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Founded in 1999 by Tim Westergren, Pandora was able to raise some money right before the dotcom bubble burst. Once that money ran out, however, Pandora struggled to raise more cash and "spent over two and a half years essentially broke."
Westergren's pitch to over 300 VCs during that period fell on deaf ears, as investors were extremely cautious about their commitments after the dotcom crash, and the music industry online was in disarray.
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If you were following the whirlwind that came with last night's planned, and then nixed three-team trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers, you probably caught some of the athlete reactions. Paul, going for subtlety, tweeted, "WoW," while Lamar Odom—after a teary interview with Stephen A. Smith—told the Los Angeles Times, "I don't know what to do for the Lakers. I'm even weirded out by the league doing what they did."
"I don't know what I'm supposed to do," he added. Yikes.
Indiana's Danny Granger, who was completely unaffected by all of this, took a different route:
Due to the sabotaging of the LA/NO trade by david stern, and following in the footsteps of my athlete brethern Metta World Peace and Chad Ochocinco, I'm changing my last name to "Stern's Bi#&h" #effectiveimmediately
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"The Selected Letters of Willa Cather" gives a rare view into the private world of the beloved author in a way that you can't get from her books, or even biographies. Reading the letters is something like reading a diary. There are no bombshell shocks or scandals, but there is the detailed daily unfolding of her life, from her teenage years in Red Cloud, Nebraska, in the 1880s to her life in New York as a Pulitzer-prize winning author in the 1940s. She'd banned the publication of her personal correspondence in her will, but that ban was finally lifted in 2011 after the death of her nephew.
This new book, edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, has 564 letters – about 20 percent of the total – including letters written to childhood friends later in her life, which have some of her most revealing thoughts about aging and loss, to letters to luminaries like Yehudi Menuhin, a very close friend, Sinclair Lewis, and the president of Czechoslovakia, Thomas Masaryk, who loved her novels about Czech immigrants in America.
Cather fans get a rare opportunity to dig into the new terrain when Jewell comes to the Tattered Cover on May 6 to discuss "The Selected Letters of Willa Cather." An associate professor at the University of Nebraska, Jewell and co-editor Stout read and transcribed more than 3,000 letters before selecting those with the freshest insights. He is also editor of the "Willa Cather Archive" and a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors.


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This seems so wasteful to me. But you know what, I've had coffee from these single-cup makers at friends' houses before, and they usually make a great cup of coffee. I understand why coffee lovers favor them.
If you're one of those who use a single-cup coffee maker, there isn't much you can do to green the waste that comes from the single-serving containers, but you can make sure that the coffee inside of them is as green as possible. If you're going to use single-serve, use organic or fair trade coffee in them. It's a better choice.
Keurig – Keurig single-serve use K-cups. Try Fair Trade Organic PBS Blend or Van Houtte Café Mexico, Fair Trade & Organic Dark Roast. For a complete list of fair trade and/or organic K-cups, click here.
Tassimo – I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong here, but I can't find any organic or fair trade single-serving coffee for Tassimo machines. Not even in their Starbucks offerings. Am I missing something?
Senseo and other pod single-serve machines - Senseo and some other brands use single-serve pods. These pods are actually filters. Out of all the single-serve options, they seem the greenest because there is not as much waste after use. There are many brands of organic and/or fair trade coffees for pod machines.
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If you don't have a single-serve coffee maker, you might want to think twice about getting one if you're in the market for a new coffee maker. But if you already have one, and don't plan on giving it up any time soon, try choosing organic and/or fair trade coffee to make less of an environmental impact when you're having your fix.
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He's really struggled since coming off the DL for the second time. But, he's beginning to find his rhythm at the plate and results show. In the first three games of this series, he's 7-13 (.438) with five runs scored. So, this afternoon, the Phillies go for a sweep of the four games against the Rockies.
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Construction will start this month on a new drag racing strip near Bairnsdale. The Bairnsdale Drag Racing Affiliation took over management of the site after the previous club lost their tender with East Gippsland Shire Council and controversially ripped up the old track.
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The next part of the construction will be a drag strip; the approximate cost of the whole project is $290,000.
Some of the funding for the project will come from the Bairnsdale Drag Racing Affiliation and the group also plans to apply for government grants.
"There is a lot of people interested in it because at this stage with this drag strip, we will be the only drag strip East of Heathcote and South of Canberra. There are a lot of people who like to drag cars in that distance," says Colin Hayward, vice president of the Bairnsdale Dragway.
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Spring is here! Great time of the year. Grey, cloudy days are behind and sunny, bright baseball days are ahead.
Team returns to Clearwater around 8:45 tonight. Clubhouse workers who didn't make the trip, were in this morning, headed out in the afternoon and will return to unload and unpack and wash uniforms. It will be a late night for them.
Pitchers who weren't on the trip worked out again this morning at Bright House Field. Joe Blanton, who pitched so well yesterday afternoon against the Marlins, was back and in uniform. Group spent time on the half-field working on pitchers fielding practice, affectionately known as PFP.
