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Welcome to Rock Rapids
Life Balanced, Here.
Happy Holidays! Rock Rapids has lots going on, and you are at the center of it. We are open for business and would love for you to visit, explore, do business and enjoy the balance of life here!
Shop Our Local All Stars.
These businesses help and support the growth of Rock Rapids.
Midwest Lumber & Design
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Luxe on First
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Standout & Co.
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1889 Lounge
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Stateline Hair Design
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Central Lyon Community School District
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Rock Rapids Ace Hardware
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LVO Manufacturing Inc.
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Rock River Brewing Company
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Jennings Construction & Plumbing
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Precision Auto Body
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Rock River Eye Care
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JJ's Tasty Drive In
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Homeowners Financial Group USA, LLC
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Rock Rapids Municipal Utilities
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Rock River Veterinary Clinic
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Runnings
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Van Zee Enterprises
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Rock Rapids Municipal Housing Agency
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Lyon County Title Company, Inc.
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DRG Mechanical Inc.
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Rapid Flooring
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Casey's General Store
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Rapid Grow Lawn Service
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Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort
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New Century Press-Lyon County Reporter
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Denny's Sanitation
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Waagmeester Law Office, P.L.C.
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KQAD
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Austin, Haberkorn, Kippley & Wippert, PLC
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Smith Construction
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Meyer Electric
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Iowa State University Extension
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Maintainer Custom Bodies
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Northwest Iowa Community College
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Murphy Family Dentistry
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State Farm Insurance & Financial Services
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Avera Medical Group – Rock Rapids
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Massage by Mel
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Papik Motors
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Wall Street Printers
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Town and Country Disposal
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Sturdevant's Auto Parts
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Seven Sisters Boutique
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Rapids Chiropractic
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Pizza Ranch
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Lewis Family Drug
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Creative Edge
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Lyon Specialty Care
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Attig Pedersen Management
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AgriVision Equipment
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Lyon & Sioux Rural Water System, Inc.
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Details Rock Rapids
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Sunshine Foods
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Sanford Rock Rapids Medical Center
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Lyon Rural Electric Cooperative
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HP Insurance Agency
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DGR Engineering
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Modern Gas
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Junction 9-75
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Popkes Car Care
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Heimensen Wealth Advisors
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De Noble, Austin & Company PC
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Frontier Insurance and Real Estate
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Chase Companies
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Frontier Bank
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Galentine's Girls Night Out
Thursday, Feb 9 4 - 7pm
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Proposition E: Returning Tree Maintenance to City Hall
| By Noah Arroyo, Assistant Editor |
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This Charter amendment would make it City Hall's responsibility, once again, to maintain trees and surrounding sidewalks, the care obligation of which had recently transferred to private-property owners.
The Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to put this initiative on the ballot.
Why is this on the ballot?
In 2005, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's Trees for Tomorrow campaign brought 25,000 new trees to San Francisco's streets and sidewalks. That helped the city's total number of trees reach its present-day count, topping 100,000.
A tree-trimming company maintains a tree situated among utility lines. Photo by Nadia Mishkin / San Francisco Public Press
But those trees cost a lot of green to maintain. When the city faced a major budget deficit in 2011, Newsom's successor, Ed Lee, decided to save money by shifting that burden from the city to the owners of the private properties abutting the trees.
The shift began in 2012 and is still going. To date, the care responsibility for more than 7,000 trees has been transferred to private owners, and the obligation on more than 10,000 will follow suit. When the transfer finishes, only about 12 percent of city trees will be under government management.
Tree maintenance can be complicated and expensive. It can cost as much as $1,000 to trim a single tree, and that does not include the cost to replace sidewalk damaged by the tree's roots. And neglecting a tree can incur various fines, which can stack up quickly, and possibly jail.
Hundreds of property owners have opted to remove their trees. The city gave out 270 tree removal permits in fiscal year 2008-2009; that number increased to 515 in fiscal year 2014-2015, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
What would it do and at what cost?
The city would reassume responsibility for maintaining and removing trees adjacent to private property, as well as repairing any tree-related damage to sidewalks.
The city would pay for "routine" and "major" maintenance of trees with a new Street Tree Maintenance Fund. Beginning July 1, the start of the 2017-2018 fiscal year, the city would commit $19 million from the general fund, but that would fluctuate in subsequent years with the city's level of discretionary revenue; when discretionary revenue increased or decreased, so would this fund.
