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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Ragù alla Bolognese
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This looks and sounds just phenomenal. I can't wait to try it.ReplyDelete
I can always enjoy a great pasta dish and yours looks delicious. I have more trouble in the fall, deciding what to wear than what to cook. Our temperature range can be more than 40 degrees in one day.ReplyDelete
Oh bacon is ever so glorious, it is!! This ragu sounds GOOD! Your guests are so lucky to have you as their hostess!ReplyDelete
The end of Summer here in Germany has been cold and dreary (I am not complaining!). But ever since the first day of fall it's been warm and super sunny!
Wow, luckily we are done with that kind of heat here! Can I come over for dinner some time? I hear you can make that sauce in a pressure cooker in nothing flat! I'm gonna try it this winter.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Susi! I'm definitely trying this one. Oddly enough, the Mark Bittman recipe in Cooking Light this month is for bolognese, but his is "too healthy". I'm going with yours, haha.ReplyDelete
P.S. Made your sloppy joes this week. Huge hit!
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Girl... this looks fabulous. And I'm not just whistling dixie when I say that I'm going to be making it very soon.ReplyDelete
By the way, your blog is turning into quite the show piece.
I will trade you one 109 degree day for a dreary, cold, drizzly coastal day!!ReplyDelete
Love the sauce, perfect ingredients, this is one that will be a hit for the whole family!
even looks more beautiful than the real bolognese made here in Bologna.
Nesrine. From Bologna ,with love.
This looks so yummy! I like pasta cooked in this way!ReplyDelete
20 degrees cooler and I would be all over this one tonight. They call this the first day of fall?!ReplyDelete
Now, that's what I call comfort food! Sorry it's too hot for you to eat it...ReplyDelete
Looks and sounds delicious! You can never have too many pasta recipes:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM
Bei uns wird es endlich Herbst. Habe gestern Abend zum Treffen meiner deutschen Freundinnen endlich mal wieder eine lange Hose angehabt. Ach war das schoen (die Hose und meine Freundinnen zu sehen).ReplyDelete
Bolognese gibt es bei uns auch sehr oft, da es ein so schnelles, einfaches, aber doch sehr leckeres Essen ist.
Yummy, we are on the same page since I just defrosted a container of meat sauce yesterday even though it is summer here still also... I can't believe we are complaining though... may head to the beach this weekend, provided no rainReplyDelete
This looks really good- I'm wishing I had some for my dinner tonight! Our temps hovered around 100 today and I thought that was bad enough, but 109? It's time for fall!ReplyDelete
I love bolognese! Yours looks amazing!ReplyDelete
It's still pretty hot in my neck of the woods too - but that wouldn't stop me from eating this hearty bolognese! I'd even go back for seconds. It looks incredibly delicious!ReplyDelete
Looks so creamy and yummy! I'm hungry for sure!!ReplyDelete
lovely presentationReplyDelete
Pasta with Bolognese is one of my favorite all-time things to eat. I've made a recipe very similar to this one and my family always gobbles it up! It's one of those dishes where people will fight over the leftovers (if there are any).I love that you used the campanelle pasta. It looks really pretty!ReplyDelete
I love Bolgnese sauce, and it looks fabulous with that type of pasta.ReplyDelete
This is a definite comfort food even if it still remains in the low 100's in Arizona. Awesome, hearty pasta dish. You are just getting ready to make the transition to cooler weather:-) Me too, we are still in the 90's and I am craving cooler air and hearty dishes.ReplyDelete
Bacon, more meat, tomato sauce, pasta...heaven.ReplyDelete
Here's hoping our entire state will cool down soon! When I woke up to 54 degrees this morning, I had high hopes, but it managed to get into the 80s up here. I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must be to have to use AC in September!!!
You've shared another wonderful recipe with us, Susi. It looks and sounds delicious. I wish I could make the heat go away for you. It sounds terrible. Try to have a good weekend. Blessings...MaryReplyDelete
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Sorry for mistake on above removed comment. Your bowl of ragu looks like such a delicious comfort food, I know people who live in the desert get really tired of the extreme hot weather especially in the fall when everybody else is cooling off but soon the rest of us will be wanting to visit AZ for the warm winter weather just around the corner;)ReplyDelete
I so know what you mean...I'm ready for cooler weather - Fall/Autumn (or our version of it) and we're expecting a heat wave this weekend. I want soups and baking; sweaters and boots. :) I luv this Ragù alla Bolognese. Pasta is a winner with me. You've presented it beautifully!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness Susi, please come to my house and cook me dinner! That looks sooo good but then again anything with bacon is delicious. YUM! Thanks for sharing the recipe. :)ReplyDelete
I'm feeling you! It is still so warm here in Austin. I want to be dipping into soups and casseroles, but it is just still too hot! This is a great dish though...and I think I could eat pasta any day of the year. Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Looks great and tasty. I haven't had bacon for a while... Thanks for reminding... :)ReplyDelete
Susi - that's one of my favorite dishes and I've not made it forever. I think I'll try your version next time. Looks fantastic!! Kate @ kateiscookingReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM
I'm so, so ready for sweaters and crisp, cool days and comfort food. I love that you've found a comfort food that doesn't make you "stick your head in the freezer"...best way of putting it! I suppose in a few months, Arizona will be the place to be!ReplyDelete
Yum! This would be perfect for me to portion out for freezer lunches. Thick cut bacon, cheese and pasta? I'm in for sure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Ughh...109 degrees?! It has finally started to cool down here in Indy...a nice, crisp 52 degrees this morning. I am loving the change of seasons, but unfortunately that means winter and snow will soon follow. I will be wishing I lived in Arizona in a few months! Any who, this bolognese looks awesome...this would be a huge hit with my family! :)ReplyDelete
This looks amazing! This year has been a crazy one for weather! It's real hot here in Socal! I want some fall weather so I can make soup!!!ReplyDelete
that is one lovely dish of pasta.ReplyDelete
This looks fantastic. I love spaghetti bolognese so I'm sure this would fall in the same sighing-with-satisfaction wonderfulness.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your kind comment on my photo at Tomatoes on the Vine. :-) Your sauce looks SO delicious! Wonderfully thick, hearty and savory. :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2011 at 12:49 AM
Excellent recipe! It's hearty and fills all the lil nooks and crannies inside. One correction though....Guy says "That's money" or "So money". No 'on the'. Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete


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Magic, Illusion and the Science of the Brain
Illusion and magic are not only the province of magicians but also of well-known neuroscience researcher Stephen Macknik, who will be bringing his unique perspective on those subjects to the University of Illinois.
