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Northern Cape Backs CR17
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa & Senzo Mchunu whose name appears on the CR17 Supporters' Top 6 List
The Address by the Chairperson of the ANC in the Northern Cape Comrade Zamani Saul at the Cadres Assembly.
Deputy Chair of the Province
Deputy President of the ANC, comrade Cyril Ramaphosa
Comrade Senzo Mchunu
Leadership of the Revolutionary Tripartite Alliance
Leadership of the ANC Leagues
BEC Members
ANC members present
Today I will say exactly what I said ten years back, in 2007 September, when the then Deputy President, Jacob Zumba visited the province as part his ANC presidential campaign. The reason I decided to take such an approach is because of three stark similarities between then and now.
The first similarity is the host town, the 2007 event was in kimberley, just as this one.
The second similarity is that the then deputy president of the ANC was under severe attack by those who did not want him to ascend to the position of the President of the ANC.
The third similarity is that we are just a week away from nomination branch general meetings as in 2007.
In my 2007 address at the open air arena I highlighted the fact that it is an established tradition in the ANC that the Deputy President of the ANC is the next in line for the position of the President. The then Deputy President agreed with this assertion in his follow-up address.
The 1949 ANC National Conference unanimously adopted a blueprint which seeks to clarify the election of president. This was after a fierce battle for leadership between Dr Xuma and Dr Moroka. The 1949 National Conference overwhelmingly resolved that 'From now henceforth, the Deputy President of the organization shall preferably succeed an outgoing president'. This resolution sought to guide the attitude of ANC members in exercising their democratic rights when electing the President.
That is the reason why in 1952, one of the Deputy Presidents, Chief Albert Luthuli was elected as the ANC President. The deputy to Luthuli, OR Tambo was elected as the President in 1969. The deputy to OR Tambo, was Nelson Mandela, and he was elected as President in 1991. The Deputy to Nelson Mandela, was Thabo Mbeki, and was elected President in 1997. The deputy to Thabo Mbeki was Jacob Zuma, and was elected president of the ANC in 2007.
From 1952 – 2007, through democratic practice the ANC and its structures remained faithful to the 1949 conference resolution to ensure smooth transition of leadership. Now in 2017 as the Northern Cape we pledge to remain faithful to that resolution. Hence our 08th Provincial Conference resolved that we support comrade Cyril Ramaphosa to be the next President of the ANC. He is next in line. Except for that, he is a politically astute leader with immense capabilities. Comrade Cyril was elected in 1991 Durban Conference as the 13th Secretary General of the ANC. As such, as the Northern Cape we are geared-up to have comrade Cyril Ramaphosa elected as the 13th President of the ANC.
The tradition of ensuring smooth transition of leadership in the ANC has been erased in the minds of those infected by the Gupta virus. So comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, if you want to be the president of the ANC, you must be prepared to fight for it. If you are prepared for this battle, which at times will be very ugly, as the Northern Cape we are combat-ready to stand with you.
Towards the Polokwane Conference in 2007 there were four emerging and disturbing trends that emboldened us to take a stance against the Thabo Mbeki establishment.
One, was the attempt to block the deputy president from ascending to the position of the president,
Two, the third term phenomenon,
Three, the use of state security apparatus to discredit individuals and to fight factional battles in the ANC, and lastly
The erosion of the role of the ANC as the strategic centre of power.
History has got a tendency of repeating itself, as today we are confronted with exactly the four disturbing trends in their worst form. Once again, there are tendencies to try and block a deserving and capable deputy President from becoming the President. Once again comrades, there are tendencies to introduce a disguised third term through crude manipulation of gender struggles within the movement. We know of genuine revolutionary efforts to emancipation the women of this country from triple oppression. Nelson Mandela introduced the policy of 30% representation of women and Thabo Mbeki increased it to 50%. These were genuine efforts towards emancipation of women and not this classic manipulation.
Once again, state security apparatus are hard at work to discredit those who oppose the disguised third term attempt, we are not going to be intimidated. Once again comrades, Luthuli House has been reduced to a joke by the Gupta family and the beneficiaries of their largesse. The Guptas are now the strategic centre of power. This goes against the essence of the Polokwane Resolution and it vulgarises the ANC. Hence, as the Northern Cape, we call for the arrest of the Guptas and their acolytes.
Any hope to redeem the movement and to ensure that we recapture the imaginations of the people of this country lies with comrade Cyril Ramaphosa. Comrade Cyril was the General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and co-founder of COSATU. In 1991 he was elected the Secretary General of the ANC and led with distinction the ANC team during negotiations for the democratic South Africa. In 1994-1996 he was the chairperson of the Constituent Assembly that produced the world renowned democratic Constitution and in 2010 he was the Deputy Chairperson of the National Planning Commission that developed the 2030 vision for South Africa.
The project of transforming South Africa into a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous country is crafted in the sweat and capable hands of comrade Cyril Ramaphosa. Today, there are very few living leaders in the ANC that can claim such an extra-ordinary political craftsmanship. This prompted Nelson Mandela in 1996 when reflecting on the work of the Constituent Assembly to say that 'comrade Cyril is one of the most capable leaders of the ANC, in him I have full confidence. The future of the ANC will always be bright in the capable hands of such young, brilliant comrades'.
As the Northern Cape we should be part of realizing this prophetic assertion by Nelson Mandela, by protecting our movement and intensifying our support for comrade Cyril Ramaphosa. We must protect the movement against the Gupta family, as everything that they put their corrosive hands on is destined for a dustbin, Eskom, SAA, Bell Pottinger, PWC are classical examples. Comrades, we don't want our glorious movement to be thrown into a dustbin of history. We will have to wage a Stalingrad battle to save our movement against a disguised third term that seeks to hand over the ANC to the Guptas. Therefore:
We will engage and defeat the corrupt Gupta Stormtroppers in the Northern Cape in a hand to hand political combat,
We will engage and defeat them in a street to street political combat,
We will engage and defeat them in a corner to corner political combat,
We will engage and defeat them in a house to house political combat, and
We will engage and defeat them everywhere.
The time to reclaim the glory of our movement is now and that should start with the Northern Cape, we invite all ANC members to be part of this campaign.
Amandla.
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kobedi says:
Seasoned Politicians left right and centre are struggling to articulate why they want South Africans to put their hopes and dreams on their candidate, instead they rely on so called ANC Tradition.
So tradition overrides suitability?
Pinky Khoabane says:
There's double-speak though. One minute it's ANC tradition but in there is a whole lot of other issues raised – Guptas, corruption, state capture, etc. So which is it really and what's it's relevance to NDZ who has no record of corruption or state capture against her….
sipho sithole says:
Hahahaha "Chomi yabana" in Mdu Masilela's voice….
Mohale says:
correction, not Nothern Cape but the clique led by Zamani Saul, backs Chomi ya bana.
Jeff Koorbanally says:
I agree,the branches are very divided in this proovince, as the case in WP.
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Matrons, Sisters, Nurses and the Staff of the Nursing Services and other Services pertaining to Hospitals and Nursing, and Civilians of either sex serving regularly or temporarily under the orders, directions or supervision of any of the above-mentioned Forces.
The PVC isequivalent to the Medal of Honor in the United States and the Victoria Cross in the United Kingdom
History of the Highest Gallantry Award- Param Veer Chakra
The medal was designed by Mrs. Savitri Khanolankar (born Eva Yuonne Linda Maday-de-Maros to a Hungarian father and Russian mother), who was married to an Indian Army officer. By sheer coincidence, the first PVC was posthumously awarded to her son-in-law, Major Somnath Sharma for his bravery in the Kashmir operations in November 1947.
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Q: Weblogic Preprosessor in Maven I have some Java code that is currently packaged in the BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform.
My task is to migrate the structure of the project (without actually touching the code) to a maven structure to be packaged from command line (or from eclipse m2e).
Problem is, the code has some annotations like this:
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            "http://www.banamex.com.mx/OtorgamientoPension/cancelacion")
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That create some configuration inside the war (a mysterious meta-inf inside the web-inf and plenty of xml).
Please notice the @Policies which is from a WebLogic library. It creates some security-related config and that's (alongside the ws stuff) is what i want to generate.
Is there a way to process this from maven?
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So far I have tried with the weblogic-maven-plugin. It didn't work (also, due to internal policies, the not-so-straightforward way of installing this plugin is not an option).
I'm trying to find a vague reference a co-worker gave me about certain "jtools" compiler... but can't find anything that comes with that name and have some relation with WebLogic.
So the @Policies annotation is still a problem.
Right now I'm looking for a eclipse-plugin that does this, based on the premise that was the IDE who process that annotations.

