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Portrait of the gay activist as a young man
Adam Ascherin, the director of the Stonewall Alliance Center, is out, proud and happy to be alive
By Carla Resnick
Photo By Carla Resnick
Adam Ascherin and I stood across the street from the Downtown Park Plaza one cool afternoon in November. We shielded our eyes from the low autumn sun and strained to see a window on the fourth floor of the Waterland-Breslauer building, the big pink structure on the corner of Fourth and Broadway. "If you look carefully," he said, "you can see it."
What Ascherin was pointing out was the biggest gay-pride flag in Chico hanging in the window of the offices where he works. The rainbow-colored flag represents years of hard work by Ascherin and is an important symbol to the gay community.
Ascherin, a slender, attractive man in his late 20s, goes to school part time, hoping finally to finish his business administration degree, and has a job. He is passionate about life, friends and helping the community. He has a lot to say about what the flag represents and what his life is like being gay in Chico.
It's impossible to talk about Adam Ascherin without talking about the Stonewall Alliance, the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender—LGBT for short—community center north of Sacramento. Ascherin has been involved with the center off and on for the past 10 years and is currently its executive director.
A few minutes later, sitting at a large table in the Stonewall library, surrounded by books and computers, he talked about his life in Chico.
LGBT is a bit of a mouthful, and Ascherin said the easiest way to refer to the group he represents was as "the community." Not everyone feels safe or confident enough to be openly gay in Butte County, he said. But Ascherin, who moved to Chico from Red Bluff about 10 years ago, said he'd never had a problem here and was happy to share his experiences of being, well, himself.
Because of his position in the gay community, Ascherin enjoys a level of comfort not available to many LGBT people in Chico and said he felt honored to have that opportunity. His position at Stonewall empowers him to demonstrate that it is possible to live as an openly gay man and suffer no social castigation. Chico is a very tolerant community and, aside from some of the religious propaganda that is occasionally mailed to the center (sans return address), the LGBT community suffers little, he said.
Ascherin has worn a pride symbol on his book bag for about two years. He was concerned that he might experience hostility when he first put it on, he said, but that didn't happen. In fact, he's even met people because of it.
I asked him if he'd wear that pride symbol in Oroville. He laughed and said, "Uh, no. Just in the four-block area from the [Stonewall] center to the university and back." But, he went on, "there is a very large [gay] community in Oroville."
In that regard Oroville is much like Red Bluff, the town where Ascherin grew up and was extremely careful to hide his sexual orientation. "Going through high school, there were definite anti-gay overtones, jocks vs. cowboys vs. skaters kind of thing," he said. One boy was quite flamboyant, he said, and as a result was ridiculed for years, since kids tended to go from kindergarten through high school with the same group of people.
"Fortunately," Ascherin said, laughing, "I was smart enough to realize to keep my mouth shut, that high school would end one day."
Ascherin had a clue about his sexuality coming out of puberty, and looking back at his life, of course, he sees the signs. "I was attracted to my fourth-grade teacher, and he was a man, very attractive." But, he said, information concerning homosexuality was non-existent then.
He was just fumbling along, he said, trying to figure out his sexuality, all the while lacking information and role models.
Ascherin smiles and laughs a lot and did so while telling the story about grasping his sexual orientation. "Two weeks before graduating high school, [the fellow who was to become] my first boyfriend asked me if I was 'family.' I had no clue, so I said, 'Yes.' Well, I had a little bit of a clue, but you know. … Then I found out what it meant, and I said, 'Oh, you mean gay.'
In the Harlen Adams Memorial Library at Stonewall, Adam looks over Christina's computer while Govinda reads a magazine (last names not given).
Photo By Tom Angel
"Fortunately," Ascherin went on, "he asked me, and that is when I first verbalized it even to myself."
At that point he realized, "Yes, this is who I am, and so I am going to tell my family because I don't want to live a lie." He knew that his life would be more fulfilling if he could just be himself. And he was right.
Ascherin was valedictorian of his graduating class. "It was a proud moment to be gay and to give the valediction at Red Bluff," he said. But he didn't use the occasion to come out.
"It would have been great to say, 'I'm so glad you are accepting to homosexuals,'" he said, laughing. "But what are you going to do? Twenty-twenty hindsight."
Through his first boyfriend Ascherin was introduced to other gay people and realized that he wasn't "the only one," a common feeling among gay youth. Ascherin was also introduced to the Stonewall Alliance Center when he and his boyfriend made a trip to Chico.
When Ascherin moved to Chico soon after graduation, he knew that Stonewall was the place to go to meet people. He didn't have to keep his mouth shut here. In fact, he was one of four young homosexuals who were featured in a 1994 CN&R cover story, "Young, Gifted and Gay."
When he saw his picture on the paper's cover, he said to himself, "Oh well, there's no going back now." If anyone at work had any questions about his sexuality, the story said it all. He didn't have to worry about coming out: It was all right there on the cover.
In fact, he said, a lot of benefit came out of that story. Not only did he not get any negative flak, Stonewall got 68 calls that week and was able to help people realize that they weren't alone in their sexual identity.
The main room in Stonewall's offices is spacious and has a cozy sitting area with a couch and TV in one corner and a working space in another. Magazines and newspapers are neatly stacked around the room, there is a basket of complimentary condoms, and the pride flag hangs in the window.
The offices' other large room houses an impressive resource library containing the largest collection of LGBT books north of Sacramento, with over 3,000 titles. The library also serves as a resource for students from CSU who work on such issues as same-sex marriage, sexuality and HIV/AIDS.
Considered the "pride and joy" of the center, the library contains works of fiction and nonfiction. Subject headings include autobiography, biography, coming out, fiction for gay men, fiction for lesbians, health, opposing views, philosophy, poetry, reference, self-help, social studies and youth.
Ascherin's own office, tucked away behind the main room, is a long narrow room, more of a large closet, really. Here he coordinates the monthly newsletter, Center Stone, which is distributed to more than 900 households in Butte County and across the nation. The newsletter is the longest-running program of the center, in its 12th year, and is mailed in a nondescript format to protect those who wish to remain private about their sexuality or reading interests.
The center currently hosts discussion groups for women, men and young adults and offers LGBT AA meetings. Health outreach consists of free, anonymous HIV testing that is hosted at the Stonewall space and is done every Monday evening by the county Department of Public Health. This service is available to anyone, whatever his or her sexual orientation.
The Internet has become an increasingly important way to reach individuals in the community. The center tackles online health outreach by going into Chico chat rooms and answering questions that people might have and promoting safer sex practices.
The center depends heavily on the help of volunteers and on funding from the community. Grant money dried up after the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, and the cash-strapped center had to work hard to make up a shortfall. Ascherin has managed to do that by scaling back on some programs and making operations more efficient. The health outreach program was considered too important to lose, so it continues.
One of the many uses| for the Stonewall Center—a marriage equality rally drew a big crowd in March 2004.
Courtesy Of Stonewall Alliance
The center is usually the first contact that people new to Chico have with the LGBT community. Here, for example, they can learn which businesses are supportive of the LGBT community, including doctors, mental-health professionals, real estate agents and apartment complexes.
Life in a relatively rural area creates certain challenges for gay people, beginning with a sense of isolation. "One of our biggest challenges," Ascherin said of Stonewall, "is getting the word out that there are other LGBT individuals living in Butte County."
Ascherin says that he wants to show people that there are options available. He sees hope in the younger generation because, he believes, younger people, straight and gay, tend to be more open minded and less set in their ways.
Sorting out one's sexuality is tough for non-heterosexuals, especially in rural areas like Butte County, where role models are few and far between. Still, Ascherin believes that it is "getting a little bit easier for late-teens and young adults to find an identity. I think the media have helped with shows like Will and Grace and Queer Eye."
Bisexuality has become a fad of sorts among many young celebrities, Ascherin said. It is trendy to copy the actions of those who have come out, and young people feel freer to experiment with their identities and sexuality. Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Etheridge, kd lang and Cynthia Nixon, among others, have brought lesbianism into the mainstream consciousness and helped pave the way for tolerance.
While life is getting easier, LGBT teens still have a much higher risk of suicide, substance abuse and being victims of harassment, according to a study by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).
"In Chico the biggest thing the community faces is social isolation. Everyone thinks that they are alone or that they are the only one." If more people were out about their sexuality, Ascherin said, it would be only positive for others in the LGBT community and the community at large. "If we would all just be comfortable enough to step up and say we're here, that would build such a great momentum of strength in the community. That would support others and help them feel comfortable."
A sense of isolation can lead to despair and suicide. That's why high-profile people who are out in the community are vital, Ascherin said. For people who might be exploring or questioning their identities, seeing functioning LGBT people in the society can provide comfort by showing that someone has already gone through the process.
Ascherin said it is important to realize that people in the gay community are "like everyone else: We have to take the trash out, pay the bills, get an education. We just happen to be attracted to people of the same gender."
Another big problem in Chico is the lack of a gathering place. There have been various gay bars in the area over the years, but the last one, in the Almond Orchard Shopping Center, closed in 2000. Chico needs a place for people to interact casually, Ascherin said, and he's sure the community could support a watering hole of sorts, be it bar, book store or coffee shop.
Though Stonewall provides a space for socializing, it is geared mainly toward social services.
Scott Gruendl agrees that a watering hole or gathering spot of some sort is needed. Mr. Lucky, a downtown music club, is considered tolerant, he said, but to find a truly gay club people have to hit the big cities—Sacramento or San Francisco.
