The growing season is wrapping up for much of the U.S., which makes this the best time to plan for next year's forage. Hay costs are high, and look like they are going to stay that way. If you've thought about making your own hay on your property or properties nearby, there is more than meets the checkbook that needs to be considered.
The two biggest challenges to making your own hay are having the necessary equipment and finding enough labor, according to Marvin Hall, Ph.D., professor of forage management at Penn State University. Hay-making equipment—even used equipment—is expensive enough that if you're going to purchase it, you want to be sure you're in this venture for the long haul.
Tractor: You probably have one of these already, but does it have the horsepower to handle hay-making implements? In general, implements come in different sizes with different horsepower requirements, so be sure those you select are a match. Your owner's manual can help explain the requirements.
Mower/conditioner: You'll need either a sickle-bar mower or a disc mower, depending on the type of forage you're growing. The conditioner crimps or rolls the cut forage and leaves it in wide swaths to speed up the drying time in the field. Used units start around $500.
Rake/tedder: The tedder "fluffs" the cut forage to further speed the drying process. When ready for baling, the forage is raked into windrows so your baler can scoop it up and pack it into bales. Used rake/tedders will cost $500 and up.
Baler: You can make large or small round or square bales, depending on your needs. Used balers go for $750 and more.
These are the bare essentials, according to Hall, and you still need to take into account the cost and skill required to maintain and repair the equipment, plus the space to store it.
Running all of this equipment and getting the hay put up requires all hands on deck—a minimum of four to do the job efficiently. One person can drive the tractor for mowing, raking and baling, but taking the hay out of the field is where the labor comes in. You'll want one person driving the tractor with the wagon attached, one person on the wagon to stack the hay, and two people taking bales out of the field and handing them to the stacker. "The farmers I deal with are having a hard time finding labor that wants to do that kind of work," Hall says.
Of course, he points out, "you can get around the labor if you spend more money." Bale retrievers, which pick up and move hay, start at $4,000 used.
If only mowing, baling and stacking were all you needed to make quality hay. Instead, you also have to concern yourself with forage selection and soil fertility.
If you're lucky enough to be starting with a field of established, quality forage, you can begin your hay making right away. If you need to build up the forage in the field, you have to decide what you'd like to feed your horses while taking your environment and soil type into consideration.
Likewise, different forages grow in different soil types—clay, sand, silt and combinations of these. Your county extension agent is an excellent resource for learning about the forages that do best in your area.
Just as a balanced diet is vital to your health, proper soil pH and nutrients are vital to forage crops' health. "You have to maintain fertility of the soil to have optimum quality and optimum production," says Vanessa Corriher, Ph.D., assistant professor and extension forage specialist at Texas A&M University.
Nutrients and pH are easy enough to measure using a soil test. "Almost all of the state universities have labs that will do soil testing," Hall says. There are also independent labs that offer the service.
On the form you submit with your soil sample, you note your intentions for the field—for example, four tons of timothy hay per acre—and your results will provide soil-amendment recommendations.
"Most states have county extension agents who are trained in looking at soil, talking to farmers to find out what they want to produce and advising on what needs to be done," Hall says.
Once your hay is cut, proper storage is key. "If you're going to invest a lot of money in producing hay, it's very important to protect the investment," Corriher says.
Prices for these services vary by area and from year to year. Hall says custom baling in Pennsylvania went for about $1.80 per small square bale in 2012. Other per-bale prices found were $1.20 to $1.50 in Illinois, $2.25 in Indiana, and $2.10 in Oklahoma.
Producing hay for your farm is a noble venture, but you need to have realistic expectations. Educate yourself about the right hay-making conditions for your area. Cutting when the forage is mature and when the weather looks like it might allow a window without rain for baling are part luck, part experience. "There is an art and a learning curve to making hay. You shouldn't expect to say, 'I'm going to make good hay this year' and have that just happen," Hall says.


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Q: Cell edit in primefaces is not updating the value I have a datatable in my primefaces application . The code for the frontend has
    <!-- Start of customer datatable -->
            <p:dataTable var="customer" value="#{customerBean.customers}" paginator="true" selection="#{customerBean.selectedCustomer}"
            selectionMode="single" onRowSelectUpdate=":custList" onRowSelectComplete="custTab.show()" id="custList" widgetVar="custList" update=":custList">
                <f:facet name="header">
                List of Customers
                    <p:outputPanel>
                        <p:commandButton value="+" type="button" onclick="addCustDlg.show()"/>
                     </p:outputPanel>
                </f:facet>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.id}" filterBy="#{customer.id}" update=":custList">
                    <f:facet name="header">
                        <h:outputText value="ID"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <h:outputText value="#{customer.id}"/>
                </p:column>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.name}" filterBy="#{customer.name}" headerText="NAME" filterMatchMode="contains" update=":custList">
                  <p:cellEditor>
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.name}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <f:facet name="input">
                        <p:inputText value="#{customer.name}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                  </p:cellEditor>
                </p:column>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.description}" filterBy="#{customer.description}" headerText="DESCRIPTION">
                  <p:cellEditor>
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.description}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <f:facet name="input">
                        <p:inputText value="#{customer.description}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                  </p:cellEditor>
                </p:column>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.signupDate}" filterBy="#{customer.signupDate}" headerText="SIGN UP DATE">
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.signupDate}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                </p:column>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.validUntil}" filterBy="#{customer.validUntil}" headerText="EXPIRY DATE">
                  <p:cellEditor>
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.validUntil}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <f:facet name="input">
                        <p:inputText value="#{customer.validUntil}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                  </p:cellEditor>
                </p:column>

                <p:column sortBy="#{customer.status}" filterBy="#{customer.status}" headerText="STATUS">
                  <p:cellEditor>
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.status}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                    <f:facet name="input">
                        <p:inputText value="#{customer.status}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                  </p:cellEditor>
                </p:column>

                <p:column headerText="CREATION DATE" sortBy="#{customer.creationDate}" filterBy="#{customer.creationDate}">
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.creationDate}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                </p:column>

                <p:column headerText="LAST UPDATE DATE" sortBy="#{customer.lastUpdateDate}" filterBy="#{customer.lastUpdateDate}">
                    <f:facet name="output">
                        <h:outputText value="#{customer.lastUpdateDate}"/>
                    </f:facet>
                </p:column>

                <p:column headerText="Options">
                    <p:rowEditor/>
                </p:column>

            </p:dataTable>
            <!-- End of dataTable (customer datatable) -->

And the function for handling the rowEvent is specified in the bean as
 public void custRowEdit(RowEditEvent event){
    Customer cust = (Customer) event.getObject();
    EntityManagerHelper.beginTransaction();
    custDao.update(cust);
    EntityManagerHelper.commit();
}

However , on an update event , when I am editing the cell in the table , I do not get the new updated value of the attribute .
Like in the image below , when I edit the status of the entry with ID 1 from 11 to 4 , in the function custRowEdit , when I try to get the customer object , I still get the status of the customer as 11 and not 4 .
Can anyone help me with understanding why the value of the cell is not being set ?

A: from Where You are invoking custRowEdit(RowEditEvent event) method. I have not any related thing in your code.
In order to make your listener invoke add below attribute in your datatable declaration.
rowEditListener="#{customerBean.listenerInBackingBean}"
<p:dataTable var="customer" value="#{customerBean.customers}" paginator="true" selection="#{customerBean.selectedCustomer}"
            selectionMode="single" onRowSelectUpdate=":custList" onRowSelectComplete="custTab.show()" id="custList" widgetVar="custList" update=":custList">
                <f:facet name="header"

rowEditListener="#{customerBean.cutRowEvent}"
>

A: Check the implementation of customerBean.customers. I reloaded the content from the database every time the method got called. Wrong. This should happen in the constructor instead. Now everything works fine. Thought it was a JavaScript error ...

