text: jamal 11 Report post Posted September 8, 2006 I wrote this for legacycentral and it is intended for 1st gen legacies, but it applies to Imprezas without an RSB as well. So I changed a little of this and it mostly applies to all Subarus now. For early Legacies, there are two different lateral link/endlink setups. The 90-92 cars have droplinks, which are a vertical endlinks that fit into a hole in the rear lateral link. Picture: The 93-94s, along with most other newer Subarus, have C-links that connect to tabs on the endlink: AFAIK, all the BC/BF mounting brackets are the same, as well as pretty much every other Subaru mounting bracket. It should also be noted that the mounting brackets on 04+ Imprezas are beefed up, and are a good option if you don't want to spend all that money on the HD whiteline or whatever parts. So, anyway, if your car doesn't have a rear swaybar, it's not terribly difficult to install one. The benefits of an rsb include better handling due to more evenly balanced roll stiffnesses and less body roll. It really makes the car feel a whole lot better and creates less understeer. What you'll need to do this: -A swaybar* -Rear lateral links with endlink mounting tabs -Endlinks -Swaybar mounting brackets and the right bushings for the bar you're using. -Possibly a thread chaser -Probably new hardware to mount the lateral links -An alignment afterwards *Only swaybars made for 1st gen Legacies will fit other 1st gen Legacies without issue. The tire well is in the way of impreza bars, although they can be made to fit by "moving" the bump out of the way. WRX sedan bars might be too wide as well. If you have an Impreza, you don't have to worry about this, and Legacy bars will also fit. If you shop around and buy the parts used, you should be able to get everything for around $100. My swaybar is 18mm from a 94 turbo Legacy, and was $50 shipped. The lateral links and endlinks are from a 99 Impreza, and I think I paid around $40. The mounting brackets are from an 02 WRX, and cost me $20 or so. You wouldn't want lateral links from an 02+ Impreza sedan because they are longer. 93-99 Legacy links are all the same as far as I know. After that the Legacy rear suspension changed to a multi-link setup so that stuff doesn't work. I think Outback swaybar mounting brackets are taller so you might not want those, either. Once you have all this stuff, you'll need to replace the rear lateral links. This part may or may not be easy. I had a hard time with the bolt that connects the link to the crossmember. It's a cammed bolt that is used to adjust toe, and mine was fused to the metal part of the bushing. After a whole lot of prying and burning, I cut off the bolt with a sawzall. Before this I had brought it to a shop, and their impact gun couldn't get the bolt out of the bushing. The side that connects to the knuckle didn't come out very nicely, either, and I ended up destroying the bushing. Burn baby burn: Ha ha take that: I had to bring the long bolt that connects the links to the kunckle to pepboys to get the remains of the bushing off. I recommend just buying new bolts, nuts, and washers beforehand, then it won't matter if you have to cut things off. I waited 3 weeks to get the cammed bolt because we kept ordering the wrong thing. Alright now things are looking better: Time to get the mounting brackets on. The holes are already in place in the frame, so all you need are the mounts and hardware. The right one is a little difficult because there isn't much room to get at the front bolt, which is above the gas filler tube. I found it was best to take off all the plastic shrouding and such on the tube to get at the hole, and also to chase the threads because the bolts didn't want to go in very easily. I don't remember the pitch off the top of my head. Here you can see that there isn't much room: Putting on the swaybar is pretty easy. You just need to feed it over the exhaust and bolt everything down. Endlink bolts should be torqued to spec with the car on the ground. Since you messed with the cammed bolt that adjusts toe and put on different lateral links, you're going to want an alignment. You should probably mark where they were in the first place, so you can drive around a bit without trashing the tires. Other threads of note discussing rear swaybars: http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=25767 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=22175 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=19565 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=15736 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=15967 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=2366 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=986 http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=195 Another option could be to buy the endlinks that attach to the end of the lateral links. Bonus picture: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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BARRINGTION — Girls from Barrington's Joy of Dance studio, located on Calef's Highway,will be performing in the dance performance for Motivating Miles on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.
It's taking place at Souhegan High School in Amherst. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds go to benefit the Motivating Miles Foundation, Inc., which, per its mission statement, assists individuals and families facing a terminal illness to achieve acceptance, inner solace, and ensured legacy, through individualized journeys facilitating the fulfillment of lifelong desires.
Joy of Dance's Advanced Workshop and Adult dance class are performing a Born This Way, a Jazz piece meant to inspire acceptance of who you are and to celebrate all that you are.
Alegria Dance Company (which means Joy in Spanish!), an adult dance company made up of dancers from around the Seacoast area, is performing a piece called Demons. This piece touches on the stress and difficulties of dealing with everyday problems and ultimately overcoming them.
"We are very excited to be a part of this event, especially because it's for such an amazing cause," said Joy of Dance owner Lindsey Hadley.
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It went like this: "How many pencils do I have?" he would stand up and shout. The crowd would respond "five!" because he held five pencils in his hand.
"How many?" he would scream. "Five!" "How many?" "Five, five, five!" the crowd would fanatically shriek.
The opposing team always thought they heard an ear-splitting "fight, fight, fight". It was kind of brainless, but fun, and in a silly kind of way, intimidating (the cheer, not LeGrand). It always put a smile on my face and a giggle in my heart.
The San Juan Lady Broncos and all their faithful followers have big smiles on their faces after triumphing, in dramatic fashion, over North Sevier on Saturday to capture the 2A state volleyball title for the fifth year in a row.
The Broncos started the tournament in familiar fashion, making short work of the Kanab Cowboys in three sets, 25-10, 25-14, 25-13. However, surprising South Summit took the Broncos to five sets in the second round, even leading the Broncos 2-1 in sets before the defending champs bounced back, winning the last two sets, including 16-14 in the fifth and deciding set.
Next up was the South Sevier Rams in the third match of the season between the teams. They split the first two contests.
Buoyed by the comeback success over South Summit, the Broncos sent South Sevier south with a convincing straight set rout, 25-21, 25-13, 25-15. The win set up a finals rematch with North Sevier, whom the Broncos defeated for the title in 2006.
The Wolves had redemption on their mind, coupled with a four set defeat of the Broncos in Blanding in late September. North Sevier quickly jumped out to a two set lead over the surprised Broncos.
Undaunted, the Gals in Blue staged a comeback in the last three sets, winning 25-19, 28-26, 15-11 to capture their tenth title in 12 years!
As for the comeback, Bronco Coach Cassy Moon said, "It was a high point in the match, but not the season. As these girls pointed out after the tournament, they have done that with tough competition fives times this season. So we realized five matches have gone to game five and we have won five of them to get a fifth championship. I know it sounds silly, but it was fun for us to appreciate that."
Moon adds, "With that said, obviously that particular comeback was a little more important than the rest, but the comebacks earlier in the season helped put us in that position at state. Without them, we wouldn't have had the first seed in Region 12 and our road could have been a lot tougher.
"We had also been there before and been successful in that situation before. The girls knew how to handle that stress and anxiety. In fact, we pointed that out before the beginning of the third game."
Two-time MVP Heather Meyer led the Broncos against the Wolves with 32 kills and 16 digs. Meyer, only a junior, will be back for a final senior season, perhaps becoming the only three time MVP ever in Utah volleyball.
