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Across the Pond
National Education Technology Plan
TEACH Campaign
New Research Priorities
The Big Read
Odds and Ends
Quote to Note
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Across the Pond
Last week, Secretary Duncan made his first official trip to Europe. First, he traveled to London, where he met with British Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove to discuss common challenges and goals for reforming education. As Secretary Duncan explained in a new entry on the Department's blog, "England is also struggling to turn around low-performing schools and is working to recruit and prepare the next generation of talented teachers and principals. Throughout our discussions, I found that the United States and England are taking similar approaches to addressing these challenges, and we have much to gain from sharing our experience." The Secretary also visited Mossbourne Community Academy, which once was known as one of the worst schools in Britain. In 2004, the school underwent a transformation to improve student learning through such efforts as extending the school day, instituting smaller "learning areas," and investing in educator professional development. This year, more than 90% of Mossbourne students taking the national examination received the highest rating.
Next, Secretary Duncan traveled to Paris, where he delivered remarks at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Forum, highlighting the Obama Administration's education reform agenda and underscoring the role of education in economic competitiveness and global prosperity. "I want to provide two overarching messages today about America's efforts to boost educational attainment and achievement," he said in his speech. "First, the Obama Administration has an ambitious and unified theory of action that propels our agenda. The challenge of transforming education in America cannot be met by quick-fix solutions or isolated reforms. It can only be accomplished with a clear, coherent, and coordinated vision of education reform. Second, while America must improve its stagnant educational and economic performance, President Obama and I reject the protectionist Cold War era assumption that improving economic competitiveness is somehow a zero-sum game.... I want to make the case to you today that enhancing educational attainment and economic viability, both at home and abroad, is really more of a win-win game. It is an opportunity to grow the economic pie, instead of carve it up." (Note: The Secretary recently made similar remarks before the Council of Foreign Relations and penned an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine on enhancing U.S. education and competitiveness.) In welcoming further international dialogue, the Secretary also mentioned some of his own future commitments, including joining the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the announcement of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results in December and sponsoring an International Summit on the Teaching Profession in March.
Then, Secretary Duncan attended the OECD Ministerial on Education, where he participated in a plenary working lunch, attended breakout sessions with fellow education ministers and government officials from member countries and key emerging economies, and met with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria and U.S. Ambassador to the OECD Karen Kornbluh.
A reminder: Next week is International Education Week, celebrating international education and exchange worldwide. During the week, Deputy Secretary Tony Miller will lead an agency delegation to Australia, to participate in the inaugural Australia-U.S. Education Roundtable. (Secretary Duncan will participate via video conference.) The small delegation will also travel to New Zealand to meet with education officials.
National Education Technology Plan
On November 9, Secretary Duncan released the Department's plan for transforming American education through technology, a process that would create an engaging, state-of-the-art, cradle-to-college school system nationwide. The National Education Technology Plan was written and refined over 18 months by leading education researchers, with input from the public, industry officials, and educators and students from across the country. Development of the national plan was led by the Department's Office of Educational Technology (OET) and involved the most rigorous and inclusive process ever undertaken for a plan. It is a crucial component of the Obama Administration's efforts to have America lead the world in college completion by 2020 and help close the academic achievement gap so that all students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.
"Our nation's schools have yet to unleash technology's full potential to transform learning," the Secretary stressed in his remarks. "We're at an important transition point.... We need to leverage technology's promise to improve learning."
The plan, "Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology," presents a model with key goals in five areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. Each section outlines concepts for using technology to holistically transform education, with the aim to achieve each goal by 2015. Overall, the plan addresses trends that could transform education, such as accessibility and mobility, the rise of digital content, and the rise of online social networks for information, collaboration, and learning. Also, it stresses that technology in the classroom only works when paired with effective teaching.
Meanwhile, through December 17, K-12 students, parents, teachers, administrators, and pre-service teachers from across the country have the opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on education and technology, through Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey. This year's survey includes questions about emerging technologies: digital textbooks, online learning, and the use of smart phones within instruction. Students are also asked to design their own "mobile app" for learning. The results are shared with participating schools, so that they can use the data for planning and community discussions. Results are also used by government agencies and other organizations to inform their programs and policies.
