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Home » Tillage » Down to the crunch: Is there a market for Irish grains in snack production?
Down to the crunch: Is there a market for Irish grains in snack production?
Siobhán Walsh
Jan 31, 2018, 6:00pm
Ripening barley. Image source: O'Gorman Photography
Value-added grains and products – such as bread, biscuits and crackers – are needed to improve the profitability of the Irish tillage industry. This seemed to be a recurring theme at today's Teagasc National Tillage Conference.
It was also the focus of Eimear Gallagher's presentation. Eimear is a food scientist at Teagasc Ashtown.
Bread, crackers and biscuits could help in making this a reality. However, a few things need to be investigated before these snacks are produced.
Apart from the obvious nutritional and taste analysis, how a cracker sounds (acoustic properties) when you're eating it, spread ratio on a biscuit and shelf life must all be examined.
The food scientist is currently using Irish barley and oats to produce bread, snacks and baked goods. The research is funded by the Department of Agriculture and is also supported by many members of the seed and food industries.
The team involved in the research project have replaced wheat with barley in bread and produced biscuits and crackers using Irish cereals.
These products were tested for characteristics such as: baking properties; nutritional value; flavour; crumb structure; fermentation properties; and the extensional rheology of dough.
Over three harvests, nine barley and eight oat varieties were used to produce these foods and snacks. The oats and barley were also investigated as sources of soluble fibre, beta glucan, phenolics and essential amino acids.
The project has just finished and the final results are being prepared. The information collected and the results of these trials will be presented to the food industry.
Open days will also be held to inform members of the food industry on how these products can be used in the production of their products.
Eimear added: "With care, it is possible to incorporate Irish cereals in bakery formulations."
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Nurses Make Christmas 'Onesies' for Newborns to Cheer Up Moms
Woman Confirmed as World's Oldest Living Person at Age 115 Has 'No Worries, Lots of Positivity'
New mothers at St. Lucie Medical Center in Florida aren't allowed to have many family members visit them due to the pandemic, so two nurses who work in the labor unit decided to make Christmas outfits for their newborn babies to cheer the moms up.
Nurse Lora Shaffer and Pat Vicino made nearly 80 of the jolly outfits for the newborns.
"We're like the cheerleaders of the nursing world," Shaffer told WPEC, the CBS-affiliated TV station in West Palm Beach.
"We're like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And in this pandemic, it has been crazy. It's been sad. Cause they don't have the whole family unit, like the grandparents and everything. They can't come and visit."
"That breaks our heart when you see that we just try to be there for them," said Lori Shaffer
New mothers are only allowed to have two visitors currently, but the hospital has had to limit visitation completely at times during the pandemic.
Nurse Lori Shaffer took a picture holding up some of the Christmas outfits that she and Pat Vicino made for newborn babies at St. Lucie Medical Center in Port St. Lucie, Florida.


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Mongabay Series: Evolving Conservation, Oceans
Call to protect dwindling wilderness 'before it disappears forever'
by John C. Cannon on 1 November 2018
Just 23 percent of wilderness on land and 13 percent of wilderness at sea remains, according to new maps of global human impacts.
Five countries — Russia, Canada, Australia, the United States and Brazil — contain 70 percent of the remaining wilderness.
The authors of the suite of studies argue that wilderness protection should move to the forefront of the conservation agenda.
New, highly detailed maps now reveal the state of the world's wilderness, both on land and at sea, and the picture looks bleak.
In a series of recent studies, a group of researchers led by ecologist James Watson of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia's University of Queensland analyzed the surface of Earth for significant human activity, such as roads and railways, pastures and farmland, and population centers, at a resolution of 1 square kilometer (0.4 square miles). In the oceans, they looked at fishing efforts as well as fertilizer effluent and shipping lanes.
Botswana's Okavango Delta in southern Africa. Image courtesy of WCS/University of Queensland.
The results are staggering, as summarized Oct. 31 in the journal Nature: Just 13 percent of the world's oceans lack signs of human activity. And the figures on land aren't much higher: not counting Antarctica, just 23 percent of terrestrial wilderness remains. But hidden in what Watson called a "horror story" for untouched places is the potential to save what's left and, with it, life on Earth.
"Science is clearly showing that large intact places are the best low-hanging fruit that we should go and conserve," Watson told Mongabay.
Early on in the research, a 2016 study comparing those changes with the pace of population and economic growth indicated that we weren't losing wilderness as quickly as might be expected. Those "encouraging" results suggested that, as a species, we humans were using resources more efficiently, the researchers said.
The extent of wilderness on land and at sea around the world. Image courtesy of Watson et al.
But as the scientists dug deeper into the data, producing maps that looked at how well parks and reserves safeguard biodiversity and wild spaces from human impacts and the extent of humanity's reach in the world's oceans, for example, Watson said the story that emerged was "how little is left."
At the same time, other investigations have demonstrated the importance of intact wilderness in softening the blow of changing weather as a result of climate change, acting as sanctuaries for plant and animal species to flourish and evolve beyond human influence, and maintaining stockpiles of carbon.
But often, the singular goal of protecting threatened species dominates discussions about conservation, often to the exclusion of the need to set aside the last of Earth's wilderness, Watson said. In his view, the loss of wilderness is just as "profound" as the loss of species.
French Polynesia. Image by dany13 via Flickr.
"You can have both agendas. They're both bloody important, and if both fail, we're going to lose," Watson said. "If you want to sustain biodiversity in the future, you've got to have intact places."
Similarly, he said that just designating a percentage of the world as protected areas wouldn't be enough.
Watson and his colleagues reported earlier this year that perhaps one-third of the world's protected areas weren't holding the impacts of human use at bay. In a 2016 study, they also found that, despite a rise in the global area under protection between 1993 and 2009, the world lost an India-size chunk of wilderness — some 3.3 million square kilometers (1.27 million square miles).
The Torres del Paine in Chile. Image by Gregoire Dubois.
"The conservation community has to have more arrows in its quiver," Watson said.
Those strategies could involve empowering indigenous communities to safeguard the forests they live in, he said. In their analyses, the presence of people within a plot of land didn't preclude its classification as wilderness. Rather, they were looking for more substantial levels of human activity.
Legislation or robust action by private companies to rid their supply chains of deforestation could also be powerful tools, Watson said, in avoiding the critical "first cut" into wilderness areas. In many cases, developments such as a road or a mine touch off a cascade of irreversible changes to wild places.
"You can't restore wilderness," Watson said.
The loss mirrors the finality of species extinction, he added. "The very values are gone, and they never come back even if left alone."
A canoe crossing a river in the rainforest. The Wyss Foundation's Campaign for Nature will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to conserve 30 percent of Earth. Image by Michael Nichols/National Geographic.
Also on Oct. 31 and separate from this research, the Wyss Foundation committed $1 billion to conserve 30 percent of Earth's surface and seas by 2030 through its Campaign for Nature. Echoing Watson's call for a diversified attack, the Wyss Foundation, along with partners including the Nature Conservancy and the National Geographic Society, plans to invest in grassroots projects to shore up protections around the world.
"I believe that to confront the global conservation crisis, we need to do far more to support locally-led initiatives that conserve lands in the public trust, so that everyone has a chance to experience and explore the wonders of the outdoors," philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, the foundation's founder, said in a statement.
With upcoming international conferences on biodiversity in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and climate change in Katowice, Poland, Watson said now was the time to rally around the need to protect wilderness worldwide and come up with "clear targets" to achieve that goal.
"What you need is a Paris moment where nations get together and commit to change," he said, referring to the 2015 U.N. climate accords signed in the French capital, viewed as a watershed moment when much of the world at least acknowledged the steps required to minimize the rise in global temperatures.
Antarctica wasn't included in the calculations of wilderness, but the authors point out that protecting it from human impacts will require international collaboration. Image by Jasmine Lee/University of Queensland.
The answer could be as straightforward as getting some of the "wildest" countries to maintain the wilderness they have. Outside of Antarctica and the internationally governed high seas, 94 percent of remaining wilderness occurs in just 20 countries. And 70 percent is concentrated in just five: Russia, Canada, Australia, the United States and Brazil.
"Those nations should be proud of that," Watson said. "They can lead the world in securing those places that have been largely untouched by humanity."
That responsibility extends beyond their borders to international waters, home to nearly two-thirds of the last marine wilderness and vital sanctuaries for some of the ocean's top predators, Watson said. But safeguarding these remnants requires according wilderness its due importance to life on Earth.
"If we don't recognize that there is a problem," he said, "we're going to lose everything."
Banner image of a sea turtle by Belle Co.
John Cannon is a Mongabay staff writer based in the Middle East. Find him on Twitter: @johnccannon
Jones, K. R., Klein, C. J., Halpern, B. S., Venter, O., Grantham, H., Kuempel, C. D., … & Watson, J. E. (2018). The location and protection status of Earth's diminishing marine wilderness. Current Biology, 28(15), 2506-2512.
Jones, K. R., Venter, O., Fuller, R. A., Allan, J. R., Maxwell, S. L., Negret, P. J., & Watson, J. E. (2018). One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure. Science, 360(6390), 788-791.
Venter, O., Sanderson, E. W., Magrach, A., Allan, J. R., Beher, J., Jones, K. R., … & Levy, M. A. (2016). Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications, 7, 12558.
Watson, J. E., Shanahan, D. F., Di Marco, M., Allan, J., Laurance, W. F., Sanderson, E. W., … & Venter, O. (2016). Catastrophic declines in wilderness areas undermine global environment targets. Current Biology, 26(21), 2929-2934.
Watson, J. E., Venter, O., Lee, J., Jones, K. R., Robinson, J. G., Possingham, H. P., & Allan, J. R. (2018). Protect the last of the wild. Nature, 563, 27-30.
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'Look beyond the veil,' says Israel's first hijab-wearing lawmaker
WOMEN'S RIGHTS • HUMAN RIGHTS
Iman Yassin Khatib, poised to become the first lawmaker in Israel's history to wear a hijab or head scarf, which she does as a Muslim, following results of her Arab Joint List party in Israel's election, holds a traditional Palestinian scarf in Nazareth, Israel March 5, 2020. . REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Analysts cited anger toward Netanyahu and his U.S. ally President Donald Trump as one reason for the surge in Arab voters in this election, the third in a year.
Khatib is one of four women lawmakers among the Joint List's Knesset members. She belongs to its Islamist faction, Ra'am, which campaigns for more services and rights for Arabs in Israel. She supports the creation of a Palestinian state.
"There is a growing awareness amongst Arab women that we can be active participants in our future," said Khatib.
"My message to young women: there is a possibility. There is a way. Don't limit your hopes and dreams."
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Today the UK goes to the polls to decide who will govern us for the next few years. Experts have decided the outcome is too close to call but here at JibberJabberUK we believe the choice is clear – Vote Cake!
Everyone will be entitled to nice sit down and a slice of cake each day.
We aim to keep the UK together through the continued support for regional cakes such as Bara Brith, Dundee cake and Brack.
Whilst we do not welcome European interference in our baking techniques and ingredients. we will continue to eat European cakes such as Sachertorte and Dobos torte.
We respect the right for people to decide how they prepare a scone – either cream on first or jam. We also respect the right for people to pronounce scone so it rhymes with 'cone' or 'con'.
We support healthy eating and the promotion of '5 a day' through the eating of carrot cake, courgette cake and lemon drizzle cake etc.
We have a zero-tolerance attitude to any cake discrimination to minority cakes such as those which are gluten free or vegan.
We are prepared to work with other like-minded parties such as the Better Biscuit Campaign (and their wish to abolish VAT on all biscuits) and The Nice Cup of Tea party.
We are not prepared to compromise to parties whose fundamental ideologies goes against ours such as the Quick Caffeine Fix party and the Anti-Sugar Brigade.
We will continue to work with great British cake decoration suppliers such as Renshaw. A selection of their coloured marzipan and icing can be seen above.
Vote Cake – You know it tastes great!
Disclosure of interests: I was sent a selection of coloured marzipans from Renshaw and very nice they taste too.
Cake a must in every household I vote chocolate cake any day.
I am with you on zero tolerance attitude and vote for any colour or type of cake.
Could cake win the general election? I think cake solves so many problems!
Hmmm red velvet cake wins my heart and vote!
I'm voting cake! It is the only way and I thoroughly agree with your manifesto.
I was a floating voting until now! CAKE all the way! lol. You know what they say, everything is better with cake!
Where can I sign up for the Cake Party?
Finally a party I can relate to! You cannot argue with cake!
Yay! A cake manifesto? I'm in!
i vote cake too! .. with bells on i am lol ..
I would Vote cake too!!
Now that is a manifesto surely everyone can agree on!
A little late but I vote cake too!


