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Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders might miss the services of their captain Gautam Gambhir as the senior opener is down with jaundice.
Gambhir, who was in contention to replace an injured Shikhar Dhawan in the fourth Test against Australia, underwent a few blood tests and jaundice was detected ruling him out of the match starting on Friday.
As of now, he might require rest for a period of three weeks in order to get back in action.
There is a possibility that South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis or New Zealand's wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum might lead KKR in Gambhir's absence.
McCullum has already had an experience of leading KKR during the disastrous second edition in South Africa where they finished at the bottom of the heap.
But Kallis, if fit and available, will be the seniormost player and someone who is respected in the KKR ranks.
So, Kallis seems to be the favourite to lead the side if Gambhir misses the first few matches of the IPL.
Gambhir last played a competitive match against Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 Tournament where he made an unbeaten 68 in 54 balls to leave a successful chase.
The possibility of KKR having an overseas skipper is due to the fact that there aren't too many Indian players of stature who can replace Gambhir.


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Are "planetary tipping points" likely? Trends in Ecology and Evolution recently published a very thought provoking article by Brooks et al. that challenges the notion of abrupt global threshold change. In the authors' own words, we are likely to experience "[…] relatively 'smooth changes at the global scale, without an expectation of marked tipping patterns."
"Planetary tipping points" is not only a very important issue, with clear links to discussions about "planetary boundaries" and a "state shifts in the Earth's biosphere". It is also a very multifaceted inquiry that entails an electric combination between Earth system science, complex systems thinking, and science communication.
The paper opens up a whole set of important issues, but allow me to just briefly elaborate points that I find critical and interesting to explore and debate further.
1. Connectivity
Connectivity is a key factor in the assessment of the paper. As the authors note "If drivers or responses are spatially heterogeneous and inter-regional or intercontinental connectivity (through biotic or abiotic factors) is weak, the global aggregate pattern and rate of ecological change are likely to be relatively constant, without any identifiable tipping point. Conversely, if drivers and responses are spatially homogeneous or inter-regional or intercontinental connectivity is strong, ecological change might display a tipping-point pattern at a global scale." (pp.2)
So, how strong is "intercontinental connectivity" between ecosystems? It depends on how you define "connectivity" of course. On the same page, the authors list a whole set of "biotic" and "abiotic factors" which underpin connectivity: species movement, ocean transport of heat, changes in CO2 levels, and others. Based on a brief analysis of these "connectors" for terrestrial ecosystems, the authors conclude that the "lack of strong continental interconnectivity, probably induce relatively smooth changes at the global scale, without an expectation of marked tipping patterns".
Am I the only one getting the feeling that something is missing here? What I find intriguing in the analysis, is the absence of a discussion of "social connectors" which are likely to connect ecosystems across the world. The interconnected degradation of marine systems through global markets and new technologies denoted "roving bandits" are well known, and I see no reason why scholars should ignore similar phenomena for terrestrial ecosystems.
For example, while forest ecosystems in different continents might have few biotic and abiotic intercontinental connections, it is known that successful conservation policies in one region or a country, tends to shift environmental externalities to other areas through global markets (a "displacement effect" elaborated Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011). The flows of "virtual water", and the observation that decreasing fish stocks force people to extract more resources from wildlife and tropical forests in West Africa (Brashares et al. 2004) are two additional examples of how social connectivity is tightly related to interconnected environmental change (some of which is likely to be non-linear). Global change scientists are just starting to get to grips with these complex human-environmental connectors (Adger et al. 2006, Young et al. 2006), but surely these would have an impact on how we analytically assess the sort of intercontinental connectivity Brook and colleagues are trying to get at? Bluntly put: if we indeed have entered the Anthropocene, why is social connectivity through institutions, technology and globalized trade, not part of the analysis?
2. Global tipping points and fatalism
The article ends with an interesting statement: "Second, framing global change in the dichotomous terms implied by the notion of a global tipping point could lead to complacency on the 'safe' side of the point and fatalism about catastrophic or irrevocable effects on the other."
Brook also argues (in an associated blogpost) that "Why does this matter? Well, one concern we have is that an undue focus on planetary tipping points may distract from the vast ecological transformations that have already occurred."
I find both these claims surprising. Surely a discussion about "thresholds" of this sort lead to more multifaceted social perceptions and responses than simple dichotomies of doom-and-gloom, or distraction? Nuttal and Hulme (which are quoted to support the first quote on framings) are just two articles in a much richer and multidisciplinary body of literature (raging from formal theory, to social-psychological experiments and case based approaches) that elaborates social perceptions, framings and responses to threshold phenomena. A somewhat more nuanced and empirically based discussion on this last issue of social perceptions and responses, could have contributed in significant ways to a much-needed discussion.


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A federal judge ruled yesterday that the N.S.A.'s covert wiretap program targeting who knows how many US citizens without court approval was (and is!) illegal. Of fucking course it is, come on. But...but...but what if Obama does it?
A Justice Department spokeswoman, Tracy Schmaler, noted that the Obama administration had overhauled the department's procedures for invoking the state-secrets privilege, requiring senior officials to personally approve any assertion before lawyers could make it in court. She said that approach would ensure that the privilege was invoked only when "absolutely necessary to protect national security."
No, that's still illegal, said the judge. Of course, since we have no real clue what the fuck the NSA does all day, we'll just have to trust them to stop.
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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.106 n.3-4 Pretoria Mar./Apr. 2010
Academic freedom statement from the Academy Of Science Of South Africa (ASSAf)
Academic Freedom is not only constitutionally protected, but rests on the capacity for independent commentary that is crucial to the evidence-based work that is unique to Academies. Indeed, the Academy of Science of South Africa's mission of "Science for Society" cannot be realised without the exercise of the freedom to research, write, and speak robustly and professionally, without fear or favour on any topic including the impact of science on society.
Academic freedom and the freedom of scholarly research are guaranteed by the South African Constitution of 1996. Their inclusion, under the 'freedom of speech' clause, is one of the many reasons why South Africa's Constitution is considered to be unique. Academic freedom was identified as a core principle for the governance of higher education by the 1997 White Paper on the transformation of Higher Education. This, too, is unusual because in most countries struggles over academic freedom have stood apart from both the institutionalisation and the practice of higher education.
Under apartheid, academic freedom was routinely violated in various ways, especially under the system established by the Extension of University Education Act, which was passed fifty years ago. This piece of legislation amongst other iniquities restricted the possibility of access, except by Ministerial permission, of black South Africans to those universities in South Africa that were open to the admission of students on merit without consideration of race, class, national origin, and gender.
In response to these restrictions, a strong tradition of activism in defence of academic freedom took root within some of South Africa's universities. The idea that academic freedom is a valuable principle to be guarded jealously continues within the country's institutions, and annual ceremonies/lectures to mark academic freedom are an established tradition at several universities. In a democratic South Africa, academic freedom in all higher education institutions is integral to the intellectual life of the country.