Emma Bayles, with eight kills and four blocks, and sophomore Sagan Shumway, with 53 assists, were key cogs in the Bronco championship. Both Bayles and Shumway were named to the all-tournament team, along with MVP Meyer.
With sophomore Alyssa Simpson's 10 kills, and freshman Kelsi Meyer, and only two seniors, don't look for the caliber of play at San Juan to diminish next year.
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Monticello finishes fourth
The Monticello Buckaroos proved to be a top tier volleyball team with solid tradition after their fourth place finish in the 1A volleyball championship. A second place in 2005, a third in 2006, and fourth this year are good indicators.
"We must be doing something right to be placing fourth in state," said long time Buckaroo coach Tony Esplin.
The Bucks started out with a tough match against St. Joseph, winning in four hard-hitting sets, 25-17, 24-26, 25-19, 25-21. Senior Ashley Dowell, with 21 kills, and sophomore Mersadez Slade, with 20 kills, led the victory.
Next, the Bucks made short work of Tintic in three sets, 25-18, 25-10, 25-10, to move to the semifinals for the third year in a row.
The Bucks have lost to the eventual state champion for the past two seasons, and they fell again this year, to the eventual champion Panguitch in three quick sets, 25-14, 25-17, 25-14.
The loss dropped them into the third place game against Intermountain Christian. They fell in three more sets, 25-13, 25-22, 30-28.
Said Esplin, "We just did not play well the second day. It seemed that we were just going through the motions and not playing with emotion. It didn't seem that we were having much fun. Much of that could be due to the fact that we found ourselves behind most of the time trying to play catch up."
The Bucks did recover enough to give Intermountain Christian a competitive match, tieing the second set at 22 and leading the final set 28-27 before succumbing.
With second, third and fourth place finishes in the past three years, it looks to me like the Bucks need a first place finish to have a complete set of eliteness.
End of football
For the first time in many years, 26 to be exact, neither the Bronco nor the Buckaroo football teams will be playing football in November. The last time both teams lost in the quarterfinals was in 1981, when the Broncos were beaten by Lehi 20-0 and the Bucks surrendered to Beaver 34-14.
This year, the Broncos gave a valiant effort against the undefeated, number one ranked and redemption-minded North Summit Braves.
Hoping to avenge last year's semifinal loss to the eventual 2A champs from Blanding, the Braves controlled the clock with a strong running game and kept the Broncos from the end zone just enough to triumph 21-14.
Interceptions on the first two Bronco drives momentarily took some of the enthusiasm out of the boys in blue, enough to let the Braves go up 14-0 early on.
With the Braves stifling the running game, coach Monty Lee turned back to the always-deadly passing game. It didn't disappoint this time, resulting in a Bronco touchdown just before halftime when Dane Lyman connected on his 2A leading 14th touchdown pass of the season.
Nate Einerson caught his sixth touchdown when he snagged the 17-yard pass. Lyman's 15th TD pass came in the fourth quarter, to Terron Jack, who also snagged his sixth TD pass on fourth and 22 at the 23 yard line. The touchdown closed the score to 21-14, fired up the Bronco faithful who made the long trip to Coalville and made the hometown Braves nervous.
Unfortunately, the Braves were able to use tradition – they've only lost one home playoff game in 20 tries, that being last year against San Juan – and their rushing game to run the final eight minutes off the clock and secure the victory.
As a result, the Broncos never had a chance to tie the game. With the loss, the Broncos finish the season 6-5.
Bucks dropped 31-3
Monticello finished the season at the hands of Enterprise for the fourth time in six years and by nearly the same score as last year, losing to Enterprise 31-3. In 2006, the Bucks were bested by the Wolves 49-8.
Offensively, the brightest spot for the Bucks was German exchange student Daniel Hassentefel's fourth field goal of the year, a 28 yarder, in the fourth quarter. With five more turnovers, the Bucks bane of the year with 34 on the season, the offense just couldn't get unwound.
Even so, in their last Buckaroo game, seniors Kelvin Curtis rushed for 61 yards and 77 return yards, Ryan Bailey had 13 tackles and Kevin Anderson rushed for 18 yards on three carries, had two pass receptions for 13 yards and was in on nine tackles.
The Bucks finish 5-6 on the year with a young team, while playing through several injuries, the most critical being the loss of quarterback Daniel Torres to a broken leg.
The new veer offense installed by coach JC Hall never got cranking after Torres went down. Now, if we can just figure out what to do with ourselves for the next couple of weeks.


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Sean John or maybe S-Rod…Decisions, Decisions
You automatically got to like this kid. Really you have to, it is a moral imperative within the Tampa Bay Rays culture that when you give up a great left-hander like Scott Kazmir, you got to get to know his replacement, and at least give him a few games to settle into his new spotlight before you condemn or pledge your loyalty to them. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if the last couple of Rays Spring games is any indication, Sean John Rodriguez is already cool as a cucumber and slick as a fox, and an instant fan favorite.
And believe me the cliché's are going to coming fast and furious if he does find a way to steal this last coveted roster spot away from the Johnson & Johnson brothers , or his close competitor, Reid Brignac.
But if you base his total roster chances on just Rays games over the last few days, it might actually be more like, when he steals that roster spot away. And it is not like he has not been in this kind of pressure situation before while fighting for a Major League spot. Rodriguez has spent a bit of time in the Big Show before when he was with the Los Angeles Angels, so this is not his first rodeo.
And that might be a side of Rodriguez we truly had no idea about before this 2010 Rays Spring Training season began. Most of us Rays fans might not have noticed the young guy manning the second base bag during the Angels first visit to Tropicana Field from May 9-11,2008 was the same Sean Rodriguez.
And we definitely did not notice Rodriguez sitting in the Third Base Visitor's Dugout at Tropicana Field after being called back up from the Salt Lake City Bee's when the Angels went through a rough patch with multiple infielders going down with injuries in early 2008. And there is an eerie set of similarities to his Spring start here in 2010, that might bode well for him making this team's roster, if you really look at the numbers.
Back in Spring Training 2008 with the Angels, Rodriguez hit only one single in his 11 Spring Training games while hitting a double, a triple and solo Home Run with 3 RBIs. It is just a bit of an odd coincidence that he currently sports no singles while pushing a double, triple and 3 Home Runs across the board this Spring in three games for the Rays. Maybe it is a baseball omen to us to watch this guy over the next few weeks.
But this impressive start at the plate has also given him a bit of a quick jump on Brignac, who also is trying to keep up with the white hot Rodriguez, and it is going to be a complete thrill to see which of these hitters blinks first and let's the other get a bit of an advantage in their race for the last utility spot on the Rays 25-man roster.
And Rodriguez knows a lot about these Rays from his 5 game played against them in 2008. He was the field for all three games during that early May series when the Rays swept the Angels here, and was witness to seeing the Rays eventually winning 6 out of their 9 games against Angels that season.
There has been the "S-Rod" moniker which might have evolved more for his recent rush of power and uncanny ability to brush off the media attention, or maybe the one I heard at George M. Steinbrenner Field yesterday when someone asked "Sean John" for his autograph.
But there was no lightning quick response to the name, and I actually think Combs would be proud to share that patented name with a young baseball guy who just might have the style and panache to pull off a theft of this second base job and roster spot without much of a hitch. Heck, maybe if Rodriguez keeps this up he will have a Fed Ex package waiting for him with some signature Sean John wear inside them…You never know.
