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text: Cigars and old cars, Rumba and rum: the icons of Cuba are as legendary as it gets. And with the government embracing tourism full-on, there's plenty of opportunities to experience this Caribbean island with larger-than-life lore. Those seeking a simple white-sand getaway can grab a lounge chair at the resorts of Varadero. Nature lovers can ride horses through lush fields and into limestone caverns in rural Vinales, and divers can take the plunge into the shipwrecks and reefs of Punta Frances. History buffs will soak in the plantation remains, colonial architecture and revolutionary monuments, and tobacco aficionados will frolic like kids in a candy store. And no one will want to miss Havana, where crumbling buildings meet a cultural vibrancy: where little boys play baseball in the street, live music filters down cobbled alleys, and coco taxis zoom past crashing waves along the Malecon. Toss back a mojito or two, and you'll see why Cubans are so fiercely proud of the country and culture. So grab your Che shirt, and plenty of toiletries, and dive headfirst into this little island that could.

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Ranging over ten western states, greater sage-grouse have lost nearly half their original habitat, and their populations have experienced long-term declines. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined the bird warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act – a decision that sparked concern among industries like oil and gas development and agriculture, which would prefer to use sage-grouse habitat for their own purposes. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Forest Service as a cooperating agency, set out to improve management plans to support sage-grouse recovery before the Fish and Wildlife Service makes its formal listing decision in 2015. This new planning strategy is intended to update nearly 100 federal land use and management plans with new conservation measures for sage-grouse on 60 million acres of public land. Needless to say, given the inherent conflicts of interest, we were concerned that the needs of sage-grouse might not be prioritized in the planning process.
Today, Defenders released "In the Red: How Proposed Conservation Plans Fail to Protect Greater Sage-Grouse." This comprehensive report documents how draft plans released under the federal National Greater Sage-grouse Planning Strategy fail to adopt conservation measures required to conserve and restore sage-grouse and their habitat.
Greater sage-grouse are one of the best studied species in the West, and we poured over reams of published research and government and scientific reports to identify key strategies to conserve the grouse. We used these conservation measures to evaluate how well BLM's draft plans would conserve and restore sage-grouse and their habitat.
What we found wasn't pretty: Many of the conservation measures in the draft plans are biologically or legally inadequate, and must be improved in final plans in order to provide for the long-term conservation of sage-grouse. The plans were also markedly inconsistent, proposing dramatically different conservation measures for sage-grouse range-wide and even between adjacent planning areas. While sage-grouse occur across large landscapes, the planning process was partitioned into 15 different areas, each with its own approach to protecting sage-grouse. Dividing the habitat along these imaginary lines may be helpful from a human perspective, but not really for sage-grouse.
One measure that the BLM utterly failed to implement is designating new reserves for sage-grouse protection. Though the agency analyzed approximately 44 million acres of priority sage-grouse habitat for special designation, they only proposed to designate about 50,000 acres as reserves. This would mean that less than one percent of sage-grouse habitat would be specially protected for the species.
The good news is that federal planners have another chance to adopt effective conservation measures for sage-grouse in the final plans. In fact, most of the draft plans analyzed our key conservation measures, but simply declined to include them in their proposed management schemes. This means that the BLM doesn't have to start over with the planning process to issue strong final plans for sage-grouse.
Federal lands are key to sage-grouse conservation and recovery. Our report includes recommendations for BLM to ensure that public lands, which contain the majority of remaining sagebrush habitat, contribute to the conservation and restoration of the species. Our recommendations to federal planners include:
- Finalize the draft plans together in a centralized process that can more effectively address their many deficiencies and resolve their discrepancies so that the 15 final plans implement consistent, adequate, regulatory conservation measures to conserve and restore sage-grouse and their habitat.
- Conserve essential habitat to support sage-grouse conservation and restoration, and permanently protect the most important areas as sagebrush reserves to serve as strongholds for sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent species.
- Focus habitat restoration on areas most likely to improve habitat quality and connectivity to expand sage-grouse current range and reclaim parts of historic range for use by the species.
- Account for the effects of climate change on sagebrush habitat by anticipating future habitat and species shifts and supporting habitat resilience to climate change.
Although sage-grouse may be the best-known species in the Sagebrush Sea, they are not the only species of conservation concern : more than 350 other fish, wildlife and plants in sagebrush grasslands are also at risk. Greater sage-grouse are an "umbrella species" for the landscape – by adopting the conservation measures in our report, the BLM can protect sage-grouse and benefit a host of other species dependent on sagebrush habitat. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to implement transformative, lasting conservation measures for an entire imperiled ecosystem. Let's hope we get it right.


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Linda Collier necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
The RIM Coffeehouse Co
We are a couple starting our dream Coffeehouse. It will be a small Italian themed coffeehouse specializing in Espresso Coffees, Pastries, Sandwiches, and Wine. The atmosphere is a Tuscan Lodge decor with a fireplace, cozy sofa and chairs, cafe' tables, warm and inviting.
We are located in a neighborhood of upscale homes. The market is wide open. Nothing similar for at least 4 miles. There are families with children of all ages, retired couples and college students. We aim to appeal to all of them. We want The Coffeehouse to be somewhere that a person can stop and pick up a quick coffee, sandwich or pastry or sit, relax, access the internet, have a meeting, have a coffee, glass of wine etc. A place where your friends are waiting.
We are looking for a logo that will represent our Coffeehouse. Something that would make you really want to come in and stay a while. The RIM needs to be the primary words, with the Coffeehouse Co being on the logo but, not necessarily in one sentence. We would love to see art work depicting the coffee, sandwiches and wine instead of words. No stock images of clip art please. The colors should be warm, in the mocha family with accenting colors; burgundy, Deep Golden, black etc...just a thought. We need this logo to make our signage for the building and for our A frame boards in addition we will need it for business cards and menus. Please no cartoons. We want it to be very tasteful, with class.
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In its day to day work with women, the Party constantly implements the instructions of V.I. Lenin to bring women into public and productive work and to pull them out of domestic slavery by freeing them from subordination to the stupification and humiliation of always and forever being responsible for cooking and taking care of the children.
But officials of the Party collective and of the factory committee and the directors of timber mill No. 23 still have not understood this objective.
Pravda Severa has already written more than once about Mariia Semenovna Abramova, and has repeatedly demanded that the Party collective of the factory committee and directors of factory No. 23 earnestly take up the tasks of eliminating lines at the stores and improving the work of nursery schools and kindergartens, so that Mariia Semenovna [Abramova] and all the other housewives of the factory may be liberated from the absurd lines and kitchen fumes which wash away all the strength of women, isolate them from production and cultural activities, and undermine the completion of the production plan.
Despite the fact that two months have already passed since Pravda Severa raised these questions, conditions at the factory have not changed at all.
As before, Mariia Semenovna spends her days standing in line for bread, herrings, and milk, and as before she rushes around the kitchen preparing supper for her kids.