Macknik will be speaking Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Beckman Institute on the topic "Illusions and illusionists: How to fool the brain with magic and other tricks."
As co-author of articles bearing titles like "Magic and the Brain" and "Real magic: future studies of magic should be grounded in neuroscience" Macknik's research interests should be obvious. In Macknik's view, however, nothing in our worlds is quite what it seems.
Macknik and co-author and collaborator Susana Martinez-Conde are Laboratory Directors of the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in Phoenix, where they study various topics involving visual, sensory, and cognitive neuroscience. They are regular columnists for Scientific American, and have written for publications such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their work has been featured in national media such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio.
Macknik will be speaking at 4 p.m. in room 1025, the auditorium, of the Beckman Institute, which is located at 405 N. Mathews in Urbana.
Macknik and Martinez-Conde write in the abstract for the article "Illusions and illusionists: How to fool the brain with magic and other tricks" that studying the effects of sensory and cognitive illusions is critical to understanding how our brains work: "by studying illusions we are studying exactly what the brain is actually doing, and not just what we think the brain should be doing."
The researchers write that a good magician has the ability to turn the foundations of what we think of as reality – the laws of physics, probability, psychology and common sense – into liabilities: "Magicians are the premier artists of attention and awareness, and they manipulate our cognition like clay on a potter's wheel. … By understanding how magicians hack our brains, we can better understand how we work."

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Comparing and syncing files and folders
I deal with a lot of migrating files and folders as we update our servers and network attached storage. In doing so I normally script xcopy or xxcopy to do the hard work. When I am complete how do I know that the files are the same? I can right click on the folders and compare the results. But I also can start up a little open source magic.
I have found a small little application that will compare two directories easily and flawlessly. Check out the discription of Win Merge below:
WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
By firing up WinMerge you can see the files that match up or don't. It is similar to the file comparision utility that is build into Notepad++.
Once you see the files that are different (or everything is the same and you are happy!) you can choose to sync the directories up. This is a tool that is very simple and does its one function VERY well. Do you have another tool that can do the trick – and for free? If so we would love to hear about it in the comments below.
Use WinDirStat to see what is eating up your hard drive space.
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. You can grab a copy of it from this URL.
On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
•The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
•The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
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The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional to the size of the subtrees. The color of a rectangle indicates the type of the file, as shown in the extension list. The cushion shading additionally brings out the directory structure.
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There is an interesting report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development which shows the inflows of foreign population by nationality into Mexico in 2011, the last year available. Apparently, Mexico is not a very popular destination for immigrants.
21,464 - Total foreign immigrants into Mexico in 2011
4,260 - Total from the United States
849 - Total from Canada
Just for comparison, in 2011 the United States accepted 1,062,040 persons as legal permanent residents. The data set does not list the outflows of foreign population by nationality from Mexico. In fact, it does not list the immigration outflows at all.
The data does list the total foreign-born population residing in Mexico in 2009, the last year available:
262,671 - Total foreign born population in Mexico in 2009
59,996 - Total born in the United States
10,869 - Total born in Canada
So, let's do some noodling on the numbers. If every year 4,260 US born persons immigrate to Mexico, and there are a total of 59,996 US born persons living in Mexico, then that represents a 14-year supply of US immigrants living in Mexico [59,996/4,260 = 14]. If the average American retiree retires at age 65, and the average life expectancy in the US is around 80 years, then retirees live about 15 years after they retire. That means the highest number of retired and still living Americans we would expect to see in Mexico is around 60,000. This is precisely what Mexico counts as Americans living in Mexico. Imagine that!
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(He had no clue where I was going with that gallery wall either. I was collecting stuff for months and then just slapped it all up there one day. He has since admitted that he likes it though.)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Ask Away Friday: Week 5
(He had no clue where I was going with that gallery wall either. I was collecting stuff for months and then just slapped it all up there one day. He has since admitted that he likes it though.)
23 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 2:28 AM
I think your answers are always so fun. Mine these week are pretty serious. Camii asked me very deep questions for me this time around lol. Lol at painting! Did you paint murals in your girls' rooms? Another art project maybe?ReplyDelete
Thank you!! Your answers were pretty deep, but beautiful. I don't have murals anywhere in my house! The only one I've ever done was the one I posted for one of the previous AAFs and I was paid to do it. Painting has never been my favorite art form. I can't even paint my nails!Delete
lol Look whose talk Britt, you took me way back on lessons learned :). Its great that you valued the parenting skills of your parents and passing on to your own. I hope I'm doing that with my kids now. I always remember growing up saying to myself I'm going to be a different mom. Hope I did make a difference. It was fun reading about you and the glass of wine with a straw Love IT!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sure you did make a difference. I think learning from what we experience always impacts the was we do things, but sometimes we become our parents without even realizing it!! HAHA..that pic is great isnt it? That's actually Lauren, the woman I exchanged with. She answers my questions at Realhousewifeofnova. Thanks for coming over Camii!Delete
Cute! I think most people will get a kick our of such an awesome DIYer/Art teacher say "I hate painting" ;) Even the most fab DIYers can get annoyed with DIY.ReplyDelete
I actually love anytime I can get my hands on a paintbrush or paint roller! It's weird, I'm not super skilled but give me some paint and I'm gone... off in my world.
