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Legal victory for young professionals in charity football challenge
Young Newcastle professionals have swapped business suits for football strips to raise a four-figure sum for a North East baby charity.
Twelve mixed five-a-side football teams drawn from the city's professional services firms have taken part in the annual Charity Shield competition, which was hosted by Hay & Kilner Law Firm to raise money for the Tiny Lives Trust.
Organised in association with the Newcastle Young Professionals Forum and held at the Goals Newcastle centre in Gosforth, the competition eventually saw the team from law firm Ward Hadaway beating Baldwins Accountants 4-3 in a highly-competitive final.
Around £1,500 was raised at the event for the Tiny Lives Trust, which is Hay & Kilner's charity of the year and which helps to care for up to 800 premature and sick newborn babies and their families each year from across the North East and Cumbria.
Louise Carroll, community and events fundraiser at Tiny Lives, spoke to the competitors about the Trust's work and the impact that the money they were raising would have as part of the trophy presentation ceremony.
Originally established in 2003, the Newcastle Young Professionals Forum provides a community in which newer members of the regional business community come together to share good ideas, best practice and knowledge in an effort to develop and progress in their chosen profession, and to develop business relationships that will benefit them through their careers.
Ben Jackson, solicitor at Hay & Kilner and organiser of the tournament alongside colleague Tom Clarke, says: "The standard of football ranged widely from the expert to the enthusiastic, but everyone really enjoyed taking part in the event.
"We're looking to get even more North East professional services firms involved with future stagings of the Charity Shield and have had already lots of interest about taking part next year.
"The Forum brings together a range of different people who are building their various careers in the city, and to be able to use it to help raise money for such an invaluable regional charity is especially pleasing."
For more information on the Newcastle Young Professionals Forum, visit their website here.
Ben Jackson

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Oscar Niemeyer's Itamaraty Palace Captured by Paul Clemence
© Paul Clemence
Written by Christele Harrouk
https://www.archdaily.com/953235/niemeyers-itamaraty-palace-captured-by-paul-clemence
To honor the work of one of the greatest modernists of the 20th century, Oscar Niemeyer, American-Brazilian photo artist Paul Clemence has released images of the architect's iconic Itamaraty Palace. Housing Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters, the structure is also known as the Palace of the Arches.
Located in Brasília, on Three Powers Plaza, the Itamaraty Palace is a monumental architecture of arches. Inaugurated on April 21, 1970, the Oscar Niemeyer-designed building is unique in its position. In fact, the rectangular building looks as if it is floating on the surface of the water basin from certain angles. A masterpiece of contemporary architecture, the concrete architecture takes on spans of 30 meters, a monumental spiral staircase, a landscape designed by Roberto Burle Marx, and marble walls by Athos Bulcão. The building also houses works by Brazilian and foreign artists.
Captured recently by Paul Clemence, the images highlight, in the artist's words, "the many complexities of this project, from the elaborate and expansive spaces to the concrete textures and his collaborations with artist Athos Bulcão and Burle Marx".
Spotlight: Oscar Niemeyer
For the mastermind behind Brasilia, the only city in the world built in the 20th century to be awarded the status of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and the author of more than five hundred works around the world, "architecture is invention". In fact, in an exclusive interview with ArchDaily, before his death in 2012, Niemeyer described his process as "always searching for beautiful, expressive, different and surprising solutions." Discover ArchDaily's full collection of Oscar Niemeyer's work and check below the photo essay by Paul Clemence.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on December 15, 2020.
Christele Harrouk
NewsArchitecture NewsArchitecture PhotographyPaul ClemenceAthos BulcãoRoberto Burle MarxBrasiliaOscar NiemeyerBurle MarxBrazilPhotographic EssayModern Movement
Cite: Christele Harrouk. "Oscar Niemeyer's Itamaraty Palace Captured by Paul Clemence " 10 Jan 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/953235/niemeyers-itamaraty-palace-captured-by-paul-clemence> ISSN 0719-8884
摄影作品|奥斯卡·尼迈耶'伊塔马拉蒂宫' / Paul Clemence


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Radio Station Rugby has an impressive history which is woven into the future of Houlton as an amazing place to live, work and play. In celebration of this past, Urban&Civic and Aviva, recently published "The History of Rugby Radio Station". All proceeds from sales are donated to Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. Wth over two thousand pounds raised so far a second print run has been commissioned to meet continued demand.
The new community of Houlton, which will see 6,200 new homes, three primary schools, a secondary school, new businesses and open space, is situated on the 1,200 acre former BT radio station site and is making a significant contribution to the area's high demand for new housing and is on the government's list of national priority sites.
The History of Rugby Radio Station, a semi autobiographical memoir, written by local historian and former radio station manager Malcolm Hancock, recounts Malcolm's 38 years of experience working at the site. Malcolm's laconic narrative includes, how 12 800ft radio masts were erected in the 1920's, the groundbreaking first telephone transmission to Houlton, USA in 1927, stories about a surprise visit from a future King, NASA, Concorde, 'Messages to Mars' and the life-saving work of the station during WW2 and The Cold War.
The book brings to life the vibrant heritage of the site and has captured the hearts of many in both Rugby, given over 800 local people worked on site and from around the world, given the sites global reach.
Johanne Thomas, Communities and Partnerships for Urban&Civic confirms, "We knew from early community engagement that the radio masts and the station's history was really important to local people. Working closely with Malcolm on publishing his book as well as a heritage website, street naming and calling the new place Houlton, after the receiving station in the USA, has been really valuable in fostering a real sense of place and building lasting relationships."
Jo Payne, senior fundraising manager for Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, comments; "I am thrilled to see the book has generated so much interest in the history of Radio Station Rugby, such an iconic feature which represents so much to all of us that live (and fly) in the area. We are so pleased that the proceeds from the sale of the book have been donated to keeping our team saving lives by road and air across the region and would like to thank everyone involved".
Sales of the first homes at Houlton, by Davidsons Homes, have now commenced with Morris Homes and Crest Nicholson due to start selling later this year. The Tuning Fork restaurant (continuing the heritage tradition) opened on site earlier this year and is now a popular destination in its own right.
The book, which makes a great present, is available to purchase for £5.99 in Rugby's independent book shop Hunts and at Rugby's Library and Tourist Information Centre, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. You can also buy the book on site at both the Visitors Centre and Tuning Fork and online at www.rugbyradiostation.co.uk
Rugby's local air ambulance service flies two regional helicopters providing a rapid response to trauma and medical emergencies over an area of 3850 square miles. With an average response time of just thirteen minutes, between them the helicopters attend on average six missions a day.
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Gardenin' Angels continues to cover the landscaping needs of the South Shore recently working in Brockton, Braintree, the Bridgewaters, Taunton, Lakeville, Easton, Whitman, Holbrook, Stoughton, Randolph, Canton, Sharon, Rockland, Weymouth and Milton.