A: Thanks this helped me.
May I add that instead of loading the list from a query in the constructor, if one has a @SessionScoped managed bean one can instead use a reset() method to reset lists to null and then lazily populate the lists from the query. The reset can then be called on page load using an f:event:
    <f:view>
        <f:metadata>
            <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{sessionScopedBean.reset}"/>
        </f:metadata>
    </f:view>

A: I encountered a similar situation that was resolved by removing the update="" tag from the dataTable. The table's default behavior is to update the row, which evidently, in my case, was not occurring.

A: You are missin the p:ajax event to trigger the method, function or whatever you wanna do after the cell editing
it's something like
<p:ajax event="cellEdit" listener="#{mBean.onCellEdit}" update="elementX" />

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Today's songs are being accompanied by a review of the movie from our good friend Beth over at Beth Loves Bollywood. Even though the movie being reviewed is from 1980 - like all great art, the first time you experience it - it is new for you.
It was inevitable of course that five years after the mega-success of 'Sholay' (Bollywood's tribute to the spaghetti western) the powers that be would get together and attempt to do the same tribute for 007. The result was 'Shaan' which took over 3 years to make, brought back many of the same people that made 'Sholay' and was one of the costliest films of it's time (barely making back it's original budget). The movie itself is just one breathless sequence of events that combines romance, buddy flicks, great songs, implausible plotlines and of course the thing that no Bond picture would be complete without - a signature villain. Seeing Kulbushan Karbhanda now cannot be done without picturing Mike Myers' famous Dr. Evil from 'Austin Powers'. But in his debut film, Karbhanda handled the role perfectly and proved to be more than just a caricature in his alligator infested lair. Amitabh is his usual uber cool hero - fans of AB 2.0 should watch this film to see what made his dad such a star. This film also stars Shashi Kapoor (brother of Raj & Shammi) and my favorite heroine from the 80's, the angelic Parveen Babi.
Try to make this movie today and you can just imagine the pitch... "Ummm - I need the biggest actor of the day, an unlimited budget, great songs, melodrama, side-splitting comedy, action sequences never attempted before in Indian cinema - and oh, did I mention the lead actor will have to wrestle an alligator in the final sequence?". Yes, this movie (like all great Bollywood masala films) is like many movies rolled into one - but with all cylinders firing. The end result is inspired madness that will keep you entertained until the final reel. At times the editing and plot development will challenge your logic but the film has so much energy and enthusiasm you just won't care.
R.D. Burman provided the music for this movie and is universally regarded as one of the true legends of Indian cinema inheriting his talent from another legend - his father S.D. Burman. The song for today is Janu Meri Jaan. The song unfolds in a scene in which our 2 heroes have to get our 2 heroines back after being caught in a lie. The setting? Try a double decker bus then a two seater bicycle followed immediately by a machine gun shootout, view it here.