Given our history, it is not surprising that the issue has been so prominent in the transformation both of this country and its higher education system.
Nonetheless, new threats to academic freedom have recently emerged in South Africa. The new threats are in three areas: (1) the averredly intrusive effects of government regulations, (2) apparently excessive influence of private sector sponsorship of the universities, and (3) perceived limitations of freedom of speech within the universities. The right of academics to criticise university administrations has been particularly contentious. Taken together, these concerns suggest that the values entrenched in the constitution and in education practice are being eroded by government policy, funding agencies, sponsors and donors, and by institutional management.
These (and related) topics were addressed in a report issued by the Council on Higher Education in 2008, which offers a wide-ranging analysis of a variety of issues surrounding academic freedom and the cognate concerns of institutional autonomy and public accountability. Conducted by an independent task team, this report - Academic Freedom, Institutional AutonomyandPublic Accountability in South African Higher Education - provides a comprehensive guide for many debates and offers thirteen conclusions to improve the debate and buttress the values which South African universities attach to academic freedom. ASSAf supports this analysis and its conclusions.
Furthermore, ASSAf believes that researchers and teachers within higher education and the research community at large should be free to follow their own ideas, arguments, insights and findings, conditional only on the avoidance of scholarly misconduct such as plagiarism, falsification of data and unethical research practice. The intellectual case for this is clear. Only open and unfettered inquiry by creative and highly trained professionals can deliver research of the highest quality. This work must be subjected to the established testing and confirmation processes which are provided by peer review and publication in the open domain. No interference can be permitted in the chain of intellectual authority that runs between researcher, reviewer and published result.
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The following interview is republished with permission from TREAT Asia/amFAR.
Ashok Row Kavi is the founder of the Humsafar Trust. Based in Mumbai, India, Humsafar is one of the first organizations in India to advocate for the rights of men who have sex with men (MSM) and one of the first and most successful gay and transgender sexual health outreach programs in the country.
Ashok Row Kavi first came out in an interview in a magazine in 1986 with the support of his mother (above). It also marked the first time a mother spoke about her son's homosexuality to the Indian media. Photo courtesy of Ashok Row Kavi.
TREAT Asia Report: What is the attitude in India towards homosexuality?
Ashok Row Kavi: In ancient India, transgendered people were recognized by nuns and Buddhists in the monastery as a sacred sexual minority. Throughout the Vedas and in Middle Eastern literature, many texts talk about feminine males. India drifted from its acceptance of homosexuality because of the influence of colonial British education. Accepting homosexuality isn't something new for India�but we have to recover that tradition.
Homosexuality is being normalized in Western societies but not without a bitter fight. It's going to be a bitter fight here, too, because modern India is a product of many other cultures.
Today, the attitude in India toward MSM is conflicted. On the whole, nobody cares about your sexual identity, but they certainly care about your gender identity! Having a feminine gender identity drops a man down the power scale, but this is mostly mitigated if a man adheres to traditional social obligations like getting married and looking after his parents. However, transgendered males can be in serious trouble if they cross dress. Then, one is usually asked to leave his parents' home and join outside cults such as the hijras, which is the traditional group of transgendered people in India.
At least 80 percent of gay men in India are married. If you look at Humsafar, you'll find more than 40 percent of men who are having sex with other men do not identify as gay. And they're not always just sleeping with men�those who do not strictly identify as gay have an average of two female partners a month.
TA Report: You are often described as one of the first gay men to come out of the closet in India. What was that experience like?
Kavi: I may be homosexual in a Western sense, but I don't come from that tradition. I'm trained as a Hindu monk in the Rama Krishna order, and I was in this training when I first came out as a gay man. My counselor in the monastery, who was an older monk himself, said it was my mission to go out into the secular world and organize and work with my people. The monastery and the ashram are not places for you to hide�you need to go and sort it out. So that's what I'm doing.
When you come out in India, gay identity becomes your primary identity. If you come out as an openly homosexual man and refuse to get married to a woman, then your homosexual identity becomes a form of rebellion and attracts a great deal of attention. All the other identities�being a good journalist, for instance�become back-ups. When I came out in 1984, I didn't realize it would create such a ruckus, but I nearly lost my job. My boss stood by me, though. Fortunately, I had come out to him before I had accepted the job.
There were problems among my brothers and their wives, but not my mother�she's incredible. When I was being attacked by a politician, for instance, she told him to lay off. I've had a lot of support as a gay man in India, but going public did affect my job and career prospects.
TA Report: How did you start Humsafar?
Kavi: When I returned to India from Montreal in the late 1980s, I was very worried because gay men were fighting for their very lives in ACT UP. Eighty percent of HIV infections were among gay men at that time�but hardly eight percent of government funding was going to gay organizations! I thought, what would happen in Asia where there were no gay communities, only large networks of men having sex with men?
So some of us got together for informal workshops and meetings. We finally decided to form a support system for gay men�that is, gay in the Western sense meaning men who identify themselves primarily as homosexual. (Humsafar has a policy that it will not accept board members who are married because that could divide us politically. So the board consists of unmarried gay men.) Humsafar eventually became the only gay organization in Bombay to be given space by the city government. When we first got started, poorer men from Bombay started coming. Sometimes they had alternative gender or behavioral identities but many were just men having sex with other men. And it grew from there. Last year we provided health services to over 60,000 men.
Humsafar has approximately 185 full-time staff, and we reach way across the spectrum of men who have sex with men: gay-identified men, MSM, hijras[transgendered men known as "the third sex"], male prostitutes, and transgendered sex workers.
Services start with a drop-in center and offices. We offer counseling over the phone or by appointment. We have a clinic with regular doctors checking for sexually transmitted infections or other illnesses. We have referral services to the public hospitals, Friday meetings, a small library, and a confidential HIV testing and counseling center with same-day results. We also have a massive outreach program that covers more than 150 sites in Bombay, its outskirts, and neighboring towns.
TA Report: What sort of HIV/AIDS treatment services are available to MSM in India?
Kavi: Some doctors will test for sexually transmitted infections, but they are very inquisitive about sexual behavior and suspicious of MSM. The women and children get the HIV drugs first; gay men and hijras don't get treatment. India is the only country where transgendered men can get a passport under a third sex and yet they can't even get past the gate of the hospitals. It's taken nearly five years fighting with the HIV/AIDS centers to get treatment for MSM. Humsafar's services are a drop in the ocean for men who need access to treatment.
TA Report: Are government programs for MSM successful?
Kavi: HIV among MSM is out of control, and only now does the government realize it needs to turn its attention to working with gay men, MSM, and transgendered people. They are scaling up national programs and want to conduct 200 targeted interventions, each of which reaches 1,000 men. That figure is very low, but it's better than nothing.
It's good news that the government wants to establish programs for MSM. The bad news is that the NGOs they entrust don't all know how to go about it. They have to be run by gay men and they have to be community-based. That is the plan I have suggested to the government of India. Where there are transgendered people, you send in transgendered workers. When you need to reach kothis�queens, in the West�you don't send a macho man because he'll intimidate them; you send one of their own!