As a member of the Chico City Council and, as of this week, its mayor, Gruendl, who has lived here for 20 years, is the most prominent out gay person in town. As a councilmember, he has been much involved with the Stonewall Alliance. He has helped with its long-range planning in the past and is currently president of a community organization that helps to fund the Stonewall Youth Program.
"Adam is doing a very good job," he said. "Stonewall has had many changes in leadership over the years, and Adam seems to have added stability to the organization."
Gruendl first knew he was different when he was a pre-teen and came to accept his sexuality when he was 14. "There may have been resources availale [at the time]," he said, "but I did not know how to access them."
Scott Gruendl not only sits on the Chico City Council (and now serves as mayor), but also helps run the Glenn County Human Resource Agency.
Gruendl said he had a difficult time first accepting who he was and then letting others know. He credits his commitment to honesty and his faith in God with carrying him through the experience. He was always able to look to his parents and other important adults in his life for direction, he said.
In college he came out to his friends and was openly accepted. He came out to his family 10 years ago, when his partner died of AIDS. He waited to tell them, he said, because he "was worried about letting my parents down and feared rejection, so I held back on letting people know for several years, and it began to eat me up because I believe in honesty."
This was not easy for Gruendl. "You have to understand that I was raised in a very religious family, and my fear of rejection caused me to suppress any outward expression of my true self," he said. In other words, "I lived a double life, a straight one and a gay one.
"Chico isn't exactly gay friendly," Gruendl said, adding that he doesn't hide his sexuality and is treated well. He's never fit what he calls the "typical perception" of a gay man. "Even to this day, many people are surprised that I am gay," he said, "because people have this misconception that gay men must be feminine."
Gruendl, who is HIV positive, said that the biggest challenge in Butte County is a lack of adequate health services, especially for those living with AIDS. "People with little money often must travel out of Chico and may not receive timely services," he said.
Historically, gay people have flocked to big cities for safety and a sense of community. There they've not only found greater tolerance, but also been able to create their own self-contained communities. Adam Ascherin cocked his eyebrow while recalling the first time he saw the Castro District in San Francisco.
"It was very awe inspiring, overwhelming and very nice to see," he said. But it was not for him. The city is good to visit for about a week, he explained, but "I'm a small-town person at heart."
Ascherin spends his personal time working around his house and dabbling in the garden. He lives in a 900-square-foot, Sears-Roebuck cottage that he's decorated with colorful wall treatments and various, interesting knickknacks. Inside, near the front door, sit two little ceramic rottweiler figurines that are dressed in black-leather vests and black-leather biker's caps accessorized with studded leather collars. "I got them at Wal-Mart of all places," he said with a laugh.
Ascherin is strongly connected to Chico. His natural mother and father have passed on, and he has no ties to the rest of his "blood" family. But he has a strong surrogate family, an older male couple whom he met when he moved to Chico. He considers these men to be his parents, and they consider him to be their son. They all lived together in the house where Ascherin currently lives for many years. Recently, though, the couple moved to a larger house in order to care for an ailing relative.
Ascherin has been living alone (actually with his two cats that seem to be able to levitate to the highest spot in the room without moving a whisker) since August of this year, and he says he is really enjoying it. "I'm finding my own space," he said.
He says he eventually wants to share his life with someone special, though he's not actively searching for a partner right now. "It is hard to meet people in Chico," he said, "without a place to socialize." He predicted that he'll probably have to find a partner in one of the big cities and lure him to Chico.
Ascherin, who considers himself spiritual but not religious, was raised in a Mormon household and left the church while still a young teenager. "The Mormon Church," he noted, "does not accept practicing homosexuals," so he no longer considers himself Mormon.
After he left the church he explored different religions and even spent a year in Israel exploring Judaism's response to homosexuality. "They treat it as a non-issue, really," he said. Ascherin celebrates Hanukkah and Yom Kippur on occasion, but he really doesn't practice much of the other ceremonial aspects of Judaism and he's not planning on converting anytime soon.
Ascherin also has a passion for the outdoors. He especially likes camping on the coast. He's looking forward to hiking the Sutter Buttes with a friend who has obtained permission to do so. For his 25th birthday he hiked Half Dome with some friends, and he plans to do it again for his upcoming 30th birthday.
Ascherin has definite short-term plans. He's going to finish up his bachelor's degree next semester and then go on to earn his MBA. He'll continue his work at Stonewall, organizing the upcoming 15th-anniversary celebration, and working to get it to a more financially stable state.
What the distant future holds for Ascherin is uncertain, but he's bound to be a success. The CN&R story got it right, back in 1994: He truly is young, gifted and gay.
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Forty-One Contenders for Best Original Song Oscar Nominations
Forty-one songs (listed below) are eligible for Oscar nominations for Best Original Song. Voting members will view/listen to clips of each song on January 6, and members unable to attend will receive DVD copies of the same clips. The songs must contain original lyrics and music and must have been made specially for their films. The Academy's qualifying and voting criteria is listed below. Nominees will be announced January 25.
127 Hours pictured; A. R. Rahman's "If I Rise" is among the contenders.
The original songs are listed below in alphabetical order by film and song title:
"Alice" from "Alice in Wonderland"
"Forever One Love" from "Black Tulip"
"Freedom Song" from "Black Tulip"
"Bound to You" from "Burlesque"
"Welcome to Burlesque" from "Burlesque"
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" from "Burlesque"
"There's a Place for Us" from "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
"Coming Home" from "Country Strong"
"Me and Tennessee" from "Country Strong"
"Despicable Me" from "Despicable Me"
"Prettiest Girls" from "Despicable Me"
"Dear Laughing Doubters" from "Dinner for Schmucks"
"Better Days" from "Eat Pray Love"
"If You Run" from "Going the Distance"
"Darkness before the Dawn" from "Holy Rollers"
"Sticks & Stones" from "How to Train Your Dragon"
"Le Gris" from "Idiots and Angels"
"Chanson Illusionist" from "The Illusionist"
"Never Say Never" from "The Karate Kid"
"To the Sky" from "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole"
"What If" from "Letters to Juliet"
"Life during Wartime" from "Life during Wartime"
"Made in Dagenham" from "Made in Dagenham"
"Little One" from "Mother and Child"
"Be the One" from "The Next Three Days"
"If I Rise" from "127 Hours"
"When You See Forever" from "The Perfect Game"
"I Remain" from "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"
"Dream Big" from "Pure Country 2: The Gift"
"How I Love You" from "Ramona and Beezus"
"Darling I Do" from "Shrek Forever After"
"Noka Oi" from "Six Days in Paradise"
"This Is a Low" from "Tamara Drewe"
"I See the Light" from "Tangled"
"Rise" from "3 Billion and Counting"
"We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3"
"Eclipse: All Yours" from "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"
"Nothing" from "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too"
"A Better Life" from "Unbeaten"
"Shine" from "Waiting for 'Superman'"
"The Reasons Why" from "Wretches & Jabberers"
"Following the screenings, members will determine the nominees by an averaged point system vote. If no song receives an average score of 8.25 or more, there will be no nominees in the category. If only one song achieves that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score shall be the two nominees. If two or more songs (up to five) achieve that score, they shall be the nominees."
"Under Academy rules, a maximum of two songs may be nominated from any one film. If more than two songs from a film are in contention, the two songs with the most votes will be the nominees."
"A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credits."
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A peptic ulcer is a disease wherein painful sores or ulcers occur in the stomach lining or the duodenum, leading to a burning pain in the stomach.
A peptic ulcer is a disease wherein painful sores or ulcers occur in the stomach lining (gastric ulcers). However, it may also develop in the oesophagus (oesophageal ulcers) or the duodenum (duodenal ulcers), or the first part of the small intestine. It is commonly caused by Helicobacter pylori bacterium, one of the most frequent causes of infection and inflammation in the gastrointestinal system. The most common symptom of peptic ulcer is a painful, burning sensation in the stomach. Although peptic ulcers can go away on its own, it still necessary to seek medical attention and treatment to prevent complications from ensuing. Complications may include bleeding, gastrointestinal perforation and gastric outlet obstruction.
Peptic Ulcer's can present very serious stomach pain.
In some cases, upper endoscopy and/ or surgery may be required.
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Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a classic. Is that a bold enough opening to convey how much I enjoyed The Ascent of Birds by John Reilly, new this spring from Pelagic Publishing?
Ambitious in scope, The Ascent of Birds takes on the whole history of avian evolution from before the K-Pg boundary to the present day. It also takes on the briefer but still intensely interesting history of how we know what we know about bird evolution, and why that knowledge is currently in flux (a topic of interest to anyone who's ever opened a field guide to find things not where they used to be, or watched from the sidelines as lumpers and splitters wage their long-running struggles across our life lists).
Though it is helpful to have a good basic grasp of notions like evolution through natural selection going into this book, the explanations (occasionally supplemented by well-chosen diagrams and illustrations) are clear enough for the educated amateur. Said explanations include a wide variety of topics, from the edgier aspects of biology (among the ducks, of course) to climate change to quantum physics. This range is helpful in keeping each chapter fresh and varied, even though a great many bird clades have had broadly similar factors acting on them throughout their evolutionary history. Each topic is explored with a sense of thoroughness, but no discussion overstays its welcome.
Reilly also has a deft hand for style – accessible, friendly, and with occasional glints of humor that accent but don't intrude on the science.
Taken as a whole I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone interested in the scientific side of birding. There is little doubt in my mind that it will come to be considered essential.
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Q: Unity project character only moving one way no matter where you touch on an IOS device this is the code for movement when touch on an IOS device in a 2D game i am creating in unity. but when i run it the game loads but when i touch to the right he moves to the left and when i touch to the left he also moves to the left.
i have used ScreenToWorldPoint as told to use but it dont seem to work he will only move one direction
 void PlayerWalkMobile()
{