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Eugen Volz (* 2. März 1932 in Tübingen; † 19. Mai 2019 in Ellwangen) war ein deutscher Jurist und Politiker der CDU.

Volz ging in Bad Mergentheim zur Schule, wo er auf dem dortigen Gymnasium das Abitur ablegte. Danach studierte er Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Würzburg, München und Tübingen. Er wurde 1952 Mitglied im W.K.St.V. Unitas Markomannia zu Tübingen. Seine Staatsprüfungen machte er 1956 und 1960. 1958 promovierte er zum Dr. jur.

Seine politische Karriere begann 1954 mit dem Eintritt in die CDU. 1965 bis 1969 war er Referent beim Wehrbeauftragten des Deutschen Bundestages Matthias Hoogen, anschließend war Volz beim Landtag von Baden-Württemberg tätig, in den er selbst 1972 für den Wahlkreis Aalen-Ellwangen als Abgeordneter einzog. Ab 1976 zog er stets über ein Direktmandat im Wahlkreis Aalen in den Landtag ein.

1978 holte ihn Ministerpräsident Lothar Späth in die Landesregierung, doch hatte er als politischer Staatssekretär im Justizministerium keinen Sitz und keine Stimme im Kabinett. Dieses Amt übte Volz auch nach den Landtagswahlen 1980, 1984 und 1988 aus. 1991 wechselte er in gleicher Funktion in das Finanzministerium im ersten Kabinett von Ministerpräsident Erwin Teufel. Nach der Landtagswahl 1992 gehörte Volz nicht mehr dem Landtag an und er gab sein Amt als Staatssekretär auf. Danach amtierte er bis 1996 als Präsident der Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (LfK) Sein Nachfolger als Staatssekretär wurde Werner Baumhauer.

