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The third principle of human rights states that human rights are interdependent and interrelated. The Interdependence and Interrelatedness of the human rights facilitates the realisation of human beings' dignity as well personal developmental, physical, psychological and spiritual needs.
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In Tanzania, we have the three pillars namely: the executive, the judiciary and the legislative. The three pillars are independent of each other in order to ensure the separation and balance of power which is a sub principle of principle six of human rights.
In the same spirit of promoting human rights, Tanzania introduced and established the multi party system in order to widen the participation of the citizen in decision making in various forms.
This is the field of play of politicians. Political scientists define politics as any activity around power and decision making. In the political sphere, we have politicians who are manning various position where they exercise their power to influence decision making that affects our life in one way or another.
However the process of gaining power, which is an ability to exert one's wish over others and influence decision making is a very trick one. The process involves competition which is an ideal method of allocation of scarce and limited resources. Competition is driven by motive and is geared towards realisation of one's interests.
Furthermore, competition is rational actions which aim at competing and destruction of other competitors. This involves designing strategies both lawful and unlawful in order for one to remain in control.
Decision making organs are occupied by individuals who are the product of power play and their continuing existence relies on continuing application of the same strategies. Owing to this situation, the political field has witnessed gross violation of human rights despite the facts that it is the very product of the same human rights.
Politicians have all along designed and employed strategies which hurt their political opponents beyond repair in the process of weaning the uninformed mass. Unfortunately our politicians in the Parliament seem to be scoring high grades in this area.
What our politicians in the Parliament do not put in consideration is that when they are at work they are given seven hours of prime time in our media outlets which enables us to see what they are doing. What they also do not realise is that most of us takes seriously and as genuine whatever they say.
We expect that whatever they say is in compliance with the rule of law. We know they are informed of what the rule of law desires to accomplish towards promotion of the dignity of human beings.
As explained above, the rule of law as one of the principle of human rights has a number of sub principles. These are: first; no crime without existing law to that effect (Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege).
This sub principle referred to as the principle of legality is a core value, a human right but also a fundamental defence in criminal law prosecution according to which no crime or punishment can exist without a legal ground (crisan, 2010).
Our politicians out and inside the Parliament have been the greater violators of this sub principle. They have created criminality in the situation where there are no existing laws that describe these deeds as crime, as a result down-grading the dignity of the affected individuals beyond redress.
A good number of individuals have been framed and made to look as criminals by sheer utterances of our politicians in the Parliament, a forum where they enjoy questionable immunity as provided by our Constitution.
The second sub-principle of the rule of law is presumption of innocence. This states that no one should be made to be seen as guilty of an offence until it is proved so by the legal process administered by an impartial judiciary.
More often than not we have witnessed our politicians in the parliament and in other political fora accusing and judging them out rightly defenseless individuals, of criminal offences with impunity.
The third sub-principle is the separation of powers. The separation of powers entails the division of the three types of power – legislative, executive and judicial – onto three separate institutions.
Legislative power entails the power to make laws and is concentrated in the Parliament. Executive power means the power to implement laws and is given to the government and its various institutions. Judicial power gives the judicial the power to decide whether laws are legal according to the Constitution. No power has an indiscriminate luxury to meddle with the affairs of other powers.
On a number of occasions, our politicians in the Parliament have cried foul accusing the other power of meddling in their affairs. A recent case of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, David Jairo, who is accused of allegations of abuse of office, presents a good test of the doctrine of separation of powers and indeed human rights.
Our politicians in the Parliament accused Jairo and in actual fact passed the judgment that only missed a signature at least before the eyes of the public. The only relief is drawn from the words of the Prime Minister which indicated that he lacks mandate to deal with Mr Jairo.
From there the disciplinary authority- Chief Secretary (CS), that can deal with Jairo stepped in and asked the Controller and Auditor General to probe the issue. It is the outcome of that probe that made the politicians in the Parliament cry foul.
Our politicians in the Parliament claim to have been treated with disrespect by the other power. This raises a number of questions that need to be answered. One, do the politicians have disciplinary authority over Jairo? If the answer to question one is no, did they expect the disciplinary authority to fire Jairo outrightly on the ground of their allegations or simply endorse their judgment? Three, CAG was assigned by the Principal Secretary to probe the allegation, how on earth could the politicians in the Parliament with due respect expect the CAG to report to them?
