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More female farmers on the ballot
With Helena Bottemiller Evich, Catherine Boudreau and Maya Parthasarathy
FEMALE FARMERS ARE RUNNING: Amid the wave of Democratic women running for office this cycle, more female farmers are joining the ranks.
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Emily Best, who lives in McConnellsburg, Pa., and is the general manager of Tuscarora Organic Growers Co-Operative, is the first Democrat to run for the state senate seat in her locale in more than 10 years. It is a district where Donald Trump won nearly three-fourths of the vote in 2016.
"Democrats need to run everywhere," said Best. She tells MA she decided to jump into the campaign in part because there simply wasn't a Democrat running.
Best said she had been talking policy issues with farmers in her district, particularly about the difficulty and cost farmers face from meeting increasing food safety and environmental regulations. Best, who has a master's in environmental policy, said she thought there needed to be a better balance between ensuring food safety and conservation while not overburdening farmers.
Hearing out rural needs: Best says she's not sweating the fact that she's a Democrat running in Trump country, as she crisscrosses her largely rural district to talk with voters. "I think there were a lot of Democrats that voted for Trump; they're disgusted with politicians in general," she said. "People are frustrated that their lives aren't improving and that people say things are getting better when they're not in these areas."
A growing roster: The Female Farmer Project, a documentary project led by Audra Mulkern, an ag enthusiast in Duvall, Wash., features the stories of female farmers. She has been keeping tabs on the growing list of women who are running.
So far, the list also includes: Kriss Marion, a farmer running for Wisconsin state senate; Kathleen Vinehout a dairy farmer running for governor in Wisconsin; Lisa Segar a farmer running for a state house seat in Texas; Sylvia Hammond, a potato farmer running for a Washington state house seat; LaDonna Redmond, an urban farmer running for county commissioner in Hennepin County, which includes a large part of Minneapolis; and Brandy Brooks, an urban agriculture guru and food justice advocate running for an at-large seat on the Montgomery County Council in Maryland.
Hit us up: Did we miss anyone? We're trying to keep tabs of all the farmers running for office (both men and women!). Shoot us a line with other names!
HAPPY WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21! Welcome to Morning Ag, where your host couldn't help smiling at this charming story of where the saying "the best thing since sliced bread" came from. Who would've guessed a small town's claim to fame has such a huge impact on what we eat? Send tips and more fun history facts to firstname.lastname@example.com or @liz_crampton. Follow the whole team at @Morning_Ag.
IOWA GOP THROWS ITS WEIGHT BEHIND NORTHEY: Longtime presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) risks losing support among Iowa voters if he doesn't release his hold on Bill Northey's nomination to a top USDA post, the Iowa Republican Party said. The not-so-veiled threat came in the form of a letter to Cruz and a resolution adopted by the party, which called on the senator to "end the political points he is attempting to gain in an election year" should he wish to "remain in good standing" with the state GOP, Pro Ag's Catherine Boudreau reported. Cruz won the Iowa Caucuses in 2016.
Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said in a statement that Cruz should "get back to doing what he does best — promoting the conservative agenda — particularly if he is to remain in good standing with Iowa conservatives should he return here in future endeavors."
The tea leaves: There are few, if any, signals that Cruz plans to budge on his hold on Northey, the Iowa agriculture secretary who was nominated for USDA undersecretary for farm production and conservation. The hold was prompted by a dispute over the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The spat: Last year, the Trump administration — under pressure from corn-state senators — told EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to back off proposed cuts to biodiesel ethanol volumes under the RFS. Cruz for months has been trying to extract concessions from the Trump administration on the RFS that would benefit a small but vocal group of oil refiners, but to no avail.
Grassley's latest push: Sen. Chuck Grassley, one of Northey's biggest champions, told reporters on Tuesday that he was circulating a letter among senators urging Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring up the nomination for a vote. The goal is to get enough signatures to show that Northey can overcome a filibuster.
FOOD STAMPS MORE PREVALENT IN RURAL THAN URBAN: Anti-hunger advocates would like to remind everyone that rural and small-town communities still have significantly higher rates of SNAP use than their urban counterparts -- a move that comes as the Trump administration calls for deep cuts to the program and as Republicans in Congress look to tighten up work requirements as part of the farm bill, Pro Ag's Helena Bottemiller Evich writes.
According to the Food Research & Action Center's updated SNAP Map, 15.8 percent of rural households and 15.3 percent of small-town households participated in SNAP, on average, between 2012 and 2016. That's a notably higher rate than households in metropolitan areas, which had an average participation rate of 12.6 percent over the same time period. The map is based on U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data.
Budget check: The updated map comes after President Donald Trump's fiscal 2019 budget called for more than $213 billion in cuts to the program over a decade. If carried out, those cuts would hit SNAP participants in both rural and urban areas.
Anti-hunger army comes to town: FRAC is hosting more than 1,000 attendees in Washington early next week for its annual National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference, an event that includes a lobby day on Capitol Hill.
GRASSLEY: FIX TO SECTION 199A ON ITS WAY: Speaking of Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Chairman also said Tuesday that he "thinks" — and he really stressed "thinks," to be cautious — that there is an agreement on how to correct a provision in the Republican tax overhaul that gives farmers huge incentives to sell their products to agricultural co-ops over other businesses. Grassley said that the problem had reached the point where even if there isn't "complete agreement" on a solution among industry groups at the negotiating table, Congress can move ahead with a fix in a fiscal 2018 omnibus spending deal "even if co-ops aren't completely satisfied with what we're doing."
Congress is looking at reverting back to the previous tax deduction for ag co-ops — known as Section 199 — that was in place before the new law was enacted, Grassley said. It allowed co-ops a roughly 9 percent income tax break that was often passed onto farmer-members at the end of the year.
The new tax law establishes a 20 percent deduction on business income, along with another 20 percent deduction on cooperatives' payments to members, including gross grain sales -- which would be a huge windfall to farmers that sell to co-ops.
But the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives indicated on Tuesday that a deal had yet to be reached. "NCFC is optimistic that all stakeholders can arrive at a proposal soon that would ensure that farmers do not see an increase in taxes beyond what they paid under the old Section 199 and in a way that does not create a new, unintended imbalance in the marketplace," spokesman Justin Darisse told POLITICO in an email.
— EU-Mexico trade talks stall: Political agreement on a trade deal between the EU and Mexico is unlikely to be reached this week, as the two countries hit an impasse over rules of origin. POLITICO Europe's Hans Von Der Burchard has more here.
— P.R. to get more aid: USDA is providing additional nutrition assistance to Puerto Rico through a $1.27 billion grant made possible by emergency funding Congress passed last year. The move temporarily increases to $649 the maximum benefit a family of four can receive as of March 1. Helena has more.
— Alaska's bare shelves: Fresh fruits and vegetables are longingly sought-after in Alaska this time of year, The New York Times writes. The bulk of what the state gets travels by highway to Seattle, then floats roughly 1,600 miles north by sea -- a trip that can take a week.
— Albertsons makes a deal: Albertsons announced on Tuesday it would scoop up the remaining Rite Aid stores not purchased by Walgreens. The grocery chain views the acquisition as a way to compete with Amazon, which entered into the supermarket space by buying Whole Foods last year. Read more from The Wall Street Journal here.
— A popular USDA program: Rural residents are alarmed by the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate a USDA program that provides low-interest loans and grants to bolster economic development. A 2009 analysis found that although total earnings didn't change, rural counties that received agency loans had increased employment compared with counties that had not. More from Wisconsin Public Radio here.
— Easing water rules: The Tennessee legislature is poised to pass a bill on Thursday that would allow all but the largest livestock farms to operate without state water quality permits, The Tennesseean reports.
— Food-recall process flaws: An outbreak of E. coli that recently hospitalized at least 26 people shows that CDC and FDA's food-recall processes are flawed, lawmakers and consumer advocates say. HHS' Office of Inspector General released a report in December that, in an analysis of 30 recalls found the average time to initiate a recall was 57 days. More from The Hartford Courant here.
— The automation of fish farming: Tech firms have introduced farmers to hydro-acoustic systems that help reduce waste by better tracking how much food fish need. Technology has also been developed to detect and zap harmful sea lice on salmon, the BBC writes.
— NAFTA could keep West Coast Atlantic salmon fisheries: Both Washington state Legislature chambers have passed bills that would phase out Atlantic salmon farming in Washington waters, where it is not a native species. If the bill is signed into law, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture, the only producer of farmed salmon in the U.S., says it will pursue mandatory arbitration under NAFTA to recover the $76 million it has invested in Washington fish farms. More from KUOW here.
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Stewart Schneider's practice areas include real estate and title-insurance matters. Mr. Schneider began his title insurance career as in-house counsel at one of the largest title insurance agencies in Missouri. He subsequently became claims and underwriting counsel at a national title insurer handling and resolving claims and providing legal advice for complex underwriting issues for title agencies in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska for eight years. Mr. Schneider joined Hein Schneider & Bond P.C. in 2005 and provides analysis and resolution of complex title issues, coverage opinions for national title insurance companies and resolves disputes involving title insurance coverage, escrows, land conveyances, boundaries and RESPA.
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Do you feel like you're putting time and effort into using Twitter only to generate minimal engagement? This isn't uncommon. Many people are often left wondering 'does anyone actually care about my tweets?'
Twitter can be great for building your brand, engaging with customers and driving traffic to your website, however in order to see the best results, you will need to think carefully about the content you are sharing.
Are you a link spammer?
If you find that not many people appear to reply to your tweets or retweet (share) them, it may be because they feel you are spamming them with links. If you only use Twitter to share links to your website, your products or articles you've written, it's understandable that people might get a little fed up of your self-promotion.
In order to generate the best results from Twitter, you need to share content that is valuable to your followers. Tweeting a product link every now and then is fine but the rest of the time, you should be focusing on sharing meaningful content, written by yourself and others in your industry.
Creating valuable content
If you want people to care about your tweets, you need to find out what's important to them and create content around it. Say you work in the beauty industry – important topics may include skincare, animal testing and makeup application. Creating tweets and content around these topics will help you to improve engagement with your followers.
Ask questions
Another great way to generate replies for your tweets is to ask your followers questions. Make sure they relate to your industry and are based on topics that you know people will have an opinion on.
Using hashtags
Including relevant hashtags in your tweets will help you to reach a wider audience who are actively searching for tweets on a particular topic. You only need to include a couple of hashtags in each tweet and make sure they are relevant or you're content will end up looking like spam.
Make sure you're not making this mistake!
Whilst your content could be the reason you're not generating much of a response from your tweets, you could also be making a simple mistake, which will prevent many people from seeing your tweets. That mistake involves using the @-mention at the beginning of your tweet, without adding any characters before it. If you do this, only the person you have mentioned and people that happen to follow both you and that other person will be able to see your tweets. It will be hidden from the rest of your followers.
If you want all of your followers to see your tweets in their streams, you need to make sure you start your tweet with a character, not an @username.