For the wsdl issue, I find out that the namespace definition whas wrong. I corrected it and now it's working. I used the jaxb2-maven-plugin because I have no knowledge of jaxws-maven-plugin and I already had the config of the former.

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Our commitment to Roma, Sinti and Yenish
The Society for Threatened Peoples, together with representatives of the Roma, Sinti and Yenish, campaigns for their rights to be guaranteed in Switzerland. Their campaign "Stop Antiziganism" is committed to increasing respect and recognition as well as reducing prejudice and discrimination.
In 1998, Switzerland ratified the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. To date in Switzerland, minority linguistic groups such as Yenish, Sinti and Manouches as well as members of the Jewish community are recognized as national minorities. A request for recognition of the Roma as a national minority is currently under consideration.
The STP and its partner organizations note that action is still required on the Framework Convention if it is to be successfully implemented in Switzerland. Both the Sinti and the Yenish as well as the Roma are, although for centuries part of Swiss reality, treated as foreign bodies and are exposed to institutionalized discrimination, prejudice and racism.
Problem areas: politics, media, education and policing
For the ominous combination of institutionalised discrimination and cultural stigmatization of Roma, Sinti and Yenish, the term "antiziganism" has been developed in history and the social sciences. The focus is on the following problematic areas:
In many media there is generalized and biased reporting, in which Roma, Sinti and Yenish have little say on the matter.
Especially in the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of discriminatory and racist comments made publicly against Roma, Sinti and Yenish – even by politicians.
All three minorities face an above-average number of police checks and are subject to unnecessary harassment.
The lack of pitches and transit sites prevents the travelling minority groups from maintaining and developing their cultural lifestyle.
The political involvement of the three minorities is inadequate.
The history and cultures of the Roma, Sinti and Yenish are hardly taught in Swiss schools. In particular, the imparting of the problematic Swiss "gypsy policy" of the past is not a compulsory subject. The consequence of this lack of knowledge is that stereotypes and prejudices still continue, even now, to be passed on without questioning these unjustified views.
This is what the STP does
Together with representatives of the Roma, Sinti and Yenish, the STP campaigns against antiziganism and for equality. Thus, the STP coordinates joint campaigns for more respect and recognition. On a political level, the STP campaigns with statements, interventions and lobbying for their rights. Finally, the STP sensitizes via public and media relations for the situation of the Roma, Sinti and Yenish in Switzerland and reminds people of the impact of the Swiss "Gypsy policy". In addition, the STP co-initiated the Swiss Confederation's action plan for Yenish, Sinti and Roma and participated in the meetings in an advisory capacity. The STP will accompany the implementation of the action plan with a critical eye.
Yenish and Sinti in Switzerland
The Yenish and Sinti in Switzerland have recently been able to record important successes. The Society for Threatened Peoples has supported them along the way.
In Switzerland, there are 35,000 Yenish, 2,000 to 3,000 of whom are actively travelling. In addition, there are several hundred Sinti with a mostly travelling lifestyle. For them, 2016 was a good year: on the occasion of the Feckerchilbi in Bern, Federal Councillor Alain Berset spoke the words long awaited for by the two minorities: in future, Yenish and Sinti are no longer to be referred to by the vague term "Travellers", but by their own names. They have thus achieved their goal of being recognized as national minorities in Switzerland.
Coming to terms with the past
The minorities, together with the STP, also achieved success where coming to terms with the past in an official capacity is concerned. In 2016, the Federal Council reaffirmed in its reply to an interpellation of Barbara Gysi (SP) to commemorate the victims of the "Aid Organisation for Children of the Country Road", that the memory of the problematic aspects of our history must be maintained. Therefore, the Federal Council is ready to consider supporting a third party's effort to erect a memorial. Between 1926 and 1972, the "Aid Organisation for Children of the Country Road" removed around 600 children from their Yenish parents to "eradicate" the Yenish culture.
During the Second World War, persecuted Yenish, Sinti and Roma were not accepted in Switzerland – many of them died in concentration camps. Until 1972, the Swiss border was closed to foreign "gypsies", and until 1990 the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police had a "Gypsy Register", in which all apprehended Roma, Sinti and Yenish in Switzerland were registered with fingerprints and photographs.
More pitches and transit sites
The lack of pitches and transit sites for the travelling Yenish, Sinti and Roma has increased in the last 15 years. This leads to the fact that those affected can only maintain and develop their travelling way of life under difficult conditions. The STP will continue to support all the travelling minorities, so that enough sites can be created.
Alain Berset, federal council member, visited the 2016 Feckerchilbi, a traditional meeting of Yenish and travellers, in Bern. Photo: Andreas von Gunten / Picture library Radgenossenschaft
Roma in Switzerland
It is estimated that around 80,000 to 100,000 Roma are living in Switzerland. Hardly anyone knows who they are. And when they reveal themselves, they still encounter prejudices and open racism.
"As a Roma you live well in Switzerland, as long as you are not outed." This sentence is the start of a testimonial video of Swiss Roma produced by the STP in regards to the International Day of Roma on 8 April 2017. The Roma have been resident in Switzerland for 600 years. They have their own culture and language, they are well integrated and most of them hold Swiss citizenship. But prejudices and stereotypes are still passed on without questioning this unjustified attitude. Thus, racist comments against Roma in politics and in public are growing; the media still report mainly in a generalizing way; Roma are often arbitrarily stopped and checked by the police. And coming to terms with the history of the Roma in Switzerland in an official capacity, the former being characterized by exclusion and rejection, is still pending.
Waiting for recognition