MOWING: Avoid letting your grass get too long before mowing. Otherwise, your turf blades will get temporarily ruined and your lawn will have a "scalped" appearance. Never mow more than a third of your lawn height. Suggested mower setting for spring is 2 to 2.5 inches.
WATERING: Frequency and quantity of watering depends on your lawn type, soil composition and rain. Your existing lawn should get 1/2 hour of water per week. New lawns should not be allowed to dry out.
FERTILIZING: We are licensed to apply a balanced granular fertilizer with pre-emergent crabgrass control along with spot treatment of broadleaf weeds. This application will improve your lawn's color in 1-2 weeks. Weeds will begin curling up in 1-2 days and slowly decline. Some broadleaf weeds may germinate after the treatment but can be re-treated at the next fertilizer application in 6-8 weeks. Normal rainfall will water this treatment into the soil.
Gardenin' Angels has recently been landscaping properties in Brockton, Taunton, Lakeville, Berkley, Sharon, Easton, Rockland and Marshfield. Now that spring is (finally!) here, everyone is eager to enjoy their outdoor space.
At Gardenin' Angels, we'd like to remind returning and prospective customers that we are currently doing ongoing storm clean up from the harsh winter weather. This includes tree removal, trimming back broken branches, removal of damaged shrubs and general yard debris as well as fence repair.
April is also a good time to be replace and add mulch to garden beds which helps hold the moisture of April's rains for bulbs and spring flowers. Lawn care at this time of year includes de-thatching... sort of a deep raking to remove dead grass and aerate roots. Seeding bare patches and over-seeding thin lawns can be done with a slice seeding machine. Gardenin' Angels has all of the equipment as well as a skilled and knowledgable crew to bring your property back to life, and we're scheduling spring clean ups now. Give us a call.


As explained last month in this space by Kim Tremblay, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") issued guidance for those initially granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") between June 15 and August 15 of 2012. This guidance does not apply to most people with DACA. The vast majority of those with DACA filed their applications with USCIS after August 15, 2012 and has not yet received any guidance.
Those granted DACA after August 15, 2012, have no guidance on how to renew the application. USCIS may only accept DACA renewal applications within 120 days of the expiration date. This will put a tight timeline on applicants to make sure that they apply at the beginning of this window to give themselves the best chance to not have a gap (or to minimize the gap) between the expiration of their current grant of DACA and the approval of the renewal.
USCIS has been encouraged to accept a receipt notice from the DACA renewal form as proof of the continuing grant of DACA pending a decision on the renewal application. It is not yet clear whether they will implement this. If not, many applicants applying for renewal may experience a gap in time between the expiration of their current grant of DACA and the approval of their renewal where they have no documentation. For many, this will jeopardize school enrollment, employment, and the validity of driver's licenses amongst other issues.
As of February 20, 2014, USCIS indicated that guidance would be issued regarding renewals for those granted DACA in "coming months." We hope that guidance will be coming shortly. In the meantime, we continue to encourage those who anticipate having to renew DACA to put aside $465 for filling fees and to gather documents regarding their physical presence in the U.S. over the past two years. They should also document their attendance in or graduation from any schools over the past two years. In addition, DACA renewal applicants should contact their attorneys about six months before their status is set to expire. Being prepared with the information and documentation likely to be required should make it easier to quickly apply for renewal when guidance is released.


An Act for the more effectual preventing and further Punishment of Forgery, Perjury and Subornation of Perjury; and to make it Felony to steal Bonds, Notes or other Securities for Payment of Money.
The Perjury Act 1728 (2 Geo 2 c 25) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
So much of this Act as related to the stealing or taking by robbery any orders or other securities therein enumerated was repealed by section 1 of the 7 & 8 Geo 4 c 27. (The marginal note says that the effect of this was to repeal section 3 of this Act).
The Act, except so far as it related to perjury and subornation of perjury, was repealed by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830. (The marginal note says the whole Act was repealed except section 2).
Section 5 was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.
The Act was repealed as far as it applied to England on 1 January 1912.
The Act applied only to perjury in judicial proceedings. Section 2 provided that perjury and subornation of perjury were punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
Section 6 provided for the Act to expire. The Act was revived and made perpetual by the 9 Geo 2 c 18.
The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of the Reign of King George the First to the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Second. Volume the Fifth. King's Printer. London. 1763. Pages 699 and 700.
^ The Law Commission. Working Paper No 33. Perjury and Kindred Offences. 14 October 1970. Paragraphs 1 and 22 at pages 1 and 19.
The Perjury Act 1728 from Google Books.
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Clifford Ray McMartin
May 1, 2020 admins Uncategorized
May 28, 1931 ~ April 30, 2020
Clifford R. McMartin, 88, Brandon, died Thursday, April 30, 2020, at the Dougherty Hospice Home in Sioux Falls.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
Cliff was born on May 28, 1931, in Canistota, SD to William Ray McMartin and Marie Jane (White) McMartin. He grew up with 7 brothers and 5 sisters: Elaine, Tom, Lillian, Nereida, Rose, Hazel, Bob, Kenny, Jim, Joe, Ole, and Jerry. Cliff was a 1949 graduate from Brandon High School.
Cliff served in the US Army and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal with 3 bronze service stars, and United Nations Service Medal. Cliff was released to the Army Reserve in 1953.
Cliff married Susie Hartog in 1954. Together, they bore and raised 4 children: Mickie, Monte, Marilyn, and Marlys. They moved to Brandon, SD in 1959. Cliff worked as an assembly linesman at Horner Waldorf (now Stone) for 40 years prior to retirement.
Cliff loved travel, gardening, polka dancing, and baseball. He was an active member and volunteer of the Brandon Lutheran Church. Cliff was a founding lifetime member of the Brandon VFW.
Cliff is fondly remembered by his wife of 65 years, Susie (Hartog) McMartin, of the home; four children, Mickie (Lyle) Schrag, Broken Arrow, OK, Monte (Colleen) McMartin, Kalamazoo, MI, Marilyn (Andrew Bottino) McMartin, Selah, WA, and Marlys Pack, Stamping Ground, KY; 6 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren, and 8 siblings.
He was predeceased by his parents, brother, Tom, and sisters, Elaine, Lillian and Nereida.
Lowell and LaVonne says:
We were so sorry to hear that Cliff had died. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Lowell and LaVonne Stelter
Steve Hayes says:
Thoughts and prayers for the family
Tim Nelson says:
Sorry to hear about the loss of your dad.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time.
Tim and Beth Nelson
Barry Kathy Williams says:
We are so sorry to hear of your loss. Will miss his friendly smile and wave to us. Thoughts and prayers.
Norma Doppenberg says:
My prayers are with you.