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Building Pure Fusion OS
Getting Started
To build PureFusion from source, you'll need to be familiar with Git and Repo and with Establishing a build environment.
Build Environment
- Tested and Working on any version of Ubuntu – 14.04,14.10,15.04,16.04,17.04,17.10 (64-bit)
- Any other distribution based of the Ubuntu Distro such as Lubuntu, Xubuntu and etc.
- Any form of Terminal
- Decent hardware (minimum of at least a dual core CPU and 8 GB of RAM)
- A storage unit of any kind (We recommend utilizing SSDs as Mechanical HDDs slow down the build proccess drastically and the minimum storage size is 70GB. Having more will be useful with CCache[More on that later])
- Required Packages should have been installed
Required Packages
Simply copy and paste this in a terminal window:
[Hint: Running this command installs the required packages to build android]
For Ubuntu 16.04+
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk pngcrush schedtool libxml2 libxml2-utils xsltproc lzop libc6-dev schedtool g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline6-dev gcc-multilib maven tmux screen w3m ncftp imagemagick
For Ubuntu <16.04
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk pngcrush schedtool libxml2 libxml2-utils xsltproc lzop libc6-dev schedtool g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev gcc-multilib maven tmux screen w3m ncftp imagemagick
Getting the source
- Making required directories
- Obtaining the repo binary
- Adding repo binary to your path
- Giving the repo binary proper permissions
- Initializing an empty repo
- Syncing the repo
Make directory for the repo binary
$ mkdir ~/bin
Add directory for the repo binary to its path
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Downloading repo binary and placing it in the proper directory
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
Giving the repo binary the proper permissions
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
Creating directory for where the Fusion repo will be stored and synced
$ mkdir ~/PureFusion
$ cd ~/PureFusion
Syncing the source
To initialize your local repository, use this command:
repo init -u https://github.com/PureFusionOS/manifest.git -b n-mr2
Then to sync up:
repo sync -c -f -j8 --force-sync --no-clone-bundle --no-tags
Setting Up CCache
- CCache is a method of utilizing a specified storage space to speed up building. It can be referred to as the same caching your android device does to speed up application and system boot times. In this case, CCache will help build Pure Fusion faster than standard build times (Able to cut-down 50% of time taken to build).
- To set up CCache, follow the following:
$ echo "export USE_CCACHE=1" >> ~/.bashrc $ prebuilts/misc/linux-x86/ccache/ccache -M 50G
-M 50G The number before the letter G at the end specifies the amount of space CCache can use in your storage unit. As such, ensure that not too much of space is specified as this might result in unexpected errors although, the more storage you have, its recommended to have more CCache as it will increase the build times. Most efficient build systems are able to utilize CCache to about 120G or more.
After syncing is done, do one of the following to build:
bash build.sh --help
1) . build/envsetup.sh
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Here are some great resources for you to explore from teachers/educators who are using VoiceThread in their classrooms.
Teachers are just beginning to explore the power of VoiceThread with their students and colleagues so many of the current VoiceThreads have experimental comments. However, each one gives you an opportunity to see the creative uses being explored to enhance education and engage all students. "Borrow" their ideas and create your OWN VoiceThreads. :-)This is a great VoiceThread created by Alec Couros who did his doctoral dissertation in educational technology related to social networking. It not only demonstrates a use for VoiceThread, but it provides an excellent example of how participating in social networks can be very powerful ways to learn. This VoiceThread is called "What Does the Network Mean to You?" and starts with an excellent visual chart.
VoiceThread in Action (excellent compilation of VoiceThreads in education with links to blog posts about many uses for VoiceThreads-created for a course "Information Technologies for Learning")
Voicethread 4 Educators Wiki (organized by Colette Cassinelli)
The purpose of this wiki to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.
Categories include: K-2;3-5;6-8;9-12;College;Admin;Ed Tech;ESL/EFL;Resources
Take a look at what is posted and feel free to contribute your own examples to share with others. Be sure to click on the links in the menu for Resources and Best Practices. New examples and tips are being uploaded regularly! You can also view a wiki of her VoiceThread presentation here. https://edtechvision.wikispaces.com/VoiceThread
Awesome tutorial shared by Wes Fryer (downloadable in PDF format). Provides step-by-step visuals for navigating VoiceThread. Presented at the Survive and Thrive Conference, Edmund, OK, June 14, 2008.
Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread
Mini-tutorial on VoiceThread with lots of tips/tricks from educators around the world.
Earth Day VoiceThread-created for EarthCast 24-hour celebration on April 22, 2008. Check it out and add your voice and those of your students to the VoiceThread.
Earth Day is on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008. To celebrate the day, we will be working collaboratively with people around the world to produce and air a live webcast which will last for the entire 24 hours of the GMT day! This is a HUGE challenge and we're hopeful that you'll participate!
More About the 24 Hour Earth Day 2008 Webcastathon
What: This is intended to be a 24 hour long conversation about thehttp://enviroscims.wikispaces.com/Earth+Day health of our planet. We hope to have participants from around the world moderate an hour long conversation. This conversation can be planned at the discretion of the moderator(s) for that hour. Potential guests could include local leaders, student environmental advocates, scientists/engineers, politicians, grassroots leaders, etc.
When: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008. We will follow the 24 hour GMT day (et-we'll use the time in Greenwich, England as the standard for planning the time blocks.
Why: The goal is to help our participants (both listeners and moderators) form a more global perspective on the issue of sustainability and the health of the earth.
MathCasts VoiceThreads created by students (Dave showed you one of these examples in the workshop)
http://math247.pbwiki.com/South Paris Collaborative's Mathcast Portfolio
Why should students create their own MathCasts?
Many Voices on Darfur (comments on political cartoon-high school)
Scarlet Letter-book review-VT includes video from Discovery
A Day in a Voicethread
Global Warming-a student project explaining global warming--basically a report using visuals but no interaction on the content.
It's "Mr. Meech" from Illinois. He has some interesting presentations on his wikispace. Nice page on VoiceThread with some general resource, tutorials and examples. :-)
Mathlincs Geometric Landmarks
Why I love Databases-VoiceThread by Joyce Valenza with a great explanation about the uses of databases in a school library
Classroom 2.0-World map with voices/comments from people around the world who are using/exploring VoiceThread as an educational tool
Silvia Tolisano's project inviting students to create a story about traditions…
What Could it Mean?
Students learning to speak/write in Spanish
A Wiki organized for students to post their VoiceThreads of short text summaries of fiction books they are reading. Students from around the world are posting their VoiceThreads--US, Canada, China, Australia, Thailand. Page includes a PDF with instructions about how to embed a VoiceThread in a wiki.
VoiceThread wiki! (new wiki and content is just beginning to be added)
Why did I create this?
In my opinion VoiceThread is one of the greatest Web 2.0 tools out there. There are infinite ways to use this tool, and as brilliant as we all are (ha ha ha), we can't think of all of them ourselves. Please share samples of how you have used VoiceThread personally, professionally, or with students.
PDF with voicethread tutorial found on Jennifer Wagner's EggRoll site:
Another great blog by Suzie Vesper (New Zealand) on VoiceThread resources and a PDF tutorial about setting up a VoiceThread account. She plans to add additional examples of VoiceThreads and provide one example she created herself for a workshop. You'll love her accent! :-)
This is the home page for her blog that is just loaded with great Web 2.0 tools. Be sure to check it out.