Your parents sound so sweet :) We make Christmas Eve just a special as Christmas day for the kiddos here too.
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday but Christmas is creeping in... it's so special with the kiddos.
Funny isn't it? I think it's a patience issue in general (I'll mix colors, then have to walk away from the project, come back and they're all dried up! SO frustrating.) And with painting walls, its just so boring to me. I'm a details gal (in case that's not glaringly obvious ;) I heart Christmas. It would be perfect if it snowed on Christmas, and then spring started in January.Delete
My absolute fave response: "I'm also not nearly a sane as I used to be." LOL! This should really be a motherhood motto! LOL! I love Halloween too we grew up having Halloween parties every year complete with costume contests! I might have to try those buffalo wing pretzels they do sound delish! ;-)ReplyDeleteReplies
LOL. True for all moms, right? Please try them and let me know. I was addicted immediately. I really need to start working on a post to share all the cotumes we've done through the years...So fun isn't it? No idea what we're doing this year though...Delete
Ok...you've peaked my interest with that Pizza of yours...garlic and mustard? Really? LOL I always get love reading your answers and this week is no different. I'm so happy you're a part... xoxoxoReplyDeleteReplies
It is SOOOO good Tiffany. I don't know if pizza places generally serve it, it's just this one place by my house and my neighbor got me in to it. Ive only had it once because my husband doesnt like it and I have been dreaming about it ever since!Delete
EEEK, I have so many comments! I am stealing the baby powder footprints this easter for E! We also have always made a bigger "to do" over xmas eve..are you Italian by any chance? Love Anna Kendrick! I can't wait to have my mustard pizza (it wasn't JUST a question, I truly did invite myself over : P) I am the only person in my family who eats mustard LOVE IT! love this blog!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM
I love your gallery! I have always wanted to do something like that in our house to show off my kids' art works but haven't gotten around to it!ReplyDelete
I'm with you on the cooking, and I think soup and grilled cheese sounds perfect! So glad I found you through AskAwayFriday - have a great weekend, Meg!ReplyDelete
I love that gallery wall and also the green cabinets! I would never have thought to do either one! Then again, I am not much of a DIY'er. I wish I was though. My Pinterest has tons of great DIY projects...most of which I will never do!ReplyDelete
I love your answers. Now I'm curious about that pizza. Need to visit US soon. :)ReplyDelete
That gallery wall is awesome ! xoxo
Oh MY! Your house is precious! Loooove the mint green cabinets in the kitchen. I struggle in the kitchen myself. Thank goodness for hubby!ReplyDelete
We are kindred spirits in the kitchen! I love to eat, I mean Lurvvee to eat, but I can't stand the cooking part. I'll reheat leftovers three days in a row to avoid making a new meal. But I have promised myself for the sake of my girls to get better in there.ReplyDelete
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In case you missed last week's fitness update where I shared my "meal plan", the fit front has changed quite a bit for me in recent months. I have never felt better. Really! I find it so fascinating how being less strict and less disciplined makes for the best. I read this article that interviewed people living past the age of one hundred. NONE of them were runners, bodybuilders, or super disciplined in their diet. One even said that his secret to long life was NOT eating healthy! This all made me understand a little more why my current approach to fitness is working so well. Extremes of any kind are not good for us. Our society loves extremes. So many of us eat ALL the junk or we make the way we eat and exercise our identity! This is not right.
In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool—
why die before your time?
18 It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.
Ecclesiastes 7:15-18
Why die before your time? I am definitely NOT saying that I think we should just throw all caution to the wind and eat a bunch of junk, drink a bunch of boos, and start a smoking habit (ew.) Definitely not. But what I do know is that this article just goes to show that God has a day planned for each of us that we will die and it doesn't matter what we eat or drink or even smoke, we will not die until that day. In the meantime, are our choices going to enhance or hurt our wellbeing? Is what we are eating and what we are drinking making us the best vessel for God's work?
I can definitely attest to the fact that a lifestyle of drinking, smoking, and poor eating habits will lead to poor health and a poor state of mind. You may not die, but you will feel close to it! But at the same time, being super strict and pushing yourself to the max for every single workout can be bad too. A healthy amount of exercise will lift your mood and energize you to better tend to your priorities. But too much exercise may give you defined abs, biceps, and a thigh gap but will drain you and leave you with no energy for life! That's what was happening to me. My workouts were leaving me with no energy for the things that I really needed to be doing. Little things like, oh you know, managing my household.
Diet is another beast in itself. From experience, I can say that it is a thousand times true that restriction only leads to weight GAIN. Our minds do not want to feel deprived. They will torture us unit they feel satisfied! That is why when we are on a diet that restricts certain foods or food groups, binging is inevitable. It may be days, weeks, months, or even years but when we give in, we give in HARD. I dieted for twenty-one years. I was never satisfied after meals. I ate ALL of whatever was in front of me. It didn't matter how much water I drank or how many vegetables I bulked my meal up with, I could always eat more. People would make comments about the size of my meals all the time but I could have honestly eaten two or three of them and sometimes did! When I think of eating that much now, it seems daunting. But the fact was that even though I was eating loads of proteins and vegetables and all things healthy, I was still deprived.
We have all followed a diet that says it is going to work because it doesn't deprive us. The thing is, they DO deprive us! Who wants a bite of dark chocolate? No one. They want a brownie. Or two brownies. They want to eat their daily allotment sweet but then if someone makes cookies they want to say yes to one of those too!
What I have learned is this is ok and better than being "good" for days or weeks or months and then falling victim to the inevitable binge that will ensue because my mind is perceiving deprivation. God gave us beautiful foods like quinoa and spinach but He also gave us chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake and wants up to enjoy them in a healthy way. Thank you, Lord!
Maybe today celebrate God's sovereignty with something you truly enjoy.