TEACH Campaign
This week, Secretary Duncan and Grammy Award-winning artist John Legend visited Howard University in Washington, D.C., to encourage students to choose teaching careers. This visit was part of the Department's TEACH campaign, a national teacher recruitment initiative launched earlier this year to recruit more diverse, high-quality teachers and celebrate the teaching profession. The Secretary and Legend hosted a town hall meeting with students and educators. Legend specifically discussed his involvement in education and his work with the TEACH and Show Me campaigns.
The TEACH campaign encourages more minorities, especially males, to pursue careers in the classroom. Nationwide, more than 35% of public school students are African-American or Hispanic, but less than 15% of teachers are African-American or Hispanic. Moreover, less than 2% of our nation's teachers are African-American males.
To learn more about the TEACH campaign and to view public service announcements (PSAs) by celebrities such as John Legend, visit TEACH.gov. The web site provides information and resources for students and prospective teachers, including a new interactive "pathway to teaching" tool designed to help individuals chart their course to becoming a teacher. More than 7,000 teacher job listings also are posted on the site.
New Research Priorities
On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES's topics of study will remain much the same under the new priorities. Yet, these new priorities place greater emphasis on putting research findings into context, "to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective." IES has also set as a priority identifying new and rigorous methods to measure outcomes in education research and building partnerships with educators and the community to develop greater "analytic capacity" at the local level. These priorities will be used to craft requests for proposals for new grant competitions in January.
The Big Read
The National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) The Big Read provides U.S. communities with grants and numerous resources to read and discuss a single book or the work of a poet. Libraries, municipalities, and non-profit organizations are encouraged to apply for one of approximately 75 grants to be awarded for programming between September 2011 and June 2012. The application deadline is February 1, 2011. Aside from a grant, the following educational and promotional materials are provided and available online: reader's and teacher's guides and audio guides with commentary from artists, educators, and public figures; Spanish translations of selected reader's guides; and posters, banners, and bookmarks. For this cycle, communities will choose from 28 book titles (the recent additions include In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez and A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean) and three works of poets.
Odds and Ends
Secretary Duncan observed Veterans Day by visiting Manor View Elementary School at Fort Meade, Maryland, and celebrating the unveiling of the school's new library. As part of Target's School Library Makeover Program, the library received a complete transformation, featuring 2,000 new books; Smart Boards (interactive, electronic whiteboards); and new carpet, furniture, and lighting. Also, each student received seven new books to take home and begin his or her own at-home library.
A slideshow, transcript, and video from the Department's October 11 Education Stakeholders Forum, covering the Race to the Top Assessment Competition, the Promise Neighborhoods Program, and the TEACH Campaign, is available online.
A new Department video shows Tim Bailey, the 2009 Preserve America National History Teacher of the Year, in his classroom at Salt Lake City's Escalante Elementary School, where he taught U.S. history and civics until the current school year. Many of his students are first- and second-generation immigrants whose families come from countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Regardless of their backgrounds, he gets his students engaged and excited about the story of America.
Speaking of teachers, Secretary Duncan saluted the 662 most highly effective teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools at "A Standing Ovation for Teachers."
The Department held a National Policy Forum for Family, School, and Community Engagement on November 9. Several senior officials from the Department and other education stakeholders delivered remarks or participated in panel discussions, focusing on the shared responsibility and best practices to support children's learning, from cradle-to-career, in the home, school, and community. The Administration is proposing to double funding for parent and family engagementfrom 1% to 2% of Title I funding, or a total of $270 million. At the same time, in order to drive innovation, it will allow states to use another 1% of Title I funding, roughly $145 million, for grant programs that support, incentivize, and help expand school district-level, evidence-based parental involvement practices.
The Education Trust has honored four public schools with 2010 "Dispelling the Myth" Awards: Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in New Orleans; Jack Britt High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Griegos Elementary School in Albuquerque; and Morningside Elementary School in Brownsville, Texas.