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We spent around $10,300 in the month of May. It was slightly higher because we had to put a deposit down for the kids' school in the fall. Yep, we decided to send them both to a private Christian school, at least for the early years.
Breakdown of Expenses
- Child care and education – 34%
- Mortgage – 27%
- Groceries – 13%
- Home Maintenance – 10%
- Utilities – 5%
- Auto – 3%
- Other, including clothing, toys, phone, charity, insurance, eating out and other discretionary spending – 8%
Reduced Eating Out
We have greatly improved how much we spend on eating out. Looking at last year, where we average $300+ a month, we are now down to $130. This is not even lunches at work, it's usually now one single family outing where we are usually giving someone else a treat as well. We are well on our track to be under $3000/year for eating out.
Reduce Groceries
May last year we spent above $1800 on groceries for the month. Now we are down to $1300 — well on our way of our yearly goal of under $18,000. I am still learning to buy less since my brother in law has moved out. We are just not consuming as much.
Increased House Maintenance
We have spent a significant amount for the vegetable garden and yard work. House maintenance is over $1000 for us. We also purchased a weed eater…there are a lot of weeds in that backyard! I don't anticipate house maintenance to go down, especially given that we still have to rip apart our deck to fix a foundation crack, and then re-do the deck.
Tax Refund
We received our tax refund this month which added a substantial amount to our income, since we contributed a large amount to our RRSPs. We finally managed to catch up on RESPs and are on track to maxing out the benefit for the kids by the age of 15.
CPP, EI Maxing out
Payroll taxes are slowly going towards being maxed out, which means more take home income! The end of the year is so much more fun than the beginning!