Twins come to Clearwater tomorrow afternoon. Another sellout crowd of over 10,000 is expected. Danny Ozark will throw out the first all. Game is broadcast on WPHT Talk 1210 and televised by myphl17. Audio and video also available on phillies.com.
Sunday, a 7:45 a.m. departure for Ft. Myers and a game with the Red Sox. Somehow, I will miss that trip. Game will be broadcast on WPHT and phillies.com.
"Gold" Phillies
If you haven't done so, check out Todd Zolecki's Zo Zone blog. Phillies will wear special uniforms for the season opener.
Legends Game
Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association's annual "Baseball For Kids" Legends Game will take place Sunday at Bright House.
Gates open at 3:30 p.m. with a Home Run Derby and Hitting Challenge at 5 and a game at 6:30.
Ozark will manage one team. Hall of Famers Gaylord Perry and Wade Boggs will participate along with former Phillies Darold Knowles, Mike Proly, Mark Whitten and Jim Kaat. Other major league Alumni include Bert Campaneris, Kevin Bass, Richie Schienblum, Jim Perry, Glenn Beckert, Dick Drago, Jeff Torborg and Tommy John.


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Wandering Minds Are Associated With Aging Cells
Scientific studies have suggested that a wandering mind is linked with unhappiness, whereas a mind that is present in the moment is linked with well-being. Now, a preliminary study suggests a possible connection between mind wandering and aging, by looking at a biological measure of longevity.
In the new study, psychological scientist Elissa Epel and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco examined the relationship between telomere length, an emerging biomarker for cellular and general bodily aging, and the tendency to be present in the moment or to mind wander in 239 healthy women who were 50 to 65 years old.
The researchers defined being present in the moment as an inclination to be focused on current tasks, while they defined mind wandering as the inclination to have thoughts about things other than the present or being elsewhere.
According to the findings, published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the participants who reported more mind wandering had shorter telomeres, while those who reported more presence in the moment had longer telomeres, even after their levels of perceived stress were taken into account.
Telomeres are the DNA-caps that protect the ends of chromosomes, preventing them from deteriorating or fusing with neighboring chromosomes. Telomeres typically shorten with age and in response to psychological and physiological stressors, and research has shown that telomere shortness predicts early disease and mortality.
Because the study assessed mind wandering and telomeres at the same time, the researchers don't yet know whether mind wandering leads to shorter telomeres, whether the reverse occurs, or some common third factor is contributing to both.
Previous studies have found that mindful meditation interventions, which promote attention on the present with a compassionate attitude of acceptance, are associated with increased activity of an enzyme known as telomerase, which is responsible for protecting and in some cases, replenishing telomeres.
Along with the new study, these findings support the possibility that a focus on the present may be part of what promotes health measurable at the cellular level, the researchers said.
"Our attentional state – where our thoughts rest at any moment – turns out to be a fascinating window into our well-being. It may be affected by our emotional state as well as shape our emotional state," said Epel. "In our healthy sample, people who report being more engaged in their current activities tend to have longer telomeres. We don't yet know how generalizable or important this relationship is."
Moving forward, Epel, co-author Eli Puterman, and colleagues are developing a series of classes to promote more mindful presence, to see if this intervention protects telomere maintenance or even lengthens telomeres.
In the current study, participants self-reported a tendency to mind wander, and were measured for aspects of psychological distress and well-being. The sample was highly educated and had a narrow range of both chronological age and psychological stress (most were low stress), all of which might have contributed to the ability to detect this relationship, Epel said.
The study is the first to link attentional state to telomere length and to control for stress and depression, Epel said. Previous studies have shown links between telomere length and particular types of stress and depression. Since this study relied on self-reported attentional state, she said, further studies directly measuring presence and mind wandering will be needed.
"This study was a first step and suggests it's worth delving into understanding the link between mind wandering and cell health to get a better understanding of whether there is causality and reversibility," said Epel. "For example, does reducing mind wandering promote better cell health? Or are these relationships just reflective of some underlying long-standing characteristics of a person?"
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In addition to Epel, Mendes, and Puterman, co-authors on this study include Jue Lin, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Alanie Lazaro.
Epel, Blackburn and Lin are co-founders of Telome Health Inc, a telomere measurement company.
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Annual event was held at AWWA ACE09 in San Diego
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) has announced that Macon Water Authority won its annual "Best of the Best" Water Taste Test. The event, comprised of North American winners of regional water-tasting competitions, was held at the AWWA's Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE09) in San Diego.
Macon Water Authority provides municipal water for the city of Macon and Bibb County areas in Georgia. Their water distribution system is supplied by the Ocmulgee River, and has approximately 1,425 miles of water mains and service lines serving approximately 54,000 metered customers.
Second place in the competition was awarded to Silverdale Water District of Washington. The Lakeway Municipal Utility of Texas earned third place.
Other "Best of the Best" participants in the competition included: City of Allegan, Mich.; City of Aurora, Ill., Water Production Division; City of Bloomington, Minn.; Centerville City, Utah; Denver Water; City of Enderlin, N.D.; Louisville, Ky., Water Company; Marshalltown, Iowa, Water Works; New York City Department of Environmental Protection; City of Olathe, Kan., Water Production; Orangeburg, S.C., Dept. of Public Utilities; Village of Palm Springs, Fla.; Matuyas Filter Plant, Maunabo, Puerto Rico;. Charles, La., Water District No. 1; Toronto Water; Valdez, Alaska, Main; and Waupun, Wis., Utilities.