She tries with all her might to get away from this vicious circle, but she cannot. She tried to work at the factory, but had to quit work after ten days, because the horrible work of the childcare center left her children going hungry and without supervision. As a result, her youngest son became sick, and this tied the hands of Mariia Semenovna. The medical assistance was also quite poor.
Neither the Party collective nor the factory committee have lifted a finger to improve any of these awful conditions and they have also made no effort to keep Mariia Semenovna at work in the factory. The secretary of the Party collective Lukin says that they have decided to reform their efforts in ZRK and have assigned one person in the supply department to eliminate lines at the stores, but in fact nothing has changed in this area.
At the present time, the Party collective does not even have a womens organizer, which is evidence for judging the efforts of the Party collective to organize women and to draw housewives like Mariia Semenovna into the public and political life of the factory.
We categorically demand that the Party collective and the factory committee immediately turn their attention to issues of womens work, to freeing housewives from the tenacious grip of lines, to ensuring the consistent work of nursery schools, and to drawing women into socially productive labor.


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TripFish necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 129 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Trip Fish - TripFish.com
TripFish.com is a new web-based company that provides property owners a place to advertise their properties as vacation rental units. Similar to sites like: http://www.vrbo.com and http://www.homeaway.com.
The target audience is wide - so generally we'd like to aim at the internet savvy population between the ages of 25 and 40.
We'd like the logo to be bright, vivid and creative. There was another contest for a different company involving a fish, and we quite liked a lot of the designs - most of them are irrelevant to us directly as the designs involve flames, but the brightness and the spirit of the logos was very similar to what we'd like to achieve. We've attached a screenshot of the contest page to provide some reference to get the general idea.
That said, please be encouraged to be creative and feel free to design something completely different - these are only guides, and we will provide feedback throughout the contest.
The winning logo will need to:
- Include a fish
- Be VIVID and eye-catching - this may mean a single color or multiple colors (no restriction), but either way it needs to pop on a neutral background.
- Be Clean and Creative
- Work on white, black, and grey backgrounds, or provide variant versions that do.
- Be able to stand alone as a logo with no text, but also come in a version including the name Trip Fish, another including the URL TripFish.com, and the winning logo will need to also supply a black and white version of each
The winning logo will NOT:
- Be too busy, look childlike, look like the religious symbol, or like Clip Art
- Include any imagery that might confuse the user into thinking the site is related to fishing trips (ie. No fishing poles, hooks, or dead fish)
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The ghost of the last Catholic to be martyred in England is said to have appeared in this video.
Saint Oliver Plunkett, the Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, was the last Catholic to be martyred in England. He was executed in 1681 as part of the Popish Plot, beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1975.
He became the patron saint of Peace and Reconciliation in 1997.
Six years ago a British author captured a ghostly apparition of Saint Oliver Plunkett on video while visiting Ireland.
Vikki Bramshaw said she only discovered the image of "the ghost" of St. Oliver Plunkett peering out of the prison door in Saint Peter's Church in Drogheda, County Louth when she viewed the video taken with her cell phone camera later on.
Catch a glimpse of the face, which appears briefly a few times at the hatch of the 15th century cell door.
"I don't really believe in ghosts or anything like that, so I was a bit spooked out to see it when I was checking my video when I got home," Bramshaw told a local Irish newspaper.
"I visited Drogheda between March 10-17, and was taken around Newgrange and other tourist sites, and Saint Peter's was just one of our stops," she said.
"I was just filming the cell door with my camera phone, and didn't notice anything unusual at the time, but when I checked it that night, I was definitely a bit spooked by what I saw."
The video shows what appears to be a face that appears at the small hatch in the door a number of times.
"I watched it, again and again, to see if it was a reflection, but there are other things reflected in the glass, and they're not moving, and this does," said Bramshaw, who lives in Southampton.
"I consider myself quite a down-to-earth person, and am keeping an open mind on what it might be."
There have been no other reported sightings of St. Oliver Plunkett in the church, and Bramshaw had no idea why he would have chosen her to make a first appearance.
Of course, Bramshaw was not exactly a stranger to the paranormal. She is the author of many books on witchcraft, including her latest, "Craft of the Wise: A Practical Guide to Paganism and Witchcraft."
Her biography on Amazon.com says, "Bramshaw is a student, teacher and author of the esoteric mysteries and initiatory witchcraft. Having trained for almost 10 years under respected elders, she now runs her own coven who work on the edge of the New Forest, in Hampshire."
"I suppose I should be very honored if he did pick me," she added, "but it was very unnerving and a little bizarre to watch it back."
Born in 1629, Plunkett's ministry was set in troubled times. The Catholic cause suffered greatly after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, which eventually resulted in a ban on the public practice of Catholicism. Many Catholic clergymen were executed, and Plunkett spent much of his life in hiding, working to advance faith in the Church from behind the scenes.
He built schools both for the young and for clergy, whom he found "ignorant in moral theology," and took on the problem of alcoholism in the clergy writing, "Let us remove this defect from an Irish priest, and he will be a saint."
On July 1, 1681, Plunkett became the last Catholic martyr to die in England when he was hanged, drawn and quartered after a kangaroo court "trial." He was beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1975.
In 1997, he became a patron saint, adopted by a prominent prayer group campaigning for peace in Ireland, and was named Saint Oliver Plunkett for Peace and Reconciliation.
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Hagel's confirmation-day conversion
Chuck Hagel is a decorated Vietnam veteran with an honorable history fighting for his country, and I commend his personal valor and sacrifice.
But the man who testified before Congress Thursday to become our nation's next secretary of Defense sounded very different from the one who, for the past two decades, has advocated that the U.S. adopt a weakened posture on the world stage.
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As a two-term senator and active participant in foreign policy discussions, Hagel repeatedly declined to support measures to crack down on state sponsors of terrorism, belittled the notion of using any means to prevent a nuclear Iran, advised U.S. leaders to engage in direct negotiations with rogue nations and hostile terrorist groups, and expressed remarkable antagonism towards the longstanding U.S. alliance with Israel. Since Hagel has been nominated to become Defense secretary, however, he's disavowed each one of these positions.
It all amounts to quite the confirmation day conversion.
Some of my Senate colleagues may be satisfied that the pledges he has made in recent days are more meaningful than his policy record compiled over the past fifteen years. I am not.
Of course, anyone can change their mind on one particular issue; reasonable people do so all the time. However, when a nominee tries to disavow his past positions on virtually every foreign policy issue, all at the same time, it raises serious questions.
There is a reason the Washington Post described Hagel's views as placing him "near the fringe of the Senate."
On Iran, Hagel voted against economic sanctions in 2001, 2007, and 2008. Today, he says he supports sanctions.
In 2007, Hagel voted against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard — which was then actively providing explosively formed projectiles to kill U.S. servicemen in Iraq — as a terrorist group. Today, he agrees that they are terrorists.