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Despite a Volatile 2018, Tech Is Still Performing Strongly
The 2019 TMT Value Creators Report
February 25, 2019 By Awais Ali, Simon Bamberger, Hady Farag, Patrick Forth, and Derek Kennedy
The end of 2018 was brutal for the technology industry. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, four stocks that had each exceeded or flirted with $1 trillion valuations, collectively lost nearly $900 billion relative to their all-time peaks, and the industry as a whole experienced its most volatile year of the 2014−2018 period. (See Exhibit 1.) But despite its short-term struggles, tech was still a long-term winner. The industry recorded a median five-year TSR of 14%, the 4th-best showing among the 33 industries that BCG analyzed. All but a handful of the 89 tech companies in our sample recorded positive TSR over the five-year period, a much stronger overall performance than that of telecom or media, and a reminder that value creation should be viewed over the long term.
In particular, the top ten tech value creators demonstrate the payoff from long-term strategies built around AI, the cloud, the Internet of Things, and software as a service (SaaS). (See Exhibit 2.) The top three value creators—Broadcom, Nvidia, and AMD—are all semiconductor companies, albeit each with a different orientation. Broadcom is partly a play on disciplined consolidation and integration of acquired companies. Nvidia and AMD have capitalized on strong demand for high-performance computing driven by the growth in AI applications, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, and self-driving and driver-assisted systems. These applications have now replaced the smartphone as the growth engine for the semiconductor industry.
The five-year success of the semiconductor companies may be hard to duplicate, however, at least in the immediate future. Recent earnings reports of several companies have highlighted softening demand in such areas as data centers, smartphones, and bitcoin mining.
The multiyear transformation of 4th-ranking Adobe to a SaaS business has returned the company to the top ten after a one-year absence. And at number five, Amazon is thriving with its cloud. Amazon Web Services is growing by more than 40% annually and was the most significant contributor, of Amazon's three businesses, to the company's operating income in 2018. Microsoft has likewise had a remarkable five-year run, even though it landed just outside the top ten, at number 12. It, too, has benefited from its move to the cloud with both Azure and Office, carefully orchestrated by CEO Satya Nadella.
The flip side of this story is that success, while hard earned, can be tough to sustain, as semiconductor companies may soon discover. Only three of the top ten (Nvidia, Broadcom, and IT services giant DXC Technology) were top-ten performers in last year's survey, which analyzed 2013–2017 TSR. And none of the top ten performers from five years ago (2009–2013) are in the top ten this year. In fact, two top-ten hardware companies from 2009–2013 reported negative TSR in the current five-year period, a potent reminder that tech companies must be in a constant state of reinvention or they will revert to the mean.
Growth Is the Most Common Path to Top Performance
While companies can pull individual TSR levers in the short term to improve value creation, growth is generally what matters most in the long run. (See Exhibit 3.) Nine of the top ten tech value creators, for example, experienced double-digit annual revenue growth over the last five years, while the median annual growth rate of the entire sample was 8%. To be sure, companies can also pursue reckless "bad" growth or find other sustainable means to value creation, but over five- and ten-year periods, growth accounts for 50% to 70% of value creation. (See "Ten Lessons from 20 Years of Value Creation Insights," BCG article, November 2018.)
Many of the companies outside the top ten generated value by pulling TSR levers other than growth. (About 40% generated more than half of their value this way.) For example, the share of dividend-paying US tech companies more than tripled from 2014 to 2017, and the average payout ratio doubled. This development reflects a maturing of the sector—or at least of certain companies—and a decision to placate shareholders using short-term tools. The problem is that TSR drivers other than growth are self-limiting. For example, a company cannot infinitely expand margins and multiples.
The AI Agenda
AI is often touted as the next growth engine for technology. Today, chip companies are clearly benefiting from AI's need for massive processing power, and cloud providers, such as Amazon and Microsoft, will benefit from the heavy storage and computing needs of AI.
While companies can pull individual TSR levers in the short term to improve value creation, growth is generally what matters in the long run.
AI is also rapidly making inroads in the highly contested markets for voice assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant, and for smart-home devices. By some estimates, the adoption of smart-home devices in the US will grow by 42% annually between 2017 and 2022. Through these devices, tech companies are striving to gain an important perch inside the homes of consumers, from which they can then expand. But how and where else will AI play a large role? And will other technology companies be able to generate value through AI, as AI-intensive activities such as self-driving cars reach scale? We see five potential value creation scenarios:
Enablers of AI. Semiconductor companies and cloud providers that have constructed strategies around AI have been the biggest winners to date. They are providing the software and hardware that is allowing AI to flourish.
AI as a Platform. Many tech companies provide the enabling tools and systems that allow other companies to build AI applications and services. For example, Google, Amazon, and others are offering services that will manage data flows across AI systems. At the same time, all the major cloud vendors offer programming tools, such as the Azure Machine Learning service, that encourage cloud usage. The self-driving-vehicle initiatives of tech companies ranging from Alphabet to the big three in China—Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent—also fall into this category, given their complexity and potential influence.
AI as a Standalone Offering or as Components for Other Companies. Several vendors offer finished solutions powered by AI. IBM Watson Health is one of the best-known AI products. Others include products from Kira Systems, which reviews and analyzes contracts; Feedzai, which provides a fraud detection service; and Cogito, which provides conversational analysis tools to call centers.
AI as an Embedded Feature or Capability in Tech Companies' Own Products and Services. This should increasingly be mandatory for all new offerings. Online mapping and GPS applications, for example, make heavy use of AI, as do digital assistants—notably, Siri, Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana. Likewise, AI enables Amazon's recommendation engine, as well as Google's and Microsoft's search engines.
AI as an Enabler of Internal Operations. As a general-purpose technology, AI can help improve tech companies' own internal processes in such areas as sales force effectiveness, customer journeys, demand forecasting, and customer service. At Microsoft, for example, the finance department relies on machine learning to establish baseline revenue forecasts and identify compliance anomalies in contracting. (See the sidebar, "Five Questions for Microsoft's Bill Duff.") AI company DeepMind has even helped reduce the data center cooling bills of its sibling, Google, by 40%.
Five Questions for Microsoft's Bill Duff
Corporate Vice President and CFO of Experiences and Devices at Microsoft
Tech companies are embedding AI not just into their products and services but also into their internal operations to improve efficiency and decision making. Bill Duff, Corporate Vice President and CFO of Experiences and Devices at Microsoft, shares his experience introducing AI into the finance function.
What was the motivation for introducing AI into the finance function?
We are using AI nearly everywhere at Microsoft, not just finance. We see AI as a tool to develop deeper insights into our business and improve overall performance. In addition, AI can augment the work that employees do, enabling them to spend less time on routine tasks and more time on high-value activities.
Where in finance is AI playing a role?
Two prominent examples are forecasting and risk management. We are using machine learning models to confirm and improve the accuracy of our sales forecasts. People in our finance organization still generate forecasts and drive the overall process, but the usage of these machine learning models has created a lot of efficiencies, which has freed up time for our financial analysts to focus on more productive activities. It enables us to have more streamlined and insightful conversations with our business partners, focusing on key areas of business performance and exploring important concepts such as customer lifetime value.
Risk management is another area where we are using AI to improve results. Because of the volume and complexity of our global business, machine learning models help identify deals that should be audited. We have found that AI flags different transactions than our traditional compliance process and has helped detect patterns worth investigating. Overall, it is helping us utilize our resources more effectively and has led to reduced risk.
How did you get started with AI?
It's been a five-year journey to get where we are today. The first step was to consolidate the many different data silos we had across the company to create a more consistent view of business performance. Once we brought the data together into a single source of truth, we started identifying areas where AI might add value. One of the first areas we focused on was forecasting. We started slowly, running our existing forecast process and machine learning models in parallel. Over time, as we built trust in the model, we were able to integrate it into existing processes to provide more accurate forecasts with fewer people involved and less time spent. This allowed people to spend more time driving business performance. Looking back, it was critical that we started with the data. Having a high-integrity data source was essential in order for us to use AI to improve efficiency, processes, and our overall understanding of the business.
AI can cause anxiety and worry among employees. How did you address those concerns?
There is no question that AI is a potentially disruptive technology. For employees to be open to this kind of change, they need to be able to see how AI improves their opportunity for impact and frees their time to focus on the most productive activities. That way, employees with a growth mindset, which we talk about a lot at Microsoft, can see it as a way to become more valuable rather than disempowered. You cannot underestimate the communications required, both in terms of creating a culture that embraces change and also showing why AI is useful to improve business performance.
Do you have any advice for other companies that are about to embark on a similar journey?
In addition to investing in data and focusing on communications and culture, you just need to lean in and get started. Executive leadership is important to set the foundation and direction. But you also need to create champions within the business who can lead this change at the ground level. As with any change, it makes sense to start with low-hanging fruit and celebrate early successes.
What's less clear is the best ways for technology companies to capture value from these approaches. But staying on the sidelines is definitely not an option. AI will soon be everywhere. And tech companies need to be in the game to win.
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UNDERSTAND, MAKE & RETAIN GAINS AFTER STROKE
ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation
Open this Email for Your Invitation to listen to, and talk directly with via Zoom, the UK's Leading Experts in Stroke Recovery!
Listen to and question Professor Cathy Price (UCL) about language recovery, Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford University) about neuroplasticity & imaging, Professor Val Pomeroy (University of East Anglia) about movement analysis and Professor Avril Drummond (University of Nottingham) about the management of fatigue.
On 16th and 23rd September, ARNI and BBK are holding two COMPLETELY FREE 2.5 hour stroke rehabilitation event/discussions for survivors and their families, and for professionals who help those with brain injury.
The reason for holding these events is that these topics have ranked as the top four that survivors and professionals we've asked would like to 'get the latest information about' as they recover (or help others recover).
This is a rare chance for you to ask the experts about their presentation and any other query within their field of expertise. They will present for 45 mins each and the rest of the time will be concerned with taking your questions, so do come prepared with a few questions to ask: go for it!
These four people are experts who I myself try and engage with when I need help in order to help a patient with a certain issue. So whoever you are, be it professional, survivor, family member or carer, I urge you to book up for these events as soon as you can.
Reservations for these events are going quickly, so please do read the 2 flyers below and reserve yours NOW by emailing the email address on the flyer (webinar@boltburdonkemp.co.uk) or by just emailing me back. Do attend one or both days.
Professor Cathy Price is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at Queen Square, whose early work in human neuroimaging helped to produce new approaches for investigating the brain bases of cognitive functions. She also provided theoretical frameworks for understanding cognitive impairments in neurological patients. Her research has helped to transform our understanding of how the brain supports language processing – including speech perception, speech production, semantic memory and reading. Cathy has shown how specialisation for all types of language processing emerges through cross-talk among unique combinations of areas that are each involved in many other non-linguistic functions. Her current work is in the development of neuroimaging tools that predict and explain how stroke survivors recover from speech and language impairments (aphasia).
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. WIN is a multi-disciplinary neuroimaging research facility. WIN aims to bridge the gap between laboratory neuroscience and human health, by performing multi-scale studies spanning from animal models through to human populations. Within WIN, Heidi heads the Plasticity research group. Her group is interested in how the brain changes with learning and recovery from damage, such as stroke. Her group use cutting edge brain scanning techniques to monitor brain change and develop new technologies to enhance rehabilitation effects following stroke.
Professor Valerie Pomeroy is Professor of Neurorehabilitation and Director of Research at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia with expertise in translational research into neuroscience-based rehabilitation interventions (proof-of-concept and early phase trials). Emphasis is placed on care closer to home and development of sensitive physiological measures for timely identification of response to therapy, prediction of response and the neural correlates of response. A particular expertise is in MedTech development especially after securing team mentorship on the Design Council Leadership Programme in 2014.
Professor Avril Drummond is Professor of Healthcare Research in the School of Health Sciences in the University of Nottingham. She is Non-Executive Director at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. She is particularly interested in patient care and NHS research. She is an expert in rehabilitation research and evaluation of service delivery. An occupational therapist by background, her research includes rehabilitation research in stroke, traumatic brain injury, low back pain, total hip replacement, Multiple Sclerosis, specific studies of GP fit notes, hemianopia, early supported discharge, fatigue, falls prevention and home visit assessments, the work of the stroke units and community re-enablement.
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Stanley Ames says:
My wife had a significant stroke at 55 and made very good lower limb recovery, but now at 75 that recovery is almost completely lost and she can barely get from her wheelchair into bed. NHS seems unable to help. Nobody seems to be interested in this issue but this problem seems to be an inevitable part of the stroke process. Is any research being done?
JOHN SETON says:
HI is there any chance you can send the link to the free lectures this morning I am unable to access. thanks
Elizabeth Pollard says:
What a brilliant idea !
W O N D E R F U L L
Sean piero says:
How does it work as I have been wanting to talk to somebody since my strokes but get no help from proffesionals as they can't fit me in because of covid.?
Carol, Mitchell says:
Yes, I've had that experience since my strokes, very upsetting, exhausting.