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Computer Recycling Oxfordshire
Pure Planet Recycling have created a computer recycling solution for companies across the county of Oxfordshire including the towns of Oxford, Kidlington, Chipping Norton, Woodstock and Didcot. All of the computer equipment that we collect for recycling such as Computer Monitors, PC base units and Printers are all recycled 100%. None of the equipment we collect will end up in landfill sites.
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Eat Fat to Lose Fat
The Results Are In…
If you're trying to lose weight on a low-fat diet and it's not working, here's why.
Refined carbohydrates—found in processed foods like white breads, white rice, and pastas—tend to be loaded with sugar, which messes with our metabolisms, making it harder to burn calories.
Eating nearly half your calories via healthy fats, on the other hand—think salmon, avocados, nuts, and vegetable oils—has been shown in a recent study to result in twice as much weight loss as seen in those assigned to low-fat diets. What's more, the researchers say there was no increase in total or bad cholesterol between the groups, which has been feared would be the case in higher-fat diets, reports Reuters.
Why Eating Fat Burns More Fat
The science behind this is the impact fat has on the hormone called insulin. Released when you eat, insulin's job is to shuttle glucose – the sugar our body normally uses for energy – into cells where it can be used as fuel.
How much insulin you produce depends on which foods you consume.
Sugar and carbohydrates (which your body converts quickly into glucose) produce the highest levels of the hormone.
Protein, which takes a bit more effort to turn into glucose, creates a smaller rise.
Dietary fat, however, requires several complicated steps to convert to glucose and therefore doesn't trigger any direct rise in insulin at all.
Swap to a diet that consists of a lot of high-fat foods and very few carbohydrates and you can create a situation where insulin is low and you effectively remove your body's normal source of fuel.
This doesn't mean you should run to the fridge and snack on a brick of butter: Choosing plant based polyunsaturated fats is always the healthiest choice:
Eat Lots of Healthy Fats
- Olive oil
- Sunflower oil
- Peanut oil
- Sesame oil
- Avocados
- Olives
- Nuts (almonds, peanuts, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, cashews)
- Nut butters
- Sunflower, sesame, and pumpkin seeds
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This post, and its sister post on OpinioJuris, mark the start of the seventieth session of the International Law Commission. Under the theme "70 years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future", commemorative events will be held on 21 May in New York and on 5-6 July in Geneva. In these two posts, Christiane Ahlborn and Bart Smit Duijzentkunst of the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which serves as the secretariat of the Commission, place the role of the Commission in a historical context and discuss its promises and challenges moving forward.
This week the International Law Commission has started its seventieth session in New York. From its first session, in 1949, the Commission has played an indispensable role in the promotion of the "progressive development of international law and its codification". Yet the desire to "codify" international law – to formulate and systematize rules of international law in order to avoid conflicting norms and enhance legal certainty – predates the Commission by many decades, if not centuries. An exhibit exploring the history and the achievements of the Commission is currently on display in the Visitors Lobby of the General Assembly Building at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Here are five things you may not know about the International Law Commission and the codification movement from which it emerged.
The Founding Father
If Hugo Grotius is the "father" of international law, the progenitor of the codification movement is Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). A lawyer, philosopher and social activist, Bentham strongly believed in the importance of positive law: "to be without a code is to be without justice", as he put it (Letter to Daniel O'Connell, Works of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. X, p. 597). In his view, a comprehensive, written code would remove legal gaps and inconsistencies and make the law accessible to all. It would also guard against judge-made rules and – even worse in Bentham's eyes – natural law ("nonsense upon stilts" (Anarchical Fallacies, ibid., Vol. II, p. 501)).
Bentham's codification efforts extended to the international sphere. Like many later codifiers, he hoped that a set of written rules could prevent war and establish a lasting peace. His desire to rid international rules of the vestiges of natural law went so far that he proposed to replace the commonly used term "law of nations", which encompassed an array of moral principles, with a new term: "international law" (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ibid., Vol. I, p. iii).
A Social Movement
Over the course of the 19th century, the codification movement gathered steam. Several authors proposed their own international codes, such as the Swiss-German Johann Caspar Bluntschli (Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisirten Staaten als Rechtsbuch dargestellt, 1868) and the Italian Pasquale Fiore (Il Diritto Internazionale Codificato e la sua Sanzione giuridica, 1890). In 1873 two associations were established to further the cause: the Institut de droit International and the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (now known as the International Law Association (ILA)). Among diplomats, lawyers and activists, codification became a political ideal on par with disarmament and free trade. The codification movement was so much in the public eye that a Dutch satirical magazine mocked the process in 1875, at the occasion of the third annual ILA conference in The Hague (see illustration). The cartoon is entitled "Congress for the Codification of the Law of Nations"; the comment reads "A Babylonian confusion of words that will [surely] lead to peace."
The Institut and the ILA continue to influence the development of international law. They differ from the International Law Commission in that the latter derives its mandate and authority from an intergovernmental body, the General Assembly of the United Nations, and regularly interacts with governments in a formal fashion. It is the General Assembly, acting through its Sixth (Legal) Committee, that debates and decides on the fate of the outcomes of the Commission's work. As a United Nations organ, the Commission also guarantees a representation of views from all corners of the world, as seats are allocated on a regional basis. Still, given the expertise of the Institut and the ILA, and the overlap in its membership with the Commission, the associations and the Commission mutually reinforce each other.
The League of Nations Committee
The International Law Commission is not the first codification body established by States. In 1924 the League of Nations appointed 17 legal experts to the "Committee for the Progressive Codification of International Law". The Committee was chaired by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, the father of the later Secretary-General of the United Nations, and its members included a young British lawyer called James Brierly, who would later be among the first members of the International Law Commission. Unlike the current Commission, the mandate of the League of Nations' Committee was limited to identifying items "ripe for codification".
Upon its recommendation, the League convened a Codification Conference in The Hague in 1930, to work on the topics nationality, territorial waters and State responsibility. The exercise proved overly ambitious: without draft conventions or negotiating texts, delegates found that they had too little time to cover the many complex issues on the agenda. As it turned out, codification involved more than mechanically transcribing customary law into written agreements; it also required the progressive development of new rules, to fill gaps and resolve conflicts – a political as much as a legal exercise.
In the end, the Conference produced few noticeable results. However, it did make general recommendations to improve the codification process, in particular regarding the importance of preparing draft conventions prior to convening a diplomatic conference. Many of the lessons from the 1930 Codification Conference informed the drafting, in 1947, of the Statute of the International Law Commission.
Codification v. Progressive Development
Pursuant to Article 13(1)(a) of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as its own Statute, the Commission is mandated to promote the codification of international law – the precise formulation and systemization of existing international rules – and its progressive development – the formulation of new rules of international law. Whether the Commission should focus on one or the other remains an oft-debated topic. The truth is that the Commission's statute provides for both. Its drafters already acknowledged that the two are "not mutually exclusive" and that the distinction was only drawn "for convenience of reference" (A/331, para. 7). In their view, "no clear-cut distinction between the formulation of the law as it is and the law as it ought to be could be rigidly maintained in practice" (ibid., para. 10). Still, the distinction remains meaningful. A lack of differentiation risks either understating or overestimating the existing international legal obligations of States.
In seventy years the Commission has faced plenty of challenges, yet its results are remarkable. The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the 2001 articles on State responsibility for internationally wrongful acts and are well-known outcomes of its work. However, the Commission also laid the foundation of the current regime on the law of the sea: its 1956 articles concerning the law of the sea formed the basis of the first Conference on the Law of the Sea in Geneva in 1958, a process that set the stage for the subsequent negotiation and adoption of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Moreover, without the Commission there may not have been an International Criminal Court: having worked on international criminal justice since its first session in 1949, it provided the first draft of the Statute that was negotiated during the 1998 Rome Conference. The Commission remains the main standard-setter in many technical areas, from transboundary aquifers to state succession. Through these activities, the Commission has laid – and continues to further – a solid legal foundation for peaceful international relations.
The exhibit on "70 Years of the International Law Commission" will be on display at the Visitors Lobby of the United Nations Headquarters in New York until 1 June 2018. It will then move to the Palais des Nations in Geneva in July 2018. For more information about the commemorative events, visit the website of the Commission .