TA Report: Are you optimistic that progress is being made?
Kavi: There is no other option but to make progress. Otherwise, we will see large numbers of my community die. If HIV prevalence is at 10 or 25 percent, can you imagine the time it takes to get treatment to everyone? Many of these men are very poor! Forget about knowing about their sexuality�they are going to die unknown and unsung deaths.
TREAT Asia (Therapeutics Research, Education, and AIDS Training in Asia) is a network of clinics, hospitals, and research institutions working with civil society to ensure the safe and effective delivery of HIV/AIDS treatments throughout Asia and the Pacific.


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Reports are coming in of a fatal crash in Beijing involving a Ferrari 458 Italia Spyder with three inside. The car's driver, who may be the son of one of China's leading Communist Party members, was killed. Now the government is apparently trying to hush it up, going so far as to ban the word "Ferrari" from online searches. UPDATE!
Yes, you read that right. Three injuries from a two-person car. The incident happened yesterday and involved a driver in a black Ferrari 458 with two women in the car with him, according to a report from NTD.
NTD also says Chinese censors are restricting access to this story and speculate it's because the driver is the illegitimate son of Politburo Standing Committee Member Jia Qinglin. Sure enough, there are reports from slightly more credible sources that details of the crash are being deleted from the web and the word "Ferrari" is being censored from online searches. It sort of looks bad for the son of a civil servant to have that much money.
Perhaps most intriguingly of all, as The Atlantic's James Fallows points out, is that a story about a possible cover-up appeared in an official Chinese state publication meant for U.S. consumption.
It is like Fox News undertaking an expose of Bush v. Gore or the business interests of Clarence Thomas's wife. This is at face value brave, possibly reckless, and without doubt extremely interesting.
Whoever the driver was, other reports confirm there were three in the car and photos show just how mangled the car is. All passengers were ejected and the young driver of the Ferrari was apparently killed instantly while the passengers were seriously injured.
Apparently, Chinese censors and Ferrari PR have a lot in common.
UPDATE Chinese censors are known to change search terms that are banned, here's a spreadsheet of banned terms from China Digital Times showing "Ferrari" and other related terms that were deleted during that period from at least one popular Chinese web portal. As commenters note, the terms don't appear to be blocked anymore.
(Hat tip to G.Goo!)
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AP) — The FBI joined forces with Malaysian authorities in analyzing deleted data on a flight simulator belonging to the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, while distraught relatives of the passengers unleashed their anger Wednesday — wailing in frustration at 12 days of uncertainty.
The anguish of relatives of the 239 people on Flight 370 boiled over at a briefing near Kuala Lumpur's airport. Two Chinese women who shouted at Malaysian authorities and unfurled a banner accusing officials of "hiding the truth" were removed from the room. In a heart-wrenching scene, one woman screamed in sorrow as she was dragged away.
"I want you to help me to find my son! I want to see my son!" one of the two unidentified women said. "We have been here for 10 days."
Files containing records of flight simulations were deleted Feb. 3 from the device found in the home of the Malaysia Airlines pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said.
It was not immediately clear whether investigators thought that deleting the files was unusual. The files might hold signs of unusual flight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went.
Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that Zaharie is considered innocent until proven guilty. He said members of the pilot's family are cooperating in the investigation.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name, said the FBI has been given electronic data to analyze.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in Washington that the FBI was working with Malaysian authorities.
"At this point, I don't think we have any theories," Holder said.
Flight 370 disappeared March 8 on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanations, but have said the evidence so far suggests the flight was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next and why.
Investigators have identified two giant arcs of territory spanning the possible positions of the plane about 7½ hours after takeoff, based on its last faint signal to a satellite — an hourly "handshake" signal that continues even when communications are switched off. The arcs stretch up as far as Kazakhstan in central Asia and down deep into the southern Indian Ocean.
Police are considering the possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board, and have asked for background checks from abroad on all foreign passengers.
Hishammuddin said such checks have been received for all the foreigners except those from Ukraine and Russia — which account for three passengers. "So far, no information of significance on any passengers has been found," he said.
The 53-year-old pilot joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of flight experience. People who knew Zaharie from his involvement in opposition political circles in Malaysia and other areas of his life have described him as sociable, humble, caring and dedicated to his job.
The crisis has exposed the lack of a failsafe way of tracking modern passenger planes on which data transmission systems and transponders — which make them visible to civilian radar — have been severed. At enormous cost, 26 countries are helping Malaysia look for the plane.
Relatives of passengers on the missing airliner — two-thirds of them from China — have grown increasingly angry over the lack of progress in the search. Planes sweeping vast expanses of the Indian Ocean and satellites peering on Central Asia have turned up no new clues.
At a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur airport, one of the Chinese women who was removed from the room displayed a banner that said, in part, "We are against the Malaysian government for hiding the truth." She later expressed frustration with officials.
"We launch our demands every day but to no answer, and they tell me to come back the next day," she said. "No answer, every day."
The father of passenger Pushpanathan Subramaniam said in an interview that the wait was "really too much."
"I don't know why it is taking so long for so many people to find the plane. It's 12 days," said 60-year-old Subaramaniam Gurusamy from his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. His 34-year-old son, Pushpanathan, was on the flight to Beijing for a work trip.
"He's the one son I have," Subaramaniam said.
Hishammuddin said a delegation of Malaysian government officials, diplomats, air force and civil aviation officials will head to Beijing — where many of the passengers' relatives are gathered — to brief the next of kin on the status of the search.
Aircraft from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand searched an area stretching across 305,000 square kilometers (117,000 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, about 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) southwest of Perth, on Australia's west coast. Merchant ships were also asked to look for any trace of the plane.
China has said it was reviewing radar data and deployed 21 satellites to search the northern corridor, although it is considered less likely that the plane could have taken that route without being detected by military radar systems of the countries in that region.
Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said Indonesia military radar didn't pick up any signs of Flight 370 on the day the plane went missing. He said Malaysia had asked Indonesia to intensify the search in its assigned zone in the Indian Ocean west of Sumatra, but said his air force was strained in the task.
"We will do our utmost. We will do our best. But you do have to understand our limitations," Purnomo said.
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Spitting up is a rite of passage for many babies. Here's what's behind spitting up — and when it might signal a more serious problem.
You've just fed your baby breast milk or formula only to watch him or her spit up what seems like all of it. Is this normal? Find out the possible causes of spitting up, and what you can do about it.
Spitting up is common in healthy babies. During their first three months, about half of all babies experience their stomach contents coming back up into the esophagus, a condition known as gastroesophageal reflux, infant reflux or infant acid reflux.
Normally, a muscle between the esophagus and the stomach (lower esophageal sphincter) keeps stomach contents where they belong. Until this muscle has time to mature, spitting up might be an issue — especially if your baby is relatively full.
Spitting up is the easy flow of a baby's stomach contents through his or her mouth, possibly with a burp. Vomiting occurs when the flow is forceful — shooting out inches rather than dribbling from the mouth.
