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The Favorites
Players to Watch
Michael Howard, LHP/1B, Prescott-
The top ranked LHP in the state makes Prescott a very dangerous three seed and they are the favorite in just about any game with Howard is on the hill.
Austin Byler, 3B, Sunrise Mountain- Strong well built left handed hitter who racked up a crazy triple slash line of .517/.705/1.172 for the season.
Chris Freudenberg, LHP, Saguaro- Tall athletic lefty with good command who gives the defending champs a shot to win every time he takes the mound.
Toughest Road
Saguaro- Getting the two seed rather than the one means having Prescott on the same side of the bracket which will be a tough matchup for anyone. Saguaro has the ability to win the title but they'll have to earn it with very tough tests back to back at the end.
Prescott- A very dangerous three seed with the top pitcher in the tournament, not so much a sleeper as the third favorite.
Cienga- Went 9-0 in the month of April and took care of Nogales in the first round 6-3. Will be tough to get past Sunrise Mountain but they are hot at the right time and cannot be overlooked.
PG's Pick
History repeats itself and Saguaro defends their title, this is a team that is deep and consistent that looks to be the most capable of putting together four good games in a row. They're not an overwhelming favorite by any means, but they are deep, consistent and experienced.
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Greenway- When they're playing well they are the best team in 3A, but consistency has been an issue at times. They've beaten quality teams and they've lost to teams they should have beaten.
Thunderbird- The top seed rolled through the regular season with an impressive 24-3 run thanks to a prolific offense that has now put up double digit runs in five consecutive games.
Scott Squier, LHP/1B, Greenway- Tall flamethrowing lefty who has reportedly worked in the 90-93 MPH range with his fastball this spring and has been very tough on opponents, going 9-1 with a 1.77 ERA and 80 strikeouts over 51 innings. Also hit .457 with 3 HRs and 20 XBH in 81 ABs.
Taylor Scott, RHP/SS, Notre Dame Prep- Works comfortably in the upper 80s with good command of his fastball that he mixes in with a good slider. Good offensive tools at the plate with a short swing and a quick bat. Scott will be a key player for Notre Dame who has the potential to spark them to a deep run.
Notre Dame Prep- Ignore the regular season W-L record, they played a very strong schedule and the experience should pay off this time of year. The talent is there and this is a team you can't overlook.
This is one of the tougher brackets to pick a winner from with several teams that have a good chance and no clear cut favorite whose completely head and shoulders above the rest. In a field like this picking the team with the best pitcher is the smart play so we'll go with Greenway.
Class 3A (Bracket)
The Favorite
Blue Ridge- The top seed has rolled through their first two games, winning by a combined score of 30-1. After a 27-2 regular season this comes as no surprise. What would be a surprise is someone other than than the Yellowjackets holding up the trophy next week.
Class 3A (Bracket)
The Favorite
Player to Watch
Sebastian Kessay, LHP/1B, Blue Ridge- The big lefty has racked up video game statistics, going 10-0 with a Save in 11 appearances (10 starts) with 120 strikeouts over 57 innings and posted a 1.11 ERA.
Toughest Road
River Valley- They've scored 11 runs in each of their first two playoff games, but they'll be facing an opponent in the semis that has allowed just one total run this tournament. Something has to give.
Holbrook- The Cinderella run continues for the ten seed who find themselves one game away for the title game. Estrella Foothills has played well this tourney and will be a big obstacle.
PG's Pick
Blue Ridge has simply been playing too well not to pick them. As long as they stay focused and play to their ability they should be the state champs
Class 2A (Bracket)
The Favorite
Northwest Christian- The top remaining seed (#2) has had a fairly uneventful run to this point, with their 8-4 win in the second round being the closest game they've played yet.
PG's Pick
Class 2A (Bracket)
Player to Watch
Player to Watch
Ryan Kelly, C/SS, Valley Christian- Crushed 18 Home Runs in 28 regular season games while batting .548. Combined with teammate Jeff Paschke (.656 AVG) for 34 Home Runs on the season.
Toughest Road
River Valley- They've scored 11 runs in each of their first two playoff games, but they'll be facing an opponent in the semis that has allowed just one total run. Something has to give.
Yuma Catholic- They've been on fire of late, winning twelve straight, including an 8-4 win over Scottsdale Christian, who they meet in the semifinals.
PG's Pick
We're going to go with the hot hand here and take eight seed Yuma Catholic who is coming off a win over top seed Wilcox. The _ are riding a winning streak and have already beaten their semifinal opponent a few weeks ago.
Class 1A (Bracket)
The Favorite
Tanque Verde- The top 1A team in southern Arizona has breezed through not only the regular season (23-2) but also the first two rounds of the plaoyffs, winning by a combined score of 30-0 in a total of ten innings for a pair of mercy rule victories.
Player to Watch
Mark Harris, RHP/SS, Tanque Verde- Harris has overmatched opponents on the mound and at the plate all year. On the mound he went 11-0 in 11 starts, throwing a complete game every time out while racking up 96 strikeouts over 61 innings and posting a 1.03 ERA. He also hit .600 with 7 Home Runs and 45 RBIs.
Gila Bend- The lowest remaining seed in the tourney is also the defending champions. That playoff experience has payed dividends thus far as they've pulled out some tough games against quality opponents in the early rounds.
PG's Pick
When Mark Harris pitches Tanque Verde wins. We expect Harris to pitch...
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My two new favorite NPCs in World of Warcraft are Sky Captain Swayze and Ka'anu Reevs of the Kor'kron Air Command. In the past, I have been very vocal about my disdain for "lazy NPCs" design in which a clever name that just replaces letters or flat-out names the NPC after the pop culture reference is created for content. Haris Pilton is the queen of all lazy NPCs, for instance, because it's not even a joke on Paris Hilton -- it's just her.
Sky Captain Swayze and his best orc buddy Ka'anu Reevs, however, are stalwart heroes, best friends, and champions in the highest regard. Whatever happens to them after that fateful jump and subsequent tentacling, I hope they survive. I hope they live on. In the name of freedom. I want Sky Captain Swayze and Ka'anu Reevs to be surfing off the shore of Pandaria for years to come.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed he is surprised that midfielder Santi Cazorla did not get a spot in the PFA Team of the Year as he believes the Spaniard fully deserved to be included.
The ex-Malaga player has been in superb form all season for Arsenal and has been an influential man in the heart of their midfield.
The midfield players that did get into the Team of the Year were; Manchester United's Michael Carrick, Tottenham's Gareth Bale and Chelsea duo Eden Hazard and Juan Mata.
Cazorla is the only Arsenal player to have featured in every single Premier League game so far this season, starting 34 and making one substitute appearance.
The Spaniard has contributed well in his debut season by scoring 12 goals and providing seven assists for the club and his exclusion from the PFA Team of the Year has surprised and disappointed his boss Arsene Wenger.
The Arsenal manager believes his midfield-maestro should have been included because of his consistency all season and also the level of quality he has shown throughout the campaign.
"I am sure he must have been very close to be in there," Wenger told Arsenal Player: "In my opinion he deserved to be there based on the consistency and quality of his performances.
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Backers and critics of the war in Iraq joined Monday to plant 800 small American flags on the lawn of the federal courthouse to honor the U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq.
"I think a lot of people feel divorced from the actual results of us going over there," said Betsy Gledhill, a member of the Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace, which organized the event.
"I think this helps us individually as well as makes a statement about what is happening," the retired school teacher said.
John Hadder, another member of the group, took about 45 minutes to read the names of the 800 victims as about 30 men, women and children stuck the flags in the courthouse's green lawn just south of the main casino district.
Jeanmarie Simpson said her son has been serving in the Navy in Iraq and is due to return home in July.
"He's almost done. But he could easily be one of these," she said, pointing to the small flags.
Simpson said she wanted to participate to help show Memorial Days is "more than just a sale at Macy's."
"It's particularly important to honor our most recent dead in this time when World War II is getting a lot of national focus," she said.
"I think it's pretty romantic for a lot of people at the memorial in Washington D.C. And that's fine. But that was 60 years ago and this is five minutes ago," Simpson said.
Ernest Villareal of Reno brought his two children, Desiree, 5, and Mark, 3, to the event "to teach them the real meaning of Memorial Day - to honor the fallen soldiers who have defended our country to protect our free speech and our right to vote."
Villareal was among those at the event who remains supportive of U.S. troops presence in Iraq.
"I think they're doing a good job over there. I'd like to bring our troops home but until the job is clearly done we need to help ensure the rights of the people there," he said.
John Frook, 68, Reno, a retired reporter for Life Magazine, was riding his bicycle past the courthouse with his wife when they stopped to watch the ceremony.
"I've seen lots of these, too many of these," said Frook, who worked as the magazine's Los Angeles bureau chief during the war in Vietnam and was part of the staff that developed a piece called "The week's dead in Vietnam."
"As a reporter, it was the most difficult think I ever did in my life to walk up to a door of someone I didn't know the day after their son had been killed and ask them for a photograph," he said.
"I'm afraid we'll come back next year and there will be an untold number more (war victims)," Frook said.
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When the Clintons darken a restaurant's door, everything stops, at least for a while. Flashing camera phones and applause filled the packed house, on Friday, when word spread that former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, an NBC news correspondent, were being seated for dinner at Almond in Bridgehampton.