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Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 22 September - 4 November 2018. Titled A School of Schools, and curated by Jan Boelen with Nadine Botha and Vera Sacchetti, the Biennial will take place over six weeks in six iconic locations across Istanbul. Each location will host a school exploring a different dimension of design as learning: the Unmaking School, the Currents School, the Scales School, the Earth School, the Time School and the Digestion School.
The biennial will interrogate design as learning and learning as design, providing a platform for the criticism of contemporary design education and reflecting on the role of design, knowledge and global connectedness in contemporary Istanbul and beyond.
The core exhibition of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will be activated at six different venues, all influential cultural institutions: Akbank Sanat, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Arter, Pera Museum, SALT Galata and Studio-X Istanbul. These are located across one of the most vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods in Istanbul, Beyoğlu. The venues form a 3.5 km walking route through the city, connected by one of the main pedestrian shopping arteries in the area – Istiklal Caddesi – and embracing the multigenerational and interdisciplinary learning environments that exist within the historical, social and cultural context of the district's urban fabric.
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**Property Location**.When you stay at Dalhousie Castle Hotel & Spa in Bonnyrigg, you'll be in the suburbs, within a 15-minute drive of Royal Infirmary and Musselburgh Racecourse. This 4-star hotel is 8.3 mi (13.4 km) from University of Edinburgh and 8.7 mi (14 km) from Princes Street. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .Dalkeith Country Park - 6.4 km / 4 mi Vogrie Country Park - 6.9 km / 4.3 mi Rosslyn Chapel (Collegiate Chapel of St. Matthew) - 8.8 km / 5.4 mi Royal Infirmary - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi Craigmillar Castle - 10.1 km / 6.2 mi National Library of Scotland - 12.3 km / 7.7 mi Musselburgh Racecourse - 12.4 km / 7.7 mi Royal Commonwealth Pool - 12.5 km / 7.8 mi Queen's Hall - 12.7 km / 7.9 mi The Meadows - 12.8 km / 7.9 mi Carlton Cricket Club - 12.8 km / 8 mi Queen Margaret University - 13.3 km / 8.2 mi Festival Theatre - 13.4 km / 8.3 mi George Square - 13.4 km / 8.3 mi Potterrow Student Centre - 13.4 km / 8.3 mi .The preferred airport for Dalhousie Castle Hotel & Spa is Edinburgh Airport (EDI) - 26.6 km / 16.5 mi. **Rooms**.Stay in one of 35 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.**Dining**.Enjoy local cuisine at Dungeon Restaurant, one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary English breakfast is included.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Free self parking is available onsite.


Summer is back and so is the foulest phase for skin and we all want help for skin. We all want to know that how to take care of our Skin. The best way of taking care of skin is keeping it clean and healthy.
Here are some natural homemade face packs and masks where you can make easily at home and enjoy the summer. But it is important to notice that some of the people are allergic to some fruits or some other ingredients. So if in a rare case may your skin feels itchy or irritated, so remove the pack immediately. This is happens in very rare cases, so don't get scared and enjoy these face packs and masks. All these can be protect your skin in summer season.
Milk and honey works well for oily skin and helps to get rid of the tan.
Take 4 tbsp milk, 1 tbsp honey, and 2 tbsp of lemon juice mix well.
Apply it evenly Milk and honey bleach on the tanned areas for 15 minutes.
Wash with cold water when dried.
Egg mask is best to get smooth and oil free skin.
Apply paste on your skin for 20 minutes.
Mint pack is one of the best summer packs to soothe your skin.
Before apply this paste wash your face with lukewarm water and apply this fine paste all over the face.
Leave it for 15 minutes and wash with cold water.
This tasty and hydrating fruit helps in this summer like a face pack. In addition, it helps to clear your skin, by removing the blemishes and acts as a toner.
Mix well and apply on your face for about 15 minutes.
Aloe Vera has a great soothing properties but this mask may get irritate sensitive skin so test it on arm before trying it on your face.
Take fresh Aloe Vera juice from a juicy leaf and apply to the face.
Leave it for fifteen minutes and then splash face with cold water.


On June 8, 2017, Diego Luna, actor and ambassador for the Corona x Parley partnership, and Cyrill Gutsch, Parley founder, illuminated the Empire State Building in blue to honor World Oceans Day.
The moment signaled a wake-up call and the start of a new chapter in conservation — the beginning of a race against time to end marine plastic pollution.
Prior to the lighting ceremony, Diego was among speakers at the World Oceans Day celebration co-organized by Parley during the United Nations Ocean Conference held June 5-9 in New York.
"If we are capable of destroying this beautiful thing called the oceans, we're also capable of bringing change for good. Let's show ourselves that. Let's set the example. Let's change the way we behave on this beautiful planet. And let's do it fast because we're running out of time."