The draft of the Action Plan of the Federal Council under the leadership of the Federal Office of Culture to improve the situation of Yenish, Sinti and Roma from the end of 2016 for the first time recognizes the Roma as part of the cultural diversity of Switzerland. Similarly, the Confederation acknowledges its obligation to ensure conditions which allow the Roma to live a lifestyle appropriate to their culture. At the same time, the Federal Council is willing to consider the issue of recognition of Romani as a non-territorially rooted language within the meaning of the European Language Charter in the next periodic report. Nevertheless: the recognition of the Roma in accordance with the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities is still pending. To this end, Roma organizations submitted a petition to the Directorate for International Law in 2015.
Racist statements are increasing
From the political side, the STP and the Roma organizations are observing an increase in racist statements against Roma. For example, in 2016, the STP, together with the Roma organizations, filed twice against two politicians for violating the racist criminal code. The STP calls for politicians and governments to condemn racist statements against Roma with the same level of clarity as they are rightly doing in the face of racist comments against other minorities in Switzerland.
Reappraisal of history
The relationship between Switzerland and the Roma community is characterized by centuries of exclusion and rejection. Until 1972, the Swiss border was closed to foreign "gypsies", and until 1990 the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police had a "Gypsy Register", in which all apprehended Roma, Sinti and Yenish in Switzerland were registered with fingerprints and photographs. During the Second World War, persecuted Yenish, Sinti and Roma were not accepted in Switzerland – many of them died in concentration camps. A public review of this gloomy chapter in Swiss history is still pending. The result is that stereotypes and prejudices continue to exist in the present. With its public and media relations, the STP and its partners want to ensure that the Swiss "Gypsy policy" becomes known and is part of the compulsory curriculum.
Worldwide, the 27th of January is observed as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. A frequently forgotten aspect is that thousands of Roma were also persecuted in the Nazi era. At least 500,000 Roma and Sinti were systematically murdered during the Second World War. In one night alone, from the 2nd to the 3rd of August 1944, almost 3000 people died in the liquidation of the so-called "Gypsy Camp" within the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
For this reason, the European Commission declared the 2nd of August to be Roma Holocaust Memorial Day in 2015. In 2017, the STP supported a motion that called for Switzerland to recognize this day as well – and thus to take a stand against forgetting the Roma Holocaust. This request was denied on the grounds that the day of remembrance on the 27th of January includes activities, financed by the FDHA and the FDFA, that specifically address the persecution of Roma, Sinti and Yenish.
The STP finds this decision regrettable and calls on Switzerland, during its chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) from 2017 to 2018, to reinforce remembrance of the Roma Holocaust and thus to take an important stand against racism and discrimination. The purpose of the IHRA, which has 31 member states, is to promote research and education pertaining to the Holocaust, as well as to keep the memories of the victims alive via commemorative events and memorials. This must also occur with regard to Roma and Sinti – "against forgetting" should apply to all persecuted groups.
The demands of the STP
Additional efforts are needed for the equality of Roma, Sinti and Yenish in Switzerland. They relate to the recognition, the infrastructure for travellers, policing, commitment to Antiziganism as well as information and education.
These are the demands of the STP as part of its campaign "Stop Antiziganism":
Recognition of the Roma: the Roma are to be recognized as a national minority within the meaning of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and Romani, the language of the Roma and Sinti, must be recognized as a non-territorial minority language.
Infrastructure: there must be sufficient pitches and transit sites available for all travelling communities. There is no need to prohibit foreign travelling groups.
Antiziganism: antiziganism is to be recognized as a specific form of racism and has to be publicly condemned. Clear measures must be taken to combat antiziganism in politics, media and society.
Racial Profiling: immediate action must be taken against racial profiling of the Yenish, Sinti and Roma.
Politics: the systematic representation of the Yenish, Sinti and Roma communities in the decision-making processes at federal, cantonal and communal levels is to be ensured.
Education: the history and cultures of the Yenish, Sinti and Roma must be systematically integrated into the curriculum and cantonal teaching materials. The Swiss "Gypsy Policy" must be publicly dealt with.
Holocaust: August 2, the International Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, is to be recognized as a memorial day to take a stand against the continuing discrimination of the Yenish, Sinti and Roma.
Culture: the cultures of the Yenish, Sinti and Roma must be promoted and recognized as an integral and relevant part of the cultural diversity of Switzerland.
Personal contact at the STP:
Christoph Wiedmer, Co-Director
christoph.wiedmer@gfbv.ch
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City, ancient Palestine.
It occupied a strategic location at the crossing of military and trade routes; it was also famous as a battlefield and is thought to be the biblical Armageddon. The first town was built early in the 4th millennium BC. It was captured by the Egyptian king Thutmose III с 1468 BC. It later passed to the Israelites, and King Solomon rebuilt it as a military centre. British Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby defeated Ottoman forces near the site in 1918.
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important town of ancient Palestine, overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon (Valley of Jezreel). It lies about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Haifa in northern Israel. Megiddo's strategic location at the crossing of two military and trade routes gave the city an importance far beyond its size. It controlled a commonly used pass on the trading route between Egypt and Mesopotamia, and it also stood along the northwest-southeast route that connected the Phoenician cities with Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley. It is thought that the word Armageddon is derived from Megiddo, since the prefix har means "hill" in Hebrew; hence, Armageddon means "Hill of Megiddo."