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Landtagsabgeordneter (Baden-Württemberg)
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Träger des Großen Bundesverdienstkreuzes
Träger des Verdienstordens des Landes Baden-Württemberg
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Person (Bad Mergentheim)
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Geidai Animation: 6th Graduate Works 2015 (DVD)
東京藝術大学大学院映像研究科アニメーション専攻第六期生修了作品集 2015
Nippon Connection's presentation of a selection of animated shorts by the Tokyo University of Arts (aka Geidai) Animation Department's graduating class of 2015 was sold out again this year. For those of you who could not be there, the Geidai DVD of their 5th year of graduate works is now available to order online.
The works were presented this year by Yūichi Itō, who is one of Japan's top stop motion animators (learn more). The class of 2015 was also taught by the Oscar-nominated director Kōji Yamamura, the animation producer Mitsuko Okamoto, and Taruto Fuyama of the Koma Koma Lab.
In addition to these supervising professors, animator Hiromitsu Murakami is an Assistant Professor in the MA programme and Ilan Nguyen is a lecturer. Hiroki Kono (Geidai 2011), Yuanyuan Hu (Geidai 2012), and Hakhyun Kim (Geidai 2013) provided additional assistance. Sound instructors for the films were Tatsuhko Nishioka, Toru Kamekawa, Yuichi Kishino, and Hiroshi Takayama.
Each Geidai graduating class is given a pithy one-word theme. This year's theme is "DAWN", which is an inspired idea in the way that it evokes the promise of a new generation of animators. At the graduating class's screening event in March, talks were held with special guests including Tomoyasu Murata, Sumito Sakakibara, Masaki Fujihata and the Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman.
Of the 12 students graduating this year 2/3 of them are women, which is a trend at many animation schools in Japan suggesting that the era of male dominance of the animation industry in Japan may finally be coming to an end.
Some of the students that I have my eye on for future greatness include Shishi Yamazaki, whose sensual works featuring self portraits such as Yamasuke Yamazaki (2013) are a breath of fresh air.
Yukie Nakauchi is also one to watch. I featured her adaptation of Niel De Ponte's Celebration and Chorale (2013) at this year's Nippon Connection as an example of one of Tamabi's top recent graduates. With her abstract works she demonstrates a great understanding of the relationship between music and animated movement.
Satomi Maiya's graduate film has a more mainstream appeal. The soft watercolour look and character design in A Place to Name reminded me of the renowned children's picture book author Chihiro.
There are two stop motion animators in this graduating class who also attracted my interest: Kohei Takeda and Ataru Sakagami. Sakagami's stop motion of the interior of his old family home, with its tatami floors shredding up and filling the room is brilliant and he is definitely one to watch out for in the near future.
I will review some of my favourite films from this graduating class in the near future. The consensus at the Nippon Connection selected screening was that there were not as many exceptional works as last year, but the quality of animation is solid and they are certainly a very talented group of animators.
Note: The film descriptions below are by the filmmakers themselves. I have made a couple of improvements to the spelling / wording but I have not corrected everything.
Graduate Films
収録作品 第三期生修了作品
Scutes on my Mind
かたすみの鱗 / Katasumi no Uroko / 8'58"
"The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?"
Note: "Scutes" is the zoological term for bony external plates or scales overlaid with horn, as found on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds.
Megumi Ishitani (石谷恵, b. 1991) was born in Hyogo. She also has a degree in Intermedia Art from Geidai (2013). Check out her website, or follow her on tumblr, twitter, and vimeo.
Wild Boys Advance
超ラジオ体操 / Chō Rajio Taisō / 5'12"
"An ensemble play with men full of distorted energy."
koya (b. 1990) was born in Aichi and is a graduated of Musashino Art University (2013). He leads the video production group KENJA. Follow him on twitter, instagram, and vimeo, or check out his profile here.
A Place to Name
その家の名前 / Sono ie no namae / 4'31"
"This place is where my grandparents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence."
Ataru Sakagami (坂上直, b. 1986) is from Niigata. He graduated from the Kyoto University of Art and Design with a degree in Video and Performing Arts in 2010. You can find him on twitter.
Fox Fears
きつね憑き/ Kitsune Tsuki / 7'38"
"In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friends and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox."
Miyo Sato (佐藤美代, b. 1989) is from Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture. She graduated from the School of Design at Nagoya University of the Art (2011). Check her out on tumblr.
Moonlit Night and Opal
月夜&オパール / Tsukiyo to Opāru / 3'21"
"Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep. . . It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening."
Shishi Yamazaki (シシヤマザキ, b.1989) is from Kanagawa. She has a degree in Design from Tokyo University of the Arts (2013). Follow her on twitter, check out her website, or buy products that feature her art from Kotobukisun Shop.
Holy Shit!
"One elephant lives in a mountain. He spends his life drawing pictures and fishing. Pigs with swollen crotches live in the city. The city is full of towers. One day a tower is built near the elephant's cabin, the elephant starts to climb it.
Takashi Shibuya (澁谷岳志, b.1988) is from Fukushima. He has a degree in Geology from Shinshu University (2012). Follow him on twitter and vimeo, or check out his website.
"A story of a father and a daughter. The father projects the images of [his] former [him]self on his daughter. Their feelings start to merge as his memories get clearer."
Kohei Takeda (武田浩平, b. 1990) is a stop motion animator form Ibaraki. He graduated from the College of Education at Ibaraki University in 2013. Follow him on tumblr.
"One doesn't know where to go but has to move forward. He has to go to his goal. Always transforming himself, his heat and mind drift and run towards the goal when he finds it."
Yukie Nakauchi (中内友紀恵, b. 1989) was born in Hokkaido. She graduated from Tama Art University in 2013. Follow her on twitter or check out her website.
Tepid Bath
"The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water."
Tsumugi Harunari (春成つむぎ, b. 1983) is from Ishikawa. She graduated from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in 2008. Follow her on twitter or check out her website.
白いうなばら / Shiroi Unabara / 6'25"
Satomi Maiya (米谷聡美, b. 1990) was born in Miyagi. She studied animation at Tokyo Polytechnic University (2013). Follow her on tumblr, vimeo, or twitter.
Hollow Mind
粃 / Shina / 5'29"
"The mind grows hollow leaving the body behind. Soon she is almost swallowed by the swelled one. The fruit that failed to fruit."
yagi (山羊, b. 1990) is from Aichi. She graduated from the School of Design at Nagoya University of the Arts (NUA, 2012). http://yagigoya.wix.com/228
Zdravstvuite!
ズドラーストヴィチェ! / Zudorāsutovische / 5'36"
Yoko Yuki (幸洋子, b. 1987) was born in Aichi. She has a degree in Visual Media from Nagoya University of the Arts and Sciences (NUAS, 2010). http://yokoyuki.com/
First Year Films (2014)
一年次作品 2014
Reinventing the Square Wheel
四角い車輪の再発明 / Shikakui Sharin no Saihatsumei / 2'24"
"On various forms expanded in all the direction[s] and a dance by a man in tights."
Yasuaki Adachi (足立靖明, b. 1986) did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts. Follow him on twitter or tumblr.
あらら / Arara
"Naoko had a fight with her brother over a trivial thing and pushed him away. She knew she was childish but she ran away from home."
Megumi Ishitani (石谷恵) – profile above
"A boy's spoon falls on the floor when he is having a breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into the [a] different world. There he begins the adventure to take his spoon back."
Yikun Wang (王禕坤 / オウ・イコン, b. 1991) was born in Shanghai. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo and a degree in Design from Tokyo University of the Arts.
ImZoo
"Signs such as circles, points, and lines get together to make the shape of a 'bear'. 'The bear' starts to walk to find the concrete places and comes across animals in the forest. We tend to find a story in the relationship between 'The bear' and other animals."
koya – profile above
Return to Dust
"A skeleton is tied with red threads and stuck by clay. How much control do we have in our own actions? And what does hinder these actions?"
Ataru Sakagami (坂上直) – profile above
Through the Windows
"The gaze of a woman from a window to [at other] windows leads to a recollection of the various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect, conserve, and sometimes shine like a lighthouse."
Miyo Sato (佐藤美代) – profile above
aaH / Hee
ああ/良い / aa / ii / 2'12"
"When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances."
Shishi Yamazaki (ししやまざき) – profile above
漁 / Ryō/ 3'
Ai Sugaya (菅谷愛) belongs to the animation group Onion Skin along with other Geidai students Toshikazu Tamura, Onohana (Geidai 2014) and Yewon Kim (Geidai 2014).
"[A depressed] and isolated mind is similar to the sense of floating in the water. Underwater as a man's mindscape and the real occurrences at the beach are portrayed"
Kohei Takeda (武田浩平) – profile above
tumbled cat
"A record of sensation and sign[s] of watching tumbl[ing], moving and then floating."
Toshikazu Tamura (田村聡和) belongs to the animation group Onion Skin along with other Geidai students Ai Sugaya, Onohana (Geidai 2014) and Yewon Kim (Geidai 2014).
Scape Escape
ぜんぶわかってる / Zembu wakatteru / 1'59"
"A man wanted to escape. He wanted to stay unaware but he found them all."
Yukie Nakauchi (中内友紀恵) – see profile above.
"A young girl takes it into her head that her mother is taken by her newly born sister. Out of jealousy she hides her baby sister in darkness."
Satomi Maiya (米谷聡美) – see profile above
GYRØ
"The everyday life of an elephant and a woman, his wife in a lakeside house. Their life together with a certain distance repeats itself. The traces of the passing time cover the familiar landscape. One day an accident happens to the couple living together with contradictions and secrets."
Madoka (円香, b. 1990) is an animator, filmmaker and illustrator. Before coming to Geidai, she studied animation at Tokyo Zokei University (2011). Check out her website.
"At the waterside surrounded by factories and the [waste] lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the goldfish appears to be in poor health, which worries the frog."
Yagi (山羊) – see profile above.
Mind Game
形而上の無限思考 / Keijijyō no Mugenshikō / 4'50"
"The devices not used for a story are fed and then destroyed. This is a reproduction of reminiscence when a heroine runs about a neuron in a moment of waiting for the world that didn't happen."
Risa Yamashita (山下理紗) is in her early 20s. She only lists rather vague information about herself in her profile on her website.
See ya, Mr. Banno!
黄色い気球とばんの先生 / Kiroi Kikyū to Banno Sensei / 4'23"
"One day out of [the] blue Prof. Banno of next class came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air balloon the other next day. Nobody knows anything about what happened to him afterwards after that."
Yōko Yuki (幸洋子) – see profile above.
Cathy Munroe Hotes 2015
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Aoki Lee Simmons Gets Accepted Into Harvard
March 29, 2019 - 1:04 am by Latifah Muhammad
"I'm only 16 and I'm going to Harvard, baby!"
Aoki Lee Simmons is Harvard bound! The 16-year-old high schooler burst into tears as she discovered she'd been accepted into the ivy league university.
"I'm only 16 and I'm going to Harvard baby! Insert emotional crying face," the teen wrote on Instagram Thursday (March 28) before making a joking reference to the college admissions scandal involving actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, and countless other affluent parents that paid millions to bribe their children's way into USC, Harvard and more.
"Thank you so much to every single person who helped me along the way," Aoki added. "I am excited and honored and so so grateful."
Aoki's father, Russell Simmons, also posted a video of the emotional moment along with her mother, Kimora Lee Simmons. "Yaaayyyyy @aokileesimmons!! She's on her way to #Harvard," Kimora wrote. "We are sooo super proud of YOU!! Such hard work and only 16! You did it! It took years of super dedication and lots of tears! But HERE YOU ARE!!! GO GIRL!!! Enjoy the journey! We are excited to see the great things you will do!"
Anyone who follows Aoki on social media knows that she's a dedicated student and enrolled in AP (advanced placement) classes in hopes of getting accepted into Harvard or Yale, as she explained earlier in the month while airing out her frustrations about being racially bullied by a white classmate who called her the n-word.
Besides Harvard, Aoki also got into Dartmouth, Vassar and Barnard College.
See video of her college acceptance moment below.
I'm only 16 and I'm going to Harvard baby! Insert emotional crying face. @kimoraleesimmons "thank god you got in on your own honey cause you can't row" 😂😂😂 thank you so much to every single person who helped me along the way. I am excited and honored and so so grateful. 👩🏽🎓👩🏽🎓👩🏽🎓 #harvard2023
A post shared by Aoki Lee Simmons 🏹 (@aokileesimmons) on Mar 28, 2019 at 5:17pm PDT
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Dr. Dre was released from L.A. Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Friday (Jan. 15), nearly two weeks after he suffered a reported brain aneurysm. Ice T confirmed the news tweeting, "Just FaceTimed with @drdre. He just made it home. Safe and looking good."
The 55-year-old music mogul will remain under 24-hour care for the next few weeks as medical professionals continue to monitor his progress. Doctors are still unclear on what caused the aneurysm.
Dre's hospital release comes days after new details were revealed in his divorce from estranged wife, Nicole Young. According to court documents publicized this week, Nicole accuses Dre, birth name Andre Young, of putting a gun to her head in 2000 and 2001. She also details other alleged abuse incidents in 1995 (before they were married) and in 2016, when he allegedly punched her in the face and kicked down her door.
The Grammy winner has denied Nicole's abuse claims.
Nicole and Dre tied the knot in 1996. The pair share two adult children, Truice and Truly. Nicole filed for divorce last summer.
In addition to demanding that Dre cover her legal fees, Nicole wants the court to take the abuse allegations into account when "awarding support and fees." Dre has already agreed to pay $500,000 of Nicole's legal bills and $2 million in temporary spousal support.
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Cardi B is making her way back to the big screen. The Bronx native officially landed her first leading role in the upcoming Paramount comedy, Assisted Living.
According to Variety, Cardi will play a small time crook struggling to find a hiding place after her latest heist fails. Her character, "Amber," disguises herself as an elderly woman and hides out at her grandmother's nursing home. The film is described as a "raucous comedy" similar to Mrs. Doubtfire and Sister Act.
Paramount acquired the rights to Assisted Living in 2019. The film's script was penned by This Is Us writer, Kay Oyegun.
Cardi, 28, made her film debut in the 2019 celeb-heavy stripper flick, Hustlers. The "WAP" rapper appears to have hinted at her Assisted Living role in a recent interview with Billboard where she dished on filming scenes for Fast & Furious 9.
"After 'Hustlers' I filmed a little bit for 'Fast & Furious' so I felt like 'I'm ready for this,' I knew what to expect," she explained. "But the characters were a little different so I was like 'Oh wow, I'm going to need more acting classes.' I'm planning on doing a movie this year and I'm going to be the lead role so I'm like 'I need to execute this flawlessly.'"
Besides film, Cardi was a judge on the Netflix completion show, Rhythm & Flow, and landed her own Facebook Watch series, Cardi Tries.
Wendy Williams Reveals She Was Date Raped By '80s R&B Singer
Wendy Williams revealed that she was date raped by '80s R&B singer, Sherrick, early in her radio career. The talk show host shared the story with reporters while promoting her Lifetime biopic Wendy Williams: The Movie on Tuesday (Jan. 12).
"He mesmerized me with his twinkling eyes," she recalled. "He flipped the interview around to where he was interviewing me — I was just gaga over this man and he asked me to go to an album release party with him that night.
"Before the party, I was date raped by him," said Williams.
Sherrick, born Lamotte Smith, was a member of the group Kagny, whose song is featured on The Last Dragon soundtrack. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1987 and scored a marginal hit with the single "Just Call" off his debut self-titled album. Sherrick struggled with sobriety but declared himself "drug-free" before dying of unknown causes in 1999.
Williams says that she was raped in Sherrick's Washington D.C. hotel room and it, unfortunately, wasn't her first time being sexually assaulted. The New Jersey native had been date raped in college. "Those types of things happen to girls all the time and they've been happening a lot, to a lot of our mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and their great-great-grandmothers too."
From the sounds of it, Sherrick's widow doesn't exactly believe Williams' story. She not only questioned Williams' account but wondered why she waited so long to go public, and why she didn't call police at the time of the incident.
"As I will never minimize or dismiss the horrid actions of sexual assault, I am saddened that Ms. Williams feels the need to publicly make these allegations when the man she is accusing is no longer on this earth to defend himself," Lynne Conner Smith said in a statement to Page Six. "Our family does not know Ms. Williams and are not aware of any relationship or encounter they may have had."
The sexual assault will be chronicled in the film, as well as other details from Williams' life -- like her rise to talk show fame, her battle with drug addiction, and marriage to ex-husband Kevin Hunter.
Wendy Williams: The Movie premieres on Lifetime on Jan. 30.


Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who lost both of her legs while serving in the military, blasted President Donald Trump's controversial ban on transgender service members in an emotional statement released on Thursday.
Trump's ban pushed forward earlier this week as the White House prepares to send Defense Secretary Jim Mattis guidance in "coming days" regarding transgender service members.
Duckworth called the ban "disruptive" to the military and "counter productive" to national security. At the end of her statement, Duckworth called on Congress to act against the president's ban.
"If the President enacts this ban, which would harm our military readiness, the Democratic and Republican members of Congress who oppose this discrimination must enact legislation that prevents it from taking effect," she said.
The Trump administration's guidance on the transgender ban would request the military stop accepting trans troops and end payments for any trans service members medical care, such as gender confirmation surgery.
It is expected that the Defense Department will have six months to officially implement Trump's transgender military ban. Trump originally said that "tremendous medical costs" were his reason for implementing a ban, despite his frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago costing more than the military spends on transgender service members.


Part two of Keith Curle's Notts County preview.
Cobblers boss Keith Curle felt there were positives to take from the performance as he reflected on the 3-1 away defeat at Bury on Easter Monday.
Jordan Turnbull reflects on Monday's game at Bury.
David Cornell reflects on Monday's game at Bury.
Cobblers boss Keith Curle says he will make changes as Northampton Town prepare for their second game of the Easter weekend away at Bury on Easter Monday.