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These positions often require a bachelor's degree in a discipline like recreation administration. Sometimes, professional experience in physical education is helpful as well. Usually, having a combination of recreational skills and an administrative background, along with good record-keeping abilities, is important in many recreation manager jobs. Many recreation programs require a combination of formal education, culminating in a degree, plus a certain amount of experience in the field. In other places, a recreation manager can be certified in the field, without necessarily having a degree.
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@clintflint - Any kind of management position is difficult and requires experience. But I do think people are more likely to get the job if they work their way up the ladder, rather than trying to start as a manager right out of college.
In my experience, they will almost always hire from within the company or organization, and if you've got your eye on a particular place you're better off trying for an entry level position there and being patient.
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@Fa5t3r - Well, that's a pretty specialized kind of recreation manager though. I don't think you'd have to have much more than a management degree to go into another kind of facilities management. It's different if you're having to organize the care of a natural environment, but people who are in charge of a normal park don't have to worry that much about that.
They just have to look after activities, maybe a few staff and report to whoever owns the area. I don't think it's the kind of thing you need extensive years of experience doing.
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I think, like most managerial positions, there are a lot of different ways to get into this kind of job.
I mean, if you're talking about something like a National Park, they obviously aren't going to let someone with just a degree in business management get into the recreation management there. They'll want someone who has experience as a ranger, or at least working with the outdoors, rather than someone who only has experience with people and the bureaucratic side of things.
Which is not to say that that kind of degree would hurt your chances, but that would have to be backed up with other kinds of experience, I'd imagine.
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The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
February 21 - May 9, 2016
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
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February 21 - May 9, 2016
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
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The Barnes Foundation, in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, premieres Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change. On view February 21 through May 9, 2016 at the Barnes, the exhibition will then travel to the Columbus Museum of Art in June. Curated by Simonetta Fraquelli, an independent curator and specialist in early twentieth-century European art, the exhibition explores Pablo Picasso's work between 1912 and 1924, highlighting the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began to alternate between cubist and classical modes in his art.
Inspired by the Columbus Museum of Art's Picasso Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914-15 and the Barnes's extensive Picasso holdings, Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change features some 50 works by Picasso drawn from major American and European museums and private collections. The show includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and four costumes the artist designed for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, in 1917. Some 15 other important canvases by Picasso's contemporaries—including Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, and Diego Rivera—will also be presented.
"A radical shift occurred in Picasso's work in 1914," notes curator Simonetta Fraquelli. "Following seven years of refining the visual language of cubism, he began to introduce elements of naturalism to his work." This change in his production can be viewed against the backdrop of an unsteady cultural climate in Paris during the First World War. Many people identified the fragmented forms of cubism with the German enemy and therefore perceived it as unpatriotic. This negative impression reverberated throughout Paris during the First World War and may have been a factor in Picasso's shift in styles. However, Fraquelli states, "What becomes evident when looking at Picasso's work between 1914 and 1924, is that his two artistic styles—Cubism and Neoclassicism—are not antithetical; on the contrary, each informs the other, to the degree that the metamorphosis from one style to the other is so natural for the artist that occasionally they occur in the same works of art."
Included in the exhibition will be major works from the Picasso museums in Barcelona, Málaga, and Paris, including, respectively: Woman with a Mantilla (Fatma), oil and charcoal on canvas, 1917; Olga Kholklova with a Mantilla, oil on canvas, 1917; and Femme Assise, oil on canvas, 1920.
The exhibition also features four costumes that Picasso designed for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, which premiered in Paris in 1917. These are: Costume for Chinese Conjurer (original), and reproductions of The American Manager, The French Manager, and The Horse. Performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with music by Erik Satie, story by Jean Cocteau and the choreography of Léonide Massine, Parade was the first cross-disciplinary collaboration of its kind. The ballet, which tells the story of an itinerant theater group performing a sideshow, or a parade, was viewed as a revolutionary approach to theater. Picasso was the first avant-garde artist involved in such a production – not only designing the costumes, but also the theater curtain and set. Included in the exhibition will be a watercolor and graphite sketch of the curtain design, and a pencil sketch of the Costume for Chinese Conjurer. Picasso drew inspiration for his designs from the modern world – everything from circuses and carousels, to music halls and the cinema. With Picasso's inventive, geometric costumes and naturalistic curtain design, Parade can be seen as the ultimate fusion of cubist and classical forms.
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The FINANCIAL –Occupational therapy eases depression in patients with age-related macular degeneration. With any type of medical condition, a loss of independence can lead to growing feelings of depression. People living with age-related macular degeneration experience a gradual erosion of their independence as failing eyesight makes simple tasks such as navigating their homes or reading medicine bottles quite difficult.
A study published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science examined two therapeutic approaches to macular degeneration rehabilitation and how they affected patients' levels of depression. In the study, subjects were provided with the same baseline low-vision optometry evaluation and in-office patient training, and then split into two groups. The first group received six one-hour, in-home sessions with an occupational therapist, who helped the patients work on practical lifestyle tasks such as writing checks, measuring ingredients and pouring liquids. The second group received an equal amount of time with a counselor, who engaged in supportive talk therapy about their vision loss and disability, but offered no pragmatic advice on how to complete chores or navigate their environment.
After four months, researchers assessed the progress of both groups. The patients who received the occupational therapy showed greater improvement in their ability to perform daily activities than those who did not. (The talk therapy participants did experience some improvement, likely attributed to the initial low-vision optometry sessions and possibly from the encouragement they received from the in-home counselor.) The researchers also concluded that when patients improved in their functional ability, their level of depression decreased, according to AOA.
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"This study reveals something that we have experienced clinically for many years," says Jason Clopton, O.D., a member of the AOA's Vision Rehabilitation Committee and owner of the Center of Vision Development in Cookeville, Tennessee.