Quote to Note
"[M]oving forward, the question is going to be can Democrats and Republicans sit down together and come up with a set of ideas that address core concerns. I'm confident that we can. I think that there are some areas where it's going to be very difficult for us to agree on, but I think there are going to be a whole bunch of areas where we can agree on.... I think everybody in this country thinks that we've got to make sure our kids are equipped in terms of their education, their math background and science background, to compete in this new global economy. And that's going to be an area where I think there's potential common ground."
|President Barack Obama (11/3/10), during a press conference the day after the mid-term elections
Upcoming Events
Results from the 2009 National Assessment for Educational Progress' (NAEP) twelfth-grade assessments in reading and math will be released on November 18, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
On November 19, the Department's Early Childhood and Reading Group will host a Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program public input meeting at the Potomac Center Plaza (550 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024). The group is seeking input, including written input, from literacy experts, literacy organizations, states, other stakeholders, and the public, to inform the design and development of a notice inviting applications (NIA) that establishes the requirements for this competition. There will be two sessions: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please note that technical assistance for grant applicants will be provided at a later date. This meeting is strictly for providing input concerning the development of a NIA.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will exhibit at the iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning) Virtual School Symposium in Glendale, AZ (November 14-16), the National Dropout Prevention Conference in Philadelphia (November 14-17), the National Alliance of Black School Educators' Conference in Fort Worth, TX (November 17-21), the National Council of Teachers of English's Convention in Orlando (November 18-21), and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Convention in Boston (November 19-21). If you are attending any of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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In this post I will analyze the Android APK files that my friend Pietro Delsante from the Honeynet Project Sysenter Chapter talks about in his previous post (thank you Pietro). The files are all named "video.apk" and these are the MD5 and SHA256 hashes:
video.apk 10859e82697955eb2561822e14460463 a36ecd528ecd80dadf3b4c47952aede7df3144eb9d2f5ba1d3771d6be2261b62
video.apk 91f302fd7c2d1b8fb54248ea128d19e0 8e0a2f6b7101e8caa61a59af4fdfc5b5629b8eac3a9aafcc1d0c8e56b4ddad15
video.apk f6ad9ced69913916038f5bb94433848d 4c7c0bd7ed69614cb58908d6a28d2aa5eeaac2ad6d03cbcad1a9d01f28a14ab9
The three APKs are almost identical: they share the same certificate and much more (I will cover the differences later). I started by having a look at the first sample 10859e82697955eb2561822e14460463, this is the content of the AndroidManifest.xml file:
As you can see there are the following permissions (details from the official Android documentation):
This is consistent with the name that the main antivirus vendors use for this kind of malware (from VirusTotal [1] [2] [3]):
Having a look at the application code we see that it is split into two parts:
This is the full structure of the APK after decoding it with apktool:
There are some resources that look promising, such as the html hierarchy inside "/assets" and the file "/res/raw/settings.json", whereas the files inside "/res/values/*.xml" do not yield anything interesting. The app name is Еро Видео (Russian for "Ero Video") and we also have a pretty windows-like icon:
Looks promising, we are dealing with an app that masks itself as a porn video. But poor Pietro wasn't looking for some porn, he was headed to the theater to see a show with friends! :-P
At this point before analyzing the code I chose to let the app manually run in a sandbox,
to check whether it was a real video or not to test what is presented to the user, which kind of network traffic it generates, what SMS messages are sent, etc. The following is a slightly NSFW video of the execution of the app:
As a side note, there also seems to be some debug-like output on the ADB logcat:
The calls to "Settings.load()" and ".save()" get and put some data (first, sentSms, time) from the Android shared preferences storage:
Here's an example of the settings that might be saved inside "/data/data/version.eleven/shared_prefs/settings.xml":
The method "MainActivity.loadSettings()" loads instead the file "/res/raw/settings.json" with "Functions.loadAndDecode()" and checks its content against the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) retrieved through "Functions.getImsi()".
The IMSI is a 15-digit number associated with all cellular networks used to identify a single user of the network. Its first five or six digits are the concatenation of the Mobile Country Code (MCC) and the Mobile Network Code (MNC). The MCC+MNC tuple is used to uniquely fingerprint a mobile phone operator and its country of operation. Here we are dealing with a dictionary of operators (op*) and, for every operator, one or more MCC+MNC (codes) along with some number+text (items).