Disrespect for human rights and rule of law undermines good governance and signifies the possibility of conflict, disorder and anarchy in the society. This quotation truly describes the situation created. Part of the public is of the view that Jairo had committed the crime and should be convicted as charged.
This view is not complying with the provision of our constitution as refereed to by honourable Nimrod Mkono who directed his fellow politicians in the Parliament to article 13(6) which entails that everybody was entitled to fair hearing and should not be condemned unheard.
From human rights point of view, any person should not only be heard but should be tried before an impartial jury. Here we have the Parliament standing as the accuser on one side and on the other side the Parliamentary select-committee made by the Members of the Parliament as the juror. We are not expecting a fair trial or a fair judgment. Are we?
Another part of the public feels that there is lack of communication within the ranks of the government. The Chief Secretary is a helping hand to the government, thus we would expect him to almost be playing to the tune and test of the President.
Having his decision overruled and overturned in such a short time point us all to the other direction-poor governance. Is this the case or the executive power did not want to put up the fight with the other power?
The integrity of the CAG is also put at the sword. The work of this constitutional figure always creates the base of most of our politicians in the Parliament particularly those from the opposition camp. It is highly rated, but all that is gone simply because he did turn out with a report contrary to the expectations of the politicians in the Parliament.
The only positive thing that has come out of this saga is with regard to the Honourable Prime Minister. The Honorable Prime Minister who has been depicted by some of the politicians in the Parliament as a liar to an extent of attempting to initiate a vote of no confidence has all of the sudden turned to be a hero. But to the public that is a little too late.
As pointed above the violation of human rights signified by disrespect of the rule of law result into anarchy as it is capable of creating a vicious cycle of revenge and score settling which seems to be the hitherto scenario in our country.
The most valuable asset of any human being is dignity and towards it all the principles of human rights and substantive human rights are oriented to save.
All organs and institutions created out of the spirit of human rights have to underscore this reality. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world."
Aristotle said more than two thousand years ago, "The rule of law is better than that of any individual." Our politicians in and out of the parliament should operate within this perimeter lest they will corrupt the mass beyond the manageable perimeter. May God bless us all.


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Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-2
Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
Component/s: XML Processing
XmlSlurper and XmlParser both support a validation capability, but this only works for DTDs. It should work for XMLSchemas as well.
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I am going to mark this as closed as I believe the Schema Validation part has been adequately addressed. If we need to tweak other defaults, we should use a fresh issue to create more focus around any required changes/discussion.
Russel, I have lost track of what else you require for this issue to be closed? Can you remember?
Russel, does XmlUtilTest#testSchemaValidationUtilityMethod not work for you? Or did you reopen this in relation to the keepWhitespace / trimWhitespace issue? I guess it is working for me with the test cases I have so I am looking for another example. Thanks.
Re two param vs four param newSAXParser: does XmlUtilTest#testSchemaValidationUtilityMethod work for you? It uses the two param version and seems to work?
Re flipping trimWhitespace default: feel free to continue debate in user mailing list - if there is unanimous support I will be happy to help implement the change - if there is a wide divergence of opinion, I don't have heaps of time at present to contribute to persuading the masses - what little time I do have I'd prefer to invest in a future XML module with quite a few things fixed. But agree with you that the current default is very anti common practice.
Re newSAXParser vs newSaxParser: SAXParser is a Java class that leaks through the Groovy api. When thinking of Groovy as value add to Java, I don't mind these differences too much. If you want to treat Groovy as a Java replacement then such differences are annoying. Don't think the getXMLThingy is relevant since xmlThingy would be the property for XmlThingy?
Re XmlSlurper keepWhitespace and XmlParser trimWhitespace: yes, they are totally different use cases with totally different flags that unfortunately overlap by 10 common characters. Perhaps they should have different names (breaking change): preserveWhitespace, autoTrimElementText
Re XmlSlurper keepWhitespace: It seems that the use case you are explaining has little to do with the one we started with – unless I am missing something. Is it that XmlSlurper is using the same flag for multiple disjoint purposes? If so then a new flag should be introduced to cover the second case.
If XmlSlurper cannot round-trip then isn't it broken?
Re XmlParser's trimWhiteSpace: I suggest that the default is wrong and that Groovy 2 should have the right default. Legacy code should expect breaking changes 1.8 -> 2.0. Perhaps take this back to the mailing list to get wider debate?