Larry and Mary says:
Susie, our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time. If you have any funeral home cards we would appreciate your sending us one.


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Live Updates: Zelensky Visits Newly Reclaimed City as Ukraine's Blitz Presses On
WASHINGTON — Russia has covertly given at least $300 million to political parties, officials and politicians in more than two dozen countries since 2014, and plans to transfer hundreds of millions more, with the goal of exerting political influence and swaying elections, according to a State Department summary of a recent U.S. intelligence review.
"The Kremlin and its proxies have transferred these funds in an effort to shape foreign political environments in Moscow's favor," the document said. It added, "The United States will use official liaison channels with targeted countries to share still classified information about Russian activities targeting their political environments."
The State Department document was sent as a cable to American embassies around the world on Monday to summarize talking points for U.S. diplomats in conversations with foreign officials.
Ned Price, the State Department spokesman, confirmed at a news conference on Tuesday that the findings on Russia were the result of work by U.S. intelligence agencies. He added that Russian election meddling was "an assault on sovereignty," similar to Russia's war on Ukraine. "In order to fight this, in many ways we have to put a spotlight on it," he said.
The State Department cable and release of some of the intelligence findings amount to an initial effort by the Biden administration to use intelligence material to expose the scope of Russian interference in global political processes and elections, and to rally other nations to help combat it.
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate who defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. Its methods included the use of cyberoperations to spread online disinformation. U.S. intelligence officials also found that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized a campaign to try to hurt the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. when he ran for office against Mr. Trump in 2020.
The new document says that a range of Russian agencies and individuals carry out the global operations, including the Federal Security Service and other security agencies, as well as business figures.
The document named two men, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Aleksandr Babakov, both close associates of Mr. Putin, as involved in the influence or interference campaigns. In April, the Justice Department charged Mr. Babakov, who is also a Russian lawmaker, and two other Russian citizens with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and conspiring to commit visa fraud while running an "international foreign influence and disinformation network to advance the interests of Russia."
The Russians pay in cash, cryptocurrency, electronic funds transfers and lavish gifts, the document said. They move the money through a wide range of institutions to shield the origins of the financing, a practice called using cutouts. Those institutions include foundations, think tanks, organized crime groups, political consultancies, shell companies and Russian state-owned enterprises.
The money is also given secretly through Russian Embassy accounts and resources, the document said.
In one Asian country, the Russian ambassador gave millions of dollars in cash to a presidential candidate, the document said. U.S. agencies have also found that Russia has used false contracts and shell companies in several European countries in recent years to give money to political parties.
"Some of Russia's covert political financing methods are especially prevalent in certain parts of the world," the document said. It added, "Russia has relied on state-owned enterprises and large firms to move funds covertly across a number of regions including Central America, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and on think tanks and foundations that are especially active across Europe."
As of last year, the document said, a Russian business figure was trying to use pro-Russian think tanks in Europe to support far-right nationalist parties. The document warned that in the coming months, Russia might use its "covert influence tool kit," including secret political financing, across broad swaths of the globe to try to undermine the American-led sanctions on Russia and to "maintain its influence in these regions amid its ongoing war in Ukraine."
Although U.S. intelligence agencies have been studying Russian global election interference and influence for years, the intelligence review was ordered by senior administration officials this summer, U.S. officials said. Some of the findings were recently declassified so they could be shared widely. The review did not examine Russian interference in U.S. elections, which intelligence agencies had been scrutinizing in other inquiries, a U.S. official said.
Officials say one aim of the U.S. campaign to reveal details about Russian political interference and influence is to strengthen democratic resilience around the world, a pillar of President Biden's foreign policy. Administration officials are focused on ensuring that nations that took part in last year's Summit for Democracy, which Mr. Biden held in Washington, can buttress their democratic systems. The administration plans to convene a second summit soon.
The State Department summary listed measures that the United States and partner nations could take to mitigate Russia's political interference campaigns, including imposing economic sanctions and travel bans on known "financial enablers" and "influence actors."
The department also recommended that countries coordinate intelligence sharing, improve foreign investment screening, strengthen investigative capabilities into foreign financing of political parties and campaigns, and enforce and expand foreign agent registration rules.
It said governments should also expel Russian intelligence officers found to be taking part in related covert financing operations.
The State Department said in the summary that it was urging governments to guard against covert political financing "not just by Russia, but also by China and other countries imitating this behavior."
Julian E. Barnes contributed reporting.
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Politician Accused Of Killing Las Vegas Journalist Appears In Court
By Sean DeLancey
and Associated Press
County Public Administrator Robert Telles has been ordered to remain jailed without bail pending arraignment on a murder charge.
The DNA of a jailed elected official who was angered by past and upcoming newspaper stories was found on the hands of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who fought for his life while being stabbed to death outside his home, authorities said Thursday.
Related Story Police: Las Vegas Journalist Dies In Stabbing Outside Home
County Public Administrator Robert Telles stood handcuffed in court with bandages on his wrists and police officers at his elbows while a prosecutor told a judge that Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German's death was a planned attack by an assailant who left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German's home.
"The published articles regarding a public figure, the public administrator's office, ruined his political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause," Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow said of Telles.
Scow said German was stabbed seven times. His body was found Saturday.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham called a police report detailing the attack "chilling," including the discovery of wounds on German's arms and DNA believed to be from Telles in German's fingernails.
"He was fighting for his life," the judge said of the 69-year-old longtime journalist. "It appears from this report that Mr. Telles was waiting … and called (German) over to the side of his own home."
Graham ordered Telles, 45, jailed without bail pending arraignment next Tuesday on a murder charge.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson called German's death "brutal and meaningless" and the case against Telles important for the community. Wolfson said a decision about whether to seek the death penalty will be made in coming months.
Earlier Thursday, police officials described Telles' arrest late Wednesday after a brief police standoff at his home.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Telles was hospitalized for what the sheriff called "self-inflicted" wounds, hours after investigators served a search warrant and confiscated vehicles in the criminal probe of German's killing.
Telles had been a focus of German's reporting about turmoil, including complaints of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles' relationship with a subordinate staffer in the county office that handles property of people who die without a will or family contacts. Telles, a Democrat, went on to lose his bid for reelection in the June primary.
Telles was identified early in the investigation as a person "upset about articles that were being written by German, as an investigative journalist, that exposed potential wrongdoing," Las Vegas Police Capt. Dori Koren said.
In addition to Telles' suspected DNA at the crime scene, Koren said investigators serving a search warrant at Telles' home found shoes and a distinctive wide straw hat.
Koren said the items matched those worn by a person captured on security camera video wearing a blaze orange shirt and walking toward German's home. He showed photos of the shoes and the hat and said they had been been cut up.
