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Q: Hive trunc date format issues I am trying to convert GP to Hive migration logic but below statement giving the wrong output while execute query:
select (date_trunc('Month','2022-01-04'::date ) - interval '0 Month + 1 day')::date

output for GP : 2021-12-31
similar if we converted Hive query
select cast(date_add(add_months(trunc(cast('2022-01-04' as date),'MM'),-0),1) as date)

out put if Hive query : 2022-01-02
i could see the difference of the date. please help me.
Thanks

A: You are subtracting interval 0 months and 1 day in the first query, in second query you are adding 0 months (it makes no sense) and adding 1 day (not subtracting). If you want to do the same as in GP query in Hive just subtract 1 day, it will work the same:
select date(date_add(trunc('2022-01-04','MM') ,-1)) --returns 2021-12-31

Or the same using interval:
select date(date(trunc('2022-01-04','MM')) - interval '1' day)

Or one more possible alternative:
select date(add_months(last_day('2022-01-04') ,-1))


So, I am here in SA, I bought a 06 KDX 200 about 2 weeks ago. the bike seems to be very clean.
I need some help on 3 issues for now.
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It all started with a darling little girl who thought my name was "Charlotte." She gave me a new name—"Charlotte"—when I met her. When I heard that name, I thought, "I think I like that." This little girl, having just seen the movie Charlotte's Web, was obviously touched by it.
If you have watched the movie, you know it is about a talking spider and how she inspires and helps a little pig, Wilbur, find out who he is. She helps him step into his destiny.
When I posted this comment on my facebook page, "A little girl just called me "Charlotte"; I think I like it," I didn't know what would transpire.
My friend Anne Stock from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had asked me to come and be the speaker at their women's conference. I did not know that they would use this facebook comment and turn it into the title for that conference. When I got to Harrisburg for the conference, I found in my room the brochure, and it was all done in facebook form. Included in this brochure was the facebook conversation of me posting that comment. The first responder was Anne, and she had insight into what the little girl had done in giving me that name.
The name of the conference was called Charlottes Unite. It was a conference for connection women, encouraging each other in who we were.
At the end of the conference, Anne was speaking and sharing about a gal who had at one time written down 1,000 things that she was thankful for. While she spoke, she had us begin to write things down that we were thankful for. As I began to write, I could feel a good feeling coming on me and on others in the room. The very room was changing its atmosphere.
There is something about being thankful that changes everything around us. Being thankful is a very easy thing. It is a choice that we make every day and at times, every minute. It's simple: if you want to change the air around you and change your heart, choose to be thankful.
I wrote down simple things that would come to my memory. Things like picking blackberries, making jam, watching my husband catch a fish and the look on his face when he does, watching little girls play pretend. As I began to write, I realized there is so much to be thankful for. This will not be hard, writing down a thousand things. So, when I got home, I decided I would do that.
I really like facebook and post many things on there. So I posted on my facebook that I had started writing down 1,000 things I'm thankful for. Many people responded. One gal came up with a plan. I like it when people come up with a good plan. She decided that she would do it, too, but would turn it into a 40-day thankfulness. Every day for 40 days she would write down 25 things that she was thankful for. What a great idea. I decided to join in that plan. So, I'm into my third day and am excited to see what will be put to paper today. Another day of thankfulness—can't beat that. You should think about that, and when you do, you will start seeing in your head those things that you are thankful for. For me, they are things like seeing one of my trees bloom in spring, boys eating worms, baby chicks, the contrast between the blue sky and the green grass.
So start writing, and change your day. Let's walk in thankfulness.
Charlottes, let's unite and bring thankfulness wherever we go and start a chain reaction all around us.
Yay!! This is going to be fun.
This is so good. Today there was bad news... As I drove home with tears in my eyes, I began to be intentionally thankful. My list was short because it occurred to me on my last turn but I think there were a hand-full of thanks for what did not go wrong and for knowing what we were up against. This blog is such a confirmation. 25 a day sounds possible.
What a fabulous idea! I might suggest it to my Kingdom Training Classmates on Tuesday. We have a little over 40 days of classes left! I love this post! Thank you for sharing your precious heart!
One of my favorite parts of this blog was this one: "One gal came up with a plan. I like it when people come up with a good plan."
I am the same exact way Momma Beni!! Another reason I know why God chose you to be my momma. hehehe. Anyway, when I read that I realized I love when people around me come up with plans and then I help them with their plan--it makes me come alive---i'm not the initial idea bringer-i'm made to help...random comment. I am also thankful for this blog...another connection point with one of my hero's insight on life and how they live it. I love the internet!! i guess i'm thankful for that too! love you. Great job girl!!!!!
A conference for connection women? I've never heard of such a thing. Darla & I were talking about being connectors the last time I saw her. I love that. Also love the thankfulness fast, I might use that on a smaller scale with my kids.
Welcome to Blogland! Looking forward to you sharing.
Love it. Love you. You are real.
Thanks Beni...love this. I'm off to do my 3rd list...my second list ended at #54...because I like that number.
Beni, this is a great idea. I try to get up each morning with thankfulness expressed to God, but this is deeper and more lasting. I will begin today.
I appreciate you encouraging women the way you do--well, you do everyone--but I think women especially need encouragement.
This is wonderful. I love things that keep my life focused on all the amazing things and keep me feasting on the tree of Life. Thanks Beni.
I am so glad you are writing a blog now! You have so mich insight, I will be a regular reader for sure.
I'm going to start 1,000 things to be thankful for on Monday! I'm excited to see where this goes :) love ya lady!
Love it, thankfulness is so important in our lives.
Love the fact that thankfulness changes the atmosphere in us and in our environment. Note to self:- be thankful in the night hours when I can't sleep.
I am thankful for this great idea! My take is this...if I do this first thing in the morning it will set a thankful tone for the entire day.
Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.
When I am grumpy and negative all seems to fall down around me, but if I change my attitude, (even when I don't want to), my situation changes around me.
I've been doing something similar to this for the last year or two, counting a minimum of five reasons to smile or five things I'm thankful for each day. It has made a huge difference in my life and has definitely changed atmospheres for me.