In 2006, he said, "a military strike against Iran, a military option, is not a viable, feasible, responsible option." Likewise, in 2010, Hagel told the Atlantic Council that he was "not so sure it is necessary to continue to say all options are on the table" regarding Iran's nuclear program. Today, he says all options (including military force) should be on the table.


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This document attempts to describe the GDAL data model. That is the types of information that a GDAL data store can contain, and their semantics.
A dataset (represented by the GDALDataset class) is an assembly of related raster bands and some information common to them all. In particular the dataset has a concept of the raster size (in pixels and lines) that applies to all the bands. The dataset is also responsible for the georeferencing transform and coordinate system definition of all bands. The dataset itself can also have associated metadata, a list of name/value pairs in string form.
Note that the GDAL dataset, and raster band data model is loosely based on the OpenGIS Grid Coverages specification.
Dataset coordinate systems are represented as OpenGIS Well Known Text strings. This can contain:
For more information on OpenGIS WKT coordinate system definitions, and mechanisms to manipulate them, refer to the osr_tutorial document and/or the OGRSpatialReference class documentation.
The coordinate system returned by GDALDataset::GetProjectionRef() describes the georeferenced coordinates implied by the affine georeferencing transform returned by GDALDataset::GetGeoTransform(). The coordinate system returned by GDALDataset::GetGCPProjection() describes the georeferenced coordinates of the GCPs returned by GDALDataset::GetGCPs().
Note that a returned coordinate system strings of "" indicates nothing is known about the georeferencing coordinate system.
GDAL datasets have two ways of describing the relationship between raster positions (in pixel/line coordinates) and georeferenced coordinates. The first, and most commonly used is the affine transform (the other is GCPs).
The affine transform consists of six coefficients returned by GDALDataset::GetGeoTransform() which map pixel/line coordinates into georeferenced space using the following relationship:
Xgeo = GT(0) + Xpixel*GT(1) + Yline*GT(2) Ygeo = GT(3) + Xpixel*GT(4) + Yline*GT(5)
In case of north up images, the GT(2) and GT(4) coefficients are zero, and the GT(1) is pixel width, and GT(5) is pixel height. The (GT(0),GT(3)) position is the top left corner of the top left pixel of the raster.
Note that the pixel/line coordinates in the above are from (0.0,0.0) at the top left corner of the top left pixel to (width_in_pixels,height_in_pixels) at the bottom right corner of the bottom right pixel. The pixel/line location of the center of the top left pixel would therefore be (0.5,0.5).
A dataset can have a set of control points relating one or more positions on the raster to georeferenced coordinates. All GCPs share a georeferencing coordinate system (returned by GDALDataset::GetGCPProjection()). Each GCP (represented as the GDAL_GCP class) contains the following:
typedef struct { char *pszId; char *pszInfo; double dfGCPPixel; double dfGCPLine; double dfGCPX; double dfGCPY; double dfGCPZ; } GDAL_GCP;
The pszId string is intended to be a unique (and often, but not always numerical) identifier for the GCP within the set of GCPs on this dataset. The pszInfo is usually an empty string, but can contain any user defined text associated with the GCP. Potentially this can also contain machine parsable information on GCP status though that isn't done at this time.
The (Pixel,Line) position is the GCP location on the raster. The (X,Y,Z) position is the associated georeferenced location with the Z often being zero.
The GDAL data model does not imply a transformation mechanism that must be generated from the GCPs ... this is left to the application. However 1st to 5th order polynomials are common.
Normally a dataset will contain either an affine geotransform, GCPs or neither. It is uncommon to have both, and it is undefined which is authoritative.
GDAL metadata is auxiliary format and application specific textual data kept as a list of name/value pairs. The names are required to be well behaved tokens (no spaces, or odd characters). The values can be of any length, and contain anything except an embedded null (ASCII zero).
The metadata handling system is not well tuned to handling very large bodies of metadata. Handling of more than 100K of metadata for a dataset is likely to lead to performance degradation.
Some formats will support generic (user defined) metadata, while other format drivers will map specific format fields to metadata names. For instance the TIFF driver returns a few information tags as metadata including the date/time field which is returned as:
Metadata is split into named groups called domains, with the default domain having no name (NULL or ""). Some specific domains exist for special purposes. Note that currently there is no way to enumerate all the domains available for a given object, but applications can "test" for any domains they know how to interpret.
The following metadata items have well defined semantics in the default domain:
The SUBDATASETS domain holds a list of child datasets. Normally this is used to provide pointers to a list of images stored within a single multi image file.
For example, an NITF with two images might have the following subdataset list.
SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NITF_IM:0:multi_1b.ntf SUBDATASET_1_DESC=Image 1 of multi_1b.ntf SUBDATASET_2_NAME=NITF_IM:1:multi_1b.ntf SUBDATASET_2_DESC=Image 2 of multi_1b.ntf
The value of the _NAME is the string that can be passed to GDALOpen() to access the file. The _DESC value is intended to be a more user friendly string that can be displayed to the user in a selector.
Drivers which support subdatasets advertize the DMD_SUBDATASETS capability. This information is reported when the --format and --formats options are passed to the command line utilities.
Currently, drivers which support subdatasets are: ADRG, ECRGTOC, GEORASTER, GTiff, HDF4, HDF5, netCDF, NITF, NTv2, OGDI, PDF, PostGISRaster, Rasterlite, RPFTOC, RS2, TileDB, WCS, and WMS.
Metadata in the default domain is intended to be related to the image, and not particularly related to the way the image is stored on disk. That is, it is suitable for copying with the dataset when it is copied to a new format. Some information of interest is closely tied to a particular file format and storage mechanism. In order to prevent this getting copied along with datasets it is placed in a special domain called IMAGE_STRUCTURE that should not normally be copied to new formats.
Currently the following items are defined by RFC 14 as having specific semantics in the IMAGE_STRUCTURE domain.
The RPC metadata domain holds metadata describing the Rational Polynomial Coefficient geometry model for the image if present. This geometry model can be used to transform between pixel/line and georeferenced locations. The items defining the model are:
These fields are directly derived from the document prospective GeoTIFF RPC document (http://geotiff.maptools.org/rpc_prop.html) which in turn is closely modeled on the NITF RPC00B definition.
The line and pixel offset expressed with LINE_OFF and SAMP_OFF are with respect to the center of the pixel.
For satellite or aerial imagery the IMAGERY Domain may be present. It depends on the existence of special metadata files near the image file. The files at the same directory with image file tested by the set of metadata readers, if files can be processed by the metadata reader, it fill the IMAGERY Domain with the following items:
Any domain name prefixed with "xml:" is not normal name/value metadata. It is a single XML document stored in one big string.
A raster band is represented in GDAL with the GDALRasterBand class. It represents a single raster band/channel/layer. It does not necessarily represent a whole image. For instance, a 24bit RGB image would normally be represented as a dataset with three bands, one for red, one for green and one for blue.