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Clinton joins Cuomo to celebrate $15 wage
Nick Muscavage
ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill Monday that will increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over a set timeline and also create 12-week paid-family leave policy.
He was joined on stage in midtown Manhattan by Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Clinton called paid-family leave one of her "highest priorities" and also heralded New York's move to a $15 minimum wage. She's touring New York in advance of the April 19 primary.
"We need to build on what has been accomplished here in New York and go all the way to Washington and raise the minimum wage for everybody in America," Clinton, who served as secretary of state as well as New York senator, said.
Under the law, the state minimum wage, currently $9 an hour, will increase to $15 in New York City through a $2 yearly increase until 2018 and will increase to $15 in Westchester County and on Long Island by $1 each year until it is $15 at the end of 2021.
The upstate New York timeline is a different. Once the wage hits $12.50, the governor's Division of the Budget will be required to come up with a formula to increase it to $15 over the next several years.
"I signed a bill into law and that bill will grow this state's economy for everyone, it will restore economic fairness, and it will make life better for over 2 million New Yorkers when we raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour," the Democratic governor said at the event.
The 12-week paid-family leave will be funded by workers through a weekly $1 payroll deduction, starting in 2018. Workers will be eligible to up to two-thirds of the average weekly salary in New York.
Clinton said that she plans on taking paid-family leave to Washington D.C. to create a national discussion.
"When you have a new baby and you have got to go back to work in 48 or 72 hours, that's bad for the baby, it's bad for you, it's bad for your family, it's just plain wrong," she said. "We are now going to end that in New York."
Clinton will be in Albany later Monday as part of her presidential campaign.
"Government works when we work for you," Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Senate Minority Leader, said to the crowd. The Yonkers Democrat said New York is now "the most progressive state in the country."
"Workers in New York have heard for far too long, they know that they have empty pockets, and the only thing they were hearing was empty promises," Sen. Jeff Klein, Leader of the Senate Independent Democratic Conference, said.
The Bronx Democrat said, "Well this budget that Governor Cuomo signed today changes all that because when we signed this budget, we created the year of the worker everyone, the year of the worker here in New York state."