The mayor could suspend the increases if the city faced a general fund deficit of $200 million or more.
Up to $500,000 of the fund's money would go to the San Francisco Unified School District to cover the cost of caring for trees on school property.
Routine maintenance includes:
adequate watering "to ensure the Tree's growth and sustainability";
weed control;
trash removal around a tree;
staking;
fertilizing;
tree guards, grates and bracing;
sidewalk repairs related to the tree's growth or root system.
Major maintenance includes:
structural pruning "as necessary to maintain public safety and to sustain the health, safety, and natural growth habit of the Tree";
pest and disease-management procedures "as needed and in a manner consistent with public health and ecological diversity";
replacement of dead or damaged trees.
The fund could not be used to pay for planting new trees where there are none. But Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the official proponents, has told the Public Press that the fund was designed to be big enough to cover the costs of maintaining 50,000 new trees. "It's easy to get private funds to plant trees," he said.
The city has already budgeted $5.5 million in fiscal year 2017-2018 for maintaining and removing trees and repairing related sidewalk damage; the additional $13.5 million would come from the general fund, according to the city controller.
Property owners would also be relieved of personal liability for tree-related trip-and-fall injuries on public sidewalks, and for injuries or property damage from trees or limbs that fall.
City Controller Ben Rosenfield states that Proposition E "would significantly increase the cost of government."
Is there a catch?
This ballot measure contains a section stating that, even if the voters pass it in November, Mayor Ed Lee will be able to prevent it from becoming law if, by the last day of the year, he decides that the city's budget cannot spare this money.
In addition, the controller said: "This proposed amendment is not in compliance with a non-binding, voter-adopted city policy regarding set-asides. The policy seeks to limit set-asides which reduce General Fund dollars that could otherwise be allocated by the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors in the annual budget process."
Who officially proposed it?
Supervisors Scott Wiener, John Avalos and Eric Mar.
Who officially opposes it?
No opposition argument was submitted to the Department of Elections.
Vote threshold to pass
Simple majority — 50 percent plus one.
Effective date if passed
Two committees are spending money in support of Proposition E: "Yes on E, Coalition for Healthy Trees and Safe Sidewalks, with Major Funding by Friends of the Urban Forest Committee and Mitzi Johnson," and "Friends of the Urban Forest (nonprofit 501(c) (3)), Yes on E."
Follow the money at the San Francisco Ethics Commission: all Proposition E filings.
Endorsements: our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We'd love to hear from you.
Tracked endorsements by organization
Written by: Noah Arroyo
Published: Sept. 30, 2016
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The Los Angeles Lakers announced the signing of Damian Jones to a 10-day contract ahead of Friday's matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers. Jones was waived by the Phoenix Suns earlier this week.
He appeared in 14 games for Phoenix, averaging 1.6 points and 1.3 rebounds per game. The 25-year-old has additionally spent time with the Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks in his young career. Jones was selected by the Warriors with the 30th pick in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft.
Although he played sparingly for the Suns, Jones was more productive with the Hakes last season. He appeared in a career-high 55 games and averaged 5.6 points (on 68% shooting) and 3.7 rebounds over 16.1 minutes per game.
Jones' arrival gives the Lakers an option at center while Anthony Davis remains on the mend from a calf strain and Marc Gasol still looks to find any sort of consistency.
Lakers head coach Frank Vogel had recently acknowledged the Lakers were exploring options for their two open roster spots, but declined to provide any specifics. "We'll always look at opportunities to improve our team, but nothing concrete right now," Vogel said.
"We're just looking at what players are available. I'm not going to discuss any types of needs that we're discussing internally."
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Frank "The Prime Minister of the Underworld" Costello in the mid 1950s
Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello (born Francesco Castiglia; January 26, 1891 – February 18, 1973) was an American Mafia boss who headed the Luciano crime family (later the Genovese crime family) until he was ousted and forced into retirement by Vito Genovese. He was nicknamed "the Prime Minister of the underworld".
2 Alliance with Luciano
3 Castellammarese War
3.1 End of the Castellammarse War
4 Luciano crime family
4.1 Years as consigliere
4.2 Boss
5 Genovese and Kefauver
5.1 Testimony in Kefauver hearings
6 Assassination attempt
7 Retirement and death
Based on Italian birth records from the province of Cosenza, Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on 26 January 1891 in Lauropoli, a mountain village in the town of Cassano allo Ionio in the Cosenza province of the Calabria region of Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his mother and his brother Edward in order to join their father, who had moved to New York's East Harlem several years earlier and opened a small neighborhood Italian grocery store.
While Costello was still a boy, his brother introduced him to gang activities. By age 13, Costello had become a member of a local gang and started using the name Frankie. Costello continued to commit petty crimes, and went to jail for assault and robbery in 1908, 1912 and 1917. In 1918, Costello married Lauretta Giegerman, a Jewish woman who was the sister of a close friend. That same year, Costello served ten months in jail for carrying a concealed weapon. After his release, Costello decided to avoid street rackets and use his brain to make money as a criminal. Forgoing the use of violence as a road to success and wealth, Costello claimed that he never again carried a gun. He would not return to jail for 37 years.
Alliance with Luciano
While working for the Morello gang, Costello met Charles "Lucky" Luciano the Sicilian leader of Manhattan's Lower East Side gang. The two Italians immediately became friends and partners. Several older members of Luciano's family disapproved of this growing partnership; they were mostly old-school mafiosi who were unwilling to work with anyone who was not Sicilian. To Luciano's shock, they warned him against working with Costello, whom they called "the dirty Calabrian." Along with Italian-American associates Vito Genovese and Tommy "Three-Finger Brown" Lucchese and Jewish associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the gang became involved in robbery, theft, extortion, gambling and narcotics. The Luciano-Costello-Lansky-Siegel alliance prospered even further with the passage of Prohibition in 1920. The gang went into bootlegging, backed by criminal financier Arnold "the Brain" Rothstein.
The success of the young Italians let them branch out and make business deals with the leading Jewish and Irish criminals of the era, including Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer, Owney "the Killer" Madden and William "Big Bill" Dwyer. Rothstein became a mentor to Costello, Luciano, Lansky and Siegel while they conducted bootlegging business with Bronx beer baron Schultz. In 1922, Costello, Luciano, and their closest Italian associates joined the Sicilian Mafia crime family led by Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, a top Italian underworld boss. By 1924, Costello had become a close associate of Hell's Kitchen's Irish crime bosses Dwyer and Madden. Costello became deeply involved in their rum-running operations, known as "The Combine"; this could have prompted him to change his last name to the more Irish sounding "Costello."
