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As part of the transaction, SYNNEX will enter into a multi-year agreement with IBM, and Concentrix will become an IBM strategic business partner for global customer care business process outsourcing services.
Social, Mobile, Big Data and Cloud technologies are quickly and profoundly transforming customer care, enabling companies to take a holistic view of customers across traditional and new channels. Through its investments in a broad software portfolio, cloud technology, consulting and advanced analytics, IBM is supporting global clients as they navigate through this customer experience transformation.
By partnering with Concentrix for customer care services and leveraging Concentrix' ongoing investments in this business, IBM and Concentrix plan to jointly bring an unrivaled approach for transforming and delivering high-value interactions at every stage of the customer care lifecycle.
IBM is investing in innovative solutions in the business process outsourcing services market and will continue to focus on, and invest in, strategic areas of its Global Process Services portfolio including: finance and administration, procurement and supply chain management, human resources and Smarter Workforce, and mortgage origination and servicing. Recent IBM major investments include acquisitions such as Kenexa for a Smarter Workforce and Emptoris for supply chain management, enabling IBM to deliver smarter analytics-based solutions to IBM clients.
"We are very excited to bring together these two great teams, each recognized by their clients as leaders in providing outstanding and innovative solutions," said Kevin Murai, President & CEO, SYNNEX Corporation. "This acquisition will significantly extend our portfolio of offerings and delivery capabilities that will make Concentrix a global Top 10 player in this growing market."
Concentrix is a recognized leader in providing platforms, people and services to support high-value interactions at every stage of the customer lifecycle. Through the acquisition of IBM's customer care business process outsourcing services business, Concentrix will provide customer care services for clients in more than 12 industries. Concentrix will significantly expand its global footprint across six continents to approximately 45,000 staff and 50 plus delivery centers.
"Our clients are investing at an unprecedented rate, in order to engage with and service clients across multiple channels," said Lori Steele, General Manager, IBM Global Process Services. "This partnership between IBM and SYNNEX will provide our clients with the innovation they have come to expect from IBM through our deep capabilities in advanced analytics, social business, cloud and smarter commerce, complemented by Concentrix' flexible and adaptive global customer care delivery network."
The transaction is expected to close in the coming months, subject to the satisfaction of regulatory requirements and customary closing conditions. After the transaction closes, IBM will have an equity interest in SYNNEX.
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By mayoral decree, August 28 will officially be Kurt Vile Day in Philadelphia! On that date, Kurt will give a free solo performance in City Hall Courtyard at 5:30pm for the season finale of the City Hall Presents summer concert series. Prior to his performance, the City of Philadelphia will present Kurt with the Liberty Bell Award, the highest honor the City can bestow upon one of its citizens. This award is given only to native Philadelphians, and is presented in recognition of outstanding professional achievements and civic generosity. (More information about City Hall Presents, Philadelphia's free weekly summer concert series, is below.)
Ushering in a summer of commemoration, we begin with the premiere of Kurt's new video for "KV Crimes," directed by Tom Scharpling, in which Kurt is regally paraded through the streets of his fair town (mmm, hoagies).
Kurt will also be performing a song with Big Star on June 30, as part of their free performance of the classic album Third/Sister Lovers at Central Park Summerstage, with an array of all-star guests:
And finally, why not grace you with these beautiful clips of Kurt Vile and the Violators performing at KEXP:
Girl Called Alex
KV Crimes
Wakin on a Pretty Day
Full Performance
City Hall Presents is a series of free events that welcomes the full spectrum of Philadelphia's performing arts into City Hall Courtyard. Shows are presented on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30pm throughout the summer, and the entire concert calendar can be found by visiting http://cityhallpresents.creativephl.org. Organized by the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, these events aim to bring a new vibrancy to the historic building and inspire citizens to become more active in the arts. The program is made possible thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, as well as the William Penn Foundation.
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Adele has some brand-new ink to add to her collection — and we're pretty sure we've seen it before.
The photo was shared on Thursday night by Bang Bang Tattoos in NYC, which captioned the snap, "The lovely adele came in to get tattooed today."
While the meaning of the tattoo — the word "Paradise" written across the side of her left hand — isn't known, it's suspiciously similar to a tat on singer Lana Del Rey, who also has the same word inked on the side of her left hand (which you can see below). Very interesting.
Adele has three other tattoos — one on her left wrist dedicated to her mother Penny, three horizontal dots below it that she got with the Civil Wars' Joy Williams, and an A behind her right ear that many believe is for her son, Angelo.


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Scion xD Mobile Kitchen
The 2009 Scion xD Mobile Kitchen was unveiled at SEMA. Paying homage to the Los Angeles roaming Kogi Korean BBQ truck famous both for its combination of Korean with Mexican food, the show car spares very little in fitting all the required equipment for beers and a barbeque into every nook and cranny of a Scion Kogi xD.
The Scion Kogi xD Mobile Kitchen by MV Designz rear seats are ditched in favour of a fridge incorporated into the left rear door and an ice chest and sink fitted to the right rear door. At the rear, the griddle allows for the usual culinary culprits – burgers, hot dogs, grilled chicken, sweetcorn, etc. – cooked in front of a 10-inch monitor with utensils pinched from the left tail light and finished off by condiments stored in the right.


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As long as we're fixating on the new pope, we should talk about St. Malachy.
Malachy was a bishop in Ireland who allegedly had a vision in 1139 in which he saw a procession of 112 future pontiffs, each of whom he described with a single, frequently oblique, phrase. The recently retired Benedict XVI, for instance, got "the glory of the olive." Who knew? Then, after the olive, came the final pope, "Peter the Roman," whose flock would suffer "many tribulations" not the least of which was the end of the world.
So, in theory, we're down to our last pope. True, he's Jorge the Argentinian, not Peter the Roman. But we can figure out a way to make the prediction work. (St. Peter was known as The Rock, and Buenos Aires probably has a lot of rocks.) True, the Malachy list seems to be a 16th-century forgery, whose remarkable spot-on accuracy comes to a screeching halt in 1590. But the point is that we have not had a serious doomsday discussion since that Mayan calendar thing last December, and I miss it. The nice thing about apocalyptic panics is that all you need for a feel-good moment is the earth not coming to an end.
Also, it behooves us to keep talking about the papal election for as long as possible. Once it's over, we're back to the federal budget deliberations, and I prefer a story in which nothing gets sequestered but the cardinals.
Or, ideally, we could go for a merger:
WASHINGTON — White smoke poured from the Capitol today and crowds of onlookers broke into shouts of jubilation, crying: "We have a budget!"
Inside, where the nation's legislators had been walled off in seclusion, the newly chosen tax-and-spending plan was garbed in the traditional brass staples for its first public appearance. Insiders said it planned to take the name of Budget for Fiscal Year 2014.
Some of the faithful feared this day would never come, citing the ancient prediction of The Last Budget. Legend has it that during his pneumonia-racked, monthlong presidency, William Henry Harrison fell into a trance and produced a list of 61 speakers of the House from the founding of the republic until the collapse of the Constitution, describing each with a characteristic word or phrase. Some were remarkably apt. Future Vice President John Nance Garner, for instance, was "warm spit," and Republican Dennis Hastert was "large gray-haired person." However, the slot for Speaker Nancy Pelosi was listed, inexplicably, as "repair the microwave."
The list predicts that after Pelosi comes a final speaker ("weepy kumquat") who presides over an era in which Congress loses all remaining capacity to direct the nation's economic affairs beyond sporadically agreeing, via text, to have the nation's bureaucracy just keep doing whatever it was doing before.
Fearing the worst, a band of public-spirited citizens disguised as a touring scout troop stormed the Capitol, locked in the members of the House and Senate, and cut off their connections to the outside world. Deprived of their ability to Twitter, the lawmakers quickly came to an agreement.