I like your new Blog :) Blessings!
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Dear Abby: We recently bought a new home and have discovered that our elderly neighbors are caring for their grandson's dog. The dog lives in a 3-by-6-foot area right next to our patio. The poor animal receives little attention and is rarely cleaned up after. As a consequence, our patio reeks of dog feces, and we are overwhelmed by flies.
I feel bad for the couple, and I resent the grandson for allowing his dog to be neglected and for failing to have any consideration for the stench that makes our patio off-limits to us. How can I politely ask my new neighbors to clean up after their dog so we can enjoy our new home without offending them or creating a bad neighbor situation?
— "Shoo Fly" in Bakersfield, Calif.
Dear Shoo Fly: If your neighbors are unable to properly care for their grandson's dog, they shouldn't have it. A dog is a responsibility — the animal needs feeding, exercise, social contact and to be cleaned up after. To shirk that responsibility is cruel.
It would not be offensive to inform these neighbors that the odor and flies from their dog run are so overwhelming that they prevent you from enjoying your patio. Speak up, or they'll think you haven't noticed. If this continues, call animal control or a pet rescue group.
Dear Abby: I have been in a rocky relationship for 10 months, and I'm not sure how you get out. I have tried multiple times to leave, but every time I tell her, she begs me not to, says horrible things and threatens to kill herself. She says she'll never be happy again, that I "always do this" and it hurts her so much. It makes me feel so bad I just give in and give her what she wants.
She doesn't trust me. I have to give her all of my passwords and she checks my phone daily. She has to know everything I'm doing, and if I don't tell her, look out! The next world war is going to happen. I have told her many times that if she can't trust me, there's no way we can be together because it will make a miserable life for both of us.
Her constant worrying whether I'm going to leave her is starting to get to me. I really can't take this anymore. I have considered some extreme things to get out because I'm so unhappy, and I know she is, too. I have tried everything. Please help me.
Dear Stuck: It is time you realize that you can't fix what's wrong with this woman. Her insecurities are a bottomless pit. You have described a hostage relationship, not a loving one.
So pack your things and get out of there now. If she threatens suicide and you know how to contact her family, alert them after you have gone. But do not pause, do not explain and do not look back. Your safety and your sanity depend upon it.


I have multiple Vera's. One at a vacation home. I just found out the other day the vacation home is offline. I haven't been out there yet to see whats going on.
Whats the easiest way to check in on that Vera and send me an alert when It looses online connection to me.
Can I have one Vera ping the other and send me an alert if the other doesn't respond? If so how would that be done?
I don't have a remote Vera but I do have my local Vera setup to ping some important connections such as my Internet router, my ISP's Gateway, the Alarm System Gateway, my SysLog server, the tablets around the house used for home control, etc. Depending on the function these are polled from every 15 seconds to every 60 seconds using the Ping Sensor Plugin. Notifications are sent depending on the criticality of the connection.
Or have it send you something (an alert or notification attached to something that happens daily) every day.
No alert that day, you may have a problem.
Well I haven't been known to be the brightest bulb..... But for some reason I can't get this to work right. I went back to just testing a local ip of my main computer which is 192.168.1.100. I set poll sec. To 15. And I'm not really sure what to set time out sec. It was at 0 then I set it at 15. It never seems to change for me. Always red. I do have it on armed and normal. Any thoughts? I'm sure it's a simple mistake.
Try setting it to "Invert", all of mine are set that way and everything is fine.
Thanks, I did figure out I like the Invert on colors seem better for me that way.
My real problem is right now is looks like I can't ping a port.
So while I'm away my WAN IP is only one number. But with port forwarding I have access to each camera, Each wireless Access point, Blueiris and much more. The way it's working now I can only tell if my WAN is up or not and not if a particular device is running.
If I had 2 Veras in one location and one went down this would work. But 2 devices in one location and modem or router down I would get no alert. So doesn't help me much.
Anyone Have any Ideas? I don't really don't want to get an "OK" message everyday just to see if its up.
First be very careful of Port forwarding! Second, it may be easier to create a scene on each Vera to write a variable say a time stamp to the other Vera. Have a scene check that time stamp if it's older than a certain time.
Unfortunately that's the way PING works :-) You might be able to work out something using HTTPS requests in LUA code talking directly the device or via MiOS forwarders?
Anyone have a new or better idea on this? Had power go out at the vacation house last week sometime.
I would like to get an alert when it goes offline rather then finding out a week or more later when I happen to physically log into vera and can't get a connection.
The problem is that when the power goes out, so most likely does your vera and router. Ergo, no power, no notification.
At one time, someone made a plugin for UI4 that allowed Vera to communicate with a UPS. Which would be just what you need.
If power returns and UPS is till powering Vera she could send a 'power back' notification. Not sure how you coudl do that if the outage is longer than your UPS battery lasts.
I'm unsure where that plugin went and if it's even compatible with UI5 or even UI6.
Have Vera, your internet router and the DD-WRT router on UPS but have the IP camera directly connected to the mains. Using the geofencing script, if the camera disconnects from the routee, you can assume power failed. The script will trigger a (multi)switch plugin on Vera which can then send you a notification. An added benefit would be that you can use the camera to look at your vacation home.
I use this solution with my cell so Vera knows when I come home and leave. It also pings my main server and my ISP's DNS server.
I'm gonna add one of my camera's so I can use it as a 'power outage' detector as described above.
I think your on the wrong track. I don't need the vera that's down to report to me. I have more then one vera in different locations. Would be easier to use the vera that has power and internet to check in with the other and if no response report to me.
Internet down the communication to UPS wouldn't help me.
I have posted many times in the DDWRT post and currently use that on multiple routers in both houses for home away.
What I really need is a way to use my DDWRT from one house to ping the vera from the other house. Problem like above is a can't ping anything but the router as you can't ping ports. Anyone know away (script) to use the MIOS servers to try and see if the vera is online.
There are quite a few different ways you could go about this, but most involve things like playing with advanced networking concepts, VPN protocols, etc.
1. Go get yourself a very cheap VPS host (I'm a FreeBSD person myself, but places like vr.org will give you a basic VPS server for $10/month).