A murder weapon has not been found, but Lombardo said police have "distorted" video that shows the attack. He said investigators were attempting to enhance it.
Investigators said a distinctive maroon GMC Yukon Denali SUV was seen driving around German's neighborhood Sept. 2, the morning of the killing, stopping several times. That vehicle, registered to Telles' wife, departed Telles' home around 9 a.m. and returned around noon, Koren said.
Police believe German was attacked about 11:15 a.m., and his garage door was open.
Telles was questioned by police Wednesday and then returned home, where he ignored reporters' questions as he entered and did not respond to officers at his door until SWAT units and an ambulance arrived in the evening.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles, a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law, won his elected position in 2018, replacing a three-term public administrator. He lost his June party primary to Assistant Public Administrator Rita Reid, who faces a Republican challenger in November. Telles' term expires Dec. 31.
Clark County officials said Thursday that Telles was suspended and banned from county offices or property pending a review of his position as an elected official.
Filed Under: TRENDING Tagged With: Associated Press, Bullying, Crime, death penalty, Family, Focus, Government, Las Vegas, Law, Marriage, Next, Organized Crime, Police, Politics, Property, Walking
Police: Las Vegas Journalist Dies In Stabbing Outside Home
It appears an altercation between Jeff German and another person led to the stabbing, which is believed to be an isolated incident, police said.
A Las Vegas investigative reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a suspect, authorities said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
German died of "multiple sharp force injuries" in a homicide, the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said Sunday.
"We believe the altercation took place outside of the home," Capt. Dori Koren, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, said at a news conference. "We do have some leads. We are pursuing a suspect but the suspect is outstanding."
Police released surveillance images Monday of a possible suspect, although the images don't show the person's full face.
The images show a person wearing a wide straw hat, bright orange reflective long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, gray shoes and carrying a black or dark blue shoulder bag.
Police are asking for the public's help finding any additional surveillance footage as they continue to search for a suspect.
Glenn Cook, the Review-Journal's executive editor, said German had not communicated any concerns about his personal safety or any threats made against him to anyone in the newspaper's leadership.
"The Review-Journal family is devastated to lose Jeff," Cook said in a statement. "He was the gold standard of the news business. It's hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his many years of shining a bright light on dark places."
He was known for his stories about government malfeasance and political scandals and coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 others.
According to the Review-Journal, German held a master's degree from Marquette University and was the author of the 2001 true-crime book "Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss," the story of the death of Ted Binion, heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune.
Filed Under: TRENDING Tagged With: Associated Press, Business, Crime, Family, Gold, Government, Las Vegas, Leadership, Light, Metropolitan police, Music, Organized Crime, Police, Politics, safety, Surveillance
High Number Of Journalists Killed, Attacked In Mexico
Journalists in Mexico are now fleeing, after threats of being killed by the cartel, and a lack of protection by the police.
Migrants are facing a brutal road as they travel through Mexico to reach America.
There is ongoing corruption, desperation and child exploitation at the southern border.
These are the stories that drove Maria de Jesus Peters and her husband Juan de Dios Garcia Davish throughout Chiapas, Mexico — to locations few journalists dare to go.
"I would write Mexico is the nightmare of the American dream," said Peters.
It's a journalistic calling that put their lives in danger.
Video captured Peters covered in blood after being struck while covering a caravan of people heading for the United States.
Davish recalls a brutal attack by police in 2012 while on assignment.
2016 marked their first death threat, coming from a man claiming to be a commander with the Zetas, one of the most dangerous drug cartels in Mexico.
They were scared.
So was their young daughter.
This may be another threat, but this one felt different. Suddenly the two storytellers became the story.
The family was forced to flee on a tourist visa and arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, at the end of June.
The exact number of journalists killed in Mexico this year is disputed.
As many as 13 murders are reported by The Associated Press; that number is likely higher.
This month, the National Human Rights Commission reported four radio station employees were murdered in Chihuahua by an organized crime group.
Jan-Albert Hootsen is on the Committee to Protect Journalists, as a Mexico representative.
"Bluntly put, this is probably going to be either the deadliest or one of the deadliest years in Mexican recent history for journalists," said Hootsen.
She claims impunity levels in Mexico are incredibly high.
"Impunity levels are sky high. You know, Maria de Jesus and Juan de Dios, they have been reporting threats against their life for six years now. Not a single person has been properly investigated," said Hootsen.
He believes the threats are coming from multiple fronts, including corrupt politicians, police, the army and organized crime groups.
"Sometimes they can be just verbal threats. They can be abductions. It can be torture," said Hootsen.
A fate this family fears as time and money run out.
Unable to find protection and legal help in Phoenix to extend their tourist visa, the family boarded a bus to LA where they hope someone will take their case.
NEWSY'S ADI GUAJARDO: What is your biggest fear? What do you think is going to happen if you are not able to find any help here in the United States?
MARIA DE JESUS PETERS: Yes, I feel safe here. But if the doors have to return and who knows if I'll survive it?
The award-winning journalists say going back to Mexico would mark the end of their career in journalism; a passion that's given their life purpose, and now threatens to end it.
Filed Under: TRENDING Tagged With: Arizona, Associated Press, Blood, Committee to Protect Journalists, Crime, Drug Cartels, Family, History, Human rights, Mexico, Money, National, Organized Crime, Phoenix, Police, Radio, Torture, travel, United States
Mexico Arrests Ex-Attorney General In Missing Students Case
Prosecutors also issued a slew of arrest warrants to army members, police officers and gang members in the disappearances of 43 students in Mexico.
Federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested the attorney general in Mexico's previous administration on charges he committed abuses in the investigation of the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college.
Prosecutors also announced they had issued arrest warrants in the case against 20 army soldiers officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police, as well as 14 gang members.
The roundup included the first arrest of a former attorney general in recent history, and one of the biggest mass arrests ever by civilian prosecutors of Mexican army soldiers.
Jesús Murillo Karam served as attorney general from 2012 to 2015, under then President Enrique Peña Nieto. The office of the current attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Murillo Karam was charged with torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance.
In 2020, Gertz Manero said Murillo Karam had been implicated in "orchestrating a massive media trick" and leading a "generalized cover-up" in the case.
The arrest came a day after a commission set up to determine what happened said the army bore at least partial responsibility in the case. It said a soldier had infiltrated the student group involved and the army didn't stop the abductions even though it knew what was happening.
Corrupt local police, other security forces and members of a drug gang abducted the students in the city of Iguala in Guerrero state, although the motive remains unclear eight years later. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
Murillo Karam, under pressure to quickly solve the case, announced in 2014 that the students had been killed and their bodies burned at a garbage dump by members of a drug gang. He called that hypothesis "the historic truth."
But the investigation included instances of torture, improper arrest and mishandling of evidence that has since allowed most of the directly implicated gang members to walk free.