O.K., this tactic would probably not produce the most progressive document in the history of the world. The cardinals probably did not come up with the most progressive pope in the history of the world. If St. Peter were still around today, I don't believe he'd be referring to gay marriage as a machination "of the Father of Lies." But there are moments when you feel that we should just get on with it.
How would you get the locked-in legislators to find a path to agreement? First, Paul Ryan would have to announce that somebody misplaced the real Republican budget proposal and that the thing he introduced this week was an old copy of his vice presidential campaign platform that he grabbed hold of on the way out the door. "Obviously, we found out in November that people really hated those ideas," he could say. "We've got something way different, but you're just going to have to wait until the staff finishes going through the Dumpsters."
Then President Obama would promise all the Democratic senators who are up for re-election that he would go to their states and tell their voters that everything unpopular in the agreement was his fault. If necessary, the president would be prepared to say that he cried. However, if possible he would prefer to say that he won their votes in a poker game.
Then everybody would work out a reasonable compromise that includes new revenues. Then Rand Paul would ascend into heaven via the Capitol dome. All of this has been predicted by a little-known saint in the 19th century. I have a copy.


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Ralph Ortolano Sr. was a four-year letter winner on the rifle and pistol teams and a two-year letter-winner on the cheerleading squad. He was named an All-American for rifle in in 1952 and 1953, as well as for pistol from 1952-1954; making him the first Kings Pointer to be named All-America in two different sports.
Ortolano was first in the nation in pistol from 1952-1954 and was second in the nation in rifle in 1953. He served as captain of both the rifle and pistol teams and set range records in both sports in 1950.


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Sweet Memories of Summer/
Summer is over. But we have sweet memories. Lots of friends came visiting us in Pizzo. Friends from Bangkok, Stuttgart and Munich. And we met old friends in Pizzo and made new friends.
We ate great food, fresh fruits, lots of ice cream and went to the beach almost every day. Life in Pizzo is different from life in the big cities. One likes it - or not. I am glad, our visitors seem to have enjoyed the slow life in this little fisher village deep down in the very South of Italy. As I said before, here is not much to do - beside eating and going to the beach. Or eating and sunbathing on the balcony. Or eating and reading a book. Or eating and having a good afternoon sleep. Especially after some glasses of wine.
During summer, streets are deserted in the afternoon. A few people are still at the beach, but most are resting at home. Only in the evenings, the piazza awakes to life. Tables of the bars and gelateries are getting most crowded around 11pm, when people finish dinner and come for tartuffo icecream. During summer holidays in August, various spectacles are organised for locals and tourists. After a long night, the next day, when the sun invites to the beach again, sunbathers arrive at the Marina around 10.30am or later. The locals all have their favorite spots, and meet up with friends to chat in the crystal clear water and get more suntan. Most Pizzitani would leave the beach between 12.30 and 1.30pm to eat lunch at home. Then rest. Around 7pm you can find kids coming out of the houses and playing in the piazza, maybe having a granita or gelato before dinner. Dinner usually is not before 9pm. Only tourists, not adapted to the rhythm of the South, would feed their kids before 8pm. But not many tourist find their ways to Pizzo. Which is not too bad after all. It keeps the village innocent and at its own pace.
For us, summer passed smoothly, except for one or two incidents, and before I realized, it was already time to leave. I could have gone on and on with the slow peaceful rhythm of summer in Pizzo. And as there was not much to write about, I did not post anything. But I took a lot of pictures with my new 50mm lens. Since food was the major interest of the day, most close-up pictures are food pictures. I uploaded some today to our facebook page. If you want to stay connected with us via FB just "like" Palazzo Pizzo on FB. Not much posts their either, but I will upload sometimes for Sweet Memories of Summer.
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PS: we have a medium long "To Do" list for our guest residence. Although our guests had a good time living in the vaulted ceiling residence, we need to adjust some things before we rent out professionally.
PPS: I love Calabria runs a photo competition on facebook, just a a few more days.
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Meet Nashville Songwriter Mat Kearney
This on-the-verge musician proves that old-school songwriting is alive and well in Nashville.
Oregonian by birth, cool-voiced Mat Kearney is Nashville's resident genius when it comes to landing songs on TV (Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock, Vampire Diaries). Hollywood's prime-time love, as well as bighearted choruses that stick in your brain, means big-time record sales. Mat's pop hooks get compared to John Mayer and Coldplay. He's newly married. He's got a loyal band of locally plucked virtuosos. And just to show that Nashville is home sweet home, Mat's becoming a certified taxi driver. "No better place to hear good stories," he says.
See his wedding featured in Southern Living Weddings
Listen to Our Favorite Songs
- "Breathe In Breathe Out" from Nothing Left to Lose
- "Closer to Love" from City of Black and White
- "Nothing Left to Lose" from Nothing Left to Lose
- "Where We Gonna Go from Here" from Nothing Left to Lose
- Listen to all on iTunes
His Nashville Hero:
"Emmylou Harris might be insulted if I lump her in with 'old Nashville,' but she is a hero of mine. I pulled up next to her at a stoplight the other day—she looked beautiful as ever."
Wishes He Had Written:
Miranda Lambert's "The House that Built Me," written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin.
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Salad nicoise, a classic French salad, is typically made with tuna. Here we use sweet grilled halibut (in season in midsummer) or striped bass. To make it quicker, substitute 2 or 3 cans of drained chunk light tuna. Or skip the fish altogether for a vegetarian main-course salad. We call for serving it on a platter, but it's just as beautiful individually plated. Recipe by Nancy Baggett for EatingWell.
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Back in 1914, the concept of Cheese Days originated from the notion that if some little town in Illinois could have a festival commemorating sauerkraut, then a celebration based on cheese would be an even better idea.
A group of local businessmen planned the festivities in just nine days, driving a roadster through the city of Monroe to publicize the event. A hand-lettered sign attached to the vehicle proclaimed "FIRST CHEESE DAY COMMITTEE 1914 – WE STARTED SOMETHING!"
And did they ever.
100 years later, we invite you to take part in our centennial Cheese Days 2014 – where old-world tradition has generated an out-of-this-world celebration.
Help us celebrate our Swiss heritage with traditional music, dance, drinks, food, and extraordinary cheese!
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I've jumped between Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Fedora and this post is the reason I plan to stick with Linux Mint. Not only do I want a great operating system, which I seem to have found, but I want to be part of something. The community looks great and my experience here has been outstanding so far. I cannot wait to be part of this community and watch this OS grow.Fred wrote:Being a long time Linux user, I probably came to Mint for entirely different reasons than many/most. The codecs are trivial to me and honestly, I almost never use any of the Mint tools. For me it is the people, the Mint team and its forum users.
Mint has the feel of a small, close knit community. The team seems to genuinely care about what its users want and need, and does a good job balancing need and want. They aren't necessarily the same thing you know.
The users are making a worthy effort to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, so-to-speak, to learn a new system. Most have been long time Windows users and it is not easy for them, but they keep working at it. More experienced users work tirelessly helping each other and new comers.
The Mint community tends to reinforce my faith in human nature. People cheerfully giving their time to help others in need. With no expectation of any kind of reward other than the good feeling they get from helping another.
You can see this same phenomenon in many other forums too but I have never seen one where this attitude was so prevalent and pervasive.
I think everybody understands and appreciates the tremendous amount of work Clem and the CE maintainers do to make the releases as functional and trouble free as they can.
Mint has a secrete weapon that other small distributions don't have. His Name is Husse. I believe he has been key to Mint's success to date. Without him the atmosphere of the forum would not be what it is. He works many hours a week, every week, in the forum helping users and maintaining the helpful atmosphere that prevails here. He also spends many hours behind the scenes researching issues for users, working on the wiki, putting out a news letter, blogging, taking pressing issues to the developers, etc. I honestly don't see how he does all he does and still finds time to earn a living for his family. The single biggest reason you can can come to this forum and expect helpful, courteous treatment is Husse and the work he does here.