A raster band has the following properties:
A width and height in pixels and lines. This is the same as that defined for the dataset, if this is a full resolution band.
A datatype (GDALDataType). One of Byte, UInt16, Int16, UInt32, Int32, Float32, Float64, and the complex types CInt16, CInt32, CFloat32, and CFloat64.
A block size. This is a preferred (efficient) access chunk size. For tiled images this will be one tile. For scanline oriented images this will normally be one scanline.
A list of name/value pair metadata in the same format as the dataset, but of information that is potentially specific to this band.
An optional description string.
An optional single nodata pixel value (see also NODATA_VALUES metadata on the dataset for multi-band style nodata values).
An optional nodata mask band marking pixels as nodata or in some cases transparency as discussed in RFC 15: Band Masks and documented in GDALRasterBand::GetMaskBand().
An optional list of category names (effectively class names in a thematic image).
An optional minimum and maximum value.
Optional statistics stored in metadata:
An optional offset and scale for transforming raster values into meaning full values (i.e. translate height to meters).
An optional raster unit name. For instance, this might indicate linear units for elevation data.
A color interpretation for the band. This is one of:
A color table, described in more detail later.
Knowledge of reduced resolution overviews (pyramids) if available.
A color table consists of zero or more color entries described in C by the following structure:
typedef struct { /- gray, red, cyan or hue -/ short c1;
/- green, magenta, or lightness -/ short c2;
/- blue, yellow, or saturation -/ short c3;
/- alpha or black band -/ short c4; } GDALColorEntry;
The color table also has a palette interpretation value (GDALPaletteInterp) which is one of the following values, and indicates how the c1/c2/c3/c4 values of a color entry should be interpreted.
To associate a color with a raster pixel, the pixel value is used as a subscript into the color table. That means that the colors are always applied starting at zero and ascending. There is no provision for indicating a pre-scaling mechanism before looking up in the color table.
A band may have zero or more overviews. Each overview is represented as a "free standing" GDALRasterBand. The size (in pixels and lines) of the overview will be different than the underlying raster, but the geographic region covered by overviews is the same as the full resolution band.
The overviews are used to display reduced resolution overviews more quickly than could be done by reading all the full resolution data and downsampling.
Bands also have a HasArbitraryOverviews property which is TRUE if the raster can be read at any resolution efficiently but with no distinct overview levels. This applies to some FFT encoded images, or images pulled through gateways (like OGDI) where downsampling can be done efficiently at the remote point.


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WeKnowYourHouse.com Highlights the Dangers of Location Check-ins
WeKnowYourHouse is the latest "social networking privacy experiment" designed to show Internet users just how easy it is for someone to find your house by what you tweet. The site is tremendously creepy, but a good object lesson in how much information gets shared online.
WeKnowYourHouse.com uses the Twitter Search API to look for tweets containing the word "home" and are posted by users who have location turned on, according to the site's "How It Works" page. The Tweet is then displayed on the site along with a Street View image of the user's location.Only the past hour of Twitter data is displayed, and after that all images and Tweets are deleted to protect user privacy, according the site.
Twitter initially suspended the @WeKnowYourHouse account earlier this week after several outlets, including CNET and Sophos, wrote about the site. Without the Twitter account, the site couldn't use the search API to pull the relevant tweets. The account appears to have been reinstated as of yesterday, and the site is going strong.
WeKnowYourHouse.com "has been designed to show what could happen when you tweet about being at home with locations enabled, particularly from a mobile device," according to the site.
'Location ON' Offers Tons of Data
The Twitter API provides location in latitude and longitude format, which the site converts to street addresses. With that information, WeKnowYourHouse can publish a lot of information. Along with the partially censored Twitter usernames, street address, and Google Street View picture of that location, the site shows nearby places found on FourSquare, crime statistics for the area, local photos posted to Instagram near that location, and even some geographically targeted advertisements.
"It's scary to see how much information can be compiled against someone so quickly, using information that is freely available," wrote Naked Security's Anna Brading.
The site's aims are similar to an earlier effort called PleaseRobMe.com, which used FourSquare and Gowalla to "raise awareness about over-sharing." A few weeks ago, Security Watch also reported on @NeedADebitCard account on Twitter, which scanned the micro-blogging site for users posting pictures of their credit and debit cards and retweeting them to highlight how irresponsible and dangerous that kind of behavior was.
WeKnowYourHouse has a very simple piece of advice for users on social networking sites: don't check in at home, regardless of whether it's Twitter with locations, Foursquare, Google Latitude, or any other location-aware site.
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for Asia Pacific at Sophos, went a step further when he suggested all geo-location services should be turned off. "Giving out regular and precise updates of your whereabouts is convenient - but you should consider your location to be a form of PII (personally identifiable information)," Ducklin wrote.
It's a good lesson to learn, and the timing couldn't be better. Earlier this week, Bloomberg News reported how Alexa Dell, daughter of Dell CEO Michael Dell, had posted details of the family's activities and whereabouts on various social networking sites. "Michael Dell pays about $2.7 million a year for the security protection of his family, according to Dell regulatory filings. And so you can imagine how pleased he must have been to see his children's jaunt to Fiji detailed on a catchy website and his daughter providing an online diary of her life, replete with GPS locations dished out by her cell phone," reported Bloomberg News.


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Wooster Earns STARS Silver Rating for Sustainability Achievements
Based on comprehensive assessment of efforts across campus
WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster has received a STARS Silver Rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), is a program that measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
The STARS program involves publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university's sustainability performance in three areas: education and research; operations; and planning, administration and engagement. Wooster's report took a full year to assemble, an effort coordinated by S.B. Loder, the college's sustainability coordinator.
"STARS was developed by the campus sustainability community to provide high standards for recognizing sustainability efforts," said AASHE Executive Director Wendy Scott. "The College of Wooster has demonstrated a substantial commitment to sustainability by achieving a STARS Silver Rating and is to be congratulated for their efforts."
"The STARS survey has been an invaluable tool in collecting data relevant to all the sustainability work we do here at The College of Wooster," said President Grant Cornwell. "We are proud to have achieved this recognition, and look forward to further improving our sustainability efforts in the future."
AASHE is an association of colleges and universities that are working to create a sustainable future. AASHE's mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. It provides resources, professional development and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.
The College of Wooster is America's premier college for mentored undergraduate research. By working one-on-one with a faculty adviser to conceive, organize, and complete an original research project, written work, performance or art exhibit, every Wooster student develops independent judgment, analytical ability, creativity, project-management and time-management skills, and strong written and oral communication skills. Founded in 1866, the college enrolls approximately 2,000 students.


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WASHINGTON (Circa) -- WWE wrestlers John Cena and Nikki Bella have broken up after dating for six years. The couple announced their engagement during Wrestlemania in 2017.
- THROWBACK ICYMI: John Cena proposed to Nikki Bella on stage. But fans couldn't get over his cargo shorts.
