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Yesterday the 5-cent eligible dividend-paying Nevsun Resources Ltd. (NYSEMKT:NSU) published production results of the first quarter 2012 from its Bisha Mine in Eritrea, East Africa.
In the first 3 months of 2012, a total of 82,000 ounces of gold were mined and sold, representing $131 million (at a gold price of $1,600). For 2012, a total production of around 200,000 ounces is expected representing $320 million (at a gold price of $1,600), whereas Nevsun owns 60% of Bisha and the Government of Eritrea the remainder. Thus, with a current market capitalization of $695 million, Nevsun is valued at only 3.6 times its anticipated 2012 gold sales stake ($192 million) - which we consider undervalued, especially with higher gold prices during 2012.
With cash costs between $264 and $314 per ounce during 2011, Bisha is one of the lowest-cost gold mines in the world, making Nevsun one of the most profitable resource companies around these days. Since commercial production started in February 2011, the Bisha deposit has turned into one of the highest graded open pits in the world.
As per the latest official reserve calculations (March 2011), the proven and probable reserves stand at 28 million tons of ore, averaging 1.8 g/t gold. Due to Bisha being a VMS-deposit, these current reserves additionally host on average 39 g/t silver, 1.6% copper and 3.2% zinc. In 2011, some 34,000 meters were drilled to mainly expand the mineable deposit, whereas the new reserve calculations are expected to be released in late Q2 or early Q3. As the assays already indicate, we anticipate a significant increase in reserves and mine life which currently stands at more than 12 years.
Technically, the stock price consolidated sideways predominately within the boundaries of the red-green triangle between 2003-2010. After the red triangle leg at approximately $3.50 was broken successfully in mid-2010, a so-called "breakout" started reaching $7.50 a few months later. In early 2012, a so-called "classical pullback" occurred typically bringing the price back to the triangle apex at approx. $3.20. The final movement of a triangular price formation is called a "thrust" - either a strong and longer-termed up- or downward trend typically starting immediately after the pullback to the apex.
As the price already started to increase from the apex, we anticipate the thrust to go to the upside (sell-signal à la thrust to the downside when breaching the apex and the $3 level). Principally, the goal of a thrust (to the upside) is to transform the resistive high of the breakout ($7.50) into new support in order for a new and longer-termed upward trend to commence thereafter.
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Wachusett towns will offer the fall collection of household hazardous products, recycling, swap and sharing on Saturday, October 15, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mountview Middle School and the Chaffin Congregational Church, both in Holden. Collection locations of several items have changed, so carefully read the brochure in your light bill or at your town hall, library or recycle center. Volunteers are needed. Contact Colleen Abrams at (508) 829-3954 if you can help.


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It is no longer a question of being out of work. The question is: on whose terms will we be unemployed? The financial crisis has thrown millions out of work and destroyed the future possibility of decent work for millions more. Many, if not most, of the unemployed and unemployable are women. With the TUC calling for 'A future that works' at its recent march, the publication of two books that pay attention to the legacies of feminist and anti-work traditions such as Wages for Housework is welcome.
Silvia Federici is a writer and militant who co-founded the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign internationally. Kathi Weeks is an associate professor of women's studies at Duke University. Accordingly their books differ in style and approach; however both develop aspects of a critique of work and the central role reproduction has to play in the transformation of our lives.
Revolution at Point Zero is an edited collection of Federici's work, including some of the earliest Wages for Housework texts; essays exploring the 'war against women', which she argues forms both the pre-history and current conditions of capitalism; and essays exploring the limits of care and the role of the commons. Federici has been working on all these issues for decades, most notably in Caliban and the Witch (Autonomedia, 2004).
In this edited collection several key analytical highlights stand out. The first is the insight that unwaged work – in the home and the colonies – is the foundation of capitalism. A campaign against unwaged labour, like the fight against colonial rule, was (and still is) crucial to 'break the processes of capital accumulation'.
The second is the denaturalisation of gender roles: the fact that housework is not 'naturally' women's work but emerged as a naturalised social role at the same time as (male) waged work. Both the housewife and the waged worker are capitalist social roles.
The third, and perhaps most important for current feminist movements, is that waged work has failed to liberate women. Federici argues that liberation is not to be found in refusing either reproductive labour or waged work but in the radical transformation of both.
Last is the insight that we need what Federici describes as 'the commons' as a means to create non-capitalist forms of collective reproduction. Commons are not a replacement for struggles over the wage but a necessary compliment. This insight has inspired Federici's recent work in US social movements, building what has been termed 'communities of care' or 'self-reproducing movements', and offers an inspiring starting point for post-Occupy strategising.
Weeks begins The Problem with Work with a focus on the pervasiveness of the work ethic and the centrality of work to capitalists and anti-capitalists alike. Her primary concern is to show how the imperative to 'be productive' constrains the potential of revolutionary movements. She sees our imaginations as captured by a particular understanding of what is economically and ethically valuable.
She convincingly shows how an imperative to be productive, at work, in the home, school and in life generally ('Five Top Tips for Productive Dating Profiles!'), is central to the way capitalism not only puts us to work but makes us want to be put to work. We think work is right and just, and when we imagine another world, even a 'post-revolutionary world', we imagine a world of work. Weeks argues that we need to break the hold that work has on our imaginations. She calls for 'concrete utopianism' – a perspective that starts from what is possible now, even though it may seem impossible.
Starting from the possible utopian aspects of the present, Weeks, in a similar vein to Federici, calls for a re-centring of struggle around our everyday life against work. For Weeks, this starts from two linked demands.
The first is for a basic income, divorced from any 'productive activity'. The idea is not to valorise unwaged labour as a form of work, or to recognise the economic value of everyday acts of reproduction, but to enable a life outside waged work. For neoliberal class warriors like David Cameron, it is precisely this disconnect between income and the wage, often found in aspects of the social wage such as the NHS and welfare benefits, that is the primary target of recent cuts.
The second demand is for shorter working hours without a reduction in wages. Without time to live differently away from waged work there is no possibility for creating a different world. Revolutionary movements and moments need time and it is precisely the question of what to do with that time, the question of how to live and (re)produce differently, that lies at the heart of both books.
Corrupt Bstard 9 November 2012, 09.46
The Unconditional Basic Income is the way forward. More power to anyone pushing this idea out there. Now if only the Green Party would become known as the party of the citizens income rather than the party of the environment, we could well see our SYRIZA moment in the UK
laurence 23 November 2012, 22.54
although the basic income idea is progressive – and is probably part of any solution to our present crises – we might want to ask why Andre Gorz, while pushing a form of basic income for decades, for most of that time insisted that it SHOULD be conditional on work or some form of contribution
I think the answer is that he understood citizenship is a relationship in which members of a geographically bounded political community grant one-another rights and impose on one-another responsibilities. For the most part these rights and responsibilities are culturally encoded and tacitly understood – a kind of cultural substructure out of which the superstructure of legal, political and economic rights emerge and take specific forms.