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Energy Portfolio Standard (Nevada)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
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Nevada established a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) as part of its 1997 restructuring legislation. Under the standard, NV Energy (formerly Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power) must use eligible renewable energy resources to supply a minimum percentage of the total electricity it sells. In 2001, the state increased the minimum requirement by 2% every two years, culminating in a 15% requirement by 2013. The portfolio requirement has been subsequently revised, most recently by SB 358 of 2009, which increased the requirement to 25% by 2025. The 2009 amendments also raised the solar carve-out, requiring utilities to meet 6% of their portfolio requirement through solar energy beginning in calendar year 2016. The solar carve-out remains at 5% through the end of calendar year 2015. In addition to solar, qualifying renewable energy resources include biomass, geothermal energy, wind, certain hydropower, energy recovery processes*, and waste tires (using microwave reduction).
The following schedule is currently in effect:
- 6% renewables/efficiency in 2005 and 2006
- 9% renewables/efficiency in 2007 and 2008
- 12% renewables/efficiency in 2009 and 2010
- 15% renewables/efficiency in 2011 and 2012
- 18% renewables/efficiency in 2013 and 2014
- 20% renewables/efficiency in 2015 through 2019
- 22% renewables/efficiency in 2020 through 2024
- 25% renewables/efficiency in 2025 and thereafter
Energy Efficiency as an Eligible Resource
AB 3 of 2005 allowed efficiency measures to be used to satisfy a portion of the requirement. To qualify as portfolio energy credits, efficiency measures must be: (1) implemented after January 1, 2005; (2) sited or implemented at a retail customer's location; and (3) partially or fully subsidized by the electric utility. The measure must also reduce the customer's energy demand (as opposed to shifting demand to off-peak hours). The contribution from energy efficiency measures to meet the portfolio standard is capped at one-quarter of the total standard in any particular year. AB1 of 2007 expanded the definition of efficiency resources to include district heating systems powered by geothermal hot water.
Portfolio Energy Credits and Credit Multipliers
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) has established a program to allow energy providers to buy and sell portfolio energy credits (PECs) in order to meet energy portfolio requirements. One PEC represents one kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity generated by a portfolio energy system, with the exception of photovoltaics (PV), for which 2.4 PECs are credited per one actual kWh of energy produced. SB 252 (2013) repealed this credit multiplier for systems installed after December 31, 2015. An adder of 0.05 is tacked on to the 2.4 multiplier for PV if the system is deemed by the PUCN to be a customer-maintained distributed generation system; that is, customer-sited PV is eligible for a 2.45 multiplier. In addition, the number of kWh saved by energy efficiency measures is multiplied by 1.05 to determine the number of PECs. For electricity saved during peak periods as a result of efficiency measures, the credit multiplier is increased to 2.0. PECs are valid for a period of four years.
AB 388 (2013) clarified that the amount of energy provided by a system does not include any electricity generated by the system and used for its basic operations that reduce the amount of electricity delivered to the grid. The legislation specifically references electricity used for the heating, lighting, air conditioning and equipment of a building located on the site; and electricity used by a geothermal facility for the extraction and transportation of geothermal brine or used to pump or compress geothermal brine. These amendments apply to any facility placed into service on or after January 1, 2016; however, systems which are placed into service after that date but had contracts in place prior to December 31, 2012 are grandfathered in.
350 Megawatt Requirement (NV Energy)
Senate Bill 123 (2013) requires NV Energy to retire 800 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired electric generating plants, in phases, by December 31, 2019. To offset these retirements, the legislation requires the utility to purchase, construct, or aquire 900 MW of power, in phases, from cleaner facilities. Of this total, 350 MW must come from new renewable energy facilities. By the end of years 2014, 2015, and 2016, the utility must issue a request for proposals for 100 MW of generating capacity from new renewable energy facilities. The final 50 MW of generating capacity from new renewable energy facilities must be owned and operated by the utility and construction must be completed by December 31, 2021. These requirements are separate from the 25% requirement under the RPS, and the PECs associated with these projects can be used to comply with the RPS.
Temporary Renewable Energy Development Program
To help facilitate the renewable projects required by the renewable energy portfolio standard, the PUCN established the Temporary Renewable Energy Development (TRED) Program. The TRED Program is meant to insure prompt payment to renewable energy providers in order to encourage completion of renewable energy projects. The TRED Program establishes: (1) a TRED charge, allowing investor-owned utilities to collect revenue from electricity customers to pay for renewable energy separate from other wholesale power purchased by the electric utilities; and (2) an independent TRED trust to receive the proceeds from the TRED charge and remit payment to renewable energy projects that deliver renewable energy to purchasing electric utilities.
NV Energy and Barrick Goldstrike were in compliance for program year 2011 for solar and non-solar components of the Nevada RPS.
- The statutes define "energy recovery processes" as electricity generating systems with a nameplate capacity of 15 megawatts or less that convert the otherwise lost energy from "the heat from exhaust stacks or pipes used for engines or manufacturing or industrial processes; or the reduction of high pressure in water or gas pipelines before the distribution of the water or gas." To qualify, the system cannot use additional fossil fuel or require a combustion process to generate the electricity.
Incentive Contact
|Contact Name
|Mark Harris
|Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
|Engineering Division
|1150 E. William Street
|Carson City, Nevada
|Zip/Postal Code
| (775) 684-6165
|Contact Name
|Darci Dalessio
|Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
| PEC Administrator
|Carson City, Nevada
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| (775) 684-6171
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Gluten-Free Baking Even More of a Possibility with Cassava Flour
American Key Food Products has announced the development of a natural cassava flour, a substitute for wheat flour, which enables the production of a number of gluten-free baked goods with virtually the same taste, texture, crumb and baking characteristics as those made with wheat.
Made from cassava root, King Lion brand Premium Cassava Flour is produced through a proprietary manufacturing process that yields an ingredient with superior baking properties. Unlike most formulations for gluten-free baked goods which are composed of several types of flours and starches, a wide range of high quality baked goods can be made using only this cassava flour in place of wheat flour. This simplifies formulation and production, reduces the need for inventorying ingredients, and simplifies label declaration.
In tests with various types of baked goods, AKFP's cassava flour has also exhibited excellent moisture retention characteristics, reducing the amount of flour needed in some cases versus wheat flour.
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Mother Motherland & The Last Post
Nathan Budzinski
During a recent visit to Kiev as part of a selection panel for a call for sound and art works made by the ECAS network, I visited the Ukranian capital's World War Two memorial. I made my way through the Soviet era metro and out to the hills overlooking the wide Dnieper River, with clusters of imposing looking tower blocks beyond its opposite banks. After passing through a park, the gold-domed Pechersk Lavra and Memorial To The Holodomor Victims (the Ukrainian "terror-famine" in the early 1930s) I enter a pedestrian boulevard. At the head of it sit kiosks and cafes, with small groups of visitors escaping from the hot weather, sipping beer in the shade of umbrellas.
The broad boulevard stretches out under the hot sun for nearly a kilometre. I hear the muffled sounds of distant music being played. Suddenly, a loud and mournful male voice starts singing in contrabass right next to me. The entire boulevard is lined with speakers, blasting out a loop of emotionally piqued funereal songs, the sound crackling and warbling from disintegrating speaker cones and what could be poor MP3 compression. In the distance is a giant sculpture of a steel-plated woman warrior.