The incident occurred near a large army base, and independent investigations have found that members of the military were aware of what was occurring. The students' families have long demanded that soldiers be included in the investigation.
On Thursday, the truth commission looking into the case said one of the abducted students was a soldier who had infiltrated the radical teachers' college, yet the army did not search for him even though it had real-time information that the abduction was occurring. It said the inaction violated army protocols for cases of missing soldiers.
The defense ministry has not responded to a request for comment.
The soldiers and officers being sought under Friday's warrants — and the other officials, police and gang members — face charges of murder, torture, official misconduct, criminal association and forced disappearance
It was not immediately clear whether all the suspects faced all the charges or if the suspects were among dozens previously arrested and charged during previous investigations.
Prior to reforms in Mexican law, the army had long been allowed to refer soldiers accused of wrongdoing to separate military courts. But soldiers must now by tried in civilian courts, if their offenses involved civilians.
The soldiers being charged served at the base near where the abduction occurred in 2014.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which both Murillo Karam and Peña Nieto belonged to, wrote in its Twitter account that Murillo Karam's arrest "is more a question of politics than justice. This action does not help the victims' families get answers."
Mexican federal prosecutors previously issued arrest warrants for members of the military and federal police as well as Tomás Zeron, who at the time of the abduction headed the federal investigation agency, Mexico's detective agency.
Zeron is being sought on charges of torture and covering up forced disappearances. He fled to Israel, and Mexico has asked the Israeli government for help in his arrest.
Gertz Manero said that in addition to Zeron's alleged crimes connected to the case, he is alleged to have stolen more than $44 million from the Attorney General's Office budget.
The motive for the students' abduction remains a subject of debate.
On Sept. 26, 2014, local police from Iguala, members of organized crime and authorities abducted 43 students from buses. The students periodically commandeered buses for their transportation.
Murillo Karam claimed the students were turned over to a drug gang who killed them, incinerated their bodies at a dump in nearby Cocula and tossed the burned bone fragments into a river.
Later investigations by independent experts and the Attorney General's Office, and corroborated by the truth commission, have dismissed the idea that the bodies were incinerated at the Cocula dump.
There has been no evidence that any of the students could still be alive.
Filed Under: TRENDING Tagged With: Associated Press, budget, Buses, Crime, Government, History, Information, Israel, Law, Media, Mexico, Military, Organized Crime, Police, Politics, State, Students, Torture, Transportation, Twitter
3 Charged In 2018 Killing Of Boston Gangster Whitey Bulger
The charges come nearly four years after Bulger's killing.
Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the 2018 killing of notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The charges against Fotios "Freddy" Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon come nearly four years after Bulger's killing, which raised questions about why the known "snitch" was placed in the West Virginia prison's general population instead of more protective housing. The men were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Authorities have not revealed a possible motive for Bulger's killing in October 2018, which came hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton in West Virginia from a prison in Florida. He had been serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes. Prosecutors allege Geas and DeCologero struck Bulger in the head multiple times, causing his death.
Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and '80s, served as an FBI informant who ratted on his gang's main rival, according to the bureau. He later became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives. Bulger strongly denied ever being a government informant.
The Justice Department has also charged Geas, 55, and DeCologero, 48, with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Geas faces a separate charge of murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence, and McKinnon, 36, is charged separately with making false statements to a federal agent.
Geas and DeCologero were identified as suspects shortly after Bulger's death, according to law enforcement officials at the time, but they remained uncharged as the investigation dragged on for years.
All three were placed in solitary confinement throughout the probe, family members told The Boston Globe. McKinnon's mother told the newspaper that her son, who was Geas' cellmate at the time of Bulger's killing, told her he didn't know anything about the slaying.
Daniel Kelly, an attorney for Geas, said Thursday that the charges aren't a surprise, but don't justify his client's continued placement in solitary confinement.
Emails seeking comment were sent Thursday to an attorney for Bulger's family. It wasn't immediately clear if McKinnon and DeCologero had attorneys to comment on their behalf.
Geas remains in prison in Hazelton. DeCologero is being held in another federal prison facility. McKinnon was released from prison last month after pleading guilty in 2015 to stealing guns from a firearms dealer. He was on federal supervised release when the indictment was handed down, and was arrested Thursday in Florida.
Bulger was the third inmate killed in six months at USP Hazelton, where workers and advocates had long warned of dangerous conditions at the penitentiary nicknamed "Misery Mountain."
Bulger's family sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons and 30 unnamed employees of the prison system over his death, alleging it appeared the gangster was "deliberately sent to his death." A federal judge dismissed the family's lawsuit in January.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., warned him he was about to be indicted.
After more than 16 years on the run and with a $2 million reward on his head, he was captured at age 81 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
He was convicted in 2013 of the 11 slayings, as well as extortion and money-laundering after a sensational racketeering trial.
His transfer to Hazelton was prompted by disciplinary issues, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press in 2018. The official insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to release details. In February 2018, Bulger threatened an assistant supervisor at the prison in Florida, telling her "your day of reckoning is coming."
A prison workers' union official told the AP that year that sending Bulger to the troubled federal penitentiary that housed other New England gangsters was like giving him a "death sentence."
But Bulger never admitted to working for the FBI. Court papers made public in the civil case brought by his family showed that he was interviewed by staff after arriving at Hazelton about whether there were reasons he should be kept out of the general population. An intake screening form signed by Bulger said he answered "no" to questions such as "have you assisted law enforcement agents in any way?"
DeCologero was part of an organized crime gang led by his uncle on Massachusetts' North Shore called the "DeCologero Crew."
He was convicted of buying heroin that was used to try to kill a teenage girl his uncle wanted dead because he feared she "would betray the crew to police." The heroin didn't kill her, so another man broke her neck, dismembered her and buried her remains in the woods, court records say.
Geas was a close associate of the Mafia and acted as an enforcer, but was not an official "made" member because he's Greek, not Italian.
Geas and his brother were sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for their roles in several violent crimes, including the 2003 killing of Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, a Genovese crime family boss in Springfield, Massachusetts. Another mobster ordered Bruno's killing because he was upset he had talked to the FBI, prosecutors said.
Filed Under: TRENDING Tagged With: Associated Press, Boston, Boston Globe, California, Crime, England, Family, FBI, Firearms, Florida, Fugitives, Government, Housing, Justice Department, Law, Mafia, Massachusetts, Men, Organized Crime, Police, Population, Virginia, West Virginia
3rd Body Surfaces Since May Near Lake Mead Swimming Site
The National Park Service did not say how long officials think the corpse was submerged in the Boulder Beach area before it was found Monday.
Another body has surfaced at Lake Mead — this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam recedes because of drought and climate change.
The National Park Service did not say in a statement how long officials think the corpse was submerged in the Boulder Beach area before it was found Monday by people who summoned park rangers.
Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse said Tuesday it was partially encased in mud at the water line of the swimming area along the shore north of Hemenway Harbor marina.
The gender of the dead person was not immediately apparent, Rouse said, and it was too early to tell a time, cause and manner of death. Investigators will review missing persons records as part of the effort, Rouse said.
The corpse was the third found since May as the shoreline retreats at the shrinking reservoir between Nevada and Arizona east of Las Vegas. The lake surface has dropped more than 170 feet since the reservoir was full in 1983. It is now about 30% full.
The coroner said her office was continuing work to identify a man whose body was found May 1 in a rusted barrel in the Hemenway Harbor area and a man whose bones were found May 7 in a newly surfaced sand bar near Callville Bay, more than 9 miles from the marina.
On July 6, the body of a 22-year-old Boulder City woman was found in the water near where she disappeared while riding a personal watercraft. Rouse said it may take several weeks to determine her cause of death.
The case of the body in the barrel was being investigated as a homicide after police said the man had been shot and his clothing dated to the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
The discoveries have prompted speculation about long-unsolved missing person and murder cases dating back decades — to organized crime and the early days of Las Vegas, which is just a 30-minute drive from the lake.
The drop in the lake level comes while a vast majority of peer-reviewed science says the world is warming, mainly because of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Scientists say the U.S. West, including the Colorado River basin, has become warmer and drier in the past 30 years.
Filed Under: SCIENCE/TECH, TRENDING Tagged With: Arizona, Associated Press, Carbon Dioxide, Climate change, Colorado, Crime, Dating, Drought, Gender, Las Vegas, Missing Persons, National, Nevada, Organized Crime, Police, Science, Swimming, Water
Mexico's Capture Of Drug Kingpin Could Be Signal To U.S.
Three days after Mexico's president and President Biden met in the White House, the most wanted target of the U.S. DEA was in Mexican custody.
As Mexican marines closed in on infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero deep in the mountains of his native state of Sinaloa, it was a 6-year-old bloodhound named "Max" who rousted from the undergrowth the man allegedly responsible for the murder of a U.S. DEA agent more than three decades ago.
While the United States' motivation to find Caro Quintero was never in doubt — hence the $20 million reward for information leading to his capture — there was less certainty about the commitment of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had made clear his disinterest in pursuing drug lords.
Yet on Friday, three days after López Obrador and U.S. President Joe Biden met in the White House, the most wanted target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was in Mexican custody.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a statement late Friday that Caro Quintero was arrested for extradition to the U.S. and he would be held at the maximum security Altiplano prison about 50 miles west of Mexico City.
"It seems to me that in the private talks between President Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel (López Obrador) they surely agreed to turning over high-profile drug traffickers again, which had been suspended," said security analyst David Saucedo.
Cooperation between the DEA and Mexico's marines had led to some of the highest-profile captures during previous administrations, but not under López Obrador, Saucedo noted.
Both presidents face domestic pressure to do more against drug traffickers. With Caro Quintero's arrest, "Narcos are being captured again and I believe that clearly it was what was in fact needed," Saucedo said.
Samuel González, who founded the organized crime office in Mexico's Attorney General's Office and now a security analyst, said that to López Obrador's benefit, the arrest "shows evidence that there's no protection of capos" from his administration.
González believes Caro Quintero has long been a thorn in the bilateral relationship, but said that "without doubt" his capture was fruit of the recent negotiations in Washington.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar both expressed gratitude for Mexico's efforts to catch the man blamed for the brutal torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 — a case that brought a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
"This achievement is a testament to Mexico's determination to bring to justice someone who terrorized and destabilized Mexico during his time in the Guadalajara Cartel; and is implicated in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena," Salazar said in a statement late Friday.
Garland said the U.S. government would seek his immediate extradition.
Mexico's navy and Attorney's General Office led the operation deep in the mountains that straddle the border between Sinaloa and Chihuahua states, many miles from any paved road. They found Caro Quintero, with help of "Max," hiding in brush in a place in Sinaloa called San Simon.
Caro Quintero came from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same township as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, which came later. Caro Quintero was one of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel and according to the DEA was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s.
He blamed Camarena for a raid on a huge marijuana plantation in 1984. The next year, Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara, allegedly on orders from Caro Quintero. His tortured body was found a month later.
Caro Quintero was serving a 40-year sentence in Mexico when an appeals court overturned his verdict in 2013. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence, but it was too late — Caro Quintero had been spirited off in a waiting vehicle.
Caro Quintero was added to FBI's 10 most wanted list in 2018 with a $20 million reward for his capture.
López Obrador had previously seemed ambivalent about his case.
Last year, the president said the legal appeal that led to Caro Quintero's release was "justified" because supposedly no verdict had been handed down against the drug lord after 27 years in jail. López Obrador also depicted a later warrant for his re-arrest as an example of U.S. pressure.
"Once he was out, they had to look for him again, because the United States demanded he shouldn't have been released, but legally the appeal was justified," López Obrador said.
Presidential spokesman Jesús Ramírez said at the time, "The president was just saying that it was a legal aberration that the judge had not issued a verdict on Mr. Caro Quintero after 27 years … but he was not defending his release."
Filed Under: POLITICS, TRENDING, US Tagged With: Associated Press, Crime, Drug Enforcement Administration, Extradition, FBI, Government, Information, Joe Biden, Marijuana, Merrick Garland, Mexico, Mountains, Next, Organized Crime, Sinaloa Cartel, State, Torture, United States, Washington
New Zealand Wants a 90% Vaccination Rate. Its Street Gangs May Hold the Key.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Rawiri Jansen, a Maori doctor, had an urgent message for the 150 people, mostly patch-wearing members of New Zealand's plentiful street gangs and their families, who sat before him on a bright Saturday afternoon.
Covid is coming for them, he said. Cases in New Zealand's hospitals are rising rapidly. Soon, dozens of new infections a day might be hundreds or even a thousand. People will die. And vaccination is the only defense. "When your doctors are scared, you should be scared," he said.
By the end of the day, after an exhaustive question-and-answer session with other health professionals, roughly a third of those present chose to receive a dose then and there.
Having abandoned its highly successful "Covid-zero" elimination strategy in response to an outbreak of the Delta variant, New Zealand is now undergoing a difficult transition to trying to keep coronavirus cases as low as possible. On Friday, the country set a target of getting at least 90 percent of the eligible population fully vaccinated — a goal, the highest in the developed world, whose success hinges on persuading people like those who gathered to hear Dr. Jansen.
intensely criticized, including by police leaders.
Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Pfizer and Moderna recipients who are eligible for a booster include people 65 and older, and younger adults at high risk of severe Covid-19 because of medical conditions or where they work. Eligible Pfizer and Moderna recipients can get a booster at least six months after their second dose. All Johnson & Johnson recipients will be eligible for a second shot at least two months after the first.