"Occupational therapists teach patients how to function with less-than-optimal vision. The little things like getting around or even pouring a cup of coffee can be difficult for our patients with low vision. Therapy makes the activities of daily living more functional."….
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Cities around the world look with envy at places like Tel Aviv, Boston, Cambridge, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. After all, these regions have managed to attract a critical mass of talent and capital that yields a vital stream of ever-expanding start-up activity.
To be sure, such entrepreneurial booms create challenges for their policymakers, as the rising tide of wealth does not lift all boats. People who are unable to participate in the start-ups end up paying higher rents – as happened when social media ventures flocked to San Francisco's South of Market area – and more people clog highways and strain public transportation.
Start-up Commons Attract Entrepreneurs
Who Build for the Region's Future
But on balance, the benefits outweigh the costs of a vital Start-up Common (see figure) — six regional elements: pillar companies, universities, human capital, investment capital, mentoring and values — that get strengthened in each generation of start-up success and failure. The benefits include lower unemployment rates, rising wages and housing values, and higher tax revenues.
If your city lacks a robust Start-up Common, what can you do to create one? This is a question that I have spent the last four months talking about with policymakers in Worcester, Massachusetts, Barcelona, the Azores; and Santiago, Chile.
Read on for examples of how Tel Aviv and Ithaca transformed themselves into hotbeds of start-up activity and three principles that your region can follow to get started on that journey.
Creating a Start-up Common requires a region to convert potential entrepreneurs into actual ones. First, create an environment that appeals to local entrepreneurs. An independent-minded subset of entrepreneurs I call pioneers– contrary to "buzz," which herds entrepreneurs to, say, Boston's Seaport district – see a sleepy city like Worcester to be a great place to live, work and play.
Such pioneers decide that opening a business in a less vital region will help them to attract and retain local talent while paying lower rents and other operating costs. If these pioneers achieve financial success, they will attract more entrepreneurs who will be better able to attract private capital investment. This will create a success cycle that can boost the level of entrepreneurial activity in your region.
Here are two examples of regions that did just that: Tel Aviv transformed itself from a city that bought into Israel's socialist values to a start-up haven and Ithaca, NY turned its universities' technology and people into a vital Start-up Common.
Israel: From Socialism to Start-up Nation
Israel has lots of start-ups now. In 2012, 660 Israeli high tech companies received $1.9 billion in venture capital, of which a mere 24% came from local investors, according to IVC Research Center estimates and Canaan Partners' Izhar Shay. For perspective, in 2012 Silicon Valley startups received $10.9 billion and New England start-ups received $3.2 billion that, according to PWC's MoneyTree survey.
Up until the 1970s, Israel was a socialist country but the cancellation of a government-funded military jet project threw 10,000 workers and 50,000 contractors out of work. Reckoning that the era of all-providing government was over, Israelis started companies that would commercialize military technologies. NICE Systems, for example, developed technology to record sound for companies such as insurers and it went public three years later.
Another start-up, Gilat Satellite Networks, developed a communications system using military satellite technology that enabled retailers to validate peoples' credit cards fast. Gilat sold its product to big U.S. companies in 1985 and in 1988 had a $100 million IPO, which was then a big number.
The 1990s brought to Israel about a million Russian immigrants, many of whom were trained as mathematicians, physicists and engineers. The government created Yozma, a tiny, $2 million project to draw global venture capital to Israel. Yozma matched every $1 in investment from a U.S. venture capital firm with $2 from the Israeli government. When the VC sold its shares, Israel required the VC to repay the $2 to the Israeli government – leaving most of the profits for to the VCs. Yozma ultimately co-invested $100 million with 10 foreign VCs.
Israel also sponsored incubators that took equity in the start-ups and big companies such as Intethat hired entrepreneurs for R&D. According to Keshet's Steve Gray who worked with Intel Capital in Israel, beginning in 1991, Israel's chief scientist paid entrepreneurs for two years' worth of R&D if he/she kicked in 20% of the start-up's capital. According to Gray, Intel and Teva, a generic pharmaceutical company, were among this program's corporate sponsors that covered operating expenses.
These programs – plus the demonstration effect in which envious VCs wanted to get in on the Israeli start-up investment success of their more adventurous peers — have spurred investment in Israeli start-ups that have yielded good returns.
Ithaca Links Universities To Business
Ithaca's unemployment rate of 5.7% is significantly below the 7.5% national average. This low unemployment rate can be attributed to Ithaca's entrepreneurial success, stemming from collaborations between universities and businesses. Cornell University and Ithaca College "poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy and created thousands of jobs for everyone from professors to landscapers, and also fostered new companies," according to the New York Times.
Ithaca's mayor, Svante Myrick, said that Ithaca had been successful "because our universities have partnered with our private industries." The Times went on to praise the partnership, acknowledging a strategic relationship between the two sectors extended beyond simply businesses selling "sandwiches and beds" to visitors and students.
Four Start-up Common elements highlight the biggest reasons for Ithaca's success.
Universities: Cornell has two centers that spur startups: "the Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, which manages licenses for a range of tech and other inventions, and the Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences," according to the Times. And Cornell plans to open a business incubator in downtown Ithaca later in 2013.
Human capital: Local graduates choose to stay in Ithaca. Ithaca's "colleges and community entrepreneurs help create everything from skateboard companies to high-tech startups," reported the Times. More than half of Ithaca's residents older than 25 hold a bachelor's or higher degree. As Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, a nonprofit development group told the Times, "This is the classic place where you have baristas with Ph.D.s. You have people with incredible skill sets who choose to remain here."
Investment capital: In Ithaca, venture capitalists that are in upstate New York or that invest in upstate New York put capital in Ithaca first, according to the Times.
Values: Ithaca values the ability to monetize intellectual property and progressive initiatives to boost diversity and sustainability. As Robert M. Simpson, the president of the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity, told the Times, Cornell and Ithaca had been "increasingly successful in translating that into patents, license income and startups," which in turn create jobs for local residents.