Excavations of the site were conducted by archaeologists of the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft (1903–05) and of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (1925–39). The excavations have shown that the first town there was built in the early 4th millennium BC. Megiddo was captured by the Egyptian king Thutmose III about 1468. The Israelites eventually took Megiddo, along with other cities of the area, and King Solomon rebuilt the city as a military centre; a number of the stables that have been excavated at Megiddo probably date to this time. A mutilated inscribed stele records the occupation of Megiddo by Sheshonk I, who became king of Egypt about 935 BC. King Ahaziah of Judah died at Megiddo about 842 BC, and King Josiah of Judah also died there (609 BC) while opposing the advance of the Egyptian king Necho II toward Assyria. The last traceable remains at Megiddo are from about 450 BC. Nearly 400 Phoenician ivories have been found at the site, showing influences from various culture areas of the Middle East.
In modern times Megiddo gave its name to an important battle won by the British general Edmund Allenby, who commanded the British forces in Palestine during the latter part of World War I. In September 1918, at a number of points near Megiddo, Allenby's cavalry cut off the northward retreat of the Turkish 7th and 8th armies after his infantry had defeated them in the coastal plain. His well-conceived operations led to the final defeat of the Turks in the Middle East.
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Atari intended for the Atari VCS to be used in homes and as a platform, with the unit being able to play multiple games on the console. Nick Montfort, author of "Racing the Beam: The Atari Computer System (Platform Studies)," states that it was affordable at the time, and it offered the flexibility of interchangeable cartridges. He goes on to say, "the popularity of the Atari VCS- which was the dominant system for years and remained widely used for more than a decade- supported the creation of nearly one thousand games, many of which established techniques, mechanics, or entire genres that continue to thrive today on much more technologically advanced platforms."
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What was unique about the console was its use of the Television Interface Adaptor, or TIA for short, which is a television that is made up of horizontal lines illuminated by an electron beam that traces each line by moving across and down a picture tube.
Programmers must worry about having each frame of the picture ready to be displayed at the correct time, whereas VCS programmers had to make sure that each individual line of each frame was ready (Monfort). The Atari VCS also had a Rockwell 6532 RIOT (RAM, I/O, timer), and a generic 4050 CMOS hex buffer.
The Atari VCS played a huge role in the history of game consoles, companies, and games. In a Business Insider article by Matt Weinberger, the director of the Videogame History Museum, Sean Kelly, was interviewed. He stated that, "Atari started it all. Atari is what brought video games into the mainstream." The console is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware with separate cartridges containing games, instead of having a console which held all games within it. We've kept this system to this day but with more advanced technology. Today we have CDs, which we place game code on and use to put inside consoles.
"The VCS soon gained massive popularity as people realized it could play much more varied games than just variants of Pong, the game 'Adventure' changed gaming forever, as it unlocked a game with a virtual world larger than a single screen" (computinghistory.org). Large companies, such as Activision, grew out of the VCS. Activision raised the bar on the console's game quality. Their major titles included "Space Shuttle – A journey into Space," "Private Eye" and "Pitfall," one of the very first running and jumping multi-screen games.
The VCS left such an impression on the game industry and gamers that just recently a crowdfunding campaign was held in June 2018 to help build a re-imagined modern day Atari VCS. The console is intended to allow gamers to play games and stream while also being an open platform for creativity and customization. Will the console make history again? We'll find out soon enough.
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PYONGYANG, North Korea: This picture shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) and his wife Ri Sol Ju (left) watching a performance for celebrating the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il at the Mansudae Art Theatre in Pyongyang.-AFP
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's wife made her first public appearance in over a year, state media reported yesterday, after speculation her absence could be coronavirus-related, or because of a potential pregnancy. Ri Sol Ju, believed to be in her early 30s, joined her husband at a concert commemorating the birthday of his father and predecessor Kim Jong Il.
The anniversary celebrating the second member of the Kim dynasty to lead the now nuclear-armed North Korea is known as the Day of the Shining Star, and is one of the country's most important public holidays. North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper published photos of the couple smiling broadly and applauding the performers at the Mansudae Art Theatre in Pyongyang. As the General Secretary came to the auditorium of the theatre together with his wife Ri Sol Ju amid the welcome music, all the participants burst into thunderous cheers of 'Hurrah!'" the official KCNA news agency reported.
None of the audience members or performers wore facemasks in the pictures. Ri was last seen in January 2020 at an event for the Lunar New Year holiday. Her extended absence prompted questions over her health, whether she might be in seclusion to avoid any risk of coronavirus infection, or pregnant-the couple are believed to have three children.
The impoverished country has been under self-imposed isolation since closing its borders in January last year, to try to protect itself from the pandemic that has swept the world since first emerging in neighboring China. Kim has repeatedly insisted that the country has had no coronavirus cases, although outside experts doubt those assertions. Yesterday's report and photos came a day after South Korea's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers that Ri was "playing well with her kids", and was refraining from public activities due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Q: PHP file_put_contents not working WITH 777 permissions and Apache permissions I'm currently trying to use file_put_contents to update a JSON file of mine. This is what my PHP currently looks like:
$result = file_put_contents('Resources/logs/file.json', $newJsonString);
if($result === true) {
    echo "true";
} else {
    echo "false";
}