"It's truly mind-blowing to have V.I.P.s of this caliber dine here," Eric Lemonides, the restaurant's owner, said. He helped six servers at the Clintons' table of 12, who included former Representative Anthony D. Weiner.
Mr. Lemonides and Almond's chef, Jason Weiner, who launched the French bistro in 2001 and is Mr. Weiner's brother, said they were determined to make it an unforgettable experience not only for the Clintons but for every patron. Mr. Lemonides had instructed the staff, he said, to "take care, the best possible care of their sections." He also visited each table that night to talk to diners about their experience.
Mr. Lemonides said he had eaten at an A-list restaurant where a celebrity was seated at the next table. "I felt insulted that every server hovered around the celebrity's table, while I was thinking, Hello? Can I get a cocktail? I wanted people to feel appreciated, even if their last name isn't Clinton."
According to the chef, customers' food orders were put on hold until after the Clinton party had been served, but no one seemed to mind. "These aren't the Kardashians," Mr. Weiner said. "These are the Clintons, and you can't get much more important than that." He sent a few appetizers to the high-powered table, and then they ordered a la carte.
"Someone told me the president had a gruyere burger," said John McCue, whose vantage point at the bar afforded him a view of the back of Mr. Clinton's head. "So I had one, too."
Jason Kringstein, an actor, who was seated 30 minutes after his 9:45 reservation, said the staff had been accommodating. "They gave us a free drink, appetizer, and dessert to compensate for the wait. Chelsea Clinton apologized after she bumped into me. I told her that I didn't mind."
"It was very low-key," said Andrew Cimento, who was seated with his partner, Joseph Puglisi, at a nearby table just before the Clinton party arrived. "Bill took some pictures, shook a few hands, and then everything mellowed out," he said. "Hillary looked great with her hair pulled back."
The restaurant had received confirmation on Wednesday that the Clintons, who rented a house on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton Village for the month, would be coming to dinner. For security reasons, they remained tight-lipped and recorded the reservation under a false name. President Clinton appeared the next day at the East Hampton Artists and Writers Softball Game, and was greeted with applause.
Almond's owner and chef were reluctant to say much more about the Clintons' visit. "We have a good relationship with the Clintons," Mr. Lemonides said. "We want them to feel comfortable the next time they want to eat here."
It wasn't the first time President Clinton had been at Almond. He was reported to have come in alone a few years ago, pulled up a barstool, and waited for a to-go order.
"It was on a slow Thursday night, I think," Mr. Weiner said. "He casually chatted with other people at the bar. "It was cool."


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"Happy employees lead to happy customers."
In times when enterprises' "intimacy" is getting more and more exposed, healthy families communications logics become sort-of models for healthy enterprises branding. During happy times and more even in crisis times, healthy families seem to get their strenght from robust and sincere-yet-not-rude communication and mutual care. This logic, applied to enterprises internal communication, can really be the clue to a real synergy between managers and employees in the field of enterprise branding. Apple's Steve Jobs showed us that managers can be the word people in smooth & happy times. Crisis contexts like Kervel's case in Société Générale teached us that a massive group of satisfied employees can be the best enterprise's advocates in hard times. As for good times and crisis contexts, satisfied employees can always be the most positive branding influence on customers. -Jim K


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Sweden's Prince Carl Philip will be strapping on a helmet and racing for the Volvo Polestar team in the Swedish Touring Car Championship next year. Consider it returning a favor.
Despite its historic ties to the Scandinavian nation, Volvo hasn't been Swedish owned in a decade. It was sold to Ford Motor Co. in January 1999 and then to China's Geely two years ago. That maker has plans to launch production in its home market, leading some to worry if it wouldn't eventually cut ties to Volvo's homeland. Not to worry, officials have announced.
"Almost half of the approximately US $11 billion investments covering the years 2011 to 2015 will be spent in Sweden in the form of infrastructure for the new vehicle architecture and engine family," said Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo Car Group. "This is a proof of Volvo Car Group's determination to strengthen the company's position as a Swedish car maker with a unique attractiveness on the global market."


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"Dancing With the Stars" KELLIE PICKLER, DEREK HOUGH, LINDSAY ARNOLD, VICTOR ORTIZ, INGO RADEMACHER, KYM JOHNSON, LISA VANDERPUMP, GLEB SAVCHENKO, CHERYL BURKE, TOM BERGERON, BROOKE BURKE-CHARVET, ZENDAYA, VAL CHMERKOVSKIY, PETA MURGATROYD, SEAN LOWE, MAR
SPOILER ALERT: This recap reveals the elimination results of Week 4 of "Dancing With the Stars."
After a week of emotional dances that featured best years and plenty of tears, Tuesday night's "Dancing With the Stars" marked the end of the road for one star -- and her little dog, too. On the Week 4 results show, reality star Lisa Vanderpump was eliminated from the competition following a rocky week that had pro boxer Victor Ortiz joining her in the bottom two.
During this week's rehearsals, reality star Vanderpump passed out on camera while rehearsing the cha cha with pro partner Gleb Savchenko. And while Monday night's show had the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star making a last-minute decision on whether or not she'd be able to dance, in the end she pulled through. But the missed rehearsal time had her missing a few steps.
On her blog for People, Lisa addressed the viral infection that landed her in the hospital this week. "Between trying to fight [the virus] and all of the stress on my body from running around, I ended up with low blood pressure and a rapid heart rate, which is why I fainted," she wrote on Monday. "I am still fighting the bug and feeling under the weather but I am staying in the game as long as they say I can."
Lisa and Gleb's cha cha to Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" scored 18 points, though judge Carrie Ann Inaba docked the duo one point for doing a lift. (Gleb seemed baffled by the charge.)
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Of her untimely elimination, Lisa said, "It's been six long weeks and it's taken its toll. It's the hardest thing I've ever done, but I was given a gift dancing with [Gleb]."
Lisa's Pomeranian pup, Giggy, made weekly appearances on "Dancing With the Stars," and even joined her on the dance floor for her Week 1 foxtrot. But not everyone thought it was a cute idea. After Monday night's show, judge Carrie Ann tweeted that while she respected the fact that Lisa danced while feeling so ill, she wished she'd stop bringing her dog on stage. She then added a Humane Society hashtag.
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On Tuesday's episode of CBS's "The Talk," Sharon Osbourne defended Lisa, saying she brings her own dogs everywhere -- including Lisa's posh restaurants.
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The men's and women's teams soccer provided one of the most thrilling fall weekends ever in Brandeis soccer, as for the first time in the university's history, both squads qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Tournament and advanced through the first two rounds to the Sweet 16.
Each team got a dramatic win along the way.
The Brandeis men, ranked eighth nationally by D3soccer.com and 17th by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, earned the right to host their first two rounds on Gordon Field by virtue of their 16-2-1 regular season. Coach Mike Coven's squad didn't disappoint the crowd of 575 raucous fans in the opener, as they defeated Baruch College, 2-0, on a pair of first-half goals by senior Sam Ocel. Ocel, the University Athletic Association Most Valuable Player, scored both goals in the first 12:16 of the game, and the Judges controlled play the rest of the way.
Photo album from the Brandeis Regional
"Sam has been outstanding all year," said Coven, in his 40th year on the sidelines with the Judges. "His play speaks for itself."
In their second-round matchup, the Judges faced Vassar College, 1-0 winners in overtime against Tufts the night before. The Brewers and Judges battled back and forth for 89 minutes and 30 seconds, with both sides having goals nullified because of offside calls. The clock read 29.4 seconds left in regulation when Ocel delivered again, using his head to redirect a cross from classmate Lee Russo to avert overtime. The goal was Ocel's ninth game-winner of the season.
"It's the best feeling in the world," Ocel said about scoring such a dramatic goal.
"Out of the corner of my eye I saw him, and he was unmarked for whatever reason so I tried to put it in his area and he made a really nice finish," added Russo. The duo have a friendly rivalry on the team's scoring charts, with Ocel now leading the squad with 13 goals and Russo leading with nine assists.
The Judges are in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1984, when they reached the national championship game. Coven also led Brandeis to the 1976 NCAA Division III title, one of only two team national championships in school history.
Brandeis will face Williams College in the next round. The Judges and Ephs will square off at Amherst College at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17. It will be the first-ever meeting between the two squads who both boast long-time head coaches. Williams' Mike Russo is in his 34th season with the Ephs, having guided them to four Final Four berths and the 1995 Division III title.
Ranked seventh by D3soccer.com and ninth by the NSCAA, Williams (15-1-3) reached the Sweet 16 with a pair of 2-1 wins over Thomas and No. 13 St. Lawrence. The latter win was nearly as dramatic as the Judges' win over Vassar, as Mohammed Rashid scored an equalizer for Williams with less than 10 minutes left in regulation, while Michael Madding ended the game with 51 seconds remaining in the first golden-goal overtime period.
The teams have one common opponent this season, Babson. Brandeis defeated the Beavers, 2-1, in double overtime on Sept. 19, while Williams were 2-0 victors on Oct. 14. The winner of the Brandeis-Williams match will face the winner of Saturday's second contest between No. 2 Amherst and No. 19 Swarthmore on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with a trip to San Antonio, Texas, for the Final Four on the line.