3. On your vacation home's Vera 3, setup a cron job that fires off a script that connects to the VPS host with SSH and updates the timestamp/data of a file on the system.
4. On your system at home, setup another cron job to fetch this remote file and compare timestamps. If the timestamps are off than say x+y minutes (x = the update interval of the Vera in your vacation home, y = how much of a time difference you are willing to tolerate before generting an alert), raise an alert.
3. Are willing to pay $10 (or whatever nominal fee) for a VPS host to basically act as a file server for a single file.
Setup tunneling between your two networks (home and vacation house).
You can use a VPN protocol and put the networks on separate subnets.
Never used VPS before. May or may not be over my head at this point. I'm still thinking that there has to be an easier way and or a way without a monthly hosting fee. Going by your theory of time stamps and such. I'm thinking of a new idea.
What about a having one vera flip a virtual switch on the the other vera every so often. Then using pleg to say if this switch doesn't get flipped (ture) after more then X minutes then its down.
Other thing would also be a count down timer. I use Richards timers already. I would have the timer set to so many min. and the other vera needs to keep reseting it, if it fails to reset it then time runs out and sends me an alert.
I ofcourse would like to know as soon as possible when its down so I don't know whats a good check in time. 24 hours seems ideal for load, but of course I would like every min.
Maybe have a scene trigger every hour to send a HTTP command threw mios to the other Vera to flip the switch?
Well I did it. I'm not sure repercussion is doing it the way I did, but it works. Maybe resource hog? Looking for opinions, other options and comments on this.
So on my vacation house VERA I setup a scene to run every 5 min. and it runs this luup code which turns on a virtual multiswitch on my other vera.
On my daily home vera I used an existing multiswitch (Device #81 and button #7) and set the multiswitch to PULSE button #7 (flip it back off as soon as it turns on).
Then I used PLEG to send me an alert if Button #7 hasn't been turned on (or been off more then) within the last 5.5min.
I'm instrested to see or know the negative effects on running a scene or HTTP every 5 min. If there is none I would like to bump it up to 1 min. Is there is strain then I could knock it down to every hour or 24 hours.


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{
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EV Cargo's Palletforce SuperHub shortlisted as Heathrow Logistics Hub
May 10, 2019	Supply Chain
Palletforce's Burton upon Trent SuperHub has been named as one of 18 shortlisted sites that remain in the running to help deliver the expansion at Heathrow Airport. Part of the EV Cargo group, the UK's largest privately-owned logistics business, the state-of-the-art Palletforce SuperHub is perfectly placed in the centre of …
Freight forwarders welcome MPs' backing for the expansion of Heathrow Airport … but doubts remain
June 27, 2018	Supply Chain
Speaking after yesterday's parliamentary vote in favour of the National Policy Statement for Heathrow expansion, Robert Keen, Director General of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) said: "Whilst BIFA welcomes the positive news from Parliament yesterday, today's media coverage of the obstacles that the project still faces leave me with …
Hoppecke helps British Airways to boost efficiency and reduce emissions
June 13, 2018	Power and Fuel
Innovative technology from energy management specialist Hoppecke Industrial Batteries is helping British Airways to prepare aircraft for departure more efficiently and more environmentally-friendly than has previously been possible. Leading the way in reducing the carbon footprint in the aerospace sector, British Airways – working in partnership with Heathrow Airport – …
Great Britain – Northern Ireland trade deserves better road support says FTA
February 4, 2018	Supply Chain
The Freight Transport Association FTA, which represents logistics operators on both sides of the Irish Sea, is calling on the government to prioritise the infrastructure deficit leading to and from Loch Ryan, which handles approximately 45% of Northern Ireland's trade with the rest of the UK. "Trading conditions are already …
Government delays threatens break in UK supply chain says FTA
January 5, 2018	Supply Chain
The UK's logistics industry is demanding that the Government publishes the results of its Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)'s recommendations on the future role of European workers in the UK immediately, instead of waiting until its proposed publication date next year. According to the Freight Transport Association FTA , waiting until …
Time to end congestion at Heathrow's cargo centre says BIFA
November 1, 2017	Shipping and Containers, Supply Chain
Ever increasing air cargo volumes at Heathrow are only exacerbating age-old problems for companies that have to use the airport's cargo centre, widely known as the horseshoe, says the head of the UK's trade association for freight forwarders. Robert Keen, the British International Freight Association's BIFA Director General says: "Congestion …
New Heathrow runway support a win win says CILT
October 25, 2016	Supply Chain
The Government's decision to support the provision of an additional runway at Heathrow should be made into a 'win-win' situation for all parties, claims The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) after today's announcement. Paul Le Blond, Chair, Aviation Policy Group, CILT says: 'The end to uncertainty over airports …
If it's not Heathrow then it's Dover for freight shipments, warns FTA
Failure to keep Britain connected with its world markets through a global hub airport will see freight imports and exports passing through the Channel ports to be flown via European airports in future, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) warned today. Speaking to delegates at the Richmond Events Supply Chain Forum, …
Heathrow expansion must be part of PM's post-Brexit vision says FTA
The Freight Transport Association FTA says the Government must back a third runway at Heathrow if the Prime Minister's vision of a global post-Brexit Britain is to become a reality. Writing to Theresa May's Cabinet ahead of the anticipated announcement, FTA urged members to make a prompt decision in favour …
Confront, don't duck decision on Heathrow expansion, say UK forwarders
The trade association that represents the UK's freight forwarding and logistics businesses is concerned that last week's news that the UK will leave the EU and that David Cameron will resign as Prime Minister will lead to further procrastination over the expansion of UK aviation capacity. Robert Keen, Director General …


Do you ever have one of those episodes with your children where you wonder, "When is he going to stop doing this?" Your child does something weird, aggravating, or just won't grow out of a phase? Wish you had someone there to give you the help and advice you're seeking? Well, your in luck. Breezy Mama is very excited to introduce our Question of the Day piece. A simple (ha!) parenting question with the answer you need. Even more exciting is who will be doing the answering. . . Dr. Fran Walfish, who is an Expert in Parents Magazine's "Ask Our Experts" column, has agreed to become our "Question of the Day" expert! So send us your questions (alex@breezymama.com) and Dr. Walfish will answer it in a future Breezy post. Now on to today's question. . .