On November 19, 1926, Costello and Dwyer were indicted on federal bootlegging charges. The defendants were accused of giving $5,000 to two United States Coast Guard men, presumably so that they would not disturb the unloading of liquor from boats in New York Harbor. The largest boat in the Combine fleet was capable of carrying 20,000 cases of liquor. However, in January 1927, the jury deadlocked on the bootlegging charges for Dwyer and Costello.
In 1926, Combine boss Bill Dwyer was convicted of bribing a United States Coast Guard official and was sentenced to two years in jail. After Dwyer was imprisoned, Costello took over the Combine's operations with Owney Madden. This caused friction between Madden and top Dwyer lieutenant, Charles "Vannie" Higgins. Higgins, referred to as Brooklyn's "Last Irish Crime Boss," believed he should be running the Combine, not Costello. Thus, the "Manhattan Beer Wars" began between Higgins on one side, and Costello, Madden, and Schultz on the other. At this particular time, Schultz was also having problems with gangsters Jack "Legs" Diamond and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. With Higgins' help, these two hoodlums had begun to rival Schultz and his partners. Eventually, the Costello-Madden-Schultz alliance was destroyed by New York's underworld.
Costello continued to be an extremely powerful and influential gangster throughout the 1920s. Costello kept close associates Luciano, Lansky and Siegel involved in most of his gambling rackets, which included punch cards, slot machines, bookmaking and floating casinos. Costello eventually became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" for his cultivation of associations and business relationships with many of America's major mafia bosses, powerful politicians, businessmen, state and federal judges, district attorneys, U.S. attorneys, government officials, city officials, mayors, governors, senators, congressman's, lawyers, police detectives, federal agents, and law enforcement officials. As he followed the "Big Three" ideology of mixing crime, business and politics, Costello's astonishingly enormous power and influence grew over the years. His fellow gangsters considered him to be an important link between the Mafia and the prominent politicians of Tammany Hall, New York's Democratic Party organization. This relationship gave Costello and his associates, including Luciano, the opportunity to buy the favors of cops, judges, politicians, district attorneys, U.S. attorneys, city officials, city council, government officials, federal agents and anyone else they needed to bribe in order to freely run their criminal empires and lucrative illegal operations.
In 1927, Costello, Luciano, and former Chicago Mafia boss John "Johnny the Fox" Torrio organized a group of top East Coast rum-runners into a large bootlegging operation. This gang was able to pool their Canadian and European liquor sources, maximize profits, minimize overhead, and gain an advantage over their competition. The operation was known as the "Big Seven Group", the first concrete move in organizing the American underworld into a national crime syndicate. In May 1929, Costello, Luciano, Torrio, Lansky, and Atlantic City/South Jersey crime boss, Enoch "Nucky" Johnson hosted a crime convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This convention included the members of the "Big Seven Group" and the top crime bosses from across the nation. This was the first true underworld meeting and the biggest step in forming a National Crime Syndicate that would control criminal operations, dictate policy, enforce rules, and maintain authority in the national underworld. Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano were not invited because their Old World ideas ran counter to the convention's goals.
Castellammarese War
By 1928, Costello and Luciano were considered to be two young, ambitious, powerful and fearsome gangsters on the rise. However, an internal conflict in the Italian underworld would sidetrack Costello and his associates. Costello's and Luciano's immediate superior, Joe Masseria was coming into conflict with Salvatore Maranzano, a recent arrival from Palermo, Sicily who was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. When Maranzano arrived in New York in 1925, his access to money and power let him quickly set up rum-running, bootlegging, extortion and gambling operations that directly competed with Masseria, Costello's boss. On October 10, 1928, Joe Masseria eliminated his top rival for the coveted "boss of bosses" title, Brooklyn boss, Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila. However, Masseria still had to deal with the powerful and much-feared Maranzano and his Castellammarese Clan.
Joe Masseria became an underworld dictator, requiring absolute loyalty and obedience from the other four New York families. In 1930, Masseria demanded a $50,000 tribute (equivalent to $483,000 in 2019) from the leader of Maranzano's crime family. The Castellammarese Clan leader, Nicolo "Cola" Schiro fled New York in fear, leaving Maranzano as the new leader. By 1931, a series of killings in Detroit, Chicago and New York involving Castellammarese clan members and associates caused Maranzano and his family to declare war against Joe Masseria and his allies. These allies included Costello and his associates, Luciano, Vito Genovese and Joe Adonis. Another Masseria ally was the large Mineo crime family (formerly D'Aquila), whose members included Costello associates Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, and Frank Scalice. The Castellammarese clan included Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno and Stefano Magaddino, the Profaci crime family which included Joseph Profaci and Joseph Magliocco, along with former Masseria allies the Reina family, which included Gaetano "Tom" Reina, Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano and Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese.
The Castellammarese war raged on between the Masseria and Maranzano factions for over two years. This bloody war devastated the Prohibition era operations and street rackets that the New York families controlled with the Irish criminal gangs. The Castellammarese war cut into gang profits and in some cases completely destroyed the underworld rackets of mafia members.
Several of the younger gang members on both sides realized that if the war did not stop soon, the Italian crime families could be left on the fringe of New York's criminal underworld while the Irish crime bosses became dominant. However, it was inevitable that a breach would eventually occur due to a fundamental philosophical difference between the Old World crime bosses and their younger underlings. Masseria, Maranzano and others who had begun their careers in Italy were known as "Mustache Petes" because they were not willing to work with non-Italians, and were skeptical of dealing with non-Sicilians. Costello, Luciano and their group of "Young Turks," on the other hand, believed that as long as there was money to be made, they should deal with anyone regardless of ethnic roots. Costello, Luciano, Seigel and Lansky decided to end the Castellammarese War, and secretly planned to eliminate one "Mustache Pete" immediately, then bide their time and kill the other one.
End of the Castellammarse War
Luciano and Costello set their plan in motion by secretly agreeing to betray Masseria if Maranzano would end the war. On April 15, 1931, Masseria was gunned down at Scarpato's restaurant in Coney Island by Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis and Bugsy Seigel. Luciano then took over Masseria's family, with Costello as his consigliere.