Further down, I come up to a large, covered section, partly made of poured concrete, shafts radiating out in rhythmic echoes from a Soviet star, embedded crater-like on a monolithic pillar to the left as you enter. There are several grottos, with the tinny sound of mournful singing reverberating around the cool space and bouncing off its hard walls. A roughly hewn socialist-realist frieze depicting rows of super-sized soldiers, workers and peasants, sits against the hard edged abstraction of the concrete. The march of figures lead through the grotto, and out to the other side, guns, farming tools and reinforcement bars pointing towards the warrior woman "Mother Motherland" (intentionally built just taller than the Statue Of Liberty).
Onwards, past another large cluster of gargantuan soldiers frozen in the midst of battle, two tanks face each other with their gun barrels crossed, both bizarrely painted in bright blue and orange, and covered in dots.
The elegiac songs continue, and from this position the guttural stops and warped, soaring vowels puncture the airspace with delayed echoes around the figure, the multitude of speakers sounding out the vastness of the space; a journey from the everyday to cosmic-scaled history at the foot of Mother Motherland.
Here she is, gleaming in the light, a sword thrusting skywards in one hand, in the other a shield emblazoned with Soviet hammer and sickle.
Inside the bunker-like pedestal supporting the Mother is the National Museum Of The History Of The Great Patriotic War (Of 1941–1945), that tells the history of World War Two and the Eastern Front from the Ukrainian, and Kievian perspective. Finished in 1981, the building and its collection are a time capsule from the late Soviet era. The figure was designed by the socialist-realist artist Yevgeny Vuchetich, famous for his grandiose sculptures glorifying Soviet heroism.
The two floors of exhibits take in much of the horror of that time, and aims to convey war through feeling, creating dramatic displays. Like how a title sequence of a movie sets up a tone for the following feature, music acts as a lead-in, preparing visitors for the main event ahead and helping define the emotional parameters of the experience.
The objects on show create a bleak impression: many are simply bits of detritus left over from battles, rusting shards of metal, decomposed boots. There's the wreckage of an airplane, photos of unnamed victims hanging on its torn wing. Panoramas of fiery battle scenes are framed by soldiers' heads cast in heavy bronze. A cluster of old speaker cones emit a painfully high pitched static tone (appropriate, though I imagine they were meant to be broadcasting something different). Elsewhere a vitrine containing a child's jumper dangles off some barbed wire, tiny shoes sitting next to a pair of shackles.
In one section, if any visitors might have missed the point, a barrel of a cannon points at an old hessian textile, dotted with pictures of victims, a flower pot at its base.
In the last room are thousands of photographs of people, surrounding a banquet table lined with the canteens of the dead, phonographs placed intermittently along its length. Different brass instruments are suspended in the air, a swarm of disembodied horns mutely signalling victory.
The materials used emit feeling: cold concrete, lofty marble and austere granite, proud brass, melancholy bronze and energetic steel. All of them strong and hard wearing, each resonating at their own sensorial register.
The whole impression is one of overdriven, screeching emotion. It's so bombastic that my first reaction is how pushy and crass it is. My mind muddles the Soviet kitsch and atrophied, dramatised feeling with the caricatures of the former Eastern Bloc. And now updated to include cruel nouveau riche oligarchs with their tacky gold enamelled Louis XIV furniture, rudimentary capitalism and unrestrained ambition next to abject poverty – and other myths help to reinforce old assumptions about the East as depraved and barbaric.
Contrast the above experience with another type of remembrance: the British Commonwealth's various iterations of Remembrance Day. They're all based around a main event of two minutes of silent observance by attendees – performed by veterans and active members of national armed forces – and most usually organised around a cenotaph (empty tomb, in Greek). Communal silence rendered into a monumental sculpture. This silence is followed by a poignant, yet sometimes incongruously peppy tune called "The Last Post", a bugle call signalling the end of the day's duties, widely used in remembrance ceremonies.
Compared to a ten hectare complex of reverberating elegies and up-the-ante monumental sculpture, two minutes of silence seems a stoically restrained and tasteful method of remembrance. But crassness and refinement are to taste as politeness and rudeness are to manners. They are spectrums in which public performances of adherence to a social order take place. And both these examples don't tolerate much deviation from obedient behaviour. If the National Museum Of The History Of The Great Patriotic War (Of 1941–1945) is a platform for individuals to play out a type of reverential melodramatics, the two minutes of silence reach just as authoritatively into the psyche.
Below is a video from the Australian Army Headquarters's YouTube channel showing a lone soldier playing "The Last Post". They've decided that it's more effective to have the bugler alone in the posh architecture, with dramatic worm's eye views of him and close up shots on blood red poppies and lists of the fallen on stone. It plays off of ideas of restraint and stoic poise, but it also overflows with a kind of melodrama.
As the distance from World War Two increases, its horrors slowly disintegrate in the mausoleum worlds of mediated myth and pomo relativism. The two World War's were proof of how we are always precariously close to tearing ourselves apart. Remembrance Day was started in 1919 and repeated so as to never forget World War One as the war to end all wars – but memorisation by rote learning hasn't worked and never will.
Historian and broadcaster David Hendy once told me that "ultimately when people want silence, or when people complain about noise, there's a power struggle going on". This links the above examples of ritual and memory, showing the role that power has in repeating these spaces and rituals – and being the cause of this ongoing misery. It's clear that rituals of silence and melodramatic reverence are preventative measures against noisily active remembrance, something that at this moment can only be understood by the powers that be as an unpatriotic, violent attack on memory. But of course this noise would be a protest against hollow traditions, empty things used to perpetuate war-mongering, and the greed that usually drives it.
Music questions power and authority as much as it reinforces it. Kiev's memorial complex made me try to think of different types of music and remembrance that act against this mind erasing monumentalism. Enter that other ritual of self-forgetting, nationalistic memory and feeling control: the national anthem. Specifically, Albert Ayler's "Spirits Rejoice", a free jazz call and response riffing off the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise". Without irony it transforms all the hollow rompitypomp of a national anthem and makes it distinctly noisy and present. Its power lying in the fact that it has a very real object that it is ecstatically freeing up, rather than trying to escape from:
Tags: David Hendy | Kiev war museum | Mother Motherland | Nathan Budzinski | remembrance day | the last post | World War One | World War Two
We create large scale abstract art performance events during Remembrance in London exploring how we all construct our opinion on war and conflict. Our 2013 event across over 30 streets was a challenge to the 'spectrums in which public performances of adherence to a social order take place' and a deviation from 'obedient behaviour'.
This years event was called Silent Cacophony and you may find interesting.
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I have had some stellar parenting moments with my kids to date* so I have been imagining the worst. But so far, so good. He still seems to be his lovely self; full of contradictions. But I do acknowledge that it is very early days.
He wanted to have a Harry Potter party to celebrate. Just like Cousin Maxi. Now if you know Sister B, you would not be going anywhere near a similar themed party. She does party-planning like no-one else I know. I'm not really all that with birthday celebrations (or any sort of celebrations if I am honest).
"How about a slumber party?" I innocently suggested. I was thinking a play at the park, take away dinner, a little Harry Potter movie, some pancakes for breakfast. Easy. No planning involved.
The idea was snapped up. A few phone calls were made and the slumber party had legs. The fact that each parent asked "Are you mad?" should have been deterred me. But it didn't. We awaited it with baited breath.
As the big day (Saturday) approached, I shopped for food, planned a couple of activities for the kids who were coming for the afternoon/evening** but not staying the night. Oh yes, my original "Just a couple of kids" grew to about 15. I was calm and ready.
Until the Geege informed me that he would be working.
Thank God for Sister B and the lovely K who stepped in and were a pair of Robins to my Batman.
So how did it go, you might ask? And what does this have to do with nipples? Well. It went to plan. It went swimmingly in fact. A busy afternoon and all asleep by 10:30ish. Only one boy woke during the night with a Harry-Potter-movie-inspired nightmare. There were no fights. My warning system*** seemed to work to keep the um, shall we say, boisterous boys in check.