However, it always returns false. Nevertheless, I have set the directory permissions to 777 for BOTH Resources and logs. I have also set file permissions to 777 for file.json.
The path is also correct, as file_get_contents works with the same path from the same file.
To further prove my point, I have also ran sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/core/Resources/ to give permission to the directory Resources (and everything within) to be written to by the user www-data (which I'm assuming would allow the JSON file to be written to by running the PHP script online).
I don't know if this would be helpful, but I'm also running this PHP script by sending POST data to it via JavaScript from a different server/website.
Why in the world is file_put_contents STILL returning false and not writing to the file? It always makes the JSON file blank after it is ran.
Supplementary Code:
This is the whole chunk of code, including the file_put_contents section:
$jsonString = file_get_contents('Resources/logs/file.json');
$data = json_decode($jsonString);
$data->coins = $data->coins + $coins;
$data->uses = $data->uses + 1;
print_r($data);
$newJsonString = json_encode($data);
$result = file_put_contents('Resources/logs/file.json', $newJsonString);
if($result === true) {
    echo "true";
} else {
    echo "false";
}

...and this is the JSON file:
{"coins":"0","uses":"0"}

Any help would be highly appreciated, I've been trying to fix this issue for one whole day already.
Edit 1:
I forgot to mention this, but this code was working perfectly fine yesterday for about an hour. Then all of a sudden it stopped working and started making the JSON file blank.
Edit 2:
I have just cleared the Apache error log, and the script it working again (which is good). However, file_put_contents is still returning false. What is going on...
Edit 3:
Thanks to Laurent Wartel I have updated my if statement for file_put_contents and it seems like it is no longer returning false.
if($result === false) {
    echo "Error";
} else {
    echo "All good, $result bytes written";
}

A: Try to write a string to your file. This way you can determine if your problem resides on the file writing or the content generation:
file_put_contents('Resources/logs/file.json', 'Hello, file');

Also, I'd add a LOCK_EX flag to the file write call to make sure you are not running into concurrency issues.

A: From the doc PHP: file_put_contents - Manual

This function returns the number of bytes that were written to the
  file, or FALSE on failure. Warning
This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a
  non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on
  Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the
  return value of this function.

Modify your code...
if($result === false) {
    echo "Error";
} else {
    echo "All good, $result bytes written";
}

A: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
This function returns the number of bytes that were written to the file, or FALSE on failure.
You can't user the identical comparison operator to check for success. Both of this alternatives are valid:
if($result) {
    echo "true";
} else {
    echo "false";
}

or
if($result === false) {
    echo "false";
} else {
    echo "true";
}


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4.27.2017 Day in History
April 27, 2017 Daily Links
Thirteen centuries and six years ago, expansive Islamic forces began what would be a many-centuries occupation of much of the Iberian Peninsula; four hundred and seventy-eight years before the present pass, in what Colombia, Spanish interlopers reestablished a settlement on what would become Bogota; just over a quarter century later, forty four years after Magellan's arrival in the region, in 1565, the Spanish Empire established its first outpost in the Philippines at Cebu; one hundred two years later exactly, in 1667, North across the English Channel, a nearly destitute and deathly sick John Milton sells his copyright of Paradise Lost for £10; two hundred eighty years ahead of today, a boy baby bounced into the world on his way to a rise and fall as writer and historian Edward Gibbon; twenty two years hence, in 1759, a female infant was born who would become society darling and feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft; two hundred twenty-six years prior to just this point in time, a male child uttered a first cry who would go on to invent the telegraph as Samuel Morse; two hundred and twelve years back, the United States extended itself through the Marine Corps to the 'shores of Tripoli' in the First Barbary War; half a decade subsequently, across the Mediterranean in 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven completed his composition Fur Elise; a decade past that conjunction, in 1820, a male infant took his first breath who, because of his class and family wealth, had the necessary 'fitness' to go onto a life in which he suggested that the sickly and vulnerable poor should all go to the wall; thirty one years thereafter, in 1861, on the other side of the Atlantic, newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln suspended the right, and the writ, of Habeas Corpus as a result of war exigencies; four years more proximate to the present day, in 1865, New York State designates Cornell as its Federal Land Grant University; one hundred and thirty-five years before today, promoter of self-reliance and American existentialist Ralph Waldo Emerson ceased to be either reliable or extant; one hundred thirteen years before the here and now, Australia's Labour Party becomes the first such political entity to gain national power; ninety years prior to this precise moment in time, Republic of Chile creates its first national police force, and thirty five hundred miles to the North, a baby girl came into the world who would grow up as Coretta Scott before she married Martin Luther King, Jr.; five years in the future from that point, in 1932, poet and writer of the American West, Hart Crane, took his final breath; four years further down the pike, in 1936, the United Auto Workers gained the status of an autonomous labor union, free of the American Federation of Labor; three hundred sixty five days closer to the current dawn, in 1937, Italian Marxist and freedom fighter Antonio Gramsci died in prison; two years on the dot later on, in 1939,Czech mathematical genius and philosopher breathed his last; two years after that point in time, in 1941, Nazi German invaders occupied Athens after a brief but destructive struggle; four years beyond that date, in 1945, Italian partisans captured Mussolini as he tried to slink away in the uniform of a common soldier, and thirty five hundred miles away across the Atlantic, a baby boy is born who will grow up as dramatist and thinker August Wilson; another five years down the road, in 1950, thirty five hundred miles south in South Africa, a slightly less aggressive fascist state further installs the formal machinery of apartheid in South Africa, under the authority of the Group Areas Act; half a century and two years ago, popular journalist and sometimes competent investigator Edward Murrow succumbed to lung cancer; seven hundred thirty days after that point, in 1967, Canada's first World Fair opening ceremony takes place at the Montreal Expo; thirty-six years before now, Xerox PARC introduced the first fully-functional commercial computer mouse; five years henceforth, in 1986, five thousand miles away in Ukraine, nuclear power's 'worst case accident' until Fukushima happened, forced the evacuation of Pripyat near Chernobyl; nearby, six years later, in 1992, the brief-lived Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came into existence, and the Russian Republic and twelve other Eastern European jurisdictions all join the International Monetary Fund; two years hence, in 1994, thirty five hundred miles south back in South Africa, the first national elections occurred in which Black citizens could vote; eighteen years back, anthropologist and mythologist Carlos Castaneda took his last trip. From Wikipedia Day in History
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One of the fabulous things about this tour is seeing how popular so many of my friends are.
I checked each one, looking for a book by one of my friends, and lo and behold what did I find?
Maureen Johnson's Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes.
During tonight's fabulous event at Copperfield books in Petaluma praise was heaped on Holly Black, Libba Bray, Cecil Castellucci, Cassie, Maureen, and Garth Nix. It was joyous to hear. And, yes, I was bad, I boasted about knowing them all!
Seeing all those insanely brilliant costumes is some compensation I suppose. Riding on the train with Holly, Theo, Cassandra, Maureen and Scott ditto. Sitting around in a hotel room with them telling ghost stories also not too foul.
Which reminds me what are your favourite urban legends? Feel free to leave a link in the comments if you don't feel like telling the whole thing. So far we've done the finger nails one, the hook, the headless roommate, the evil clown statue, and the finger licker.
The train trip was fun. Biggest difference between travelling by air in the US of A and travelling by train is that the staff are happy and relaxed and like to talk to you. We heard all sorts of stories about train life (includuing gruesome stuff about what happens when someone throws themself under one).
Although the cabins are kind of on the squalorous side—especially compared to first class sleepers in Europe—it was fun hanging with Holly and Theo and Cassie and Maureen while kudzu covered forests zipped by. We dissected the YA publishing world, described the plots of our next five books, and planned collaborations that will never ever happen but would be amazing if they did. I could live on a train with those guys forever!
Except that would mean not staring at the beluga whales at the Georgia aquarium. We were the first people into that part of the aquarium this morning. It was just me and Scott standing in front of Nico as he pirouetted and somersaulted over and over again in front of us. Staring back at us as intently as we were staring at him. We could see the texture of his skin. Every scar, every pore. I have never been so close to such a large mammal in all my life. I could have stayed there for hours.
Tomorrow DragonCon begins. We've already seen our first klingons. I suspect there will be photos. Lots of them.