The women's team, making its second NCAA tournament appearance in three years under head coach Denise Dallamora, advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history and improved to 15-4-2. The Judges reached the third round by defeating 21st-ranked Union College, 2-1 in overtime, in their Saturday opener, then handling local rival Lasell College, 3-0, on Sunday afternoon, in games played at Amherst College.
Photo album from the regional matches at Amherst
Against Union, a pair of freshmen not known for their scoring helped Brandeis to upset the nationally-ranked Dutchwomen. In the third minute of the game, rookie back Haley Schachter tapped home a rebound after a misplay by the Union defense for her second career goal – her first came with just 1.9 seconds left in the Judges' final regular-season game. Union equalized in the 26th minute, and after a scoreless second half, rookie reserve midfielder Sarah Isaacson launched what onlookers called "a highlight reel shot". Her first career goal was "a marvelous arcing blast over the leaping arms of [the Union goalkeeper and into the netting, sending the Brandeis bench into jubilation" 2:56 into overtime.
The Judges met Lasell for the second time this season in the second round after the Lasers stunned 12th-ranked Amherst in their opener.
Six different Brandeis players recorded points, with sophomore Sapir Edalati's seventh goal of the season in the 13th minute proving to be the game-winner. Schachter and junior Maddie Stein also scored goals for the Judges. Brandeis senior Francine Kofinas had three saves in the first half, while sophomore Michelle Savuto had one in the second as the Judges extended their school-record shutout total to 14.
The Judges advance to the next stage despite not getting any goals from their leading scorer and first-team All-UAA selection, sophomore Dara Spital. They will hope to get a further offensive boost with the return of rookie forward Holly Szafran, the squad's third-leading scorer, who missed the final five games of the regular season and first two rounds of the tournament to injury.
Up next for Brandeis is SUNY-Cortland, who will face off on the pitch on Saturday, November 17, at 1:30 p.m. at Ithaca College. The Judges and Red Dragons will be meeting for the first time ever. Cortland State (11-4-6) defeated Springfield College, 1-0, in the opening round before playing its NCAA Division III record 10th overtime game of the season in the second round against ninth-ranked William Smith College. After 110 minutes of scoreless soccer, the Red Dragons defeated the Herons, 5-4, on penalty kicks to reach the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row. Sophomore goalkeeper Taylor Hudson made nine saves in the run of play and stopped the Herons' second PK attempt to earned the win.
The lone common opponent for the two squads is the Springfield team that Cortland defeated in the opening round on Amanda Margolis's goal in the 57th minute. Brandeis downed the Pride, 2-0, on September 8, on a pair of goals by Spital in the 31st and 79th minutes.
Brandeis is one of four schools with both of its teams still alive in the tournament, joining Loras (Iowa), Messiah (Pa.) and Wheaton (Ill.). The Brandeis men are the only one of five UAA schools selected to the tournament still playing, All four of the conference's women's teams (Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Washington University and Emory) are still in the running for a national title.
Waltham News Tribune preview by Scott Souza
You can follow all the Brandeis action on-line this weekend through any number of media. The men's games will be videocast from Amherst at https://www.amherst.edu/athletics/jeffcast/jeffcast4 or listen as the crew from 100.1 WBRS-FM will be on the scene (http://fischd.wix.com/wbrs-sports#!cvcvvg/mainPage) . The women's game from Ithaca will have LiveStats at http://www.sidearmstats.com/ithaca/wsoc/scoreboard.aspx and audio from the Bombers' radio crew at http://www.vicradio.org/ . There will be updates on our twitter feed, @brandeisjudges, too.


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From ROB HOPKINS
Transition Culture
The Challenge
The infrastructure required for a more localised and resilient future, the energy systems, the mills, the food systems and the abbatoirs, has been largely ripped out over the past 50 years as oil made it cheaper to work on an ever-increasingly large scale, and their reinstallation will not arise by accident. They will need to be economically viable, supported by their local communities, owned and operated by people with the appropriate skills, and linked together.
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" The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty".
Winston Churchill.
The picture above shows the last working mill to close in Totnes. It was situated in the centre of the town, was powered by the river than runs past it, and deliveries were made to and from it using a horse drawn wagon. How's that for a low-carbon local food enterprise? Now it is the town's Tourist Information Office, and a very good one at that., but clearly it is much easier to turn a flour mill into a Tourist Information Office than it is to turn a Tourist Information Office into a mill again.
Much of the infrastructure that would have traditionally supported a more local food economy, and have generated much of the employment in our communities has since been dismantled, converted into flats, converted to other uses. Quite clearly, the infrastructure most settlements have today is completely unequipped for functioning in an energy-scarce context. We aren't able to grow much of our own food, process the milk from our local fields, turn our local timber into useful things, process milk into cheese, apples into cider, wool into, well, wool (clean, useable wool that is). We will need to put it back, but it won't look like it used to look, and it probably won't work the way it used to either. It will be appropriate to now, based on the best way of doing things that we have figured out thus far, and it will be managed for the benefit of the community.
So what new businesses, buildings, livelihoods and infrastructure might a Transitioned community need? Here is a list I came up with in order to get your Transition initiative started with coming up with its own…. just a few initial thoughts… you will notice that actually there are lots of things, lots of opportunities for local economic development, that actually require very little in the way of infrastructure, or perhaps it shifts our thinking away from a nuts and bolts interpretation of the word 'infrastructure':
|Employment Sector
|Industry Type
|Opportunities for Economic Development
|Infrastructure needed
|Food Production/Land Use
|Organic Farming
|Farm workers, research and innovation, value adding and processing, retail, Community Supported Agriculture initiatives
|Farm buildings, packing houses,
|Textile Production
|Farming, processing, manufacturing
|Factories with facilities for washing, scouring, retting, grading, spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing
|Organic Food Production
|Training, freshwater aquaculture, organic gourmet mushroom production for food and medicines, intensive market gardening, food preservation
|Glass houses for aquaponic fish production, sealable buildings for mushroom cultivation, greenhouses, composting,
|Timber for construction and a variety of uses, sawdust for mushroom cultivation, charcoal, wood gasification, coppice products, saps, tannin, bark mulch, education, training, food crops, fibre
|Mobile sawmills, wood gasification equipment, shredders, drying kilns, covered working space, timber storage space
|Urban Agriculture
|Co-ordination, land access provision, edible landscaping consultancy, online tools for linking growers and consumers, large potential for commercial production, plant nurseries and propagation
|Greenhouses, tools, access/deliveries by cycle, horse or electric vehicle, space for storage, packing and processing
|Apple harvesting and pressing, hedgerow drinks and other products, education
|Agroforestry systems
|Design consultancy, planting and ongoing management, selling of wide range of produce, long term enhanced timber value, courses, publications, research
|Tree nursery beds, nut harvesting equipment, processing,
|Edible landscaping, teaching, Education for Sustainable Development, food growing training, apprenticeships, bespoke Transition training programmes
|Polytunnels, garden infrastructure, tools and equipment
|Manufacturing and Processing
|Salvaging building materials, processing and reclaiming materials (bricks, timber etc), making insulation from waste paper, glass bottles into insulation
|A yard or industrial space with covered area, the various appropriate equipment for the relevant tasks
|Sustainable Industry
|Renewable energy technologies manufacturing and installing, technology systems,
|Workshops with specialist equipment, office space
|Extending the life of machinery, building for durability
|Covered space for working on machinery, appropriate equipment
|Materials reuse, refurbishing, resale to low-income families
|Holistic healthcare, research into effective herbal medicines, local herb growing and processing, training for doctors, apothecaries, nutritional advice
|Glasshouses/polytunnels,, laboratory, bottling,
|Home insulation advice, energy monitoring, energy efficient devices, investment co-ordinators, sale of energy to grid or decentralised energy systems, producing wood chip/pellets for boilers, Energy Resilience Analyses for businesses
|Compost Management
|Collecting, Managing, Training, Distribution, Education, potential links to urban food production
|Information Technology
|Creation of effective software systems for energy management, carbon foot printing and much more
|Office space?
|Hospice services / bereavement
|Hospice services, supporting families who keep relatives at home, green burials
|Financial Investment
|Credit Unions, local currencies, mechanisms whereby people can invest with confidence into their community, Green Bonds, crowd funding
|Opportunity to organise efforts throughout region, and parishes
|Opportunity to gather information from the many projects and enterprises underway.
|Education and Design
|Wide range of opportunities for supporting 'The Great Reskilling', developing Distance Learning programmes, training for professionals
|Sustainable Designers
|Landscape architects specialising in edible landscaping, zero carbon buildings
|The Arts
|Art projects documenting the Transition, installations, exhibitions, public art workshops, local recording studios, storytelling
|Transition Consulting
|Working with businesses on energy audits, resilience plans, a range of future-proofing strategies
|Personal / Group Support
|Personal 'Transition Counselling', group support, community processes
|Citizens Advice
|Debt advice, housing advice, financial management skills, debt scheduling
|Outplacement/Redundancy Support
|Support, retraining, ongoing support and training
|Print media
|Local newspapers, small print run books on different aspects of the Transition
|Online retailing systems for local markets
|Film media
|Online TV channels documenting inspiring examples of Transition in Action
|Retraining builders to use local materials and green building techniques, improving awareness around energy efficiency in building, setting up local construction companies, rainwater harvesting systems, design and installation
|Demonstration site where people can learn by doing, storage for natural building materials, a shop where people can buy them,
|Creating local natural building materials, clay plasters, timber, lime, straw, hemp etc. Growing, processing, distribution, retail etc. Locally made wallpaper.