    // force by which we will push the player
    float force = 0.0f;
    // the players velocity
    float velocity = Mathf.Abs(GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity.x);

    if (Input.touchCount > 0)
    {

        countTouches++;

        Touch h = Input.touches[0];

        Vector2 position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector2(h.position.x, h.position.y));

        Debug.Log("the postion of the touch is " + h.position);

        if (position.x > 0)
        {

            // if the velocity of the player is less than the maxVelocity
            if (velocity < maxVelocity)
                force = speed;

            // turn the player to face right
            Vector3 scale = transform.localScale;
            scale.x = 1;
            transform.localScale = scale;

            // animate the walk
            animator.SetInteger("walk", 1);

        }
        else if (position.x < 0)
        {

            // if the velocity of the player is less than the maxVelocity
            if (velocity < maxVelocity)
                force = -speed;

            // turn the player to face right
            Vector3 scale = transform.localScale;
            scale.x = -1;
            transform.localScale = scale;

            // animate the walk
            animator.SetInteger("walk", 1);

        }
        // add force to rigid body to move the player
        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(new Vector2(force, 0));

        // set the idle animation
        if (h.phase == TouchPhase.Ended)
            animator.SetInteger("walk", 0);

    } // if Input.touchCount > 0

}

in the debug the touches are all over the place the 0.0 is the far left of the screen everywhere else is a minus
the position of the touch is (-1093.7, 1048.3)
i thought
Vector2 position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector2(h.position.x, h.position.y));

was supposed to make 0.0 the centre

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Q: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Document is missing mandatory uniqueKey field: id I have run Apache solr 6.1.0 successfully. I have also created new core named "Testcore" and add all the required files solrconfig.xml, schema.xml in the solr\Testcore folder.
Now I have run following command in command prompt for indexing an csv file :
C:\>java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/Testcore/update/csv -Dtype=text/csv -jar C:\solr-6.1.0\server\lib/post.jar C:\messages\TestInsert-08-16-2016-15-47-solr.csv

Now while indexing an csv file i am getting following error response code in command prompt :
SimplePostTool version 5.0.0
Posting files to [base] url http://localhost:8983/solr/Testcore/update/csv usin
g content-type text/csv...
POSTing file TestInsert-08-16-2016-15-47-solr.csv to [base]
SimplePostTool: WARNING: Solr returned an error #400 (Bad Request) for url: http
://localhost:8983/solr/Testcore/update/csv
SimplePostTool: WARNING: Response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">400</int><int name="QTime">27</int
></lst><lst name="error"><lst name="metadata"><str name="error-class">org.apache
.solr.common.SolrException</str><str name="root-error-class">org.apache.solr.common.SolrException</str></lst><str name="msg">Document is missing mandatory uniqueKey field: id</str><int name="code">400</int></lst>
</response>
SimplePostTool: WARNING: IOException while reading response: java.io.IOException
: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: http://localhost:8983/solr/Testcore/update/csv
1 files indexed.
COMMITting Solr index changes to http://localhost:8983/solr/Testcore/update/csv
...
Time spent: 0:00:00.073

So In the response code it returns error msg as "Document is missing mandatory uniqueKey field: id". Also data is not getting indexed on solr site due to that error.
My schema.xml file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<schema name="example" version="1.5">

   <field name="_version_" type="long" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

   <field name="_root_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/>

   <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />

   <field name="sku" type="text_en_splitting_tight" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>
   <field name="name" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="manu" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>
   <field name="cat" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <field name="features" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <field name="includes" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" termVectors="true" termPositions="true" termOffsets="true" />

   <field name="weight" type="float" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="price"  type="float" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="popularity" type="int" indexed="true" stored="true" />
   <field name="inStock" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true" />

   <field name="store" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

   <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <field name="subject" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="description" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="comments" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="author" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="keywords" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="category" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="resourcename" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="url" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="content_type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <field name="last_modified" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <field name="links" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>

  <!-- Testcore  spcific fields -->

<field name="SRNO" type="int" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="IDENTIFIER" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="AGENTID" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="AGENTNAME" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

<field name="event_timestamp" type="date" indexed="true" stored="true" default="NOW" multiValued="false"/>
<field name="MONTH" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="DAY" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="TIMESTAMP" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="TYPE" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
<field name="TASKID" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

<!-- End of Testcore fields----->

     <field name="content" type="text_general" indexed="false" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
     <field name="text" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
     <field name="text_rev" type="text_general_rev" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>
     <field name="manu_exact" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
   <field name="payloads" type="payloads" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

   <dynamicField name="*_i"  type="int"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_is" type="int"    indexed="true"  stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_s"  type="string"  indexed="true"  stored="true" />
   <dynamicField name="*_ss" type="string"  indexed="true"  stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_l"  type="long"   indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_ls" type="long"   indexed="true"  stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_t"  type="text_general"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_txt" type="text_general"   indexed="true"  stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_en"  type="text_en"    indexed="true"  stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_b"  type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_bs" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_f"  type="float"  indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_fs" type="float"  indexed="true"  stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_d"  type="double" indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_ds" type="double" indexed="true"  stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>