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Q: Existence of Analytic Continuation of Second-Order Linear, Homogeneous Differential Equation I am self-studying the book Riemann Surfaces by Simon Donaldson. He leaves the proof of the proposition below as an exercise. It is clear to me that one can find local power series solutions at each point along $\gamma$; however, I am not sure how to construct local solutions such that they agree on their common domain of definition. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
Proposition
Suppose $\Omega$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{C}$ and $\gamma:[0, 1] \to \Omega$ is a path in $\Omega$. Furthermore, suppose $P$ and $Q$ are holomorphic functions defined on a neighborhood $U$ of $\gamma(0)$ with analytic continuations along $\gamma$. If $u$ is a solution to
\begin{equation} \label{eq:1.1}
        u'' + P u' + Q u = 0
    \end{equation}
on $U$, then $u$ has an analytic continuation along $\gamma$, through solutions of the equation.

A: After reading up more on the theory of differential equations in the complex domain using these notes, I was able to construct the following proof, which I'm pretty sure is correct.
Proof
Denote $z_t \equiv \gamma(t)$. By the uniform continuity of $\gamma$, the fact that $P, Q$ have analytic continuations along $\gamma$ by assumption, and the fact that analytic continuations are independent of the specific choice of chain of discs, there exists a chains of discs $D_j := D(z_{t_j}, r_j)$ along $\gamma$ in $\Omega$, where $0 = t_0 < t_1 < \cdots < t_J = 1$, $0 \leq j \leq J$, and $\gamma([t_j, t_{j + 1}]) \subseteq D_j \cap D_{j + 1}$ for $0 \leq j \leq J - 1$, and $P_j, Q_j \in H(D_j)$ such that $P_j = P_{j + 1}$ and $Q_j = Q_{j + 1}$ on $D_j \cap D_{j + 1}$ and $P_0 = P$ and $Q_0 = Q$ on a neighborhood $U_0$ of $z_0$.
Define $u_0$ as follows. Without loss of generality, since we can always increase the fineness of our chain of discs, suppose that $D(z_0, r_0)$ is a subset of $U$ and $U_0$, so $P_0 = P$ and $Q_0 = Q$ on $D(z_0, r_0)$. Since $D(z_0, r_0)$ is simply connected and $P_0 = P$ and $Q_0 = Q$ are holomorphic on $D(z_0, r_0)$, it follows by a theorem from differential equations that there exists a unique holomorphic function $u_0$ on $D(z_0, r_0)$ such that $u_0$ is a solution to the differential equation and satisfies the initial conditions $u_0(z_0) = u(z_0)$ and $u_0'(z_0) = u'(z_0)$. Furthermore, by applying the same theorem to $U$, it follows by uniqueness that the restriction of $u$ to $D(z_0, r_0)$ coincides with $u_0$ on $D(z_0, r_0)$.
Now, construct $u_j(z)$ inductively for $1 \leq j \leq J$ as follows. Suppose we have determined $u_{j - 1}(z)$ on $D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1})$. Let $X_j = D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1}) \cup D(z_j, r_j)$, and define the holomorphic functions $P_{j - 1, j}$ and $Q_{j - 1, j}$ on $X_j$, where $P_{j - 1, j}(z) = P_{j - 1}(z)$ and $Q_{j - 1, j}(z) = Q_{j - 1}(z)$ for $z \in D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1})$ and $P_{j - 1, j}(z) = P_j(z)$ and $Q_{j - 1, j}(z) = Q_j(z)$ for $z \in D(z_j, r_j)$. Since $X_j$ is simply connected and $P_{j - 1, j}$ and $Q_{j - 1, j}$ are holomorphic on $D(z_0, r_0)$, there exists a unique holomorphic function $B_j$ on $X_j$ such that $B_j$ is a solution to the differential equation and satisfies the initial conditions $B_j(z_{j - 1}) = u_{j - 1}(z_{j - 1})$ and $B_j'(z_{j - 1}) = u_{j - 1}'(z_{j - 1})$, so we can define $u_j$ as the restriction of $B_j$ to $D(z_j, r_j)$. Furthermore, by applying the same theorem to $D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1})$, it follows by uniqueness that the restriction of $B_j$ to $D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1})$ coincides with $u_{j - 1}$ on $D(z_{j - 1}, r_{j - 1})$. By induction, it follows that there exists $u_j$ for $0 \leq j \leq J$ such that $u_j = u_{j +1}$ on $D_j \cap D_{j + 1}$ and $u_0 = u$ on a neighborhood of $z_0$, so we have constructed an analytic continuation of $u$ along $\gamma$.