But it was weird too. Generation Z en masse like that is a real eye opener. They speak differently than I remember we did as kids. They listen less to adults than I remember. They know what they want, and they aren't afraid to tell us what it is: "I only have honey on my pancakes".
It made me wonder what my kids are like with other adults.
It made me wonder if ,when asked to put a pajama top on because it is a cold night, my kids would respond with "Nipples aren't meant to be censored" or if they would just put their shirts on.
I like that this generation has (a small l) liberal world view. I think their generation will suffer far less prejudice than generations past. But really? Really? How does a person respond to that?
I highly recommend the slumber party. It is like watching a wild animal in its natural habitat. A real culture shock. But if you are going to go there, maybe avoid the seven year olds? I hear they can be revolting. They even scared the eggs out of our chickens****.
* Smeared poo all over the cot coming to mind as a particularly painful memory.
** We did a treasure hunt and some team trivia. We didn't even make it to the park in the end. The cubby house, chickens and trampoline seemed to keep them occupied.
*** Ten warnings and then a call to the parents to come and pick you up. One boy got to nine, another to eight, but no-one went over.
**** We were greeted with three eggs this morning. Our first ever. Go you good things


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Huayen Globalization Forum to be held in Taipei
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Aug 29, 2010
Taipei, Taiwan — The Huayen Forum of Globalization and the Seventh General Conference of World Buddhist Sangha Youth (WBSY) will take place Sep. 4-6 at the Sansia campus of National Taipei University, the organizers said Sunday.
The events, to be organized by the Da Huayen Monastery and the Huayen Buddhist Community, will address the topic "Globalization in Buddhism: Ecological Sustainability of Nature and Comprehensive Harmony" to highlight the increasing concerns over balancing human life with the natural environment.
Other topics to be discussed during the forum will include Buddhist practices and richness of mind in the New Era, the dialogue and collaboration between globalization and environmental protection efforts, Buddhist culture and human core values, and the dialogue between Buddhism and other religions.
Master Hai Yun Jimeng, who heads the Da Huayen Monastery and the Huayen Buddhist Community, took the initiative in organizing the forum in the hope of bringing together the resources of Buddhists around the world to help promote environmental protection, a harmonious society and intelligent exploration.
The forum is aimed at applying Buddhism to strengthen universal values and ethics and reach a "comprehensive harmony" in relations among peoples, between people and nature and their families, and within themselves.
Min Bahadur Shakya, founder of the Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods in Nepal, Dr. Harsha Kumar Navaratne, president of the SEWA LANKA Foundation in Sri Lanka, and many other Buddhist heavyweights from around the world will take part in the forum.
By Bear Lee
Source : CNA


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Make our Super 8 Daytona Beach hotel your home base for your Florida getaway. Our hotel is located near the Halifax River with easy access to the beaches, Daytona Beach International Airport, and I-95. The Daytona International Speedway is a short drive away. We offer the value and conveniences you need for a hassle-free trip.


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Our portfolio comprises a beautifully presented magazine, an affiliated website and regular email newsletters, as well as industry-leading events including AHEAD, the awards for hospitality experience and design. Sleeper is also the organiser of Sleepover, a networking event for hotel innovators hosted in a different city each year, and has recently launched a sister publication – Supper– focusing on global hotel F&B.
Sleeper is the only media brand to reach all the individuals and disciplines throughout the supply chain involved in the delivery of new hotel projects worldwide. As such, it is the perfect partner for brands looking to target the multi-billion pound hotel sector with design-led products and services.Visit site
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An industry leader in design-driven furnishings for more than 35 years, JANUS et Cie serves hospitality, contract and residential clients with a dedicated focus on outstanding quality, superior craftsmanship and unparalleled service. In the years since the company's founding in 1978, CEO Janice Feldman and her exceptional team have transformed JANUS et Cie from a single showroom in Los Angeles to a comprehensive global design resource with sixteen flagship showrooms throughout North America and in Singapore and Sydney, as well as field offices and select dealers throughout the world.
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- 7 Customize Slideshow
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This plugin add the ability to display image slideshows anywhere on your site with fully customizable animated transitions and advanced effects. Slideshow has two different sliders that you can choose from, Slider and Cycle. Each slider has different animation effects and customizations.
The transitions for this mode focus on slicing up the image into multiple pieces and using those pieces for different transition effects.Since this mode focuses on slicing up the image for transition effects the settings for this mode also allow you to choose how many slices the image is divided into. This mode also offers the ability to display small thumbnail versions of the images in the group as pagination buttons that allow visitors to your site to easily control which image the slider is showing.
Animation transition effects
- Randomly use different effects
- Slice down
- Slice down left
- Slice up
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- Fold
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The transitions for this mode focuses on shuffling images around. This mode has many different effects to choose from, providing more options so that you can pick the effect that you like the best.
Animation transition effects
blindX, blindY, blindZ, cover, curtainX, curtainY, fade, fadeZoom, growX, growY, scrollUp, scrollDown, scrollLeft, scrollRight, scrollHorz, scrollVert, shuffle, slideX, slideY, toss, turnUp, turnDown, turnLeft, turnRight, uncover, wipe, and zoom.
Carousel has the ability to save multiple groups that can each have different images and settings. The only information required to create a group is a group name.
Adding Images
In order to add images you will need to select a group then adjust the "Slide Image Dimensions" width and height so that the Carousel plugin will know what dimensions it will need to resize the images to. After saving the desired image dimensions then you can add an image by clicking the "+Add image" button. Carousel uses WordPress's built in media up-loader. This will allow you to either upload new images or select images that you have already added to the media library. In order to select an image to add from the list of images click the "show" link for that image and then click the "select this image" button as shown in the image below.
Displaying Slideshow on your site
Slideshow can be added to your site using two different methods, widgets or shortcode.
Navigate to the Widgets area under Appearance in the WordPress Admin area. Drag the Slideshow widget into the widget area that you would like for it to display in and select the group from the drop-down menu that you would like to display.
The groups table in slideshow will display a shortcode for each different group that you have created. If you would like to add a Slideshow group to a post or page all you have to do is copy that shortcode and paste it the content of the page or post you would like for it to display in.
Customize Slideshow
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Change Background Color of Caption Text
Put the following in your theme's CSS file at the very end, changing the color code example used here, #fd4507 which is red, to anything you wish:
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Show Image OR Text OVER Slideshow
You can also show images or texts ON TOP OF (over) a Slideshow so that the slides and the image/text blend in together.
Use the following template to add the necessary code to your theme's css file at the very end.
#builder-module-4e738d2279b5e .builder-module-block { /* Shows any top area TEXT, that is in a widget ABOVE the Slideshow WIDGET< on top of the Slideshow. Change the module # to your own current module # */ position: absolute; z-index: 2 ! important; } #builder-module-4e738d2279b21 img { /* Positions the image in question from a certain Widget module right above the Slideshow. Change this module # to your own widget's module # */ padding-top: 30px ! important; position: absolute; z-index: 1 ! important; } #pb_slideshow_slider-1 .nivo-slice { /* Prevents the Slideshow transitions from hiding the overlapping text or image. This means NO MORE TRANSITIONS. This will also mean that the styling is applied to Slideshow numbered 1 (one) in your Slideshow admin area. The Slideshow shortcode will show you what number it is. */ display: none; }
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If you want, you can customize the height of your Slideshow so that it can also change or remove the empty space under Slideshows.
Use the following css styling template in your theme's css file:
#builder-module-4e74d5b55108d .builder-module-block-outer-wrapper { /* This will change the entire Builder widget, in which the Slideshow is, to a height of 250px. Be sure to change the module # to your own current module # in question. You can change the 250px height to anything you want. */ height: 250px !important; }
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Absolute Links
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More than 246,000 people were treated at hospitals, doctors' offices, and emergency rooms for injuries related to winter sports in 2015, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- 88,000 injuries from snow skiing
- 61,000 injuries from snowboarding
- 50,000 injuries from ice skating
- 47,000 injuries from sledding, tobogganing, and snow tubing
Common winter sports injuries include sprains, strains, dislocations, and fractures. Many of these injuries happen at the end of the day, when people overexert themselves to finish that one last run before the day's end. A majority of these injuries can easily be prevented if participants prepare for their sport by keeping in good physical condition, staying alert, and stopping when they are tired or in pain.