   <!-- Type used to index the lat and lon components for the "location" FieldType -->
   <dynamicField name="*_coordinate"  type="tdouble" indexed="true"  stored="false" />

   <dynamicField name="*_dt"  type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_dts" type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_p"  type="location" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

   <!-- some trie-coded dynamic fields for faster range queries -->
   <dynamicField name="*_ti" type="tint"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_tl" type="tlong"   indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_tf" type="tfloat"  indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_td" type="tdouble" indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_tdt" type="tdate"  indexed="true"  stored="true"/>

   <dynamicField name="*_c"   type="currency" indexed="true"  stored="true"/>

   <dynamicField name="ignored_*" type="ignored" multiValued="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="attr_*" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>

   <dynamicField name="random_*" type="random" />

 <!-- Field to use to determine and enforce document uniqueness.
      Unless this field is marked with required="false", it will be a required field
   -->
   <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey>

   <copyField source="cat" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="name" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="manu" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="features" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="includes" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="manu" dest="manu_exact"/>

   <!-- Copy the price into a currency enabled field (default USD) -->
   <copyField source="price" dest="price_c"/>

   <!-- Text fields from SolrCell to search by default in our catch-all field -->
   <copyField source="title" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="author" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="description" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="keywords" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="content" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="content_type" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="resourcename" dest="text"/>
   <copyField source="url" dest="text"/>

   <!-- Create a string version of author for faceting -->
   <copyField source="author" dest="author_s"/>

     <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" />
    <fieldType name="uuid" class="solr.UUIDField" indexed="true" />

    <!-- boolean type: "true" or "false" -->
    <fieldType name="boolean" class="solr.BoolField" sortMissingLast="true"/>

    <fieldType name="int" class="solr.TrieIntField" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="float" class="solr.TrieFloatField" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="long" class="solr.TrieLongField" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="double" class="solr.TrieDoubleField" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>

    <fieldType name="tint" class="solr.TrieIntField" precisionStep="8" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="tfloat" class="solr.TrieFloatField" precisionStep="8" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="tlong" class="solr.TrieLongField" precisionStep="8" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
    <fieldType name="tdouble" class="solr.TrieDoubleField" precisionStep="8" positionIncrementGap="0"/>

    <fieldType name="date" class="solr.TrieDateField" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>

    <!-- A Trie based date field for faster date range queries and date faceting. -->
    <fieldType name="tdate" class="solr.TrieDateField" precisionStep="6" positionIncrementGap="0"/>

    <!--Binary data type. The data should be sent/retrieved in as Base64 encoded Strings -->
    <fieldtype name="binary" class="solr.BinaryField"/>

    <fieldType name="random" class="solr.RandomSortField" indexed="true" />

    <fieldType name="text_ws" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="managed_en" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.ManagedStopFilterFactory" managed="english" />
        <filter class="solr.ManagedSynonymFilterFactory" managed="english" />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="text_general" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" />

        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" />
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

       <fieldType name="text_en" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>

    <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"
                />
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
    <filter class="solr.EnglishPossessiveFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>

        <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"
                />
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
    <filter class="solr.EnglishPossessiveFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>

        <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="text_en_splitting" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" autoGeneratePhraseQueries="true">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>

        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"
                />
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>
        <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"
                />
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>
        <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="text_en_splitting_tight" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" autoGeneratePhraseQueries="true">
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="false"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="lang/stopwords_en.txt"/>
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="0" generateNumberParts="0" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>
        <filter class="solr.EnglishMinimalStemFilterFactory"/>

        <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="text_general_rev" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" />
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.ReversedWildcardFilterFactory" withOriginal="true"
           maxPosAsterisk="3" maxPosQuestion="2" maxFractionAsterisk="0.33"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" />
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="alphaOnlySort" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true">
      <analyzer>
        <!-- KeywordTokenizer does no actual tokenizing, so the entire
             input string is preserved as a single token
          -->
        <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
        <!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does what you expect, which can be
             when you want your sorting to be case insensitive
          -->
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
        <!-- The TrimFilter removes any leading or trailing whitespace -->
        <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" />

        <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory"
                pattern="([^a-z])" replacement="" replace="all"
        />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldtype name="phonetic" stored="false" indexed="true" class="solr.TextField" >
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.DoubleMetaphoneFilterFactory" inject="false"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldtype>

    <fieldtype name="payloads" stored="false" indexed="true" class="solr.TextField" >
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>

        <filter class="solr.DelimitedPayloadTokenFilterFactory" encoder="float"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldtype>

    <!-- lowercases the entire field value, keeping it as a single token.  -->
    <fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer>
        <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="descendent_path" class="solr.TextField">
      <analyzer type="index">
    <tokenizer class="solr.PathHierarchyTokenizerFactory" delimiter="/" />
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
    <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="ancestor_path" class="solr.TextField">
      <analyzer type="index">
    <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" />
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
    <tokenizer class="solr.PathHierarchyTokenizerFactory" delimiter="/" />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <!-- since fields of this type are by default not stored or indexed,
         any data added to them will be ignored outright.  -->
    <fieldtype name="ignored" stored="false" indexed="false" multiValued="true" class="solr.StrField" />

    <fieldType name="point" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldSuffix="_d"/>

    <!-- A specialized field for geospatial search. If indexed, this fieldType must not be multivalued. -->
    <fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonType" subFieldSuffix="_coordinate"/>

    <fieldType name="location_rpt" class="solr.SpatialRecursivePrefixTreeFieldType"
        geo="true" distErrPct="0.025" maxDistErr="0.000009" units="degrees" />

    <fieldType name="bbox" class="solr.BBoxField"
        geo="true" units="degrees" numberType="_bbox_coord" />
    <fieldType name="_bbox_coord" class="solr.TrieDoubleField" precisionStep="8" docValues="true" stored="false"/>

    <fieldType name="currency" class="solr.CurrencyField" precisionStep="8" defaultCurrency="USD" currencyConfig="currency.xml" />

</schema>

And in csv file there following fields : SRNO,IDENTIFIER,AGENTID,AGENTNAME,event_timestamp,MONTH,DAY,TIMESTAMP,TYPE,TASKID
These fields are added in schema.xml file with their data types.
Please do needful to help me out of this problem. Thanks in advance.

A: You can just remove uniqueKey field that is declared as id on the top of schema.xml file . Also remove the required=true attribute from id field . Use any other field as your unique key , that your document has .


4. Design, build and ship the right way, always.
I was discussing with my team members, reviewing a part of a Salesforce solution we were implementing at one of our biggest customers when it happened to be Paul's turn… I asked, "So, Paul, can you take me through your design please?". "Sure" said Paul, "I've been working on User Story #US240 and have applied the usual best practices". I was expecting a little more details considering that I was supposed to sign-off the solution design in the name of my team but Paul sounded like he was finished. "And…" I asked. "And that's it" said Paul, "Just applied the BP's, you know…". I wasn't happy and explained to Paul that "his" BP's won't cut it for me. He understood and drilled down into more details his design justifying his choices.
All serious source of information come with a reputable origin. If you can't track where a Best Practice is coming from then consider it as suspicious and act accordingly.
The fact that an implementation method has proven to be successful time and time again turning into a best practice is good to know. But it shouldn't prevent you from exploring better alternatives.
Best Practices have a context and one working for a customer based in New-York won't necessarily be applicable to a similar customer in London. Clients have got more differences than their industry and this need to be recognised. For this reason, your best practice must come with a justification (why is this a best practice?) and a history of successful applications. This will help the decision to use a best practice or to go the innovation route.
What was true yesterday, may not be true today. Technology improves fast, as we all know. So, what used to be the best way to do something may now be deprecated by a new feature. So again, you need to associate some extra information to any best practice: it's dependencies. When all dependencies have gone, then the BP isn't valid any longer, and you need to find another way.
What? You don't have a team Knowledge Base? Your consultants memorise their best practices as they can? Then, you can't sell "Best Practices". ==Many consultancies pretend they deliver a value added they don't have==. Best practices should be written with contextual information and stored in a searchable database (or wiki), accessible to all consultants.
Which basically means that if you have dozens of workflow rules, as it's often the case in old orgs, you cannot control which one will run first and set a context for the following rules. Same for triggers and it's the origin of the design pattern "one trigger per object" (also read this other post from Bob Buzzard). It's not possible to apply this approach to workflow rules but thankfully you can with process builder as demonstrated in this post by David Litton. Note that, nowadays you can implement one process builder that will call invokable process builders rather than piling all the business logic into a single component.
I have listed some great resources to dig deeper into the subject.
I hope you enjoyed this post. Don't hesitate to leave a comment below or ping me on Twitter.