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Q: Why is the value of "base rel=" ignored? I want to add 'noreferrer' to all the links on my static html page, without having to worry about forgetting to add it to some new link in the future. I tried using base rel="noreferrer" as occasionally suggested but it doesn't seem to work. With this simple page:

    <base rel="noreferrer">

    no rel

    rel

and using Chromium 73 on Debian 9 (stable), when I click on the first link the access log shows a referrer:
10.0.0.1 - - [02/May/2019:11:32:02 -0700] "GET /linktest.html HTTP/1.1" 304 330 "https://www.example.com/linktest.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36"

but not when I click the second link, that had rel="noreferrer" explicitly specified:
10.0.0.1 - - [02/May/2019:11:32:06 -0700] "GET /linktest.html HTTP/1.1" 304 330 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36"

I also tried adding target="_blank" to the base tag but it didn't change the referrer behavior, just forced the links to open in a new tab by default (which I don't want).
Should this work? If so, why doesn't this work?
Is there a way (preferably without using javascript) to force all links from a page to suppress the referrer, that will work at least with my browser and preferably with most modern browsers?

A: I believe you are looking for:
<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">

That's according to MDN, but I haven't been able to verify that it works.
The base element does not have a rel attribute according to the specs.


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Hundreds of shell companies — many of them registered in the British Virgin Islands and other jurisdictions that profit by allowing corporate owners to hide their names — can be traced back to Santini's condo.
The leaked records offer little evidence that Santini and MF questioned the backgrounds or business activities of people who wanted offshore companies — what the industry calls due diligence.
The propensity to look the other way has helped turn South Florida into a hub of the world's shadow economy. A cottage industry of lawyers and accountants based in Miami helps clients form offshore companies that can mask their activities. Mossack Fonseca is just one firm among many that set up offshores.
Many of the people coming to Santini and her firm were Brazilian politicians, judges and politically connected businessmen. Several had been accused of corruption — but were still able to set up offshores through Mossack Fonseca.
▪ Martin Lustgarten, who was acquitted of laundering $100 million of alleged drug money in Miami last year.
▪ Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, a fast-living Italian fugitive wanted for a massive tax fraud.
▪ Mauricio Cohen Assor and Leon Cohen-Levy, father-and-son hotel developers sentenced to 10 years in prison for hiding $150 million worth of Miami Beach mansions, luxury cars and bank accounts from the Internal Revenue Service.
Owning an offshore company is legal, as long as its assets are declared to tax authorities — something that secrecy laws in offshore havens make it easy to avoid.
An Italian fugitive wanted for tax fraud. Laundered money through Manhattan apartments with offshore company.
Regulators around the world scorn the companies as vehicles for evading taxes and stashing stolen assets. A 2011 World Bank study of 150 major global corruption cases found that nine in 10 perpetrators used legal corporate shell entities, such as offshore companies, to hide their pilfered funds.
MF has more than 40 offices around the world — and its Brazil branch has been implicated in a corruption investigation threatening to topple President Dilma Rousseff and other key politicians.
The firm acts as a middleman, or "registered agent," setting up offshore companies for clients referred by lawyers and wheeler-dealers.
Law firms like Mossack Fonseca don't have to follow the strict "know-your-customer" rules imposed on banks. But they can't knowingly facilitate money laundering, according to U.S. law and guidelines established by the legal industry.
Santini, whose LinkedIn page says she started working with Mossack Fonseca in Miami in 2004, often seemed unaware of who her customers were, according to the leaked files.
She still made a healthy living from her work.
An invoice from January 2013 shows that Santini helped incorporate more than 200 companies between August and December 2012 in the British Virgin Islands, Samoa and the Seychelles, all offshore havens.
Mossack Fonseca charged its clients between $750 and $1,400 per company, according to the bill. Santini received roughly 30 percent of that fee in commissions.
Her haul for those five months? Nearly $82,000, wired to a Bank of America branch in Coral Gables.
David Schwartz, CEO of the Florida International Bankers Association, said that strict due-diligence requirements on American banks means money launderers may look to peripheral players in the financial industry, such as lawyers and offshore firms.
"They're always looking for an entry-point into the system," Schwartz said.
It is my personal policy to fully comply with the letter and spirit of the law in every jurisdiction.
The Miami Herald called Santini and sent her and MF's headquarters in Panama City a detailed list of questions about their customers.
Acquitted of laundering $100 million worth of alleged drug money in a Miami trial.
MF's headquarters responded with a six-page statement detailing its business practices, defending the quality of its due diligence and saying that it never deliberately facilitates any type of law breaking.
In 2011, a Miami Beach lawyer named Julio Barbosa asked Santini to create an offshore company for his client, Paulo Octávio Alves Pereira.
No red flags were raised at Mossack Fonseca.
It wasn't until 2013, two years after MF set up Octávio's offshore, that the firm realized it might have a problem: Octávio's former government positions (he had also served as a congressman and senator) made him a "politically exposed person" in the parlance of anti-money-laundering regulations, according to emails between MF employees. U.S. rules obliged the firm to run enhanced due-diligence checks on PEP clients and to determine where their money comes from.
Frantic emails from Santini to Octávio's lawyer went unanswered.
"Julio, please I need your comments. … Please note this is very serious and if we do not have this information we will be forced to resign as Registered Agent for this corporation," Santini wrote in an email to Barbosa dated March 5, 2013.
Finally, on March 18, Barbosa wrote back, claiming that Octávio had not been charged for his role in the scandal. (In fact, the Brazilian attorney general had indicted Octávio and 36 others for bribery, money laundering and corruption the previous year.) Barbosa also said that Octávio's political party had been targeted because it opposed the governing Workers' Party.
Within the next year, Octávio would be arrested after allegedly bribing public-works officials to approve construction permits. He was also ordered to reimburse the government after paying a chauffeur for his private car and yacht from the public purse and prevented by a Brazilian court from selling any of his assets.
Prosecutors continue to pursue a criminal case against him and eight others over the corruption scandal.
Octávio initially did not respond to a request for comment. After the Miami Herald published the first part of its investigative series online on Sunday, Octávio said he declared his offshore company to Brazilian authorities and broke no laws.
Another wealthy Brazilian who slipped through MF's due-diligence checks was Helder Rodrigues Zebral.