Normal spitting up doesn't interfere with a baby's well-being. As long as your baby seems comfortable and is eating well and gaining weight, there's little cause for concern. If your baby is gaining weight, then he or she isn't being harmed by the calories lost through spitting up.
Keep in mind that it's easy to overestimate the amount your baby has spit up based on the size of a spit-up stain.
Most babies stop spitting up by age 12 months.
Consider these tips:
Certain signs and symptoms might indicate an underlying condition or something more serious than run-of-the-mill spitting up. Contact your baby's doctor if your baby:
Treatment depends on what's causing the problem. Special feeding techniques might be helpful. In other cases, the doctor might prescribe medication to treat reflux.
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Does This Look Like a Young Woman Who Likes to Blow Shit Up?
You know a news story is going to be good when it begins with, "It will be an explosive-free weekend for the northeast Georgia college student..."
Twenty-three-year-old Celia Alchemy Savage — that name alone should have made her the heroine in a YA trilogy — is currently being held without bail for possession of illegal firearms, explosive devices, and drugs. All in the name of having a good time, right?
Celia Savage allegedly told an FBI agent she likes to blow up toilets in the woods, and said she has made five to seven pipe bombs because "manufacturing explosive devices and detonating them for recreation was her hobby," according to an ATF report.
A YouTube video of Savage blowing shit up was taken down Friday.
The above photo is taken from Savage's public Facebook profile, in which she speaks out against "law enforcement and any governing authority" while advocating "mass destruction." Despite the harsh language and a pretty damning collection of weapons and explosives, Celia's dad Tommy Savage doesn't see what the big deal is.
He was quoted as saying, "I think everybody ought to be able to stay on their property, do whatever the heck they want to."
Fair enough, but what if the things I want to do include not getting blown to pieces by someone's homemade explosive device?
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Summertime calls for polo shirts, rumpled tees and rolled up sleeves. And those bare arms are almost begging for some adornment. While a lot of guys these days are leaning towards braided or beaded bracelets, we'd like to suggest the metal cuff to mix things up during the dog days. The simple metal bands make for a masculine, understated look—like the ones here, fashioned from everyday copper and brass to luxe sterling silver. A few pieces even have the option for personal engraving. They look great on their own, but don't hesitate to mix them up with those braided or beaded numbers you probably already own. In fact, use them as a buffer between your new cuff and your watch to keep the metal from scratching or clicking against the timepiece's case.
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1. Matt Kuchar -10
T2. Webb Simpson -9
T2. Gary Woodland -9
T4. Rickie Fowler -7
T4. Keegan Bradley -7
T4. Adam Scott -7
T4. Justin Rose -7
T8. Sergio Garcia -6
T8. Freddie Jacobson -6
T8. Brendon de Jonge -6
T8. Henrick Stenson -6
T8. Jim Furyk -6
T8. Morgan Hoffman -6
T15. Rory McIlroy -5
T15. Tiger Woods -5
T42. Phil Mickelson -2
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Matt Kuchar made the most of his short day at The Barclays.
Kuchar didn't tee off until Friday afternoon at Liberty National and knew he had no chance to finish. He could barely see his ball cross the water and set up a two-putt birdie on the 13th hole that gave him the outright lead, and there was enough light coming from lower Manhattan across the Hudson River to hit his tee shot on the 14th.
The horn sounded, and by then, he was ready to go home.
Kuchar was at 10-under par with five holes remaining and had to return Saturday morning to hold his one-shot lead over Webb Simpson and Gary Woodland, who both finished the second round in the rain-delayed tournament.
Simpson had to play 29 holes — 11 holes to finish his first round in the morning, followed by his second round — and he was ready to go more. He ran off six birdies over an eight-hole stretch and had a 5-under 66.
"It's much nicer when you're playing well to keep playing. And when you're playing well, you feel like you could play 40 holes in a day," Simpson said. "My main goal ... I just wanted to get done today. It just felt nice to putt out on 9, knowing that I've got tonight to sleep and catch up on rest."
Woodland was one of the last players to finish at twilight Friday, and he finished strong. Woodland, back on track after a win at the Reno-Tahoe Open three weeks ago, birdied four of his last five holes for a 64 to join Simpson in the clubhouse at 9-under 133.
"I feel ecstatic right now to be done," Woodland said. "It was a close call coming down the stretch if we would be able to finish. Luckily, I played great today, gave myself a lot of opportunities, and I drove the ball phenomenally and rolled some putts in, especially late."
As for Tiger Woods, he couldn't get off the course fast enough.
Woods challenged the target set by Simpson with three birdies in five holes — he was two shots behind — and he had a pair of par 5s in front of him. He failed to make birdie on either of the par 5s, and made three bogeys out of the bunker through the 12th hole to fall off the pace. He made birdie on the 13th, the last hole he completed, but was still five shots behind Kuchar, who was in his group.
"I got off to a great start today and then lost it the middle part of the round and made too many mistakes," Woods said.
He also said his back remained sore from what he said earlier in the week was due to a soft bed in his hotel that led to stiffness in his neck and bad. He said the pain increased throughout the round and when asked if a specific shot made it hurt, he replied, "Every one."
"I'm going to get treatment right now ... and be ready for tomorrow morning," Woods said.
It was the second straight year at The Barclays he has said a soft hotel bed caused stiffness in his back. Last year, it caused him trouble in the third round.
Rory McIlroy showed more signs of turning his game around. After three double bogeys on Thursday, he limited the mistakes with some nifty par saves and was at 5 under with two holes remaining, starting with a shot from the 17th fairway after a big tee shot.
Kuchar stopped with his tee shot just short of the green on the par-3 14th, and he had no inclination to finish.
"''I feel like in the morning, they will be perfect greens," he said. "A situation where I'm on 18 and can pretty much have a proper night's sleep and not have to worry about going out, I'll finish on 18. But in this situation ... it was amazing, we were down on the last hole, 13, kind of a little bit down the hole and it was dark. I wasn't sure we were going to tee off on 14. Coming out over the water, it brightened up by a good margin. It's actually a beautiful skyline.
"I think when the sun sets coming off, it was a nice little place to be this time of night."
It looked even better atop the leaderboard, though there's still a long way to go — and plenty of stars right behind him.
Keegan Bradley set the tournament course record with a 63 and was at 7-under 135, along with Rickie Fowler (64) and Adam Scott, who was tied for the lead at one point until a lazy finish for a 66.
Phil Mickelson, trying to retool his game after his British Open win, had a 69 and was seven shots behind the clubhouse lead.
The last time The Barclays was at Liberty National, Heath Slocum won at 9-under 275. Since then, some of the landing areas were widened and the slopes on the greens were softened. Plus, the course was very little rough this year. And the soft conditions from the rain Thursday is making it easier to make birdies.
For some players, their year was over.