In a joint statement released by the couple, the wrestlers said, "while this decision was a difficult one, we continue to have a great deal of love and respect for one another."
Most recently, the pair was seen together during this year's Wrestlemania on April 8th, according to Us Weekly. The Blast also caught the couple walking hand in hand on April 4th during the red carpet premiere of the movie "Blockers."
Cena spoke about the difficulty of being in relationships during an interview with Us Weekly in March.
"Relationships are hard. Don't ever think that love is easy. Love is beautiful, but we've had to come to the realization after being together for five years that love is not easy," the wrestler said at the time. "We work every day on us. We have our problems just like everybody else. Some of our problems are very public, some of them aren't. But we work every day on us. Anytime I get upset, I always just realize that I can't live without her and I love her and that's why I cave in on a lot of stuff."
Cena continued saying, "It takes being able to mesh two lives. I would never ever want Nicole to be in a position where she says 'I'm holding you back from doing this because I feel it's wrong for us.' And I would never say that to her. That's why she's super busy and sometimes we don't see each other for months at a time, but when we do see each other, it's our time together."


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Man on 'Hoarders' Hoards Life-Sized Replicas of Himself [VIDEO]
Wildwood, New Jersey resident Randy Senna is considered something of an eccentric by locals. And on last night's 'Hoarders,' we all found out why.
The popular A&E show profiles people who stockpile too much stuff — usually old clothes, animals or newspapers. Senna hoards arcade games and, creepily, life-sized likenesses of himself.
Senna once dreamed of opening an amusement park in which he would be the star, but his proposed Randyland didn't meet the local requirements for an arcade license. So the 20,000 square-foot space is occupied by dozens of games and even more Randys, which is what Senna calls his mannequin doppelgangers. He's even stockpiling his own hair to use on future versions.
"You can't improve upon the perfection of the Randy, so you have to make duplicate Randys," Senna told the 'Hoarders' cameras.
Seems one person's "eccentric" is another person's "completely nuts."
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You know companies are always trying to wine-and-dine tech reporters, but this has to be the weirdest example. Tonight I received a package containing this bottle and nothing else.
Clearly, the message on the label is the important thing: there's a Sony VAIO event in New York City next week that I should attend. But the label says nothing about the contents of the bottle. Nothing. Is it alcoholic or non? Is it real or is it a prop? What would the VAIO division of Sony Electronics be putting in a bottle? And, finally, should I drink it or pour it down the drain?


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DNA Testing - know the In's and Out's of it. Genetic Genealogy, a new branch of genealogy combining genetics and traditional genealogy research, is the most accurate tool for the family historian. Family connections can be proven or disproven. DNA testing can support a paper trail which is often in question given the lack of surviving records. Its popularity grows daily with thousands testing monthly throughout the world.
17 January 2011
Brick Wall Success with 67 marker Y-DNA Test
Randy Majors recently shared his website and this story with me. It's a wonderful story that shows the qualities of good genealogical research, perseverance, and how together with DNA testing you can break those brick walls. I urge you to read the entire journey on his website as this is only a summary. Congratulations Randy and thank you for sharing with all of us!
He writes:
I recently wrote a narrative about how I broke through a long-time brick wall using a combination of traditional genealogical research methods and genetic genealogy. It's about my great great-grandfather John Charles Brown, or at least that's who we thought he was...
For 130 years – from 1880 to 2010 – John Charles Brown's past was hidden in veils of secrecy. John's children and grandchildren didn't know who his parents or siblings were. It was the proverbial genealogical brick wall. Therefore, since this was one of my most difficult family lines I could research, I researched it.
The basic problem is that we didn't have any confirmed record of John's existence for the first 28 years of his life...from his birth in December 1858 to his marriage in April 1887. Birth certificates were not required in Illinois in 1858, so that simpler approach to determining his parents was not possible. But in that time-frame, John should have appeared in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census at a minimum, as well as perhaps a state census or two...and that could have led to whom his parents were. And it did, eventually, but not how you might expect!
In summary, the steps I took over the last few years are these:
--- I researched all the traditional genealogical resources I could find (e.g. census records, vital records, church records, newspapers, and so on)
--- I talked with family members to find any information they had on John, and importantly, any stories or memories they recalled. I found it was critical to talk with the older living relatives who were alive at the time when John was still alive; he died in 1928, so there were still at least a couple of grandchildren living.
--- After hitting a brick wall on anybody knowing who John's parents or siblings were, I then dug deeper on trying to find additional sources including church records from where he was born, land and legal records from around the time of his marriage, newspaper clippings, and so on.
--- After uncovering plenty records since the 1887 marriage, but lots of nothing before that, I went back to the basics of what I knew or thought I knew. There were a few clues in the oral traditions from older family members so, on a hunch, I reduced the name searches in census records to first names and did some wildcard clues that used elements of the locations, occupations, birthplace of parents, etc., previously found. This led me to a specific family that I suspected could be John's family. (There is much more detail on this in my full narrative.)
The problem was that the family I found in 1860 and 1870 census records had a totally different surname. So continuing, I tried to disprove that this candidate-family with the different surname was in fact John and his family, but I couldn't disprove it. This compelled me that much more to try to turn my hypothesis into a certainty. I recalled that there was a direct male descendant of John Charles Brown whom I had made contact with earlier that year. He too knew nothing of John's parents or siblings and was equally baffled. After some time, he decided to have a 67-marker y-DNA test performed at Family Tree DNA. And the rest is history.
Check out the full narrative and what was ultimately discovered here:
Hopefully, this story offers some ideas that others may try on their brick wall ancestors!
2 comments:
- txlynnage said...
This could be my own story! My great grandfather, very few know anything about, including his children. Unfortunately I have less to go on as all my census searches, my gggrandfather and his wife were never in the same census! I have had a dna test done on one of his direct male descendents...........looks like it's time to go back and take another look!Your story gives me hope!
Thank you!
Laura Flanagan
- January 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Kathleen Brandt, Professional Genealogist said...
Great story!
- January 21, 2011 at 10:17 PM


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Dear Customers,
Our 5 year anniversary is April 16. It has been a fantastic 5 years. But all good things must come to an end.
Northampton Beadery will close its doors on July 10, 2016.
There are several different reasons as to why I came to this difficult decision. Most importantly is my health. Owning and operating a small, brick and mortar retail store has caused my health to decline rapidly in recent months. I need to focus on the thing that matters most. If you don't have your health you have nothing.
Competing with an internet and online-shopping driven world is another major reason I've come to this decision. Having a brick and mortar small business, particularly a niche craft store, just isn't lucrative or sustainable these days.
I have met some incredible people and have made lifetime lasting friendships. I have gotten so much joy from educating the community with beads, supplies, and jewelry making techniques. It has been an experience I'll never forget.
I couldn't have done it without my awesome employees Brenda & Janet and my "part-time employee" Bevlynn. You ladies rock and are the best employees in the world. It is 100% true and I mean it!