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Scillonian III returns for new season
Scillonian III made her first trip to the islands of the new season today.
The ship was last seen in St Mary's Harbour on November 4th last year.
One passenger said the journey was not ideal but it was good to see the vessel back in action.
Jon Mackenzie said: "We set off 15 minutes late, the engine cut out half way across and we arrived 55 minutes late at St Mary's. So what can I say? Dodgy start, tailed off a bit in the middle and the less said about the end the better. But other than that it was absolutely perfect and I was thrilled to be on the first sailing of the season."
Scillonian III has been undergoing maintenance throughout the winter. All the systems are tested, surveyed and passed, including onboard fire protection systems and lifesaving equipment.
Isles of Scilly Travel recently announced that the ship will make double sailings in the peak summer months this year.
Free Scillonian tickets can be won later this month as part of the ferry industry's first public ballot.
Photo by John Stickland.
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Clear Channel Dodges Indecency Hit
One day after settling a bunch of indecency allegations with Clear Channel Communications Inc., the Federal Communications Commission released another notice of apparent liability against the company, then rescinded it in the next breath.
In fact, all the heavy breathing was a while back. Seems the FCC had issued the NAL in February for a suggestive segment full of penis-related innuendo on WIHT(FM) Washington back in 2002. The FCC had planned to fine the station the $27,500 maximum.
Although the P-word was never used, "various common euphemisms, some that could easily be understood by children, were used instead," concluded the commission, and anyway, "the use of euphemism or innuendo is not a defense to a finding of indecency."
Turns out that a few weeks later staffers discovered that the statute of limitations had expired in October 2003, so the FCC had to rescind the NAL. Neither action was released until yesterday.
FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein used the snafu as an opportunity to criticize the complaint process. "It is unfortunate that after the Commissioners promptly voted this item," he said, "we were made aware that the statute of limitations had run out. We should not let unnecessary delay deprive us of the ability to meet our obligation to enforce statutory and regulatory provisions restricting broadcast indecency."
Copps pointed out that the station's license had been renewed in the fall while the complaint was still pending, using that as an opportunity to renew his call for a more thorough review of public interest performance at renewal time, "It is unfortunate that in this instance a license was renewed while a pending complaint remained unaddressed," said Copps.
Once a license is renewed, the FCC only has a year from the alleged violation to act on an indecency complaint.
"Going forward, the Commission should not only ensure that all complaints have been addressed before a license is renewed," Copps said, "but we should also conduct a more thorough examination of how stations are meeting their public interest responsibilities over the term of their licenses."
Clear Channel Wednesday settled a bunch of pending indecency complaints with the FCC for $1.75 million, so even if the NAL had been within the time limit, it would have been wiped away by the deal.
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What Teens Are Doing Online
By Justin W. Patchin August 30, 2013
Tags: cyberbullying niceitforward teens Words Wound
(reposted from the Free Spirit Publishing blog)
Some adults are under the assumption that just about everything that teens do online is either hurtful to themselves or others or a complete waste of time. To be fair, there's no shortage of daily headlines that seem to point to the conclusion that many teens are using technology irresponsibly. But the reality is that those stories represent a small part of what most teens are doing in cyberspace. For example, very few young people are trolling chat rooms looking to meet new friends. Most teens use computers, and more often mobile phones, to interact with others whom they know in real life. Sometimes they are communicating with friends of friends or "strangers" while playing online games, but generally they are connected to those they know. According to recent data released by the Pew Internet & American Life project, 60 percent of teen Facebookers have their profiles restricted to friends only and nearly three-quarters have deleted people from their friends list. So in short, most teens are using social media conscientiously.
Moreover, many teens are using technology for educational purposes. In every survey of students that we have done over the last decade, "using the Internet for schoolwork" has always been among the top five weekly activities reported—ahead of Facebook, online games, and YouTube. In our most recent survey of about 1,500 randomly selected middle and high school students in one large district, almost 94 percent of respondents said that they used the Internet for schoolwork at least every week (by comparison, about 19 percent said they used Twitter as often). We regularly hear stories of students using Skype or FaceTime to collaborate in real time with classmates, and the World Wide Web allows curious learners to dig even deeper into a topic.
We also know from our work that the vast majority of teens are not behaving recklessly, carelessly, or maliciously. On average, about 17 percent of the thousands of students we have surveyed over the last five years have admitted to us that they have cyberbullied others at some point in their lifetime (less than 10 percent say they did it in the previous 30 days). So this means that between 80 and 90 percent of teens are not cyberbullying others! These data belie the conventional wisdom held by many (adults and teens alike) that a significant majority of teens are using technology to torment.
Furthermore, a significant number of students are now taking the power of technology and using it to do good. We've written about the Nice it Forward movement on our blog before, and it appears to be growing with students at schools from all around the United States setting up social media pages for the purpose of encouraging and recognizing their classmates and others. Kevin Curwick, the 18-year-old founder of the @OsseoNiceThings feed that really got the movement going, recently told us that he started the Twitter account to "bring back a sense of school unity, and to show support for students of all interests."
Jeremiah Anthony and his friends at West High School have been complimenting classmates for nearly 2 years on Twitter and Facebook at @westhighbros. Like Kevin, Jeremiah sought to exploit the power of technology to spread a positive message. "Our Twitter account is here to prove to every single doubter of the goodness of people, that people my age really do great things with technology." Similarly, there has been increased interest in adolescents to artfully weave words into a message of hope, compassion, and respectfulness when using technology as illustrated in a number of poetry slams recorded and posted online. (Here is just one recent example.)
In short, it is clear that the vast majority of teens are using technology safely, responsibly, and appropriately. And it is also likely that many more are proactively using it to spread positive messages rather than negative ones. Our mandate as caring adults is to encourage the teens in our lives to choose positivity over negativity and to acknowledge the efforts of those who do the right thing, instead of drawing unnecessary attention toward those who do not.
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Roxy Mize
It is true that parents' perception of what their kids do online is a little skewed. Sure, they use social media, but they use it- and the internet- for better learning too. There are have been so many instances where the students are interacting with the natives of the country whose language they are learning in school. It is time for parents to learn that the internet is not just a murky thing that is used to stalk others via social networks.
Ryan Klingensmith
Thank you for this post Justin! This sums up one of the points I try to address with parent, teachers and therapists. There is much media misreporting related to cyberbullying=suicide. So of course the thoughts are that youth are all involved in some sort of horrific behaviors online. We have to continue to dispell such simplistic ideology with factual data. Keep it up!
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Text | An Act Abolishing the Pork Barrel System
by Pinoy Weekly
Delegates of the People's Congress link arms to show unity against pork barrel. Ilang-Ilang Quijano
Editor's Note: We are publishing in full the proposed bill to abolish the pork barrel system through the people's initiative, ratified in a People's Congress held last August 23. Carol Araullo, convenor of Abolish Pork Movement, described the bill as a product of a "long, painstaking, and democratic discussion by experts and non-experts alike." The People's Initiative to Abolish Pork Barrel said that around six million signatures from registered voters are needed to pass the said bill.
ABOLISHING THE PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL PORK BARREL SYSTEM, STRENGTHENING THE SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES OVER PUBLIC FUNDS, PROHIBITING CERTAIN ACTS, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR
SECTION 1. Short Title—This Act shall be known as "An Act Abolishing the Pork Barrel System."
SECTION 2. Declaration of State Policies and Principles. – This act is a direct exercise of sovereign power by the people of their authority to enact legislation reserved by the Philippine Constitution.
The sovereign people affirm the need to establish a system of strict accountability over the use of public funds to ensure that they are spent solely for functions, programs, projects and activities that redound to the interest of the people, especially the poor and marginalized sectors of Philippine society.
Recognizing that the pork barrel system is one of the main sources of graft and corruption and of patronage politics, the State shall ensure that measures designed to eliminate the rules and practices of the pork barrel system are in place and that the mechanisms of checks and balances are strengthened.
SECTION 3. Definitions. For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall mean:
(a) Pork Barrelis a lump sum public fund assigned by law, regulation or practice with sole discretion given to the President, legislator or group of legislators, or any public officer. The exercise of discretion by public officers relates to the allocation, release or use of these public funds, the identification or selection of projects, implementors or beneficiaries, or any or a combination of or all of these.
(b) A lump sum appropriation is a single but divisible sum of money which serves as a funding source for unspecified or multiple purposes and leaves the purposes of the appropriation and their actual amounts for further determination after the enactment of the appropriation law. Said appropriationis not itemized or does not specify the program, activity or project or implementing government agency for which it is appropriated, including the allotment class, beneficiaries, and other matters required to be disclosed by government agencies in their budget estimates under existing law.
(c) Impoundment is the act of not spending money appropriated by law. Impoundment may be through rescission or cancellation of the appropriation, or deferral or suspension of the release of the appropriated funds.
(d) National Official under this Act refers to the President, head of department or national agency or his/her respective subordinate, agent, or authorized representative, and any member of Congress.
(e) Savings refers to any available portion or balance in an appropriation item under the law, which has become free from any obligation or encumbrance as a result of (i) the completion or final discontinuance as certified by the President or abandonment, due to fortuitous events, of the work, activity or purpose for which the appropriation is authorized; or (ii) the non-payment of compensation and related costs as a result of vacancies in positions and leaves of absence without pay; or (iii) the implementation of measures resulting in improved systems and efficiencies that enabled government agencies to meet and deliver the required or planned targets, programs and services approved in an appropriation law at a lesser cost.
SECTION 4. General mandatory rules governing appropriations and disbursement of public funds.
(a) All proposed budgets submitted to the Philippines Congress shall contain only itemized or line-item appropriations, except appropriations for the purpose of disaster response, contingency fund of not more than 5% of the budget for a specific item, and for the intelligence/confidential funds of the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
(b) The expenditures from allowable lump sums shall be reported immediately to Congress by the government agency to which the sum has been appropriated and shall always be subject to a special audit by the Commission on Audit.
(c) All unspent, unreleased, and unobligated funds of any government agency by the end of the fiscal year shall remain in or revert to the General Fund and shall not thereafter be available for expenditure except by a subsequent appropriation law; Provided, however, that the President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional Commissions may authorize their respective government agency or office to use the savings realized by the agency or office from its regular budget during the fiscal year to augment any existing appropriation item for the same agency or office under the general appropriations act; Provided, further, that the augmentation may only be done during the same fiscal year when the savings were realized; Provided, finally, that the power to realign or use savings may not be delegated to other public officers.
SECTION 5. Appropriation of special funds. Within the fiscal year following the approval of this Act, a report on the financial status of every account including but not limited to the Malampaya fund, the Motor Vehicles Users Charges and other off-budget items covered by a special law authorizing the continuous disbursement of funds for a special purpose shall be submitted to Congress. Every fiscal year thereafter, the President shall submit to Congress a proposed budget for the disbursement of the special funds in accordance with their purpose as part of the National Expenditure Program.
SECTION 6. Abolition of the Presidential Social Fund. The share of the Government in the aggregate gross earnings of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation provided under Section 12 of Presidential Decree No. 1869 as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1993 shall henceforth be remitted regularly to the National Treasury and may be used only pursuant to a valid appropriation made by law. The discretionary authority of the President granted under the aforesaid Section 12 to use the fund "to finance" the restoration of damaged or destroyed facilities due to calamities" is hereby revoked.
SECTION 7. Special Offenses. The penalty of imprisonment of six (6) years and one day to ten (10) years and perpetual disqualification from public office shall be imposed on the following persons for committing any of the following acts:
(a) Any national official who authorizes the spending of public money that is not covered by or is in violation of any appropriation law;
(b) Any national official who, in violation of Section 4 (a), includes a lump sum amount in any budget proposal submitted to Congress, or any member of Congress who approves the inclusion of any lump sum amount in the general or supplemental appropriations acts; Provided, that the appropriation of lump sums for the purpose of disaster response, a contingency fund of not more than 5% of the budget for a specific item, and for the intelligence fund of the NSC, DND and DILG shall not be covered by this prohibition;
(c) Any national official who inserts in an appropriation bill provisions allowing post-enactment intervention by a member or members of Congress in the implementation of the appropriation measure;
(d) Any member of Congress, or his agent or representative, who directly or indirectly intervenes or participates in the implementation of any appropriation law through any post-enactment act or practice, including but not limited to identification or endorsement of projects, beneficiaries or contractors, or assuming authority or exercising influence in the release, allocation or realignment of appropriated funds;
(e) Any national official who declares and utilizes savings outside of the cases provided in Section 3(e) hereof, or realigns the improperly declared savings;
(f) Any national official who impounds any appropriation or portion thereof by retention, reduction, rescission or deferral or suspension of release of funds, or any other means, for whatever reason or purpose, unless there is an official declaration by the President of an unmanageable National Government budget deficit.
(g) Any person including a private individual who persuades, induces, influences or cooperates with any national official in violating any of the provisions of this Act shall suffer the same penalty.
The above penalties shall be in addition to the criminal, civil and administrative liabilities that the national official or private individual may incur under existing laws.
SECTION 8. Diligence required; presumption. All public officers involved in the approval, release and disbursement of funds shall exercise extraordinary diligence in the performance of their functions. When an anomalous transaction is duly proved, the public officer responsible for the approval, release or disbursement of funds shall be presumed to have knowledge of the anomalous transaction.
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The Election Case of Frank E. Hook v. Homer Ferguson of Michigan (1949)
Campaign irregularities; Senate reread some voting machines.
Petition received: Jan. 5,1949
Referred to committee: Jan. 5, 1949
Committee report: July 28, 1949
Senate vote: July 28, 1949
Result: Ferguson retained seat
In 1948 Democrat Frank E. Hook, former coal miner, woodsman, and lawyer, decided after ten years in the United States House of Representatives to make a bid for the Senate seat of Michigan Republican incumbent Homer Ferguson. General disorder at the polls, coupled with confusion on the part of some Michigan citizens who remained devoted to the Progressive party—which fielded no candidate in the senatorial election—resulted in an election day marred by rancor and charges of fraud. In this climate of dissension, Homer Ferguson won by more than 44,000 votes and returned to Washington for his second term in the United States Senate.
On January 3, 1949, Homer Ferguson presented his credentials and was sworn in without objection. Two days later, a petition submitted on behalf of the defeated Democrat, Frank Hook, asked the Senate to investigate charges of fraud in the Michigan election. This petition, referred by the Senate to the Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, alleged multiple violations by Michigan Republicans. Among his grievances Hook charged that towns with Republican majorities refused to appoint bipartisan inspection committees, denied the credentials of Democratic poll workers, and returned tally counts that exceeded the total number of registered voters for a community. A separate allegation stated that the collection of hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Michigan Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury automobile dealerships represented a violation of election finance laws.
Response of the Senate
On July 28, 1949, the subcommittee returned a report favorable to Homer Ferguson. Committee investigators had traveled to Michigan in January and February to read voting machines in the disputed counties but found only minor discrepancies with the earlier official count. These investigators did, however, uncover evidence to support some of the other complaints. For example, they discovered that local election boards were not always bipartisan as required by state law. In a number of areas election inspectors acknowledged that they had failed to count for Hook split ballots in which the Progressive party was checked in general and an "X" placed beside Hook's name as the Democratic Senate candidate, in the absence of any Progressive party candidate for the seat. In several Michigan counties frustrated voters had tried until two in the morning to gain admittance to polling places where disorganization and chaos had especially "militated against the class of people attempting to vote after the completion of their day's work." In several precincts the lack of sufficient checkers added to the confusion and made the final counts highly questionable. Despite the ample evidence of misconduct at many Michigan polling places, the subcommittee failed to find that the unruly state of affairs had been intended to undermine the outcome for either candidate.
The subcommittee noted that the courts had already handled the Michigan Automobile Dealers Association's connection to illegal contributions. Under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, several corporate figures had been indicted, pleaded nolo contendere, and been sentenced for their action. The Senate committee found nothing to link Ferguson to the fundraising by automobile dealerships throughout the state.
The subcommittee chastised Michigan election officials for permitting the circus atmosphere on election day that had, perhaps unintentionally, deprived citizens of their civil right to vote, deplored the decision to discard those ballots that voted for both the Progressive party and Frank Hook, and decried the methods of raising campaign funds. At the same time, it exonerated Homer Ferguson of knowledge or involvement in any of these matters. The subcommittee therefore recommended that no further investigation be conducted and that Ferguson be declared duly elected.
The Senate on July 28, 1949, accepted the committee's recommendation by voice vote, and Homer Ferguson retained his seat.
The unsuccessful contestant, Frank Hook, abandoned political life and practiced law in Michigan and Wisconsin until his death in 1982.
Defeated for reelection in 1954, Homer Ferguson served as ambassador to the Philippines from 1955 to 1956 before becoming a judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals. He died in 1982.
Source: Adapted from Anne M. Butler and Wendy Wolff. United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990. S. Doc. 103-33. Washington, GPO, 1995.
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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 22
Posted by Runeslinger on August 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog's second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run of which less than 1 month remains. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition and to a much lesser extent Leagues of Adventure. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community oppressed by faceless enemies and their own countrymen. It will additionally suggest routes, leads, and hooks for GMs to entice groups based elsewhere in the world to get involved. This series portrays characters and situations which are often grim, oppressive, and hopeless in hope that once characters from your campaigns are introduced, you can change that, or part of that, for those whose lives your players' PCs encounter. This series also contains very strong suggestions of ways to enable the characters to travel either to or from the Hollow Earth (and even a small suggestion of how they might come to learn to do both), and so has quite a few touches of the unexplained and unexplored.
22 Breaking Ground – Not in my backyard
The days of many opportunities for foreign experts to consult on major projects have already come to an end, due to a lack of further need, and growing political complications. Those still in action on the peninsula grow ever more special and connected as the world marches closer and closer toward war.
To our isolated and threat-filled community of Samhang, such a man had been sent to oversee the modernization of the factories, canneries, and fisheries in cooperation with the regional Overseer. Known as Daniel Winston Smith, but born under the name Allan Gale, an expert had been attached to the region for a number of years and had moved several projects in and around Samhang into their initial construction phases. For reasons typical of business in the area and the military anywhere most of these projects suffered endless delays and finally had to be relocated farther and farther outside the town limits.
Functional in Korean and fluent in Japanese, Smith was able to gain a good understanding of the social and political situation he found himself in, and it began to gnaw at him. While others grew fat working for corporations and universities in Seoul. Smith began to consider very different options. The more he tramped around the back country, and the deeper ties he made with the monks and other learned outsiders, the more certain he became that Samhang was sitting on top of a mystery fit to rock the world. Warring inside him were competing drives to foment rebellion to save the locals, or to pursue these mysteries to save himself.
As 1936 moved the occupation forces ever closer to their eventual insistence on the obliteration of native cultural identity, his presence and outlook was seen as being an obstacle to the further glory of the Emperor, and he was deported. Predictably, he has decided not to take this lying down.
About 15 miles up the coast from the Coils of the Dragon, a series of failed surveys for a new factory site had revealed a curious geological feature in the form of a closed network of caves with an underwater access point far enough out to sea to mitigate the danger of the region's cruel rocky coastline. As it is small and goes nowhere of any particular use, the site was left alone and forgotten by everyone but Smith, who plans to use it to stage a small expedition into the heart of the greatest mystery he has ever known.
Daniel Winston Smith
Smith knows nothing about the Hollow Earth, the mines of precious ore, the rebel camps, or the smugglers whose threads all pass through the knot which is Samhang. He does, however suspect that somewhere in the mountains, a find of tremendous cultural and spiritual importance lies buried, waiting for him to find it. Together with his friends in scattered mountain monasteries unconnected to Samgakji Temple, he hopes to reveal it to the world, once it has worked its magic on his own soul.
Now in exile and back in the US, Smith has decided to book passage to Shanghai with some 'capable men.' He will conduct a similar recruitment and bullshit drive there. Once comfortable with his team of 'archaeologists' he intends to launch a secret expedition into the mountains north of Samhang to reveal once and for all, the mystery he suspects will reshape the course the future takes.
To make his landing, he has obtained diving gear and a small submersible craft. He intends to take his team undersea, into the submerged caverns, and up into the mountains from below….
Smith, under his real name, is wanted by the authorities in the US for an unexplained altercation in a Chicago Museum with a foreign gentleman who is also wanted for questioning.
He is just over 6ft tall, brown of hair and eye, and fit. Despite his outdoors-man's life he is respected more for his brains and panache than brawn. He is an accomplished athlete and a passable marksman, but prefers to win his battles with whiskey or subterfuge.
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Q: Declaring XSLT variable pending value Suppose I have the following XML:
<ShoppingCart>