But seriously, this second base gig is going to be one of those spots in this 2010 Rays squad that you either own or rent in 2010. If Rodriguez makes it difficult for Rays Manager Joe Maddon to not pop his name on the lineup card in marker, he might just be an inter-changeable piece along with Zobrists and his traveling glove collection in 2010.
But some people worry that Rodriguez has only played third base and second most of his professional career, and has not concentrated his efforts toward maybe relieving Rays starter Jason Bartlett at some point in 2010. Again, this might be one of those finer points that Brignac has shown he can be effective at that position that makes this competition go long into Spring Training.
And even if most people have not seen Rodriguez play the outfield, he did play leftfield against the Yankees on Friday and looked pretty comfortable out there. But then again, he did play a lot of outfield in his All American High School career.
This entire competition between Rays Spring Training invited players to hold a competition for that coveted last spot in the Rays roster for a infield slot is quickly becoming a two-man affair. Elliot Johnson is doing everything he can to get his name included, but Brignac and Rodriguez are putting on a show at the plate and in the field that is dwarfing everyone else right now.
And if either of these two can force Maddon's hand in the next week or two, this competition might even be over before the Rays take on their Triple-A affiliate, the Durham Bulls in a friendly match up in Durham, North Carolina on April 3,2010.
Some have questioned Rodriguez's lack of full season experience to only a total of 71 career Major League Baseball games and a regular season average of only .203 with 8 doubles, a triple, 5 Home Runs and 14 RBIs. That could be a instant pause for Maddon and the Rays to consider, but Brignac also has only appeared in 35 Rays game and has only produced a .250 batting average with 8 doubles, 2 triples, a solo Home Run and 6RBIs.
This race is far from over, and it might come down to the Rays deciding if they want power or consistency in their hitting out of this spot in 2010.If they take the power angle, Rodriguez would get the early nod, and even based on experience, right now might be the guy who has the most to lose with a few bad outings. Sean Rodriguez is a great budding star that could play a significant role for the Rays if he develops the way they want him to over the next few weeks.
If he does, then he will definitely be in that Rays Opening Day lineup, and hopefully we can get him an appropriate nickname that might not upset a fashion icon, or even a certain player also in this division sporting the A-Rod moniker. But if Rodriguez keeps playing and producing at this level this Spring, then maybe they would not mind sharing some homage time with a guy who could help lead the Rays on the field.
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This kid is definitely starting to make a name for himself and he seems like one of those guys where a change is better than a rest… and as you said in an earlier post, Sean Rodriguez could force E. Johnson out of the squad…
Outside the Phillies Looking In
I watched the game against the Yankees and Rodriguez looked pretty much at home at the plate. Given that he's not a shoo-in for the roster, he's showing a lot of confidence. Spring Training can throw at lot of curve balls, but if he can continue to do well at the plate – and keep his confidence – I think he'll make the team.
He did not have an outstanding game against the Phillies today, but Rays Manager Joe Maddon said he moved guys over with his outs and did things that helped manufacture runs.
It is great to see that Maddon is looking beyond the scorecard right now, even though the score card still redas (to me) S-Rod has the lead in the race for one of the two slots.
Rays Renegade
Spring Training can throw you curveballs left and right at times with manager wanting to work on situational hitting and also seeing if the young guys will take the signs and committ to the hit and run, or maybe even bunt.
Always hard to read who might be under consideration because the Rays have always been good at keeping things close to their vest pocket.
But I really think it is S-Rod's and Ried Brignac's job to lose in the infield, and Mayy Joyce's to lose out of the outfield mix.
Rays Renegade
Sean Rodriguez should really get a chance to play for the Rays this season.
He is a stellar hitter.
Out of all the Rays blogs I think that you describe him the best, and I like the fact that you back up your opinions with all of those stats.
Great post Renegade.
I do really think that this kid is the next outfielder for the Rays maybe you can stick him in right.
Your move.
I really do not think he will be in the outfield mix, but it is great to have the versatility to play out there if needed.
But to me he is one of those guys who should be here. The worst part is that there are three to seven guys who could make great MLB caliber players in 2010, but there might only be 2 slots left to be filled.
And that sucks becuase even if Sean Rodriguez, Matt Joyce or Ried Brignac get selected for those open slots, Joe Dillon, Elliot Johnson, Dan Johnson, Justin Ruggiano all have the good to play at this level….but this is the best Rays team ever assembled, so someone has to be left out……..sad bit of reality there.
Rays Renegade
i like sean john. just me. you see too man #-Rods for guys with that last name
I understand what you are saying about the multitudes of __-Rods hitting the scenes around baseball.
As long as Mr. Combs doesn't mind sharing the spotlight, I like Sean John.
But I actually heard someone call him "Roddy" today.
Maybe we have a third nickname hitting the air.
Whatever we finally decide, it will never top "Zorilla"….He is one of a kind.
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text: Westeros #1 Posted July 22, 2010 In a follow-up to our recent item about the legendary fight choreography William Hobbs being involved in training Miltos Yerolemou for his role as Syrio Forel in HBO's Game of Thrones, Miltos has commented over at Winter is Coming that while Hobbs is not officially associated with the production, he's taken a hand in helping Miltos develop the Braavosi waterdancing style. Miltos also confirms that Buster Reeves—who was Christian Bale's stunt double in the Batman films, and helped develop the superhero's unique fighting style—is still involved as fight choreographer in Game of Thrones after having arranged the fights in the pilot.As with many of the actors, Miltos has been in Belfast for read throughs and rehearsal, and apparently has run through some of his fight choreography with Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark. One other thing mentioned is the fact that Hobbs discussed the Rob Roy fight with Miltos "at length", which may give a sense of the approach they'll be taking with Syrio's superlative waterdancing skills. For your edification (and because we really think it's the best bit of fencing choreography we've ever seen), the climactic fight scene from the film, choreographed by Hobbs:Visit the Site! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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BA's new baggage policy
Airlines are stupid. Any frequent flier knows this. But once in a while they do something smart, and this is one of those events.
I cannot credit British Airways for this idea though. In fact another airline did it first about six months ago. If I recall correctly it was discount airline EasyJet. In fact thats not unusual. Airlines can learn a lot from the discount airlines such as EasyJet (Europe), RyanAir (Europe), Southwest (USA), and JetBlue (USA).
For years airlines have been becoming ridiculous about restricting carry on bags. US airlines are generally pretty lenient but in other parts of the world, especially in Europe there is some competition to see who can prevent the most bags from being carried on. Many European airlines limit you to one bag with a maximum weight of 7.5 kilograms (about 18 pounds). Once in Canada they told me my limit was 5 kilograms! (about 12 pounds). After a long argument I finally got my 7 kilogram bag with me. I have had argument after argument with check in clerks over 10 and even 8 kilogram bags. Not only is this frustrating for us fliers, but the policy is bad for the airlines. Limiting size and number of bags makes sense. But if my bag is not going to put a hole in the overhead bin (and certainly even 15 kilograms will not) why should the airline care? But here is why it is truly stupid. The more bags we check, the more it costs the airline. With airlines charging for drinks and serving us cold meals (if any) why do they insist on not checking bags? I suspect they will eliminate toilet paper from the lavatories next to save costs.