This is essentially a kind of social contract. Arguably this is why the Beveridge post WW2 welfare model in the UK took the form of an insurance scheme – by working one "paid in", and was therefore entitled to welfare payments or services in times of need. It is extremely important to point out here that such an arrangement puts a premium on trust and a broad sense of collective belonging. If the system is to be successful it should be a widely accepted assumption that most able-bodied people will not attempt to play the system (free ride), and will only claim on the system in times of genuine need. If this is broadly accepted it should also be the case that the community recognises a collective obligation to those who cannot easily find work (for example the disabled) to provide adequate financial and other support so that they can share in the life of the community in a manner which ensures self respect.
the relationship of this understanding of citizenship and welfare to the unconditional citizens income idea is that without the obligation to contribute, the right to receive payments to an adequate level which allows participation in the life of the community and self-respect (i.e. full citizenship) will be fragile and is in fact inevitably doomed to being whittled or smashed down – through tax revolts, election of right-wing parties with anti-welfare agendas, etc.
for this reason, I believe what is needed is legislation limiting working hours, economic policies promoting full employment (but which must be with less hours per week than at present and must be linked to a genuinely green economic agenda) and some kind of citizens income, but one which allows people to work much more flexibly, but does not promote large-scale free riding.
Bernard Marszalek 24 December 2012, 05.45
Here in the U.S. Basic Income seems like a stealth political program. Though considered in the 60's by a political spectrum that reached from ML King to Nixon, the idea was only revived a decade ago by academics with no significant impact. I think in part because the parameters of the program are in dispute as evidence by the previous comment from Laurence.
The issue of "free riding" – contra Gorz – should not determine the outlines of a program to liberate us from stupid and demeaning jobs. What is the worst social catastrophe after all – paying someone a minimal income to dream all day or enforcing an arbitrary definition of "socially useful" work?
The larger quandary for me is to agitate for a system that depends on State beneficence: What power decrees, it can rescind. One approach may be to use the notion of the Commons as the basis for providing all with at least a basic livelihood. Embedding this concept into the socio-political and cultural foundations of society may provide the means by which we remove the State (at least a bit) from our daily lives. Alaska already has an annual fund based on oil revenues that provides approximately $1,000 to all residents – adults and children. The Alaska Permanent Fund, established in 1976, is independently, and transparently, managed and endorsed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Red Pepper readers should know that Karl Marx's multi-racial son-in-law Paul Lafargue argued for a three hour, three-day work week in 1883 in his essay "The Right to be Lazy." For more see:
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I got that, but what about the converse? If , a fixed point that lies in every normal plane of a curve , then the curve must be spherical.
Here's my thinking so far: A curve is spherical if and only if . I would like to use the assumption that there is a fixed point in every normal plane to reach this equality, but I'm pretty lost.
I'm not clear on what it means for p to be in every normal plane of . Does this mean that such that ? But if this is so, I don't technically get a point I get a vector from the origin to the point p (I guess this probably isn't critical, but I still feel uneasy somewhat).
If I'm on the right track, I still don't know how to tie these things together. If I'm not on the right track, could someone help me find where to tap my cane?


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The city's "digital makeover" was widely reported, publicizing Intel's billion-dollar, five-year World Ahead Program. The message: Intel is doing good, improving the health and education of the poor around the globe. But Intel's corporate benevolence is also a shrewd investment. Revenue from the United States and Europe has been declining, so the company is nurturing its next crop of customers in Parintins and nearly 200 other places in the developing world. The World Ahead Program is very much about building Intel's future markets.
Parintins, it turns out, is not the heart of darkness. With some 100,000 residents—about as many as Burbank, California, or South Bend, Indiana—it is the second-most-populous municipality in Brazil's largest state. Residents use computers and cell phones, and the city's young people have been texting one another and posting pictures of themselves online for years. Understanding what Intel is up to there illuminates exactly what the company is getting—and seeking to get—for its $1 billion. As with so much corporate responsibility, it is a fine example of enlightened self-interest.
"We're not a charitable organization," says Barrett. Sitting in the lobby of the United Nations' General Assembly building in New York, he looks like one of the numerous diplomats. The 68-year-old former Stanford University associate professor heads a UN task force that promotes digital technology for the global poor, and he had just appeared at an event promoting broadband communications in Africa.
Inside Intel, Barrett is seen as a supporter of World Ahead. He is refreshingly candid about just what the program is after. Intel is not, after all, putting its money into the globe's least-developed nations—it's active in Mexico but not in Malawi, in Nigeria but not in Niger. Explains Barrett: "We're trying to foster the continued growth of our products."
Today, more than half of Intel's revenues come from the less-developed countries in Asia and the Americas, up from less than a fifth a decade ago. The company has moved most of its component assembly and testing to the developing world; its research is also increasingly taking place there. Half of the global middle class lives in the developing world today. Within 25 years, that figure will be 90%, according to the World Bank's latest forecast. That will more than double, to 1 billion, the number of potential buyers for products that today are considered luxuries, including not only cars and refrigerators but also computers.
"We're taking this tier by tier by tier," Barrett says. In other words, Intel is pursuing not the so-called bottom of the pyramid, or BOP—the billions of people who live on a few dollars a day or less—but the next billion, consumers who rank economically just below those it serves today. The World Ahead Program, which reports to Intel's sales and marketing team, has an average of $200 million a year in funding—equivalent to 10% of Intel's corporate advertising budget. Barrett notes, "If we just advertised, we'd probably just reach the users who already know us and already use our products."
Intel's immediate goal is to win over governments whose purchasing and policy decisions could drive the company's business forward. World Ahead operates primarily in industrializing and resource-rich economies—in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, as well as in smaller but fast-growing markets such as Vietnam and Pakistan.
"The various ministers and presidents always ask Intel to build a plant in their country to create jobs," says a former Intel senior executive. "That is obviously not possible, at least not in every country around the world. So the Intel execs give an answer along the lines of, 'We understand your desire to join the digital revolution, and we are going to do even better than building a plant. We are going to train your teachers in the use of technology.'" That, says the former exec, means "more good PR at a reasonable cost."
Intel went wireless in Parintins in September 2006. A 300-foot tower rises like a scepter over the city, holding aloft the antenna for a microwave link that connects Intel's local sites with a satellite dish that, in turn, connects to the Internet. The link runs on WiMAX, a wireless technology that carries information more rapidly than Wi-Fi and for longer distances. Through World Ahead, Intel has been promoting WiMAX in rural areas and emerging countries where telephone wires, television cable, optical fibers, and even cellular networks have been uneconomic. The company's strategy is to create a WiMAX market that it can dominate. (Laptops with Intel WiMAX will hit stores this year.)