However, at a secret meeting in Upstate New York, Maranzano surprised everyone by naming himself boss of all bosses. Although they had planned to get rid of Maranzano anyway, Costello and Luciano came to believe that Maranzano was even more power-hungry than Masseria had ever been, and moved up their timetable. Maranzano served as boss of bosses until September 10, 1931, when he was killed in his 9th floor Helmsley Building office in Manhattan by gunmen posing as IRS agents. Hired by Lansky and Luciano, the shooters allegedly included Schultz gang lieutenant, Abraham "Bo" Weinberg and Murder, Inc. hitman, Samuel "Red" Levine. It has been estimated that the Castellammarese War led to over 100 deaths among gangsters.
Luciano crime family
Years as consigliere
In 1931, after the Masseria and Maranzano murders, Luciano became the overlord of the new Luciano crime family, with Vito Genovese as underboss and Costello as consigliere. Costello quickly became the biggest money-maker for the Luciano crime family and began to carve his own niche in the underworld. Costello controlled the slot machine and bookmaking operations for the Luciano crime family with associates Philip "Dandy Phil" Kastel and Frank Erickson. Costello placed approximately 90,000 slot machines in the bars, restaurants, cafes, drug stores, gas stations, and bus stops throughout New York. However, in 1934, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia confiscated thousands of Costello's slot machines, loaded them on a barge, and dumped them into the river. Costello's next move was to accept Louisiana governor, Huey Long's proposal to put slot machines throughout Louisiana for 10% of the take. Costello placed Kastel as the overseer of the Louisiana slot operation. Kastel had the assistance of New Orleans Mafia Boss Carlos "Little Man" Marcello, who knew every place in New Orleans that could take one of Costello's "one-arm bandits". Costello brought in a staggering $4 billion a year in profit from slot machines and bookmaking to the Luciano family. In fact, Costello and Frank Erickson, the overseer of Costello's bookmaking operations, are credited with starting the layoff and odds systems used by bookies and gamblers all across North America.
In 1936, Luciano was convicted of running a prostitution ring and was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison. Luciano ruled his incredibly massive empire from prison with the help of Costello and Lansky, but found it too difficult. Luciano finally named Genovese as acting boss. However, in 1937, Genovese was indicted for a 1934 murder and fled to Italy to avoid prosecution. Luciano then appointed Costello as acting boss.
The departure of Vito Genovese to Italy left Costello in firm control of the Luciano crime family. With the help of his top capos, Anthony Strollo, Joe Adonis, Anthony Carfano and Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, the crime family ran smoothly and undeterred. Costello's rule was very profitable, with rackets going from coast to coast: slots in New Orleans with Carlos Marcello, gambling in Florida with Meyer Lansky, and illegal race wires with Bugsy Siegel in Los Angeles. Costello also enjoyed more political influence than any other mobster in the country. However, unlike Luciano, Costello did not believe in drug trafficking. This aversion to selling drugs was not shared by Genovese, a major drug trafficker.
Costello was a popular and well-liked boss; he equitably shared the profits from family operations, and did not demand a large cut of his underlings' criminal earnings. Costello was making an unbelievably massive fortune from his organized criminal rackets and legitimate enterprises all over the world, he was making a personal income of a jaw-dropping $30 billion a year from his illegal rackets and legitimate enterprises, which included real estate, labor unions, and stocks. He was the owner of the world's third biggest poultry meat supply firms and a large chain of MeatMarts; he did not need to be greedy because of the tens of billions of dollars a year he was making. Costello became so rich and was making so much money where he had to buy personal vaults and personal bank vaults all over the world, he allegedly had over 100,000 bank vaults around the world, and had a staggering $50 billion in all of his vaults across the world. Costello also expanded the family's operations to include casinos in Las Vegas, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands, England, Turkey, Australia, South Africa, Russia, China, Japan, India, and Iran.
During World War II, Lucky Luciano, while still in prison, along with the help from Costello, Albert Anastasia and Meyer Lansky helped the United States Government and Military protect the New York waterfront from sabotage through his control of the docks. Luciano is also said to have helped the Allied invasion of Sicily by contacting Sicilian Mafia boss, Calogero Vizzini and procuring his help. For assisting the war effort, Luciano's prison sentence was commuted and he was deported to Italy in 1946. Costello then became undisputed boss of the Luciano crime family.
Genovese and Kefauver
After Vito Genovese's return to the US and the dismissal of 1936 murder charge, he began a campaign to regain the family leadership from Costello. Genovese started building loyalty among family soldiers by lending them money or by doing them favors that they someday would have to reciprocate. The resentment Genovese felt for Costello was multiplied by the fact that Genovese was no longer a top boss in the family; he was just a capo, a street boss in charge of a large crew of soldiers. However, Genovese was treated as a "don" by the capos and street soldiers who committed most of the violent crimes (i.e., murder, arson, bombing, assault, kidnapping, hijacking, robbery, etc.). In contrast, Frank Costello had the support of the capos and soldiers who ran the white collar crime rackets (i.e., gambling, loansharking, construction, etc.) and the family's many legitimate investments. Costello's position as a Commission member and his popularity as a top boss kept him safe from any assassination attempt or power move by Genovese. To unseat Costello, Genovese needed more support from the Luciano family and the other Commission members. Genovese was also dissuaded from a direct attack on Costello by the strength of underboss, Guarino "Willie Moore" Moretti, a Costello cousin and staunch ally who commanded a very large army of soldiers in New Jersey.
Testimony in Kefauver hearings
From May 1950 to May 1951, the US Senate conducted a large scale investigation of organized crime, commonly known as the Kefauver Hearings. The entire country was held in awe by the parade of over 1,000 mobsters, pimps, labor union leaders, bookmakers, politicians and mob lawyers testifying before Congress, showcased on television. The hearings were called by a Special Committee of the United States Senate chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who had been appointed to investigate organized crime in Interstate Commerce.
By this time, Costello was the most powerful crime lord in the world, he ruled the American underworld with an iron fist, and had become an incredibly powerful and respected underworld dictator; however, Costello still craved the respectability of high society. Costello allegedly consulted a psychiatrist on achieving this goal, but ultimately failed to gain legitimate respectability. During the Kefauver hearings, Costello became the star attraction, being billed as America's #1 gangster and the leader of New York's Tammany Hall. As the underworld grapevine put it, "Nobody in New York City can be made a state or federal judge without Costello's consent."
Costello agreed to testify at the hearings and not take the Fifth Amendment, in contrast to all the previous underworld figures to take the stand. The Special Committee and the TV networks had agreed not to broadcast Frank Costello's face, only his hands. During the questioning, Costello nervously refused to answer certain questions and skirted around others. When asked by the committee, "What have you done for your country Mr. Costello?", the raspy-voiced Costello's reply evoked a rare laugh at the hearings: "Paid my tax!" Costello eventually walked out of the hearings.