|Hemp processing equipment, sawmill, limekilns and roller mixer, yard and covered space, equipment for processing, bagging and storing clay plasters,
|Specialists in passivhaus building, local materials, retrofit advice
|Low energy vehicle fleets
|Marketing, maintaining, renting, chauffeuring
|Garage space for repairs, recharging points
|Selling, servicing, maintenance training, rental
|Bicycle workshop for repairs
|Importing, servicing, taxi service, weddings etc.
|Garage space for repairs, fuel processing
|Sourcing, processing, selling, training and advice
|Simple equipment for processing biodiesel
|Biomethane/Electric vehicles
|Fleet management, sales, leasing, car clubs
Looks to me like a huge range of opportunities for new livelihoods. In an interview I did with someone who grew up in Totnes in the early 1960s, he told me:
"…all of the little back streets had some kinds of artisans or builders yards or something going on in them. You didn't have to go very far out of the High Street before you were in light industrial premises. All of the top of town, like Harris's ironmongers, they had their big ironmongery shop, but on the other side they had … an agricultural machinery shop. Can you believe it?! There was agricultural machinery sitting there which was for sale! They sold harrows and seed drills and things to go on the back of tractors! They had a little showroom of all that sort of stuff. Then they had the blacksmiths forge just round the back there".
This diversity of businesses, workshops and enterprises gives a place a far richer, more vibrant tapestry than most places have today, with our 'Clone Town' High Streets and out-of-town arcades and business parks. A more resilience community will surely be a richer and more nourishing place that what many of our towns and cities have become today.
The Solution
Make one of the key focuses of your Transition initiative's work and thinking the practicalities of stimulating the infrastructure required by a more localised future. Ideas as to which will be the key pieces of infrastructure will emerge from the EDAP process. Ensure that thinking is strategic and connected, and that it is based on considering the viability of each enterprise. Where elements still exist, find innovative ways, such as the community support model (as in CSAs) to enable them to continue. Where they don't exist, your Transition initiative might create some, some might be created by social entrepreneurs, some by private businesses, and some by the local authority.
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A coroner has recommended five police officers face disciplinary action and others go before the Police Integrity Commission for their "thuggish" role in the death of a Brazilian student.
In a scathing critique of many of the 11 officers who arrested Roberto Laudisio Curti in the early hours of March 18, the NSW Coroner, Mary Jerram, said they acted like "schoolboys in Lord of the Flies", with no idea what the problem was, or what threat or crime was supposedly being averted by the chaotic and violent struggle.
Mr Curti was tasered multiple times and sprayed with OC spray.
"The actions of a number of the officers were ... reckless, careless, dangerous and excessively forceful," she said.
"They were an abuse of police powers [and] in some instances even thuggish. Roberto's only foes during his ordeal were the police ... Certainly, he had taken an illicit drug, as has become all too common in today's society. But he was guilty of no serious offence. He was proffering no threat to anyone."
Ms Jerram handed down 35 pages of findings in Glebe Coroner's Court on Wednesday morning following a two-week inquest into the death of the 21-year-old Brazilian student and football player.
While stopping short of recommending criminal charges, Ms Jerram delivered a damning indictment on the entire episode. "It's impossible to believe that he would have died but for the actions of police," she said.
Mr Curti was chased by police down Pitt Street, tasered several times, sprayed with almost three cans of OC spray, handcuffed and restrained by seven officers on the ground.
He had earlier jumped the counter of a convenience store in a paranoid, LSD-induced psychotic state and taken two packets of biscuits. It was reported over police radio as an armed robbery.
Ms Jerram said many officers had lied to the inquest and "conveniently forgotten" evidence.
She said the most senior officer present during the violent struggle on Pitt St, Inspector Gregory Cooper, gave evidence that was so conflicting and self-serving it "hardly deserves narration".
He claimed that he told the junior officers to stop using their Tasers. None of those officers heard the order and the Coroner said it was likely he never made it but was seeking to shift the blame onto other officers in court.
Ms Jerram suspected that some officers were angry and emotional because they had been hit by Taser shots and inadvertently sprayed during the botched arrest.
However she said it was not right to refer them for criminal charges as it was about "policing issues warranting investigation by policing bodies".
Ms Jerram recommended five officers, including Probationary Constable Daniel Barling, who tasered Mr Curti five times after he was handcuffed, be disciplined.
She also called for an immediate review of the vague and confusing standard operating procedures relating to the use of OC spray, Tasers, handcuffs, restraint and positional asphyxia, particularly the use of multiple taser shots and its "drive stun mode" as a pain compliance tool.


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With village officials shooting down multiple proposals to turn the dilapidated former Camelot School in Palatine into a subdivision, the property instead will become green space known as Meadowlark Park.
The Palatine Park District recently acquired the 12 acres near Dundee Road and Northwest Highway from the Spicer family for $1.7 million.
"Parcels of that size are few and far between," Executive Director Mike Clark said. "We don't have a master plan in place for it, but to have open space just made sense."
The Palatine village council last March denied a proposal from the nation's sixth-largest homebuilder, K. Hovnanian Homes, to build 47 single-family homes on the property. Officials cited the developer's need to conform to lot- and street-size standards.
A 2006 proposal to build 89 townhouses also went nowhere.
Camelot was a private school serving students with behavioral problems and other disorders for more than 30 years beginning in 1974. It moved its operations to Maryville in Des Plaines in 2006.
The park district board this month approved bids to demolish five structures on the Camelot property including dorms, a kitchen and a building where the school caretaker lived. They're each in disrepair after sitting vacant and neglected for several years, Clark said.
A structure previously used as a horse stable will be spared, however. Meadowlark Park is located just east of Palatine Stables, which is owned and operated by the park district.
Clark said Mane in Heaven, a Richmond, Ill.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing animal-assisted activities and therapy with miniature therapy horses, has asked about leasing the space.
In the meantime, the Palatine police and fire departments are using the site for training exercises.
Clark said that once the structures are razed, mobile classroom units removed and the landscape cleared of dead trees and brush piles, crews will carve out a horse trail. The site will be secured until the park district is ready for the public to access it.
"Other than that, we have no formal plans," Clark said. "But since we already own eight acres there (at Palatine Stables), basically having a 20-acre piece of property in the northwest quadrant of the park district could be beneficial down the road."


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2007 Men's Soccer
Mt. St. Joseph 2, Bluffton 0
Lions post shutout at Bluffton in season finale, 2-0
October 27, 2007
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's soccer team dropped a 2-0 Heartland Conference decision to the Mt. St. Joseph Lions on Saturday afternoon, October 27, 2007. The Beavers fell to 4-12-1 on the season with a 2-6 mark in the HCAC. The Mount improved to 4-14 on the year with a 3-5 conference record.
The Lions scored what turned out to be the game-winner at the 29 minute mark of the first half on a shot by Erick Jacob. Just seven minutes later, fellow Lion Brian Ayers found the back of the net to put the Lions up 2-0.
The Beavers took 13 shots, including seven on goal, compared to the Lions' nine total shots with four being on target. Brandon Olterman (Camden/Preble Shawnee) and Derrick Scovanner (Loveland/Cincinnati Hills) led the Beavers with two shots apiece, with both of Scovanner's shots being on frame.
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Please pass along to whom it may concern:
I was recently reading your Lamaze Pregnancy publication (2007),
and came across several good articles. I found the articles "Due
Date Dilemma" and "Daddy's Side" to contain helpful information.
However, I was disappointed by the article "Too Many Test"(pg. 13).
In it Glucose Screening was discussed with the response "so the
only downside to this condition (gestational diabetes) is that the
baby may get large..." This is inaccurate information that could be
damaging to the public. According to Gabbe, Niebyl, & Simpson,
pregnant women with uncontrolled GDM put their infants at risk for
congential malformations, fetal macrosomia, hypoglycemia, jaundice,
and even fetal death (2002). Also in Current Diagnosis &
Treatmen Ob & GYN (2007) it is stated "there is an
increase in miscarriages, congenital malformations, preterm birth,
pyelonephritis, preeclampsia, in utero meconium, fetal heart rate
abnormalities, cesarean deliveries, and stillbirths" in women with
gestational diabetes. Rakel (2002) states in reference to
gestational diabetes, "Early impairment in glucose metabolism may
not be associated with any maternal signs or symptoms, but it can
have fetal effects that include macrosomia, fetal distress, and
fetal demise." In my own experience as an OB/Gyn nurse these
infants have a more difficult delivery(shoulder dystocia),
difficulty feeding, difficulty keeping their blood glucose within
normal limits and difficulty staying warm. I ask that you
re-educate the public about gestational diabetes and the need for
testing. Women whose blood sugar is elevated need further education
regarding diet, exercise, and the possibility of insulin use during
pregnancy. If you need more supporting sources I would be
happy to provide them to you. Thank you for your time.