  <!-- Item 1 -->
  <LineItem>
    <extendedAttributes>
      <item>
        <name>RenewingSubscriptionID</name>
        <value>2106596709</value>
        <valueDataType>string</valueDataType>
      </item>
      <item>
        <name>subscriptionLineItemId</name>
        <value>3145223500</value>
        <valueDataType>string</valueDataType>
      </item>
    </extendedAttributes>
  </LineItem>

  <!-- Item 2 -->
  <LineItem>
    <extendedAttributes>
      <item>
        <name>RenewingSubscriptionID</name>
        <value>2106596709</value>
        <valueDataType>string</valueDataType>
      </item>
    </extendedAttributes>
  </LineItem>

</ShoppingCart>

How do I go about in declaring an XSLTvariable that has value of true when the existence of LineItem/extendedAttributes/item/name has a value of subscriptionLineItemId? For the XML provided above, the desired behavior would be that Item 1 would have the variable = true, while Item 2 would have the variable = false.

A: You would write something like this
<xsl:template match="LineItem">
  <xsl:variable name="has-item-id" select="boolean(extendedAttributes/item[name = 'subscriptionLineItemId'])"/>
  <has-item-id><xsl:value-of select="$has-item-id"/></has-item-id>
</xsl:template>

From the perspective of the LineItem element, the XPath expression finds all extendedAttributes/item elements that have the desired value of name, and converts the resulting node set to a boolean value. An empty node set converts to false.