An esteemed judging panel rated each water system on their flavor characteristics. Judges included Dr. Stephen Booth, of Kennedy/Jenks and chair of the AWWA's Taste and Odor Committee; Monique Durand, engineer at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C and member of the Taste and Odor Committee; and Dr. Mel Suffet, professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA and former chair of the Taste and Odor Committee.
This is the fifth year the national competition has been held. The previous winners are the Louisville, Ky., Water Company (2008), Oklahoma City Water and Wastewater Utility (2007) and Illinois American Water, Champaign District (2006 and 2005).


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Strong Oz flavour in a low-key auction
With Sunrisers looking to bag either Michael Clarke or Ricky Ponting to help solve both their major worries; whereas Pune Warriors India being the front-runners in the race to bag Ponting, it shows a strong Australian flavour in the 2013 IPL auction. Anand Sachar reports. The deal day: how each team is set upcricket Updated: Feb 03, 2013 02:14 IST
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SH) may be the newest team in the Indian Premier League (IPL) but they could come out a much stronger outfit if they play their cards right in the 2013 IPL auction in Chennai on Sunday.
Sunrisers replaced the Deccan Chargers (DC), who were terminated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2012. However, SH retained 20 of the players who were in the DC list.
While DC's 2009 title was followed by dismal performances, better planning by the new owners, Sun TV Network, and coach Tom Moody may ensure a good showing by the Hyderabad franchise in IPL VI.
With close to $7 million in the Hyderabad team's purse, they could plug all the gaps that existed in the old franchise.
DC skipper Kumar Sangakkara is currently injured and they do not have a potential replacement as captain. Also, they would be desperate to strengthen their batting unit.
Local interest
Mumbai's Abhishek Nayar, who finished as the second highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy this season, could be one of their prime targets. Nayar's former team, Mumbai Indians (MI) may also be interested in him.
Sunrisers will look to bag either Michael Clarke or Ricky Ponting to help solve both their major worries.
However, according to sources, Pune Warriors India (PWI) are the front-runners to bag Ponting.
"There have been talks held between PWI and Ricky's agent. Both the parties are happy with how the discussion has progressed," the source told HT. "Not only is he a batting great, he can contribute to the leadership of the team."
The only glitch in Punter turning out for the Warriors would arise if a team with a higher purse decides to go all-out to buy the recently retired Australian batsman.
"Only if a team gives more money than what PWI has, the deal will not go through. But with his track record in the format and him not playing international cricket, it is unlikely."
Of the total of $12.5 million available to each team, PWI have a salary cap of around $3.3 million remaining.
Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Sunrisers are those with most money at their disposal. RR have around $7.7 million and SH have close to $7 million.
Similarly, the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), SH and RR would be keen to buy Clarke. The teams may also go for a lot of utility overseas players.
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Meet Azawad, Africa's Newest Country
On the map of West Africa, Azawad is a large irregular triangle set among Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Mali -- the country it belonged to for fifty-two years. It is approximately 650,000 square kilometers -- the size of Texas -- and has fewer than 2 million inhabitants. Azawad declared its independence on April 6, after a quick war wherein the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) forces -- equipped with weaponry looted from Libya -- routed the Malian government forces.
Azawad is certainly entitled to be a free nation. It is an almost homogenous Muslim and Berber-speaking society, an offshoot of the larger Touareg confederacy that controlled most of the Sahara and its commercial trade routes for centuries, if not millenia. In the early 1900s, the French amalgamated it for administrative purposes with Sudan, a black-populated colony on the Niger River, but did not interfere much with its distinctive way of life (Touareg nomads are known to dress in blue and wear a veil, whereas Touareg women are veil-free). Things changed in 1960 when French Sudan was granted independence as the Republic of Mali. Azawad insisted on a separate state. They rebelled against Mali in 1963, only to be crushed mercilessly by Malian forces. They rebelled again in 1990 a bit more successfully, and then again in 2006 and 2010.
Now, can Azawad endure as a state?
In military terms, the MNLA's present superiority can be easily reversed. The stockpile of weapons from Libya will not last forever. The Malian forces may be reorganized and get new armaments. Foreign countries may send troops or advisors to help suppress the secession.
In terms of international law, Azawad is hardly better off: the very foundation of African regional order is the immutability of the former colonial entities and borders, however arbitrary or absurd they may be. Still, many of the post-colonial states have been collapsing or disintegrating in recent years, Libya being just the latest case. In one instance -- South Sudan in 2011 -- a rebel nation succeeded in securing its independence with the full backing of the international community.
Evidently, Azawad would like to make use of that precedent. The new country insists in its declaration of independence that it recognizes all existing borders and countries, including Mali proper, which would be left with an 800,000 square kilometer area and some 13 million inhabitants. It also insists that it adheres to the UN charter and principles.