"The demonstration projects are a rip-off of the Nike slogan, 'Just do it,'" says Barrett. "I've given presentations around the world about the latest broadband wireless technologies. People will say, 'That's very interesting,' and go away. But if you do a demonstration like Parintins in their backyard, people take notice. And they start to say, 'This is not theory. Look, it's real. You can touch it.'"
Parintins was selected by Intel in the summer of 2006, shortly before Barrett was due to visit Brazil, Intel's largest customer in Latin America. The company had five WiMAX pilot projects in urban areas such as Brasília, but the government was encouraging rural development. So Jim Whittaker, then Intel's director of government and education affairs in Latin America, asked the World Ahead team to add a program in the Amazon.
José Bruzadin, manager of health-care projects for Intel Brazil, proposed that Parintins be the company's first telemedicine venture in the country. Parintins was big enough to benefit from online communications, remote enough to present a logistical challenge, and famous enough to be a showcase for a nation with vast potential for wireless demand—the town's annual Boi Bumbá, or festival of the ox, attracts tens of thousands of visitors. In the telemedicine project, specialized cameras would provide doctors and patients in the island city with access to specialists in São Paulo, especially cardiologists and dermatologists, a priority in an area where skin cancer is prevalent. Parintins mayor Frank Bi Garcia agreed to supply electricity, air-conditioning, and furniture for the project. "In Parintins, it looked like we could work well with the locals and would get good support," says Elaine Nucci, market-development manager for Intel Brazil. "You can't put technology out there if people aren't prepared to take advantage of it.
The World Ahead crew also set up computer labs in two of the city's poorest schools, providing 84 PCs, and lined up other donors.
The market for computers in Brazilian schools could reach 50 million machines, and Intel isn't about to concede it, even to such a noble endeavor as the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. While OLPC was still developing its design, Intel—perhaps channeling its famously aggressive former CEO, Andy Grove—quickly developed competitive machines and began selling them in partnership with local companies, an important consideration for many government purchases. After Intel dismissed OLPC's computer as a "gadget," OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte accused the company of trying to destroy a humanitarian mission because its computer used microprocessors from rival Advanced Micro Devices. Intel has since joined the OLPC board—in April, the company will announce a microprocessor for a new iteration of the OLPC computer—but it continues to compete. Intel's low-cost Classmate PC is being made in Brazil by Positivo Informática, which supplies PCs and related products and services to 8,900 schools in the country; the PCs Intel bought for Parintins came from Positivo. (OLPC laptops are made in Taiwan.)
Intel is not the only U.S.-based multinational promoting itself in Parintins.
Hardly the hyperbolic digital makeover of Intel's initial press release. "These kids now have a little more opportunity than they did before," Barrett says, "and we're seeding the forest for the next billion trees." Not to mention the next billion customers.
Richard Shaffer writes about technology and economics from New York.
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PARIS – Costa Rican international Bryan Ruiz has made the move from FC Twente Eschende to Barclays Premier League side Fulham, according to Sky Sports News sources.
The London-based club has agreed to a 10.6 million pound deal for the 26-year-old attacker, who just completed his second season in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Ruiz moved to the Netherlands in the summer of 2009, having since posted 39 league goals in 61 appearances. Prior to his Eredivisie move, Ruiz spent three seasons in Belgium with Racing Gent, scoring 26 Jupiler League goals after joining from Costa Rica's Alajuelense.
Ruiz's acquisition will fuel rumors that the Cottager's leading scorer, Clint Dempsey, is about to leave the club, having been connected with Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain.
FC Twente are off to a perfect start in the Eredivisie, winning each of their first four matches one season after finishing second in league. having lost to Portugal's Benfica in UEFA Champions League knockout round preliminaries, Twente will participate in this year's UEFA Europa League, where they have been drawn into the same group as Fuham, Odense (Denmark), and Wisla Krakow.
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Making it across that snow field was a huge thing. After that, no matter what I faced, I felt that I could continue to get past it. By the time we reached Chapman aid station, Nathan and I were both drained. He ended up taking an hour and a half rest before continuing. It took a great deal for him to get out of that aid station. He too was afraid. He knew that before him could be the same things we just passed through. He knew that the course would not relent. It was truly courageous to get up and keep going.
Hardrock is not a race, it is a test. It doesn't matter how many times you have faced it, it will always find a way to challenge you more (for instance, a 17 time finisher of the race got lost for over an hour this year). This race is raw and it challenges all pretense you may have. It is a battle, it is a learning experience. It is beautiful madness.
When made our way down the mountain, forded across the rushing river up to our waste and found a gear that hadn't existed for many hours. Nathan hammered home the last two and a half miles in inspiring fashion. It was a release to know that the mountains were behind you and you would be home soon.
I couldn't be more proud of Nathan for gutting out that race. He was 19th overall in 36:03. He kissed the coveted rock and showed how much fight, courage and heart he has. Running Hardrock is an experience unlike any other. I can see that from pacing alone. Initially, both runner, crew and pacer reaction was to say "f- that we will never sign up for that again (running, crewing or pacing)". However, that sentiment is quick to fade and the mind gets to wondering. I know for me, I would be there in a heartbeat if Nathan wanted to run again. I have already faced my fears and survived. I am no longer scared, I have gone beyond. The knowledge of that survival and that courage is like armor I can carry with me. I have been moved by this experience. I have watched as Nathan has dug deeper than he's ever had to before and been inspired by that courage. I have faced fear and moved forward. Hardrock is truly beautiful insanity.


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Karl Malden
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Actor. A versatile performer mainly in supporting roles, he appeared in nearly one hundred motion pictures, television programs and theatre productions since the late 1930's. He was born Mladen George Sekulovich to Yugoslavian parents and raised in Gary, Indiana. After spending a few years working in local steel mills, Malden attended Arkansas State Teachers College and studied acting at Chicago's Goodman Dramatic School before making his Broadway debut in the 1937 drama "Golden Boy". He made his big screen debut with a bit role in the 1940 picture "They Knew What They Wanted". After returning from service in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, he would resume his acting career. During the 1940's and 1950's, he kept busy alternating from theatre and films, appearing in such classic stage productions as "Winged Victory", "Key Largo", "All of My Sons", "The Desperate Hours" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". It would be his reprisal of the character 'Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell' in Elia Kazan's film adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) which would garner Malden star status and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1954, he reunited with Marlon Brando and Kazan in the classic picture "On the Waterfront", for which he received an Oscar nomination. Further memorable performances followed with "I Confess" (1953), "Baby Doll" (1956), "Fear Strikes Out" (1957), "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961), "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "Gypsy" (1962), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), "Hotel" (1967), "Billion Dollar Brain" (1968), "Patton" (1970) as General Omar Bradley and "Nuts" (1987). During the 1970's, Malden expanded his accomplishments to the small screen co-starring with Michael Douglas in the police drama "The Streets of San Francisco" as 'Lt. Mike Stone'. In addition, he appeared as a spokesman in a series of memorable commercials for American Express. He received an Emmy Award for his performance in the 1984 television-movie "Fatal Vision". He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1993.