There are many things you can do to help prevent injury during favorite winter activities.
- Never participate alone in a winter sport.
- Keep in shape and condition muscles before participating in winter activities.
- Warm up thoroughly before playing or participating. Cold muscles, tendons, and ligaments are vulnerable to injury.
- Wear appropriate protective gear, including goggles, helmets, gloves and padding.
- Check that equipment is working properly prior to use.
- Wear several layers of light, loose and water- and wind-resistant clothing for warmth and protection. Layering allows you to accommodate your body's constantly changing temperature. Wear proper footwear that provides warmth and dryness, as well as ample ankle support.
- Know and abide by all rules of the sport in which you are participating.
- Take a lesson (or several) from a qualified instructor, especially in sports like skiing and snowboarding. Learning how to fall correctly and safely can reduce the risk of injury.
- Pay attention to warnings about upcoming storms and severe drops in temperature.
- Seek shelter and medical attention immediately if you, or anyone with you, is experiencing hypothermia or frostbite. Make sure everyone is aware of proper procedures for getting help, if injuries occur.
- Drink plenty of water before, during, and after activities.
- Avoid participating in sports when you are in pain or exhausted.
This article was published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.


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Israel's Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying on Tuesday that the Israeli military is prepared for action against Lebanon's Hizbullah, even in populated areas, if necessary, adding however that the situation was "calm at the moment." Ashkenazi said in a statement to Israeli radio from Rome, conveyed: "Hizbullah is building its presence in the populated areas of southern Lebanon, where UNIFIL forces can not discover weapons and if necessary we will act in these areas."
"The situation is calm at the moment but we are following developments and are ready for all the developments," he stressed.
The Israeli military intelligence has accused Hizbullah of storing some 40,000 rockets in southern Lebanon towns in since the 2006 war.
The World Tribune newspaper reported on Monday that Hizbulla deployed more than 5,000 fighters on Lebanon's border with Israel, noting that the Israeli army located evidence to the heavy presence of Hizbullah in Shiite villages on the border.
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57th varieties: Who will get Mitch's seat?
Let's face it. For years the 57th District race has been a snooze, held so firmly in the mitts of Democrat Delegate Mitch Van Yahres that after a succession of rookie contenders failed to come close to wresting the seat away, the Republican Party simply gave up even bothering to challenge him.
When the 78-year-old Van Yahres announced he was calling it quits in early March after 24 years in the General Assembly, former Charlottesville mayor and city councilor David Toscano, who'd been waiting patiently in the wings, announced his candidacy three days later.
Many assumed the Democratic nomination was a done deal. Toscano, with substantial local party support, would go on to accept his party's nomination, win the November election, and the 57th District would remain solidly Democratic for another generation or so.
Mercifully– for those who don't like predictable primaries– less than two weeks before the April 15 deadline for filing 125-signature petitions for a place on the primary ballot, wild-card candidates Rich Collins and Clement "Kim" Tingley declared their intentions, and suddenly the Toscano nomination veered from in-the-bag to up-for-grabs.
Collins, a 70-year-old environmental negotiator, retired April 1 from teaching at UVA– and came out of retirement April 4 to announce his candidacy.
A founder of STAMP– Sensible Transportation Alternatives to the Meadowcreek Parkway– and ASAP– Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population– Collins stands squarely opposite pro-Parkway Toscano.
Collins provided the campaign's first drama May 7 when he was arrested for trespassing in front of greengrocer Whole Foods Market in Shopper's World. With ACLU backing, he's now challenging Virginia's definition of public places and private property.
Tingley, a relative newcomer to Charlottesville and to politics, announced his own grassroots campaign April 6. The affordable housing builder received a political baptism by fire almost immediately when the Toscano campaign accused him of conducting a telephone "push-poll" that distorted Toscano's record and character, a charge Tingley denies.
Does either newcomer stand a chance of derailing Toscano's well-oiled– and well-funded– machine?
"If I were going to handicap it, I'd say [Toscano] definitely has the best chance, but Rich Collins is a fighter, and he'll fight you tooth and nail," says Charlottesville Republican party head Bob Hodous. "The smart money is on Toscano, but I'm not sure it's a lock."
"He got anybody of stature to not run against him– and that's not insignificant," says a local Republican pundit who declines to be named. "Toscano has to be thrilled to have two liberals running against him. This isn't just the city; it's the county, too. And the county people in the 57th are significantly less liberal than the city," he says.
Toscano, a member of the green-leaning Citizens Party before evolving into a more moderate, more development-friendly Dem, can see the Republican logic. "Both of these candidates tried," he says, "to portray themselves as more liberal than I am."
Despite the fact that the 57th District includes the entire city– "the people's republic of Charlottesville" according to one conservative quip– the liberalness of the 57th district isn't what gives Toscano pause.
What does is low voter turnout, and historically, the numbers don't look good.
Primary turnout in Albemarle County ranges from a "terribly God-awful dead" 3 percent to 19 percent, "which isn't that bad," says county registrar Jackie Harris– but that's talking presidential primary years.
This year's June 14 primary is the first dual-party primary since 1988, so that could generate more interest. But the 57th District encompasses only eight of Albemarle's 28 precincts. In the other 20, the only race on the Democratic ballot is for lieutenant governor.
"Absentee voting is a good barometer for turnout," says Harris. "We've had about 10."
Things are looking more active inside the city limits.
"We've had roughly 60 absentee ballot requests," says Lori Krizek in the Charlottesville registrar's office. But historically the turnout numbers are only marginally better than in the county: between 3.6 percent and 20 percent.
Democrats are doing everything they can to get out the vote, reports Toscano supporter George Loper. "If people really think Toscano is going to win and they're comfortable with that, it could suppress turnout," he says.
"Obviously Toscano is the favorite," says Larry Sabato, UVA politics prof. But Sabato, too, cites low turnout– and then notes, "It's a heavily Democratic seat– probably all three would vote the same [in the House of Delegates]. It doesn't matter that much in the scheme of things who gets elected."
He heads off the expected gasps: "I mean, it matters to the candidates, but not in the state."
Van Yahres has refused to endorse a candidate, and Hodous insists the Republicans are going to float a candidate at their June 6 mass meeting. [See sidebar on Tom McCrystal.]
For local Democrats sending someone to the Republican-held legislature, "It's important they can elect somebody who can work with the majority," says Sabato.
Can these candidates actually accomplish anything if they get a ticket to Richmond? And why are they running for this daunting task in Richmond, a place Van Yahres himself said has become so partisan that "It's not a pleasure to be there"?
They have their reasons.
Smooth: David Toscano
"I have no plans to get arrested," says Toscano, when asked about campaign strategy. He's been there and done that decades ago, protesting the Vietnam war. Despite occasionally being branded a tool of developers, Toscano seems to have never really lost his '60s activism, and he's honed his political skills since getting trounced in a 1982 Congressional run as a candidate of the Citizens Party, a predecessor to the Green Party.
"We're just where we want to be," says Toscano three weeks before the June 14 primary. In the upcoming weeks, registered Dems can expect a barrage of direct mail, print, radio, and possibly TV ads paid for with funds from the $75,000 Toscano war chest.
"I have put a lot of energy into the campaign, but I haven't put my own money in," says Toscano, a lawyer in private practice. "I'm not a wealthy man," he adds.