Decherney, A. & Nathan, L. (2007) Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (10th ed.). McGraw-Hill Company
Rakel, R. (2002). Textbook of Family Practice (6th ed). WB Saunders Company: Philadelphia
Gabbe, S., & Niebyl, J., & Simpson, J., (2002). (at this time I do not have access to this book to finish the citation)


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Missoula Police Investigating Two Early Monday Morning Incidents – Sexual Assault on Sunday Morning
Missoula police are investigating an assault that occurred in the area of the Shopko store at South and Reserve early Monday morning.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for non life-threatening injuries.
Another incident was reported just before 3:00 a.m. when authorities were called to investigate a burglary in progress at a storage facility on South Russell Street. One suspect was take into custody, and was transported to a local hospital for treatment of an unspecified injury.
Sergeant Jerry Odlin with the Missoula Police Department also provided information about a sexual assault that was reported early Sunday morning. Odlin said the incident allegedly occurred in the alley near 100 West Front Street in downtown Missoula. He said a suspect is in custody on a separate offense, and no charges have yet been filed in the sexual assault.
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Aaaaah, it's that time of transitioning weather, change of color, crisp mountain air......I can tell you that Rock Creek got some decent snow that most likely will not disappear significantly anytime soon with this next system rolling up in a couple of day. Get your boots out!
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Hapai, Dahilig appointed to UH Board of Regents; Haynes is reappointed as Maui regentUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU — The appointments of Marlene Hapai and Michael Dahilig to the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents were recently confirmed by the Hawaiʻi State Senate. Also confirmed was current Regent James J.C. Haynes II for a reappointment to a second term.
Both Hapai and Dahilig were appointed to fill positions with terms that expire on June 30, 2007. Haynes second term will expire in 2010.
Hapai, who is currently project director of STARnet, a U.S. Department of Education grant program, is credited with the idea for a science education center on the Big Island, which is now the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi. She saw the center, formerly the Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center, come to fruition as its director from January 2004 through August 2005. An entomologist, Hapai has served as associate dean of UH Mānoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, and has taught for several years at both the UH Mānoa and UH Hilo campuses, as well as at various Big Island high schools. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Gonzaga University and a master's and doctoral degree in insect ecology and insect physiology from UH Mānoa.
Dahilig has been appointed to fill the student position on the Board of Regents. A third-year student in the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH Mānoa, he is concurrently pursuing a master's degree in urban and regional planning. He received a bachelor's degree with honors in geology and geophysics from UH Mānoa in 2003, and was president of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi. He also was awarded the UH Mānoa Student Service and Leadership Distinction Award in 2003.
Haynes, who is chief executive officer of Maui Petroleum, joined the UH Board of Regents in 2003. He is a graduate of Punahou School and an alumnus of UH, where he received a bachelor's degree in accounting. Haynes is also CEO of Hawaiʻi Petroleum and Minit Stop Stores on Maui and the Big Island. He is a board member of the Hawaiʻi Petroleum Marketers Association, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, and a member of the Maui Rotary Club.


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The TV Characters We'll Miss the Most in 2012
When you raise your champagne flute at midnight on Dec. 31, may we respectfully suggest that you don't just do so to celebrate the arrival of the new year? Instead, how about you think of the gesture as a toast to the characters we've loved and lost, and who won't be starting 2012 with us. Such favorites as… READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY


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Independent Lens presents the story of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student, who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera in "When I Rise" at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, and 8 p.m. Thursday, 2/10.
Last year, KLRU hosted a special screening of this powerful film. Here are highlights of the post screening discussion with the filmmakers and a University of Texas student featured in the film.


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CWB holding "No Excuse For Abuse" 5K run April 23
The Child Welfare Board is commemorating Child Abuse Prevention Month with a first-time event on April 23.The board will be holding the first annual "No Excuse For Abuse!!" 5k fun run/walk for Child Abuse Prevention Month starting at 8 a.m. April 23, 2011, on Main Street in Borger. The event is sponsored by Road ID. The race will start at from the park beside the museum on Main Street. Registration for the event is only $25 for ages 10 and up. Children under 10 can participate for free, but will need a registered parent with them in the race.The registration packet includes a t-shirt (for paid participants only), information about the schedule of events, the Rainbow Room, the Child Welfare Board, local businesses, and RoadID.Interested applicants need to mail their completed registration form and check to: Attention: 5k Race, Hutchinson County Child Welfare Board, PO Box 1391, Borger, TX 79008. Registration must be received by Friday, April 8, to ensure your t-shirt size for race day.Packet pick-up will be April 15 at the Chamber of Commerce from 3-7 p.m. Those unable to pick up their packets need to contact Carrie at 806-670-9536 or by email at email@example.com public is also encouraged to wear blue on this day for the "Go Blue" statewide campaign to raise awareness for child abuse."It's time to focus on ways not only to protect children, but also to prevent abuse from ever occurring," Marilyn Brown, member of the Child Welfare Board, said. "This is our opportunity to make a difference in young lives."The county does provide some funds to help with clothing for all the foster children in Hutchinson County. The welfare board depends on fundraisers to help provide these services, believing there is so much it can do to help these children adjust as they leave foster care.Just Hutchinson County alone averages around 60 foster children at all times. Most of the children removed from homes locally have to be placed outside the county as there are not enough foster parents available in the county.For further information on the 5k race or any of the events surrounding Child Abuse Prevention Month, contact your local Child Protective Services office or any Hutchinson County Child Welfare Board member.


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As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people across the world are experimenting with new forms of ownership, which Kelly calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for all of life to thrive for many generations to come. These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs.
by Marjorie Kelly
Read a 30-page excerpt of the book, including the Foreword by David Korten, Prologue, and first chapter.
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You mean, digital passwords you can never change? Sounds secure...
Turbine just generates a non-reversible key from fingerprints. It does nothing to help you out if your fingerprint data gets out. Like by touching a car door.
<Insert mythbusters episode reference here>
The current (and foreseeable future) crop of biometric systems are very difficult to "attack" by using lifted fingerprints due to the way they read the fingerprint from your skin. Creating a real-skin (or functional equivalent) duplicate is probably somewhere near the order of difficulty of brute-forcing a password for commonly accepted (read: flawed) password mechanisms. So; worry about one worry about the other, I guess.
As parent indicated, biometrics is the weakest of these, as if someone is able to 'break the code' you have no way of changing your fingerprints, etc. The best approach is a combination of having and knowing, such as an ATM card which a thief can't use without knowing the PIN, or a building access card that requires you to punch in a code. If you lose your card, no big deal, just issue a new one and assign it a new code just in case.
but..you'd be dead and so the money wouldn't matter very much..
Please don't conflate "biometerics as a stand-alone authenticator" with "biometrics as a second authentication factor". It's pretty reasonably to combine a physical token with biometrics, because you *can* deactivate/replace/rekey the physical token pretty easily. It's important that the authentication system includes some revokable factor, and ideally you'd also have a PIN or other knowledge-based authentication token, but physical + biometric is not a bad start, and can form a perfectly usable, revokable system.
And it's certainly not a bad system compared to the current "physical only" authentication currently in place.
Your fingerprints can't be changed, but they can't be as trivially reproduced as a password either. I agree, someone *could* steal your fingerprints and reproduce them in some useable way, though it would take a higher level sophistication than simply stealing your card or copying your password. And if someone stole your fingerprints and your card you could simply deactivate the stolen card and have a new one issued. The person with your fingerprints would then have a copy of your fingerprints and a useless credit card dongle. He'd need to steal your physical credit card all over again in order to use make use of his copy of your fingerprints.
Why don't they just tie this shit into your cell phone instead? They already have something similar in Japan with swipe phones for the JR line.
Why does every company have to try and put another gadget in your pocket. They should just integrate better with existing gadgets so I don't have to wear fucking cargo pants and have a wallet that is 3 feet big.
They should just integrate better with existing gadgets so I don't have to wear fucking cargo pants and have a wallet that is 3 feet big.
That ain't a wallet. This is a wallet...
That ain't a wallet. This is a wallet...
Does it say "BAD MOTHERFUCKER" on it?
That's also why, when women hit you with their purse, the injury is now fatal.
Why don't they just tie this shit into your cell phone instead? They already have something similar in Japan with swipe phones for the JR line.
Because in Japan the companies are far more tightly integrated, and it's much easier for NTT to work with JR East on what they want to do, and decree to handset makers that their next products will include the functionality. In the US, for instance, it's virtually guaranteed we'd have massive infighting and incompatibilities as vendors fought for dominance over all others. Verizon would work in some places, AT&T in others, and unless you bought your phone from them you couldn't use it at all.
Basically, there's a whole bunch of bullshit in the States that prevent solutions like Japan has from working.
I don't have to wear fucking cargo pants and have a wallet that is 3 feet big.
...that's no wallet...
Because cell phones are buggy pieces of shit, and I wouldn't trust them with my credit card number and PIN for anything. Especially as they become more and more tied to the web.
Yet they're going to be used for your boarding pass:
http://www.google.com/search?q=phone+boarding+pass [google.com]
I used to have a payment tag from citi that was just a sticker that could go on my phone. I used that to pay for things for a while until they "upgraded" my card to one that had it built in. Apparently they can't issue a separate tag for this card, so when I requested a new one, they just sent me a new card, then when I called customer support, they told me that could, but just sent a new card....