Is MNLA as in control of Azawad as it claims to be? Two other rebel organizations operate in the area. Whereas MNLA resorts to a purely secular brand of Berber and Touareg nationalism, Ansar Dine (The Fighters for Religion) combines Touareg insurgency with radical Islam. The second group, AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), is clearly linked to the global jihadist networks.
MNLA has taken a conciliatory attitude towards Ansar Dine, which is based on the powerful Ifora tribe in southern Azawad, and whose leader, Iyad Ag Ghali, played an important role in the 1990 uprising. The two groups actually coordinated their moves and tactics in the conquest of Gao and Timbuktu on April 1. Yet the differences between them are startling. They don't hoist the same flag: the MNLA banner is green, red, and black with a yellow triangle; Ansar Dine's is plain black with Quranic verses in white. MNLA leaders and officials speak Berber and French; Ansar Dine speaks Arabic. MNLA is drawing up a Western-style secular democratic constitution; Ansar Dine advocates for Sharia rule.


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The Best Widget Doesn't Always Win
Since Forum Nokia didn't ask me to be a judge, I don't have a lot to say -- but I'll say this anyway: I liked Marco Lobb's "Shoppy" widget, which came in second place at Nokia's 24-hour Hackathon, better than David Guerrero's first place "Rocket" widget.
I'll grant you that the competition was grueling -- a 24-hour event where a group of developers raced against the clock to build widgets. The contest held in association with Forum Nokia's Calling All Innovators competition took place between 28-29 April in Monaco at the Nokia Developer Summit. The lab where the development teams worked was awash in unwashed coffee cups and empty soda bottles. (Okay, but where was the Jolt?) All in all, more than 1300 submissions were received by Nokia, a list eventually culled to the top 10:
- David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero (Mexico) - Social Location Widget
- Marco Lobb (Italy) - Shopping List Widget
- Bruce Hopkins (USA) - Travel Planner
- Eric Liu (Canada) - Location Based Sightseeing/Events
- Andrew Clarke (UK) - Price Comparison Widget
- Gabriel Hall (Canada) - The World Around Me
- Daniel Kleine-Albers (Germany) - Location Based Public Transport
- Porfirio Busto BenÃtez (Paraguay) - Now On TV!
- Dmytriy Kovbasyuk (Canada) - Fuel-Up!
- Tuba Tig (Turkey) - What Is Your Favourite Food?
Not that Guerrero's app wasn't good, but what I liked about Lobb's widget was that it is something I could use, especially the part that lets you share the list with someone else and add photos of products to the list. What was particularly cool is that the Web Runtime, a tool that contestants were required to use, doesn't support the use of photos that Lobb implemented. In other words, Lobb delivered a true hack in the real spirit of programming. Rocket, on the other hand, is a social location widget that shows the nearest three friends in any given place.
But the judges who count felt otherwise. For his winning app, Guerrero received a cheque for a lot of Euros and a new Nokia N97 pre-loaded with his widget on the home screen. Moreover the application will have prime status on the homepage of the soon-to-launch Ovi Store, and be free to download for Nokia N97 owners in all Ovi Store launch countries. Lobb and Hopkins also received cash prizes.
In any event, congratulations to all. After 24 hours of coding, I can say that they're all a better men than I -- and better programmers too.


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You wander, find, study, consider — and from this engagement, you make little blessings to give away. This is a site for such gifts of word, image, & tune.
Seeds in the Desert
A song: The Edge of Heaven
Song by Kim Stafford, accompanied by Jan DeWeese
The Secret
After long delay, ignorant of what you guarded
when it came volcanic to your mind, there to be
hoarded smoldering until you found a way to tell it,
your secret is out—your joy too tender to entrust
to anyone, your pain too dangerous to reveal
until you do. And there it is, a birth, with blood,
to celebrate.
But then the bowl in the heart,
where such things first appear, has something
new to hide, some fingerling creature silver
in the dark, with jagged fins and tender wings
that must be held, locked up, suppressed, fed
crumbs as you fend off the world. Little one,
must you leave me now?
Thus we breathe our holy secrets one by one.


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The bodies of 98 asylum seekers on board a boat believed to be heading to Indonesia and Australia were reportedly thrown into the sea by their shipmates.
Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor is expected to be briefed about the incident which saw 32 Myanmar nationals being rescued in Sri Lankan waters on Sunday.
The group, which included one boy, were at sea without food for 21 days before the Sri Lankan navy rescued them.
They were rushed to Sri Lanka's Karapitiya Teaching Hospital and treated for acute dehydration, a statement from the Sri Lankan navy said on Thursday.
Reuters reported that the survivors told Sri Lankan authorities of throwing 98 people overboard after they died of starvation and dehydration.
The survivors say they were seeking asylum in Indonesia and Australia.
"They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been in the sea for two months after the ship engine stalled," a Sri Lankan police spokesman told Reuters.
Their captain and 97 others died due to dehydration and starvation, the spokesman added.
"They also said they had thrown the dead bodies into the sea."
Mr O'Connor said it was another example of the awful consequences of getting on dangerous boats.