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Solar Power for Replacing Diesel Generators: Top 10 Reasons Why Solar Energy Makes Sense for Institutions.
by Abhishek Gupta
For the last couple of decades Diesel Generators (DG) have been used where ever the electricity grid has failed to deliver, and they have done their job well. But like with many technologies every once in a while there comes an alternative that forces a shift in paradigm. This is especially true in business where competition is a brutal reality and profitability is a ruthless king.
In 2012 a solar power company, made a revolutionary bid to supply solar power for India's grid at Rs 7.49 per unit (kWh), much cheaper than the cost of power generated by DG. What does this mean for businesses and commercial entities using DG sets?
If power can be supplied to the grid at that price, can institutions generate solar power for their own use at even less? Let's examine the top 10 reasons why solar energy should be adopted by institutions to stay competitive.
1) Why solar energy makes sense with high current diesel costs:
At the current cost of diesel fuel DG operating cost is about Rs. 18/kWh including taxes, maintenance, transportation and storage costs. Electricity from solar power generation systems can cost as low as Rs. 2-3/kWh. Which begs the question…what would you rather be paying for your power?
2) Solar power for balancing increasing diesel prices:
If you follow the news: any news, you know that the high cost of diesel will continue to rise. Like any other natural depleting commodity, even with the subsidies gone, the post-subsidy diesel price scenarios don't look good. Starting NOW solar power will always be cheaper when compared to power from DG sets. So if you are using a DG today you are already damaging your business.
3) Why solar energy is better than having high maintenance:
Regular servicing like oil and filter changes increases the maintenance costs of DG. Scheduled maintenance such as de-carbonization, adjustments etc. and unscheduled overhauls such as replacement of parts etc. requires skilled engineers who may not be available on time or at close proximity increasing downtime losses and also increasing costs.
4) Solar power for counteracting storage risks:
Installing DG means keeping diesel storage at hand. Predicting and storing diesel supplies on premises is difficult and cumbersome, not to mention the threat which highly inflammable liquids pose to employee safety and customer lives. Also while it may not be a problem for all locations, increasing costs of diesel will further encourage thefts.
5) Why solar energy scores on health implications:
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified diesel fumes as carcinogenic leading to lung cancer and treating it same as passive smoking and UV radiation. Not only does burning diesel produce carbon dioxide, contributing to climate change, the fumes produced have been linked to health problems from respiratory and heart disease to even cancer. Running DG sets on premises can have irreversible damaging health implications on your employees.
6) Using solar power for better return on investment (ROI):
For any commercial entity ROI must form a big part of their decision-making process. Any equipment that incurs costs must have an attractive payback period and a justifiable residual life for which they are useful to the business. Even at the current costs of diesel fuel, using solar power for electricity offers a 3-4 year payback for commercial and industrial entities currently using DG sets to maintain business continuity.
7) Why solar energy gives great payback:
Remember, good quality solar panels last well for 25 years, sometimes even beyond. Once your investment in a quality solar power generation system is recovered over the short payback period the power your system will generate for the rest of its life is free. Which means free solar power for your business for up to 20 additional years, as certain as the sunrise every morning. Can you plan it any better?
8) Using solar power for or with integrated systems:
Every business wants to keep their downtime from power issues to a bare minimum. A great way to make ensure reliable continuity is to integrate the solar power generation system with your current grid infrastructure. Quality systems can easily achieve this making sure that your business gets an always on system for continuous and reliable power supply.
9) Why solar energy systems should provide a failsafe design:
A good system provider will recognize immediately that that your solar power system need to work in sync with your current power infrastructure. A commonly asked question is "Will the solar power system trip my grid infrastructure at any time?" Modern quality solar power systems should offer a failsafe design so that any transients, surges or sudden voltage drops don't cause harm to your infrastructure or stall operations.
10) Adopting solar power for its affordability:
The one reason adoption of solar power for electricity was being delayed by institutional users used to be the initial cost. Buying a solar power system is more expensive than buying a diesel generator. But given the technology developments and the drop in cost of solar power generation systems, one need only look at the implications of operating costs and immediately power from solar becomes much cheaper than power from the DG.
Why solar energy adoption rate in sunshine abundant India is slower than sun-starved Europe is truly ironic. The average solar radiation in India is significantly higher than Germany for example where solar panels do not produce as much annual energy. Institutions should recognize their rooftop potential and immediately start assessing use of solar power for their business operations. Download FREE Solar Power User's Consumer Guide to learn why solar energy makes sense for your business and how you can use solar power for predictable and dependable electricity.
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Buyout houses told to plan ahead for succession
Inheritance and succession are issues that have led to wars and infighting throughout history. In private equity, a relatively nascent industry, the challenge is no different and investors see succession plans as key when looking at new funds.
Graeme Gunn, a partner at investor SL Capital Partners, said: "Investors don't like surprises. Handling succession in a measured way is crucial, and investor advisory boards want to be engaged in the process."
William Gilmore, head of private equity at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, said succession was one of the first topics under consideration when a new investment was being considered.
He added: "When you go into a new fund, you ask whether they expect to stay around for the duration of the fund or whether people are planning to move on. We accept people have motivations to change over time – however, it is how they think through the implications."
Changing of the guard
The issue has come to the fore as many of the founders of the world's top buyout firms – many of which were set up in the 1980s and 1990s – reach retirement age. In the US, the largest alternatives firms, such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group, have been able to structure succession plans gradually over a number of years, looking across their many business lines for the ideal candidate to lead their second generation. Crucially, going public, and cashing out management stakes, has helped these firms.
In Europe, the process has sometimes proved problematic. Founders have been unable to rely on a listing to sell their ownership of the firm and many smaller firms have had a smaller talent pool from which to choose.
Some processes have caused disruption. It is nearly five years since the management coup at French buyout firm PAI Partners in 2009, in which executive chairman Dominique Mégret and executive committee member and sector team head Bertrand Meunier were ousted and younger members of the firm, led by Lionel Zinsou, took control.
Charterhouse Capital Partners has also grappled with the challenge of succession. In 2009, the firm's founder Gordon Bonnyman began sharing his management responsibilities with executives Malcolm Offord, Jeremy Greenhalgh and Lionel Giacomotto, with the latter eventually given the top job in 2012. By the end of last year, only Giacomotto remained with the business.
Other private equity firms have approached succession in a different manner. Apax Partners, one of Europe's largest firms, has a compulsory retirement age of 60, a rule that is rarely broken. Martin Halusa, a managing partner at the firm since 2004, handed over the reins to new forty-something co-chief executives Mitch Truwit and Andrew Sillitoe in January, after hitting the age of 59. The duo were appointed after an election among the firm's partners, people familiar with the matter said at the time.