Attracting More Start-ups To Your Region
Regions with the most start-up activity apply three principles when shaping policies to attract start-ups:
- Build the Common's resources to attract a specific industry. Entrepreneurs locate where the Start-up Common's six key elements best match the resources that are most critical for their start-up's growth. For example, Israel's strong military and entrepreneurial human capital spawned companies such as Check Point Software and Imperva that are global leaders in information security.
- Create an environment where industry leaders want to live, work, and play. Well-established Start-up Commons host industry-specific resources – such as engineers, marketers, and capital providers that specialize in fields such as information storage or mobile consumer services. Entrepreneurs locate close to the resources that fit their start-up's industry. As Ithaca's mayor has done, policymakers should create places to live, work and play that will make it easier for entrepreneurs in the industry in which a region specializes to hire the talent they need.
- Articulate clear regional values backed by action. Of the six start-up common elements, values are among the most important. Two value dimensions – appetite for risk and investment horizon — are crucial for entrepreneurs picking the right Start-up Common. For example, Silicon Valley's leadership flows from its high appetite for risk and willingness to wait a long time for a return on investment. If an entrepreneur lives in a Start-up Common that is risk-averse and has a short-term investment horizon, she may want to relocate her venture. Policymakers should follow the examples of Ithaca and Israel to shape their values in a way that attracts entrepreneurs.


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The tax base in many areas of United States has been absolutely devastated as millions of jobs have left the country. Hundreds of cities are drowning in debt and are desperately trying to survive.
Last year, city government revenues in the United States fell by another 2.3 percent.
That was the fifth year in a row with a decline.
So what are cities doing to make
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all U.S. cities are laying workers off this year. Social services and
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Below an incredible collection of stories from the hellholes:
Street lights get repossessed because of unpaid electric bills
Police does no longer prosecute domestic violence cases in order to save money.
Municipality stops sending out pension checks to retired workers.
City rips up asphalt roads and replaces them with gravel because gravel is cheaper to maintain.
City eliminates the entire public bus system.
Nearly half of all the people in Detroit can't read.
One out of every ten homes sells for under $10,000.
You can literally buy a house for one dollar.
Hundreds of people living in the tunnels underneath the streets.
Nearly half of the public schools in the city shut down because of a lack of money.
10 most dangerous cities in the world.
Prostitution and drug dealing are two of the only viable businesses that remain.
Police chief announces that the police department will no longer respond to calls about burglary and identity theft due to very deep budget cuts.


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Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-SC) office is reporting that following major capitulation by Democrats on the bans on exploration and drilling for offshore oil and oil shale, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is attempting to slip a new ban on oil shale unseen into the financial bailout deal bill. Sounds familiar; if you can't win in public, sneak it into a completely unrelated bill when nobody's paying attention.
Americans for Prosperity has a response up.
Here's an idea, Sen. Reid…along with that stealth ban, why not slip in your own bank account number so we can recoup the extra money we'll be paying for gas in the absence of the 800 billion to 2 trillion barrels of oil we won't be able to get anywhere near?
(Via Malkin. Hot Air has more links.)
UPDATE: As commenter jonolan remarks, at least now we know one reason Sen. Reid was so hasty to wave McCain away from Washington this week.


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Sprint has quietly launched what may be its most aggressive promotion yet.
The carrier said on Tuesday that, for a limited time, it would give select customers who switch from Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile a free year of its "unlimited" LTE data plan.
According to a page for the promotion on Sprint's website, the deal will last until June 30. Sprint says there's no requirement to change numbers, and that it'll let up to five lines switch over at once.
You'll have to pay a $30 activation fee upfront, but Sprint says it will repay that within two billing cycles. There are a couple other fees required beyond that, but they only amount to a couple bucks a month. You will have to cover the $13 or so it costs to get a Sprint SIM card, though.
From there, you're on Sprint's "unlimited" plan, which, like all of its peers, isn't truly unlimited. Most of what you'd do is left alone, and you can stream video up to a 1080p resolution, but LTE mobile hotspot data is capped at 10 GB a month per line (you're bumped down to 2G speeds after that), and your speeds may be temporarily slowed in congested areas if you use more than 23 GB in a given month.
Because this is still a mobile carrier we're talking about, there are a few other caveats to the promotion:
- It only applies to those who are new to Sprint.
- Only some phones are eligible for the upgrade. You can check Sprint's promo page for a full list, but it boils down to every iPhone since the iPhone 5C, recent Google Nexus and Pixel phones, a few Moto phones, and "special edition" Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S8 phones.
- Sprint says you have to own the phone in the first place. So the promotion is a no-go if you're in the middle of a monthly installment plan.
- The phone must be unlocked and work on Sprint's network. A handful of the iPhone options will only be eligible if you're switching from Verizon because of this.
- If you take up the offer and upgrade to a new phone before October 1, you'll lose the free service, and will have to pay for Sprint's unlimited plan like any other customer. After October 1, you can switch to a new phone and keep the discounted plan for the rest of the year.
- You have to enroll in auto-pay billing.
- The deal isn't eligible to those switching from an MVNO like Cricket Wireless or MetroPCS.
If you can wade through all of that, Sprint says the discounted service will last until July 31, 2018. After that, you'll have to pay $60 a month for one line, $40 a month for a second, then $30 a month for additional lines. Sprint says there's no requirement to pay for service once your discounted year is up; its hope is that you'll be coerced to stick around regardless, in part because its unlimited plan is the most affordable of the big four.
Sprint sits firmly in fourth place among the major US mobile carriers in terms of total subscribers. Verizon and AT&T have faced declining growth as of late, but still have big bases of subscribers to sell to. T-Mobile, meanwhile, has surged in recent years on the back of aggressive discounts and marketing, passing Sprint along the way. Sprint's network continues to be seen as lagging behind its peers, too.