Can I switch Covid vaccines for a booster?
Yes. The F.D.A. has updated its authorizations to allow medical providers to boost people with a different vaccine than the one they initially received, a strategy known as "mix and match." Whether you received Moderna, Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer-BioNTech, you may receive a booster of any other vaccine. Regulators have not recommended any one vaccine over another as a booster. They have also remained silent on whether it is preferable to stick with the same vaccine when possible.
What underlying medical conditions qualify for a booster shot?
The C.D.C. has said the conditions that qualify a person for a booster shot include: hypertension and heart disease; diabetes or obesity; cancer or blood disorders; weakened immune system; chronic lung, kidney or liver disease; dementia and certain disabilities. Pregnant women and current and former smokers are also eligible.
What occupations are eligible for boosters?
The F.D.A. authorized boosters for workers whose jobs put them at high risk of exposure to potentially infectious people. The C.D.C. says that group includes: emergency medical workers; education workers; food and agriculture workers; manufacturing workers; corrections workers; U.S. Postal Service workers; public transit workers; grocery store workers.
Can I get a flu shot at the same time as a Covid vaccine or booster shot?
Yes. The C.D.C. says the Covid vaccine may be administered without regard to the timing of other vaccines, and many pharmacy sites are allowing people to schedule a flu shot at the same time as a booster dose.
Chris Hipkins, the minister responsible for New Zealand's Covid-19 response, acknowledged earlier this month that the decision to enlist gang leaders was an unusual one.
"Our No. 1 priority here is to stop Covid-19 in its tracks, and that means doing what we need to do to get in front of the virus," he said. "Where we have been able to enlist gang leaders to help with that, and where they have been willing to do so, we have done that."
Some gang leaders have acted independently to help the vaccination effort. They have connected members of their community to health officials, organized events with health professionals like Dr. Jansen, and streamed events on Facebook Live to allow an open forum for questions about rare health risks. In some cases, they have taken vaccines to communities themselves.
"Our community is probably less well informed; they're probably not as health literate," said Mr. Tam, the Mongrel Mob member, who is a former civil servant and who received the border exemption. Constant media criticism has turned them off from reading traditional news outlets, he added.
"They then resort to social media, because they have much greater control," he said. "It's also a space that perpetuates conspiracy theories and false information and all the rest of it." Health advice has to come from trusted individuals and leaders in the community, he said.
In the past week, Mr. Tam has traveled almost the length of the country organizing pop-up vaccination events for members and their communities, as well as coordinating with other chapter leaders to get their members vaccinated, he said.
It was difficult work that put him at personal risk, he said, and that invited intense skepticism from people who thought of gangs only as violent or connected to organized crime.
"Why do we bother?" Mr. Tam said. "We bother because we care about those people that others don't care about, as simple as that. They can talk about my gang affiliation, all the rest of it. But it's that affiliation that allows me to have that penetration, that foot in the door. I can do the stuff that they can't do."
Filed Under: WORLD Tagged With: Agriculture, Blood, Cancer, Communities, Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), COVID-19, Crime, Dementia, Diabetes, Disabilities, Doctors, Drugs, Education, Facebook, Family, Flu, Food, Gangs, Government, Health, Heart disease, Hip-hop, Hospitals, Immune System, Infections, Information, Jobs, Maori, Media, New Zealand, Obesity, Organized Crime, Pfizer, Police, Population, Poverty, Regulators, Social Media, Space, United States, Vaccination and Immunization, Women


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Peter Beinart: Mitt Romney Will Be A Conservative President
Updated 04.24.17 1:06PM ET / Published 11.07.11 12:24PM ET
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The conventional wisdom may say that the Tea Party can't in its right mind embrace Mitt Romney, but Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart says conservative true believers have nothing to fear. "It doesn't matter all that much what Romney really believes, or whether he believes much of anything. Romney will be a very conservative president because that's the only kind of president a Republican can be these days." Without him doing a thing, Romney's administration would be filled with anti-regulation zealots and apologists for corporate interests. "The decisions a presidential administration makes flow from the character of the party itself. And in today's GOP, that character is very, very conservative."
Read it at The Daily Beast


TFrame is a named container for components and very similar to TForms. Their unique ability is that they can be embedded into forms or other frames in the designer. As forms they are stored in two files: the code is stored in .pas file and the design in the corresponding .lfm file.
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package ru.org.linux.csrf;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestDataValueProcessor;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.util.Map;

import static ru.org.linux.csrf.CSRFProtectionService.CSRF_ATTRIBUTE;
import static ru.org.linux.csrf.CSRFProtectionService.CSRF_INPUT_NAME;

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// Thanks to http://blog.eyallupu.com/2012/04/csrf-defense-in-spring-mvc-31.html for the idea
//
@Component("requestDataValueProcessor")
public class CSRFRequestDataValueProcessor implements RequestDataValueProcessor {
  private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(CSRFRequestDataValueProcessor.class);

  @Override
  public String processAction(HttpServletRequest request, String action) {
    return action;
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  @Override
  public String processFormFieldValue(HttpServletRequest request, String name, String value, String type) {
    return value;
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  @Override
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In addition to the services provided by our subsidiary companies, KSA maintains an extensive network of subconsulting firms that work as team members with our firm to provide a full range of services to our clients on our projects. Our goal is to provide KSA's clients with as many of the required additional services under one agreement as possible. This has reduced the contracting load for our clients and streamlined their projects. Examples of services that can be provided through our network of subconsultants include geotechnical engineering and construction material testing, wildlife hazard assessments, wetlands surveys, and cultural resource investigations.
KSA provides safety related services to the oil & gas, energy, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, chemical, food, and mining industries. Our services include safety training, safety program implementation, and much more. For more information on the services that we can provide for your industry, please see the following webpage or contact us at 877.572.3647.
BLOC Design-Build, LLC -- was founded in 2001 and provides our clients with the options of utilizing alternative project delivery methods such as design-build for their projects. BLOC's projects have included the replacement of a concrete bridge, the construction of 20 miles of 20" water transmission main and pumping station, a new sanitary landfill, and other projects such as the demolition of an outdated elevated water storage tank. In addition, BLOC designs, installs, and maintains SCADA systems for water and wastewater systems across the region. We encourage you to visit BLOC's website by clicking on the logo to the left to learn more about BLOC.


A beautiful medium soft knitting yarn, available as undyed 50g balls and spun to aran 3 fold. Produced from 100% Ryeland and Coloured Ryeland wool.
Our knitted throws and blankets are made from 100% undyed Ryeland and Coloured Ryeland wool. The fleeces of the sheep are scoured, carded and finished just over the border in a Welsh weaving mill producing a lightweight yet warm product.