Ben Crane, after opening with a 67, had to withdraw with a lower back injury after playing just four holes of the second round. At No. 125 in the FedEx Cup, he won't be among the 100 players advancing to the second playoff event next week outside Boston.
Lucas Glover withdrew with a hand injury, ending his season.
The cut would not be made until Saturday morning, and Erik Compton needed two more rounds to try to qualify for the next tournament. He did his part, a birdie-birdie finish to get back to even-par 142. That was right on the line for making the cut.


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My Diane & Carolien's R-S-T Challenge Entry
Tangle with R-S-T, Pen, Colored Pencil © Diane Clancy
R-S-T Challenge: Rabbit Foot Fern, Sekips, Stonham, Tree-Three
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R-S-T Challenge: Rabbit Foot Fern, Sekips, Stonham, Tree-Three
R-S-T Challenge
Each week Carolien and I put out a challenge for folks to make their representation of our idea. This week is the Weekly Challenge #111: Tangle with R-S-T. So here is what we say this week "This week is Challenge #111, the Alphabet challenge of, R, S & T. Use tangles starting with the letters R, S & T in your drawing. It's your choice to only use patterns with these letters or to add some others as well. Happy Tangling!! We look forward to seeing what you come up with for your R, S & T." Thus this is a little ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) using tangles that start with the letters R, S & T.
Zentangle Enticed Me
So above is my Challenge ZIA. I am excited that Carolien and I now realize we can make the thumbnails bigger!! We are hoping others will join us again now that we are back on track!! So of course – this went in a very different direction than expected!!!
Do you like the one in colored pencil? So do you like the line version? I am upset how shaky I am at the moment!!! 🙂 I like the line version a lot but I am loving the color too since it is done!! Then it is being hard for me to add color to some of these I have created since I like the lines so much. Then I get worried I will mess up the color 🙂 So do you have a preference? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Which Tangle is Which?
Sekips is the plant on the outside right and outside left. Stonham is the flower in the upper right. Tree-Three is the 2 plants to the right of the left Sekips. Rabbit Foot Fern is tucked in between the Tree-Three and the righthand Sekips. 🙂 🙂 There you have it!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Diane & Carolien's Weekly Zentangle Challenge
My friend Carolien and I felt the need for having an extra Zentangle Challenge each week. So come join us in the fun!! Details at Diane & Carolien's Weekly Zentangle Challenge.
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When players enter the world of Sleeping Dogs, one of the first characters they meet is Wei Shen's childhood friend, Jackie Ma. The voice actor who plays Ma was one of Hong Kong's biggest stars—that is, until his private sex photos were leaked online.
In 2008, superstar Edison Chen sent his laptop in for repairs. Over 1,300 private photos were copied by the shop, with photos of Chen having sex with several well-known Chinese celebrities—like Bobo Chan, Cecilia Cheun and Gillian Chung—leaking online. It became a huge scandal in Hong Kong, and even garnered international press. It was such a huge deal that his name was the most searched in China that year.
Still, nobody seemed to want anything to do with Chen. Big name sponsors like Samsung and Levis dropped him. The whole thing was awful for actor-singer and everyone involved, with people's privacy violated. Chen said he was leaving the Hong Kong entertainment industry "indefinitely". (He later returned in 2010.)
Since then, it's been a slog to return to where he once was. Some fans still have a bad taste in their mouths over the photo leak, while others might actually like him more for his bad boy image.
In late 2010, Chen started making public appearances again—though, it wasn't for big corporate sponsors. One of his first gigs after he returned was for the 2010 Asia Game Show in Hong Kong. He appeared on stage and performed songs, covering Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror".
His appearance in Sleeping Dogs is one of his highest profile acting gigs since the whole scandal. He also will reprise his role in the sequel of Initial D film, which was a manga and popular arcade game. While probably not intentional, part of his slow comeback seems based in gaming.
In years past, doing video game work was seen as a step down for acting. Some still might think that. They shouldn't, because there are interesting, well written parts out there that can open up your work to an entirely new audience. Just ask Edison Chen.
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Angelina Jolie
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- June 4, 1975 (age 48) Los Angeles California
- Awards And Honors:
- Academy Award (2000) Golden Globe Award (2000) Golden Globe Award (1999) Golden Globe Award (1998) Academy Award (2000): Actress in a Supporting Role Golden Globe Award (2000): Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Golden Globe Award (1999): Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Golden Globe Award (1998): Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (2013) Screen Actors Guild Award (2000): Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award (1999): Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Notable Works:
- "By the Sea" "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" "In the Land of Blood and Honey" "Unbroken"
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- spouse Billy Bob Thornton spouse Brad Pitt father Jon Voight daughter of Jon Voight daughter of Marcheline Bertrand married to Brad Pitt (2014–present) married to Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003) married to Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999) mother of Maddox Jolie-Pitt (b. 2001) mother of Pax Jolie-Pitt (b. 2003) mother of Zahara Jolie-Pitt (b. 2005) mother of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (b. 2006) mother of Vivienne Jolie-Pitt (b. 2008) mother of Knox Jolie-Pitt (b. 2008) sister of James Haven
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Angelina Jolie, original name Angelina Jolie Voight, (born June 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American actress and director known for her sex appeal and edginess as well as for her humanitarian work. She won an Academy Award for her supporting role as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Early life
Jolie, daughter of actor Jon Voight, spent much of her childhood in New York before relocating to Los Angeles at age 11. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for two years and then enrolled at Beverly Hills High School. She later studied drama at New York University. In addition to acting in theatre productions, she modeled and appeared in music videos.
Film roles
Jolie's first major movie role was in Hackers (1995), during the filming of which she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film failed to find an audience, as did a series of subsequent movies. In 1997, however, Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama's segregationist governor in the television movie George Wallace, and she later won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. The following year she played a supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO movie Gia, a performance that earned her multiple honours, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1999 she appeared in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year she married Thornton (divorced 2003).
After her Oscar-winning turn in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in a series of action movies. She played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopted a British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander and also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City. Both films were box-office disappointments, but Jolie scored a hit with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), in which she played an assassin pretending to be a normal housewife; while working on the film, she met Brad Pitt, who became her partner.
In Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), she was the aggrieved wife of an early CIA agent (Matt Damon). Jolie earned critical acclaim for her performance as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007). Based on a true story, the film followed efforts to rescue Pearl's husband, Daniel, who was kidnapped and later murdered by Islamic extremists while reporting in Pakistan for The Wall Street Journal. Jolie followed it with Beowulf (2007) and Wanted (2008). Her immersion into the role of a mother whose son is kidnapped and later replaced by a different child in Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008) resulted in another Oscar nomination.
In 2010 Jolie starred as a CIA operative accused of spying for Russia in the action thriller Salt and appeared opposite Johnny Depp in the caper The Tourist. She later assumed the role of the titular villain in Maleficent (2014). The live-action film attempted to cast the evil fairy from the 1959 Disney animated classic Sleeping Beauty in a more sympathetic light. Jolie later starred in the sequel (2019). In 2020 she starred in the fantasy-adventure Come Away, playing the mother of Peter Pan and Alice (of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), characters created by J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll, respectively. In the action-thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), Jolie portrayed a firefighter protecting a young boy being chased by killers. Also in 2021 she appeared as the immortal warrior Thena in Eternals, an action movie that was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, Jolie provided voices for several films, including the animated Kung Fu Panda (2008) and its sequels (2011 and 2016) as well as The One and Only Ivan (2020).