When do children understand that they can't have "instant gratification"? For example, while in the car, my 4 year old daughter asked to have a snack. I replied that I didn't have any food with me, yet she kept asking, over and over again, working herself up into a tantrum. What advice can you give for this?
Your question poses a bit of added factors – hunger and fatigue. When your child is hungry and asking for a snack it's extra hard to wait. Hunger can lower blood sugar and make tired, as well. She repeated her demand for "instant gratification" of food over and over which was her way of telling you she couldn't take no for an answer. Each time she demanded food it reminded her of what she was not getting. Her anger and frustration is what escalated into the tantrum. Once you have an out-of-control 4 year-old you must first help her settle down. Pull the car over and turn off the ignition for safety. Join her in the backseat of the car and hold her physically and supportively to contain her. This helps her keep a lid on her rage. Tell her you understand she is mad at Mommy for not having food and snacks in the car. Encourage her to tell you about her strong feelings. Let her know that next time you will be sure to keep a stash of snacks in the car.


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Posts Tagged 'Donna Nevel'
What About Palestine?
Published in TIKKUN September 23, 2019 https://www.tikkun.org/what-about-palestine
The President claimed recently that Jews are disloyal to Israel and the Jewish people for voting Democrat because, in his view, the Democratic party is disloyal to Israel. Underlying Trump's cheerleading for loyalty to Israel is his hostility towards the Palestinian people and those calling for Palestinian rights. If we look at the actions that preceded his recent remarks, we can understand them best in the context of his and the Administration's unequivocal backing of the Israeli government; support for continued theft/annexation of Palestinian land; consistent anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic positions; and relentless attacks on Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two pro-Palestinian rights, pro-justice, Muslim Congresswomen (whom the President said Israel shouldn't allow into its country).
Following his remarks, a barrage of articles and tweets characterized them as anti-Semitic, asserting that the language he used was reminiscent of long-time smears accusing Jews of having "dual loyalty," that is, of not being sufficiently loyal to the countries in which they lived (and, since the creation of Israel, of being more loyal to Israel than to their own countries).
Adalah-NY: Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
Many groups decried Trump's remarks about Jewish disloyalty but ignored the abusive, anti-Palestinian policies underlying his comments. The clearly anti-Palestinian significance of his remarks and the Administration's obvious disdain for Palestinians were lost or side-lined in most of these discussions. That is, accusations of his anti-Semitism took center stage with little focus on the US government's ongoing assaults on the Palestinian people and those supporting their struggle for freedom.
We can also not ignore the irony and hypocrisy of many who called out the President for his comments. His remarks are not markedly different from what is said regularly by numbers of American Jewish organizations. They too assume that "good" Jews support and are invested in the state of Israel. They too make it a practice to attack Jews who support Palestinian rights. In fact, Jews working in solidarity for justice in Palestine are all too familiar with being accused of "disloyalty" (to Israel and to the Jewish people), or with being called "self-hating" Jews or–even–kapos, by some of these organizations and supporters of Israel.
Trump's remarks did not quite fit into the dual loyalty trope as it is generally understood. His comments assume alignment between the U.S. (right wing) and Israel in which loyalty to the Republican Party ultimately means "proper" loyalty both to the U.S. and Israel, whose interests are understood to overlap. Many Jewish organizations also consider their unwavering support for Israel to be in full alignment with their support for the U.S. (whether as Democrats or Republicans). This framing reflects the anti-Palestinian politics that have been pervasive within both parties.
U.S. Administrations have played a major role in supporting Israel's historic and ongoing brutality toward the Palestinian people. Today's Administration is no exception and is continuing, and furthering, this policy full-force and with tremendous cruelty.
Why is it that so many groups and commentators have seized the opportunity to criticize Trump's anti-Semitism but have avoided calling out his anti-Palestinian policies? That criticism seems to suggest that, while Trump's anti-Semitism is considered beyond the pale, on the flip side, the anti-Palestinian violence he is enabling isn't considered deserving of criticism.
The public conversation around Trump's comments focused on the charge of dual loyalty, but paid little attention to how these accusations of "disloyal" (self-hating) Jews are a direct response to support for the Palestinian-led movement for justice. As this movement for Palestinian rights continues to grow across the country and globally, both Republicans and Democrats will be faced with ongoing resistance to US support for a grave injustice of our time—Israel's ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people who have the right to live in dignity and with full justice in their homeland.
ABOUT DONNA NEVEL
Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and educator, is a founding member of Facing the Nakba and Jews Say No! and was co-founder, with Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
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International Law, Seeking Justice, and the Great March of Return in Gaza
During Israel's creation, over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled temporarily to save themselves from the violence. Palestinian refugees and their descendants around the world continue to be denied their right of return as stipulated in a 1948 UN resolution. Why won't Israel let them return to their homes? What can be done to achieve peace with justice?
Speakers: Bina Ahmad (social justice attorney, public defender, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Steering Committee, Food Empowerment Project Advisory Board), Jamil Dakwar (human rights lawyer and adjunct professor at John Jay College and Hunter College), Donna Nevel (community psychologist, Facing the Nakba Project, Jews Say No!; Jews Against Anti-Muslim Racism). Moderated by Riham Barghouti (founder of Adalah-NY: Campaign for the Boycott of Israel)
September 26, 2018 @The Brooklyn Commons
Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace; bfp@brooklynpeace.orgbrooklynpeace.org 718-624-5921
Co-sponsors: Adalah-NY: Campaign for the Boycott of Israel;, Al-Awda NY, All Souls Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East; Arab Muslim American Federation; Committee to Stop FBI Repression; Fort Greene Peace; International Action Center, Jewish Voice for Peace/NYC, Jews Say No!; Jews for Palestinian Right of Return; JVP-Westchester; Learning for the Empowerment and Advancement of Palestinians; Peace Action New York State; Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network; Tree of Life Educational Fund; USA Palestine Mental Health Network; Women in Black Union Square; World Can't Wait
Tags:Bina Ahmad, Donna Nevel, Gaza, Great March of Return, Israel, Jamil Dakwar, Palestine, Right of Return, Riham Barghouti
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Discussion of Palestinian Right of Return – September 26 – Brooklyn
Tags:Bina Ahmad, Donna Nevel, Jamil Dakwar, Palestine, Right of Return
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New York City Council hearing on BDS
The two sides of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement squared off in New York's City Hall on Thursday, with BDS activists disrupting a hearing where city council members discussed a resolution condemning BDS. The resolution doesn't add penalties, but displays a hostility to a non-violent act of free speech, BDS supporters say.