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Refusing Putin's military service, this Russian citizen is stranded in a South Korean airport
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – For two months, Vladimir Maraktayev has been living in the departure lounge of Incheon airport, in South Korea. The fate of the 23-year-old Russian citizen is now at an impasse because he tried to escape from military service commissioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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On September 24, after receiving a draft calling for military service in Ukraine during Russia's "partial mobilization", the linguistics student left his home in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude. He then crossed the border into neighboring Mongolia.
After traveling to the Philippines, he flew to South Korea on November 12, hoping to gain refugee status in what he considers one of Asia's most stable democracies.
He applied for refugee status upon arrival, but South Korean authorities denied his application. They considered that fleeing military service was not a valid reason for obtaining asylum.
After six days in the detention center, he was sent back to Incheon Airport. Maraktayev has not left since then.
Maraktayev has appealed the verdict, which means he cannot yet be deported from South Korea and must remain inside the terminal pending the results.
Maraktayev is one of five Russian men currently stranded at the country's main international airport, Incheon, waiting for their asylum applications to be lodged.
"My life is like groundhog day", says Maraktayev. He says his days consist of walking around airport lounges and trying to read books and learn Korean. "All day I do practically nothing.
He said he and his colleagues lived in a small room outside the airport departure lounge, where they slept on blankets on a raised floor. They could shower, but hot water was limited and they had to wash clothes by hand.
Although he has little money, Russian bank cards having largely ceased to work outside several countries, he accepts food from the South Korean Ministry of Justice.
"All I had for a long time was money that I took when I left the house," he said. "On New Years, I buy myself coffee because I feel like I have to treat myself."
Despite the circumstances, he said staying at the airport was a "lesser crime" than returning to Russia, where he believed he would be arrested upon arrival.
His native Buryatia has witnessed one of Russia's most aggressive mobilizations, and he says one of his closest classmates was killed in Ukraine.
"Just two weeks ago I learned that my friend from high school passed away in the fall. They didn't even know if his body could be salvaged or not. That's something I would never even wish for. to my worst enemy."
Also Read: Putin Asks Russian Citizens to Return, Admits Mistakes in Military Conscription in Ukraine
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The 1970 Chevrolet Impala was not planned as a classic car Happy Birthday present for me. After all, my birthday is not due for a few weeks yet and the 1970 did not originally stand out as the favorite year for either one of us. My favorite car of all time was the 1956 Chevy Bel Air while Pam's preference wasn't even a Chevy at all but rather a 1967 Pontiac Firebird.
However, '56 Chevrolets have become ridiculously expensive (especially to someone who once traded a four door hardtop Bel Air in for sixty-five bucks), a Firebird was never my cup of tea, and–well, Craigslist had other ideas. After "almost" being scammed in the purchase of a Chevelle Malibu that didn't even exist, I'd learned at least one lesson: I needed to make sure I got Pam's input the next time. Western Montana Craigslist offerings included several cars of interest, an example being a stunning 1954 Buick, but the 1970 Chevy Impala for sale in Kalispell seemed like the clear winner. The seller didn't want to sell it, in fact "hated" to do so, but made it clear in his ads (he'd placed one in both the Kalispell and Spokane listings) that he really didn't have a choice. My hunch was that he'd either become terminally ill or was going through a nasty divorce…pretty close to the same thing, really, when you think about it.
Two heads are not always better than one; to this day I remember clearly how taking my first wife's advice in negotiating a contract with a potential employer cost me the entire deal. But with Pam? About cars? When she grew up in a family familiar with Impalas because her stepmother, who worked for a major dealership, got a new demo Chevy Impala to drive every three years? Yeah, requesting her input on this one was both essential and advantageous.
Besides, Pam and I once owned a 1968 Impala and regret losing it to this day.
Okay, so that '68 was a four door sedan, plain Jane, worn to the bone and traded in on a nearly new Subaru Outback that would actually run reliably in 2001, but still.
The pricing of the two vehicles proved to be interesting. We paid $2,500 for the '68 in the year 2000, buying it off a used car lot under Rent To Own terms. The 1970 we were considering in 2017 listed at $8,500…which, if it was an honest ad (which it turned out to be) was a real steal in today's market. Every carbureted car in the country seems to have skyrocketed in price during the last decade; pretty much any old bucket of rust is a treasure these days. Go figure.
And this beauty was no bucket of rust. Oh, it's got rust, sure, but no more than a small-finger-sized patch at the bottom rear corner of each front fender. Other than that, the Impala's body is remarkably straight.
The seller was truly depressed, though. It took me a series of emails back and forth just to coax his first name, address, and phone number out of him so I could even find the machine. Did I mention he seemed depressed? Frankly, and this is no exaggeration, I believe that if I'd not been able to reference "almost" getting scammed mere days before contacting him, he'd never have let me near enough to close the deal. Once I got there, he was absolutely awesome, we connected extremely well, and he'd even grown up in the town where I first went to auto mechanics college right out of high school. He'd have been a little kid when I was there, but we were definitely there at the same time.
Knowing this deal had to be cut cleanly, firmly, and swiftly or not at all, I'd taken our GMC pickup truck and a bag full of cash–which required two trips to our local bank, stripping them down to banded batches of $20 bills for the final portion of the necessary $8500. It was perhaps money we shouldn't have spent just yet, but this car will become my daily driver and it felt like the need for speed, strike while the iron is hot, make hay while the sun shines, pedal to the metal, and all that. I pulled out of Deer Lodge at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, returning at around 11:20 p.m. with the Impala perched on a U-Haul auto transport trailer.
I use the term "perched" advisedly; look how far over the back end of the trailer that trunk extends.
The 1970 Chevy Impala, waiting to be unloaded in front of our home.
Towing the Impala home 200 miles from Kalispell, I stopped twice…and both times, guys made a point of complimenting the car. At the Courthouse in Deer Lodge, the lady who handles title transfers insisted that I bring in a photo of the car for her to see. At our local building supply store, my favorite gal-behind-the-counter made me promise to bring the actual car, fooey on the photo.
Okay, so there's not enough room in the driveway for an extra eighteen wheeler, motorcycles don't make much sense during a Montana winter, and we already have a "keeper" pickup truck, the 1996 GMC Sierra half ton with one ton springs and nearly a quarter million miles on the odometer. That means a car has to win by the simple process of elimination, right? And there has to be a reason the only brand of automobile in the above list is the Chevrolet, eh?
But I didn't expect the treasure under the hood. Yes, it was clearly a 350 cubic inch engine as indicated by the number on the fender.
But I didn't expect much more than that. Oh, sure, the seller did tell me it had a four barrel carburetor and dual exhaust glass pack mufflers (our favorite), but I didn't bother to do more than glance at the engine until it was paid for, towed, and sitting in our driveway. Then came the surprise.
It's not a stock engine. It's an Edelbrock.
Most readers of this post don't need to know any more than that; the Edelbrock name says it all. But for the rare neophyte, here's the deal: Edelbrock is a high end aftermarket manufacturer of auto parts or even complete engines. There are few if any better on the planet. An Edelbrock intake manifold will help any small block Chevy engine breathe more easily and more efficiently. And this isn't just an Edelbrock manifold. The carburetor, valve covers, and intake manifold are all stamped with the Edelbrock name.
You know the old Christmas horror story of waking up as a child to find nothing but a lump of coal in your stocking? For a vintage car enthusiast, this is like waking up on Christmas morning to find a big old lump of gold.
Wow. Yeah. Okay. So I finally splurged on me for once. How about that?
A full set of new coil springs and new shock absorbers sit patiently in the ginormous trunk, still in the boxes, waiting to be installed. There's a small dent in the rear bumper, artfully disguised by the creative application of a red-white-and-blue eagle decal that keeps most observers from noticing the dent at all. The Impala even has rally wheels the previous owner got from a 1964 Super Sport.
Rally wheels from a 1964 Super Sport. The red is a reflection from the shirt I was wearing when I took the photo.
The interior is equally surprising. The front seat is original material–possibly lifted from a wrecked car considering the age of the vehicle–and doesn't show any wear or stain whatsoever. The back seat has been redone in cloth we like far better than that original slick vinyl and has been color matched perfectly.
Back seat, redone in cloth.
How many miles does this car have on it? The odometer doesn't show many, but only the Shadow knows how many times that has rolled over.
Someone obviously changed out the steering wheel. It looks right and feels fine so far; once the Impala is up and ready to put on some serious road miles, we'll see how it performs over distance.
Placement of the gas tank filler cap in these Chevrolets is brilliant. You simply pull down the hinged rear license plate to expose the cap and there it is, right dead center, allowing the driver to fill up with equal ease from either side of a fuel island. Why this did not become an industry standard followed by one and all to this day, we will never know. It should have happened; how often have you had to wait in line at a gas station because the only open pump was on the wrong side of your car?
Gas cap, behind the rear license plate holder, dead center in the vehicle, allowing fueling from either side with equal ease. Brilliant!
Looking good going (never mind the garage in the way).