The "settings.json" file contains operators (sometimes MCC+MNC, sometimes only the MCC) from the following countries: Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Israel, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Iraq, Jordan, Cambodia, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Macedonia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Poland. This file has some minor differences between the three analyzed APKs.
Now, for what concerns the HTML part, here's the page source header. When the page is loaded a JS animation starts slideshowing some porn images (pic*.jpg), and in the meantime the Android method "Functions.callJsCallbackAndroidVersion(Build.VERSION.RELEASE)" calls the JavaScript function "androidVersion()" in order to set some kind of flag for Gingerbread devices.
When the user clicks on the blue play button, the JavaScript code "goNext()" is run. First, it hides some part of the HTML page ("#page1") and shows another ("#page2"); that second part is slightly different between the three APKs, but all of them show a porn-related link (Ваша ссылка), a so-called password (Ваш пароль) and a GO button (Перейти). In addition, "goNext()" runs "sendSms()", which in turn calls the Android method "WebApi.sendSms()" either directly or through the chain "prompt()", "onJsPrompt()", "textToCommand()".
The function first performs a check in order to be sure that it was run successfully at least one day before, then starts a separate thread that runs "threadOperationRun()". That function retrieves a "MainActivity.settings.smsList" list of number+text, previously populated using "settings.json", then sends every message using "Functions.sendSms(number, text)".
Every number to whom an SMS was sent is also saved into "MainActivity.settings.phoneList", then the shared_prefs persistent settings' timestamp is updated. This is a sample of the prefs after some SMS messages have been sent:
Lastly, here is the code that runs when there are incoming SMS messages. To keep it short, if the phone number of the sender of the incoming message is in the list "MainActivity.settings.phoneList", then the message is discarded.
To wrap up, we are dealing with a fake "Ero Video" porn app that sends paid SMS messages at most once a day, hiding any subsequent reply to these messages. It has no background service (and no persistence/self boot), and relies entirely on social engineering, i.e. the user has to open the app and click the play button. Moreover, as you can see in the video, the Android system shows a popup warning when the first SMS is sent, hopefully lowering the click-through rate.
For what concerns the fraud and/or monetization schema, I still need to understand the meaning of the text inside the messages. For example, on hxxp://zona-people[.]com/oferta.php (Russian) at the bottom of the page we can see that the numbers inside "settings.json" are billed 6.5€ / 9$ per SMS, but unfortunately no clue about the meaning of the text. Information and feedback are always welcome, you can find me on Twitter.
UPDATE: Felix has also blogged about this mobile application, with a really good description of the behaviour of the app and a nice list of tools/links.

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Erin E. Fredrick '01, who joined the staff of Barnard's Alumnae Affairs in 2005, was named its director in February 2009. Fredrick initially served as manager of Reunion and Leadership Council, two major events on the annual College calendar. She moved up to become associate director, then interim co-director. Before officially joining the AA staff, Fredrick had been an active member of the Alumnae Association as a Barnard Fund volunteer, class correspondent, and a regional club co-president. While a student, she was chosen by her peers to receive the Frank Gilbert Bryson Award for her contribution to Barnard life.
A southern California native, Fredrick has a broad range of experience in the nonprofit sector. After graduation, she became project coordinator for the Sonoma County Economic Development Board; in 2002, she joined Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's Maryland gubernatorial campaign as deputy field director for Montgomery County. From 2002 until she joined Barnard, Fredrick was a program and communications associate of The Communications Network in Washington, D. C.
"Thrilled and honored" to serve as AA director, Fredrick, who views Alumnae Association membership as a privilege, says Barnard helped her to find her voice, giving her the skills to write, research, and think critically, to teach, and to "articulate my convictions."


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People have different opinions about the poinsettia. Some consider it a holiday plant to be enjoyed during the month of December, then discarded with the Christmas tree. Others like to nurture their plants, coaxing them into bloom season after season.
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The glory of the spring was upon us. The first crocus had bloomed, winter aconite made a carpet, the hyacinth crowns were showing, the tips of the daffodils and tulips were emerging and suddenly everything burst into color. Like the finale of a fireworks display, there was much excitement in the garden. Ah, spring.