Re validation. I found that using the two parameter newSAXParser (note not newSaxParser, see above I did not get any XML Schema validation, I had to switch it on by using the four parameter version.
Re: XMLConstants vs XmlUtils: I think the Groovy naming is inconsistent with the policy for Groovy properties where getXMLThingy ( ) goes to XMLThingy in order to preserve the upper caseness. No matter the history, it would be good for Groovy to have a consistent approach to acronym case.
Re: trimWhitespace vs keepWhitespace: it turns out the XmlSlurper's keepWhitespace and XmlParser's trimWhitespace are totally different beasts/concepts!
Firstly, XmlParser's trimWhitespace: it causes ".trim()" to be called on element text values (but not attributes!). It really does have the wrong default value but would break legacy code if we changed it. I would nearly support changing it anyway as a breaking change in 2.0. But given that we want to put a new api over the top (and potentially rework some of the internals) do we break user's code once or twice? It is well documented and easy to turn off - so the current thinking is to leave it until we make the api changes - but feel free to debate further - though it isn't really part of this issue per say.
Secondly, XmlSlurper's keepWhitespace: this is about preserving layout of XML documents. So if we have this XML fragment:
... <foo>content</foo> <bar>content</bar> ...
when the flag is off, parsing this will return two elements, "foo" and "bar". When the flag is on, this will return a "foo" element, then a "text node" containing a newline and 4 spaces, then the "bar" element. If you want to process the document content, the "whitespace text nodes" are just unwanted noise. But if you want to preserve the original layout of the document after making some changes to the content, then keeping the flag on can be useful. From memory, XmlSlurper may not allow full round-tripping anyway as it may not keep everything intact, e.g. processing instructions, XML comments etc. (but I haven't checked the code just now so don't quote me on this - we have made it cover more of these things over time)
Re: default behaviour is to not validate: yes, the defaults are the same as for XmlSlurper and XmlParser and that flag is related to DTD validation only. Schema validation will be on. Perhaps the doco needs a bit of finessing to make that clearer?
Re: XMLConstants vs XmlUtils: XMLConstants, SAXParser, SQLException etc. come from Java. XmlParser, XmlSlurper, XmlUtil, JsonBuilder, Sql, etc. come from Groovy. Not nice but there has been a history behind both - unfortunate that sometimes the Java apis leak through to the Groovy ones. I guess in theory we could always hide them but ...
XmlParser reports trimWhitespace as the property to set to control whitespace, it has the wrong default of true. XmlParser reports keepWhitespace as the property to control whitespace, it has the wrong default of false.
It seems that the default behaviour of XmlUtil.newSAXParser is not to validate even though it is required to provide a schema. Or have I missed something?
Just a note that:
the inconsistency really is annoying.
Example of usage can be seen in XmlUtilTest#testSchemaValidationUtilityMethod:
The test doesn't use a file which looks neater but on the other hand, the test is self-contained.
Re: the name: I ended up going with "newSAXParser" which is a little lower level than I would normally like but with a view to making it obvious that you are producing something which feeds into the SAXParser constructor of XmlParser/Slurper. I didn't go with "validatingParser" since you could create one with the (DTD) validating flag set to false and that might be counter-intuitive at first glance. And if the eventual goal is to have a higher-level API over the top, then all of this would be hidden anyway.
Re: autodetecting the schema language: yes, that would be much nicer. It should really be fixed at the JVM-library level but if that looks unlikely to happen any time soon, Groovy could try to value add in the meantime.
On the one hand I am a huge fan of debug releases, i.e. changes in the z of the x.y.z, only having bug fixes. On the other hand this could be considered a bug fix – and Groovy does have a history of slipping in some new bits as bug fixes. So as long as there are no breaking changes 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7 I am content to see this stuff in.
I wonder if "validatingParser" rather than "schemaParser" would be more descriptive.
I guess we still need to work on a validating parser that reads the schema specification from the root node rather than being given it separately.
added as newSAXParser with and w/o boolean variants and backported to 1.8.7
There is also the question of the best name for the utility methods. I have used "schemaParser" above but perhaps "newSAXParser" is better.
And also the question of whether it is worth back-porting to 1.8.7? It doesn't alter any existing API, so I don't see the harm. It depends on how kind we want to be to stragglers in the Groovy ecosystem.