Originally named "Anna Maria", she was built in 1815 at the New York dockyards as a pilot boat. The "Achilles" spent much of her time as a fast mail boat.
The Achilles was originally named "Anna Maria", she was built in 1815 at the New York dockyards as a pilot boat. The "Achilles" spent much of her time as a fast mail boat.


Egypt's interim vice president, the Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, resigned from his post following violent clashes with protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi, saying there was a peaceful solution. The White House has condemned the violence, as did Secretary of State John Kerry, calling the events "deplorable." At least 278 people have been killed in clashes between pro-Morsi protesters and the security forces that stormed their encampments. At least one journalist has been killed, and several others injured—such as The Daily Beast's Mike Giglio, who wrote about his experience here.


The CDM project is a wind power project in the state of Gujarat, which is considered as one of the most wind rich states of the country. The project activity involves the installation and the operation of thirty four of 1500 kW Suzlon Wind Electricity Generators (WEGs) having a collective wind power generation capacity of 51 MW. In absence of the project activity electricity would be supplied through fossil fuel based grid electricity. The project activity is expected to displace the electricity generated using fossil fuels, with renewable source of energy, thus reducing the GHG emissions thereby generating a cleaner and sustainable form of electricity. The estimated annual average amount of emission reduction due to the wind power project for a crediting period of seven years is 85762 tCO2e per annum.
Employment has been created by the project activity for a number of villagers. Due to the unavailability of skilled labourers, only a limited number of the local population is employed with this CDM activity. Claiming to contribute to an allevation of poverty by generating additional income, this promis is only complied with to a certain extend. No environmental impacts have been caused by this project.


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Abstracts for EnerSTOCK 2018 papers are due April 30
EnerSTOCK 2018, the 14th International Conference on Energy Storage, is more than a year away. But the deadline for submitting abstracts is coming up fast.
The conference will be held April 25-28, 2018, at Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey. Conference topics include phase change materials, thermochemical materials, hybrid applications, performance standards, government regulations and country-by-country updates.
Abstracts, which are due by April 30, should include "the topic and the problem, significance of the study, the objective and the methods used in the research, results and a short discussion/conclusion."
An early list of conference speakers includes Dr. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency; Dr. Ibrahim Dincer, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Ontario; Dr. Signhild Gehlin of the Swedish Geoenergy Center in Lund, Sweden; and Dr. Mohammed Farid, professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Questions about the event should be directed to the conference chair, Dr. Halime Paksoy, professor of chemistry at Cukurova University.
Composite foam and methods of preparation and use
U.S. patent application 20170072604 (applicant Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, Del.):
"Composite foams having cells containing shape-stabilized phase change material (ss-PCM) particles are described. Composite foams may be made by contacting a plurality of ss-PCM particles and one or more pre-polymer reactants, wherein each ss-PCM particle can form a nucleation site for foam cell generation. The composite foams may be used in regulating the temperature of an article wherein the foam undergoes a phase transition as the surrounding temperature of the article approaches the foam's phase transition temperature. The thermostatic material may exchange heat with the article during the phase transition, resulting in regulation of the temperature of the article. The composite foams may be used as a thermostatic packaging material having a cavity for storing goods."
Three-layer vessel with phase change material
U.S. patent application 20170071381 (inventors Weng Hua Ze and Ke Wang, Quanxi Town, China):
"A three layer vessel has: a vessel body; a first liner connected to the vessel body and configured within the vessel body; an outside gap formed between the first liner in the vessel body, the outside gap is at least partially evacuated to a lower pressure than atmospheric air pressure; a second liner connected to the vessel body and configured within the first liner; an inside gap formed between the first liner in the second liner; a thermal conductive fluid held within the inside gap; a vessel body rim is formed on the vessel body with the vessel body connects to the first liner. ... An inner space [19] is formed between the vacuum space between the internal spacing, which is filled with thermal conductive fluid. ... The thermal conductive fluid is a phase change material that changes phase between liquid and solid phases."
Integrated multi-chamber heat exchanger
U.S. patent application 20170082371 (applicant Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, N.Y.):
"A one-piece heat exchanger manufactured using an additive manufacturing process is described. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of channels formed therein. At least some of the plurality of channels may be configured to provide structural support to the heat exchanger to reduce its weight. Different coolant media may be used in a first set and a second set of the plurality of channels to provide different types of cooling in an integrated one-piece heat exchanger structure. ... [A] phase change material coolant (e.g., paraffin that changes state between a solid and a liquid) may provide both steady state cooling using the fluid coolant channels and transient cooling using the phase change material coolant channels to effectively provide cooling for a component or components that generate both steady state heat and occasional, transient, spikes in heat."
• Thermal Energy Service Solutions, maker of a PCM-based "plug-and-chill" refrigeration system, was one of six startup companies honored at Tech Festival 2017 in Berlin this week. The Indian company's cooling technology is designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels in storing and transporting food. The Startup Energy Transition Awards competition, sponsored by the German Energy Agency, drew more than 500 applications from 66 countries.
• New from MarketsandMarkets: "Thermal Energy Storage Market by Technology (Sensible, Latent, and TCS), Storage Material (Water, Molten Salt, and PCM), Application (Power Generation, District Heating & Cooling, and Process Heating & Cooling), End-User, and Region - Global Forecast to 2022." The report projects that the global thermal energy storage market should grow from an estimated $3.67 billion this year to $6.2 billion by 2022.
• Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have shown that it is possible to convert solar energy directly into energy stored in the bonds of a chemical fluid. The system is based on the organic compound norbornadiene, which upon exposure to light converts into quadricyclane.
• Ankit Jhanwar, right, vice president for corporate planning and strategy at Pluss Advanced Technologies, was honored as one of 10 "Innovators under 35" at EmTech India 2017.
• Sunamp Ltd., maker of PCM-based heat batteries, is one of eight finalists for an Ashden UK Award. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on June 15. The competition recognizes excellence in the field of green energy.
• McKinsey & Co. analysts say a slowdown in the chemical industry's financial performance over the past five years reflects important changes in the industry's fundamentals. One of their recommendations: "Incumbent specialty-chemical players must prepare for further encroachment of commoditization and erosion of their historical advantages when attackers from developing markets gain more experience and become increasingly technologically savvy."
• California lawmakers have introduced legislation to encourage more clean energy resources to address peak load. The bills would require utilities to deploy clean energy during peak demand in order to meet the state's aggressive greenhouse gas and renewable energy goals.
• Machine learning tools can help researchers analyze sustainable products and chemicals more easily, but as with all computing, data quality is important, writes Christina Valimaki, senior director of chemicals at Elsevier's R&D Solutions.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise will work with BASF to develop a supercomputer that will sharply reduce the time it takes to run simulations and modeling in chemical research. "The new supercomputer will promote the application and development of complex modeling and simulation approaches, opening up completely new avenues for our research at BASF," said Dr. Martin Brudermueller, chief technology officer at BASF.
For our full list of recent academic research, see puretemp.com/academic. Here are highlights from the past week:
From Renewable Energy:
• Investigation of the corrosive properties of phase change materials in contact with metals and plastic
From Applied Thermal Engineering:
• Preparation and thermal properties of SAT-CMC-DSP/EG composite as phase change material
From Energy Conversion and Management:
• A numerical study on the usage of phase change material (PCM) to prolong compressor off period in a beverage cooler
• Thermal performance of solar air collection-storage system with phase change material based on flat micro-heat pipe arrays
From Building and Environment:
• Abilities and limitations of thermal mass activation for thermal comfort, peak shifting and shaving: A review
From Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews:
• Corrosion effect of phase change materials in solar thermal energy storage application
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They told me the only thing I had to change was everything.
What changes have you had to make/adjust to?
How has your 12 step program helped?
Giving you strength to make changes or adjust to change?
They could be called the seven deadly character defects.