But a few weeks later, the flowers faded, petals fell to the ground, the stems were bare and there was only leftover foliage to watch wither away. Not so exciting.
My first garden experiences with tropical sages were a bit drab. Six-packs of mealycup sage (Salvia farinacea) from the grocery store bloomed through the summer with flowers the color of new Levis. The next year, to be fancy, I grew the seed strain 'Strata'. Its flowers were closer to the color of dirty overalls. Then, of course, there was red Texas sage (Salvia coccinea) and its variety 'Lady in Red' — far more elegant in name than in physical reality — plus its bizarre faded pink variant 'Coral Nymph'.
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During the past few years, the Slow Flower movement has been generating a lot of buzz in the media. Following the success of the Slow Food movement, Debra Prinzing, author of The 50 Mile Bouquet, coined the term "Slow Flowers" in an attempt to talk about some of the reasons for supporting local flower growers as well as appreciating in-season blooms.>> read "Slow Down and Smell the Flowers" #Flowers #Misc #Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japan stocks rallied hard Friday, outpacing regional markets and standing tall in a week of hefty losses for global equities, as the yen's recent weakness on speculation that a radical change in monetary policy may be imminent boosted exporters.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +1.05% jumped 2.2%, adding to Thursday's 1.9% surge, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.83% edged slightly higher.
The Japanese stock advance came even as the yen fell after strong gains earlier in the week, following opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe's call for "unlimited easing" by the Bank of Japan. Despite Friday's drop, the dollar-yen pair has gained more than 1.8% so far this week.
Abe's call of action on monetary policy "has been one of the most important dynamics this week, as the implications of the LDP taking back power after a three-year absence has the market thinking we are going to see much more radical action... not just by proactive fiscal action, but it may also influence monetary policy in a much more aggressive manner," said Stan Shamu, a market strategist at IG Markets.
Many other markets suffered, however, with the Shanghai Composite index 000001, -1.57% dropping 0.8%, South Korea's Kospi 180721, +0.64% dropping 0.5%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index XJO, +0.06% losing 0.3% and Taiwan's Taiex XX:Y9999 shedding 0.2%.
The losses came in the wake of another lackluster session on Wall Street Thursday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.52% dropped to a multi-month low as investors fretted about the implications of potential large tax hikes and spending cuts on the U.S. economy. Read: U.S. stocks close down as Sandy hits data.
The Nikkei gained 3% during the week, as compared to losses of between 1.1% and 2.8% for the benchmark indexes in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Seoul and Taipei.
In Tokyo, a number of sectors posted solid gains.
Sony Corp. 6758, +0.34% SNE, -0.65% rose 3.3%, Canon Inc. 7751, +0.48% CAJ, -0.33% soared 5.8% and heavyweight robotics firm Fanuc Corp. 6954, +0.32% FANUF, -0.04% rose 3.8%.
Among car makers, Toyota Motor Corp. 7203, +0.78% TM, -0.53% climbed 3.4% and Nissan Motor Co. 7201, +0.34% NSANY, -0.38% jumped 5.1%.
Power companies gained as well, amid some expectation that a switch to an LDP government could result in pro-nuclear-power policies, with Kansai Electric Power Co. 9503, +0.56% KAEPY, -0.49% up 3.8%.
The case for new measures to support the economy likely found further support after the Japanese government downgraded its assessment of the economy for the fourth month in a row.
After the end of the day's trading, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan dissolved the lower house of the parliament and called a snap election for Dec. 16. The LDP is expected to win in the elections, and Abe is seen becoming the nation's leader — and if so, he would be Japan's seventh prime minister in less than seven years.
Beverage maker Kirin Holdings Co. 2503, -0.11% KNBWY, +0.93% declined 2.2%, however, after the firm said it will sell its 15% stake in Fraser & Neave Ltd. F99, -1.14% FNEVF, -2.64% to Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd. LJ3, +0.00% for 1.9 billion Singapore dollars ($1.6 billion). Kirin will then aim to buy back Fraser & Neave's food-and-drink operations for S$2.7 billion.
In Singapore, shares of Fraser & Neave rallied 2% by late afternoon.