Here is what I propose to add to XmlUtil:
public static SAXParser schemaParser(String schemaLanguage, boolean namespaceAware, boolean validating, File schema) public static SAXParser schemaParser(String schemaLanguage, boolean namespaceAware, boolean validating, URL schema) public static SAXParser schemaParser(String schemaLanguage, boolean namespaceAware, boolean validating, Source... schemas)
So, the above example becomes (assuming the xsd is in a local file called 'person.xsd'):
import static javax.xml.XMLConstants.* import static groovy.xml.XmlUtil.* def xml_g = '<person><first>James</first><last>Kirk</last></person>' def xml_b = '<person><first>James</first><middle>T.</middle><last>Kirk</last></person>' def parser = new XmlParser(schemaParser(W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI, true, false, 'person.xsd' as File)) [xml_g, xml_b].each { def p = parser.parseText(it) println "${p.last.text()}, ${p.first.text()}" }
I guess we could also create variants with default values for the booleans - I'd go with validating=false and namespaceAware=true as per our defaults for XmlSlurper and XmlParser.
We could also have a default schema language but (despite the poor support for RelaxNG on the JVM at present) I am inclined not to at this stage - it can always be added later.
An example with imports etc. in case anyone is trying to actually run the snippets above:
import javax.xml.transform.Source import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory import javax.xml.XMLConstants import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory def xml_g = '<person><first>James</first><last>Kirk</last></person>' def xml_b = '<person><first>James</first><middle>T.</middle><last>Kirk</last></person>' def xsd = '''<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="person"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="first" type="xs:NCName"/> <xs:element name="last" type="xs:NCName"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>''' def schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI) def factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance() factory.validating = false factory.namespaceAware = true factory.schema = schemaFactory.newSchema([new StreamSource(new StringReader(xsd))] as Source[]) def parser = new XmlParser(factory.newSAXParser()) [xml_g, xml_b].each { def p = parser.parseText(it) println "${p.last.text()}, ${p.first.text()}" }
Re: "the default error handler is clearly fine". Yes, when creating your own SAX parser, if you don't tell it to also validate against DTDs - which you don't need to in your examples from what you have said, then the default is fine AFAIK.
Re: "there should be a way of allowing the incoming document to specify the schema against which validation happens". Agreed! But I haven't found anything definitive on how to do this long hand in Java - hence providing a Groovy shorthand currently evades me.
I agree with the thinking about support for RelaxNG except that there should be a way of allowing the incoming document to specify the schema against which validation happens.
"If you are not seeing it perhaps it is JVM version specific."
I see the error message when I set the validate parameter true in the XmlParser constructor call but I don't have a DTD. When I use the SAX parser constructor to XmlParser I do not see the error message. This would imply the error message comes from the default DTD validating SAX parser used by XmlParser. Since this is not used when specifying a given SAX parser the default error handler is clearly fine?
For relaxng, with Jing in my classpath I needed the following as the long-hand for an external schema source (couldn't get the internal one working in the time I had available):
// Jing jar doesn't seem to have META-INF to be found automatically by JAXP // so manually set it here - pick one of compact or xml syntax variants System.setProperty(SchemaFactory.name + ":" + RELAXNG_NS_URI, // "com.thaiopensource.relaxng.jaxp.CompactSyntaxSchemaFactory") "com.thaiopensource.relaxng.jaxp.XMLSyntaxSchemaFactory") SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(RELAXNG_NS_URI) def factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance() factory.validating = false factory.namespaceAware = true factory.schema = schemaFactory.newSchema([new StreamSource("mySchema.rng")] as Source[]) def parser = new XmlParser(factory.newSAXParser())
so perhaps this could become:
// I'd propose leaving the ugly System.setProperty here as it is Jing specific // and hopefully will go away in future versions of the library anyway def parser = new XmlParser(XmlUtil.schemaValidatingParserFromSources(RELAXNG_NS_URI, new StreamSource("mySchema.rng")))
and if we don't default to XML Schema, then the earlier example for XML Schema might need to become:
def parser = new XmlParser(XmlUtil.schemaValidatingParserFromSources(W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI, new StreamSource("mySchema.xsd")))
Re: "I didn't have to specify an error handler using the first segment, it just worked."