However, Gilmore agreed with Gunn that investors generally prefer to have one figurehead in charge, as "it would be unusual for a private equity firm to invest in a portfolio company which had three chief executives. You are looking for one person to be accountable."
Heir apparent
One fund investment manager at a large global investor expressed concern that the new wave of industry leaders would face challenges in taking on businesses from their founders, particularly in cases where the founder's "name is on the door". The investor added: "In the end, what does that say about their succession plan?"
However, reliance on a single individual could gradually become less of any issue as the industry becomes more institutionalised and less focused on figureheads.
Other private equity firms to have announced leadership changes in recent years include EQT Partners, which moved Conni Jonsson from managing partner to chairman last November, and Gresham Private Equity, which named Simon Inchley as its new chief executive to replace Paul Marson-Smith during the life of its next fund.
In cases where the change has been made with little fuss, investors pointed to positives that can come out of a handover. Ian Simpson, founder of placement agent and fund advisory firm Amala Partners, said investors liked stability and continuity but that they were keen to see top performers rewarded: "It is about evolution. They expect development to see the weaker performers weeded out, and younger executives come into the carry [carried interest]."
Buyout firms, Simpson said, could help themselves by notifying investors of senior management changes at least a "year ahead of fundraising if possible" in order to bring about "measured change".
But even in these situations challenges remain, such as convincing the best person to take the job. One executive at a large US investor said rainmakers within private equity firms were "not interested" in taking the role of chief executive or managing partner in many cases. He said: "Imagine moving from being a dealmaker to effectively managing a people business, full of difficult characters and personalities. Where do I not sign?"
Gilmore said buyout firms needed to be careful to ensure the right blend between a top-quality dealmaker and a manager of people. He added: "One of the challenges in finding a manager is that there are people who are good money managers and people who are people managers. Over the years, there have been instances where the person with the best track record has emerged as the leader. I don't think that is necessarily a recipe for success."
Gunn added that a wide range of factors needed to be considered before giving an executive the top job. He said: "Investors are rightly concerned about succession. Preferably, we want to see power handed over to people who internally have the respect of their team, normally those who have been the best investors. Private equity is all about performance and the leaders should have the right skills to continue to leverage a firm's expertise."
This article first appeared in the print edition of Financial News dated March 17, 2014


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Christianity and the Miraculous
Today, Palm Sunday, and throughout the rest of Holy Week, we devote ourselves to the central mysteries of our faith as Christians: Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The Last Supper, which instituted for us the mystery of the Holy Eucharist. The suffering and death of Christ on the cross. His resurrection on the third day.
These miracles are the very center of our faith. As Saint Paul said, if Christ did not rise from the dead, then our faith is in vain. Or to paraphrase Flannery O'Connor's use of rather more modern parlance, "If it isn't true, to hell with it."
This central miracle, Christ's death and resurrection, is the miracle which gives our faith meaning and sets it radically apart from the "he was a good man killed by the authorities for standing up for the poor" substitute which some propose. For if Christ was not God, if He did not rise from the dead, if He did not offer to us eternal salvation, then "he was a good man" is no half-way-there substitute. The resurrection is a miracle so unlikely, so scandalous that we must either embrace it wholly or reject Christianity with scorn. The events of Holy Week are not something we can accept half-way, and by accepting them we accept something which goes utterly and completely beyond the natural and predictable world. A miracle.
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Advent and Anti-Christ, Part II
Part II of my presentation of the four sermons on the Anti-Christ given by John Henry Cardinal Newman during Advent in 1835 before his conversion. Part I is here.
In this second sermon Newman concentrates on what we can glean of the Anti-Christ from Scripture and from the writings of the Fathers of the Church. One thing stands out in this sermon for me. The idea that the reign of the Anti-Christ may involve both ferocious atheism and a return to paganism. This seems like a contradiction, but Newman points to the French Revolution:
In that great and famous nation which is near us, once great for its love of CHRIST'S Church, since memorable for deeds of blasphemy, which lead me here to mention it, and now, when it should be pitied and prayed for, made unhappily our own model in too many respects,-followed when it should be condemned, and admired when it should be excused,-in the capital of that powerful and celebrated nation, there took place, as we all well know, within the last fifty years, an open apostasy from Christianity; not from Christianity only, but from every kind of worship which might retain any semblance or pretence of the great truths of religion. Atheism was absolutely professed; -yet in spite of this, it seems a contradiction in terms to say it, a certain sort of worship, and that, as the prophet expresses it, "a strange worship," was introduced. Observe what this was.


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Jorge Soler continues to knock around pitching at every level, last night he destroyed a baseball, a three run shot for the Iowa Cubs. Enjoy the video below, my guess is Soler will be doing this at Wrigley Field shortly.
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RUSH: We'll start here in my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California. It's Robbie. Great to have you. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Last week you were talking about why my generation doesn't have hope. I've been thinking a lot about that, and it struck me that for thousands of years of human history, for almost all the history of the United States, human beings have understood that we have a choice about how our lives are gonna play out, and we have a way to overcome our backgrounds, if we come out of a rough background.
But a movement has been mounting. You've talked about it before, but it's kind of taboo to talk about, I've found. A movement has been mounting throughout probably the nineteenth century, that grew momentum in the twentieth century, and possibly for the first time, it's been universally accepted in my generation that you're born with it. You don't have a choice, you're born with it.
"Dad was an alcoholic? You're gonna be an alcoholic. Your mom was a drug addict? you're gonna be a drug addict. You've got bipolar disorder? Oh, you were born with that. Take this medication. By the way, if you ever get off it, you're gonna commit suicide. It's what all our statistics tell us," and it seems to me that psychology and psychiatry and so-called science has been betraying my generation. Why would we have hope? We're told that we're born this way; we can't do anything about it.
RUSH: Robbie?
CALLER: Yes?
RUSH: You're right. You are more right than you even know. You have hit the nail on the head. Your generation is being told you don't have any choice. Not only that, your parents, they're causing the globe to get warm. They're causing global warming. Your parents are destroying your world -- and you are, too, if you're not doing the right thing. You are exactly right. In this country, because of freedom, you've always had a choice.
You can be a bum, you can choose not to work, you can choose to live on whatever you can be given, or you can make your way in life. Your generation is being told you don't have any choice, because you don't have any free will. You are predestined to misery and failure, because everybody around you is that -- and, as such, you must turn over your life to Democrats or the government or whoever who will protect you and coddle you and walk you through this misery and this maze.
You are so right.
I think she is so right about this. She's explaining why this fog of depression and pessimism has swept over the Millennial generation is because they are being told that theirs is a life of pre-destiny with no choice whatsoever, and it's all negative.
RUSH: Our last caller Robbie was from Sacramento, California. Robbie was right on the money. A big part of the American dream has always been upward mobility. But upward mobility is being mocked because it's unfair, because not everybody does it. It's not tolerated. It's not permitted, because not everybody can. I tell you what, she was so right on the money that I'm jealous. It is rare that a caller... Not caller.