Click to read Resolution 1058-2016 or see the wording after Donna's testimony below.
Testimony of Jane Hirschmann and Donna Nevel before the New York City council on 9/8/16
My name is Jane Hirschmann and I am representing a group called Jews Say No! We are a NYC based group of Jews who stand up for human rights and justice in Palestine. We believe that it is in the best tradition of the Jewish people to criticize, argue, think and think some more about issues of justice and fairness and to protest human rights abuses where they exist. Indeed for many of us that is one of the main lessons of the Holocaust. Also as Jews we have a particular obligation to speak out concerning Israel, which purports to speak for Jews everywhere.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors anti-Semitism concerns me deeply. But to suggest as this resolution does, that the BDS movement is anti-Semitic or an attempt to delegitimize Israel is unfounded rhetoric and defamatory. This resolution and similar ones nationwide have been promoted by the Israeli lobby and segments of this community to distract people from the real issues at hand—Israel's human rights abuses and blatant disregard for the law. This resolution is based on the premise that if you protest the inhumane behavior and policies of a nation state, you are delegitimizing that state, and in the case of Israel, you are anti-Semitic.
The United Nations and several International courts have made it very clear that Israel is in violation of international law. These violations include the 60 year illegal occupation of the West Bank; the illegal settlement expansion which contravenes long standing U.S. policy and hinders any serious peace effort; the theft of Palestinian lands; the blockade of Gaza and the horrific slaughter of thousands of Gaza civilians, to name just a few. Protesting and boycotting Israel for its lawlessness and violence against the Palestinians is not anti-Semitic. It is pro human rights. Can one criticize a country and their abuses without saying that those engaged in this criticism are either delegitimizing the country or, as in this case, are anti-Semitic? In fact, the notion that our protest of Israel's abuses delegitimizes Israel is preposterous. Israel by persistently acting in an illegitimate way is delegitimizing itself. Every time it violates human rights standards, it delegitimizes itself; by occupying the West Bank it delegitimizes itself; by building a wall it delegitimizes itself, by stealing Palestinian homes and water it delegitimizes itself; by destroying Gaza it delegitimizes itself. And I could go on and on.
On the issue of boycotts I ask you to remember the bus boycotts in Montgomery. Did the boycotts delegitimize Alabama or did the racist policies delegitimize the State? Or take the boycott of South Africa for its apartheid policies. Did the boycott delegitimize the country or was it the conduct of that country? What about the most recent boycott initiated by Governor Cuomo against North Carolina over their anti-LGBT law. Was this an attempt on the Governor's part to delegitimize that State or just a peaceful non-violent method to protest and force change by using economic and social pressure?
We in the BDS movement are also using this same time-honored, non-violent method to protest the activities of a nation state—Israel. We are not protesting the Jewish people per se because Israel does not represent nor speak for Jews all over the world. Opposing a country's policy, is not opposing all of its residents nor is it delegitimizing the country. In the case of Israel we are simply joining a growing portion of the International community to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel until it ceases its inhumane treatment of the Palestinians; until the occupation has ended; until the right of return is recognized; and until Palestinians can live in dignity with all the same rights as Israelis.
This Israeli campaign to stifle first amendment activity, including the BDS movement is an attempt to delegitimize our constitution and the city council should not be a party to this.
Jane Hirschmann, one of the co-founders of Jews Say No!
Testimony before the New York City council
Donna Nevel, Board Member, Jewish Voice for Peace
As part of my commitment to speaking out and supporting the movement for justice in Palestine and Israel, I would like to speak about why I consider it my responsibility to stand in support of the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and why I strongly oppose the resolution being put forth today. As a board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national organization dedicated to a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis, I am speaking here to represent the growing numbers of progressive Jews who support this global movement for justice.
The BDS movement is motivated by a call for solidarity from the international community. In 2005, a broad coalition of Palestinian civil society called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and ends its violations of Palestinian rights.
The resolution under discussion shamelessly and shamefully distorts the BDS movement's goals. BDS is about leveraging pressure to compel a state to change its behavior and respect human rights. The BDS movement is not permanent; this pressure is needed only UNTIL Israel complies with basic principles of equality.
BDS has garnered such strong international support among concerned people, including Jews, across the globe because people of conscience oppose decades of denial of a people's basic human and national rights.
One of the false and destructive accusations being made is that it is anti-Semitic to support BDS. This is not only a highly irresponsible accusation, and harmful to those fighting for justice, but it also does an injustice to the reality of actual anti-Semitism when it occurs.
It is not discriminatory in any way to hold a nation-state accountable for its human rights abuses and for violations of international law. There is nothing anti-Semitic about that in any rational definition of anti-Semitism.
There has been a call from Palestinian civil society, whose community is suffering on a daily basis, to join an international effort to hold Israel accountable to changing its behavior. That is ethical; that is a call I embrace.
On a final and personal note, I support the ethical and yes, dignified call for BDS–as a Jew and as a human being committed to justice and to peace. I have always felt—and continue to feel—deeply connected to my community's history of struggle and resistance; of the anti-Semitism and oppression we've endured. In no way is my support for BDS and my deep commitment to justice for Palestinians at odds with that deep connection to my people. In fact, it grows out of my history and life as a Jewish person who grew up learning from my deeply ethical parents to be proud of who I was but to never think I was better than anyone else or any other people, and to fight against injustice whenever and wherever I saw it.
Therefore, I will continue to support BDS with thousands and thousands of others across the globe UNTIL there is a just solution rooted in ending state policies that are discriminatory and anti-democratic and in insuring equal rights and respect and safety for all.
I hope you will reject this very wrong-headed resolution that attempts to trivialize and distort a critical human rights issue.