Lost bags
Airlines would like us to believe they rarely lose bags. But I can tell you that delayed and lost bags are fairly frequent. The statistics they publish are the ones the governments publish but are based on complaints to the departments of transportation. And most people do not report such items, especially delayed bags to the government. But every time a bag is delayed or lost the airline has to incur time in finding it, and costs in delivering it to you, and especially in Europe they have to compensate you with money in many cases.
Baggage Handling
For each bag the airport charges the airline to move your bag about. And if you have transfers, they can be charged yet again for each transfer. These charges per passenger can easily add up.
More bags = more time
Each person is going to their own destination. Loading, unloading and sorting bags takes a lot of time. Often when planes leave late it is because it is waiting for bags to be loaded, or a late passenger. In many cases a bag gets loaded but a passenger misses the plane and the plane must wait for the bag to be found and unloaded for security reasons. I have been on many flights that this has happened, and it takes a long time.
Allowing more carry on makes a lot of sense. In fact EasyJet promotes you to carry your bag on by charging you for each item that you check in (Approximately $10 per bag). It's good for them, and it's good for us. I hope more airlines will follow this example. For more information, you can see the details on BA's web site.
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As part of the overall growth in the popularity of airguns in general, the trend continues in look-alikes of famous powder-burning firearms. At first glance, you'd swear the C-TT is something from behind the Iron Curtain, a Tokarev TT-30. This was the main Russian Red Army service pistol from the 1930s to the '50s. Crosman's take on the Tokarev is a CO2-powered semi-auto BB shooter with a removable 18-shot magazine, metal frame, and polymer grip. These should be showing up in your local gun store by the time you read this.
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PRODUCT REVIEW We take a close look at seven antispyware products. Can they keep your corporate desktops free of prying eyes?
We take a close look at seven enterprise antispyware products. Can they keep your corporate desktops free of prying eyes?
Spyware has many organizations crying "Uncle!" Help desks are inundated with user complaints about incessant ads, slow system performance and dysfunctional machines. In response, many companies are deploying enterprise-wide antispyware products, finding that the easily quantifiable savings justify the expenditure.
Yet, help desk costs are the least sinister aspect of the spyware menace. Worst-case scenarios include the disclosure of sensitive corporate secrets or the theft of employees' personal information. Whatever the business case for deploying antispyware, the market has grown quickly. Antispyware companies have scrambled to extend their consumer offerings into centrally managed enterprise products, and antivirus providers have developed--or acquired--antispyware capabilities.
Enterprise-level antispyware is a young technology--the first centrally managed products appeared about two years ago. To see if it's ready for prime time, Information Security tested seven desktop antispyware tools designed for business environments: CA's eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware 8.0; eSoft's Desktop Anti-Spyware 1.2. (an OEM rebranding of Aluria Software's Paladin); Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Enterprise Edition 1.7; McAfee's AntiSpyware Enterprise 8.5; SurfControl's Enterprise Threat Shield 3.0; Trend Micro's Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition 3.0; and Webroot Software's Spy Sweeper Enterprise 2.5.
In our lab, we analyzed and graded their capabilities (see "Making the Grade") for enterprise management, resistance to common attacks, evasion techniques, and the ability to detect spyware using both behavior- and signature-based mechanisms.
A closer look at this review
Information Security tested seven enterprise desktop antispyware products from CA, eSoft (licensed from Aluria Software), Lavasoft, McAfee, SurfControl, Trend Micro and Webroot to determine their management capabilities, behavior- and signature-based detection and resilience to attacks. (Shavlik Technologies, Sunbelt Software, Symantec and Tenebril declined to participate, all citing anticipated improvements in upcoming releases available after our test period.)
Our test bed consisted of a Windows 2000 management server controlling three Windows XP Pro workstation systems. We tested each product using 54 common spyware specimens, including keystroke loggers, pop-up ad generators and browser hijackers. Further, we created a custom suite of spyware applications, dubbed SPYCAR (available for download at www.intelguardians.com/spycar), to test behavior-based detection when no signature is available. For each product, we tested real-time protection during both copying and running spyware, as well as on-demand scanning of the complete system.
Enterprise Management
The ability to control antispyware tools across an enterprise is crucial. If a product can't be managed remotely and in large numbers, it just isn't useful to enterprises. We compared several aspects of enterprise management:
Policy definition and grouping. Each of the antispyware products allows administrators to define policies by setting scan schedules, specifying quarantine and delete options, and tweaking scan configurations. While such options are useful, the ability to apply policy to grouped systems is critical in large, growing deployments.
McAfee offers the most comprehensive policy configuration options, allowing fine-grained control over scan schedules, real-time alerting and user interface configuration, with different policies allowed for arbitrary groups of machines. These features are then coupled with an excellent framework for application through McAfee's bundled ePolicy Orchestrator. This powerful and intuitive interface allows admins to define policies for specific networks, domains, ad hoc groups and subgroups. Moving systems from one policy to another requires a simple drag and drop, and the object-oriented inheritance of policies by subgroups facilitates managing large deployments.
CA offers flexible policy definitions and grouping options. However, fewer scan options can be tailored with CA's eTrust Integrated Threat Management Console, which isn't nearly as intuitive as McAfee's and seemed significantly more sluggish. It was harder to determine if and when policies were actually applied to a given host.
While eSoft, SurfControl and Webroot support applying policies by group, no subgroup options are available, limiting their flexibility and appeal to large organizations. Trend Micro offers only a flat listing of machines, limiting its scalability beyond several hundred managed systems. Larger installations require Trend Micro's Control Manager.
Lavasoft's enterprise management abilities are extremely limited. The enterprise GUI allows admins only to define update intervals and schedule on-demand scans of either all enterprise systems at the same time or a single machine. The enterprise server can't group client machines, nor can it control any of the real-time detection mechanisms of the clients, which are off by default. Lavasoft's enterprise solution appears to be a simple GUI that has been stripped down to minimal protections by default and slapped on to its consumer product.
|Consumer vs. Enterprise
Most of the vendors whose enterprise products we tested also market a consumer-grade antispyware product. In fact, most enterprise antispyware tools are repackaged consumer products, with a management front end. At the outset of our testing, we expected that the enterprise tools would offer at least the same level of protection as the consumer products, but we were wrong. In every case where a vendor supported behavior-based detection, the enterprise tool was far weaker by default than the consumer product.
Vendors told us they feared breaking corporate applications, and thus purposely dumbed down their protection for enterprise customers.
Bottom line: If you've fallen in love with a consumer antispyware product at home, don't assume that you will have the same protection from the same vendor in your enterprise.
--Ed Skoudis & Tom Liston
Controlling interaction with users. Given the business case for reducing help desk calls, all the products follow this cardinal rule: "Thou shalt not interact with the user." Messages indicating spyware trouble that are displayed to the user might cause yet another help desk call, so such interaction was turned off by default.
Some of the vendors offer options for increased interaction, such as allowing the user to order an on-demand scan or to see alert messages, while others offer no user interface at all. We believe that there can be value in giving enterprises the option to allow users to conduct a full scan, perhaps saving a help desk call.
McAfee offers the most flexibility in configuring user interaction, giving admins fine-grained control to display or turn off components of the user GUI, including the ability to launch scans. McAfee also lets admins define a password for administrative control to the client, so a roving troubleshooter can correct a problem.