Costello found the 1950s to be very trying, as the high visibility he received during the Kefauver Hearings brought additional law enforcement and media scrutiny. However, Costello's greatest troubles began with the assassination of Willie Moretti, his right-hand man. His mental condition had prompted Moretti to reveal some embarrassing details at the Kefauver hearings. As a result, the Commission ordered Moretti's elimination, which happened October 4, 1951 in a New Jersey restaurant. In addition to Moretti's death, Costello was convicted on contempt of Senate charges in August 1952 for the hearings walkout, and went to jail for 18 months. Released after 14 months, Costello was charged with tax evasion in 1954 and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Costello served 11 months of this sentence before it was overturned on appeal. In 1956, Costello was again convicted and sent to prison. In early 1957, he was again released on appeal.
Assassination attempt
Vito Genovese finally made his move on the embattled Frank Costello. It started in 1956 when Joe Adonis, a powerful Costello ally, chose voluntary deportation to Italy, instead of a long prison sentence. Adonis' departure left Costello weakened, but Genovese still had to neutralize one more powerful Costello ally, Albert Anastasia. Anastasia, the Brooklyn waterfront boss, had taken over the second largest mafia family in the United States after the disappearance of boss Vincent Mangano and the murder of brother Philip Mangano on April 14, 1951. With the addition of Albert Anastasia to the Commission in 1951, the so-called "Liberal faction," which included Costello, began to get stronger. In 1953, another Liberal ally, boss Tommy Lucchese, was added to the Commission. As a result, the "Conservative faction" that controlled the Commission from 1936–53, was now rivaled by the Liberal Costello-Anastasia-Lucchese alliance. However, Genovese converted this reversal into an opportunity for conflict by approaching Lucchese and Anastasia's underboss Carlo Gambino about switching sides. The potential reward in eliminating Costello and Anastasia was control of the Luciano and Anastasia crime families by Genovese and Gambino.
Genovese had patiently waited 10 years after his deportation to Italy to make his final move against Frank Costello, and time had finally arrived. On May 2, 1957, soon after Costello's release from prison, an attempt was made on his life. As Costello was walking to the elevator in the lobby of The Majestic, his Manhattan apartment building, he was shot in the head by Genovese driver and protege, Vincent "Chin" Gigante. Before taking the shot, Gigante called out, "This is for you Frank!" On hearing this, Costello turned his head. Gigante fled the scene thinking the fallen Costello was dead. However, Gigante's unintentional warning had saved Costello and left him with only a scalp wound. After the abortive hit, Gigante went into hiding. However, Gigante finally turned himself in to face mob trial. Costello refused to identify Gigante as the shooter, resulting in his acquittal.
Genovese now ordered all the Luciano crime family members loyal to him to show their support by attending a meeting at his New Jersey mansion. All the family's capos showed up except Costello loyalist Anthony Carfano (who was murdered for this insult on September 25, 1959). Even though the attempt on Costello's life had failed, Genovese went on to appoint himself boss of the Luciano crime family. He then called for a national Commission meeting to discuss Mafia affairs in around the country and other important issues. Genovese was now in charge of what would be called the Genovese crime family; exiled in Italy, Luciano was powerless to stop him.
After recovering from the assassination attempt, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese made peace before the 1957 Apalachin meeting. Costello agreed to abdicate as family boss in favor of Genovese. In return, Genovese agreed that Costello would keep all of his gambling operations in Louisiana and Florida and his legitimate business interests. Though Costello was officially demoted to the rank of soldier within the crime family, he was never looked at as less than a top level boss in the criminal organization who helped build "Cosa Nostra," or "Our Thing."
At this time, Genovese was leery of the deadly Anastasia, who was still furious over the Costello assassination attempt. Genovese called upon Lucchese crime family boss, Tommy Lucchese and his close ally, Anastasia crime family underboss, Carlo Gambino to eliminate Anastasia. Anastasia's death would give Genovese majority control of the New York Mafia and Gambino the status of boss and Commission member. But like most gangsters, Genovese was afraid of Anastasia and his highly trained, formidable death squad, so they knew they had to carefully and patiently plan the assassination for months so they dont make any mistakes, they also knew that if they failed the assassination, then the bloodthirsty, psychopathic Anastasia and his massive army of vicious killers and prolific assassins would hunt him down and torture him and kill him and his family. On October 25, 1957, Albert Anastasia, New York Mafia boss and the former boss of Murder, Inc. who cammanded a gigantic army of savage killers and ultra professional assassins was shot and killed in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel.
After the Anastasia murder, Genovese and Gambino took control of their crime families and began to recover from the publicity and law enforcement scrutiny from the ill-fated Apalachin Meeting. However, peace for Genovese was short-lived. A new conspiracy was reportedly hatched by Costello, Lucky Luciano, Carlo Gambino and Meyer Lansky to avenge the Costello and Anastasia hits, and to eliminate Genovese. The resulting power structure would make Gambino the new boss of bosses, just as Luciano had once predicted.
In 1959, the conspirators arranged the framing of Genovese, Vincent Gigante, and future Bonanno family boss Carmine Galante on a drug charge. Vito Genovese was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, where he died in 1969.
During his retirement, Costello was known as "The Prime Minister of the Underworld." He still retained enormous power and influence in the American Mafia and remained busy throughout his final years. Cosa Nostra bosses and old associates such as Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese still paid visits to Costello at his Waldorf Astoria penthouse, seeking advice on important Mafia affairs. Costello's old friend, Meyer Lansky, kept in touch with him. Costello occupied himself with gardening and displayed some of his flowers at local horticultural shows.
On February 20, 1961, the United States Supreme Court upheld a lower court order that stripped Costello of his U.S. citizenship. However, on February 17, 1964, the same court set aside a deportation order for Costello, citing a legal technicality.
In early February, 1973, Costello suffered a heart attack at his Manhattan home and was rushed to Doctors Hospital in Manhattan. On February 18, 1973, after 11 days in the hospital, Frank Costello died. It was his 82 birthday.
Costello's sedate funeral service at a Manhattan funeral home was attended by over 50,000 people, dozens of major mafia bosses and thousands of mafioso's from all over the United States attended Costello's funeral, and alot of relatives, friends, associates, businessmen, lawyers, police, judges, politicians, federal agents, mayors, civilians, movie stars, and famous celebrities (including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and George Raft). Costello is buried in a Mausoleum at Saint Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst, Queens.