He urged the coalition to put aside politics and help the government implement all 22 recommendations made by the Houston expert panel on asylum seekers.
"It's really now time for certainly the opposition to have a rethink about their opposition to some of those recommendations," he told Fairfax Radio.
But opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said Mr O'Connor's mission statement was to "do nothing, blame the coalition".


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These few weeks our weather is freezing cold ,a bowl of pipping hot pan mee is welcome anytime,right?Last week since I have mood for pan mee,I tried to make the fresh dough and soup base from scratch..It's doesn't take too long to make a pot of yummy-delicious pan mee provided all the necessary ingredients is ready and prepared.. Just thinking about it now,make me want to eat another bowl of this pan mee!!
500 gm all purpose flour
2 large eggs
150 ml water,plus extra id necessary
a pinch of salt
some corn starch for dusting
500 gm minced meat,
2 tbsp minced garlic
10 shitake mushroom,soaked and sliced thin
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp vege oil
1 lb fried clean anchovies,head removed
some fried shallot*optional*
Soup Base:
100 gm fresh anchovies,washed
5 liter water
2 anchovies cubes*Knorr*
4 pieces chicken tender + 2 tbsp corn flour + 2 tbsp water
2:Bring it to boil before dish out into individual bowls.Top the hot pipping noodles soup with minced meat mixture,fried anchovies and fried shallot.Serve with sambal or cut chili with fish sauce and lime.
pan mee dough


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Forty New York City high school students are going to Alan Cumming's one-man "Macbeth" on Broadway thanks to the kindness of strangers.
English teacher Eric Jordan of Frederick Douglass Academy VII (seven) in Brooklyn was teaching "Macbeth" and wanted to take his class to the new production. But the show was expensive even with a group discount.
Jordan sought help on the crowdfunding website gofundme.com. He said most of his students have never seen a professional theater performance, let alone Broadway.
He reached his goal of raising $4,500 by Friday.
Jordan said 40 students and four chaperones will see "Macbeth" on May 2.
He wanted to teach the students that when something seems out of your grasp "there's always a way to bring it closer to you."


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Why We Spend So Much Time On Policy Stuff
Last month I wrote a post mentioning that we have an activist in residence at USV. And I write a lot here at AVC about the policy stuff we have been working on. It might seem to some that we are more like policy think tank or adovacy organization than a venture capital firm. I think that is somewhat true. We make a lot of early stage investments and we work hard with those companies to help them succeed. But if you hung out at USV, you would see that we spend a lot of time on policy stuff. And that begs the question "why do you do that?".
The short answer is that Brad, who I founded USV with a decade ago, has felt from day one that policy and governance will be as important as technology in shaping what the market looks like in the coming years. And that, of course, will shape how impactful our portfolio companies are, and that will ultimately shape our returns. And we are in the returns business.
The longer answer has to do with the power of networks, which are central to our investment thesis, to be an economic force in society. These networks will reshape markets, lower costs, bring efficiencies, and disrupt the ways that things are done. And those who are incumbents in today's model will fight these networks tooth and nail, because they threaten their incumbency. And that will lead to policy fights. We want to get out ahead of all that as much as we can.
I have not seen much written about this coming change. So I was pleased to see a post by Om Malik yesterday that laid all of this out clearly and succinctly. Om says:
the challenges of the connected future are less technical and more legislative, political and philsophical. The shift from a generation that started out un-connected to one that is growing up connected will result in conflicts, disruption and eventually the redrawing of our societal expectations.
This redrawing of societal expectations is likely to be the political battle of our time. Om goes on to talk about this in the context of the labor issues that Uber is having in San Francisco. That is a good example of what happens when networks and the data they produce reshape a market that has been operating in a traditional framework.
We are at the start of this battle between incumbents, be they black car drivers or cable companies or government itself, and the network driven upstarts. And we have many of those upstarts in our portfolio. So our policy work is ultimately an investment in the success of our portfolio companies. And that is why we spend so much time on policy stuff.


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Fortunately, Mediawiki (the program powering Fedora's wiki) has a very good API, which is accessible with python; in particular in Fedora we ship python-mwclient and it turned out I could search and replace all occurrences in 10 lines of code. Magic!
If someone is wondering, here is the script I used:
# Wiki Search And Replace
import mwclient, re
site = mwclient.Site('fedoraproject.org')
site.login( 'login', 'password' )
pages = site.search('obbiettivi', what='text')
for pagedata in pages:
page = site.Pages[ pagedata['title'] ]
text = page.edit()
newtext = re.sub( r'([o|O])bbiettivi', r'\1biettivi' , text )
page.save( newtext, summary='Obbiettivo->Obiettivo', minor=True)
I found the mwclient documentation a bit lacking so the hard part was figuring out the value for some parameters in the function calls. At the end, I mostly relied on the help(mwclient) content, available from the python interpreter, in conjunction with the Mediawiki API reference you get by pointing the browser to http://fedoraproject.org/w/api.php


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KU's School of Music was established as the School of Fine Arts academic unit in 1891 as one of the first national institutions to offer professional degrees in the arts. The School of Fine Arts became the School of Music in July 2009.