It's rare that anybody comes up with something that I haven't thought of myself. But, boy, did she. Her generation... She heard me talk about this massive pessimism that has swept over Millennials and, well, people in general, but young people particularly. The depression, this fog bank of pessimism that seems to be blanketing everybody. And her point was we're being told we've got no choice. If my parents were alcoholics, I'm gonna be one. If my parents are bipolar, I'm gonna be one.
We have no free will.
We can't make anything of ourselves.
We're just got no choice. There isn't any possibility to succeed. We're hearing how rotten the country is. We're hearing how unjust and unfair the country is. There's no chance for us. We keep hearing that the days of each generation doing better than its parents are over (and she's right). People are inundated with a never-ending stream of pessimism and negativity from the Democrat Party, from the American media -- and, let's face it, probably quite a few people in general.
Because, as we all know, pessimism is easy.
Negativism is easy.
Upward mobility is made fun of, it's mocked, and now it's not even made possible. Upward mobility is not even deemed possible. And when it happens, it's unfair and unjust. There's gotta be something done about it. The smartest kids in the class? Lower them so as not to humiliate the kids that aren't doing as well. The left never seeks to elevate people to the highest level. They see people who reach heights greater than the average and bring them down.
There's a reason for this. As we have said before on this program, unlike Europe and the rest of the world, the US -- if left to its own devices, if left alone. If American free market and capitalism were left alone, there would not be a permanent underclass in this country. Permanent. There are always gonna be poor people because people are gonna make the wrong choices. You're always gonna have people drop out of school.
You're always gonna have people get pregnant at 15. You're always gonna have people get drugged up, all kinds of problems. But it isn't permanent, or hasn't been. But the Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass, folks. There's always been an underclass, don't misunderstand. But it's never been permanent. You could get out of it. You could make the right choices and get out of it. Do the right things, and you could get out of it.
Today's Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass, and if they have to they'll create one. That's what amnesty is all about, that's what immigration is all about: A permanent underclass of low-skilled, uneducated, low-expectation people, happy to just be here and be taken care of -- and vote Democrat in gratitude. "Gratitude." That's the name of the game today, and if this sounds cynical, I'm sorry. It's your problem because I'm just telling you.
Truth is my problem. The Democrat Party, because they want a permanent underclass, have done everything they can to make sure people that are in the underclass state there. They want to make sure that if you're in the underclass, you're stuck there. And of course this carries over to everybody else. Everybody in the underclass must stay there. You don't get out of it. That has slopped over to everybody else, even people in the lower middle class and the middle class.
Everybody's told, "You're stuck right where you are. You cannot improve yourselves. Those days are over," and it's not fair, by the way, that some people should improve themselves while you don't, because the left thinks "fairness" equals equality of outcome. So they convince people that they should turn their lives over to them, and they'll make it fair for 'em. They'll make the outcomes equal and nobody will have any more than anybody else, and nobody will be humiliated.
"You won't be envious or jealous 'cause nobody will have any more, except celebrities. They will. The elites. But that's okay because you'll never be one of those, and you know it. " All of this is relatively new. The United States never was a country that even talked about "class," because there was mobility throughout our culture. People were moving into and out of various economic classes all the time.
Rich people would lose everything.
People that had nothing would hit it big.
There was all kinds of flux and mobility, and people moving in and out of various levels of economic accomplishment or achievement. Class was never taught in schools. But now you cannot have a class that doesn't teach class warfare. Now you can't have an election that doesn't feature class warfare. Now we have an entire political party and political movement which is devoted to class warfare and creating resentment, pessimism, defeatism, and hatred, among the lower classes.
People in the lower class are told that they're there because what they used to have has been stolen from them. The people who are whatever you call it -- the rich, the achieved, or whatever? They're thieves, they're cheats, they're liars. "That money used to be yours! That prosperity used to be yours," you're told, "but they took it." How? "They got tax cuts in Reagan! Reagan gave 'em tax cuts and that's how they got your money. They're a bunch of mean, selfish, greedy rich people. Your money, they have it because of tax cuts."
The people that hear this and are eager for somebody other than themselves to blame, eat it all up. "That's right, Mabel! It wasn't my fault. I didn't do it. The rich stole everything I had. Reagan did it with tax cuts. That's why we gotta always oppose tax cuts for the rich. That's how they keep the money that they took from us." I ain't lying, folks. Robbie in Sacramento was exactly right. In school, before the multiculturalists got hold of the curriculum, Christopher Columbus used to be remembered for...
Well, actually not just for discovering America, but because he refused to become a saddle maker like his father and his father before him. It's one of the things that I was taught about Columbus. It wasn't just that he bravely set out for what everybody thought was the end of the world, the flat world. He was brave and courageous and all that, but he could have been a saddle maker.
Today, Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a racist, sexist, bigot who introduced racism, sexism, environmental destruction, bigotry, anti-gay attitudes, disease and all that by conquering and polluting what was a pristine paradise where the Indians lived. Columbus came and took everything they've got, took everything they had! Now look at what he's remembered for. Abraham Lincoln was held up on a pedestal.
Lincoln showed that a person could literally come from nothing and become president of the United States. These lessons are not taught today. Young people are taught just the opposite. The hopes and dreams and aspirations of young people today are being stomped on in order to perpetuate the myth that the American dream is dead, that you cannot improve your lot in life. Evil rich people (more than likely Republicans) have taken everything.
So what we're doing now, is we're getting it back from 'em. We're gonna take it from 'em. We're gonna take what you used to have, even though you don't remember ever having it, 'cause you never did really have it, but you're told that you did. They gonna take it from the rich, they're gonna soak it to 'em, and you sit out there and applaud it. "Right on! You stick it to 'em. You let 'em find out what it's like."
This is the kind of hatred, class warfare, and envy that is taught today. The hopes, the dreams, the aspirations of people are suppressed, stomped on, denied, laughed at, made fun of. "We can't have young people thinking they could move upward!" So we have to mock yuppies. We have to mock the successful. We have to make fun of people who take life seriously. They have to be nerds or something.
We have to make sure that they are viewed in derision, not respect. We have to make sure that the successful are maligned and impugned as thieves, as uncaring, selfish brutes. "You don't want to be one of those kind of people anyway." Celebrities and athletes are treated so special because that's how you live your silly dreams vicariously through them. Go on Facebook and pretend you're on the red carpet!
Tweet and follow a celebrity and pretend that you live in that world. Turn on E! Entertainment, TMZ, and pretend that that could be you someday. But it never will be, because you can't be that. Newt Gingrich the other day said, "The Republicans don't have an alternative to health care. There not a one of them, nobody. They shouldn't be talking about defunding it. There's no alternative." Would somebody...?