In 2011 Jolie made her directorial and screenwriting debut with the Bosnian-language In the Land of Blood and Honey, a turbulent love story set during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. She then helmed the World War II drama Unbroken (2014). The script for the film, based on the true story of an Olympic runner and U.S. Air Force officer who became a Japanese prisoner of war after his plane crashed, was written by the Coen brothers. In 2015 she directed, wrote, and starred in By the Sea, which focuses on a troubled couple in 1970s France; the drama also starred Pitt. Jolie followed with First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2017), an adaption of Loung Ung's memoir about her childhood during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s.
Personal life and philanthropic work
Jolie's personal life often attracted at least as much attention as her acting. Her relationship with Pitt became fodder for tabloids, and the birth of the couple's biological children, Shiloh (2006) and twins Knox and Vivienne (2008), caused a media frenzy. Jolie and Pitt married in 2014, but two years later Jolie filed for divorce. Her humanitarian work also drew interest. In 2001 she was named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). After that appointment she traveled to numerous poverty-stricken countries and adopted children from Cambodia and Ethiopia—Maddox and Zahara, respectively. Pitt later adopted the children, and in 2007 the couple adopted a boy, Pax, from Vietnam. In 2013 Jolie made news for having a preventive double mastectomy after discovering mutations in her BRCA1 gene, which increase the odds of developing breast or ovarian cancer. That year she also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Dried bonito flakes, known as katsuo-bushi or katsuobushi in Japanese cuisine, are flakes of dried, smoked bonito fish. They look similar to wood shavings. The "bonito" is a type of tuna, but may not be marketed as tuna in many countries.
Bonito flakes are used to make katsuobushi-dashi, the second most favored type of dashi (Japanese broth) for miso soup. Bonito flakes are also used for onigiri filling and to make ponzu sauce.
Bonito flakes are also marketed as cat treats in the United States, primarily in specialty pet stores.


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About Me
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Redesigned Former Music Box
32 comments:
OMG!!! I love the box re love!!! You made that piece so pretty. I am so hating this weather we are having too. I wish it would cool off but not looking to great for that to happen anytime soon. I just did a post on my redo of my deck and I cannot even go out there to enjoy it!!! Stay cool.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Beautiful! You really create some gorgeous pieces.ReplyDelete
I too am NOT a fan of the hot and humid.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful little box. Inside and out. Luv other little piece as well.
Stay cool. I want to kiss the man who invented the A/C :-)
From your fellow inside buddy...
Hugs, Gee
From a wee ugly duckling to a white swan!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, I have been outside in the heat and humidity making ugle ducklings into swans too.ReplyDelete
oh you are so Clever Rosemary so clever take care of you!!!ReplyDelete
Wow ... it's absolutely lovely!ReplyDelete
Great job!
Gorgeous! As usual.ReplyDelete
Great transformation!ReplyDelete
What a lovely change! Love the piece you're making into a sign also. The script on the box is lovely!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Rosemary you are the master!!!ReplyDelete
Hope you are doing well sweet friend You are in my heart and prayers always
so beautifull:)ReplyDelete
kisses from Poland!
Love that! You are very talented. It's hot and humid here as well. Not so much fun.ReplyDelete
What a makeover and a great one too. Your designs are so romantic.ReplyDelete
I KNOW it is SO humid! I can't do anything. I tried cleaning up the year a bit yesterday and just about died after 20 minutes.ReplyDelete
Rosemary, you have an incredible talent for seeing the potential in a piece that most of us would just pass over! Every time I go to garage sales or thrift stores, I try to do this, but I guess it must take a lot of practice to choose the right items. This is a beautiful example of your creativity. Guess the "dog days" of Summer are already upon us. . .it's hot and humid in Northern Ohio as well. . .stay indoors where it's cool! Hope you're feeling better.ReplyDelete
Wow, what a transformation! The music box is stunning! The heat has me really pooped out and I'm still battling a summer cold so I've been hiding indoors too.ReplyDelete
Oh, the box looks gorgeous. Really love it.ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS!! I love this so much, what an eye you have! It is really hot here too and it doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Well, this piece grabbed my attention. It is so pretty and dainty-looking!ReplyDelete
You've done it again with your gorgeous box, Rosemary! I never would have given that little music box a second look, but you have worked your magic! It is gorgeous!! Too hot and muggy here too!ReplyDelete
Love the box, Rosemary. xo LauraReplyDelete
Have I told you before that you are amazing? Once again you've completely transformed a kind of dated item into a new treasure! Thanks for sharing and blessings to you, PattiReplyDelete
Can I live with you.....just for a few days???? Maybe a bit of your talent and ingenuity will run off. Your ability to transform an old item is wonderful. PS I promise not to eat much!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness. Now how many of those little boxes have I passed by? That is so adorable - and the plaque is going to be a stunner as well. How about this heat? BUT, still better than snow.ReplyDelete
Oh! I love this! It has great detail. Lovely transformation!!ReplyDelete
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I adore this so much. Do you know how many times I pass up boxes and now I see how to save them.ReplyDelete
Merci for stopping by. You made my day.
I think you see beauty in everything we all miss. I'm going to re-think how things will work instead of passing them up at yard sales.ReplyDelete
That music box and plaque are fabulous!! Another amazing makeover Rosemary. Hope you are all healed now. Definitely take it easy and stay indoors during this heat wave. I am in KY and its been a very miserable week here. Although prior to this week the weather hasn't been so bad.ReplyDelete
Great redo, beautiful box inside and out, I love all your redo:) Hugs, BiljanaReplyDelete
That box is stunning Rosemary! You always pay such attention to detail! I probably would've pooped out after doing the outside but you made the inside just as pretty!ReplyDelete
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A New Era in Air Travel Takes Off, as DFW International Airport and American Airlines Jointly Open Redefined Section of Terminal A
First phase to open under the Terminal Renewal and Improvement Project offers view of DFW's future, features next generation American Airlines branding
Revealing the first glimpse of the future, DFW International Airport and American Airlines today jointly opened the first renovated portion of Terminal A, which features dramatic advances for passengers including new and improved facilities for parking, ticketing, security and concessions. The completion of Terminal A Phase 1, which includes gates A8 through A16, marks the first major milestone accomplishment for DFW's Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP), the seven-year $2.3 billion program that will renew DFW's four original terminals.
"Today is a special day for DFW Airport and American Airlines, as we welcome passengers to our greatly improved Terminal A," said Jeff Fegan, CEO of DFW. "With new concessions, reimagined passenger flows, updated finishes and a completely revamped section of Terminal A, DFW Airport is solidifying its place as one of the world's top airports for customer service, and we stand ready to meet the needs of our passengers for the next 40 years."