Resolution condemning all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel.
By Council Member Cohen, Deutsch, Garodnick, Greenfield, Grodenchik, Kallos, Koslowitz, Lancman, Levine, Maisel, Treyger, Rosenthal, Cabrera, Palma, King, Gibson, Gentile, Espinal, Richards, Koo, Vacca, Van Bramer, Vallone, Johnson, Dickens, Borelli, Matteo and Ulrich
Whereas, The Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) is a campaign seeking to exclude the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of humanity; and
Whereas, This movement targets not just the Israeli government but Israeli academic, cultural, and civil society institutions, as well as individual Israeli citizens of all political persuasions, and in some cases even Jews of other nationalities who support Israel; and
Whereas, The Global BDS Movement targets Israel and only Israel, while ignoring the world's myriad despotic regimes; and
Whereas, Israel is far and away the most democratic and open society in the Middle East, with well-established rights for religious minorities, women, and LGBT citizens that far exceeds those of any other nation in the region; and
Whereas, The Global BDS Movement does not recognize the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination; and
Whereas, Some of the BDS Movement's supporters and leaders have trafficked in unacceptable anti-Semitic rhetoric, including comparison of Israeli policy to that of Nazi Germany; and
Whereas, University-based BDS efforts violate the core goals of the university and global cultural development, which thrive on a free and open exchange and debate; and
Whereas, Both Israelis and Palestinians have the right to live in safe and secure states, free from fear and violence, with mutual recognition; and
Whereas, The Global BDS Movement does not support the two-state solution, a goal which can only be reached through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; and
Whereas, Israel is an ally of the United States and has a long-standing relationship with the City of New York; and
Whereas, The City of New York has the largest population of Jewish residents in the nation and is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel; now, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York condemns all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction its government and people.
Tags:BDS, Donna Nevel, Helen Rosenthal, Islamophobia, Jane Hirschmann, Jewish Voice for peace, Jews Say No
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A New Report Shows That the Palestinian Movement is Under Attack in the US
http://www.alternet.org/world/new-report-shows-palestinian-movement-under-attack-us
As Israeli violence against the Palestinian people escalates, support across the globe for justice in Palestine, and calls in this country for the US government and corporations to stop facilitating Israel's gross violations of international law and human rights, are increasingly common-place. However, rather than engage substantively about those well-documented violations, Israel's defenders recklessly and baselessly smear Israel's critics with charges of anti-Semitism, promoting terrorism, and seeking to "delegitimize" Israel.
It's a tactic of long standing. For as long as I can remember, the Israeli government has had a well-orchestrated hasbara (propaganda) campaign directed at those who protest Israel's unjust treatment of the Palestinian people. More recently, with the growth of the movement to hold Israeli accountable for its human rights violations through Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), these attacks have intensified dramatically. They are being fueled with enormous sums of money and resources from the Israeli government, some American Jewish organizations, and the likes of Sheldon Adelson and others.
These campaigns are largely directed at college campuses where consistent, bold, and creative organizing is ongoing against Israel actions and against university complicity in supporting Israeli crimes. Those whose views are considered unacceptable to Israel's supporters have been targeted with personal and ad hominem attacks that include, but are not limited to, intimidation, campaigns to get professors fired, and ongoing harassment. When speaking on college campuses, I was told story after story of students who were hesitant to speak out because of fear of reprisals. Further, accusations of "creating hostile environments" or being "uncivil–ironic as they are—are yet another attempt to derail the call for equality, for accountability, and for fairness.
Last week, Palestine Legal [1] and the Center for Constitutional Rights [2] (CCR), which work with students and academics throughout the US, released a report ("The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US" [3]) that systematically documents the growing suppression, on US campuses, of advocacy on behalf of Palestinian human rights. Describing nearly 300 incidents of such suppression in a period of a year and a half, the report describes false accusations of anti-Semitism and terrorism; baseless legal complaints and administrative disciplinary actions; firings of professors; and ongoing harassment and intimidation targeted at students and scholars across the country.
The report calls on university administrators, as well as federal and state lawmakers, to remember that universities are places in which vigorous debate on issues of public policy is expected and should be encouraged; that criticism of Israel, a nation state, is not the same as anti-Semitism; and where First Amendment rights must be scrupulously safeguarded. The report specifically calls on administrators to listen to students on their campus who are victims of such tactics and to insure that all legislative and governmental bodies—including the State Department and Office of Civil Rights—are vigilant in distinguishing criticism of Israeli policies from anti-Semitism.
At the same time as the CCR and Palestine Legal have released their report, Jewish Voice for Peace [4], which works for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel, has also released a report ("Stifling Dissent: How Israel's Defenders Use False Charges of Anti-Semitism to Limit the Debate on Campus") [5] describing attempts by Israel's supporters to control debate about Israel and Palestine on US campuses. It particularly documents the ways that Muslim and Arab students are being targeted. JVP's report discusses at length the bullying tactics (toward those speaking out against Israeli policies) being employed by a range of American Jewish organizations; how Israel support groups are abusing student government, as well as changing and creating policies and regulations, to silence debate; and the smear campaigns against faculty through battles over hiring and tenure. As part of the report, an overview is provided of the Jewish organizations that participate and promote such tactics. At the report's end, recommendations are offered for insuring that these tactics are not allowed to rule the day along with descriptions of organizations that can offer resources and support when needed.
Both reports make clear that the movement for justice for the Palestinian people is growing not just on campuses but nation-wide—in fact, world-wide—and that universities must resist, not participate in promoting and supporting, unethical and illegal strategies to silence debate and, worse, destroy those who have the courage to act with integrity and speak out against Israeli brutality.
Donna Nevel is a founding member of Jews Say No!, is on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace and is a member of the coordinating committee of the Nakba Education Project US.
[1] http://palestinelegal.org/
[2] https://ccrjustice.org/
[3] http://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception
[4] http://jvp.org/
[5] https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/stifling-dissent/
Tags:anti-Semitism, BDS, Center for Constitutional Rights, Donna Nevel, Hasbara, Human Rights, Israel, Jewish Voice for peace, Nakba Education Project, Palestine, Palestine Legal, Sheldon Adelson
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Under HB 1107, a state-funded domestic violence shelter could turn away a single mother and her child, a homeless shelter receiving taxpayer funding could turn away an LGBT couple, or a hotel could refuse to rent a room to an unmarried couple seeking a place to stay after their car has broken down. In short, it is a dangerous bill that would create real harm for real people in the state.