Webroot offers the choice of a pop-up or minimized icon in the tool tray for allowing or prohibiting user-initiated scans. Similarly, eSoft displays a tool tray icon to let a user start an on-demand scan--if an enterprise wants to enable this option.
CA's only interaction with users is to pop up a request message when the enterprise management console initiates a scan, giving users an option of delaying the scan by several minutes so that they can save their work. Trend Micro and SurfControl won't allow user scans or display anything when a scan starts up; Trend Micro's obscure command-line scan initiation is helpful for support personnel.
Lavasoft offers no user interaction configuration by default, opting to keep the user out of the process. But, an adventurous user can easily find Lavasoft's directory under Program Files and invoke various .exe files to run or alter Lavasoft's installation. This is another indication that the management GUI is an overlay of the consumer product.
Reporting. Enterprise managers need access to a wide range of information about the status of their antispyware operations, from overviews of infection status all the way down to detailed reports of particular infection and containment actions.
McAfee offers the most comprehensive set of built-in reports, with enterprise-wide summaries and detailed system-by-system breakdowns. SurfControl's built-in reports are solid, but not as comprehensive as McAfee's. In particular, SurfControl splits on-demand and real-time detection into separate reports.
CA's reports offer the information we expected, with nice management summaries, such as top 10 lists of infected machines, spyware specimens and infected users. Trend Micro offers a good set of reports, which seem to be more management-focused than offering fine-grained details on individual machines. We liked its report breakdowns by category of spyware, including keystroke loggers and browser hijackers. Webroot's reports don't include any behavior-based detection results; the data is stored in log files at the client. But, the product's on-demand scan reports are solid, offering a list of the most infected machines and most prominent spyware specimens.
eSoft's reports are essentially text-based outputs of scans.
Lavasoft's reports are the most disappointing--just summaries of enterprise-wide scans, without any detail about the particular spyware that was detected and what action was taken (e.g., quarantine, delete).
Finally, because several of these products use a back-end SQL database for logging report data, they support highly customized report generation using third-party tools. eSoft, McAfee and SurfControl work with MSDE, which is included, for smaller deployments, or Microsoft SQL Server. Webroot's default install uses DBISAM for smaller installations, and supports SQL Server. Trend Micro relies on MySQL and supports its interfacing query tools.
CA's proprietary back-end database offers no support for third-party SQL query tools, which reduced its grade. Lavasoft doesn't store any detailed information on the server, so it isn't useful for third-party query tools.
|Behavior-Based Spyware Detection
|Click here for a comparison of behavior-based spyware detection. (PDF).
Behavior-based Detection
Behavior-based detection is a double-edged sword: While it improves detection, it increases the likelihood of false positives, which could break an unusual but legitimate enterprise application. Still, there's great value in blocking or alerting on suspect behavior.
Based on our experience with AV tools, we fully expected the antispyware products to have heuristic or behavior-based detection abilities to cope with a rapidly morphing threat. However, McAfee is the only one that detected any of our tests in its default configuration; eSoft, Lavasoft and Webroot turn off behavior-based detection by default; and CA, SurfControl and Trend Micro have no behavior-based detection capabilities. Because many enterprises run security software with a default configuration, you'll have to consider your own policy.
To test behavior-based detection, we created 25 small custom programs, each of which attempted to perform a single spyware-like behavior. We dubbed the collection "SPYCAR" in homage to the well-known EICAR antivirus test file.
Our SPYCAR specimens tested each antispyware tool's ability to detect the following:
- The addition of new registry values or start menu entries to run programs loaded by SPYCAR.
- Various changes to the "Internet Options" panel in IE (including changes that lock out users' ability to change their home page).
- Changes to the home page of both IE and Firefox.
- Additions to the hosts file.
- The launch of a keylogging application.
- Addition of a browser helper object (BHO) to IE.
- Changes to the default wallpaper.
Interestingly, McAfee's default settings block programs from being run from IE's "Temporary Internet Files," a simple protection that can defeat many "drive-by" spyware installs.
eSoft, Lavasoft and Webroot produced a mixed bag of results when behavior-based detection was enabled. Webroot detected and blocked attempts to install values under the "Run" and "RunOnce" keys in HKCU and HKLM, which are often used to start spyware automatically at system boot or user logon. However, Webroot completely missed additions to RunOnceEx, a registry key that operates in much the same fashion as RunOnce. By blocking only two of the three most commonly used registry keys for launching spyware, Webroot missed a major portion of the defensive puzzle.
Lavasoft's behavior-based detection has to be enabled on each individual client. When set to its highest level of detection, Lavasoft alerted the user to an attempt to install a value under RunOnceEx and even offered the option to block it, but then failed to actually block the activity. Lavasoft was, however, the only product to detect a rather tricky attempt to replace IE as the default Windows shell in order to launch a spyware application.
eSoft's behavior-based detection was weaker than that of Lavasoft or Webroot, though it did detect and roll back an installed BHO when an on-demand scan was performed.
Alternate Data Streams
Windows machines using the popular NTFS file system support Alternate Data Streams (ADSes), a feature that allows a file to be attached to any other file or directory. Unfortunately, there's no way to detect the presence of or analyze the contents of an ADS on a standard Windows machine, making it a useful vector for malware.
For our tests, we took a specimen that an antispyware tool could normally detect and copied it into an ADS. We then used the Windows "start" command to run the malware from inside the ADS.
McAfee handled the ADS-borne spyware the best, with real-time blocking of both the malware copy into an ADS and execution from an ADS. McAfee also deleted ADS-based malware during an on-demand scan.
CA and SurfControl blocked execution of the malware from the ADS, but failed to prevent it from being copied initially. Neither cleaned up the malware with an on-demand scan using a default configuration.
Lavasoft has an option for ADS scanning, but it's turned off by default. It can provide solid real-time ADS protection, but it can only be activated at the client--there's no server-side configuration capability.
Trend Micro, Webroot and eSoft provided no protection against our ADS-borne spyware. Of particular surprise on this front was Webroot, which has a configuration option (off by default) to perform ADS scanning. When we activated this option, our ADS malware still flew under Web-root's radar. In follow-up discussions, Webroot personnel showed us how they tested for ADS spyware by using a separate program to execute malware from inside an ADS. Sure enough, when using their testing tool, the ADS malware was blocked. But, their ADS execution harness is a somewhat artificial environment, as opposed to our more real-world test using the start command. We feel that Webroot's ADS option gives users a false sense of security and therefore was worse than no protection at all, hence the lowest grade in this category.
Resilience to Attack
Increasingly, antispyware tools themselves are coming under attack by aggressive spyware that attempts to disable protection. To test resilience to these attacks, we tried to shut down each antispyware tool by shutting off its service and killing its processes at the client. We then checked to see whether antispyware protection was still functional. Many antivirus tools resist such attacks by inserting their code into other running processes, making them less likely to be subverted. None of our antispyware tools showed the resilience typical of these AV products.
SurfControl was best, maintaining protection even after its service was stopped and processes killed. McAfee also takes a strong approach: While we could shut down McAfee's service and kill its process to disable defenses, protection was automatically reactivated within five minutes, a duration that is configurable.
eSoft and Lavasoft maintained protection after their processes were killed, but died when the services were stopped. Conversely, CA kept working after the service was killed, but not when the process was terminated.