If I have validating set to true I get the warning to stderr you mentioned on the mailing list:
Warning: validation was turned on but an org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler was not set, which is probably not what is desired. Parser will use a default ErrorHandler to print the first 10 errors. Please call the 'setErrorHandler' method to fix this.
If you are not seeing it perhaps it is JVM version specific.
I didn't have to specify an error handler using the first segment, it just worked.
I did indeed mean that using an XML Schema should be easier. The above proposal seem to take us on the right direction. Without trying the out, it is difficult to say more.
Why does there have to be explicit mention of an error handler?
What about folks using Relax NG?
Or we could provide a Map style constructor:
def parser = new XmlParser(validating: true, schemaValidation: true, schemaSources:[new StreamSource("mySchema.xsd")])
Or something like that - though it won't necessarily support easy IDE completion.
For validating against an external XSD we currently have:
def schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI) def factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance() factory.validating = false factory.namespaceAware = true factory.schema = schemaFactory.newSchema([new StreamSource("mySchema.xsd")] as Source[]) def parser = new XmlParser(factory.newSAXParser())
which might become something like this:
def parser = new XmlParser(XmlUtil.schemaValidatingParserFromSources(new StreamSource("mySchema.xsd")))
With DTD validation off, this doesn't need a special error handler - the default one when not validating just sends error messages to System.err.
So basically we currently have this for validating against internal XSDs:
def factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance() factory.validating = true factory.namespaceAware = true SAXParser sax = factory.newSAXParser() sax.setProperty("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI) def parser = new XmlParser(sax)
which could be shortened to something like:
def parser = new XmlParser(XmlUtil.defaultSchemaValidatingParser())
Incidentally, we still need an error handler in either case:
parser.errorHandler = { e -> println e.message } as ErrorHandler
They both do support XML Schema validation. So for clarification, my understanding is that you want simpler configuration when turning on such validation rather than configuring your own SAXParser.

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A foreign firm involved in the mining of natural gas, Pan African Energy Tanzania Ltd, on Songo Songo island in Kilwa district, Lindi region, has finally agreed to pay Kilwa District Council a service levy of 606,800/- by the end of this month.
Kilwa District Executive Director Adoh Mapunda told The Guardian in an interview that the firm had agreed to pay the money after long-drawn negotiations between the council, Energy and Minerals ministry and the company. So far, it has already settled 87m/- being the first payment for the first quarter of this year.
Mpunda explained that from now onwards the firm would be paying the council the same amount in every three months.
He said it was right to be paid the service levy according to by-laws, which allowed them to collect 0.4 per cent service levy of the sales of gas each month.
He explained that the district also intended to collect another service levy from Songas Company, which was transporting natural gas from Songo Songo Island to Dar es Salaam.
"We want Songas to pay us service levy and we urge Tanesco, which is running its plants in Somanga area also to pay service levy to the council," he stressed.
Mapunda said his council solely depended on crops like cashew nuts and simsim for raising the council's revenue.
Moreover, he told The Guardian how the service levy of gas had been paid by the companies and how it would boost community development.
He commended the Ministry of Energy and Minerals for persuading the natural gas mining firm to settle the payment.
In 2008, Pan African Energy Ltd commissioned the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) to carry out a base line survey for social services and economic situation on the island for a more coordinated programme for improving delivery of social services and economic development on Songosongo Island in Kilwa District.
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Since Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) happens to be the ruling party in Tanzania, its internal political dynamics, at any given time, can't be and ought not be taken for granted, as the party's fortunes and misfortunes are likely to have a significant impact on the socio-economic and political direction of our nation.
At this initial stage of our commentary, an observation made by late founder of this nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, that a strong CCM is likely to run state affairs efficiently while an unstable one will lay the ground for chaos, may be recalled to emphasize the significance of CCM's modus operandi to political stability.
One is therefore not surprised to note that the constitutional changes endorsed by CCM's National Executive Committee a few days ago are among the hot themes being currently discussed enthusiastically, by both party members and other citizens countrywide.
Of course, the amendments have come at a time of public anxiety to watch every move made by the party, spurred by its own publicly proclaimed intention, about a year ago, to purge targeted alleged captains of corruption, or "Mafisadi " in Kiswahili, from its leadership ranks.
The gist of the constitutional changes is in the election regulations which, among other things, makes the NEC position a full-time job performed at district level, thus effectively barring members already having another full-time occupation from contesting for NEC membership.