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Where We Land
Where We Land is a series of works inspired by Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse." Visual artist Tammy De Roca portrays specific memories progressing in motion, captured and relived over and over. Standing from a single viewpoint, the memory split into different iterations. The said past event is then reconstructed, affecting a present experience, to create a new perspective.
"Therefore, memories are a series of reoccurring events on a personal timeline that are altered slightly with each reconstruction." (Lamb, H. 2014)
De Roca explores how textures build images through paintings, sculptures, and other forms. She continues to study and experiment on how our perception of appearances and images are challenged or supported by what textures represent.
Citing Elaine Navas and Mark Rothko as recent influences, she creates powerful, highly textured works of art that emphasize movement and flow. With regards to early inspiration, De Roca mentions surrealist and hyperrealist works, especially those by Camille Dela Rosa, Jon Jaylo, and of course, Ronald Ventura. She also mentions Filipina artists like Yasmin Sison and Geraldine Javier as favorites.
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The New Chair of the Senate Health and Education Committee
by Jesse Singal
The Chronicle has a writeup on the new chair of the Senate health and education committee, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who replaces the late Ted Kennedy.
Harkin wasn't seen as the most likely replacement for Kennedy:
Mr. Harkin's decision to accept the chairmanship came as somewhat of a surprise to higher-education lobbyists, many of whom thought the post would go to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, who was third in line for the position [behind Chris Dodd, who turned down the post to continue helming the Senate banking committee, and Harkin]. While Mr. Harkin, a longtime supporter of public-health and biomedical research, was said to be interested in the job, some lobbyists believed he would have a hard time relinquishing control of the agriculture committee because the panel is so critical to his rural constituents.
The new chair has an important task before him:
As chairman of the education panel, formally known as the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Mr. Harkin will be responsible for crafting legislation to end the federally guaranteed student-loan program, as President Obama has proposed. The U.S. House of Representatives' education committee has already passed its version of the bill (HR 3221), and the House is expected to bring it to the floor for a vote as early as next week.
Some higher-education lobbyists hope the Senate committee, under Mr. Harkin's leadership, will direct more of the savings to Pell Grants than the House proposal does. The House bill would spend some of the money that would be freed up by ending subsidies to banks and other lenders on community colleges and early-learning programs, among other priorities. While Senator Harkin has raised doubts about the president's plan to make Pell Grants an entitlement, he has historically been a strong supporter of the program, and lobbyists say he may want to spend more of the bill's savings on the grants.
Jesse Singal
Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.


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Q: returning a link to a named URL from a model function Well, it has finally happened, and I have stumbled across a problem for which no amount of googleing has helped. (Although I may simply be looking in the wrong direction, in which case, any pointers in the right direction would be great).
I am trying to find a way to return a link to a named url (with variable arguments) from a model's function. For instance, if I were to have the model:
class Picture(models.Model):
    picture_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    ...
    def picture_details(self):
        return "{%url picture_details " + str(self.picture_id) + " %}"

I would like to create a link for a Picture object 'pic' on the template:
   ...
    details
   ...

That links to the url named 'picture_details'. However, the resulting link in the template is 'http://.....{%url picture_details x %}' (x is the picture_id).
I understand using  would work, however my situation is slightly different, as the links are part of a dynamically built image map. So, I would like the image map string:
    <area shape="some_shape" coords="some_coords" href="{{pic.picture_details}}"/>

to result in a link to the url named 'picture_details' with the argument picture_id.
I hope I have been able to explain my problem clearly, but if any more information is needed, please let me know. Many thanks in advance for any help,
greetz,
marc

A: You should use the reverse function in this case. Reverse is the view side counterpart of the {% url %} template tag.
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

class Picture(models.Model):
    picture_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    ...
    def picture_details(self):
        return reverse('picture_details', args = [self.picture_id])

From the documentation:

If you need to use something similar to the url template tag in your code, Django provides the following method (in the django.core.urlresolvers module):