Thank you to my handful of regulars who stuck by my side. You know who you are and I will forever be grateful of your generosity, love, and support.
Liquidation sales will start in April. Details of the sales will be available on our Facebook page and in our weekly emails. As of right now scheduled classes will continue to run until the end of April. We will not be scheduling any private lessons, classes, or birthday parties after April. We will not be accepting any jewelry repairs or making special orders after April.
If you know anyone who has a gift card for Northampton Beadery please urge them to use it before we close. After July 10 gift cards will no longer be valid.
Thank you from the bottom of my heavy heart! On to planning my next adventure…
Heather Black
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Hey! It's another edition of Mixology Monday, and having sat out August's entry on vodka cocktails, I decided to get back in the game this month with September's theme, Dizzy Dairy. Led by group manager Chris Amirault (who this very evening is leading a cocktail class at Providence's La Laiterie–go Chris!), the eGullet team chose a dairy theme, interpreted broadly as anything you'd find in the dairy section of your local supermarket–milk, cream, eggs, soy milk, cheese, whey, curds, whatever.
Now, I've had a bottle of Kahlua Coffee Cream sitting around for a few weeks now–a sample bottle that I received for review purposes. Kahlua Coffee Cream is a limited-edition product that will soon be released for the holidays. The bottle describes it as Kahlua's coffee liqueur blended with cream. I could have simply built a cocktail on that cream component, but I decided that would be cheating and planned to add my own dairy-case ingredient. More on that in a bit.
So starting with the Kahlua Coffee Cream, I figured I'd be going for a dessert drink. I'm sure that wasn't necessary, but one thing I've never done around here is blog about dessert cocktails. The BarSmarts guys are pretty strong in advocating that bartenders have well-made dessert beverages to serve to restaurant patrons, and who'm I to argue with those gentlemen?
My final inspiration here was Papa Clarke's article in this weekend's Chronicle about chocolate in cocktails. The very point of his piece runs contrary to what I'm doing, I'm afraid. His object was to show that chocolate need not be ghettoized as a sweet ingredient, and of course that's just where I've relegated it. Chocolate in cocktails is more new territory for me, and so I'd rather blend for sweet than savory on my first go-around.
So it goes.
A couple of ingredient notes. I decided to make this drink a flip, in part to sort of approximate the flavors of ice cream, and in part because I don't make many flips. So of course my other dairy-case component is a whole egg. Also, I pulled this together very much at the last minute today. I wasn't even sure what I was building until I started building it. So while the Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters might have been a logical choice for this drink, I still haven't picked up a bottle.
Micky Ficky Flip
- 2 oz. amber rum (I used Mount Gay Eclipse)
- 1 oz. Kahlua Coffee Cream
- 1 tsp. cinnamon syrup
- 2 dashes whiskey barrel bitters
- 1 tsp. cocoa powder
- 1 whole egg
- ground red chipotle, for rimming the glass
Add rum, Kahlua Coffee Cream, cinnamon syrup, bitters, cocoa powder, and egg to shaker. Dry-shake without ice to blend all ingredients. Add ice to shaker and shake again. Coat half the rim of a cocktail glass with chipotle. Strain cocktail into glass.
Cinnamon Syrup
- 1 stick canela Mexican cinnamon
- 2/3 cups sugar
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Speed Lust - Ford and Mustang Performance Parts - September 2014
Feed the urge for automotive adrenaline
Natural Oil
Pennzoil's new Platinum and Ultra Platinum with PurePlus Technology are the first oils formulated from natural gas. PurePlus Technology is a patented, revolutionary process that converts pure natural gas into high-quality, full-synthetic base oil, according to Pennzoil. Pennzoil also states that the oil is crystal clear and contains fewer of the impurities found in crude oil, which is the traditional base for many other conventional and synthetic engine oils. It is designed to keep pistons cleaner, deliver improved fuel economy, protect against horsepower loss, provide unsurpassed wear protection, and deliver excellent performance in extreme temperatures.
Strange Coils
Always improving using the latest technology, Strange Engineering's new aluminum coilover shocks makes suspension tuning easy with a conveniently located adjuster knob at the bottom of the shock body. The knob allows you to quickly and easily adjust the shock to work in concert with track conditions. This new design is available in both single- and double-adjustable configurations, and they can also be customized to specific lengths, strokes, and valving by Strange Engineering to suit your particular needs. Strange's S1413 spanner wrench makes spring adjustments as quick and easy as shock adjustments.
Detailing is Cool
Nothing is better than a clean Mustang, and Wizard Products is here to help with its new Detailing Cool kits. Packed full of everything you need to clean, shine, and protect your Mustang, including Shine Master Polish and Breathable Sealant, Mist-N-Shine Professional Detailer, Tire and Vinyl Shine, All Wheel & Tire Cleaner, Wizards Wash super concentrate, Wizards Multi-Fiber Cloth, and a Wizards hat and can koozie, all packed into a soft-sided cooler. If you don't have a clean Mustang after using Wizards' Detailing Cool Kit, you need to get a Prius.
Electric Colors
PA Performance shouldn't be a new name to any of you reading this magazine. PA is famous for its Mustang electrical components, like alternators, starters, and electrical wiring. The company has always had a few custom colors available, but it has added a few candy colors to the lineup, such as red, blue, and black. The blue, seen here, is really close to True Blue, or even Sonic Blue, but all three new colors are available on any Mustang alternator.
Eco Tranny
We've already heard of a 2.0L EcoBoost swap into an SVO, but if anyone out there wants to do a 3.5L EcoBoost swap into a Mustang, Performance Automatic can help make that happen with this new Street Smart Package. The 3.5L EcoBoost V-6 packs twin turbochargers and 365 hp from the factory—just imagine what it will do with a tune and free-flowing exhaust. Performance Automatic has its 4R70W Super Streeter transmission with a custom bellhousing to mate to the 3.5L EcoBoost engine, along with its Smart Shift transmission controller, wiring harness, torque converter, and all the necessary components and hardware needed to make this swap a reality.
USA Axles
We can never have too many rear axle component options for our Mustangs. Recently we heard about USA Standard Gear's offerings, available at Summit Racing. USA Standard has 28- and 31-spline axles for '79-'93 Mustang 8.8-inch rears. They are made from durable steel for superior strength and performance, and use press-in wheel studs. USA Standard has differentials and gear sets, too.
Turbo Life
If you need help bringing your Fox Mustang's turbo to life, check out Stainless Works' '79-'93 Mustang small-block turbo header kit. Stainless Works' turbo headers feature a 3⁄8-inch-thick flange with 17⁄8-inch primaries and 3-inch slip-fit collectors. The kit uses 3-inch V-band flanges and clamps are provided and welded on for the header-to-crossover connections; is Tig-welded and back-purged for maximum performance; and includes the headers, a crossover tube, a turbo mounting bracket, aluminum motor plate, and a downpipe.
