overview of part of the world for the upcoming Wahammer Online. Today we get a look at the Badlands which are situated between the Worlds Edge Mountains and the Dragonback Mountains. This rocky, arid land will prove an interesting testing ground.

This desolate land is home to some of the most vicious and brutal tribes of greenskins to be found anywhere. These tribes war constantly with one another, and many of the most successful greenskin leaders in the history of the Old World emerged from the Badlands to lead their tribes on a path of destruction and conquest. The harsh environment and constant state of conflict weed out the weak and unworthy. In the Badlands, only the strongest survive.

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The Blinzlers took possession of the two farms and made the payments due December 1, 1960 and 1961. When the 1962 payments were delivered to the escrow agent, the Blinzlers directed that the escrow agent should not transfer the money to the Andrews until the title insurance policies were delivered in "accordance with the terms of the contract." The escrow agent notified the Andrews of the Blinzlers' instruction to withhold the 1962 installments *959 and, after protest made by Milton Andrews, released the payments with notice to the Blinzlers.
The record is vague regarding what demands the Blinzlers made for title insurance. Mr. Blinzler testified that he was "pretty sure" that he had requested title insurance in 1960. He also testified that