The School of Music at the University of Kansas strives to offer a comprehensive array of programs of study at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels. The School offers required coursework to students wishing to pursue a profession in music or those pursuing related programs of study on campus. The School also offers elective opportunities for music study to the overall student body.
The School of Music seeks to nurture and advance the art of music through creation, performance, scholarly inquiry, entrepreneurship and enhancement of the artistic skills and experiences of the University and regional cultural communities. Nurturing and advancement occur via outstanding teaching, mentorship, quality research and creative endeavors and service to professional and lay constituencies.
The School is a major contributor to the arts community through student, faculty, and professional performances in Swarthout Recital Hall, Bales Organ Recital Hall, the Robert Baustian Theatre and the Lied Center of Kansas.
The University of Kansas is a charter member of the National Association of Schools of Music (1928) and is the only institution authorized by the Kansas Board of Regents to grant doctoral degrees in music. The KU School of Music, located in Lawrence, KS, was ranked in the top 50 public universities in the nation for best educational value, according to Princeton Review (2010).
At A Glance
The KU Bands are a diversified group of performing ensembles. The Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and University Band provide an opportunity to perform the widest possible range of concert wind and band literature from the traditional to the experimental. Nationally recognized and award-winning directors continually provide new challenges for all levels of performers. The band program is also home to the Sudler Award-winning Marching Jayhawks and the bands for both the men's and women's basketball teams.
For more information, visit KU Bands
Brass & Percussion
The KU School of Music Brass & Percussion Division is part of the School of Music, which is home to a nationally and internationally known faculty of music educators, performers, directors, recording artists, musicologists and theorists. Most division activities take place in Murphy Hall, an impressive facility that contains Swarthout Recital Hall, Gorton Music Library, the Robert Baustian Theatre, the McCurdy Jazz Studio and refurbished practice rooms. The larger ensembles perform in the Lied Center, a 2,020-seat performing arts hall with state-of-the-art production capabilities.
For more information, visit Brass & Percussion
If you want to sing, there is a place for you in the KU Choirs. Organizations such as the Chamber Choir, University Singers, Concert Choir, Oread Consort, Women's Chorale, Men's Glee Club, and others provide extraordinary and widely varied opportunities for the choral singer. In addition to the standard choral programs, these groups perform with the KU Symphony Orchestra in the Holiday Vespers program.
For more information, visit Choral
The KU Jazz Studies program offers performance opportunities for both the instrumentalist and the singer. Three large jazz ensembles, eight combos, and two vocal jazz groups form the core of these opportunities. Down Beat award-winning Jazz Ensemble I, Jazz Singers, and Fusion Combo set the standard for jazz performance in Kansas and throughout the country.
For more information, visit Jazz
Music Education & Music Therapy
Music education and music therapy at KU are recognized as among the finest programs in the world.
We offer degrees and programs in music education including the bachelor's, the master's, and the doctoral. Our degrees and programs in music therapy include bachelor's, graduate equivalency, master's, and doctoral.
National Association of Schools of Music and North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges accredit our programs. The music education programs are also accredited by the Kansas State Department of Education and the music therapy programs are accredited through the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).
Fore more information, visit Music Education & Music Therapy
Music Theory & Music Composition
The Division of Music Theory and Composition within KU's School of Music features internationally and nationally accomplished composers and scholars, and offers degrees in music theory and music composition at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.
For more information, visit Music Therapy & Music Composition
The Division of Musicology offers the BM degree in music history, the BA degree with a concentration in music history, the MM in musicology, and the PhD in music (musicology).
The faculty members in the Division cultivate a wide number of research interests. Paul Laird has published books on the Spanish villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and the revival of the baroque cello. He also directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum. Roberta Freund Schwartz's research specialties include the Spanish Renaissance, patronage, blues and rock. Colin Roust's interests include French music of the twentieth century, especially Georges Auric, film music, and music history pedagogy. Martin Nedbal's research specialty is opera in Vienna in the late Classic Era, especially those by Mozart. Ketty Wong, an ethnomusicologist, focuses on Latin American popular music and ballroom dancing in China.
For more information, visit Musicology
The Kansas University Symphony Orchestra (KUSO) studies and performs standard orchestral repertoire and 20th century masterworks and combines with the choral ensembles for the annual productions of the Holiday Vespers. It also performs as part of the KU Opera productions. A distinguished and internationally renowned faculty create a rich and varied program for this organization.
For more information, visit Orchestra
Organ & Church Music
The history of organ and church music study at the University of Kansas is long and distinguished. From modest beginnings in 1867, it has grown into one of the largest programs in the country. With degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels, exceptional facilities and instruments, and distinguished faculty, the University of Kansas offers an extraordinary educational opportunity for anyone wishing to study and pursue careers in organ performance, teaching, or church music.