Anyways, it's possible to have just the rfid chip on your phone without having to interact with it, but it's n
Did you even glance at the tech? This replaces your existing credit cards - it's not more crap to carry around. In theory, it can even reduce the number of cards you have to carry, since it can combine (at least) two cards into a single physical device of the same size and functionality.
It's not tied into your cell phone (something that, believe it or not, not everyone with a credit card has) because no POS terminals in the country allow you to pay with your cell phone, where all of them allow you to swipe
swipe a card and clone it
And how this is different from what we have now?
Because one involves a material change using a specialized printer and card stock (unless you're just going to gamble that the clerk won't look at what is actually printed on the card) and one is an electronic change that can be presumably used with a magnetic card reader/writer and a general purpose computer.
Both are doable, the latter can conceivably be easier as well as easier to start up.
If there is a combination of permanent lettering on the new type of electronic card, then things just stay the same,
They can already do that with a $200 mag-stripe programmer. The hard part is getting the data to clone (which is not just the card number).
I wonder how long a card like this will last in an average wallet, perhaps facing demagnetization, wear and tear, and other issues of being in a pocket and constantly jostled around.
However, it it can handle that, this could be a great thing to have, as not just a credit card, but as an authentication device. Punch your PIN, punch a challenge phrase, give the vendor the response, and that will do a lot to minimize credit card fraud.
Of course, skimmers with cameras will still be an issue -- just videotape t
And that's different from a normal credit card how?
These things are even more flexible and durable than credit cards. There is no reason to expect these cards will be more susceptible to demagnetization than the magnetic strip of any other card.
The electronics are in the plastic, it makes them pretty darn durable.
Punch your PIN, punch a challenge phrase, give the vendor the response, and that will do a lot to minimize credit card fraud.
Not really, most card theft these days happens in mass thefts of data, not individual credit card thefts.
I know chip&pin isn't perfect, but it'd be a step in the right direction..
I just went on vacation and had no problem with my cards until the end, when someone cloned one of my cards and "swiped" it nearly ten days after I'd last used the card in that particular city.
Curiously the card was never out of my sight. They carried a machine to the table in restaurants and swipe on the spot, as is common in Europe.
Then, when my genius bank thought there might be fraud, they called me on my land line at home. This despite having told them my travel plans and they knew I wouldn't be home for another 24 hours. Since I didn't get back to them soon enough they let the fraudulent charges go through -- one of them for over $2000 -- and I had to deal with it the hard way when I got home.
I know chip&pin isn't perfect, but it'd be a step in the right direction..
I just went on vacation and had no problem with my cards until the end, when someone cloned one of my cards and "swiped" it nearly ten days after I'd last used the card in that particular city.
Curiously the card was never out of my sight. They carried a machine to the table in restaurants and swipe on the spot, as is common in Europe.
Then, when my genius bank thought there might be fraud, they called me on my land line at home. This despite having told them my travel plans and they knew I wouldn't be home for another 24 hours. Since I didn't get back to them soon enough they let the fraudulent charges go through -- one of them for over $2000 -- and I had to deal with it the hard way when I got home.
You tell your bank your travel plans?
It's not uncommon. It's done to prevent charges at the destination from being rejected due to automated fraud prevention.
How do you do it? Call the CC 800 number? If so, what prevents me from calling and saying I'm you and that I'm in Milan?
How do you do it? Call the CC 800 number?
Basically, yes. Talk to a CSR at the CC company.
If so, what prevents me from calling and saying I'm you and that I'm in Milan?
The same way you're prevented from calling the CC company and changing my address, or calling my bank and wire transferring money into your account, or 300 other nasty things you could think up. They do have *some* security on your account that way - they ask you enough personal information that they're satisfied it's you.
You don't travel much
It is common for anyone who doesn't want their card frozen due to seemingly fraudulent use. You call the 800 number, do the usual authentication rigmarole (they check your source phone number, they ask you a number of security questions) and then amend your account details with the window you will be traveling and the destination. I have had a card deactivated even on a short road trip where I stopped too frequently at various gas stations and it auto-locked my card due to a pattern too far out of my norm
If you want to use your bank issued cards you do. Sudden transactions thousands of miles away from your home area is a huge red flag for theft prevention algorithms. If they can't get a hold of you to verify the transaction (and if you're on vacation they probably won't be able to) they will cancel your card or at least put a hold on it until they can talk to you directly.
I've done it both ways, and never had an issue. I've wondered how good the fraud algorithms are - so if my Amex shows up in another country, do they look to see if you had recent transactions with an airline or an airport merchant? I would think that from a fraud perspective there is a big difference between my card showing up at a hotel in a tourist destination like Cancun, vs a grocery store in Roatan. It would be an interesting problem to work on.
Cards that will populate the mag-strip with transaction-specific codes each time. So you can type the code in, the guy at the restaurant can pick up the card with your ticket, and swipe it once.
But if he tries to scan the stripe and clone the card, the number he gets is useless, because it is transaction specific.
I would envision each CC being allocated a block of 200 random CC numbers, to be used in sequence, when it is printed, 200 random initial CVV2 numbers, and 1000 random CVV2 offsets in the form of a number between 0 and 999. For each transaction, pick a number, with no number re-used until 199 more transactions have been made.
Each time a number is used, the CVV2 is to be the initial CVV2 number plus the next CVV2 offset, modulo 999. CVV2 offsets are not re-used until 999 more transactions have been made.
Each time a number is used, the CC company can determine it is valid and compute exactly the right CC and CVV2 numbers that should be used by the next 10 transactions.
Unless there is delayed processing involved, they can also know to reject any number other than those 10.
Even if there is delayed transaction processing involved, the CC company can know a code 199 transactions ago is "too old", because there have been transactions made since then that are too old.
There should also be a way to enter a special PIN to generate a 'vendor specific' code that can be used for multiple transactions.
Possibly assigning card users larger pools of numbers, so expiration dates, and dollar limits can be encoded using the CC# and CVV2.
If multiple failures are detected with a CC# (e.g. someone tries to clone one number and try it with multiple CVVs), then that CC# is retired permanently, and the CC company sends the customer a new file to flash their credit card's memory with.
Cards that will populate the mag-strip with transaction-specific codes each time. So you can type the code in, the guy at the restaurant can pick up the card with your ticket, and swipe it once.
It's called Dynamic Magstripe and is available now. One example of it is here [cardlab.com].
In Europe, they are solving this problem by moving away from magstripe to chip-and-pin. This is for two reasons, you don't give your PIN out to anyone else and because the card never leaves your sight.
For example, when you pay for food at a restaurant, the server physically brings you the Point Of Sale terminal for you to insert your card, confirm the price and enter your PIN. This means that it's impossible for them to run off and make a copy of the card without you seeing it happen.
(I was in the US recently and did not like the fact that my credit card disappeared from my sight when I went to pay for the bill)
The problem with this system is that many of these machines wirelessly transmit the CC# to the POS machine, cleartext. Sniffers in a van in the parking lot intercept the CC# and clone it anyways. A poster above you had exactly this happen to him (although he didn't realize how it was done.)
In the end, the result is that you've made a protocol more complex trying to make it obscure
An added part of that is that you then what the CC clearing houses to deal with a much larger number of CC numbers so you can use them as one time numbers. They'd have to keep all those numbers stored if they are randomly generated, OR they have to use a clearly defined way to generate the numbers, in which case, a
SecureID I think. Mine is the size of a care remote. The thin ones broke a lot. Old technology, but effective.
RSA's product is indeed SecureID. Several other companies produce similar products. I carry several on my keychain for various purposes, it's a pain in the ass. Thankfully the batteries last 3-5 years on them so at least you're not always replacing the damn things.
You can even get a SecureID for your World of Warcraft account now.
This could make a long-time dream come true for me. I use one-time use numbers online but in brick-and-morter transactions (like paying at a restaurant), I still have to give my real credit card number. Perhaps these cards could be made to generate a one-time use number. Then, when I'm paying at the grocery store, they get one number while the pizza place gets a second number. I'm sure there would be some security hurdles to clear but it is a promising development.
Agreed, these cards would be invaluable if they had a one-time card number generator. But in practice, that is a lot harder to do then you would think.
Credit cards have 15-16 digits, but the top 6 reserved are for the BIN that identifies the issuer and corresponding VAP/MIP/... processing station in the credit card network that authorizations are sent to. The last digit is reserved for the mod10 checksum. So that means that you have only 7-8 digits available per BIN. Note that each BIN typically is used for 10's of thousands of individual cards.
When you use a one-time card number online, it is generated/provided by a centralize server and database in order to efficiently maximize that 7-8 digit pool for one-time use that is SHARED, coordinated, and distributed among the 10's of thousand of card holders.
But since these new computerized cards do not have any networking capabilities, and since of the 10's of thousand of card holders need to be identified individually, you would only have a 2-3 digital pool for the one-time use, which is not enough for security.
The only option for these new computerized cards would be to either add network capabilities, like a bluetooth connection to a mobile phone, or add a one-time passcode to another field in the magstripe, perhaps appended to the card holders name.
When I get my credit card stolen, I'll lose a $20 gadget instead of giving the thieves access to my $0.20 bank account or my credit card with fraud protection where I simply click "Report" on any charges that weren't mine (and I have something like a week to report it stolen, so even if I don't notice it immediately I'm still not liable)?
Also, this in no way stops credit card skimmers at ATMs, gas stations, etc., nor RFID readers.