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not only are these cards simply gorgeous, they come from one gorgeous and very talented lady. Please allow me to introduce you to Linda Langes; I will let her cards do the talking.............
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Oh my goodness, my mailbox is overflowing with such lovely, lovely creations - here are some of the new arrivals this week:
Julie is at it again - another 10 wonderful cards.............
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More LOVE in the mail!
It has been a great week and I think my postman is going to get heartily sick of ringing my doorbell. Many thanks to these gorgeous girls who have added another FIFTY heart cards to the tally this week! Marie, V. Scrimshaw, Gloria & Melissa Watson and Diana - a bunch of wonderful ladies and some gorgeous work to boot too!
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During the re-write of Redding's Downtown Specific Plan, we were urged by members of our Cultural District committee to petition the city to consider changing the opening paragraph of the plan. It talked about the history of Redding and how it started in 1872. Suffice to say, it lacked today's lens of cultural awareness, recognition of indigenous inhabitants, and the truth of their experience.
Today, the Downtown Specific Plan's history section reads like this: "Nine bands of northern Wintu people have resided within the area of the Northern River Valley and surrounding mountains from time immemorial, living with the abundant landscape." It recounts the violence, devastation, and betrayal they experienced. We also included a map to illustrate the prevalence of the indigenous people in the downtown region — particularly the ?elpom. Wintu descendents still reside in the area today and are represented on our committee.
The process has led to an upcoming presentation by Wintu native Kenwa Kravitz to the Redding City Council of a book on her people's history. This is a first step toward honoring Redding's indigenous roots.
Meeting Up, Making Things Happen
In November of last year, the Redding Cultural District held a meeting including five additional California Cultural District designees and members of the Redding community, to determine future activities for our various movements. Key topics of discussion included unification, low-cost artist housing, community-based events, youth programs, cultural inclusion, and the creation of interactive public art.
Shasta County Arts Council also leveraged Redding's the cultural district designation into a $242,000 grant from The McConnell Foundation to help fulfill the goals of our original plan. We created a mini-grant program to spur creative use of space and activating under-utilized spaces. And funds are being put toward environmental signage, advertising, videos and digital material as well as for the creation of our website — ReddingCulturalDistrict.org — and more.
Shasta County Arts Council, the lead agency for the Redding Cultural District, awarded 19 mini-grants totaling $50,000. The projects run the gamut, from subsidizing a Redding Chamber of Commerce event featuring a musical group from Austin, Texas; to Shakespeare in the Park — designed to activate and reclaim an underutilized amphitheater on the Sacramento River; to a selfie pop-up booth in the downtown construction zone; and the creation of an original song about Redding (we'll keep you posted). We also funded an LGBTQ art festival, a fashion week, a children's theater production, a night of environmental creativity, silent films, an indigenous salmon mural, an original webisode showcasing iconic images of the city, and then some. We're elated to see these projects come to life throughout the rest of this year and into 2019.
Unexpected Outcomes
The mini-grant process gave way to an unanticipated collaboration between the district and the recipient organizations: We have helped navigate the rules and regulations surrounding public performances or the use of city space; we're helping to create public art guidelines for murals and help facilitating public-private partnerships on a variety of levels. We're connecting these folks to the larger art community. One grant recipient is now working with a local theater group to produce and direct plays. We've become a facilitator of dreams in our new Redding Cultural District.
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You don't have to look far or long to find something about Shasta Dam in Redding. Built in the late 1930s, Shasta Dam generates hydroelectric power and at 602 feet high, is the ninth-tallest dam in the United States. It forms the largest reservoir in California. We have a burger joint that's been in Downtown for 70 years — appropriately called Damburger. Now, in honor of the annual May Rodeo (we have the Redding Rodeo grounds front and center in our district), we installed a pop-up art project called #damartalley or #artalleyredding. It's an interactive mural. You'll have to visit to check it out.
Our California Cultural District has been a catalyst for new ideas, new activities and new partnerships. It's a good thing for Redding and for the State of California. Many thanks to the California Arts Council for facilitating this dynamic program — one that highlights arts and culture as true economic development.


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A radical departure from the quaint original house; I decided to blow out the side wall and make a small mansion. The dormer windows are a nice touch, and clearly the larger scale called for a bigger tower roof (sadly never making it passed the outline.)
The side elevation, with what appears to be an archway leading to an inner courtyard. This is the last image I have of this house. I'm not sure why I gave up here; perhaps the tedium of copying all these elements got to me? We'll never know.


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There may also be a chance that silymarin, if taken in excessive amounts, may affect the liver adversely. It is therefore highly advisable to consult a qualified physician and determine if taking milk thistle seed extract is suitable for a particular health case and, if so, what the recommended dosage should be. Milk thistle tea, milk thistle detox and other milk thistle products are generally not recommended for very young children, pregnant women, or lactating women.
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If as a rule you operate with a high control factor but lack
you will likely place an inordinate emphasis on structure, process, and
system — the characteristic traits of a Micromanager. You will have a
tendency to overorganize, trying to maintain more control than is really
necessary to get where you're going. Form, in other words, will
overtake function. This is the natural domain of the proverbial bean-counter,
the financial guy who, if he wields too much power, strangles a company by cutting off investment in innovation, design, and research.
At some point there will be no more beans to count. Publicly traded
companies always risk long-term growth and survival when they are too
focused on controlling their stock price by managing only toward the
next quarterly earnings report. Another typical example of this
sort of thinking is the person who spends a
large portion of his day building systems for replenishing paper clips at the
expense of the bigger game he should be playing.
This perspective creates an ironic situation: Being
too controlled actually means being out of control. If your grip
is too tight on a golf club, you will lose control of your swing. If your
rules are too strict for your kids, they will rebel. A boxer or karate
master will attempt to coax his opponent to fear losing control, which
causes the opponent to tense up and overreact. (The tactic is called a "fake.")
If your policies and procedures are draconian, you will wind up
only stifling creativity, flexibility, and momentum in your
Though there are many people who are chronically
overstructured, we all slip into this arena regularly. How often have you
avoided some particularly distasteful task at your desk by "getting
more prepared," that is, rearranging your notes, changing your font style,
filling your printer with paper, and then playing a quick game (or two)
of solitaire as a break from your intense preparations?
How much structure is "enough"? Most of the time-management formats that have been designed and promoted
in the last half century simply overdid a good thing. The
original Day-Timer featured dated pages with fifteen-minute increments because
it was designed by an attorney who needed a good way to track
fifteen-minute chunks of billable time. The "ABC"
priority-coding system became popular as a way to train a workforce that was being
introduced to discretionary time. Daily to-do lists made sense when the world moved slowly enough to ensure that they could remain
valid all day, and your environment was quiet enough for people to be
able to pay attention to them.
Even the raft of sophisticated software designers who have
attempted to create the "latest and greatest" GTD
implementation applications have overshot the bounds of real-life functionality. Most of them missed the mark by requiring too much mental
effort to make life fit into their supplied forms.
On the Positive Side
We do have to have some degree of structure, and we must
constantly be able to "fill in the blanks," that
is, execute. And in fact, to get anything done, we must ultimately "complete the form"
by arranging physical assets as needed. The very process of taking
action requires some predetermination and design. We organize ourselves to
fulfill our directives, whether that's simply talking or
creating a whole corporation.
Realistically, a majority of our days are actually spent
doing things that either we or someone else has laid out for us to
accomplish. There are also times when our energies should primarily be
focused on processes and systems — on upgrading structures
to handle what we have put in motion.
When you're in the structure and fulfillment mode,
you can't also be in the visioning and outcome-thinking frame of mind. It
is impossible to focus consciously on your life purpose and thread a
needle at the same time. If you really operate professionally at the
most sophisticated level, you may be able to quickly refer to your company's
values in your mind while you're chatting with a problem
employee. And if you're really tuned in and lined up with
your life, you may manage to keep your long-term vision for a retirement
lifestyle in mind while you're fixing the coffee grinder. But
in both of those circumstances it would be almost impossible to also be
thinking about all sixty-five of your other projects, along with your
strategic plan.
You can switch between any of these horizons rapidly, but
they can't occupy the same space simultaneously in the psyche. So in
reality we all lose some degree of perspective every time we act or
engage ourselves in anything, at any level. When you focus in, you filter
out: that is the very nature of our consciousness.
The key here is maintaining the capability to unhook from
and/or change the form or structure that's guiding you,
as soon as it has served its purpose. Knowing when to refocus from another
viewpoint, and when to sacrifice a system that has begun to constrain
expansion and expression, is a sign of mastership.
Adapted from "Making It All Work" by David Allen, by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.