Trend Micro and Webroot were the easiest to kill, by either shutting down the service or killing the process.
|Making the Grade
|Click here for the spyware detection report card. (PDF).
Signature-based Detection
To test signature-based detection, we assembled 54 known spyware components (47 .exe files, four DLLs and three JavaScripts). We tested detection of the products in three stages:
- We attempted to copy our spyware to a test machine to see if the product had real-time protection to prevent potential malware from being written to the file system.
- We disabled the product, copied the spyware onto the target file system, re-enabled the product and performed an on-demand scan.
- We copied the spyware onto a machine with the product disabled, re-enabled the product and attempted to launch each of the 47 executables to see if real-time protection followed by an on-demand scan would thwart the malware.
The clear winner in this category was McAfee, which kept us from copying 37 of the 47 executables. It found 25 of the 47 during our on-demand scan, and it left only four processes running at the end of our test series. This strong showing, which detected more than three times the number of malicious programs posted by its nearest competitor, is undoubtedly the result of its multifaceted approach to detection.
While they weren't as comprehensive as McAfee, both CA and Trend Micro performed quite well overall, each detecting 12 of the programs in the on-demand scan. Like McAfee, CA left only four processes running at the end of the testing. However, CA demonstrated no ability to block spyware from being copied to our machine.
Trend Micro, on the other hand, detected and blocked 12 of the executables we attempted to copy to the machine. But, it left a few more running processes at the end.
Overall, we felt that these results balanced off, earning CA and Trend solid "Bs".
Webroot's detection rate, finding 10 of 47 specimens during the on-demand scan, was only slightly lower than CA or Trend Micro. However, the product offers no provision for blocking spyware from being copied to a computer. It left five running processes after the testing.
eSoft's decision to leave its Active Defense Shield off by default dropped it to the middle of the pack. When we enabled this shield, eSoft was able to block seven executables from being copied to the computer, matching the number it found during the on-demand scan. It also posted an impressive overall performance, leaving only four running processes when the tests were completed.
Lavasoft's lack of any real-time detection hurt its score, as it failed to block our attempts to copy spyware files to our test machine. In addition, it identified only eight of 47 executables during the on-demand scan. In the end, it left nine malicious programs running.
Finally, while SurfControl blocked six files during our attempts to copy spyware to our test machine, that's about as far as it got. It managed to detect those same six files during on-demand scanning, but failed to block or clean anything new. It left seven malicious files running.
|Zeroing in on price
Companies participating in our review submitted the following prices for their products.
eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware 8.0
$24.80 per seat for 500-749 users for product and subscription.
eSoft (Aluria)
Desktop Anti-Spyware 1.2
$6,250 for 500 users
Ad-Aware SE Enterprise 1.7
$31.25 per user for 10-25 users
AntiSpyware Enterprise 8.5
$11.60 per user; $4.96 per user subscription for 501-1,000 users
Enterprise Threat Shield. 3.0
$11.40 per user; $13.97 per user subscription for 500 users
Trend Micro
Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition 3.0
$11.55 per user; $3.47 per user subscription for 501-1,000 users
Webroot Software
Spy Sweeper Enterprise 2.5
$8,790 for 500 users
Real-Time Detection Techniques
We were surprised by the significant variation in methods used for real-time detection. While each of the products permit an administrator to launch or schedule scans, there are significant differences in the methodology.
CA monitors the launch of executable code and blocks the execution of software that matches known signatures. Trend Micro focuses on the file system, monitoring file writes against known signatures; this is useful in detecting copy actions but not for the execution of code that sneaks onto the file system through something like an ADS. Webroot focuses its efforts toward on-demand scans in lieu of real-time protection and creates, in essence, a scheduled on-demand scan of memory for spyware signatures every five minutes.
eSoft and Lavasoft use on-demand scans as their sole detection method in their default configuration--a major limitation. eSoft depends on an administrator to activate real-time protection. When activated, eSoft's real-time de-fenses work much like the file system protections of Trend Micro. With no enterprise control of its real-time defenses, Lavasoft depends on users activating real-time protection, which focuses on behavior-based detection (particularly changes to the registry). McAfee and SurfControl use a blended approach that detects both file system activity and executables at launch.
Room to Improve
McAfee was a clear leader across the board, with solid enterprise management, strong detection and resistance to attack.
CA, SurfControl and Webroot were next. CA's strength lies chiefly in its relatively strong enterprise abilities, and SurfControl demonstrates reliable real-time detection mechanisms. Webroot's enterprise capabilities were just OK; its detection was below average. Very close behind were eSoft, which was OK across the board, and Trend Micro, with average detection and somewhat disappointing management capabilities. Lavasoft, which offers a fine consumer-grade product, did not score well with its enterprise version.
Overall, the antispyware industry is far less mature than its antivirus counterpart. Most AV vendors have comprehensive detection capabilities, based largely on a combination of real-time and on-demand scan techniques. They often differentiate themselves based on user interface, software bundling, support and speed of signature releases. In the antispyware industry, on the other hand, there are major differences in each vendor's detection mechanisms (particularly behavior-based and real-time detection) and enterprise- wide management.
While enterprise antispyware tools can help cut the onslaught of help desk calls, clearly most still have a long way to go.


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sbs2003 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 25 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
This company needs a new website.
I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.
Desired Color Scheme:
earth tones
Desired Style:
Oriental feel (not oriental people!)
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This site needs to have a slight Oriental feel to it. They do all types of skin care by a licensed MD.
The home page MUST be very welcoming - not some sterile, boring office.
We will probably use pictures of the inside of their office to break up text on the home page, but they haven't supplied them yet - so use some generic (flattering) stock photo for now to break up text.
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Now, very very important - don't just propose a template with a lot of product pictures. It will be rejected immediately. I highly suggest not placing any product pictures on the home page. Keep with an Oriental style. (Not pictures of Asian people - but that type of style.)
They really like parts of http://skinovativeusa.com/ - especially the menu.
They want a picture of their doctor on the home page as well (possibly in a side column?) You can find the picture of their doctor here: http://www.tucson-web-design.net/so…s/Logo.PDF (It is a huge file so just wait for it.)
Their current site (if it is back up) is: http://www.solutions-skincare.com
They also like the flower that is used on that page (again, if it is back up.)
Tag line: "I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it." OR Enhance your beauty within.
Colors: Again, an Asian/Oriental influence here: Likes picture of lotus blossom - The blue used on http://skinovativeusa.com/ site is TOO much. Go with earth tones - NO pink.
Maybe some bamboo and a pond?
A menu structure like http://skinovativeusa.com/ would be pretty good. But a picture of the doctor out of the header and in the text area of the home page.
Play up the banner area - not too busy - just graceful.
If their current site isn't back up when you go to it, then just use filler text for now.
Their logo and some ads they have done are located here: http://www.tucson-web-design.net/solutions/
The logo they use on their business cards are any of the blue S logos. Specifically Logo Good.gif
This contest is over Thursday afternoon. There cannot be any extentions. I have a meeting with the client of Friday morning so a winner should be announced Friday afternoon.
They also really like the woman on image: Girl's Face 01.png - especially if it is cropped close.
Target audience are women 35-60yrs old with a high income.
They want something different from everyone else.