I want to get back to base. Would somebody tell me where in the Constitution it says we're entitled to that? My Constitution doesn't say anything about me being entitled to health care and certainly it doesn't say that you have to pay for it. My understanding, when I grew up, was that if you didn't go to school, if you dropped out, if you didn't try, if you had babies, if you became an alcoholic, if you basically lived your life like a piece of debris, that your life was gonna be pretty bad.
Because those were choices that you made that were not the best choices; they were poor. And not just me. Most everybody my age growing up was told that. You make those kind of choices, and your life is gonna be really bad. Your life is gonna be really sad. You're gonna be very disappointed. You're not gonna amount to anything, if you make those choices. So, don't do it. Those simple words "don't do it," they're made fun of, they're mocked.
"Easy for you to say, Limbaugh!"
But if you make certain choices, your life is gonna suck. By the same token, make the right choices and you've got a chance. But now the choices don't even exist. Kids are being told they don't even have the choice. "So go ahead and have the babies and go ahead and do the drugs and go ahead and have the booze, and go ahead and drop out of school, because over here is food stamps and unemployment for 99 weeks, and over there's a cell phone, and over there is a flat screen.
"You can watch TV all day long if you want and pretend that you're A-Rod, or whoever you want to be." But now the choices don't even exist in people's minds. The sad thing is, they do. The sad thing is, these Millennials have just as much choice as you and I did. They have a shrinking economy they have to deal with, but if they could get their minds right and if they were educated and informed properly, they could do things for themselves that would reverse the direction this country's going.
They could start voting for the right people, or they could at least start not voting for the wrong people. But I would submit that kids today are virtually encouraged to make bad choices because they're gonna end up in that permanent underclass the Democrat Party needs. Remember, the word is "permanent." Europe has always had one. We never have, until the modern era of the Democrat Party. We've always had an underclass, but it's never been permanent until now. But it doesn't have to be over.
RUSH: Let me ask you another question related to all this: Why do we give kids condoms? Why have we spent all of these years teaching them how to use them with cucumbers and bananas or whatever? Why have we been obsessed with giving kids condoms? Why, in other words, have we been obsessed with encouraging a behavior that equals a bad choice? Why? And then when people object to it, the left said, "But it's sex, Rush, and it's kids, and you can't stop 'em.
"They're going to do it. So we need to make it as safe as we can." Who says you can't stop it? We never used to have this kind of illegitimacy in this country. We never used to have 73% of the babies born without a father around. It never happened before. Not until you people came along. What do you mean, "we can't stop it"? What do you mean, "we can't teach kids who don't know anything right from wrong because they haven't been alive long enough"?
The answer always was: "You don't have the right to determine what's right and wrong, Rush." Well, what about good old-fashioned morality that served us for centuries? "It's your morality, Rush. You can't impose yours on other people." So there became no wrong, and there became no right to proclaim wrong. There was only, "Whatever choice the kid wanted to make, we are gonna facilitate it." So the left has actually participated in young people destroying their lives.
Why are we talking about legalizing drugs, by the way?
RUSH: This Alex in Pittsburgh. Great to have you. Thank you for waiting. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about my generation, the Millennials, and kind of this defeatist attitude that seems to be almost infecting our whole generation. I'm currently 24. I opened my own small business a year ago. But when I graduated from college, I was faced with kind of that same dilemma that a lot of people are. My generation seems to think that you get a diploma; now you're gonna get a job, which clearly isn't the purpose ofa business or anything.
So I was kind of faced with that decision. I had this great opportunity to open my own company, but at the same time, I was looking into all these different entitlements, 'cause you always hear all these things. "You can get this and you can get that." So I actually took the time to sit down and weigh the risks between opening my own business -- and obviously, you know, the chance that it fails within the first year, spending pretty much all the money I'd saved from working -- or going out and hunting down these entitlements and seeing what I could get. The difference was not only on the positive impact that would be lost on the community --
RUSH: Now, wait just a second. Wait, wait. Wasn't there a third option, unless I didn't hear everything -- and don't worry. We'll carry you over to the bottom-of-the-hour break, we don't make it. Your two options were welfare or starting your own business?
CALLER: No, I was kind of being facetious, but, I mean, not necessarily welfare. I was looking into that, because my thought was, "Okay, you have two options: You can work hard and contribute to the economy, or you can leech from the economy."
RUSH: Okay, got you.
CALLER: So, yeah, I kind of weigh those two options, and what I found was, assuming that you get through for the food stamps and Section 8 and everything, the lifestyle that I would have been able to live compared to the lifestyle that I did live -- this was a year ago -- was pretty comparable. But the difference is I actually have been working and building toward something. So, yeah, I lived a low standard of life for that year, maybe, but my hopes are that the work I put in now will pay off, and I think that kind of sentiment is just completely lost in my generation.
RUSH: For way too many, it is. But it's not all their fault. Many of them are told that they can't do anymore what you're trying!


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What is DrupalCon to you?
Yesterday, we had a Drupal Association Board Meeting to discuss upcoming DrupalCons. The meeting ran very long as we discussed and debated what criteria we should consider in selecting cities for DrupalCons in 2012, 2013 and beyond. Passions ran hot at times as we hashed out our thoughts on our evolving process for making these decisions.
- What is the purpose of DrupalCon?
- What components make for a great DrupalCon?
- What factors play into selecting a city for throwing a majorly successful DrupalCon?
In the end, I feel that we made a lot of progress in this meeting. This post is not a debrief of this meeting, though, but rather is a collection of some of my own thoughts about DrupalCon, shared as a member of the Drupal community.
Growing presents challenges
As Drupal continues to grow so quickly, the Drupal Association has been working hard to adapt. The community is many times larger than when I joined it over 6 years ago, even since when the Drupal Association launched in 2006.
- Members on Drupal.org are now
over 1 million515784. [I stand corrected. User id's are over 1000000, but many accounts have withered, were never used after registration, or turned out to be spammers who were blocked. And since about uid 600000 the uid numbers have been incremented by 52, not 1. Even so, that's a lot more than when I first joined.]
- There are more Drupal Meetups happening around the world ... and many meetups are growing in size.
- Drupal Camps in various cities are proliferating and growing. Many are now bigger than DrupalCons were just a few years ago.
No question: People want their Drupal, and they want their Drupal events.
Worldwide there are all kinds of Drupal community events of all sizes. For the Drupal Association, we've decided to focus our attention (for now) just on DrupalCons, as they are the most challenging to pull off, most expensive to produce, and are the only Drupal events that are primarily international in nature. Who else but the Drupal Association is in a position to produce DrupalCons?
(We've been testing ways to support regional Drupal Camps, and are looking for ways to help support Drupal Meetups, code sprints, hackathons, and other smaller community events that help people get better at Drupal and get more involved in the Drupal community. More on that in 2011....)