Part of why I was excited to release last week's announcement was that I can finally talk about the different pieces of my latest project, and how everything is coming along with them!
This includes the maps of Halarite for the Sword of Dragons novels! A couple of years ago, Wayne Adams of VtW Productions introduced me to a friend who was interested in making maps for the Sword of Dragons. Through many months of collaboration, Chloe drew up several maps, including a low-detail one of the world and higher-detailed versions of each continent.
I have very little experience making or labeling maps. And it is not as easy as one might think.
How do you put labels on a map so that it is understandable, legible, and not cluttered or confusing?
Thankfully, I had actually done some work on this all the way back in school, and a little bit since then. Plus, I love maps. I have a giant map of Middle Earth hanging on the wall at our apartment, and I have kept every map from every Elder Scrolls game I've bought, not to mention some old maps from EverQuest.
Just like a book cover must convey the appropriate message to the target audience, a map should be tailored to convey the information someone might need from it. In the case of a novel, a map should have the information a reader might need.
These decisions are especially important for me since my maps will be in a small, black-and-white paperback format. That means there isn't going to be room for a lot of small details, and fine-print will make it impossible to read. Obvious labeling will be necessary.
I do have the advantage of the fact that I have different detailed maps. The overall global map has few land features on it, so that gives me room to label political boundaries, for instance. Furthermore, I'm considering having the global map span two pages, as I've seen done in other novels.
Then, for book 1, I'll have the more detailed map of Edilas, the continent where the 4 kingdoms are, on a single page. For book 2, I may still include that map, but I'll also include a map of Devor.
Another lesson I remember from school is that bigger features require bigger names. So for instance on the global map, I'll make the world name the biggest. Continent names will be smaller. Kingdom names smaller, followed by city and feature names.
One advantage I do have: these are fairly high-res images. So while I'll be focusing for now on the maps that'll go into books 1, 2 and 3, I will be making higher-detailed versions for the website, http://www.theswordofdragons.com/. Thankfully people can always zoom in to read finer print on the web.
There's also the advantage of color on the web. I've already played around a bit by adding overlay colors for the 4 kingdoms on the global map. I think this will be useful and interesting for readers.
While I don't want to make readers of the print editions go online to see more detailed maps, I think having the option will be a nice addition. "Here's these maps, but if you want to see more details, go to the website!" That'll allow readers like me, who love to learn as much as possible about fantasy worlds, to get more information.
That's all for today! I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse into the production of the 2nd editions. If there are any specific features you'd like included in the maps, let me know in the comments!
I think it's great that you'll have the maps in the books but then more detail available online. I'm one of those people who would love looking at more detailed maps :) I've struggled with book maps several times, either unable to read them or not enough detail. Thanks for sharing your update!
Some books have great maps, some have horrible. I'm hoping to avoid being in the latter lol. But they are fun to explore!


Many call centers rely on scripts so representatives know what to do when customers call with problems. Which is fine, it's not like people actually expect a flock of experts waiting to provide their own spin on a situation. But using a script can turn a resource into a source of confusion if the call center reps are reading off the wrong script. We're looking at you, Healthcare.gov.
The site is handling healthcare enrollment for 36 states as part of the Affordable Care Act, and has seen its share of hiccups and glitches since it launched last week. But this week callers faced another issue — many were told when the rang the call center that they had to reset their passwords.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say no one has to reset passwords, it's just that call center reps weren't given the right information, reports CNN.com.
While that source says only callers who rang this morning were given the wrong info, ArsTechnica reported as early as Tuesday that consumers were told to reset their passwords in an effort to fix some of the site's myriad technical issues.
As of today, however, another HHS official told CNN that consumers can continue to use their current passwords.
For an additional resource to help guide your way through the ins and outs of the healthcare law, check out the Health Law Helper from our benevolent benefactors at Consumer Reports by clicking here.


70 years of bringing people into the world, looking after people in need, putting people back together again, fixing bones and scrapes, replacing internal organs, saving lives, making lives better, holding hands in times of need, saying nice things, delivering bad news, staring death in the face.
We should be forever grateful for our NHS, and forever protective of it to keep it as a free service for everyone who needs it. It will be a sad and socially dividing day if our NHS is ever privatised and we're all forced to pay for care.
When we were in LA a few years back we made friends with a guy, Steve, who had no health insurance because he couldn't afford to pay for it. He got sick and was put into a coma in order to recover; he was in hospital for 10 days all told. The doctors knew he had no insurance, so at that point they literally had to make a decision as to whether a man's life was worth saving for "free".
Steve recovered, thankfully for him. But the debt he accrued from his hospital stay was allocated against his name, his records, so that any time he earned any money, it was deducted at source as payment towards what he owed. Steve had an estimated $50,000 debt from that hospital stay and the treatment he received. He will never be able to fully pay it back and will never be able to get on his feet financially because of it. The treatment saved his life, but will also negatively affect the rest of his life too.
What a horrifying situation to be in.
Of course the NHS sometimes gets a bad rep; sometimes it's deserved and sometimes it isn't. People are always quick to point out the negatives, but less so the positives. However, knowing that in times of need there are highly trained doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and surgeons on hand to do whatever they can whether you're living on the breadline or a millionaire is a comforting thought.
The NHS has given me years of expensive corrective dental treatment when I was a kid, treated me for pre-cancerous cells, diagnosed and continue to prescribe medication for my depression. The care and compassion of the nurses and staff on the day my Dad died will remain with me forever.
Here's to everyone that is part of the NHS – not just the frontline treatment staff but the receptionists, the hospital porters, the cleaners. Nurses who go above and beyond to deliver not just medical care but hand holding, tissues, compassion and a shoulder to cry on. Surgeons who hold peoples' lives in their hands. GPs with their extensive knowledge of a whole range of ailments; every day and otherwise, and can write us a prescription to make us better.
Share your NHS experiences with me in the comments!