The adoption of this regulation implies that incumbent legislators and councillors are automatically out of the NEC race in the coming party elections, now a few months ahead. The creation of an Advisory Council of the party comprising former party Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen is another landmark change, which automatically remove retired Heads of State from top party organs like NEC and the Central Committee.
Indeed, the above mentioned changes may look ordinary and harmless to the common citizen and even to party members with little interest in constitutional matters related to the organization he or she supports, but to those with keen interest in the country's political trends, as well party cadres with political ambitions, what has happened is a landmark shift with a big impact to their fate and the country's future.
In short, the CCM constitutional amendments and the brains behind these Machiavellian moves, have successfully and surprisingly killed several birds with a single stone. First, some of the big political names earmarked for purging from the top organs of CCM, including those earlier given a chance to bow out voluntarily, have been floored without putting up a fight worth writing home about.
Some observers had thought the so-called "skin shedding" exercise would only be effected after a showdown between troops lined up by the financial giants in the party and those loyal to the current leadership. This has not happened, thanks to the political skills of the party Chairman, much as there is always a tendency to underestimate the survival instincts of the ever smiling national leader.
The second implication, which is closely related to the first one, is that plans of most 2015 presidential hopefuls intending to contest the seat on CCM's ticket have been thoroughly disrupted.
Networks of State House aspirants have all along been busy indentifying politicians to sponsor for NEC entry, so as to gain influence in this important ladder for whoever intends to be nominated by the party for the presidential contest.
The new regulations have not only denied our ambitions men and women the opportunity to be in NEC and improve their political CVs, but have also blocked their supporters from joining this strategic organ. So, these presidential position seekers have no choice but to devise other game plans, when there is little time to do so effectively.
In short, the rat race for the presidency in the ruling party is now likely to be well managed, or rather contained - which is a good thing, given that tuning members of the public to be preoccupied with 2015 elections when there are all sorts of challenges to contend with, amounts to unnecessary distraction.
Some observers are also of the view that by taking these measures, the ruling party is using its experience in politics to put its house in order early enough in preparation for the 2015 nomination run, so as to gain advantage over its rivals.
But with the economy performing poorly, poverty being entrenched, and corruption running amok, is CCM likely to continue with its dominance of the country's politics, much as it strives to re-invent itself? Only time will tell.
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It's a guilty verdict for a man accused of shooting his girlfriend's ex boyfriend.
In court on Tuesday, Mark Manyik appeared calm as he listened to the judge reveal his fate. The Jury found Manyik guilty of second degree murder in the shooting death of Robert Miles.
You may remember in October of last year Manyik and his girlfriend, Traci Adams were arrested for allegedly luring her ex boyfriend to Manyiks house and shooting him. In the arrest affidavit, Manyik admitted to planning the murder and concealing the evidence. Investigators pulled phone records that show 16 successive calls between Adams and Miles, the last one just moments before he was killed.
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Last year Adam Woodbury got the see the Iowa/Iowa State football game from the Cyclone perspective by attending the game in Ames. This year it was Iowa's turn to give their sales pitch on the day of the annual in-state battle and the nearly 7-foot prospect in the Class of 2012 came away very impressed with what Coach Fran McCaffery and his staff have to offer."It was a lot of fun. I had a really good time meeting with the team, the coaches, and the rest of the guys who were visiting," Woodbury said. "The fans were great at the game. It was a lot of fun being there and watching them cheer on the Hawkeyes."Before heading over to Kinnick Stadium, Woodbury, who is ranked by Rivals.com as the 105th best player in the Class of 2012, spent time with the coaching staff over at Carver-Hawkeye Arena for a breakfast meeting where they continued to make their sales pitch."They (The Iowa coaches) talked about their system and how much they want me to be a Hawkeye. They told me about how they are out recruiting very hard and how they want to get (Josh) Oglesby as well as me, Marcus (Paige), and Mike (Gesell) and then put together a pretty good run to something special."Woodbury also had a celebrity meeting while visiting the Iowa Basketball suite at Kinnick Stadium when celebrity couple Ashton Kutcher, who is a native Iowan, and his wife Demi Moore stopped by to say hello."It was pretty cool to meet both of them. They were very down to earth people."Just two days earlier, Coach Fran McCaffery, along with assistant coaches Andrew Francis and Kirk Speraw, attended an open gym at Sioux City East High School. The Hawkeye coaches have told Woodbury that he would be a big part of their plans for the future."The Iowa coaches are a great bunch of guys. I have a lot of fun talking to them. I have a lot of respect for them," he said. "They have told me that they really want me to be a Hawkeye. I am excited to be recruited by them and that they have offered me."Iowa isn't alone in the race to land the talented big man from Sioux City. Virginia and Creighton both visited later on Thursday evening and on Sunday night, Stanford and Utah stopped by. This coming week, Ball State and UNI will be visiting, along with as many as a dozen more programs.With nine offers in hand, Woodbury isn't in any rush to make a commitment at this point. He wants to take his time and learn more about all of the schools recruiting him."Right now I am taking it all in and look at all the schools," Woodbury said. "Eventually I am going to try and narrow it down and look harder at those schools." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Belching is most often a normal process. The purpose of belching is to release air from the stomach. Every time you swallow, you also swallow air, along with fluid or food.