As a testament to Frank Costello's fame and influence, Carmine Galante ordered the bombing of Costello's burial site soon on after his release from prison in 1974. By blasting the bronze doors off Costello's mausoleum, Galante announced his return to the New York Cosa Nostra scene and finally achieved revenge on his old enemy.
Frank Costello article at Wikipedia
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Elderly Sisters Murdered in Spring Village, St. Catherine
by Aladden Love
November 3, 2021November 3, 2021
The St. Catherine community of Spring Village, is overcome with grief following the grisly discovery of the bodies of two elderly sisters at their home on Tuesday, November 2. It appears their throats were slashed.
Residents of Spring Village, Old Harbour, St. Catherine, are shaken up by the murder of 69-year-old Christine Lewis, Justice of the Peace and retired teacher, and her 73-year-old disabled sister Lola Lewis who she cared for.
Head of the St. Catherine South Police Division, Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips says the decomposing bodies of the women were discovered around 9 am on November 2, by a family friend who went to check on them. He says the presence of flies and a foul odour at the sisters' house were strong indications that something was terribly amiss.
SSP Phillips says the bodies were found; one in the back room and one in the front room, both in a pool of blood. He says it is suspected that there is foul play as the house was ransacked.
Friends of the Justice of the Peace, say they have lost a great person, and another close friend wants justice to prevail. SSP Phillips has sought to assure residents that investigations into the murders will be intense.
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The body of Scott Chandler, 51, was recovered Tuesday evening off Jonesport after an extensive daylong search, authorities say.
Divers on Tuesday evening recovered the body of a West Jonesport lobsterman who fell off his boat earlier in the day.
Jeff Nichols, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, identified the victim as Scott Chandler, 51.
Nichols said divers recovered Chandler's body near Doyle Island, west of Hopkins Point in Jonesport, about 5:10 p.m.
"Chandler was seen falling off his 20-foot lobster boat near the island at approximately 9:20 a.m. Tuesday … by commercial seaweed harvesters in the area who reported the incident," Nichols said in a statement.
Nichols said the circumstances under which Chandler fell into the ocean are being investigated by the Maine Marine Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard. Authorities said that Chandler was alone on his fishing boat when he fell off it.
An extensive water and air search for Chandler began Tuesday morning after the harvesters reported seeing him fall overboard.
News Center Maine (WCSH/WLBZ) reported that the water temperature in Wohoa Bay was about 51 degrees Tuesday morning.
The Coast Guard said in a separate statement that Maine State Police and Maine Warden Service divers recovered Chandler's body off the coast of Jonesport, about 200 yards west of where he fell into the water.
His lobster boat, Marie Louise II, was taken to the Coast Guard station in Jonesport for further investigation, the statement said.
Chris Berry, an operational unit controller for the Coast Guard station in South Portland, described the search as intense and comprehensive with multiple boats, a dive team, a Coast Guard cutter, as well as a fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter scouring the area around Doyle Island for any sign of the missing fisherman.
"His family told us that he was working alone," Berry said, adding that the man's empty boat was located during the search.
According to Berry, the report by the seaweed harvesters triggered a massive response and a search that covered 233 nautical square miles. The 110-foot Coast Guard cutter Sanibel, which is based in Massachusetts, responded, along with a 29-foot Coast Guard response boat out of Jonesport. The Maine Marine Patrol was also on scene with a boat carrying the Maine State Police dive team. The airplane and helicopter that responded came from Air Station Cape Cod.
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It was one year ago this week that the Obama administration announced the United States would normalize relations with Cuba, saying the new policy would lay the foundation for democratic reform and human rights.
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Buried in the 2,000-page omnibus spending bill released by the Senate Wednesday morning is a secret provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers won't find out about.
This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign "guest workers." It would allow more than a quarter-of-a-million foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year and work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, truck drivers, food processing, forestry and many other fields that don't require a college education.
A vote on the spending bill is expected late Thursday night, possibly after midnight, sources on the Hill told WND.
You Know The Way To San Jose... How About Dubai?
The Obama regime is determined to move forward with their Islamic importation program in spite of the wishes of the majority of Americas for a review of the policies and a pause while such a review is done. The threat of terrorism and the associated American lives lost in the event of a terrorist attack are an acceptable trade off to the continued preferable to the regime to the interruption of their North American caliphate members.
Like most Americans the staff at Judicial Watch finds this policy to be inconsistent with common sense and the actions of a responsible federal government. They've been seeking related documents under two separate FOIA request to no avail. They've now decided to go the route of a lawsuit, a common option of last resort when dealing with the Obama regime.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records between the U.S. Department of State and voluntary agencies regarding refugees arriving in the United States (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No 1:15-cv-02030)).
The lawsuit was filed after the State Department failed to respond to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted on May 22, 2015, and September 14, 2015.
If Climate Change causes Terrorism as our perfidious administration would have you believe, and Bacon is good for the environment, then Bacon is bad for terrorism.
Conclusion: eat more Bacon, wrap dead terrorists in Bacon and bury them.
Lettuce is "over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon", according to researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University who analysed the impact per calorie of different foods in terms of energy cost, water use and emissions.
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If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions – remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions – it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world's carbon pollution comes from the developing world.
A former Department of Homeland Security agent says that an investigation he was conducting into a fundamentalist Islamic group operating in the U.S. may have helped stop San Bernardino jihadi Syed Farook had the government not shut down his probe.
During an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday, Philip Haney said that in 2012 as an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center, he opened an investigation into a Sunni Islamic group called, Tablighi Jamaat, a subset of the fundamentalist Deobandi movement.
The reason the investigation was quashed? Because the federal government did not want to profile Islamic groups, Haney told Kelly.
In the process of shutting down Haney's inquiry, the feds also deleted his files, which included information on an organization with ties to Farook's mosque, San Bernardino's Deobandi movement-affiliated Dar-al-Uloom al-Islamia.