Ecommerce is taking a bigger portion of overall retail sales in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, consumers spent more than $194 billion online in 2011. With this kind of spending, it's not surprising to see more small businesses moving some, or all, operations online.
Fueling the ecommerce movement is easy-to-use software that makes it inexpensive for a small business to add ecommerce to a business website. For less than $100 per month, you can add an ecommerce component to grow your existing small business and reach new customers, or even start a new online business.
If you already have a business website, a good option is to integrate a standalone shopping cart--including open-source shopping carts--for ecommerce functionality. This is a good fit for those who want more control but would otherwise need technical expertise or an IT staff to host and manage an ecommerce site.
Another option that suits most entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is hosted ecommerce software. A hosted solution will provide everything from domain name registration to the tools you need to build an ecommerce website, including the shopping cart, with minimal tech and website design knowledge required. Many will also take care of PCI compliance in order to keep your customers' data safe.
The best reasons for using hosted ecommerce software are the low cost and lack of IT requirements. Another benefit to hosted ecommerce is that many solutions are designed to grow with your business. You typically won't pay for features you aren't using today, but you have the option to upgrade services and features as needed.
Most ecommerce platforms will provide the basics to get you started. This includes customizable site templates, an integrated shopping cart, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, inventory management and analytics. All you need to do is create an account and use store management tools to customize your ecommerce presence.
To find the best fit for your business, you need to look at what is most important to you and research the vendors offering complete ecommerce packages. For example, do plan to invest heavily in email marketing, or is mobile commerce a must-have option? Once you have a list of the features you need, look for an ecommerce software vendor that has a proven track record and can deliver the tools and services to meet your business goals.
Pricing for Ability Commerce is customized based on specific business requirements.
Big Commerce offers ample features for hosting, store design, SEO, mobile commerce, marketing and inventory--plus you can integrate your online Web stores with eBay listings from within the Big Commerce platform. Simply choose which products to push to eBay, create an eBay listing template and set custom eBay shipping. Now inventory is always synced between your online store and eBay.
Big Commerce offers five pricing plans, starting at $24.95 per month for 100 product listings. The Silver Plan, which is suitable for most small businesses looking to invest in ecommerce and which Big Commerce deems the "best value," costs $39.95 per month for 500 products, 10 staff logins, 3 GB bandwidth and 300 MB storage.
Intuit's ecommerce offering offers a simple point and click interface that makes it easy to create and publish a store that you can update at any time.
With Intuit Websites, you'll get everything needed to design and launch an online store, including the domain name, hosting, the SimpleStore ecommerce software, a site builder tool and online payments via Intuit merchant accounts. The merchant account is a big feature, as it enables small businesses to move beyond offering basic PayPal payments at checkout. Another nice feature of Intuit websites is the Facebook extension with which you can create a store a Facebook Business Page that automatically syncs with current store inventory.
Intuit websites with ecommerce start at $19.99 per month for a 100-page website, 5 GB storage, one domain and five email accounts. A Business Plus plan offers additional features and storage for a $59.99 per month subscription fee. Intuit provides free phone support and assistance with all subscriptions.
Shopify hosted ecommerce lets you pick a template, optimize the design, add a product catalog, organize your products and create blog posts from a single administration dashboard. Shopify feature built-in mobile commerce that includes an iPhone app and mobile storefront. Marketing tools for SEO and coupon codes to help sell items are also available.
Shopify integrates with Google Analytics; this lets you automatically track customer purchases and shopping cart transactions connected to Google Analytics data. It also features built-in analytics to benchmark your online store's performance to help you track ecommerce over time.
Shopify starts at $29 per month and includes unlimited bandwidth, 100 products, 1 GB of storage and a 2 percent transaction fee. For $50 per month, the basic business account is good for up to 2,500 product listings, a 1 percent transaction fee and 5 GB of storage.
With a focus on automation, Vendio ecommerce software saves you time with tools to easily put products on eBay, Amazon, Facebook and your own online Web store. List products once and they'll be published simultaneously on the supported marketplaces.
Other Vendio features include inventory control, sales and order management, email marketing, the shopping cart with drag-and-drop features and analytics reporting. Vendio Online Stores provides business owners with marketing features, including Google Analytics and built-in options, while a Vendio-powered Web store is optimized for mobile Apple iOS devices.
Vendio pricing starts at $99.95 per month and includes 200 products, 2-GB of storage, Vendio Applications and your own Web Store plus the aforementioned Amazon, eBay and Facebook marketplace integration.


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Archdiocesan News Martin de Jong – Caritas September 2013 Young people entering the workforce are at risk of being seen as 'disposable' in a disposable society, Caritas Social Justice Week…
Martin de Jong – Caritas
Young people entering the workforce are at risk of being seen as 'disposable' in a disposable society, Caritas Social Justice Week Coordinator Cathy Bi told a Wellington seminar looking at young people and work last month.
'Young people as much as anyone else need meaningful work that pays a decent wage and offers security,' she said, but policies such as the youth 'Starting out wage' and 90-day probationary period for work were threatening this. Instead, young people were in danger of being seen as just another source of cheap labour.
Cathy and youth worker Heath Hutton from Challenge 2000 addressed the group of about 40 people at a Winter Dialogue session hosted by Mt Victoria parish. It was the second in a series of four focusing on 'Meaningful work for the young worker', the theme for this year's Social Justice Week on 8-14 September.
Cathy reflected on her own experience of looking for work for six months after graduation, in a tight job market, where one in six jobseekers aged 15-24 can't find a job.
It was a hard time, and didn't match the story she'd been sold throughout her school life that 'if you just work hard in your studies, you will find a great job at the end.' But it gave her a chance to think about what is meaningful work.
She describes meaningful work as 'work that enhances human dignity. It gives people enough to live on and offers security by leading to life-long employment.'
Unfortunately, many young people don't have that, as casualisation of the workforce is 'fast becoming the norm'. For some it offers flexibility, but for others it makes it difficult to make ends meet.
'The responsibility of responding and supporting young workers facing insecure work sits with everyone in the community,' she said.
She used, as an example, Otorohanga, where 'biker turned mayor' Dale Williams has led the central North Island town to set up an institute to provide youth with training geared to the needs of local employers. Mentoring and leadership development also play a huge role. This has been part of the reason why Otorohanga has had single figure unemployment for under 25-year-olds since 2006.
Mentoring and appropriate training also helps at-risk youth, said Heath Hutton, from his experience with the Challenge 2000 social agency.
He deals with a wide range of youth, who may face barriers to work such as lack of qualifications, lack of family role models, health issues, transport, difficulties with CVs and interviews, as well as self-doubt.
But one of the biggest barriers is the attitude of employers and it requires employers who are generous or socially justice minded enough to take a risk to give such youth a chance.
Challenge 2000 acts as a bridge between youth and employment. They provide training, assist with literacy, numeracy and basic computer skills, as well as help young people build self-esteem and confidence. He said, 'It's a journey, it's not just a six-month course or programme.'
During general discussion, with so many workers unsure of their rights, it was felt that schools – Catholic schools in particular – had a role in educating young people about the dignity of work and workers' rights.
Concerns were also expressed about the current work environment, with low or unequal pay rates in many areas of work, and basic rights – such as the right to a tea break or half-hour break after working five-and-a-half hours – under threat.
Cathy Bi asked those present to remember the significant people who helped them when they started out in work, then asked, 'How can you be that significant person to the young people around you? What are the gaps you see that are missing and what are you doing about it?'
The winter dialogue series continues on Thursday 12 September with Charles Mōrunga of Ngā Kanohi Marae o Wairarapa speaking on developing skills for rangatahi; then on Thursday 17 October, politicians have their say about young people and work with representatives from National, Labour and Green parties. Both events start at 7.30pm in Mt Victoria parish.
Contact Marie Kearney (04) 384-9891 for more details.


Dr. Tarantola and you together learn about the condition of your teeth, gums, TMJs, jaw muscles, bite function and esthetics, that is, the entire masticatory system.
Your 10 point exam is a "physical exam of your masticatory system". It is a baseline for future comparisons and is the basis for a lifetime master plan for oral health.
Dentistry today has so much to offer… restorative and reconstructive dentistry, porcelain veneers and crowns, bonding, white fillings, whitening, implants…what is right for you?? It has to begin with a 10 point exam and diagnosis.
Unless there is some immediate concern or urgency, the first series of visits will involve a comprehensive evaluation of the entire masticatory system. If there is an immediate concern, it may need to be addressed first, then followed by a comprehensive evaluation.
The purpose of this 10 POINT evaluation is quite simple. You and Dr. Tarantola learn together about the condition of all parts of your masticatory system. These parts include your teeth, the periodontal support of the teeth, the temporomandibular joints (TMJs) that facilitate the movement of your lower jaw, and the muscles that move the jaw. Your bite function is analyzed digitally with the T-scan.
It is a step-by-step system-based evaluation, not just a symptom-based evaluation. Before you and Dr. Tarantola can determine what is possible for long-term stability with regard to comfort, function, health and esthetics, your current condition is assessed. This is without question the most important series of appointments we will have. Many of the disappointments individuals have with dentistry can be traced back to an incomplete evaluation and diagnosis.
Keep in mind that a comprehensive evaluation includes an assessment of temporomandibular joint function, muscle function and an assessment of how the upper and lower teeth function (or malfunction) in relation to one another. This assessment may also include models of your mouth attached to an articulator (jaw simulator) for further evaluation. Dentists refer to the alignment and fitting together of your upper and lower teeth as your occlusion. During this evaluation, feel free to talk to us about any esthetic concerns you may have.
Carefully completing this evaluation and doing it in a way that you fully understand is the first step in formulating a lifetime plan that will help you achieve and sustain maximum oral comfort, health and esthetics with stability and longevity.
After this first appointment, Dr. then analyzes all the data, images and tests and develops a diagnosis and treatment plan along with exact fees and prepares a detailed, understandable report for you.
At another appointment, you and Dr. T will discuss the options, have all your questions answered and finalize a plan that fits and makes sense in your life and circumstances.
Dr. Tarantola's approach allows you to move forward in a way that you feel you have all the information you need so that the decisions you make are in your best interest.