The buildup of air in the upper stomach causes the stomach to stretch. This triggers the muscle at the lower end of the esophagus (the tube that runs from your mouth to the stomach) to relax. Air is allowed to escape up the esophagus and out the mouth.
Excessive or repeated belching may be caused by swallowing air without realizing it (aerophagia).
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Fuzzy bass roll, Matsuya(Credit: Jeremy Bales)
Fuzzy bass roll at Matsuya, Great Neck: Why is the bass fuzzy? No, it hasn't been drinking. Actually, it derives its name from the jagged edges of its tempura crust. Bundled in with the bass are avocado and spicy romaine slaw -- but, refreshingly, no spicy tuna. $15.50.
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Volcano roll at Blackstone Steakhouse, Melville: With king crab, pepper tuna and honey-wasabi sauce, it's also true to the pyrotechnic name and ignited tableside.
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Billy what's up roll at Show Win, Northport: Among the 50-odd rolls at Show Win is this intriguingly named number, featuring the ubiquitous spicy tuna with yellowtail and three greens: avocado, asparagus and sinus-clearing wasabi-infused roe. As for the answer to the question posed by its name: Better ask Billy.
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Banana roll at Sushi Ko, Merrick: This is where salmon and cream cheese (but no bagel) meet tempura-fried banana (dessert time already?). Wrapped in soy paper, crowned with eel sauce and roe, this is one roll gone bananas.
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Victoria roll at Onsen Sushi, Oakdale,: It starts with spicy, crunchy tuna and avocado. Peanuts add the requisite crunch. Then, it's all wrapped up in pink soy paper -- Victoria, the customer for whom it's named, favors pink -- and topped with the ketchup of the sushi world, mango sauce.
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Scottish goat roll at Nisen Sushi, Commack: A Highlands Olympics event? A barnyard animal wearing a Tam-o' Shanter? Wacky name aside, this roll is a montage of all things popular. Like goat cheese. And Scottish salmon (here, seared, ginger-marinated). And portobello mushrooms. Just try naming something that isn't balsamic-glazed these days. The finishing touch: jalapeño salsa.
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Icon roll at Ginza, Massapequa: Ginza embodies the subtlety of sushi -- except when chili paste is added to the icon roll, giving tuna, chopped yellowtail and avocado a very different dimension. Chamber music becomes arena rock.
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Surf 'n' turf roll at Insignia, Smithtown: Befitting this invariably unrestrained steakhouse and sushi specialist, the surf 'n' turf roll is made with lobster, king crab, seared Kobe beef, and, to ensure that too-much-isn't-enough style, white truffle oil.
Invincible sandwich roll, Arata Sushi(Credit: Newsday / Rebecca Cooney)
Invincible sandwich roll at Arata Sushi, Syosset: In a world of cylinders, Arata triangulates. The unconquerable, three-sided production takes in salmon, avocado, tobiko or flying-fish roe, and that ever-elusive "special sauce," which here includes spring onion, mayonnaise and mirin, the condiment loosely related to sake.
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May 6, 2016
A high school student has been arrested after deputies say he wrote a bomb threat on a bathroom wall two months ago.
Johnathan Frazier of Bath is charged with a felony count of making a false bomb report.