Again, don't create a site to push product, or else I will remove it immediately without further consideration. Products are only a secondary item for them.
This is my forth or fifth contest here. I always pay and I pay once the project is complete.
Just an FYI - please make sure that you realize if your layout is chosen, there will be some adjustments necessary - there always are.
Also, I pay with PayPal - if you want a different form of payment (ie Western Union) you must agree that any charges to use those services are taken out of the prize money. (IE if you need Western Union and they charge me $20 to send the money, I will reduce the prize money by $20 to pay for it.)
Also, if you are in the US, I can pay by a corporate check if you prefer.
Have fun - this could be a really fun site to do.
- Also, plan on making it for 800x600 or a layout that can easily expand to any size screen.
I will pay an extra $50 if you code it out with proper .html and .css (and psd). If not, an unflattened .psd is required


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Welcome to Greenstreams!
Greenstreams is a project dedicated to making the most of the fantastic rivers in the Huddersfield area for the benefit of both people and wildlife.
Over the years we have worked to create access to many riverside green spaces so that the value of these 'hidden gems' may be appreciated by all. We work on a not-for-profit basis by engaging the support of local businesses, communities and interest groups as well as individual volunteers. Browse our website to find out more about what we do and how you can get involved.
Foreword from Barry Sheerman MP
"Greenstreams is a wonderfully successful project. We have developed a great partnership with those who care about our rivers and canals. We have engaged local expert groups, residents, businesses and individuals who comprise a dedicated and professional team. We have arranged numerous clean-up programmes involving a wide range of volunteers to establish the River Colne as a community asset.
Many local residents have donated their time clearing the riverbanks of invasive weeds and rubbish. As well as protecting wildlife within the River Colne, the Greenstreams Project has also helped to provide an important educational resource for local schools and colleges, running workshops about the river and its history.
We believe that once maintained to a high standard, the River Colne and its tributaries can become an integral recreational, cultural and environmental resource for the surrounding community. We are keen that all those wishing to be involved with the project, locally, regionally or nationally should contact us for details of how best to get involved. Thank you for taking the time to look at our site".
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Internet Providers, FCC at Odds Over Cybersecurity
Danny Yadron has specifics of how Internet providers oppose proposed cybersecurity measures put forth by an FCC panel. Photo: Getty Images.
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|make a royal flush on each row, column, and diagonals
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Can you make a Royal Flush on every row, every column, and the 2 major diagonals? A unique design from Phil Janelle of Creative Crafthouse. There are 9 precision cut pieces made of 1/4" thick alder wood. The pieces are deeply laser engraved with the card designations. Inserting them properly to make the Royal Flush is no easy task! This puzzle would be rated a hard level 3 or low level 4 with a good solution time of 30 - 45 minutes.
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BIOMASS ENERGY Agribusiness has reacted in a number of ways to the soaring 1 cost of energy, including belt tightening, reshuffling its energy priorities, and, predictably, raising its prices-a move that only compounds the problem. All of these actions, in fact, only forestall the realities of energy depletion. But there is a bright idea growing in the Farm Belt that could in time produce a harvest of energy for America. In spite of the inherent risk in any new idea, agribusiness is putting more than a little of its money and its hopes on biomass conversion. Briefly, this is the production of energy from organic matter, such as the field crops heretofore destined for human con-sumption or livestock feed. The in-dustry, in particular its farmers, sees in the early stages the promise of a major contribution to the nation's search for energy self-sufficiency. At this point in its development, biomass conversion is accomplished in three ways: • Direct conversion: the burning of feedstocks, wood, crops wastes, nut shells, or fruit pits to produce heat for space heating and steam for processing. • Physical/chemical conversion: the decomposition of dry biomass material—such as rice straw, wood chips, tree trimmings, and cannery waste—into low- or medium-BTU (British thermal unit) gases. • Biochemical conversion: the fer-mentation of animal waste into methane gas, and starch- and sugar-based crops-such as corn, wheat, and potatoes-into ethyl alcohol, also anew choice for America by JAMES HANNON/Executive Assist. Thermal Co., St Paul, and JOSEPH F. BUCHAN/Partner Minneapolis commonly known as ethanol Energy resources like these have two apparent advantages: one, they don't have to be dug or pumped from the ground, and two, the supply is nearly inexhaustible. A third advan-tage, of course, is that the raw materi-als do not have to be imported. One reason there has been no rush to melt down the nation's crops is that such conversion does not begin to supply our energy needs. In fact, the nation will be lucky to displace '10 percent of its gasoline in this way by 1990. Like it or not, fossil fuel and its synthetics are still the best, albeit most expensive, energy source. Also, they are still necessary to any conver-sion process. The situation is brighter than it seems, however. Biomass conversion is a positive energy source because it can yield more energy than it takes to produce it. In the future, some way will certainty be found to increase the energy balance of other processes and a real obstacle to commercial production will be hurdled. In the meantime, it is the agribusiness industry that will probably benefit most from this revolutionary process. And properly so, since the nation's food growers and processors have been the driving force behind it. Besides, they're closer to the source. Of the various techniques for bio-mass conversion, the one most attractive to the farmer is biochemi-cal conversion, a variation of old-fashioned fermentation. It is also attractive because one plant can be built to serve the needs of many. And fortunately, the raw material is growing everywhere. Any starch- or sugar-based crop—including wheat, potatoes, sugarcane and beets, and sorghum-can be used, as well as such food processing wastes and by-products as cheese whey, molasses slurry, cannery wastes, potato scraps, low-grade starch, pulp plant waste, and other flotsam and jetsam of our throw-away society. But the feed- 45
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Biomass energy: A New choice for America
Hannon, James
Buchan, Joseph F.
Biomass energy
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On a sweltering summer day in late June 1977, I walked through the back doors of CUNA's Filene House in Madison, Wis., to begin what is now a 35-year career in the credit union movement. I had been a credit union member since college, but I didn't have a clue that credit unions were much more than just a different way of saying "bank."
On that first day I was given a copy of "The Credit Union Movement," by J. Carroll Moody and Gilbert C. Fite. My boss also told me to spend time browsing through the bound volumes of Credit Union Magazine that went back to the early 1930s.
The magazine was then named The Bridge because credit unions were designed to provide a bridge from economic hardship to economic opportunity.
Now that the movement has surpassed $1 trillion in total assets and the number of members soon will exceed 100 million, does our history still matter? Is it still relevant?
Credit unions have been so successful that Americans of all income stripes and colors have access to cooperative financial institutions whose primary mission is service and not profit. Our current legislative battles are just the latest in a century-long war to extend the credit union option to as many Americans as possible.
Just as early credit unions served as a bridge for working men and women to what became the great American middle class, we must continue to evolve as a necessary strategic response to the economic times in which our members live today.
Credit unions' future will require nimbleness and innovation. Some will argue that looking too often in the rearview mirror prevents us from seeing both opportunities and obstacles ahead. They might argue that history serves only to pigeonhole credit unions as niche institutions designed to play a limited role.
Banks certainly believe that to be the case. Note their perpetual state of hysteria when it comes to anything that hints of credit union empowerment. Their heavy-handed campaign to prevent Congress from raising the cap on member business lending is just the latest salvo in an endless campaign of aggression against credit unions.
Our history as financial cooperatives defines us like nothing else. History provides meaning and purpose to our future.