With the completion of the first section of Terminal A, American Airlines also unveiled its new "next generation" designs for airports, the first such installation anywhere for the new American. The new features include enhanced check-in and ticketing, and redesigned services for premium passengers.
"Today we take another important step forward in our journey toward building a more modern travel experience to better suit the needs of our customers," said Kevin Cox, American's Vice President – Real Estate. "DFW Terminal A / Phase 1 sets the stage for future next generation airport improvements, and will be a tremendous model for us to further refine how we integrate our new look and feel into our airports in the future."
During the renovation, all of the terminal's building systems are being replaced, including electrical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, communications and lifesaving systems. The TRIP renovations will create huge gains in energy efficiency and sustainability for DFW, while allowing the Airport to improve its layout, amenities and appearance for the modern traveler.
"Our passengers are really going to be excited about the changes they find at the new Terminal A, and ultimately across all of our terminals," said Ken Buchanan, executive vice president for revenue management at DFW. "Our entire team has done an outstanding job of capturing the best of what our passengers will want when they travel, and these enhancements are going to make DFW even more attractive for air travelers."
As much as 50% more concession space will be allocated into villages located near checkpoints and Skylink stations, reminiscent of DFW's globally acclaimed International Terminal D. The concessions outlets are also being upgraded, with the arrival of compelling new concessions choices such as The Salt Lick BBQ, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Ling & Louie's Asian fusion restaurant, Teavana and more along with customer favorites. New self-service technologies in the ticketing hall also make DFW a more modern and more efficient travel hub.
"More than 6,000 people worked on the renovations of the first section of Terminal A in some capacity," said Perfecto Solis, DFW's vice president of Airport Development and Engineering and the technical lead for the TRIP program. "Between jobs in design, construction and contracting work, among others, DFW is creating a vast amount of opportunities to engage our community in a meaningful and representative way."
Key features in the newly redefined section of Terminal A include:
• Dramatic enhancements to passenger flow, focusing checkpoints and concessions villages around Skylink people mover stations for ease of movement
• Enhanced signage for way-finding, concessions and gates, making it easier for passengers to locate needed services
• Two baggage claim areas with digital signage and advertisements
• Enhanced and expanded TSA Checkpoint with four security lanes and a larger area after security to re-pack
• More self-serve ticket kiosks (11 on airside; 13 on landside)
• New heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, as well as a state-of-the-art lighting system featuring harvest day-lighting and backlit LED signage
• Energy-efficient glass windows looking out onto the airfield
• More than 57,000 square feet of Terrazzo flooring to replace ceramic tile
• Higher ceilings, creating an elongated and elevated space
• New state-of-the-art fiber optics backbone and communications rooms
• The first phase of what will be the largest Public Address Voice Evacuation (PAVE) system in the world.
• New floor art medallions located at concourse-level entrances to Skylink
• Four new high-capacity elevators for transit between concourse levels
Prior to today's unveiling the first phase of Terminal A, DFW opened the first phase of its new Terminal A Parking structure, which features a host of enhancements including a parking guidance system to show drivers the location of available parking spaces.
All three phases of work on Terminal A and the Terminal A Parking facility should be complete in late 2014, and the entire TRIP project to renovate Terminals A, B, C and E is planned for completion sometime in 2017.
(re)defining DFW International Airport
DFW International Airport's $2.3 billion Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP) is (re)defining first class for this global gateway. For the latest details regarding TRIP, log on to www.dfwairport.com/redefine.


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8 Tips and A Tool for Self-Editing Your Family History Blog
When you write a book you have the luxury of completing all your writing and revisions upfront and then pay a professional editor to help you fine tune it before you head to publishing. In the world of blogging you hit publish each and every week, sometimes several times a week with little time and attention for edits.
Each time we click publish, we want to present ourselves in a professional light. Yet each and every week we are faced with deadlines, schedules and life's chaos. Our weekly posts can sometimes be done in a rather rushed and hap-hazard manner.
Regardless of whether you are following the family history blog to book project, or writing a how-to genealogy blog, editing your blog posts shouldn't be a quick once over. We are all guilty of not taking time when it comes to the editing process.
While spell check is a wonderful thing it shouldn't be your only method of editing your blog posts. Below are some tips and tools to help you edit your blog posts in a more organized fashion. After reading over the tips be sure to download the Peer and Self-Editing Worksheet, a tool to help you identify any weaknesses in your blog posts before you hit publish.
8 Tips to Self-Editing Your Family History Blog Posts
1. Walk Away – Give your post time to sit. After having written and revised my blog post several times, I walk away from it. Sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for the remainder of the day but never any longer than a day. This time away helps me to come back to it with a fresh perspective, a clear head and this in turn allows me to see my message more clearly and recognize any errors.
2. Read it Out Loud – several times, first looking at it from a story perspective. Does it follow a natural progression, is the story clear. Read it slowly and out loud making sure you say every word. Often we know the post so well we tend to read the sentence without really seeing the words. If I stumble over a sentence that's usually a signal to me that perhaps that sentence needs some attention.
3. Remove Unnecessary Words – this is a biggy for me. I also find the more I work on this the more I am aware of it in my initial writing. Say what you need to say in as few words as possible.
4. Read It Out Loud Again- I can't stress this enough. This time around focusing on complete sentences grammar and punctuation.
5. Complete A Grammar Edit - Are you using everyday language? Is your punctuation correct? I keep The Little Red Writing Book close by for easy look ups and a refresher for structure, style and grammar.
6. A Peer Edit - If I have the time or I'm finding a post particularly challenging, I'll ask a friend or family member to review my post. A second set of eyes is always best for editing but not always practical in blogging. Find yourself a blogging buddy who will exchange peer edits.
7. Don't Sweat It – If you catch an error after hitting publish or a reader picks up on an error go back in and correct it and move on. Don't beat yourself up about it.
8. Use The Peer and Self-Editing Worksheet - Print this worksheet off and keep it handy when you are self-editing your blog posts or better yet send it to friend, a fellow blogger and ask them to be a peer editor.
Do you have any tips or tricks for self-editing your blog posts? Share them in comments.


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Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved to Bend, Oregon, on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years, Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.
I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress.
Today with every city, state, and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino's progress can provide others with a roadmap of what's worked and what has not. Dino's three-part story on Bend covers:
- Part 1: Bend — the ecosystem and the entrepreneurs
- Part 2: The rules of funding regional startups
- Part 3: Engineering a regional tech cluster
Here's Part 2 of Dino's story…
Tech investing is risky. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it's not easy. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.
- The cloud: open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. (Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.)
- Accelerators: which became mechanisms for focused entrepreneurship mentoring and delivery of best practices to startups. This was valuable to startups in the Valley and has been vital to startups in regions where the ecosystem is less developed.