Rumors of a potential T-Mobile-Sprint merger persist, but as it is now, Sprint seems to be feeling the heat to get more subscribers onboard.
At first blush, it also seems as if Sprint is losing money off the promotion. For what it's worth, a company spokesperson told Business Insider that the deal is only available online, not in retail stores, and that it's only advertising the promotion through cheaper digital channels to keep the costs of customer acquisition down.
The company also asserted that its network has the capacity to handle any spike in subscribers the deal might cause.
Though the deal is technically available to AT&T and T-Mobile users, Sprint's marketing campaign here is aimed squarely at first-place Verizon. "Stop feeling ripped off by Verizon," reads the top of the promo page on Sprint's website.
Verizon, for its part, doesn't seem too happy about that. "They're offering their network for nothing. Because that's what it's worth," Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon's VP of communications, said in an emailed statement.
Corporate sniping aside, the deal mostly appears to be sound for those looking for a bargain. Just make sure Sprint's service is acceptable in your area if you decide to take the plunge.


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"300 year old Engravings Shed Light on Women in Science" The slide show focuses on the work of the sisters Anna and Susanna Lister, whose drawings and copper plate engravings for their father, Martin Lister's Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-1692). [The Slideshow is no longer available via Nature. See the link to Anne Marie Roos for a view. Sept. 22, 2019]
Historian Anne Marie Roos stumbled upon them while researching a biography of Lister for Oxford's Cultures of Knowledge project. They are just wonderful illustrations and again do much to illuminate the contributions of women to Natural History before science became the domain of disciplined scientists and exclusive science societies.
When the English naturalist and physician Martin Lister wrote home from France to his wife Hannah in 1681, he explained that he was enclosing a box of oil colours for his oldest two daughters, 11-year-old Susanna and 9-year-old Anna Lister, to paint with. He also asked her to lock away the precious pencils he was sending, "for they know not yet the use of them."Susanna Lister also illustrated Anthony von Leeuwenhoek's letter "concerning the appearances of several woods and their vessels as observed in a microscope" (A. Leewenhoeck Philosophical Transactions. 13, 197–208; 1683).
But within a few years, Lister was relying on the teenage Susanna and Anna to illustrate his landmark compendium of all known shells, the Historiae Conchyliorum, which was assembled between 1685 and 1692, and which was later cited by Charles Darwin. Lister was vice-president of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's academy of sciences, and his daughters were also pressed into service to illustrate a number of letters published in the society's journal, Philosophical Transactions. Historians now believe the pair were the first women to use microscopes to help produce some of their scientific drawings.
It is a great series of 13 slides and well worth the few minutes to view them.
See as well the article by Jean H. Langenheim "Early History and Progress of Women Ecologists: Emphasis Upon Research Contributions" (Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1996. 27:1-53) covering the period from c.1860-1975.
[Updated November 18, 2017, September 22, 2019]
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Audubon's Birds and some often Overlooked Contributions of Women to Natural History
A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790-1874)
Podcast - Charleston's Women Naturalists: Jennifer Scheetz, Archivist, Charleston Museum
The "American School": A brief timeline of the Monogenist/Polygenist Debate.
Notes on Royal Society's "Types of Mankind" post
Review of America's Other Audubon (Brain Pickings Blog)


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Prime Minister's XI v Sri Lanka 2017
Sri Lanka seal win in PM's XI clash
Sri Lanka skipper Upul Tharanga's unbeaten 47 and a star turn from the returning Lasith Malinga helped the visitors to a five-wicket win in Canberra
15 February 2017, 11:48 PM AEST
Sri Lanka have tuned up for their three-match T20 series against Australia in style by dispatching a Prime Minister's XI in Canberra.
Set 170 for victory, the Sri Lankan openers came out all guns blazing and put 69 on the board in the first six overs in Wednesday night's tour match at Manuka Oval.
Chief destroyer Niroshan Dickwella smashed eight fours and an audacious six scooped over third man on his way to 47 off 26 deliveries as he and stand-in skipper Upul Tharanga dominated the powerplay.
An attempted paddle sweep brought about Dickwella's demise and he was caught behind off 18-year-old offspinner Arjun Nair.
That brought Dilshan Munaweera (32 off 19) to the crease as he linked up with Tharanga for a 53-run partnership.
With Sri Lanka looking destined for victory, part-time spinner D'Arcy Short (2-19 off three overs) picked up Milinda Siriwardana (25) and Chamara Kapugedera (0) in successive balls and nearly had a hat-trick with Seekkuge Prasanna beaten all ends up by a full delivery.
But it was too late for the home side, with the tourists cruising home to win by five wickets with 17 balls to spare.
Sri Lanka's poor fielding had cost them after winning the toss and electing to bowl, with PM's XI captain Adam Voges (54no) and Sam Heazlett (58) scoring half-centuries after being dropped early in their innings.
Voges, playing in the match marking the end of his international career, confidently pushed the ball around Manuka in front of more than 7500 people, hitting four fours and one six.
After almost a year out of cricket due to illness and injury, Lasith Malinga took four balls to find his range, knocking Short's middle stump out of the ground.
The delivery was an immediate reminder of the potency Malinga poseses, wtih the searing inswinging yorker almost unplayable.
The delivery will not have gone unnoticed by the Australians, who this week identified Malinga - well known to Big Bash audiences for his record six-wicket haul with the Melbourne Stars - as a dangerman in the three-match series.
Quick Single: Aussies wary of Malinga return
Vikum Sanjaya was the pick of the bowlers and was crowned man of the match for his 3-26 off his four overs, while Malinga finished with 1-26 after getting the ball to swing early and finding the mark with his yorkers.
Sri Lanka travel to Melbourne for the first match against Australia on Friday night before the series moves to Geelong on Sunday and finishes in Adelaide on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford it was important to start on a winning note.