Beast Fuel
If your '94 Cobra is mostly stock, Aeromotive's new A3000 fuel pump isn't for you. However, if you have a hungry beast of a Mustang, the A3000 is up to the task. The pump made its debut at the 2014 NHRA Gatornationals in several Pro Stock cars, fueling Allen Johnson to victory. Obviously capable of providing a bucketload of fuel, it's designed to provide a plethora of mounting provisions, enhanced performance, and better pressure control than any fuel pump in its class.
Upper Arm
Get the upper hand on handling, axle rotation, and pinion-angle adjustability with BMR Suspension's new adjustable upper control arm for '11-'14 Mustangs. BMR's upper control arm is made from 1.625-inch-DOM tubing, and uses a 11⁄8-inch CNC-machined adjuster. The control arm uses a 1-inch-diameter spherical bearing to keep deflection under load at bay, while retaining bind-free suspension articulation. Also, the control arm is designed to thwart wheelhop, improve handling consistency, and increase your Mustang's braking ability during aggressive driving conditions.
Bullet Mounts
No, we didn't misspell Bullitt. These are Prothane's Bullet engine mounts for '05-'10 Mustang V-6 and 4.6L GTs. These mounts are machined Prothane inserts featuring a polyurethane compound sandwiched between stylish, fully-machined, T6 billet aluminum brackets. The mounts are engineered to absorb shock and vibration, and be impervious to oil and grease.
California Legal
Due to California's stringent emissions laws, many supercharger kits that many of us enjoy are not legal to install in the Golden State. Roush Performance is happy to pass along the word that its Phase 1 supercharger kit for '11-'14 Mustang GTs is CARB-legal, with its own executive order number as proof. The Phase 1 supercharger kit is said to produce 575 horsepower at the flywheel, and includes a Roush R2300 2.3L TVS supercharger, high-flow 47-lb/hr fuel injectors, a high-effieciency intercooler system, and all the required hardware, wiring, brackets, and the like.
Power Savings
It's not often you can use the words horsepower and savings in the same sentence. However, these PRW Sportsman roller-tip rocker arms come with a $5 pre-paid gift card. These arms are made from 4340 chrome-moly, which is designed to reduce flex and provide more accurate valve motion, as well as extend service life. The roller tip reduces friction in the valvetrain and can help free up to 15 additional horsepower. These rockers feature heat-treated pivot balls and PRW's Rockerloc poly locks.


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Recent history shows us that left handed batsmen are just the preferred kind in the voyage of a team to maturity. Beware, the Left Handed Revolution is about to happen in Bangladesh cricket!
The left-handed revolution
by Mahdee Jameel
Published: 14th January, 2007
The supremacy between Lara and Sachin is a long undecided affair. While in the category of career average and number of runs in both forms of the game Sachin is clearly the winner, a lot of people tend to support Lara based on the opinion that he is the more talented and capable of the two, and probably the better match winner too. But people like me support Lara for another reason: style. The stylish batting of Lara is simply unrivaled. And there is a cause, too. Left handed batsmen, however rare, normally tend to be the more eye-pleasing of the two batsmen types. Just think of the way they cut, pull or drive through cover. Or just remember the majestic dancing-down-the-wicket long-on sixes by Ganguly. Also, the cool finishers Bevan and Hussey, to whom Aussies own many of their close wins, are left handed.
But there is something more about left handed batsmen that the eyes do not catch so easily. It is their contributions to a developing team. Recent history just shows us that left handed batsmen may just be the preferred kind in the voyage of a team to maturity. Just take a look at the present WI team. While the team is still vastly unstable, the fact that this team can now give any team a good thrashing at their day is mainly due to the presence of the likes of Chanderpaul, Gayle and Lara in their team, all left handed batsmen.
Now let's look a little back, at the previous two teams that got test status ahead of us. First comes Zimbabwe. They are now in a position where no one wants to be at, but that's another matter. Look at their previous two world cup
performances. In 2003 their place in the super six was mainly due to teams refusing to play in their homeland. But in 1999 they earned their place. The beating of South Africa was a remarkable one. And the man of the match that day
was Neil Johnson, a left hander. And after that, they were cruising merrily, and if the turmoil did not happen, they might have gone to the top six of the rankings by now, the way they were going. Remember the streak of fifties by Andy Flower, after that? We were his victim, too. And to the transformation of the team, the key elements were the left handed batsmen Neil Johnson, Andy Flower and Alistair Campbell, all of whom were capable of winning a match.
A flashback to the Sri Lankan team that permanently transformed their position among the elite. No one should argue that while their bowling attack also performed their job, it was the formidable batting line up that won them the 1996 WC. And it's no coincidence that it was full of blazing left handed batsmen like Ranatunga, Gurusinha, Jayasuria. Another similarity between the Zimbabwean and Sri Lankan team is that both the captains were left handers, and brilliant captains they were, especially Ranatunga.
Therefore, the presence of at least three left handed batsmen is quite important a fact in one teams journey to success, and hopefully, we have got our pack waiting, too. Shahriar Nafees lead our team in the first 20Twenty, a match in which Sakib and maybe Mehrab also played. Nafees has already proved to be the most consistent batsman in our current line up. While Sakib and Mehrab still have things to prove, their performance at the A team and U-19 level or the National League leaves enough room for us to hope.
And then there are the ones in the pipeline. Nazmus Sahadat is certainly the most exciting prospect to be the partner of Nafees. And there is another person whose performance has not really reflected his level recently, but I for one would love to watch him play for the team, Tamim 'Butcher' Iqbal. Younger brother to former national team opener Nafees Iqbal, this former U-19 lad can just chop a team on his day, much like Jayasuria.
Now let's take a closer look at these left handed Bangladeshi batsmen:
Shahriar Nafees: When BCB announced him to be the cricketer of the year, many had doubts in mind, but now? A thousand runs had been a big
milestone for our cricketers for a long time, Bashar extended it in tests, and it seems like in Nafees, we got our Bashar for ODI's too. The way he is going now, I sure hope he will extend our milestone limit much higher. Getting 1000 runs in ODI in only 29 matches, more importantly, in a calendar year, shows that Nafees has what it takes to be a world class cricketer in these busy cricketing seasons. Even with so many young cricketers contesting for an opening spot, he has his place cemented in the team, and is most probably our new captain after Bashar.
Sakibul Hasan: We hardcore fans had a place booked in the future National team for this talent even before he appeared in the U-19 WC, and
he did not disappoint us. Ask any fan of BD to talk about the untouchable list of Dave Whatmore, and Sakib will be a sure inclusion, and that too after only about half an year of international cricket. True all-rounders are the most valuable asset of a team, and we have got our man here. An ace with the bat and ever consistent with the ball, he can easily give up one of these departments and simply get into the team with the other. I hope for him to be our Bevan, the cool finisher.