It's why the public and Congress supported credit unions in 1997 when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling threatened consumer access to credit unions. That threat triggered a strong and united response that enabled credit unions to pass the Credit Union Membership Access Act in only a few months.
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Zimbabwe: Risk Assessment
Country Risk Rating
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- Abundant mineral resources (platinum, gold, diamonds, nickel)
- Agricultural wealth (maize, tobacco, cotton)
- Tourism development potential
- Member of the SADC (Southern African Development Community)
- Normalisation of relations with the international community
- Economic and financial position damaged by long period of hyperinflation
- Shortage of cash
- Underinvestment in infrastructure (particularly energy)
- Precarious food and healthcare situation: majority of the population depends on international aid
- One of the highest rates of AIDS infection in Africa and in the world
Current Trends
Economic Growth Strangled by Shortage of Cash
Growth, largely dependent on agricultural production, recovered in 2017 due to favorable weather conditions, which resulted in an exceptional harvest after two years of drought. Maize production reached 2.1 million tonnes, increasing agricultural GDP growth by 20%. However, activity is expected to slow sharply in 2018. Rainfalls for the 2017/2018 agricultural season are expected to be lower than those in 2017, impacting on activity. Gold exports are expected to continue to benefit from the stability of world prices. Nevertheless, manufacturing will suffer from the shortage of foreign exchange, which will hamper imports. Since 2016, the economy has been paralyzed by a liquidity crisis whose roots lie in the government's decision in April 2009 to abandon the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a basket of currencies, making the US dollar the monetary system's reference currency. The widening current account deficit, weak inflows of capital and the crisis of confidence have resulted in a limit on the number of dollars in circulation, pushing the banks to limit withdrawals to 50 dollars a day. The rise in dollar-indexed bond notes introduced in November 2016 by the central bank following the award of a USD 500 million loan by the Trade Finance Bank for Africa (Afreximbank), together with the use of electronic payment methods has helped mitigate the decline in liquidity to some extent. The growth of money in circulation observed in 2014 took the country out of the deflationary spiral in which it had been trapped since 2014. However, inflation (probably underestimated in official figures), particularly of imported goods, continues to rise rapidly, rekindling fears of hyperinflation.
Unsustainable Twin Deficits
The public deficit deepened in 2017. Higher tax receipts, associated with a more favorable economic context, were not enough to offset the spending commitments made by the authorities and allocated mainly to debt interest payments and civil service wages. In 2018, the government aims to reduce the public deficit by half, to 4% of GDP, but this already unlikely scenario suffers from the government's inability to reduce spending. With almost 90% of spending allocated to the wage bill in 2018, the government's room for leeway on the budget will remain limited. Moreover, the slowdown in activity and the organization of the 2018 presidential elections will adversely affect revenues as well as spending. The public debt will continue to rise in the absence of fiscal reform and consolidation. Authorities will continue to make use of the domestic market, thus weakening the banking system and credit growth. Arrears with international institutions limit the country's ability to make use of international aid. Although the country repaid a share of the arrears due to the IMF in October 2016, it still owes USD 1.6 billion to the African Development Bank and the World Bank.
Higher metal prices are expected to encourage export growth in 2018, but the reduction in the current account deficit will still be mainly attributable to the contraction in imports. As in 2017, the shortage of dollars is expected to put pressure on imports and increase the likelihood of depreciation in the bond notes on the black market. The pressure on this substitute currency will continue in 2018, in the absence of action by the central bank and new inflows of foreign exchange.
The "Crocodile" Succeeds Robert Mugabe After 37 Years in Power
On the 21st November 2017, after 37 years as Head of State, Robert Mugabe (93), was forced to step down. This came a week after the army, denying a coup d'état had taken place, seized control of several institutions in Harare and held Mr. Mugabe and his wife under house arrest. The bloodless intervention was triggered by the dismissal of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa a few weeks earlier, with the intention of opening a route to power for Mr. Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe. The democratic transfer of power, with the assistance of the army, thus enabled Mr. Mnangagwa, nicknamed the "Crocodile", to succeed Mr. Mugabe. The interim president has already been selected to stand for the general elections in 2018 to shore up his position as leader of the country. A long-time ally of Robert Mugabe and from the ranks of ZANU-PF, the ruling party since independence, the Crocodile is not expected to make any radical changes to the way politics operate in the country. Nevertheless, while massive unemployment and the shortage of cash are fuelling popular discontent, the new president is expected to quickly find solutions to the economic crisis. To do this, dialogue with international donors and bilateral partners could be resumed to allow the country to benefit from aid, which has become indispensable. The president also intends to win back the confidence of foreign investors who fled the country, mostly because of Mr. Mugabe's management. The 2018 elections promised by Mr. Mnangagwa, and the conditions under which they will be run could, therefore, be a test for the firmness of the Crocodile's commitments.


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LOS ANGELES - Though often rivals when it comes to fighting for fair contracts, hot scripts, top talent and big audiences, Hollywood's power players are united in their support for American veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Movie studios, TV networks, talent agencies and the entertainment unions, together with a host of nonprofit groups, have created the "Got Your 6" initiative, a multipronged effort to support military veterans and their families.
"It's an opportunity for all of us," said Universal Studios chief Ron Meyer, who announced the campaign Wednesday. "I can't think of anything more important than supporting the troops that are coming back from active service."
More than a million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are expected to return to the U.S. over the next five years, said Chris Marvin, director of Got Your 6.
"Got your six" is military lingo, an expression of solidarity that means "I've got your back and I know you've got mine," Marvin said.
"It means we're watching out for each other and we're all in this together," he said. The saying originated with pilots engaged in dogfights before expanding throughout the military, but Marvin said it applies perfectly to the alliance of entertainment powerhouses that adopted it: "These different entities all agree that the way we work with and deal with our military veterans and their families is crucially important to the future of this country."
Through scripted story lines, celebrity public service announcements and employment and education outreach, Got Your 6 aims to ease veterans' return to civilian life by encouraging Americans to recognize them as valuable community leaders.
The effort was inspired by Michelle Obama's Joining Forces campaign and conceived with the support of the Clinton Global Initiative.
"The entertainment industry captures our imaginations, opens our eyes and touches our hearts, and I'm proud to work with them on our Joining Forces initiative," the first lady said in a statement Wednesday. "By sharing the stories of strength and resilience that define our military families, we can motivate even more Americans to honor these courageous individuals in new ways."
The entertainment industry has the power to influence everyday Americans, Marvin said, and he hopes to see programs that portray veterans as more than just heroes or victims of post-traumatic stress, but skilled leaders ready to contribute to their communities in myriad ways.
Public service announcements featuring stars including Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Douglas will begin airing Thursday, and the industry's commitment to Got Your 6 is ongoing.
"It will take time, and the sooner we do it and the sooner we start it, the better," Meyer, a former Marine, said in an interview Wednesday. "This is one (cause) that's important for everyone. This is very real and very much here and one we can beat... This is one we can do something about right now."
Among the elements of the campaign is a promise from Disney and Comcast to hire 1,000 veterans apiece. Besides hiring, Meyer said to expect the entertainment industry's efforts to come through on screen.
"As corny as it sounds, we're storytellers. We have the ability to get the message out in so many ways," he said. "We can get the message out through talent or through story."