An experienced politico, Toscano says there's one thing about the House of Delegates race that surprises him. "I thought there might be more attention paid to it than there has been," he admits.
And unlike runs for City Council, "You cannot rely on the party apparatus to do the organizing," he says. "You're pretty much on your own with the phone banks, signs, and get-out-the-vote effort. In a primary where people are not paying attention, it's challenging to get volunteers. That's taken a lot more time that I expected."
One thing he certainly has nailed: a broad cross-section of support, including endorsements from the business world– the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors– and the greenies–the Virginia League of Conservation Voters– an endorsement for which Collins, who's made a career out of dealing with environmental issues, might have seemed a logical choice.
On his website, Toscano lists the support of almost every Democratic elected official past and present, including all four Dems on City Council. "I think that made a difference and sent a strong message," he says.
Now there's just that voter turnout thing.
Age: 54
Day job: attorney
Immediate family: Nancy Tramontin (married since 1977), Matthew (7 years old)
Always been a Dem? Early Democrat, then Green Party, but Democrat for 20 years
Why run? To advocate and effect progressive change in Richmond
What do you do better than your opponents? Engage diverse groups to build consensus around issues, and get things done
Past political experience: 12 years on City Council, former mayor
Political hero: Robert Kennedy. Even as a youngster, he inspired me.
Past newsworthiness: Appearance on Oprah Winfrey Show
Favorite Rolling Stones song: Gimme Shelter
Pet peeve: People too rigid in their ways to listen and think about new ways to do things
Most influential book: The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
If you were to come back as an animal, what would it be? Eagle
Motto: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"– Mark Twain
Feisty: Rich Collins
How's this for bipartisan support? Allen Powell, owner of Republican stronghold Wolfie's restaurant, has offered to host a free victory party for Collins if he wins the primary. And he has a Collins sign planted out front of the rib spot on Rio Road.
"He says I'm his favorite liberal," says anti-Meadowcreek Parkway, anti-growth Collins.
In his first run for public office, Collins is surprised at the red tape– and at how quickly he's swung into politician mode. "I've become more concerned with my own drive to win. I've become more self-centered, and constantly selling myself," he confesses. The prof feels up to the challenge of persuading people to vote for him.
And he's not intimidated by Toscano's political prowess. "David had done such a good job of making it forbidding for anyone else to challenge him," says Collins. "With his money and brochures, you'd have to be crazy."
Three weeks before the primary, Collins' seemingly seat-of-the-pants campaign has raised $15,000, and he's chafing a bit at the demands of being a candidate. "I'm not used to having my life be this organized," he says.
Unlike Toscano and Tingley, Collins hasn't spent money on polls. "I'm not trying to respond to public opinion," says Collins. "I'm trying to shape it."
He thinks some people will be attracted to a 70-year-old who, if elected, would clearly be a short-timer. "It's time to get younger people in," says Collins. "This might mean loosening the party belt."
Though poll-less, Collins thinks he has a chance to win– and that he could be very effective in Richmond. "Working across the state... and working with bureaucracy– that's an advantage I have."
One day earlier, Collins has learned that Toscano snagged the Virginia League of Conservation Voters' endorsement.
"Ouch," says the founder of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation. He's clearly disappointed the League used "viability" as a factor.
"I know there's going to be few people voting," says Collins, "and I know there can be surprises."
Age: 70
Day job: Professor of urban and environmental planning, School of Architecture, UVA. Professor emeritus effective June 1, 2005. Founder and director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at UVA 1980-2002.
Immediate family: Wife Kate who has been, to use her words "stubbornly" married to me for 47 years. Son Brian works for U.S Navy in Alexandria. Daughters Kelly Burruss, Maureen Collins, Jane Collins, and Colleen Collins all live in Charlottesville or Albemarle County and all seven grandchildren are in Charlottesville-Albemarle public schools.
Always a Dem? I was president of the first Young Democrats organization at U.W. La Crosse in 1958. There was no competitive Democratic Party in Wisconsin until Bill Proxmire ran about that time.
Why run? Harmonic convergence and some Dylan Thomas poetry. More directly, I can vigorously and effectively represent the special character of the 57th District. I'm no stranger to advocating for what's right, and I'm no stranger to getting legislation passed.
What do you do better than your opponents? Why speculate? I challenge the other candidates to a pentathalon: downhill skiing, whitewater canoeing, tennis, distance golf driving, and skeet shooting. Our campaign managers negotiate the point allocation. Winner take all.
Past political experience: I've always been active in political and civic activities: chairing the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, and the Solid Waste Authority.
Political hero: Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, a rare combination of moral force, literary accomplishment, and personal modesty. Arrested many times by the Communists, he served years in prison and said, "The only kind of politics that truly makes sense is one that's guided by conscience."
Past newsworthiness: Lots of attention and phone calls because of numerous quotes in Steve Turner's authorized biography of Johnny Cash. John and I were roomies and fellow radio operators in the USAF during the Korean War period.
Favorite Rolling Stones song: Sweet Virginia and You Can't Always Get What You Waaaaant
Pet peeve: People who say after the meeting or fight is over, "I was with you, but I didn't say or act because..."
Most influential book: The neglected classic of American progressivism, Progress and Poverty, by Henry George (1879). George dedicated his book "to those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment."
If you were to come back as an animal, what would it be? A hedgehog-fox hybrid
Motto: Vote for Rich, it rhymes with Mitch.
Idealistic: Clement "Kim" Tingley
You can tell Tingley, 60, is a first-time political candidate when you ask how much money he's raised. "I don't think I'm going to talk about that," he says, preferring to wait until the June 6 deadline for filing campaign donations.
Local speculation is that Tingley's campaign, which includes a campaign office, polls, and phone banks that have called some local Democrat voters as many as three times, is self-funded. When asked, he replies, "That's also private campaign information."
But if a successful builder wants to finance a run for the General Assembly, why not? Clearly the race has provided an opportunity for Tingley, the former president of the Home Builders Association of Virginia to come out of the closet as far as his politics are concerned.
"I've spent a lot of time with conservative people, and as a consequence, tended to keep political views to myself," says Tingley. "The defining and shaping moment in this campaign is when I say, 'I am a proud liberal,' because 'liberal' has gotten such a bad rap over the years. People are hesitant to say they're liberal. It's liberating for me– and for other people to say that."
Tingley prides himself on not backing away from a challenge, and he remains undeterred that he has neither the name recognition nor potential volunteer base of Toscano and Collins.
He's thrilled when someone walks in the campaign office and hands over a $100 contribution. And he's crushed when he's making phone calls and gets hung up on, or when he knocks on a door and "they slam it in my face."
Being a novice politician is full of surprises. Like Collins, he's amazed at the issues he's supposed to have a position on. "I'm just this poor, dumb engineer," says Tingley. "Now I'm supposed to be an expert in civil liberties or education."
Tingley says his political education has brought more respect for what politicians and their families go through. And it has not shaken his confidence.
"We've got a plan in place, and we're going to win the election," he declares.
Age: 60
Day job: Building communities of moderately priced homes.
Immediate family: Wife, Deborah Lawrence; daughter, Penelope; sons Chad, Justin and Brandon; grandsons Van and Jude.
Always a Dem? Yes.
Why run? We need to change the direction of society. We have lost a lot of ground over the past decade.
What do you do better than your opponents? I am a proud liberal who will stand up on issues of principle. I am also a small businessman who can find practical solutions to problems. I get things done.
Past political experience: I've been the president of my trade association- the Home Builders Association of Virginia, which is quite powerful. I brought the HBAV to work with Virginia Forever, and together we successfully lobbied for funds for clean water and land conservation. I was also a principal player in the creation of housing revitalization zones.
Political hero: Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Past newsworthiness: Managed a Habitat for Humanity project building two homes in 56 hours in 40 minutes.