Beaufort County deputies say around 10:30 a.m. on April 18th, the written threat was found at Northside High School. Multiple deputies and three fire departments went to the school where no suspicious items were found.
The 18-year-old student was arrested Wednesday and released on a $500 secured bond.
The school system says Frazier was a junior at Northside this past year and will be disciplined according to their code of conduct.
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23 U.S. Code § 158 - National minimum drinking age
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(a) Withholding of Funds for Noncompliance.—
(1) In general.—
(A) Fiscal years before 2012.— The Secretary shall withhold 10 per centum of the amount required to be apportioned to any State under each of sections 104 (b)(1), 104 (b)(3), and 104 (b)(4) [1] of this title on the first day of each fiscal year after the second fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1985, in which the purchase or public possession in such State of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than twenty-one years of age is lawful.
(B) Fiscal year 2012 and thereafter.— For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount to be withheld under this section shall be an amount equal to 8 percent of the amount apportioned to the noncompliant State, as described in subparagraph (A), under paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 104 (b).
(2) State grandfather law as complying.— If, before the later of
(B) the tenth day following the last day of the first session the legislature of a State convenes after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, such State has in effect a law which makes unlawful the purchase and public possession in such State of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than 21 years of age (other than any person who is 18 years of age or older on the day preceding the effective date of such law and at such time could lawfully purchase or publicly possess any alcoholic beverage in such State), such State shall be deemed to be in compliance with paragraph (1) in each fiscal year in which such law is in effect.
(b) Effect of Withholding of Funds.— No funds withheld under this section from apportionment to any State after September 30, 1988, shall be available for apportionment to that State.
(c) Alcoholic Beverage Defined.— As used in this section, the term "alcoholic beverage" means—
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Added Pub. L. 98–363, § 6(a),July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 437; amended Pub. L. 99–272, title IV, § 4104,Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 114; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2,Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 105–178, title I, § 1103(l)(2),June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 125; Pub. L. 112–141, div. A, title I, § 1404(f),July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 558.)
References in Text
Section 104 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(A), was amended generally by Pub. L. 112–141, div. A, title I, § 1105(a),July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 427.
The date of the enactment of this paragraph, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 99–272, which was approved Apr. 7, 1986.
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, referred to in subsec. (c), is set out in Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
2012—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 112–141designated existing provisions as subpar. (A), inserted subpar. heading, and added subpar. (B).
1998—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105–178, § 1103(l)(2)(A)(i)–(iii), redesignated par. (2) as (1), substituted "In general" for "After the first year" in heading and "104(b)(3), and 104(b)(4)" for "104(b)(2), 104(b)(5), and 104(b)(6)" in text, and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows:
"(1) First year.—The Secretary shall withhold 5 per centum of the amount required to be apportioned to any State under each of sections 104 (b)(1), 104 (b)(2), 104 (b)(5), and 104 (b)(6) of this title on the first day of the fiscal year succeeding the first fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1985, in which the purchase or public possession in such State of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than twenty-one years of age is lawful."
Subsec. (a)(2), (3). Pub. L. 105–178, § 1103(l)(2)(A)(ii), (iv), redesignated par. (3) as (2) and substituted "paragraph (1)" for "paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection". Former par. (2) redesignated (1).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–178, § 1103(l)(2)(B), added subsec. (b) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (b) which related to period of availability for apportionment to State of funds withheld by the Secretary pending State enactment of federally-prescribed minimum drinking age.
1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(d)(1), added subsection heading.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(d)(2)–(4), added paragraph heading, aligned margins, and inserted "first" before "fiscal year beginning".
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(a), (d)(3), (5), added paragraph heading, realigned margins, and substituted "each fiscal year after" for "the fiscal year succeeding".
Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(b), added par. (3).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(c), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: "The Secretary shall promptly apportion to a State any funds which have been withheld from apportionment under subsection (a) of this section in fiscal year if in any succeeding fiscal year such State makes unlawful the purchase or public possession of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than twenty-one years of age."
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–272, § 4104(d)(6), added subsection heading.
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 99–514substituted "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" for "Internal Revenue Code of 1954".
Effective Date of 2012 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 112–141effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) ofPub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.
Minimum Drinking Age
Pub. L. 97–424, title II, § 209,Jan. 6, 1983, 96 Stat. 2140, provided that: "The Congress strongly encourages each State to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages to persons who are less than 21 years of age."
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