For more information, visit Organ & Church Music
The history of the KU Piano Division is also a musical history of the state of Kansas itself. The first KU Dean of Fine Arts, William MacDonald, was a pianist who established the Department of Music in 1884 as well as founder and first president of the Kansas Music Teachers Association. In 1923 Donald Swarthout, a pianist and conductor, was appointed Dean of Fine Arts until 1950 and served as President of the Music Teachers National Association and Director of the KU Concert & Chamber Series, which became the foundation of the arts programming for the Lied Center. The appointment of the renowned composer and pianist Carl A. Preyer in 1903 marked the beginning of a distinguished roster of musicians who have served as faculty members of the KU Division of Piano.
For more information, visit Piano
The String Division is comprised of nationally and internationally recognized artists. Students study with faculty who are in demand as featured soloists with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and the world, and who are equally active as university faculty and master class teachers.
For more information, visit Strings
Voice & Opera
The University of Kansas Opera program is led by a dynamic faculty who maintain active careers as singers, coaches, and directors. Productions range in scope from chamber-sized to full-scale opera with styles covering traditional to experimental, comedy to tragedy; and the varied performance venues include the Baustian Theatre and Swarthout Recital Hall. KU Opera and the KUSO join the University Theatre to create full-scale operas in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. The distinctive opera productions offer a fresh style, a variety of directorial approaches, and exceptional quality.
For more information, visit Voice & Opera
The Division of Woodwinds in the School of Music is comprised of five full-time faculty, all of whom are artist-level performers and teachers of their instruments. Enrollment in private lessons with members of the woodwind faculty is open to all university students regardless of their major. Woodwind graduates have distinguished themselves within the music profession by achieving positions of leadership in colleges, universities, chamber ensembles, bands and orchestras throughout the country.
For more information, visit the Woodwinds
Performance Organizations
The School of Music offers an extraordinarily wide array of performance opportunities for the students at the University of Kansas. While most ensembles are composed primarily of majors, membership in everything is open by audition to any KU student.
Hundreds of public performances are presented each year by the School, ranging from solo recital and chamber music events to large ensemble and opera productions. If you want to perform, there is a place for you in the School of Music.
Specialized Groups
In addition to the many larger ensembles, the School of Music offers numerous other performance opportunities for its students. The Chamber Music program involves all students ranging from the traditional string quartet, piano trio, brass and woodwind quintets to the more unusual and experimental groupings of instruments. The Collegium Musicum offers both singers and instrumentalists the opportunity to study and perform Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. The New Music Ensemble performs 20th century classics as well as the newest compositions. The Trombone Choir, Horn Ensemble, Trumpet Ensemble, Sax Quartet, Tuba-Euphonium Consort, Percussion Ensemble, and other groups explore a wide range of literature written for these specialized groups.
Performing organizations at KU often receive invitations to perform at conventions, festivals, and special events throughout the nation and overseas. On numerous occasions these groups have performed at state, national, or international meetings of the International Association of Jazz Educators, College Band Directors National Association, National Conference to National Association for Music Education, Music Teachers National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Kansas Music Educators Association, Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, National Bandmasters Association, the Montreaux and North Sea Jazz Festivals in Europe, Mid-America Dance Network, and many others. Additionally, our vocal and orchestral students continue to perform each summer in Eutin, Germany, as part of a summer music exchange.


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Earlier this week, I was part of a panel on Newsnight Scotland discussing the latest - some would say, belated - efforts designed to improve Glasgow's dismally underachieving state schools.
That they need improvement is beyond doubt. In Scotland's largest city, only 7% of state-educated pupils leave school with five good Higher passes. In Scotland as a whole a mere 220 children from the poorest 20% of neighbourhoods achieved three As at Higher (the minimum grades required for admission to leading universities such as St Andrews). As I said on the programme, this should be considered a national scandal. More than that, a disgrace. (Like Fraser, I wish more people were angry about these things.)
To be fair, Glasgow City Council is trying. It may have taken 30 years of complacency, neglect and failure to persuade Councillors that something - anything! - had to be done. But there are small signs of progress. Stephen Curran, the Labour councillor in charge of the city's education system, pointed out that more than 95% of recent leavers from Castlemilk High School left for a job, an apprenticeship or a place at college. This is progress even if, as he acknowledged, not all of it shows up on league tables measuring pure academic success. But it is a start.
Even so Gordon Brewer, Newsnight's presenter, wanted to know why Glasgow wasn't copying some of the efforts made to improve London's schools. A reasonable question, even if their positions are not wholly comparable. But to say they are not wholly comparable is not to suggest there are no sensible comparisons that may be made.
I think the Adonis-Gove agenda in England does have many lessons for a Scottish educational establishment that, until recently, has been longer on self-satisfaction than educational achievement. Even so, it would be silly to suppose that the Adonis-Gove way is the only way. (For what it's worth, I think Scotland's new Curriculum for Excellence has many promising components. It should inspire good teachers even if it also defeats poor ones.)
Scottish schools (like English schools) are not, by international standards, appalling but nor are they as good as they could or should be, far less quite as good as we think they are. And they are especially bad at educating our poorest children. The leading universities would love to admit more students from deprived backgrounds; the trouble is they can't find them.
But even if one admires the Academies and Free Schools approach, one should be aware it is unlikely to prove replicable everywhere. It is, chiefly, an approach designed for major urban areas in which competition can flower. School choice is not likely to be as useful in small towns or rural areas lacking the population density that makes competition a practical incentive to improvement.