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Eat breakfast each morning in your stylish kitchen, which comes equipped with quartz countertops and a dishwasher to take care of the pots and pans. Do a quick load of laundry in your washer dryer while you catch up on the morning news on your 50-inch flatscreen TV. Then, head downstairs to the communal coffee lounge for a quick caffeine fix and a pastry before strolling across to class.
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The Boston School Reform Project at MAC works to promote excellence, equity, access, and achievement for all children in Boston Public Schools. We have an unwavering commitment to issues of social justice, parent and youth leadership development and community empowerment.
BSR has worked on a range of issues including:
- ELL policy
- Strengthening the structure of the central office of family engagement
- Budget
- Equitable Access to Quality in Student Assignment and School Choice
- School Discipline and Alternatives to Suspensions
- School-based management, including parent/student role on School Site Council
- Personnel issues, including teacher recruitment, hiring and evaluations
- Eliminating achievement and opportunity gaps
Through the years, the Boston School Reform Project (BSR) at MAC has had several key accomplishments. After years and years of advocacy and work with Latina parents in East Boston, we were successful in getting the school district to add a new two-way bilingual school to help address the inequities of how immigrant families and ELL students access these types of programs. The new two-way bilingual school opened in September 2014 and is a victory for the children and families of East Boston. We continue to provide ongoing support and leadership training to the parents who led advocacy efforts for the dual language school in their community. In 2012 MAC supported the BPS pilot summer program, Heritage Academy, which was extended through the school year as a Saturday program due to its success. During the planning of the program, MAC helped to ensure that the voice of parents was heard throughout the process. In 2009, MAC worked with BPON and other core groups to form the Boston United for Students coalition to give community voice to the BPS-BTU contract negotiations.
MAC has also worked to strengthen the parent engagement system in BPS and was one of the groups that successfully advocated for the Family and Community Outreach Coordinator initiative, as well as the creation of a deputy level position to lead family engagement in the district. MAC also organized Voices for Children to give a parent and community voice in the contract that was being negotiated in 2000 and its implementation. We also formed the ELL Work Group (formerly the Latino Education Action Network) to advocate for the nearly 17,000 English language learners in BPS; we worked with Haitian leaders and parents to create the Haitian Education Action Leadership Network to respond to the education needs of that community; we successfully pushed for the creation of the Boston School Committee ELL Task Force and have monitored the implementation of its recommendations; and MAC supported the rejuvenation of the SPED PAC. In 2005, MAC helped to develop the network, Community Partners with the New Superintendent, to give parent and community voice in the selection process of the new superintendent and staffed the Hubie Jones' Citizen Commission on Academic Success for Boston Children. Finally, MAC was instrumental in moving the district to focus on equity and quality during the school choice/student assignment process that was approved in 2013.


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Based on records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in February 2015, the number of nursing home facilities in the U.S. was 15,700. Nursing home facilities, also called skilled nursing facilities, are places where people, who can no longer be given the necessary care at home, but who do not really need to be in a hospital are brought by their loved ones. These people, or nursing home residents, include: elders, usually 65 years old; individuals who, because of an illness (such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's), require extra care and assistance; and, those needing rehabilitation therapies. CDC records also show that the present number of residents in nursing homes total to 1.4 million.
Due to the frequency of nursing home abuses (as reported over the news), many families are rather opting for assisted living, visiting home health services or caregiving (which will allow older adults to stay at home), especially if the need is custodial care rather than skilled medical attention.
The most common forms of abuses nursing home residents experience are physical abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse and, the most degrading and wicked of all, sexual abuse. This last type of abusive conduct is committed in various ways, including showing of pornographic materials, forced nudity, fondling, forcing another resident to kiss or touch the victim and, worst of all, forced penetrative acts.
Despite the gravity of the offense, sexual abuse is the least reported type of abuse due to the humiliation the victim feels. Rather than reveal the abuses that he/she is being made to suffer, a victim, instead, becomes withdrawn, silent, sensitive to touch, evasive of eye contact and low-esteemed. Many sexually abused victims also sustain laceration and/or other wounds which they refuse to explain the cause of.
As explained in the website of the law firm Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC, sexual abuse in nursing homes has real consequences for its victims. They begin to feel unsafe around other people and must live with the terror of knowing the abuse could happen again. Unwelcome or non-consensual sexual activity should have no place in nursing homes. Thus, if a family member even has the least feeling of suspicion that his/her loved one may be experiencing sexual abuse, an attorney may be able to help prove it and hold the responsible party accountable.