The positive thing I see about this is the ability to program multiple cards
This is fractionally more secure than current CCs, and it allows consolidation. As someone who carries his cards loose in his pocket, I only see this development as positive. I hope financial institutions start supporting it.
Even if the numbers/strip are obscured without a PIN the finger smudges on the card over the commonly used numbers will make the PIN a trivial matter to guess.
Solution....wash your damn hands once in a while. That is just disgusting.
randomize the location of the numbers to even wear and make location based tracking useless.
Make the 'buttons' display numbers on them electronically, then just make the numbers move around every use.
Another has several buttons and a display in place of the card's number. Only after entering a PIN is the magnetic stripe populated and the full card number revealed, and after a short time both go blank again for security
Another way to do this is use something like Visa CodeSure which gives you the ability to enter a PIN on the card so that dynamic passcodes can be created. Commercially available now too.
http://www.visaeurope.com/en/about_us/innovation/visa_codesure.aspx [visaeurope.com]
- EMV [wikipedia.org] cards are actually gadgets. Very limited, no blinky lights and such, but has a CPU, encryption is performed on the card, and it doesn't need a mag stripe. Many don't ever get swiped.
- Mag stripes will be obsolete not long from now. Already, if you travel to Europe, many retailers refuse US cards without a chip, even though the terminal will read the stripe. It's all about risk shifting. Anything the issuers can do to avoid risk is good for them, so they want to shift risk to merchants or card hold
This is all just a way to make you pay for more and more. Card companies/Banks have to write off fraud, usually, and they hate doing this, so every new card gimmick that comes along will be aimed at making fraud more your problem and less theirs.
But it will also be used to make you pay for everything big companies won't. Let's create an example: Say you walk into Walmart and buy a pair of Calvin Klein jeans. You pay for the Jeans at the checkout. However, Walmart never pays the supplier, Calvin Klein (or the distributor). Thanks to all these shared records, the databases can track everything and one day you get a bill from Calvin Klein for the jeans you purchased at Walmart.
Sounds implausible right? I'm right now fighting with Direct TV for services I purchased through Verizon. Verizon didn't pay Direct TV, so Direct TV is billing me instead, even though I paid Verizon. I never got a Direct TV bill before this one. I was never their customer (directly), I was a Verizon customer. And yet here I am, stuck with the bill.
Trust me, my above example at Walmart may be implausible now, but 5 years from now it'll be commonplace to see the average joes being shafted at both ends by large companies. This card is one more step towards that end.
As silly as this sounds, Walmart isn't nearly as evil as Verizon and DirectTV. Verizon is a phone company, know for being evil. DirectTV is a failing business that pulls any scam it can trying to stay in business, much like XM/Sirius radio, who recently billed my CC after being told not to because I wanted an invoice and no automatic deduction
The most useful change in credit cards would be giving buyers a stack of one time passwords, each one issued to the vendor tied to the specific parties and dollar amount of the transaction, with a short expiration date.
The best way to do it would be a smartphone app that took a token from the vendor, the vendor's ID (another onetime string from a vendor pool of onetime ID#s), encrypted it with the dollar amount and a onetime ID# from the buyer's pool, and sent it over the network to the credit corp. The credit corp would decrypt it and credit the vendor's account. That way no ID info is shared that can be reused.
If they want to make a physical credit card that does those things once connected to a network (like a chipcard), great. Let them put a fingerprint sensor and PIN on the card, along with a display of the available credit remaining and outstanding balance to date. But the one time passwords are by far the most value to deliver to the consumer, and therefore to the vendor, too.
The "cash" economy includes lots of activity, not just illegal sales. Lots of "unbanked" people conduct all of their transactions in cash, and many of them can't or don't keep records. Think, lawn service, tree trimmers, the guy who sells water mellons fro the back of a pickup truck, the immigrant laborers who re-roof your house. A surprising fraction of people are illiterate (unable to read or write). An even larger fraction of all people are innumerate (unable to use numbers).
Without "cash", your lawn
Magnetic stripe huh?
I think I haven't used that part of my card ever. This was issued in
It's secure chips and online verification all the way in scnadinavia now. Helpfully, it is hard to overrun your bank account with a debit card this way. I wonder if this was deployed for my or the banks safety?
On a keypad that is used to enter only a single combination, wear patterns can leak information [schneier.com]. That's one advantage the ATM's keypad has over one on your personal card.
An advantage of entering the PIN on the card's keypad, on the other hand, is that it cannot be gleaned by a fake ATM machine.
1. CASH is always the same speed.
Think of those times when you were in a hurry and you were stuck behind some someone who enters in the wrong pin or chooses the wrong bank account type when they were buying items that cost less than 20 bucks. What if there was a network error? Had they used cash, you would have been out of there long before they finally got the transaction to work.
2. Cash is accepted everywhere.
Not every place accepts Visa or Mastercard and a lot of places do not accept Amex. Some places do not accept debit cards for logistical reasons (ferries, planes and many taxis). Cash is generally accepted everywhere.
3. Cash does not carry a per transaction fee when traveling in a foreign country.
Most credit cards charge a fee per transaction on top of their poor currency exchange fees which is why I take cash with me when I travel to Europe, the States or Japan. In fact, Japan is still very much a cash based society outside of their PASMO/SUICIA system for convenience stores and trains/transit. Don't expect your North American credit or debit card to work over there.
4. Cash is easily transferable between people.
You can lend/give cash to anyone but you cannot do the same with a credit/debit card.
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Soaring gasoline prices across Wisconsin have prompted a lawmaker to seek an investigation into whether consumers are being victimized by oil companies.
Democratic Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay sent his request to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager and asked that she determine whether major oil refiners cut production to drive prices up by reducing the fuel supply.
He says that if it's true, it would violate state law. He says the recent gas price increases have been "outrageous."
According to an informal survey by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , the average price for unleaded regular gasoline was $2.70 a gallon at ten stations in the Milwaukee area.
Lautenschlager is reviewing Hansen's letter ... but Erin Roth of the Wisconsin Petroleum Council says holding down production at times of high prices wouldn't make any sense. He says that with prices so high, companies want to make as much gas as possible to take advantage.


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A game of the sport of American football is divided into four quarters. The most important quarter is the fourth and last quarter. It is the quarter with the last score, the quarter that decides who wins and who loses the game. A player who makes goals (points) during the fourth and last quarter can win the game for the team, no matter how badly it played during the earlier three quarters. He is a "hero" to his fellow players and the fans. The term could be applied to the business world too. A fourth quarter hero could be the leader who gives outstanding leadership, the employee who makes a large sale or gives a great idea, etc.
"Tide continues to find a fourth-quarter hero" Home - Decaturdaily.com
("Tide" or "Crimson Tide" is the name of the team of the University of Alabama.)
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Winning both the Travers and Whitney, two of the most prestigious events at Saratoga Race Course, is a rare thing, but it appears Will Take Charge will try to add his name to the list at the upcoming meet.
Following his good effort in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs on Saturday, trainer D. Wayne Lukas listed the Whitney as a likely next start for last year's champion 3-year-old male.
The Grade 1 Whitney will be run on Sat., Aug. 2.
Will Take Charge was some 14 lengths back in the early stages of the Foster before finding his best stride in the stretch to finish second behind Moonshine Mullin.
The Whitney will have its 87th running this summer, and only nine horses have won it and the Travers.
The list includes Easy Goer, Will's Way, Lemon Drop Kid, and Medaglia d'Oro.
Speaking of Saratoga, trainer Todd Pletcher has been the dominant force in 2-year-old stakes for many years.
He may have gotten a jump on the upcoming season when he sent out Fashion Alert to capture the $100,000 Astoria Stakes at Belmont Park last weekend.
Fashion Alert, making her career debut, broke from the outside in a field of six going 5 1/2 furlongs.
She raced three-wide to the turn before drawing off to win by four lengths.
Liatris rallied nicely in the stretch as if she will like the longer distances being offered for the juvenile fillies at Saratoga.
With the Plate Trial and Woodbine Oaks on Sunday, the racing season in Toronto kicked into higher gear with the nine-furlong events.
The $150,000 Plate Trial is a major prep for the $1 million Queen's Plate on July 6 at Woodbine.
The Queen's Plate is the oldest stakes race for three-year-old males in North America.
We Miss Artie, who was a familiar figure on the Triple Crown trail this spring, made his first start since finishing tenth in the Kentucky Derby and won by just under a length as the heavy favorite.
Finishing second was Majestic Sunset, who set much of the pace, while Tower of Texas rallied for third with a good late run.
We Miss Artie, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders Futurity at Keeneland last year, sent his career earnings to $699,000 with a record of 4-2-0 from 10 starts.
He is unbeaten in three starts on the synthetic Polytrack surface, used by Keeneland and Woodbine.
Trained by Pletcher, We Miss Artie was timed in 1:50 3/5 for the distance.
The $500,000 Woodbine Oaks went to the gritty filly Lexie Lou, who is from the powerful stable of trainer Mark Casse.
She won by 41/2 lengths over Wild Catomine, who is also trained by Casse.
Lexie Lou raced her nine furlongs in faster time than We Miss Artie, hitting the wire in 1:49 4/5.
She sent her career earnings to $609,438 with a record of 4-2-2 from 11 starts.