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There is a variety of point of sale systems out there that let you do a lot of things that were not even possible before. Thanks to technology, managing a business still offers bumps along the way. But when it comes to integrated reports, a whole lot of it has improved since.
It is no longer as difficult to track inventory and there are less inaccuracies in the number of products you have in front of the store. Offering discounts and tracking each has become a breeze too. The cash register has become more than just a means to prevent theft of money. It has become part of a computerized system too.
The decision to get a cloud based point of sale system is not a huge concern for startups. But for existing businesses, there is much to consider. Paramount to this would be the cost of switching to a cloud based point of sale system.
You also have to take note of what it would cost you to cancel an existing contract. Is it the right time to switch POS providers at this stage of the business's growth? Or perhaps delaying it work out better? According to Business Bee, cloud based point of sale systems have advanced rapidly in recent years, growing more powerful and more popular. As it turns out, they are also cost effective and reliable for use in any business operation, like the system Shopify has to offer.
Cloud technology allows you to operate from anywhere, even if you are not at your business's premise. It has always been the case that business owners depend on a trusted helper whenever they are out of town.
With cloud based technology, data is available anywhere you can get your hands on a computer with Internet access. When you buy a point of sale system, you also pay for the software and peripherals that go with it. Upgrades to software security will mean extra costs for you though.
This is important to protect your point of sale system against computer viruses and worms, as well as get upgrades in reports. With cloud technology, updates are available in real time which makes your operations PCI compliant. Entrepreneur reports the same advantages that first, there's data access then, there are instant upgrades.
Since you can view reports online, you should be happy to note that data gets updated on the cloud in real time. You'll know right away which employee is pulling his weight and which isn't even while you're away. If your system allows you to see employee attendance, you could pull up information on that while online to see which employees are shirking.
Windows-based point of sale systems are not as forgiving when integrating changes into your system. And you can't ignore the need to look at putting up a discount sale at various percentages so you don't lose profit.
This is especially the case with inventory sales where you want to move out items that are only accumulating dust in your stock room. Customers are big on rewards and gift cards too. Cloud based point of sale systems will let you do all these things. Unlike traditional point of sale systems which translates to upgrades and of course, more cost.
Because all data is available online, your POS not only lets you access it from anywhere with Internet, but it lets you manipulate it as you see fit. Although your point of sale system can still contract viruses, your data is safe in the cloud. For traditional point of sale systems which use Windows, this becomes cumbersome.
System drivers need reinstalling and retrieving data is close to impossible. Remember when you need to reformat your computer and you lose your favorite files in the process? That's pretty much how that works.
It is also important to know what the disadvantages of a cloud based point of sale system are. This way you can prepare and know how to react should something bad occur. Because cloud technology relies on having an Internet connection, downtime can be a concern. You want to check that your point of sale system can still continue working even while offline.
There are vendors out there that allow you to continue making those sales even if the Internet is down. When the Internet comes back up, it will sync up with your database.
You are now all set with the basics of cloud based point of sale systems. You can now decide if this is something that would work with your business set up. No surprises too about worst case scenarios. No point of sale system is perfect but the less worries you have, the better things will look.


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Q: Pivoting row contents to produce one dimensional result I have a table with a varchar column containing pipe-delimited values
For example:
Row 1 Column 1 = a|b|e|gg|foo
Row 2 Column 1 = oV|foo|do
Row 3 Column 1 = boop

How can I query this to return something like? Duplicates are ok.
Results:
column
a
b
e
gg
foo
foo
oV
do
boop

I realize this is not optimal but my hands are tied with the current schema

A: If you cannot change your current schema, then you can create a split function:
create FUNCTION [dbo].[Split](@String varchar(MAX), @Delimiter char(1))
returns @temptable TABLE (items varchar(MAX))
as
begin
    declare @idx int
    declare @slice varchar(8000)

    select @idx = 1
        if len(@String)<1 or @String is null  return

    while @idx!= 0
    begin
        set @idx = charindex(@Delimiter,@String)
        if @idx!=0
            set @slice = left(@String,@idx - 1)
        else
            set @slice = @String

        if(len(@slice)>0)
            insert into @temptable(Items) values(@slice)

        set @String = right(@String,len(@String) - @idx)
        if len(@String) = 0 break
    end
return
end;

Then you can use an outer apply to join with your table:
select x.items
from yourtable t
outer apply dbo.split(col1, '|') x;

Which will produce the following results:
| ITEMS |
---------
|     a |
|     b |
|     e |
|    gg |
|   foo |
|    oV |
|   foo |
|    do |
|  boop |

See SQL Fiddle with Demo
Or if you do not want to use a split function, then you can perform this with CTE:
;with cte (value, fullValue) as
(
  select
      cast(left(col1, charindex('|',col1+'|')-1) as varchar(50)) value,
      stuff(col1, 1, charindex('|',col1+'|'), '') fullValue
  from yourtable
  union all
  select
    cast(left(fullValue, charindex('|',fullValue+'|')-1) as varchar(50)) ,
    stuff(fullValue, 1, charindex('|',fullValue+',|'), '') fullValue
  from cte
  where fullValue > ''
)
select value
from cte

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

A: Assuming your data contains plain alpha-numeric characters and nothing to trip up XML, you can use this query with performs some text manipulation to make your data look like XML, and then performs XQuery to slice up the column.
SELECT N.item.value('.','nvarchar(max)') item
FROM
(
     SELECT CAST(''+REPLACE(Data,'|','')+'' as xml) X
       FROM Tbl T
) G
CROSS APPLY X.nodes('a') N(item)

MS SQL Server 2012 Schema Setup:
CREATE TABLE Tbl (Data varchar(max));
INSERT Tbl VALUES
  ('a|b|e|gg|foo'),
  ('oV|foo|do'),
  ('boop');

Results (SQL Fiddle):
| ITEM |
--------
|    a |
|    b |
|    e |
|   gg |
|  foo |
|   oV |
|  foo |
|   do |
| boop |

A: A faster way to do this than using XML or a function is to use a tally table.  The following code is an adaptation from an excellent Jeff Moden article that I most highly recommend.
create table #test
(
    Id int,
    string varchar(30)
);
insert into #test(Id, string) values
(1, 'a|b|e|gg|foo'),
(2, 'oV|foo|do'),
(3, 'boop');

declare @maxlen int;
select @maxlen = MAX(LEN(string)) from #test;
declare @delimiter char(1) = '|';

--A tally table generated from a CTE.  For small sizes (10K, at least)
--the CTE solution is markedly faster than a standard tally table.
WITH E1(N) AS
(
    SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL
    SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL
    SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1
),                                      --10E+1 or 10 rows
E2(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E1 a, E1 b),    --10E+2 or 100 rows
E4(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E2 a, E2 b),    --10E+4 or 10,000 rows max
cteTally(N) AS
(
    SELECT 0 UNION ALL
    SELECT TOP (@maxlen) ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) FROM E4
),
cteStart(Id, N1) AS
(
    SELECT
        test.Id,
        t.N + 1
    FROM
        cteTally t
        cross join #Test test
    WHERE
        SUBSTRING(test.String, t.N, 1) = @delimiter
        OR t.N = 0
)
--      Do the actual split. The ISNULL/NULLIF combo handles the length
--      for the final element when no delimiter is found.
 SELECT test.Id,
        ItemNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY s.N1),
        Item       = SUBSTRING(test.String, s.N1, ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@delimiter,test.String,s.N1),0)-s.N1,8000))
   FROM cteStart s
        cross join #Test test
  WHERE s.Id = test.Id;

drop table #test;

The code is a bit more complex, but performance is significantly better, especially as the number of rows you need to parse increases.
The first several CTEs (E1, E2, and E4) are just setting up the tally table.  The cteTally CTE then dynamically generates the optimal tally table length (the length of the longest string in your table).  Then, cteStart finds all of the separation points.  The result for your data set looks like:
+----+----+
| Id | N1 |
+----+----+
|  1 |  1 |
|  2 |  1 |
|  3 |  1 |
|  1 |  3 |
|  2 |  4 |
|  1 |  5 |
|  1 |  7 |
|  2 |  8 |
|  1 | 10 |
+----+----+

Interpreting this is a little tricky because the process adds a pseudo-delimiter (if one does not exist already) at the first position, and this is a one-indexed string.  Thus, the N1 = 1 for rows 1, 2, and 3.  3 has no more delimiters.  1 has extra delimiters at positions 3, 5, 7, and 10, again noting that character "a" is actually at position 2 in this setup.
Anyhow, the final query does the actual splitting and returns your desired data set.
The tally table split is the best non-CLR solution for the string-splitting problem.  If you have fewer than about 10,000 rows, the CTE tally table is faster, but after about that 10K mark, the standard tally table solution becomes better.  A CLR string splitting module would be faster than both, but I know that a lot of shops are hesitant to install CLR modules.