A sharp businessman, Zebral started his career shining shoes but eventually came to run Porcâo, an upscale churrascaria in Brasília where politicians and executives clapped backs over prime cuts of meat and caipirinhas, the national cocktail. Stories in local newspapers have him driving a Mercedes, dating socialites and befriending important members of the Workers' Party. He even hosted a fundraiser for Brazil's then-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
But behind the flash, Zebral had a history of embezzlement.
After winning a public contract to computerize prison records, Zebral diverted some of the money to buy 15 apartments in Brasília and three cars, a Brazilian court found in 2003. He was given a four-year sentence. A decade later, he was convicted of avoiding a required public bidding process and banned from bidding for public contracts for five years, the Brazilian news media reported.
Helder Rodriguez Zebral, twice convicted of embezzlement and avoiding a public bidding process in Brazil, bought a $1.9 million condo at Jade Ocean in Sunny Isles Beach. The condo pictured is a sample unit at Jade Ocean, not Zebral's.
In between his two trials, on July 15, 2011, Zebral paid $1.925 million for a four-bedroom unit at Jade Ocean in Sunny Isles Beach. He didn't use an offshore corporation in the purchase. Instead, he bought the property through a Florida company called Papola, which listed him as a manager.
But before his second trial, Zebral bought an offshore company from Mossack Fonseca and shifted the condo out of his name and into the offshore's.
Foreign nationals often own U.S. real estate through offshore companies for tax advantages.
But it is also common for those who may face criminal charges to move assets into offshores as a way to hide them, said Carlos Garcia-Pavia, a financial-compliance specialist at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
Mossack Fonseca checked up on Zebral in 2013, a year after it set up his offshore account. It discovered both convictions, according to the leaked files, but took no action.
Labeled one of Guatemala's biggest drug lords. Surrendered to U.S. authorities in Miami in 2014.
Records show the firm's due-diligence practices weren't always diligent.
MF didn't discover until three years after it set up an offshore for Marcelo Carvalho Cordeiro that he had been fired as president of Rio de Janeiro's pension fund for allegedly circumventing public bidding procedures on a major contract.
Brazilian dentist accused of holding a "ghost," no-show job with a municipal government. The charge didn't stick.
More recently, however, Mossack Fonseca caught a big fish.
In late 2014, Miami law firm Roca Gonzalez asked MF if it would administer a British Virgin Islands company that had been set up by another firm. The purpose of the company, Gold Black Limited, was listed as "real estate investment" in the United States.
Mossack Fonseca accepted — until it ran a due-diligence check on Gold Black's owner.
Hector Daniel Muñoz served as the personal secretary to former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, who affectionately called him el gordo (fatty). To get to Kirchner, you had to go through Muñoz. One newspaper profile described him as having more pull than any cabinet minister.
But he was forced to resign in 2009 over embezzlement allegations. Four years later, a former colleague accused Muñoz of flying around the country with bags of laundered money.
When MF found out about its new client's dirty laundry, the firm's compliance department recommended dropping him, even though the charges had been dismissed.
Former right-hand man to Argentine President Néstor Kirchner. Investigated for flying bags of allegedly laundered money around the country.
In an email, Santini, who runs MF's Miami office, argued in favor of keeping Muñoz on. She said his lawyer, Antonio Roca, had explained that the charges were merely allegations. "Nothing is concrete," she wrote.
But Santini was overruled, and Mossack Fonseca resigned.
Muñoz wasn't out of luck though: Another offshore services provider based in Hong Kong agreed to take his company, the leaked files show.
Lawyers play a key role in helping corrupt money enter the United States, according to a recent 60 Minutes report.
An undercover investigator for an activist group filmed himself asking 16 attorneys at high-profile Manhattan law firms how to launder dirty money through American homes, yachts and cars.
To attract clients, firms like Mossack Fonseca rely on the opaque corporate laws of certain offshore havens.
MF registers many of its companies in the British Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom notorious for its secrecy.
Record keepers there don't ask for the name of the person who owns a company when it is registered, only for the name of its agent. As a result, the islands have more active offshores (450,000) than people (33,000).
Clients used several of the MF offshore companies to buy Miami real estate.
"There are plenty of legitimate reasons to set up an offshore company," especially for those interested in purchasing U.S. property, said Jeffrey Rubinger, a Miami-based international tax attorney at the law firm Bilzin Sumberg. "It's useful for estate-tax benefits, but there are also income-tax benefits," as well as the advantage of privacy for those who live in countries where kidnappers target the wealthy and governments seize assets, he said.
"The thing that's not legitimate is if you don't know where the money's coming from," Rubinger explained.
In Brazil, it's no surprise that Mossack Fonseca helped those linked to corruption buy condos, said Fabiano Angélico, who leads the Brazilian chapter of the global anti-corruption group Transparency International.
Wealthy Brazilians are among the top foreign buyers of Miami condos, despite a crippled Brazilian economy that shrank 4 percent in 2015.
Lava Jato has become one of the largest corruption investigations in history, with 179 people indicted, 93 people convicted and $800 million seized, according to Brazil's federal police.
On March 13, at least one million Brazilians nationwide hit the streets to protest government corruption.
Angélico added that Brazilians must report offshore assets to local tax authorities. But he said those accused in recent scandals sometimes claim the rules don't apply.
Miami Herald contributor Debora Lima contributed research, reporting and translation to this story. Mariel Fitz Patrick, a reporter at Canal 13 Argentina, also contributed from Buenos Aires, as did other journalists from ICIJ.


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Ask your member of Congress to support H.R. 3713, the Sentencing Reform Act.
Background: Decades of overly harsh sentences, particularly mandatory minimums, have led to a dramatic increase in the incarcerated population in the U.S. Our country now incarcerates more people than any other in the world. Unfair sentences have affected millions of families across the country.
The Sentencing Reform Act will limit some mandatory minimums, and will provide relief for people in prison under older, harsher laws that did not receive the benefits of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. If passed, this bipartisan bill would be the first time in history that Congress reduced mandatory minimums in any way. The Sentencing Reform Act can be an important first step on the road towards a criminal justice system that is truly just.
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In this issue, concatenations: large and small celebrations, deaths of poets, a curious run of eulogies and the fortuitous confluence of several essays on women's poetry and publishing.
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