Journalists, politicians and academics have a habit of focusing on systems more than people. This is not unreasonable: politicians and bureaucrats can tweak systems or introduce new structures in the hope these will have the desired effect. This is within their control; it shows they are doing something. But while systems, structures and school governance matter, they are less important than culture. Academies and Free Schools may be useful in and of themselves but their chief merit is changing culture.
It is a question of raising expectations and standards, demanding more from pupils, parents and, yes, teachers too. Setting schools free can be a good start but it is only a start. Any honest teacher will tell you of staff rooms stuffed with clapped-out, burnt-out, tired teachers who no longer believe in their mission. Low expectations - which is a way of blaming the kids - are cancerous. Everyone knows some schools are more "challenging" than others; these are the schools that need the best, the brightest, the most energetic and passionate teachers. Instead, too often, the "system" grinds teachers down. Reduced expectations beget reduced results which in turn lower expectations, standards and results still further.
It doesn't have to be this way. As it happens, I've been reading Mark Binelli's The Last Days of Detroit, a chilling, even grotesque, account of the ruin of a once-great American city. This is a city $9bn in debt (excluding pension liabilities) in which debt-interest accounts for 22% of the city's budget. A city with 78,000 abandoned properties and, at any given time, just 14 working ambulances. A city in which only 39 of 344 murders were solved in 2011 and where, if you call the cops, they may turn up an hour later. 40% of streetlights don't work. Per capita income amongst the 700,000 still stranded in Detroit, is a mere $15, 261 a year. The scale of Detroit's collapse is mind-boggling. It is not, to put it mildly, a place ripe for educational achievement.
And yet, even here, there are pockets of hope and inspiration. One such is the Catherine Ferguson Academy*. By Binelli's account, this may be one of the most remarkable schools in the whole of the United States of America. 90% of pupils at the Catherine Ferguson Academy receive a high school diploma. Gaining at least one acceptance letter from college is a condition of graduating from Catherine Ferguson Academy. This record, in the heart of the America's worst, most hopeless, desolate, city is remarkable. It seems extraordinary when you consider the pupils at Catherine Ferguson Academy.
Because each and every single pupil there is a pregnant girl or teenage mother.
According to Binelli, the school has "built such a sterling reputation that students had actually been caught lying to gain admission, borrowing infants to pass off as their own or swapping out their urine with a pregnant friend's so as to produce a positive test."
And here's the thing:
"I asked [Asenath Andrews, the school principal] how she managed such an unheard-of college acceptance rate for a public high school. Andrews fixed me with a look and said, matter-of-factly, 'I expect it'.
I waited for her to continue, but she didn't. I said, 'How is that not an overly simple answer? All of the special challenges..."
She cut me off and asked, 'Did you go to college right out of high school?'
I said yes.
She said, 'How come?'
This time I didn't answer. Of course, she had a point.
'You do things because that's what you must do,' she said. [...] 'These girls know they're important to me. Women do things for a lot of reasons. Most of them not for themselves. So you can use that for your own purposes.'
Binelli speaks to one young mother/pupil who tells him "I don't mean to sound like one of those parents who say 'As soon as you have a child, everything will change'. But as soon as you have a child....' [...] 'I just knew I had to go to college. I didn't grow up dirt poor. But I want Nicole to have a better life than me. All this stuff?' She rubbed her dirty gloved hands together meaning the [school's urban] farm. 'I don't really care about this stuff. But you do learn to take pride in your work. Students built this whole farm. Pregnant girls did this.'
Leadership. Standards. Culture. No excuses. The essential ingredients for a successful school, whether it's in burnt-out Detroit or anywhere else. The point of this illustration is not that the Catherine Andrews Academy is an example that can be replicated, far less a local success story that can be scaled up to state or even national levels. That's not the point at all. In fact, the point runs in the opposite direction. It is that this is a unique story, an individual triumph against the odds that can't be easily or usefully copied elsewhere.
Because it's about the people running the school, not the systems of structures or governance (far less the city council). There's no reason why city governments or local authorities can't run successful school systems (there are plenty that do) but they can't do so if they fail to empower the right kinds of people. Set the people free and they can achieve great things.
But the biggest, most important, lesson to be drawn from the Catherine Andrews Academy in Detroit is that if a school for teenage mothers can make it in Detroit, there's not a community anywhere in the United Kingdom that can't have a successful school as well. Circumstances differ; inspiration is universal. It can be done.
The question is whether we have the determination, the willpower and the people do get it done. Systems and structures and a new curriculum are fine, but they are useful chiefly as the means by which people are freed and new people are attracted into our schools.
Glasgow is trying (desperation can prove a powerful stimulus) but more, much more, still needs to be done before we have reason to stop being enraged by the failure of too many schools and the blight this casts on so many young lives. Because the cost of failure is measured in lost opportunities and squandered futures. It betrays our children and, worse still, most fully cheats those whose need is greatest. It should shame us all.
*In 2011, the City of Detroit tried to close Catherine Andrews Academy. Only a hard-fought campaign won the school a reprieve.


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