Our woven cushion covers are available in three designs complementing our range of throws and rugs. Made with 100% undyed Ryeland and Coloured Ryeland wool price includes cushion insert.
We try hard to keep our products as affordable as possible, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to purchase quality knitting yarn and products.
To help achieve this we sell directly to customers through our website and word of mouth. If you would like to purchase any of our products please email us stating your order and contact details. We are able to take payment via PayPal, credit/debit card, bank transfer and also cheque.
Once we receive your order we will issue an invoice and payment instructions. All goods are shipped within 3 working days of payment received using a tracked delivery system.


The noseband is designed with an extra wide noseband to allow for minimum pressure. The noseband has a pullback effect and extra soft lining of the lower jaw.
The handmade pullback English noseband is padded with soft leather to protect the horse as much as possible.


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College Settles FTC Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit
This week, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that Professional Career Development Institute, LLC, doing business as Ashworth College, agreed to an $11 million settlement for allegedly engaging in deceptive advertising in violation of the FTC Act. Specifically, in its Complaint, the FTC alleged that Ashworth College misrepresented, among other things, that credits earned through its courses could be easily transferred to other schools, and that completion of its courses would provide the adequate credentials and training for students to seamlessly transfer careers.
How did Ashford College perpetrate the alleged deceptive advertising scheme?
Ashworth College ran into problems as a result of the systemic ways in which it made its alleged misrepresentations to current and prospective students. Ashworth College maintained a staff of "Admissions Advisers" that in reality were professional sales representatives who were trained to use high-pressure tactics to persuade consumers to enroll in various courses, and who otherwise aggressively represented to consumers the alleged false benefits of its programs. Specifically, the FTC alleged that the misrepresentations occurred in connection with Ashworth College touting the ability of its courses to provide students with the comprehensive training and credentials necessary to switch careers or obtain new jobs. However, in many instances, the programs were not recognized by state licensing boards and, therefore, did not meet the basic educational requirements set for careers in those fields. Additionally, Ashworth College representatives and promotional material also represented that credits earned through its courses could be easily transferred to other schools, despite the fact that the vast majority of schools only allow transfers of credits from regionally accredited schools, while Ashworth College was only nationally accredited.
The Deceptive Advertising Settlement with the FTC Includes the Following Prohibitions:
No further representations that Ashworth College course credits are recognized or accepted by other schools;
No further representations that Ashworth programs provide all required training or credentials necessary to switch careers or obtain a job in a new field;
No further representations that completing Ashworth programs will enable students to qualify for vocational licenses without any further training or experience.
Protect Yourself from FTC Scrutiny
We continue to provide our blog readers with reports on the FTC's aggressive pursuit of companies that engage in deceptive advertising. The steady stream of complaints, judgments and settlements reinforce the fact that marketers that tout the benefits of their products/services must ensure that these representations comply with applicable state and federal advertising laws.
If you are interested in learning more about this topic, or if you have been served with legal process relating to deceptive advertising, please e-mail us at info@kleinmoynihan.com or call us at (212) 246-0900.
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The mission of Timberwolf Recreation is to provide recreation companies, programs and facilities for the Northwood University neighborhood with emphasis on meeting scholar needs. Recreation centers operate in seasonal schedules, with program availability additionally affected by Parks' afterschool and summer time camps. Grants are awarded for properly-deliberate trail tasks that help to develop, protect and maintain trails and trail programs that help improve linkages to group, improve livability and person-skill, and are maintained for public recreational use.
These workers may work in camps, aquatic centers, or anyplace else the place there is interest in a single activity. The best cities have a wide range of leisure actions, both indoor and out of doors. Partying is a recreational exercise, and one that (often) makes us completely satisfied and provides us a sense of social connection.
The group fitness courses are included with Recreation Center entry for college kids and non-student contributors. The Metropolis of Calabasas presents all kinds of lessons, packages and providers via the Community Companies Division. Recreation workers lead groups in activities resembling arts and crafts.
Be part of our Board of Administrators, employees and neighborhood in celebrating Out of doors Recreation Champions of our Parkscriptions, Recreation Economy and Fairhaven Park packages. The precise obligations of recreation staff differ tremendously with their job title, their level of coaching, and the state they work in.
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The history of hobbies is very old. The aim of the Ranch at Dairy Knoll (Formerly Belvedere-Tiburon Recreation) is to provide quality recreational and educational packages that encourage and enrich the lives of youngsters and adults in the community while maintaining a self-supporting agency.
Household fun activities are also obtainable throughout the year akin to annual egg hunt, Woodlawn facility, picnic shelter rentals, walking path with grownup fitness tools, and the Playground 2000 for the little ones. The Redlands Recreation Division of the High quality of Life Department maintains high quality recreation services and companies, and facilitates leisure opportunities to encourage healthy life selections that foster healthy dwelling.
Thus, people who had labored from daybreak to nightfall on farms in rural England, moved to the large metropolis, acquired jobs in factories, and had leisure time away from their jobs. Our department is well-known throughout the upstate as a pacesetter in youth and senior packages with state-of-the-art amenities.
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The Metropolis of Mauldin took its first steps in establishing a Parks & Recreation Department in early 1967, when it bought 16.8 acres on Hyde Circle, later renamed Springfield Park. A day of fresh air and solar, with family and pals is a supreme recreational exercise.
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We are always looking for new talents of all sorts.
Our goal is to accomplish a good name for ourselves as a great clan & Brotherhood.
Our main motto is loyalty we ask that you wear our tags and make us your primary platoon.
Loyalty, A willing to provide cover on ground as well as the air. if you see a member or group in need you help. building your KDR and W/L ratio will come in time. But building a bond is priceless.
Must Be atleast 21 & older to join we are all grown men and women here and do not feel the need to babysit & or have to scream over teamchat to get a msg across, so please have enough respect to let one another talk when in battle or tight situations.
What we are also interested in is Competitive team players who would like to participate in clan matches against other clans.
Leave the ego trips in the bag and prepare to play as a unit. Anonymous was founded by Trapperdon83 in 2012 after riding with the same guys for years in games like MAG-Black OPS-Medal Of Honor- & many more.
Wearing & making our platoon tags your mandatory.
Sopmod--Engineer/Sniper Recon specialist & beacon Specialist.
all soldiers mention above are teamplayers and will group up and play if interested in joining with us to do battle.
we all have premium and are willing to teach players how to play.
How many will be out when BF4 starts beta?


Infosys Co-founder Narayana Murthy has said there must be a level-playing field between Indian and foreign investors. Speaking at a technology and entrepreneurship conference, he added, "Today... it's in favour of foreign investors and is somewhat unhealthy for the country." Government policies have not encouraged Indian entrepreneurs to get more domestic capital, he further said.