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José Guadalupe Velázquez fue un futbolista mexicano. Durante la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1950 jugó contra Brasil, Yugoslavia y Suiza. En el juego contra los yogoslavos, Srđan Mrkušić le cometió una falta, penal que Héctor Ortiz marcó al minuto 88'. El marcador fue de 4–1 favor Yugoslavia. Durante el encuentro Velázquez intentó reaccionar y puso un tiro en el travesaño a la mitad de la parte complementaria.

Trayectoria

 Lupe Velásquez logró anotar 61 goles con el Puebla y actualmente se ubica sexto en la lista de máximo goladores del ClubDe Futbol Puebla.

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 Copa México :(1) 1944-45

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Falleció el 16 de marzo de 2012 en la ciudad de Guadalajara

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One of our awesome clients, Alison McQuade from Global Giving, tipped me off about an exciting development last week. The Library of Congress has just acquired the entire Twitter archive!
It's been interesting to see people's mixed reactions to the news. Lots of people are excited, I think because it makes Twitter feel more like an official communication medium. Others are nervous, like one of my friends, who responded to my enthusiastic retweet by saying she was one of those who "liked having [her] tweets expire." And you have to admit, depending on how and what you tweet, that's a huge amount of personal data that's about to be curated and enshrined in history.
The Library of Congress holds more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.
The Library of Congress also operates the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program www.digitalpreservation.gov, which is pursuing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.
What will your tweets say about you decades from now? How about your nonprofit's tweets?


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Q: When we stop a service using intent, is it a must that the extra data same as the previous intent? Let's say, we start the service in the following manner.
Start the service
Intent intent = new Intent(this, X.class);
intent.putExtra(X.TOKEN, "ABC");
startService(intent);

If we create an Intent with different extra data, will the previously started service be stopped?
Intent intent = new Intent(this, X.class);
intent.putExtra(X.TOKEN, "DEF");
// Will this stop the previous started service?
stopService(intent);

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When we stop a service using intent, is it a must that the extra data same as the previous intent?

No. Extras are not used to identify the component that is the destination for an Intent.

If we create an Intent with different extra data, will the previously started service be stopped?

Yes, though the extras are useless in that case — I do not think that the service has any access to them. So, you could skip the code that adds those extras, if that is convenient.