Favorite Rolling Stones song: Satisfaction
Pet peeve: Opinion masquerading as news... talk radio.
Most influential book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
If you were to come back as an animal, what would it be?
A tiger. They are endangered, and we need more of them. I have a carousel tiger in my foyer.
Motto: The harder I work, the luckier I get.


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CONCORD — A House committee will take up two bills today that aim to reinstate a minimum wage for New Hampshire workers, including one co-sponsored by Durham Rep. Timothy Horrigan.
CONCORD — A House committee will take up two bills today that aim to reinstate a minimum wage for New Hampshire workers, including one co-sponsored by Durham Rep. Timothy Horrigan.
Although federal law establishes a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, Republican lawmakers made the symbolic move of repealing New Hampshire's state minimum wage last year.
The House Labor Committee is scheduled to consider two bills on Tuesday that would not only reinstate the minimum wage, but would also increase it above the federal level.
HB 127, co-sponsored by Horrigan, a Democrat, would peg the state's minimum wage at $8 per hour. It would also require the state's labor commissioner to provide an annual report to the Legislature documenting how much the minimum wage would increase if the figure was tied to inflation. The Legislature would then have the option to vote on whether to authorize an increase.
"I think workers should be making at least something approaching a living wage," Horrigan said Monday.
The bill is also sponsored by Rep. Peter Sullivan of Manchester. Another bill sponsored by Rep. Timothy Robertson of Keene would set New Hampshire's minimum wage at $9.25 per hour.
Although Democrats in New Hampshire have regained a majority in the House, it's uncertain whether a bill targeting the minimum wage would receive support in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Rep. Carol McGuire, the sponsor of last year's legislation repealing the state standard, said a minimum wage stands to depress job prospects in the state.
"The minimum wage is a really devastating way of making sure that low-skilled people — particularly young people — don't get jobs," she said.


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For Allen Wilson of Glenwood, Mo., July 30, 2010, was a day he planned to spend with his wife, Judy, who was about to undergo surgery at University Hospital to remove a benign brain tumor.
However their roles on that day changed quickly and without warning.
Wilson had just left his wife and went to the surgery waiting area on University Hospital's third floor. Suddenly he suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed.
Within seconds Joe Johnson, R.N., a member of University Hospital's Tiger Team, a rapid response emergency medical team, was at Wilson's side with others to revive him. Team members administered CPR on Wilson for more than 30 minutes until he finally regained a pulse.
"Having a rapid response team like we have here at University Hospital made Mr. Wilson's survival possible," said Johnson.
"The initial CPR within the first four to six minutes helped move the blood and kept the brain oxygenated. My role was to achieve intravenous access so we could administer advanced cardiac life support medications, which helped revive him."
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As you may know, Thursday is patent application publication day (try saying that 10 times fast), and yesterday's crop of documents included several Apple patent filings. AppleInsider took a gander and has details on one of the applications. This particular one discusses an electronic device that could enter "security mode" or transmit a security signal based on vibration or acceleration readings, among other things.
We've seen a number of mentions of mobile device security and safety from Apple lately, including device locators and biometric sensors, so the company seems to be on a bit of a kick. The most recent patent filing discusses a system that would put an iPod or iPhone into "lock-down mode" if certain vibration or acceleration levels were detected, and might also call or e-mail an external security service (or perhaps any external source) depending on the level of vibration or acceleration involved. Owners of the device would also be able to enter a code to bring the device out of the security mode.
At first, the system sounds a little silly—it's unlikely that an iPhone thief would vigorously shake the device just for fun—but there are some situations in which it might make sense. For one thing, having your iPhone call the police if huge acceleration levels are detected might help if you're in a car accident. You could also set your iPhone to lock whenever someone picks it up, in case you need to leave it in a gym locker or something. Still, the number of uses for something like this seem a bit limited, so it's unlikely that this will appear as part of the next iPhone revision.


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OTTAWA - The spectre of the National Energy Program has struck again.
During the five months the Harper government spent agonizing over the CNOOC takeover of Calgary's Nexen, Conservatives repeatedly came back to their entrenched hatred of the historic Liberal policy.
How, they said, could Ottawa possibly be expected to allow a foreign government to gain control over the country's natural resources when they had just spent the past three or four decades prying their own government's fingers off Canada's oil?
Petro-Canada — and all that the Crown corporation came to represent about state control of the West's oil — was finally fully privatized less than a decade ago.
And there was no way Conservatives would allow a foreign government to head back down that road, MPs told Stephen Harper.
When Harper came out to explain why he could allow CNOOC to take over Nexen, but that further state control of oilsands would be off limits, his key rationale echoed their thoughts to a T.
The CNOOC-Nexen deal wouldn't undermine free-market control of the oil patch, he said. But other proposals from state-owned enterprises very well could.
"To be blunt, Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead," Harper told reporters in one his longest news conferences in recent memory.
"That was never the purpose of the Investment Canada Act. It is not an outcome that Canadians would ever support. It is not an outcome any responsible government of Canada could ever allow to happen. We certainly will not."
So as Harper sought to present his complex decision as an elegant and pragmatic solution to the challenge of growing foreign interest in the oilpatch, 40 years of Conservative politicking served as a springboard.
"It's ideological in the sense that it's looking back to the National Energy Program and Petro-Can, and saying 'we're not going to go back to the future,'" said Fen Hampson, director of global security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
The problem with looking at the global economy through "Canadian sunglasses", Hampson said, is that state-owned enterprises and other government-influenced investment funds are a huge source of foreign financing.
Their importance — through sovereign wealth funds and government-controlled pension funds as well as state-owned enterprises — is only going to grow. And not just from China and other emerging markets, but also from the Middle East, posing major quandaries for Conservatives.
But while Harper was clear that future out-and-out control of Canadian energy interests by foreign state-owned enterprises would no longer be easily acceptable, he did not entirely refuse to take their money under other circumstances.
While his formal statement to media stressed that oilpatch takeovers by foreign state-owned companies were off limits, the details issued by Industry Canada had a different emphasis.
"Non-controlling minority interests in Canadian businesses proposed by foreign SOEs, including joint ventures, will continue to be welcome in the development of Canada's economy," the government documentation states.
That's where Harper's revisions to the foreign investment regime are indeed elegant and pragmatic, said Howard Balloch, a former Canadian ambassador to China and now chairman of Canaccord Genuity Asia Ltd.
"We aren't shutting the door on them. We're saying we're going to be more careful," Balloch said in a phone interview.
Joint ventures are already commonplace in the global energy industry, including in Canada, and Harper's new approach is signalling that that's the way to the future, Balloch said.
"It clearly is trying to push state-owned enterprises into non-controlling minority interests," he said.
Foreign companies that want a piece of Canada's resources will just have to structure their deals in a way that doesn't put them in the driver's seat, he said.
And that's something China can probably live with, he added.
"China is not interested in a stealth takeover of Canada. They're interested in these resources because they're a resource-hungry economy."
Whether it's something the Canadian public can live with is another question.
The backlash was significant before Harper's decision was even announced, and stretched across the political spectrum.
Sensing a vulnerability, the opposition NDP had already launched a funding drive within 90 minutes of the decision being made public.
With his abnormally lengthy news conference to explain his reasons and take all questions on Friday night, Harper essentially kicked off a nuanced public relations campaign to persuade the naysayers that he is on the right track.
"I think Canadians understand that China is a very large economy, and in fact in the not so distant future China is going to be the largest economy in the world, and therefore represent significant opportunities for Canadians," Harper said.
"At the same time, they understand the Chinese economy, the Chinese political system, the Chinese society is extremely different in a way that presents significant challenges. And what they expect their government to do is to act in a way that will take advantage of the opportunities that are offered to us, without exposing us to the risks."
Or, as Professor Warren Mabee at Queen's University put it, "he's intent on having his cake, and eating it too."
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