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Thank you for sending the photos! Yes, we have seen the black rhino quite a few times now and I am happy to report that he is still around. In fact he was seen this morning. We also saw wild dogs this morning which is our 1st sighting in quite a long time.


Each business or a small company needs a particular amount of money or capital to start off. Entrepreneurs who are on the threshold of a new business venture must work out in finding the success by obtaining sufficient funds.
Banks and other financial institutions are responsible for lending Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) to roll out their business and have a good start by lending them funds in the form of alone. Although banks and financial institutions are very strict when it comes to giving you approval for your loan application, there are actually alternatives that you can try.
Below are some of the best alternative loans that you can try compiled by the Qupital SME Loan.
If you are running low on cash and wants to get some help by availing alternative finance for your business, there are various options available that will depend on four aspects which are your reason why you needed a loan? The size of your business, the life stage of your business, and how much do you want to loan?
In this infographic article, let us show you some of the best and quickest alternative loan guides that can help you in making the best decision that is best to fit in your business needs.
If you are able to pre-sell a product or service to your target audience as some sort of your marketing experiment.
If you are not willing to give up a percentage of your equity in your business.
More funding is needed as crowdfunding is provided in smaller amounts than a comparative and reliable investor.
You have a flexible and quick solution that can be repaired in fixed installments and terms.
If you need a cash injection to purchase new equipment for your business, new machinery, new company vehicles, or to fund your marketing campaign, and also to fund seasonal fluctuations in trade.
If you are not worried about flexibility, as more people are getting involved in the terms are more rigid of extending.
If you have been in business for a couple of years already.
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Home > Psychology > The End of a Relationship: What Went Wrong?
At the end of your relationship it's natural to spend some time reflecting on how things went wrong and who was to blame for its failure. How people react to the end of a relationship depends on the circumstances, but there are two main ways in which a relationship can come to an end: through a slow, torturous death or a sudden shock or traumatic event that ends it.
A Slow Death or Sudden Event?
In the vast majority of cases, most relationships die a slow death through a number of factors: lack of communication, stress, boredom and not having the same dreams and aspirations. Quite often, these problems arise as a result of the person's inability to cope with their existing stresses, either within a relationship or outside it. Examples are having an affair, becoming depressed, behaving recklessly or abusively, or having addictions to drugs or alcohol. In other cases, it can be a sudden event that changes things, such as the loss of a job, financial ruin or the death of a family member.
Sometimes, couples will stay together while being emotionally detached from one another. While this enables each partner to cope, they are harming the relationship and contributing to the slow death of their union. If the coping mechanisms that are adopted are completely ineffective, either one of two things happens: the person seeks help from elsewhere to be able to cope, or they break off the relationship.
Often when a relationship gets to breaking point, it is because both parties have got to the stage where they are so far apart that they cannot make the same observations about their relationship to find some common ground. As a result, each party blames the other and is unable to 'own' their share of the problems.
Once a relationship ends, it is important to look at your own behaviour, as well as that of the other person. This will enable you to learn from your mistakes and examine how your coping strategies (or lack of them) harmed or helped your relationship. If you notice that there are recurring problems in each of your relationships, but you have no idea how to do things differently, it may be time to seek assistance. Although counselling may seem like a drastic measure, it can be extremely effective in identifying your own issues and helping you to move on for the future.
Whatever you decide, you should ensure that you don't beat yourself up about the fact that your relationship is over. This can be extremely harmful and can lead to a prolonged loss of self-confidence as well as anxiety and depression. While you were part of a relationship, you are more than the sum total of that relationship and are still a whole, important and unique human being. When a relationship ends, you will inevitably grieve for it but should also ensure that you are kind to yourself while learning from the lessons of the past.
For more information, read The Emotional Stages After Separation and How to Change Your Life After Separation on this site.
@sparky1 - have you applied through court for a contact order? If not, you may want to read, When Your Ex-Partner Denies You Access, link here and go through the procedure listed in the article. If you don't want to pay hefty solicitor's fees, you may also find our partner article on How to Represent Yourself, link here. I hope this helps.
I see my children every other weekend and used to see them during the week also. My ex refuses to let me see my children and will not answer my calls when i tried to call them. My son secretly asked my female friend if she can get him a phone so he can let me know he is safe which we proceeded to do.My ex frowned upon it when she found out and took the phone off him so i'm back to square one again where i only speak to my children every other weekend. There is no communication except via text with my ex and i as she has had lied on to the police on many occasions with false accusations of violence against her.I have never been charged with anything or even been arrested before but in the past year i've been arrested 3 times. I'm 47 and my children are 5 and 7 any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Memorial Day in the United States… A day that has so many meanings, as as we celebrate those who have served, and mark the official beginning of the summer season.
Aside from the hot weather and days at the pool, the start of summer also means that the Acquisio Summit is rapidly approaching!
It's been 3 years since the last Summit, and I couldn't be more excited for this year's.
While I'm really excited to speak to these points, the best thing about the Summit (aside from being in Montreal, of course!) is the interaction from the participants and the interesting dialog that I know will be sparked through all of the presentations.
To get tickets, check out the Summit website. See you!
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In 1850 Palestine was populated by Arabs, 400,000 (80%) Muslims, 75,000 Christians, 25,000 Jews and a small Druze population. For centuries they had lived in harmony. In the late 1800s, in response to discrimination and violence against them some European Jews decided to establish a Jewish state and investigated a number of different countries before choosing Palestine. These colonisers became known as Zionists.
At first the influx of small numbers of Zionists into Palestine created no problems. As more and more Zionists arrived — many with the express intention of establishing a Jewish state — the indigenous population became alarmed. This eventually gave rise to escalating waves of violence.
After World War II the fledgling UN, dominated by the USA and the UK, recommended partitioning Palestine. Although Jews constituted only one-third of the population and owned less than 7 percent of the land, the UN recommended ceding 56 percent of Palestinian land to a Jewish state, against the wishes of the indigenous Palestinian majority.
In November 1947 the UN General Assembly passed its partition resolution. In March 1948, Zionist terrorists began a pre-planned, brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing forcing Palestinians from their land in order to create a Jewish majority. Over 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes, farms and villages by Zionist terrorists – 250,000 of them before the declaration of the state of Israel – and became refugees.
On 15th May 1948 the British Mandate ended and the State of Israel came into effect with no defined borders. The armies of Egypt, Transjordan (Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Palestinians to resist Zionist plans for the conquest of Palestine, but were defeated.
The 1949 armistice agreements gave Israel control over 78 percent of the territory of British Mandate Palestine. Jordan controlled East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Egypt took temporary control of the coastal plain later known as the Gaza Strip.
In 1967, Israel invaded the West Bank and Gaza, an area with an Arab population of about 1.5 million. This resulted in the dispossession of a further half a million Palestinians. In 1983, Israel invaded Lebanon. Tens of thousands were killed and made homeless in the wake of the invasion which culminated in the massacres of Sabra and Shatilla.
In December 1987, a mass uprising against the Israeli occupation began (the Intifada). Israeli forces reacted with force causing mass injuries and heavy loss of life among the civilian Palestinian population.
In 1995 Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials finalised agreement on the second stage of eventual Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands.
However Israel continued its policies of land confiscation and house demolition, doubling the number of illegal colonies on Palestinian land.
In 2002, the Israeli government began construction of the apartheid Wall, demolishing more homes and confiscating even more Palestinian land. In 2004 the International Court of Justice declared the wall illegal.
In 2005 Israel withdrew its illegal settlers from Gaza while tightening its stranglehold on the territory.
In January 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian elections. Israel, the US, and the EU refused to recognise the democratically elected government. The EU and USA cut off aid and Israel withheld taxes from the Palestinian Authority.
In 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon and Gaza killing nearly 2000 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians. Amnesty International described Israel's actions as "serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including war crimes". The EU took no action against Israel. Britain and America facilitated the rapid rearming of Israel as it bombed civilian neighbourhoods and decimated the infrastructure of Lebanon and Gaza.
In the first six months of 2007, Israel killed 117 and injured 299 Palestinians. Internal pressures, exacerbated by the impact of the Israeli siege of Gaza and the withholding of aid and taxes resulted in Fatah taking control in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Tony Blair was appointed envoy to the Middle East Quartet.