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Q: Best way to handle missing required params with StrongParameters? I have an Upload ActiveModel class that has one attribute: filename.  Since there's only one attribute, leaving the field blank on the form ends up raising an error when using the following code in my controller:
class UploadsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @upload = Upload.new(upload_params)
    # ...
  end

  private

  def upload_params
    params.require(:upload).permit(:filename)
  end
end

The best workaround I've come up with is to rescue in the upload_params method, e.g.:
def upload_params
  params.require(:upload).permit(:filename) rescue ActionController::Parameters.new
end

Alternatively, I suppose I could add a hidden field to ensure that the filename field is always set to something no matter what, e.g.:
= simple_form_for upload do |f|
  = f.input :filename, as: :hidden, input_html: { value: '' }
  = f.input :filename, as: :file
  = f.submit 'Upload'

Is there a better way of handling the user not filling out any of the form attributes?

A: Figures that I find the answer immediately after posting my question. :)
It looks like the ActionController::StrongParameters#fetch method does what's needed, e.g.:
params.fetch(:upload, {}).permit(:filename)


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InsiderEconomyTax refunds for 2014 on the way
Tax refunds for 2014 on the way
Cyprus Tax Department refunds go directly to bank accounts following the installation of a modern electronic system that has put an end to the issuing of cheques.
Insiders told Phileleftheros that the most recent electronic refunds concerned taxes imposed in 2014. One insider specified that the Department has returned €1.5 million which was directly transferred to taxpayers' bank accounts.
The reimbursement of taxes was based on criteria followed by the Department which also plans to clear 2017 taxes regarding special contribution for defense and interest. The Tax Department had long announced its intention to return taxes electronically to beneficiaries.
As a matter of fact, it had called on both natural and legal persons to proceed with the submission of relevant data enabling electronic tax returns.
The Tax Department deducts tax refunds from its revenue, and this makes it more flexible and more efficient. It basically has no restrictions now since the Department decides on its own over the amount of VAT refunds.
At the same time, delays in returning taxes to citizens and companies have been overcome – to some extent. Last year, the Tax Department refunded taxes amounting to €486.8 million.
Specifically, for the years 2015-2017 the state budget provided tax refunds of €711 million, of which €136.5 million related to direct taxes. In 2015, €224 million were refunded, of which €34 million were for direct taxes and the remaining for indirect ones. A budget of €228.5 million was included in 2016, of which €43.5 million were for direct taxes. Tax reimbursement in 2017 amounted to €209.7 million, of which €58 million concerned direct taxes.
In addition, electronic tax payments through JCCsmart began as of June 1, 2018. These concern provisional tax and income tax (excluding penalties) of natural persons and legal entities. Electronic payments can also be made for special defence contribution on interest, special levy on rentals, special defence contribution on interest received without deduction at source, and the extraordinary defence contribution from dividends.
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Teeny village is my microcosm of Forest Park
by December 20, 2011 February 9, 2021
Every year, I painstakingly set up my miniature holiday village and blanket it in ankle-deep "snow." It's a fresh snow that falls on Christmas Eve before the bobcats have a chance to scrape the sidewalks. The village is heavenly but this year it's been scarred by recession.
My mini-village has much in common with ours. It's a zoning-free hodge-podge of out-of-scale structures sitting inches apart. This resulted from my mixing styles and sizes from three different Holiday Villages into one composite community.
The fire station towers above the houses, while the music shop dwarfs the cathedral. The largest structure is a two-story Irish pub – a perfect stand-in for Doc Ryan's. Doc's is one of three Irish pubs in the village, which is Forest Park-like, if you consider there are only 16 buildings. This is the first year, though, they've draped their walls with banners advertising drink and lunch specials.
All the buildings are glowing except for the country chapel. Its lights are being retrofitted with the new curly-cue bulbs. Green technology is also displayed by the majestic rotating windmill. It's electric-powered, though, and actually leaves a tiny carbon footprint.
It's easy to tell where the one-percenters shop and play. They peruse the upscale boutiques and browse the village's only bookstore, which stuffs its shelves exclusively with Irish histories and mysteries. At the one-percent ice rink, a well-dressed couple glides endlessly over the surface, their elegant warming house just steps away.
The 99-percent skaters don't glide at all. They stand in fixed skating poses on what looks like a cheap mirror. Near their rink is a once-thriving Christmas tree stand. This year, there are no customers. The merry young man, his arm thrust through a fresh wreath, strides from the stand and the couple cheerily lugging home a tree. They both fell from the box and are on permanent disability.
Normally, jaunty figures like these would be strategically scattered across the village. This year, most of the residents, with the exception of the rich skating couple, are densely occupying the swanky business district.
Apart from businesses, two churches and a fire station, the town has only two houses. The 99-percent house is in foreclosure and features a sign that warns it's been winterized and the toilets shouldn't be flushed. The other homeowner keeps his lights on 24/7 and has two of the town's 12 evergreens gracing his front lawn.
Some encouraging signs still remain. There are no empty storefronts. And the dad with the moustache skipped the occupy protest to build Frosty with his two sons, in a circle of light cast by a barn. That's a blessing of the recession. It has restored appreciation for simple family fun. Plus, dad is totally freed up after all those years as assistant at the Christmas tree stand.


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Q: Editing wrong answer to be a copy of correct answer I ran into this question where something rotten happened:

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*After this, user Barmar posted correct answer

*After this, the first user edited their answer to be a copy of Barmar's answer, so looking at the answer time, it looks like they posted their answer BEFORE Barmar!

I flagged the answer, but looking into the user's history, they did it again and again! Shouldn't the user be banned or something?


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