- The Lean Movement: led by Steve Blank (and others,) created a set of methodologies that ushered in the era of Evidence Based Entrepreneurship. This has changed the way entrepreneurs think about building their startups and how investors should look at them.
- Angels & Crowdfunding: Coincident with the capital efficient movement came the current wave of angel investors, this time armed with the ability to collectively fund startups to the point of meaningful value creation on modest amounts of capital. Sites like AngelList have only amplified the collective reach of individual and grouped angel investors.
These four developments, while important to Silicon Valley, are vital to developing regional tech clusters. While the density of Silicon Valley startups can't be replicated in regions, the barriers of money and resources have disappeared. These changes make entrepreneurship possible anywhere.
What's Missing Is Early Stage Capital
While the technology gap is closing, what's still missing in local regions is early stage capital.
Three types of regional venture funds exist today:
- Regionally located funds, such as Foundry Group in Boulder, are located outside of Silicon Valley or NY, but their investments are primarily in the Valley or NY. They are not regional funds per this discussion.
- Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage.
- Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.
Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed. They failed due to:
1. The dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and
2. Most of those funds were also raised and invested prior to the huge capital efficient wave of the past 6-8 years. These regional funds invested in capital-intensive startups that required large initial investments. The result was too much money in too few deals. The inevitable failures then damaged returns.
The Oregon startup scene today looks very different from what it did 10 years ago. Today it's dominated by capital efficient software, web, and mobile startups, whereas 10 years ago it was dominated by semiconductor and hardware startups that consumed huge amounts of capital before their first dollar in revenue.
So a regional fund must do three things:
1. Focus on early stage investments
2. "Right sized" for the exit environment. If it's too big you won't be able to intelligently deploy capital. Too small and you won't be able to follow on and protect your investments or make enough investments to ensure you have enough "at bats."
3. Find and focus on the entrepreneurs and deals that want to build scalable startups.
We believe that regional funds need to walk a delicate balance. But it doesn't take huge IPOs to return multiples of capital on a small fund.
Why Valley Rules Don't Work in Regional Economies
A typical VC fund in Silicon Valley might raise $200 -$400 million. And over a 10-year life of a fund only one out of five deals will deliver all the returns. A good return to your investors is 20% per year. That means over 10 years, investors expect ~6x return on their investment. This means that those winning deals have to make a ~30x return to provide the venture capital to fund that 20% compound return (the 6x).
The Valley strategy is to get as much money as possible to work in the high flying deals that are going to pop. It's an educated/calculated swing-for-the-fences model, and it can work and be extremely lucrative if you can consistently get in those deals.
The problem for a regionally based investor is that there will be a limited number of startups in your region that have a realistic chance at an IPO. The percentage of VC backed startups that go public is very small, so counting on those exits in a regional fund would not be prudent (nice if it happens, but don't build the model to rely on it).
The reality is that the super vast majority of liquidity events are M&A, and the majority of those are in the under $100M range. As a result, large multi-hundred million-dollar funds focused on early stage investing in the region can be challenging. There just aren't enough "right" regional startups to invest in.
Regional Moneyball
Bend playing Moneyball makes a lot of sense. In fact, it's the only game that investors in a regional cluster can play. Regional investors need a way of improving their odds of getting base hits and minimizing strikeouts.
Playing Moneyball in venture capital means making smaller, smarter bets focused on companies and deals that the big teams, the Silicon Valley heavyweight investors, pass up because the deals are too far from Silicon Valley, not yet known to them, not in their comfort zone, or not the fad of the month.
Playing Moneyball also means playing with the money you have. The reality for a regional investor is that you have to match the capital you raise to the deal/exit environment you are in.
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Specifically this means that a regional fund should be $10-30 million. (With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) And the fund should be looking at startups that can provide $20M to $100M exits – almost certainly as M&A deals.
The chart below diagrams our regional fund strategy.
The good news for regional investors is that these factors allow you to play Moneyball if (and that's a big IF) you are investing in entrepreneurs who are living and breathing evidence-based entrepreneurship and who are building scalable startups. This is true whether the company is concept stage or ramping revenue. I've found a lot of companies in the region that have found a way to get to some level of revenue traction but haven't broken out. When you dig in, the reasons are usually easily discoverable and observable.
The Bend Experience
One of the fundamental benefits of being so active in building the FoundersPad accelerator (a 12-week, Lean Startup program focused on customer development) is working with the cohort participants on refining their business models. This experience has provided me with a whole new set of pattern matching filters as an investor.
The business model canvas and the customer development process give investors an incredible opportunity to evaluate how deeply an entrepreneur has engaged with their target customers and, more importantly, what they have learned about the problem-solution space they are going after. This learning and the measurements and metrics that surround it is what evidence-based entrepreneurship is all about and what makes it a powerful tool for entrepreneurs, investors, and accelerators.
If you are a regional accelerator or investor and would like to talk and compare notes, please feel free to email me.
Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.
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Posts Tagged 'Pterodactyl'
The March of Progress, Dinosaur Edition…
Among the many chastening revelations that come of aging, surely the most disturbing is the discovery that the dinosaurs whose names and characteristics one so lovingly committed to childhood memory didn't actually exist… at least not in forms that even vaguely resemble the ones one knew and loved.
Consider the pterodactyl, that leathery flying lizard, denizen of Conan Doyle's The Lost World,
and inspiration for Rodan.
Turns out that no such beast actually existed. Rather, the march of science has revealed, there were a family of creatures, Pterosaurs, with rather different– though not necessarily less cinematic– characteristics. For instance,
Caulkicephalus trimicrodon (illustration: Luis Rey)
Happily, Dave Hone has created Pterosaur.net— a font of remedial information.
As we come to terms with the advance of knowledge, we might give a tip o' the birthday hat to Susan Sontag, the essayist ("Against Interpretation," "Illness as Metaphor"), critic ("Notes on Camp," "On Photography"), novelist (Death Kit, The Volcano Lovers, In America— which won the National Book Award for fiction in 2000), and Berkeley grad; she was born on this date in 1933.
Written by (Roughly) Daily
January 16, 2010 at 1:01 am
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with Against Interpretation, Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Caulkicephalus trimicrodon, Conan Doyle, Dave Hone, Death Kit, dinosaurs, Illness as Metaphor, In America, National Book Award, Notes on Camp, On Photography, Pterodactyl, pterosaur.net, pterosaurs, Rodan, Susan Sontag, The Lost World, The Volcano Lovers


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Microsoft has updated its virtualization solution for Windows 7 to the release candidate (RC) milestone:
Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop. To download Windows Virtual PC and the Windows XP Mode environment, please follow the steps below. For information on how to set up Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, check out Running Windows Virtual PC with Windows XP Mode in the Documentation section.
Windows XP Mode will only run on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate editions and requires a virtualization engine, such as Windows Virtual PC.
Note: Beta to RC upgrade is not supported. You need to uninstall the Beta version of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode before installing the RC bits.
Update: Neowin notes that the RC version supports Jump List integration and other new features, which is pretty cool. Thanks to Halil M. for the link.