On the Drupal Association Board, I think we're all in general agreement that DrupalCon is about serving the Drupal community. But what that phrase "serving the Drupal Community" actually means can differ, depending upon whom you ask. Each of us on the Board has his or her own idea. This is what we ended up discussing in great depth — or as much as could be covered in 6 hours.
But difference of opinion about DrupalCon mirrors the diversity of the greater Drupal community. Indeed, yesterday, as word of our discussion got out, some people began tweeting thoughts and attitudes about DrupalCons. (I'm not going to try to characterize those tweets, or the thoughts of anyone else. We all have our own ideas. Perhaps you will share your own thoughts in comments below?)
It's about the community
Drupal is fabulously powerful software, no question. The ways it can be used to build quickly all kinds of powerful websites and web apps that otherwise would require potentially tens of thousands of programming hours to get off the ground make Drupal extremely appealing to businesses and individuals alike. I'm simply thrilled by the success Drupal has enjoyed in the online world, and delight being able to draw upon Drupal for solutions to challenges I face every day at work at PINGV Creative.
But to me, what makes Drupal a powerful force in the web design and development marketplace is the community.
When I go to DrupalCons, it's like getting a contact high. The collective energy of all these people, who are all there to learn about Drupal, get better at Drupal, meet people to work with on Drupal, hire people to work on Drupal, share what they're working on in Drupal, and just connect with other people in "real" life that they otherwise see only online, is invigorating. Code sprints, documentation sprints, theming sprints, keynotes that make you think, sessions that feed your brain, parties that help you wind down — DrupalCon is an experience in full.
As the community grows, how can DrupalCon adapt? So far, we've been making DrupalCons larger to accommodate demand. Naturally that's going to change the character of things. It takes more work to produce a DrupalCon now. A lot more work. It takes real money as well to secure the venue(s), buy the food, establish wifi for one of the most network-resource-demanding crowds of any conference per capita, build and maintain the website, handle ticket sales, staff the event, work with sponsors, and the list goes on and on.
This leaves us with a choice: Make DrupalCons small, and lock out thousands of people who want to come; or let DrupalCons grow, and find ways to underwrite the expense and effort it takes to throw a major event in a different city twice each year.
We've obviously gone the latter way, and for my part this is a good thing. The more people can get exposed to Drupal through DrupalCon, the better for Drupal. And yet it's not just about numbers. We want this to be about the community.
One commitment the Board made early on was to keep the ticket price affordable. People may differ on what's "affordable," but for me it means keeping it under about $100 per day. We want to make it easy for people curious about Drupal to drop by. We want it to be accessible to your average person living on a budget. And we have a scholarship program to provide free passes to people in particular financial need.
In short, if the event is too expensive, only the true believers who have the wherewithal to come will come, and we won't grow the community through this event. And that would be a failure, in my opionion.
But there are other ways DrupalCons can serve the community:
- Offer quality sessions that share knowledge. This has been a touchstone for every DrupalCon ever, but this doesn't mean other kinds of sessions don't slip through. I'm not all that thrilled about brag sessions, for example, where presenters show off something, but don't really share the how or what so that the attendees actually learn something more than "Joe certainly thinks very highly of himself." Or sessions where the presenter has 10 minutes of material, and then just fields questions (if there are any). I prefer sessions I can sink my teeth into. These are the kinds of sessions I try to create when I'm presenting.
- Provide ways for people to get involved. The code sprints are great, but lately they've had the image of being just for the elite developers — which is an essential part of DrupalCon, because when else will so many core developers be able to get in the same room for uninterrupted hours of collaboration? But also important are the quiet "coder rooms" we've had lately, where people can hunker down and get their hands dirty. And the birds-of-a-feather rooms where people can gather on a smaller scale to workshop or discuss whatever interests them.
- Revealing all kinds of things you didn't know you didn't know. It's also exciting to see what others are doing. The community is quite huge. There's so much going on that duplication of efforts can be a real problem. DrupalCon provides a great way to connect people across continents, and expose people to all kinds of things other people are doing, including oodles of things you never even knew was happening. That is exciting, and I feel provides a rush for many of us attending. Many, if not most, of us leave DrupalCon fired up to do more. You don't get that from a forum or IRC chat.
Community is the foundation. All else comes from that — the code, the business, the cool websites….
Clients follow the community, not the other way around
To me, this is how open source works. I'm sure many won't agree with me on this point. But the Drupal community came to be before the Drupal ecosphere. Today it may be hard to discern, because clients are such a huge part of the Drupal community. Professional paid Drupal work is a major driving force in Drupal development, and we definitely want to keep that paradigm going. Drupal can't thrive if it's only a hobbyist's technology.
And yet, my view is that the clients are there not simply because Drupal is the bee's knees. Drupal is a powerful technology, no question, but it's the community that makes Drupal's technological power credible. The thousands upon thousands of people all collaborating on the commons that is Drupal are really why Drupal is so great ... or at least a hugely major reason. In choosing any open source project, the savvy client looks at the strength of the community behind it. Drupal wins because of all of us thousands of people behind it, working ot make it better. Take the Drupal code as it stands today, and back it with a community of 100 people only, and you'll see usage of Drupal flatten and eventually drop.
Nobody wants to adopt an open source technology with weak community support.
By extension, I see DrupalCon as best benefiting the professional Drupal consulting ecosphere by focusing on building and strengthening the community, rather than focusing on making an event optimized for finding clients and making deals. I say this because if we do the former, the latter follows.
Someone has to pay for it
And this gets us back to cost, because if we can't keep DrupalCons affordable to people, the events will not be doing all they can to help build and strengthen the community.
Over the years, there have been complaints about how DrupalCon sponsors have become increasingly visible. Some have asserted that the Drupal Association focuses too much attention on sponsors.
Here's the thing: When events cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce, someone has to pay. If we keep the ticket costs down to make them affordable to a lot of people, the balance of cost has to be picked up by the sponsors. We want sponsors. We need sponsors. Otherwise we don't have events. Or we have ticket prices 2x, 3x, 4x more expensive.
And yet I also see sponsors as community members. We don't want to use up sponsors as if they're bamboo forests, expendable and replenishable. Our sponsors are part of our community. Most of the sponsors are in fact Drupal shops that comprise an important part of our community code, design and documentation efforts. DrupalCon sponsorships are not just revenue sources, they're also a major means for these companies and organizations to engage with and contribute to the community.
Sponsorship rates have gone up as the costs of events have gone up – and (very important) as attendance has gone up. My feeling is that we want to continue to offer a very diverse range of sponsorship opportunities, so that Fortune 500 companies can pony up big money for a big presence, while smaller shops can engage at lower financial levels. Over the various DrupalCons of recent years, there's been variable success at achieving this, and we're always looking for ways to do better.
What do you think?
I'm going to wrap up this rambling post here. What do you think? What makes a great DrupalCon? What would you like to see? What are DrupalCons getting right? How would you like DrupalCons to improve? What were your favorite DrupalCons of the past? And why?
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