"We've had quite a bit of travel over the last three days ago. For the boys to get out and play pretty well was important," Ford said.
Ford said Malinga spent a lot of time during the fielding innings speaking with Sanjaya while he was bowling.
"A guy like Malinga makes a huge difference," he said.
"To have somebody like that at his side encouraging him and helping him and advising you just can't get better."
Heazlett said Sri Lanka had used the slower ball well, but the side felt they had made a competitive total
"It was a good total definitely defendable but they batted really well," Heazlett said.
"We probably could have improved in the field and with our bowling and even batting as well."
PM's XI: D'Arcy Short, Joe Burns, Sam Heazlett, Hilton Cartwright, Alex Carey, Adam Voges (c), Jason Sangha, Arjun Nair, Daniel Worrall, Henry Thornton, Harry Conway. Matthew Gikes (12th man)
Sri Lanka: Niroshan Dickwella, Lasith Malinga, Dilshan Munaweera, Isuru Udana, Upul Tharanga (c), Asela Gunaratne, Seekkuge Prasanna, Vikum Sanjaya, Milinda Siriwardana, Chamara Kapugedera, Dasun Shanaka.
Australia v Sri Lanka T20 series guide
February 17: First T20, MCG, Melbourne
February 19: Second T20, Kardinia Park, Geelong
February 22: Third T20, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
All three matches are double headers with the women's T20 internationals between Australia and New Zealand
Veteran batsman Michael Klinger is set to make a long awaited-debut for his country after being named in Australia's 13-man squad, which will be led by Aaron Finch. With Australia's Test stars currently in India preparing for their four-match series, the squad includes uncapped Perth Scorchers pair Jhye Richardson and Ashton Turner and towering Adelaide Strikers fast bowler Billy Stanlake. Strikers opener Ben Dunk earned a call-up when Brisbane Heat master blaster Chris Lynn was ruled out due to a neck injury. Justin Langer is head coach in the absence of Darren Lehmann, with able deputies Ricky Ponting and Jason Gillespie stepping in as batting and bowling coach respectively.
Australia squad: Aaron Finch (c), Ben Dunk, Patrick Cummins, James Faulkner, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Michael Klinger, Tim Paine, Jhye Richardson, Billy Stanlake, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa
Lasith Malinga is set to make his return to international cricket after being named in Sri Lanka's 15-man squad.
Malinga last played for his national side more than 12 months ago, taking 4-26 against the UAE in an Asia Cup T20 match before again succumbing to injury.
Meanwhile, Upul Tharanga has been named Sri Lanka's new skipper in lieu of the injured Angelo Mathews, while Dinesh Chandimal has been dropped from the Sri Lanka T20 squad that claimed a historic T20 series win over South Africa last month.
Sri Lanka squad: Upul Tharanga (c), Niroshan Dickwella, Asela Gunarathna, Dilshan Munaweera, Kusal Mendis, Milinda Siriwardena, Sachith Pathirana, Chamara Kapugedara, Seekuge Prassanna, Nuwan Kulaskera, Isuru Udana, Dasun Shanaka, Lakshan Sandakan, Lasith Malinga, Vikum Sanjaya
Australia: Last 5 matches (most recent first): WWLWW
Sri Lanka: Last 5 matches (most recent first): WWLLL
Last time they met
Australia pulled off a two-nil T20 series win over Sri Lanka last September in commanding fashion. The first match in Kandy at Pallekele Stadium saw Australia romp to an 85-run win, thanks to a magnificent unbeaten 145 from Glenn Maxwell which propelled the tourists to the huge total of 3-263.
Then, the tourists pulled off a four-wicket win with 13 balls to spare at Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium. Having restricted Sri Lanka to 9-128, the run chase was shaping up to be a complete domination thanks to a rampaging Australian top-order, before it somehow became a tense victory after a fightback from the hosts. But the match was most notable for the record-breaking antics of Maxwell, who brought up the equal-fastest T20 international half-century by an Australian, from 18 balls, while Adam Zampa took 3-16 from four overs and leaked just the single boundary.
Overall, Australia have won four of their 10 T20Is against Sri Lanka, having lost five consecutive matches to the island nation prior to last September's two-nil series win.
The new/old skipper
What a summer it's been for Aaron Finch. The Victoria batsman was dropped from Australia's ODI squad for the series against Pakistan, only to be recalled when David Warner was rested for the one-day tour of New Zealand that followed. He then found himself captain of that ODI side, after fellow Bushranger Matthew Wade was ruled out due to a back niggle. Having lost the Australia T20 captaincy in the lead-up to the World T20 in India last year, Finch finds himself in charge once again with his replacement Steve Smith absent on India Test tour duties.
The new Aussie faces
Almost two decades after making his domestic debut, Klinger has finally earned the international call-up he feared might never come. The 36-year-old was in fine form yet again for Perth Scorchers during BBL|06 and there will be plenty of people eager to see how he grasps his first opportunity in the green and gold. Towering quick Billy Stanlake is in line for a T20 debut to follow the 50-over call-up he received in January thanks to good form for the Strikers during BBL|06, while 20-year-old paceman Richardson has been given his first opportunity in an Australian squad after his player-of-the-match heroics for the Scorchers in the BBL final. Fellow Scorcher Turner is also in line for a debut after impressing with both bat and ball throughout Perth's campaign.
The danger men
In-form opener Niroshan Dickwella was the star of Sri Lanka's historic T20 triumph in South Africa last month, getting his side's innings off to a flying start in the second T20 with a speedy 22 off 15, before smashing a 51-ball 68 in the third match.
Left-arm spinner Lakshan Sandakan also impressed in his maiden T20 outings, snaring a match-winning 4-23 to restrict the Proteas to 113 in the second match. He was economical again in the third, taking 1-23 off his four overs. Having ripped apart Australia in the first Test in Kandy last July, taking 7-107 for the match, the hosts will know to be wary of the 25-year-old.
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