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The Failure of the Two-State Solution: Hope for Palestinian Youth
Tariq Kenney-Shawa
MSA Security
On December 28, 2016, in one of his final public remarks as secretary of state, John Kerry assumed a tone of urgency, stressing that "the two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians." For decades, discourse surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has centered on the theory of separation as the principal means of achieving sustainable peace. However, in the face of the innumerable obstacles posed by the situation on the ground, the political impasse triggered by a growth in radical ideology and nationalism, and growing doubt that an independent Palestinian state based on the current discourse would adequately address the interests of young Palestinians, perhaps separation does not represent a solution after all.
In Palestine and across the Middle East, young people constitute a much larger portion of the population than in Western states; however, their needs have largely gone unnoticed and their opinions often violently oppressed. The consequences of their marginalization were made clear with the outbreak of the Arab Spring, as millions of youth across the region found a voice following decades of suppression. The next generation of Palestinians must follow suit and answer the increasingly urgent question of how to reframe the conflict discourse and avoid succumbing to a future of perennial suffering in silence under the status quo. Would the quest for equal rights be better served through a civil rights-based approach with the aim of achieving an integrative solution to the conflict?
The Failure of the Two-State Solution
Perhaps the most evident failure of the two-state proposal lies in the deep fragmentation of Palestinian territory. First and foremost, Israel's accelerating settlement construction policy has established a vast network of settlements and supportive infrastructure deemed illegal under international law. The number of settlers in the West Bank has now surpassed 600,000, scattered across over 140 different settlements. These "facts on the ground" ensure that a future Palestinian state would constitute an administrative nightmare—a fragmented, shattered entity with little true sovereignty.
This raises the question of whether Israel will be able, or more importantly, willing to extricate itself from the West Bank and face the inevitable backlash from right wing and religious communities that would follow. In January 2016, Israelis elected the most far-right government in the country's history, with 78 of the 107 members of the Knesset openly opposing the two-state solution. More recently, in an alarming, yet ultimately successful move to remain in power, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu established a coalition with the Kahanists, an extreme right-wing, openly racist party, in a "race to the right" election process.
In light of this territorial fragmentation, a Palestinian state will fall far short of even the most limited requirements of sovereignty, including physical contiguity, territorial sovereignty and security, environmental and economic autonomy, and a stable governing structure. Indeed, one could argue that the situation on the ground has already created a one-state reality, not only because of the impossibility of demarcating and defending permanent borders and the mutual population penetrations, but also due to the interwoven nature of issues such as control of holy sites, resources, and access to land, roads, and seaports. In reality, Israel controls the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a manner that is consistent with full sovereignty, albeit without the consent of the Palestinian population, a reality that will likely continue despite superficial Palestinian "independence." Simply put, the two-state solution has failed, not only because of a concerted effort to undermine it, but because separation is and perhaps has always been inherently impossible.
Finally, it is clear that the conflict paradigm that emerged out of the Oslo process has established an inherently unjust scenario for Palestinians; one which will not provide a secure future for coming generations. Taking full advantage of its strategic and territorial superiority, Israel has reframed the conflict as rooted in the 1967 debacle, ensuring that a "resolution" would only determine the future status of the West Bank, ignoring the Gaza Strip, rights for Palestinian-Israelis, and the status of the millions of refugees. Consequently, a "solution" based on Israel's predefined parameters will effectively de-historicize the conflict and inevitably fail to mend underlying wounds. We see this inherently doomed paradigm epitomized in efforts like White House advisor Jared Kushner's "Peace to Prosperity" proposal, which, by blatantly ignoring Palestinian input, proposes a plan that would effectively bribe Palestinians into silence under continued occupation, in hopes that deeper issues can be swept under the rug. In truth, processes ranging from the Oslo process to Kushner's "peace plan," which may be in nature more purposefully nefarious than inherently flawed, will continue to fail, as they force a top-down approach that merely repackages Israeli occupation.
The Youth Factor
Emerging out of the failed peace process, young Palestinians have largely lost hope in their leadership's ability to achieve a negotiated settlement with Israel and their confidence in the two-state solution continually dwindles. Most young Palestinians have grown increasingly disinterested in fighting what they see as a long-lost, bureaucratic battle for statehood and would rather divert their attention to tangible initiatives that can further their own immediate interests and give them a sense of dignity, such as education, economic opportunity, and social engagement. This has contributed to a weakened "drive" for statehood and a more substantial desire for individual rights regardless of the political solution.
According to Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, surveys show that youth support for a one-state solution is significantly higher than that of older generations. In Shikaki's words, "Youth look at the domestic political process and they conclude what they see is so hopeless, it is so detrimental to their interests and long term success because the system is so dysfunctional that if a Palestinian state is created, it will be corrupt, authoritarian, inefficient, just another failing state waiting to collapse." Similarly, in the words of Murad, a 23-year-old resident of the Aida refugee camp located just two miles north of Bethlehem, "We just want to live our lives, pursue our education, get jobs, and build a family. We can't do this with the occupation. To us, our rights are what is important. A Palestinian state is not able to achieve this." This accounts for the rising number of professionals and talented young people who are leaving the Gaza Strip in hopes of better opportunities elsewhere. The establishment of a volatile Palestinian state that does not address these core concerns would only lay the groundwork for prolonged social and political upheaval, just as it has across the region.
So, with dwindling support for a Palestinian state in its current form, how can young Palestinians reinvigorate their goals of achieving self-determination and equal rights? To answer this, we must examine the sustained efforts of youth across the region. Although many of the movements would later be beaten down by authoritarianism and extremism, the Arab Spring provides a historic example of the modern-day capabilities of youth to articulate their frustration and ideas, mobilize through mass grassroots efforts, and successfully overturn once seemingly immovable dictatorial power establishments. In the same vein, Palestinian youth represent the only hope of establishing a protracted, peaceful civil rights movement that abandons the failed Oslo paradigm and garners regional and international support for equal rights and an end to the occupation.
One of the main obstacles to progress is the Palestinian Authority (PA) itself. Emerging as a product of the Oslo Accords, the PA was founded to serve as a semi-autonomous government structure with the goal of facilitating the eventual establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. However, the PA has come under growing criticism regarding issues ranging from internal corruption and inefficiency to failure to lessen the burdens of occupation, let alone achieve actual independence. A 2016 poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that a majority of Palestinians actually view the PA as a burden and over 64 percent want President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.
More significant than the rampant corruption and institutional and financial weaknesses of the PA is the fact that the governing body fails to adequately represent the entirety of the Palestinian population and actually enhances the occupation, rather than providing an effective channel for resistance. Silence and cooperation under the ongoing occupation has been the main condition for continued funding and the central reason the PA is permitted to continue with limited self-autonomy; peaceful forms of Palestinian protest are also silenced due to dependence on external support.
There are several specific ways that the PA actually helps maintain the Israeli occupation and the overarching conflict paradigm. Firstly, the PA relieves Israel from the bulk of the costly routine responsibilities of conducting a protracted military occupation, all while serving as a facade of independent government. It assumes roles ranging from providing goods and services to those living under occupation to establishing an internal security network that cooperates with the Israeli military to prevent resistance. The PA security forces have been known to forcibly stifle protests against the Israeli occupation and have been accused of carrying out torture and infringing on free speech. Palestinian tax revenue is actually controlled by Israel, which has repeatedly withheld funding from the PA in retaliation for acts of Palestinian resistance that range from violence to attempts to further the case for independence in the United Nations. A report issued by the Ramallah-based Coalition for Accountability and Integrity found that the security sector received over $1.078 billion of the overall $3.86 billion Palestinian budget, a portion that was larger than both health and education combined. As a result, the PA security forces have been dubbed "subcontractors" that allow Israel to maintain the occupation while avoiding direct contact that damages Israel's image abroad. In other words, the "dirty work" is carried out by the PA, allowing Israel to selectively extricate itself from the equation, yet maintain overarching control over the entirety of the territories.
Secondly, the PA has become an unproductive conduit of Palestinian energy, as anger is channeled into petty internal disputes and accusations of corruption that merely contribute to the continued disintegration of potential Palestinian socio-political clout. Popular frustration has not been effectively translated into mobilization against the Israeli occupation, but rather towards internal disputes like the that between Fatah and Hamas. While resistance was once expressed through grassroots-led actions like the First Intifada, Palestinians now depend on the weak PA and its futile negotiation attempts in hopes of achieving self-determination and an end to the occupation.
It is clear that the only way to shift the conflict discourse away from the failed two-state paradigm and toward an integrative movement for self-determination is by dissolving the PA and forcing Israel to reassume full occupation responsibilities over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where it will face two options: the consolidation of the one-state reality, or the termination of the occupation entirely, which, according to precedent, seems highly unlikely. The first option would render the Palestinian-Israeli relationship increasingly reminiscent of apartheid South Africa. This would clearly frame the conflict paradigm as one between a settler-colonial power and the indigenous population and could lay the foundation for a unified, youth-led grassroots political movement.
At this point we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question. Can Palestinians form a united front and sustain a committed nonviolent movement in the face of continued occupation and violent oppression?
Perhaps the most applicable source of inspiration for today's youth is the First Intifada of 1987, a hallmark of Palestinian nonviolent resistance. The First Intifada arguably represents the most effective means of pressuring Israel both internally and externally, proof of the ability of young Palestinians to mobilize without central leadership, and a successful way of drastically shifting the conflict discourse. As anger boiled over, Palestinians took to the streets in huge numbers, without central leadership or iconic figureheads. They engaged in nonviolent demonstrations, blocked roads, staged sit-ins and strikes, and publicly expressed their Palestinian identity. In fact, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) itself actually classified 97 percent of Intifada activities as nonviolent, according to reports. As the uprisings continued, they were met with devastating violence from Israeli forces, including beatings, live ammunition, house demolitions, curfews, imprisonment, and torture. Over 1,370 Palestinian civilians died, with tens of thousands more severely injured or imprisoned, according to B'Tselem, a Jerusalem based non-profit that monitors human rights violations.
The nonviolent protests and the violent Israeli response thrust the realities of Palestinian suffering and anger into focus for Israelis, causing many to begin to question their own government and its occupation and even began to gain the attention of the international community, swayed by images of children confronting tanks and heavily armed soldiers. As Victoria Mason and Richard Falk wrote in 2016 in State Crime Journal, these acts successfully displayed the "vast discrepancy in power between the Palestinian people and Israel's war machine" and led to a reversal of the narrative that Israel represented the "David" in the fight against the Arab and Palestinian "Goliath." At home, Israeli criticism of their own government's disproportionate use of force contributed to the rise of the Labour movement's pro-peace platform and sparked an increase in Palestinian-Israeli solidarity groups.
The Intifada proved the ability of Palestinians to mobilize without central leadership and shift the conflict discourse. The swell of largely unorganized popular action emerged as a grassroots movement and displayed the potential mobilization power of Palestinians despite their territorial fragmentation. By taking the First Intifada as an example of the potential of a mass civil rights-based movement, Palestinian youth can build on the already vast array of nonviolent modes of resistance that they already employ, ranging from peaceful sit-ins to heightened support of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns.
Palestinian youth protests continue in a wide variety of forms today. Over recent months, Palestinian youth have positioned themselves at the forefront of the ongoing Great March of Return, staging regular nonviolent protests along the Gaza border and bearing the brunt of a violent Israeli response that has led to the death of over 200 unarmed demonstrators, including journalists and children as young as 14. Although Hamas continues their attempts to hijack the movement, tainting the demonstrations with their efforts to stage unsuccessful breaches of the border, young Palestinians continue to confront live sniper fire in an effort that, despite their persistence, will likely change little on the ground.
Despite these setbacks, if young Palestinians continue to mobilize, channeling their political energy and getting training in proven methods of nonviolent protest, they could find themselves in a unique position of influence. Instead of fighting for leaders and a political process that has repeatedly failed them, a strategic shift could present an opportunity for grassroots organization and an effective, nonviolent channel for their pent-up energy. Palestinian youth have come to realize that their struggle is not for illusive borders and imbalanced political agreements, but rather for liberation from Zionism's ultimate vision of Israel. They will fight for their own civil rights, dignity, and the chance to develop their lives past the limits in which they are contained under occupation and political stagnation. Young Palestinians represent a budding amalgam of frustration and hope, effectively representing the only viable weapon against Israel's crushing political machine.
In reality, it has become abundantly clear that separation does not represent the "only way to achieve a just and lasting peace" and the "only way to ensure a future of freedom and dignity for the Palestinian people." In fact, it has come to represent a fallacy that will not only fail in achieving a lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but undermine the rights of Palestinians, propelling them down a path that will undoubtedly lead to a future of suffering, all too reminiscent of the fates of countless other indigenous peoples around the world.
However, Israel's most comprehensive success and the factor that continues to serve as a shield against struggles for justice has been their ability to deeply fragment not only the physical existence of Palestinians, but more importantly, their very identity. The fate of the next stage of the Palestinian struggle for rights and dignity will be dependent on their ability to unite, transcend their physical and political divisions, and rebuild their shared sense of identity. But after undergoing such a thorough, systematic process of fragmentation through occupation and expulsion, the question is if a unified Palestinian platform can be maintained in the face of an inevitably severe Israeli repression. Will Palestinians prove capable of overcoming the countless physical and political boundaries that face them at every turn? Or will they be forced to fade into silent suffering in the shadow of history, as the world accepts another casualty of settler colonialism?
(Credit for West Bank and Gaza Map: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
SEP 11, 2015 • Article
Talking Peace in Person
Middle East peace talks have stalled. The 2014 war in Gaza caused the deaths of more than 2,000 people. Yet a group of 600 Palestinians and Israelis who ...