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The mother of an 11-month-old girl whose alleged kidnapping prompted a brief Amber Alert Tuesday is in custody after the tot was found dead inside a plastic bag in a diaper box.
Breanna Lewis, 19, who initially claimed the baby was snatched from her arms by an unknown kidnapper outside her South Carolina home, was charged with filing a false police report, ABC News 4 reports.
Lewis is reportedly the prime suspect in the death of her daughter, little Harlee Lane Lewis, whose body was found in a field 1,000 yards behind a home in Chesterfield County.
The young mom initially claimed she was getting her mail with the baby in her arms when she was struck on the head multiple times and nearly knocked unconscious by a man in a gold SUV, who then grabbed the child and fled, according to Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks.
But her story unraveled as she was questioned by police, Brooks said, and she admitted to fabricating the tale.
Lewis claimed not to remember what happened to the baby, who has an autopsy scheduled for Wednesday.
Harlee's disappearance prompted an Amber Alert, though it was canceled after Brooks said police had reason to believe Lewis's story was bogus.
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The hardest part about making a three-tier cake is the weight. The weight from the upper layers can cause the lower layers to collapse. The easiest way to avoid this issue is to place dowel rods through the inside of the cake, which will support the weight of the upper tiers and prevent the cake from falling apart. Use another dowel rod to keep the entire cake from slipping during transit.
Cut eight dowel rods with the serrated knife to a length of 3 inches. Cut one dowel rod to a length of 8 inches.
Prepare the cake mixes according to the package directions. Pour the batter evenly between the three cake pans. Bake according to package directions. You may have to increase baking time due to the thickness of the cakes. Allow to cool completely.
Place the 12-inch cake onto the centre of the cake drum. Ice the cake with butter cream frosting. Place the other two cakes onto cardboard circles. Frost them, and chill them in the refrigerator for two hours.
Cut two cardboard circles equalling 9 and 6 inches in diameter. Place the 9-inch circle in the middle of the 12-inch cake. Mark the placement of the cake around the top of the 12-inch cake with a knife. Remove the cardboard circle.
Stick four short dowel rods into the 9-inch circle inside the centre of the 12-inch cake. Place the 9-inch cake in the middle of the 12 inch cake, using the outline as a guide for placement.
Place the 6-inch circle on the top of the 9-inch cake and mark the placement of the cardboard with a knife. Remove the cardboard. Place four short dowel rods in the 6-inch circle inside the 9-inch cake. Press the rods down until they are at the same level as the cake itself.
Place the 6-inch cake on top of the 9-inch cake inside the marked area. Place the long dowel rod through the entire cake, tapping lightly with a hammer to anchor it in place. Push the rod all the way to the bottom of the cake with your fingers. Cover the hole in the cake with frosting. Decorate the cake with fondant or other icing and embellishments to finish.


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We believe that Land Agency should enable you to make more of your rural assets in both the short and long term. Whatever your aims our dedicated team of specialists can help you achieve them.
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A professional appraisal of your property carried out face to face by one of our expert team is always the best way to go. However, if you would like to get a bit of an idea of what your home may be worth you can get a free instant estimate below by giving us a bit of information about your property and our online calculator will give you an estimated price range.
If you would like a more accurate appraisal of your property with consideration of its unique features, location and the market place please contact one of our local offices who would be only too pleased to help.
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Many homeowners buy a second home expecting to use it for family vacations, as a rental, to gain equity, or – upon retirement – a future primary residence.
News Releases
REALTORS® and homeowners alike recognize the value of taking on a major home remodeling project.
October 3, 2019
The five winners serve as examples of how REALTORS® roll up their sleeves and step forward to make their communities better places.
October 2, 2019
NAR looks forward to continuing its close collaboration with the Department of Labor with Secretary Scalia at its helm.
October 1, 2019
NAR appreciates the Treasury Department and FHFA's work to advance housing finance reform and protect taxpayers by increasing available capital within the system.
October 1, 2019
Realtors® urge Congress to resume working toward a long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program.
September 27, 2019
Each of the four regions of the U.S. reported month-over-month and year-over-year gains in contract activity.
September 26, 2019
NAR thanks the House of Representatives for its overwhelming, bipartisan support of the SAFE Act.
September 25, 2019
Seventy-four percent of those polled said that now is a good time to sell a home—a modest increase over 73% last quarter.
September 23, 2019
Last month three of the four major regions of the country reported a rise in sales, while the West recorded a decline.
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Let's call them 'Action 1' and 'Action 2'. When action 2 is taken, I expect the script to subsequently pause there ( read command ) before proceeding with the rest of the script.
However, that is not what happens. Instead it continues with the next line which moves file1 to file2... While paused at the read command.
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if [ "$(ls -d /directory)" ]
echo "Action 1"
echo "Action 2"; read
# rest of program...
mv file1 file2
EDIT: Just want to add, when I extract these commands out of my script ( which has other stuff in it ) and run in the terminal or in a script of its own it works. And I'm not certain it fails like this every time. And by the way, these commands are nested in a function, not that it should make any difference.


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If you are considering making an application to our Open Awards Programme, make sure you are able to agree with the following statements:
- My organisation is a registered Charity
- My organisation is not a Housing Association, Community Interest Company or Arms Length External Organisation (ALEO) of a local authority
- My organisation has less than 12 months free reserves or can demonstrate financial need (more information on this is available in our FAQs)
- My organisation's proposed work will take place in Scotland
- My organisation's proposed work falls within one of our funding strands
If you are still unsure if your organisation is eligible, please review our FAQs and then get in touch with a member of the Giving Team.
Did you know? On 27th June 2019, we launched on a new pilot, Wee Grants for Wee Groups. This is for applications of £500-£2,000 and is open to both constituted community groups and registered charities. Find out more about this here.
Types of activity we do not fund
- Funding for individuals, including travel /personal training costs/uniforms
- Projects and activities which incorporate the promotion of political or religious beliefs, or requests for salaried posts where there is a requirement for the post holder to be of a particular faith or none
- Work which takes place outside Scotland
- Research or feasibility studies
- The provision of information and advice (e.g. Helplines) with no associated, longer term support
- Replacement of statutory revenue funding for mainstream playgroups and nurseries
- Capital costs of Memorials/Statues/Universities/Colleges
- One off events/festivals which have no associated educational activities or where these do not address disadvantage, in line with our funding strands
- The standalone purchase costs of buildings and/or land
- Capital work on buildings not owned by the applicant or on which the applicant does not have a long term lease
- Any retrospective costs already incurred by the applicant
- Work which does not address one of our funding themes
- The salaries of staff employed by, or seconded from, another organisation


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Research & Publication
Department Of ENT
Researches and Publications:
1. Cochlear Implantation in Children with Anomalous Cochleovestibular Anatomy: Our Experience. Grover Mohnish, Sharma, S., Bhargava, S. et al. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg (2017) 69: 504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-017-1209-z
2. Measuring cochlear duct length in Asian population: worth giving a thought! Grover Mohnish, Sharma, S., Singh, S.N. et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-018-4868-9
3. Cochlear orientation: preoperative evaluation and intraoperative significance. Sharma, S., Grover M., Singh, S.N. et al. Accepted for publication in "Journal of Laryngology and Otology"
4. Sunil Samdani, Avani Jain, VinodMeena, C B Meena, Cardiac complications in diphtheria and predictors of outcome, International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology 104 (2018) 76-78.
5. Avani Jain, Sunil Samdani, VinodMeena, Man Prakash Sharma, Diphtheria: It is still prevalent, International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology 86 (2016) 68-71.
6. ShubhangiGoyal, Monika Sharma, PawanSinghal, Sunil Samdani, D P Gupta, An interesting case of lobular capillary haemangioma presenting as emergency, Rajasthan J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2017
7. Shubhangi Gupta, RekhaHarshvardhan, Sunil Samdani, To study association of the size and site of tympanic perforation with degree of hearing loss. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck surgery (2017). doi: 10.1007/512070-017-1102-9
8. RamkeshMeena, Sunil Samdani, A clinical study on management of benign vocal cord nodules with special reference to non- surgical versus surgical intervention. International Journal of Scientific research. Volume-6 / Issue-1/ January-2017. ISSN No. 2277-8179/ IF: 3,508 / IC Value : 78.48
9. Meena,r.l.,sonkhya,d.,sonkhya,n., and gupta,d.p. Hearing status in patients with type2 diabetes mellitus.J,evid. Based med.health. Pissn-2349-2562, eissn-2349-2570/ vol.3/ issue 32/april 21,2016
10. Meena,r.l.,sonkhya,d.andsonkhya,n. Evaluation of hearing loss in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.International journl of reseach in medical sciences. June 2016, vol.4 issue 6.1-7
11. Sharma s, sonkhya d. And sonkhya n.:skull base inverted papilloma: a case report annals of clinical case reports 2016 | volume 1 | article 1219