Lexie Lou, a daughter of Hollywood Turf Cup winner Sligo Bay, cost a mere $5,576 as a yearling.
Now that the Belmont Stakes is over, the second half of the season for three-year-olds is underway, and to that end Albano was a convincing winner of the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on Sunday.
Unraced since his disappointing fifth in the Louisiana Derby on Mar. 29 at Fair Grounds, Albano swept to the lead on the stretch turn and rolled home by more than six lengths.
He sent his career earnings to $308,000, with a record of 3-2-1 from 7 starts.
The Pegasus, at 1 1/16 miles, was his first stakes win.
He is being pointed to Monmouth's Grade 1 Haskell Invitational on July 27, worth $1 million at 1 1/8 miles.
The other Haskell prep at Monmouth is the Long Branch Stakes, worth $100,000 on July 5.


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A great tasting, easy, recipe which is perfect for Tu B'shvat dinner. Leah Schapira posted this in the Mishpacha Magazine-Family First a number of years back. Feel free to experiment as far as the dried fruit filling, and even the coating can be made many different ways. Cornflake crumbs, panko crumbs, bread crumbs and even a batter of eggs and flour works well. Here is her version, which is delicious! It looks really pretty sliced.
4 chicken rolls
4 large size chicken cutlet
¾ cup assorted dried fruit-apricot,prunes,figs,cranberries,etc..t
4 Tbsp pine nuts
2 eggs
½ tsp paprika
1 cup flavored cornflake crumbs
- oil for frying
- pomegranate seeds
Pound chicken cutlet thin, set aside. Beat eggs with paprika in bowl with fork, set aside. Cut up dried fruit into small pieces and mix with pine nuts, set aside.
Place a chicken piece lengthwise; put 2 Tbsp of dried fruit mixture across the middle of chicken. Roll the chicken slice tightly and carefully, beginning from the narrower end.Using both hands-make sure filling stays inside, transfer the roll into the egg mixture and then into the cornflake crumbs.
Coat very well and place unto clean surface. If necessary, secure ends with toothpick.
Heat oil in frying pan; place chicken rolls seam-side down. Fry until golden brown, turning rolls so all sides are done. Flame should be low; you want to make sure the filling is cooked without burning the outside.
Drain on paper towel. When slightly cool, cut them on the diagonal into round slices. Sprinkle on some pomegranate seeds for beauty and crunch. You can also pour any sweet sauce if desired.


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It's not Linux specific, but it is hardware and I was going to install Linux.
I keep a spreadsheet of my next build. Update it every 3-6 months. Then build the new box when the price + performance increase seems good.
It's been 5 years.
2 weeks ago I nearly ordered the new parts, but could not get time off work to take delivery. So didn't. My drives (2TB total) are 92% full at this time.
A Hitachi 3TB SATA drive was £130. I've now seen these drives for £630!!!
Apparently it's down the flooding in Thailand. Production stopped 10 weeks ago and now there is no stock left.
Firstly, its horrible for the Thai people clearly, 2/3 of the country under water is horrific.
But from a PC point of view, xmas sales of PC's will be non-existent. IT departments will be bricking it in case they lose too many disks in their SAN's
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Growing Stores, Growing Revenue, Expanding Margins
When I look at a stock, I want to see growing earnings and growing revenues. When I see growing revenues I want to see quality growth and I will see that in an increasing number of stores opening. Of those new stores, I want to see higher productivity than the existing stores as management applies lessons learned. This will also serve to expand margins.
These things don't always happen, but they are happening for Lumber Liquidators. Store growth has been consistent, albeit slowing from a 20%+ pace in 2011 to a roughly 10% annual rate in 2012. More importantly there has been the idea of increased productivity from the new stores. Sales per square foot productivity based on a calculation of the difference between sales growth and comps divided by growth in square footage shows significant and steady increases in productivity.
Gross margins have grown in each quarter over the last seven quarters. That growth in margins has also led to the EBITDA line which has seen steady expansion as well. What that will lead to is significantly higher earnings per share.
Company Description
Lumber Liquidators is a specialty retailer of hardwood flooring, and hardwood flooring enhancements and accessories. The company provides various wood flooring products, including prefinished domestic and exotic hardwoods, engineered hardwoods, unfinished hardwoods, bamboo, cork, and laminates, as well as resilient flooring products. As of April 24, 2013, it operated 290 retail locations in North America. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Toano, Virginia.
LL Beats Estimates In Each Of The Last Five Quarters
Dating back to the March 2012 quarter, has beaten the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the last five quarters. The June 2012 quarter saw the company post $0.43, $0.14 ahead of the estimate for a 48% positive earnings surprise. The following quarter saw another twelve cent beat which translated into a 35% positive earnings surprise.
The most recent quarterly report took place on April 24. The company posted revenues of $230M and EPS of $0.57, $0.13 ahead of the $0.44 Zacks Consensus Estimate for a 29% positive earnings surprise. Revenues came in 6.6% ahead of expectations as well.
Sales per Square Foot
In the world of retail, sales per square foot is the end all and be all measurement of performance. Over each of the last five quarters, LL has posted an annual increase in sales per square foot. That rate of growth has been nothing short of impressive, with sales increasing 2.4% in 1Q12 and 11.6% in 1Q13. The quarters in-between that time also showed growth, so it was not just a sudden jolt of growth.
LL Sees Estimates Moving Higher
Aggressive growth investors want to see earnings estimates move higher and higher. The most recent beat resulted in just that, as the estimates for both 2013 and 2014 kicked higher. Estimates moved higher by $0.14 to $2.15 after a late January earnings report. Following a late April report, estimates bounced to $2.38 from $2.15 or an increase of $0.23. 2014 saw increases of $0.14 and $0.16 over same time period.
The valuation for LL is pretty stretched right now, but there are plenty of signs that suggest that growth will bring these metrics down a bit. The stock is trading at 42x trailing earnings and 25x forward estimates. Both of those metrics are well above the industry averages of 23x and 20x respectively. Book value is roughly double the industry average and price to sales is even a little more stretched than that. One metric I have been focusing on more and more is the net margin and how it compares to the industry average. LL has a 6.4% net margin, while the industry average is at 4.4%, and that 200 basis point outperformance is a big reason it can carry those other premium metrics.
The Chart
A quick look at the price and consensus chart and you can see that the market has really taken a liking to LL. Over the last year and a quarter, the stock has done almost nothing but go straight up. As a frequent flyer on the new highs list, we expect the stock to continue to hit new highs and reward investors.
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Goodyear Wrangler Tires - The Strong Survives - TechPosted in How To on July 1, 2009
For years Goodyear has produced one of the most sought-after off-road tires on the market. The Goodyear MT/R found scads of fans with its durable construction and aggressive tread design-attributes that led to its use on many military vehicle applications and even more civilian 4x4s. Jeep further solidified the MT/R's capability when it chose this tire to compliment the launch of its ever-able 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. Firmly established as a capable off-road mud terrain tire, one wouldn't think that the MT/R could get any better. However, the new Goodyear MT/R with Kevlar just did.
The asymmetric tread of the new MT/R with Kevlar is designed to benefit both off-road traction and on-road handling. Ramped tread blocks and traction blocks in the tread add multiple biting surfaces that increase traction and increase durability. Tread guards are also in place to further resist cuts. The tread features advanced silica rubber to enhance off-road and wet traction and special attention was also paid to how the new Wrangler MT/R self-cleaned in mud to provide continued traction. C and D load range MT/R tires use 2 polyester, 2 steel, and 1 nylon belts, while E load range tires feature an additional nylon ply. All of the tires feature 2 polyester and 1 Kevlar plies in the sidewalls.
The new Wrangler MT/R with Kevlar was subjected to multiple tests before earning its Wrangler MT/R namesake. Goodyear's independent testing compared to the original Wrangler MT/R tire revealed a 35-percent increase in sidewall toughness, an increase in sidewall tear resistance, an increase in sidewall traction and grip, an increase in off-road handling, and an increase in mud traction and steering ability. Dry handling tests were comparable to the MT/R.
The most impressive of the tests for us was the Goodyear Sidewall Penetration Energy test. The test was taken from Goodyear's agriculture division where tractor tire sidewalls had to withstand the force of a sheared corn stalk. For the test an LT285/70R17 load range D tire inflated to 65 psi was used. The tire was dropped on a chisel from varied heights to determine its puncture resistance. The new Wrangler MT/R with Kevlar showed a 35-percent increase in sidewall puncture resistance. We were astonished at this mainly for the amount of air that was used in the test. We typically run our 40-inch old school MT/Rs at about 8 to 10 psi on the trail and around 28 to 30 psi on the pavement. Knowing that the sidewalls will withstand punctures at 65 psi is very comforting.
Among Goodyear's Wrangler tire lineup is the Wrangler SilentArmor, which also employs use of Kevlar in its construction, and the Wrangler DuraTrac, which offers a hard-working, aggressive tread reminiscent of the original Wrangler MT/R design. The new model Wrangler MT/R with Kevlar is available in 30 popular sizes. OE size fitments are available for Jeep Grand Cherokee and Wrangler, Nissan Xterra, Toyota FJ Cruiser, Hummer H2 and H3, and most Chevy, GMC, Ford, and Dodge -, -, and 1-ton trucks.