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Continuing its commitment to supporting students and educators, ETC is packing this year's USITT tradeshow with activity. Product trainings; educational sessions; new-product demos on stands 114, 214 and 314; and the popular Student Session are just a portion of what ETC will offer at USITT, March 9th to 11th, in St. Louis, Missouri.
For the first time at USITT, ETC will display the Gio @5™ lighting-control desk. The portable Gio @5 is a good fit for students getting started in programming, and delivers complete control of conventional and moving lights, LEDs and media servers. It gives users hands-on access to playbacks, color control, touchscreen Magic Sheets and more. The ColorSource Linear striplights will also make their USITT debut. Their unique RBG-Lime color mix expands their color capabilities beyond that of typical four-color LEDs, and multiple fixtures lined up end to end create gap-free coverage. Visitors to ETC's stands will also be able to experience new rigging gear, including the Foundation® Desk, which is a portable control station that works with most ETC Rigging hoists and accessories, and is ready for the next generation of software. At USITT, ETC will give a sneak preview of a new budget-friendly rigging hoist that will bring ETC-quality performance and safety features to more venues.
ETC's new ColorSource® AV desk puts hands-on, portable control of intelligent lights and the ability to mix LED colors within reach of venues with limited budgets. ETC Senior Product Manager Sarah Clausen will lead two trainings at USITT that will cover the features and programming of the ColorSource AV desk. More information about these sessions can be found at http://www.usittshow.com/consoles.
The GDS CueSystem by ETC is a dedicated cue-light network that provides simple, hands-on control of cue lights and can be scaled and reconfigured to meet changing production needs. Two training sessions on the plug-and-play CueSystem will be held at USITT, where ETC Product Specialist Chris Patton will show how easy the system is to use and give an overview of its hardware and programming features. To learn more about the CueSystem sessions and to register, visit http://www.usittshow.com/consoles.
Visitors to USITT can attend conference sessions, including Eos®-family programming, Magic Sheets, and Effects. ETC experts will also lead sessions on international functional safety standards and LED color, and participate in a light lab focused on blended light. Descriptions of these classes and registration can be found on the USITT website.
It wouldn't be USITT without ETC's legendary Student Session, where students get an exclusive, backstage look at ETC. They can ask questions directly to ETC staff, meet the team behind the company's products, hear about career opportunities, and even win prizes. In order to attend the Student Session, students need to pick up a VIP pass from ETC's tradeshow stands during show hours.
For more information on ETC's plans for USITT, and to get a free VIP pass to the stage expo, visit http://www.etcconnect.com/About/Events/Tradeshows/USITT.aspx.


For over 60 years VINLEC has been exploiting renewable sources of energy for the production of electricity. Starting with the commissioning of the South Rivers Hydropower Plant in the early 1950s, the Richmond Hydropower Plant in the 1960s and then the Cumberland Hydropower Plant in the 1980s, VINLEC has long been a "green" company. Recent initiatives in the areas of solar energy, wind energy, hydropower and energy efficiency (EE) are further testimony of the company's keen interest in producing energy from low cost, environmentally friendly sources as well as conserving energy.
VINLEC continues to work towards increasing renewable energy use on our power system and reducing the company's internal energy consumption. In recent years VINLEC has undertaken a number of renewable energy (RE) and EE pilot projects in order to ascertain the benefits of various types of RE and EE technology. These projects include the installation of a 10kW photovoltaic system at the Cane Hall Engineering Complex, retrofitting of fluorescent light fixtures throughout the company with energy efficient bulbs and ballasts, installation of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air conditioning units at various sites, and installation of LED street lights at Casson Hill and Arnos Vale. The measurement and verification aspects of these projects have allowed us to prove the value of the technology types utilised and provides us with data that could be used for planning larger projects to benefit our customers.
VINLEC has also undertaken studies in order to ascertain the feasibility of investing in wind energy and in further hydropower development. In 2005, wind resource measurements started being taken in the Brighton/Ribishi Point area. This has led to Ribishi Point being identified as a suitable site for wind power development. In 2009, a study was also done into the rehabilitation of the Richmond Hydropower Plant and the rehabilitation and expansion of South Rivers Hydropower Plant. The findings of this study have prompted VINLEC to undertake refurbishment projects at both plants, the first of which started in 2013.
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VINLEC has made a concerted effort to sell the idea of energy conservation to our customers through radio, television and print ads as well as through putting on or participating in various energy exhibitions. Additionally, we continue to encourage customers to invest in grid-connected small-scale solar PV and wind energy systems for their homes and businesses through our Microgenerator Interconnection Programme.
All of the aforementioned initiatives would be of benefit to VINLEC and our customers by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, thereby having a positive impact on the fuel surcharge and the environment.


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