Mehrab Hossain: One of our everlasting debates about the U-19 team of ADW, that really changed our expectation levels, is who is the better
all-rounder, Sakib or Mehrab? Mehrab won the bout in U-19 WC, and although he got the call after Sakib, like Sakib, he cemented his place at the top of the order with only a few matches. He, along with Shahriar Nafees, gave us a thing long forgotten since the days of Opi-Bidyut, a consistently performing opening pair. Although he was criticized for his slowness, he is no Golla, and he can score at a fast rate when the situation demands, as he has shown in other levels. His all-round capabilities are also proved. Although he has not got the chance to free his arms regularly because of the abundance of SLA's in the team, his past
indicates that once he gets his chance, one of those SLA's might get axed. I'd like him to take the batting position of Habibul Bashar after the WC instead of his current place.
Nazmus Sahadat: A consistent performer in the age group and national level, this lad has the makings of a true opener. Had it not been for Mehrab, he could have been opening partner of Nafees by now. We only can hope for a win-win situation for our cricket with this boy performing and pushing for a opening slot in the team, and if this continues, what an opening place race it
may become for us fans!
Tamim Iqbal: Another Khan from Chittagong. Brother of Nafis, nephew of Akram. Really? Yes, but he does not need this introduction anymore, now Akram and Nafis should be introduced as Uncle and Brother of Tamim. Dashing is maybe an understatement for him, Rabeed Imam once used the nickname 'Butcher' for him and it probably is the one word best suited for him. On his day he simply slaughters the opponent. Another prodigy from that famous U-19, I just want this boy as the partner of SN, as he has what it takes to lift our cricket one step, he can surely be our Jayasuria. What is the question mark here is consistency, and this is the reason Mehrab got his chance ahead of Tamim. Only time will tell whose path he will follow, Akram or Nafis?
The impact that left arm spinners has had on our team has been tremendous. But I believe such an impact will be left on the team by these lefty batters also.
Now there is some clarification. While many of you might think that what I am trying to say is that a left handed attack is essential for success, actually I merely wanted to point out that in recent past, teams with a left handed majority at the top had more success at climbing the ladder, and therefore, a left handed majority in our top order, of course a world class left handed majority (all of those players I mentioned has the future as a batsman in the ranking's top 10), increases the chance of success. But the presence of brilliant right handers is also important. Aravinda de Silva and Kaluwitharana played a huge part in Sri Lanka's uprising, and you cannot rule out Sarwan's contribution to West Indies. I hope Ashraful and Aftab will play that part in the Bangladeshi team.
So, if the past is any indication, we can certainly hope for a future where we are among the best teams in the world, with a balanced left-right batting combination. Yes, "balanced" is the keyword here. Beware, the Left Handed Revolution is about to happen in Bangladesh cricket!
About the author(s): An ardent cricket fan, Mahdee Jameel is a regular and active member of the BanglaCricket forums where he is known as Shafin. In forums he is known for competing with other members to be the first one to start match threads during Bangladesh matches. With his never ending enthusiasm for Bangladesh cricket, we hope for many more analytical articles in the future.
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Changing Patterns: You're Mad if you Don't React.
The wine industry is made of family owned companies. Family owned companies seldom last past the 3rd generation in part because the family and business conditions that support the start of a business evolve over the years. Watching the clip above from MADMEN, you see the founder ask the question, "Why can't I just build on what I have?" The answer is a reminder that your customers needs and wants evolve, and you have to recognize and predict those pattern changes.
To survive and adapt, a leader has to get out from behind the day to day world of running the business and ask tough questions about change. Today whether you are first or 4th generation, it's time to review the horizon because while the business continues to rebound, its not and wont continue in the same way it did in past recoveries as we discussed in Part I: The Long Term Future of US Wine Sales last week.
Just what specifically will be different in this recovery for the wine business? Its too long of a topic to discuss on a Blog so much of this I'll reserve for the State of the Industry Report due out in January of 2013. But for now lets just start with one segment: planting .... and maybe a little on pricing because they are related.
My good friend Bill Turrentine expressed the cyclicality of the Wine Business with his Manic-Depressive Wine Wheel. Its an excellent model explaining how the different constituents behave given changes in grape supply. In a time like now where we are trending to shortage with wine grapes, based on this model we should see the genesis of a planting explosion. But we aren't seeing that so its time to recognize changing patterns.
Despite the Plaza Accords we discussed last week which devalued the US currency in the 1980's and started the downward evolution of the US$, the wine exporting countries of Chile, Argentina and those in the EU still share a common fate having a currency that is even weaker than the US$. Given the economic forces discussed last week, I believe that is likely to continue and will enhance the opportunity for those countries to import wine.
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Since we've already ceded the lowest priced wine segments to imports now, there will be no plantings in those Districts compared to what we saw in the 1990's. Jon Fredrikson explained the situation about the high production regions in part when he said in his June report:
It's not just the current supply shortage that is fostering the growing bulk imports as Jon mentions here. It's a structural change as well that is caused by better access to foreign bulk today combined with favorable exchange rates. The importation of bulk wine will continue unabated as long as there is the ability to buy cheaper generic bulk wines that are perfect generic substitutes for Central Valley grapes. Planting will be restrained versus what we've previously seen in the past 20 years in the US."A major consequence of the short California supply has been the tremendous growth of bulk table wine imports into Northern California, amounting to a staggering 36 million cases over the past 12 months."
discussed in a prior blog is educating the consumer about the quality of California production wines to make them less prone to direct substitution from off-shore. Our farmers have more expensive land so the way to get a premium for the grapes is promoting the differences in US wine. I guarantee we aren't going to see a change in the pricing mechanism or obstructive and protectionist trade legislation. We can still influence buying patterns of our consumer and the emerging Millennials but leadership of that effort is going to have to come from within the growing community, most likely from the Central Valley.
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The odd coincidence is that the web provided a channel to sell wine, but also provides the information for a consumer to better drill down on pricing decisions and buy someone elses wine. So another major difference in this recovery is the availability of information and the speed in which its found, added together with the ability of wine to be shipped direct. In the past, if you wanted a foreign wine, you had to know the importer and had to drive to pick it up. Not so anymore. The wine can almost find you.
To quote my only other good friend Tony Correia:
"Higher grape prices lead to higher land prices, lead to higher bottle prices. lead to higher grape prices."
Bottom line on planting, I don't believe we are going to see the aggressive planting we've had in the past because economics and the Internet favor growth in imports and that reduces the need for domestic supply. One path I see more of our clients take to account for this change is to consider getting land in other producing countries like Argentina and Chile, or look to some lower priced land to supply the volume needed for domestic wine at the right price.
Please log in to the community and offer your opinion. What do you think? Too gloomy? What should a winery do armed with the vision of changing patterns? This week your guest moderators for the discussion will be that hard-working duo of Suzann Russell and Sara Chrisman from Silicon Valley Bank. Lets see how they deal with the heat? Please log in and fire away.


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