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Matt's still away, but Jonathan's still been working hard on his wheel. Here's the pick of this week's graduate jobs from our own client base and beyond…
We've brought a couple of new roles on this week – if you're interested in social media advertising, you'll probably like this one and if you're hot on your maths, this one's an absolute cracker (especially if you speak Spanish). Give Nik a shout if you're interested in finding out more about those, or to apply.
For the sports lovers, ESPN (part of Disney) is looking for a Digital Research Intern to help to drive consumer insight on their site. Read more about that one here.
If you're more into content and music, you should check this one out – it's with live entertainment Company Underbelly. They're looking for someone to look after web content and engagement on social media channels.
We don't normally champion unpaid internships, but this one's for a good cause so we'll make an exception (plus it's been positioned as voluntary work). It's for a charity called Trekstock who help young people with cancer. A chance to take over their social media presence here.
That's it for now – if you want any help with applying for any of these, you know what to do (get in touch with us).


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Ottawa Brewery Tours: Brew Donkey Interview
This week we chatted with Brad Campeau, founder and operator of Brew Donkey Tours. This fun company offers tours of local breweries. Brew Donkey has expanded their selection of Ottawa brewery tours and we are excited to find out what makes these brewery tours hop! Have a read to find out more about these tasty tours of the Ottawa craft beer scene.
Can you tell us a little bit about Brew Donkey and how it all started?
I opened Brew Donkey as a way to help Ottawans explore the amazing beer that was being produced across the city. It is now a service used by locals and tourists alike, offering 3-4 tours a week. A love of craft beer and the inclusiveness of the brewing scene are what keeps me involved and passionate about the business.
Please explain a bit about the tours you offer.
Our tours help you get behind the scenes of the Ottawa brewing scene. With each tour visiting 3-5 breweries you get an intensive experience that is both educational and entertaining. Friday nights we have a 4 hour tour visiting 3 breweries in an express version of our City Beers tour. Saturday's and Sunday's are populated by longer tours visiting the outlying area's of Ottawa. These longer tours always include a meal and dessert from one of our amazing catering partners. Most importantly all samples are always included.
What would you say is the best thing about the experiences you offer?
The brewers and owners are committed to providing a unique experience to Brew Donkey guests that you can't get elsewhere. A sample from the fermenter, an exclusive first taste of a beer yet to be released, or a history lesson.
How would you describe the audience your tours cater to?
Our guests are everyday people who are interested in knowing more about their city and the beer they drink. From the craft beer enthusiast to the weekend adventurer the riders are always keen for samples and information of what makes these beers special.
What's your most frequently asked question from customers?
"How many samples do we get?" is the most asked question and the answer is "enough". No one has ever said I didn't get enough. The breweries are committed to making sure you love their product and Brew Donkey is committed to making sure the tour is safe and enjoyable. Our Smart Serve Tour guides always keep the perfect balance of relaxation and libation.
Lastly, is there anything else you'd like to add?
Watch for our new Collaboration Series Tours that feature non beer related stops. Namely the All Things Brewed tour featuring a coffee roaster, tea producer, distillery, and a brewery!
Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us Brad!
Follow the links below to purchase your Ottawa brewery tour experience gift:
- Ottawa Craft Brewery Tour
- City Beers Express Tour
- Bytown Brewers Walking Tour
- Hintonburg Hop Walking Tour


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Saturday, January 29, 2005
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My crew and I are flying back from our two-day visit to Pietermaritzburg. I'm heavily sunburnt on my arms and neck. Ntobeko, our camera-dude is sitting on my left. Across the aisle, to his left, is Shaft, our director. Musa, the sound-fellow, is sitting behind shaft. I'm the producer.
"Did you get that at the Exclusive Books sale?" I ask. Beside me is a delicious waif.
She hefts the book on her lap. "Nah, it's just in-flight reading," she says.
She must be a speed-reader. The flight from Durban to Johannesburg is only about an hour. Turns out she's been back in South Africa for a month on holiday from Dublin where she now lives, and she's heading back there, making a connecting flight in Joburg.
I try some small talk, asking her what she does in Dublin. Her name's Ashika. She's a psychologist. Specialising in children. I notice that she's being very polite with me. "Uh," I say, "if my chit chat is bothering you, just let me know, and I'll try and hold myself back from talking to you. Would you like me to shut up?"
She looks at me. One beat. A second beat. "Yes please," she says.
"Done," I say.
But I can't stop glancing over at her. And she's totally aware of this. So I decide to do an airplane sketch. I struggle to reach my cargo pants pocket in the cramped seat, but eventually get my palmtop out. I run my sketching software, and start drawing.
Of course, she notices instantly, and closes the book just as I get the curve of her nose down. "What are you doing?" she asks. She's not angry. Just a little wild.
"Drawing you," I say, and show her the screen.
"Isn't it customary to ASK permission before you draw someone?"
"I normally don't ask. Would you like me to ask?"
She glares at me, but her eyes are sparkling, and she can't hide a smile.
"May I draw you?" I ask, sketching another line.
"Okay," she says.
"Read your book," I say. "I need your profile."
I notice some activity in the seat beside me. Ntobeko is conferring with Shaft. I glance at them. They both give me a hubba hubba thumbs up. They're impressed with my spadework.
I keep drawing, then start doing the colour. That's always time-consuming. It normally takes me a good thirty minutes to do a detailed colour portrait. The 'fasten your seatbelt' sign pings on, and the captain announces that we're preparing to land. Technically, I'm supposed to stop using electronic equipment when this happens.
But I figure a palmtop is just like a watch, and I'm fighting against time here. This will only serve as spadework if I can actually finish the drawing. So I keep sketching, and ask Ntobeko to warn me when the stewards are approaching.
He nudges me. I hold the machine face down, and hope they can't see the glow. They see nothing. I keep colouring Ashika's picture.
"Here," I say, just as we start the final descent.
"Isn't that supposed to make me look beautiful?" Ashika asks.
"Oh, I can't make you look more beautiful than you actually are," I say.
I show Shaft and Ntobeko the pic, and they give me big thumbs up signs.
Then I hand Ashika my business card and say, "I'll email it to you if you send me your email address when you get back to Ireland."
"I'd like that," she says.