For more about the reasons we oppose this bill, including that it violates the U.S. Constitution, check out the letter we sent to the members of the Senate Committee.
Unfortunately, South Dakota is not the only state moving a FADA bill. Last week, Virginia's House passed its version of a FADA, HB 773. And earlier this week, the Virginia Senate General Laws and Technology Committee merged that bill with SB 41, a bill allowing government officials to refuse to solemnize weddings.
And, of course, Georgia's Senate just adopted its FADA, HB 757, last Friday. Since then, businesses, including the telecom industry, auto manufacturers, the film industry, have spoken out. So have chambers of commerce, business groups, and editorial boards.
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I conditioned my bales with blood meal and waited to plant. We did have a few cold nights but not freezing. Tomatos are trying to grow but most blossoms fall off and leaves are curling and small. Bales are moist,I have lots of runoff water.I have tried less water, more water, fertilizer. They get lots of sun. Should I just start over?
I must protest very strongly against "straw bale gardening". This must be the worst case of "Wasting Water" I have ever come across.It also comes across as a gimiky overuse of bales to grow a few plants on top of a straw bale when the bale can be broken open and used as a mulch on a far biger or smaller area to "Save water".The straw then becomes part of the ongoing sustainable growing medium as it rots down. By the way the straw also acts as a warm blanket in the cooler months. Please sensible gardeners think before you gimic.
Rather looks like some sort of chemical problem, has there been any spraying nearby? What about spray residue in the soil or bale? Or the fertilizer was too strong possibly.
It might take a while for those plants to ever come good, so starting over might be best.
Thanks Bill t, that's a good point, and I've amended my website page straw bale gardening.
You'll see I've put a warning box there with a note about being water wise and using the strawbale method only when there are limited other options for a decent garden.
I don't feel this is a gimmick I feel this is a great option. I am newly disabled and I can't work my "regular" garden. Last year I put 4 container pots and grew just a few things. Also I will eventually want raised bed gardens for myself however this year I am still to hurt and more importantly to broke to do a proper raised bed yet so that being said I can still have my first love which is growing my families food but I can also adapt this "bale" garden for my needs and my money needs. When the straw hay ect breaks down to much I can reuse it for other things so it's a repurpose and recycle situation = win win ...and lastly the watering NEED for this project is EASILY remedied with a little imagination....people just need to think outside the box! Ok thanks for the article and anyone who doesn't agree should just keep doing things the way they do agree with instead of putting other people down!!!
I've been using straw bale gardening to build the soil at the base of my sloped front yard. I have constructed an outer barrier to support the bales so that they don't slump onto the sidewalk.
At the start of each growing season, I push the composted dirt into a series of piles, then use about 1/3 to 1/4 of a bale to fill in each of the gaps.
Honestly, I don't grow a whole lot in the bales themselves, mostly flowers or ground cover plants, but the compost in between is Dynamite!
This seems to do a good job of keeping things moist. I should set up a drip system to further conserve H2O, (someday!) but overall, things seem pretty happy. Using mulch or leftover straw between plants has also been a pretty successful moisture-retention strategy.
I know I'm lucky to be able to garden in a region with such abundant rainfall, and I'm sure I'd need to alter my system if I lived in a more parched region.
It's not that excessive. A lot of people have poor or (potentially) toxic soil, or very little soil at all, so they can't plant in the ground. Any kind of container gardening uses more water, and raised beds of any kind do as well.
Most people waste more water daily in the house than they'd use in straw bale gardening.
I'd rather encourage people to try straw bale gardening than to worry about the slight increase in water usage. Skip flushing your toilet every time you pee and you'll save more water than you use with straw bales.
I had not had much luck with growing vegetables until I tried this method. WOW! It is easy, no weeding, no bending, no digging. Watering is no issue as I am not watering any more than I water other plants in the yard. Rain barrels are the answer for many of us.
Although I am a huge fan and am experiencing great yields and healthy plants (heirloom tomatoes, cukes, bell peppers) in Wisconsin, my son who is an avid gardener in Vermont and has always raised most of his produce tried straw bales this year and he is really frustrated. Plants are barely alive, growing slowly, yellow. I think he may have planted while bales were too hot? What are some other ideas about why he is having no luck?
Anyway, I am never going back! No gimmick. Simple success!
We started with 2 plus year old bales and that for us was the success ticket. In the high desert of central Oregon the new bales (even the conditioned ones) would not work well... but the aged bales are the best.
If water use is an issue, why not wrap the bales? re-used plastic wrapped around the bales should keep in most of the water that otherwise runs off. Granted, plastic is not everyone's idea of beauty, but I don't think the plastic need to go all the way up the bales, just underneath and up to the first string should make a 'bathtub'. Use transparent plastic to see waterlevel in the tub. Bags from mattresses and the like should easily be big enough.
I have grown on straw bales inside a greenhouse and outside. by using strawbales I use one layer of plastic to cover my greenhouse.
I did this in NW Ontario, Canada.
I used black plastic and wrap the bales and framed them with wood slabs from a sawmill.
The first soaking is where it took a most of the water.
I put 6" of soil on top of the bales and this help conserve water.
The ones I did outdoors I put a tent over and the warmth of the bales extended my season by 3 weeks on each end.
Usually have a frost by Labor day.
Never had a problem with any vegetables.
I have done something similar in the past which worked very well. We built a raised bed with wood rounds stood up on end, I live in the woods so that was easy. I'm sure you could replicate this with any type of raised bed, that's just what I had to work with. The raised bed can be any height as you stand the rounds on end. We did not dig them in, but that would probably work better. We filled the raised bed with alfalfa hay, which is very high in nitrogen and has enzymes in it that suppress weed growth. We placed about four to six inches of soil on top and planted directly in the soil. The plants were extremely happy! There was no transplant shock. They didn't require as much water as planting directly in soil, pots, etc. The alfalfa hay breaks down very quickly when soil is placed on top, one experiment I did with placing soil on top of the alfalfa showed me that the alfalfa broke down to beautiful, dark, rich soil in about two months or less.
Bale gardening is not a "gimmick" or a waste of water. Give me a break. Like another poster I am disabled and doing bale gardening has been wonderful for me. It has been something I can manage and enjoy. Being outside in the sunshine and doing something useful and productive has helped me so much. I love going outside each morning to see the progress.
I have radishes, onions, tomatoes. peppers, garlic, cucumbers, carrots, cantaloupe, squash, zucchini, and chives. The watermelon isn't doing so great, but oh well. It is hanging in there, I found a nifty little trellis to guide the plant vines. I also found some free pallets to put the bales on to give a little more added height and drainage.
what needs to not be in your straw ???
I don't think you need to worry about any leftover chemicals with straw bales. Any weed or herbicide residues would have long gone once the bales are baled. And when you condition the bales all that heat and water will have made the bales pretty much okay. Never had a problem and I've never known whether the bales come from organic farms or not.
We are new to this and are having success but today I noticed some wierd looking bubble things beside my tomato plant. Loks like gray ticks but aren't, just squushy. Any ideas?
When you are trying to start a new garden in Caliche desert "soil",clay, etc, growing healthy vegetables is not always possible. (Also, the ground may have been poisoned by pesticide or chemicals in some areas) But, you can do so with straw or hay bales. Once my bales were conditioned, there was little if any run off when watered properly. If you are concerned about water conservation, wrap your bales with something, even cardboard, and hold it in place with twine or wire. The next year, put another bale right on top of the first one....you'll be building super soil.
Those squishy grey bugs -are they spittle bugs?
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I had a great first year with this method last summer! Our soil is poor and our season is short and we were impressed at higher yields from planting in soil. I started some new bales for this year. I'm using hay again and was hoping to plant something in last season's bales. They are pretty broken down. I've heard that you can plant potatoes. What else would do well?
Not sure about potatoes because the growing tubers have a habit of poking up out of the soil and you need to cover them to stop the light turning them green and poisonous.
Loose straw itself is great for this, pile it on your growing spuds. But maybe not so easy to do on a strawbale.
For ideas on what to grow and more info click strawbales.
What to Plant in loose last year bales?
"They are pretty broken down. I've heard that you can plant potatoes. What else would do well?"
Actually, potatoes would be perfect, but other than that...just about anything.
How did the hay work out for you? Was it fresh hay? If so, how long did it take to be "conditioned"? Wanna explain how you did it? The reason I'm asking is that I'm considering using hay bales as opposed to straw, which have become scarce in my neck of the desert.
HI, I'm using it this year too, I have a new to me garden spot that needs seasoning and testing.
The "inventor" of straw bales gardening is Joel Karsten. I got his most recent book at the library. It is excellent for answering all questions and speculations. He's a life long farmer growing up on his family's farm and has a degree or two as well.He tells a wonderful story. Anyway, I think that's the place to start.
I'm planning to use a drip hose too, which is the way to go for water conservation.
Intrepid soul, read the instructions for ideal straw bales effect by the originator of the method: Joel Kristen. I picked up his second Straw Bale Gardens Complete at the library. He is bright, congenial and talented, along with being a 2nd or 3rd generation farmer. To boot,he has a degree in agriculture or some such thing. It is an inspired read. Of course, a drip hose is essential to my m8nd, but so is the way you orient your bale. Great read. You can polish off instructions in one or two evenings. You may find more time perusing and studying is really helpful and down right fun!


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Exploring the lives and experiences of the families of British nuclear test veterans.
It is exactly twenty years since the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CNTBT) in 1996, a treaty which prohibited all explosive nuclear testing for both civilian and military purposes. Whilst the lives of the nuclear test veterans have been rigorously explored within the quantitative sciences, there has been limited prior academic research of the nuclear veteran family community within the social science domain.
A single relevant USA small-scale cohort study was produced 25 years ago, which examined the responses of atomic veterans and their families to radiation exposure by an in-depth interview approach (Murphy et.al. 1990). However the culture and society of the USA is not comparable to the British experience; and the scope and depth of this study is limited.
The Nuclear Families project will provide a contemporary approach to understand the lives of the families of British nuclear test veterans. The project will combine methodologies across the social and human sciences to explore this unique group. A new review of relevant literature will provide objective historical and social context to the study. A series of semi-structured interviews will be implemented to tackle themes pertaining to well-being, welfare, family dynamics, mental health, disability and stigma. Focus groups will be conducted to gain insights into group dynamics, thoughts and feelings, within the context of the cohort gaze. Finally, an ethnographic approach will provide a uniquely subjective overt participant observation of the family experience, in contrast to the other research methods. This programme of research will be complemented by demographic data and social media discourse, to contextualise the experiences of the cohort.
A single relevant USA small-scale cohort study was produced 25 years ago, which examined the responses of atomic veterans and their families to radiation exposure by an in-depth interview approach (Murphy et.al. 1990). However, the culture and society of the USA is not comparable to the British experience; and the scope and depth of this study is limited.
The Nuclear Families project has been conducted to provide a contemporary approach to understand the lives of both British nuclear test veterans and their families. The project combines methodologies across the social and human sciences to explore this unique group. A new review of relevant literature provides objective historical and social context to the study. A series of semi-structured interviews will be implemented to tackle themes pertaining to well-being, welfare, family dynamics, mental health, disability and stigma. Focus groups have been conducted to gain insights into group dynamics, thoughts and feelings within the context of the cohort gaze. The lives of nuclear test veterans and their families have been explored, in order to gain insight into the ways that their experiences have impacted and influenced family life, physical health and mental health. Finally, an ethnographic approach provides a uniquely subjective overt participant observation of the family experience, in contrast to other research methods. This program of research is complemented by demographic data and social media discourse, to contextualise the experiences of the cohort.
However, the Nuclear Families project is not just an opportunity to learn from and to understand the lives and the experiences of the families of nuclear test veterans, but also a chance to inform the direction of policy for future support to these families.