In Hong Kong, some trade-related names saw gains, with China Merchants Holdings International Co. 144, -0.16% CMHHY, +1.39% climbing 0.7%, while Cosco Pacific Ltd. 1199, -0.61% CSPKY, -5.20% rose 1.9%.
Peter Lai, director at DBS Vickers, said that Hong Kong investors are waiting for economically-supportive political developments in the U.S. and Europe — both key export markets for China — but that in the meantime exporters have come under a bit of pressure.
Investors are also waiting for news on measures to support the Chinese economy after a conference to usher in once-in-a-decade leadership change wrapped up in Beijing this week, Lai said.
"Markets are flooded with money. The missing element is the Chinese government," he said. Tax relief, subsidies and benefits for foreign investors could be examples of potential changes that could be regarded as investor-friendly, he said. "Then A-shares will start to recover," Lai said.
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Ready To Launch – Your 5 Steps Checklist Before Launching
What's your promotion strategy – E-mail marketing or social media? These 5 steps will help you establish what client acquisition is and how to execute them effectively.
Well-known management consultant Peter Drucker spoke about it a decade ago "the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer."
Sales are the bloodline of any business and acquiring new customers is a vital part that keeps your businesses afloat and growing. There might be few buyers paying a big retainer or simply attracting traffic visiting your site, how you obtain and retain clients is the ultimate goal. Before you launch your business ask yourself: Are you really prepared for more customers and orders? Are the platform and logistics geared to handle an inflow of visitors & queries?
Perhaps for start-ups, the client acquisition journey is hardly linear or predictable, that doesn't discount the importance of thoughtful planning.
Even though the client acquisition process is not an exact science. There will always be things that can (and do) go wrong, speak to any business owner and will share the sentiments.
Related: 9 Answers You Need About Yourself Before Starting Your Own Business
What's your promotion strategy – E-mail marketing or social media? These 5 steps will help you establish what client acquisition is and how to execute them effectively.
1Is your product ready for client acquisition?
You have spent countless hours (if not years) developing the product, once your product hits the market and begin to attract customers the execution of your user acquisition process must be planned out very carefully.
Before going live on the website ask and test the following:
- Is your platform ready for orders, or are there still bugs that will expose the faults in customer experience/ user journey?
- Do you have adequate customer support? Can your team respond to the questions & concerns of new customers in a timely fashion?
- Do people outside your company understand your product, In other words, if you explain it to a 5-year-old will they get it?
These are some questions that need answering before going live.
2Why being prepared counts
English writer Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" once said, "If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there."
It's essential to have a well-planned customer acquisition strategy, consider the following.
- Start off with a framework, even very basic plan, Yes, plans change (especially with start-ups).
- A plan of action for obtaining customers is strongly advisable as it lays down a foundation (You wouldn't build your house on sand would you?)
- Make use of a document automation software (Built-in electronic signatures, workflow management, a document builder, and CPQ Configure Price Quote Software) I find pandadoc very user-friendly, cloud-based with loads of templates.
Related: The Journey Of Entrepreneurship: How The Tough Get Going
3Build the right team
Regardless of the size of your team in start-ups, they are known to wear many hats, the ability to react quickly to hiccups is a game of inches.
Here are some scenarios.
- If there is an unexpected bug in the sign-up/sales process, how quickly can your development team react and fix the problem?
- Bad news travels fast, the incident of United Airline passenger being dragged off in April 2017 ( the video was shared 87,000 times and viewed 6.8 million times in less than a day.) A Wiki page was created in the process
- When customer complaints occur, be proactive with your efforts in communications/social media to fix the situation.
- In order to do that, your team needs to have a clear understanding of who to turn to when problems occur.
4Estimate the Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC)
Do you have an estimate of your cost to acquire customers (CAC) laid out?
- CAC is the cost of all of your sales and marketing expenses over a given period of time, divided by the number of customers acquired in that period.
- An estimate will help you be prepared, you will have a better sense of your CAC once you begin acquiring customers, and it will change with time.
Related: 10 Young Entrepreneurs Under 30 Share Their Start-Up Secrets
5Create demand
It's natural to want to get your product into the hands of everyone who needs it. But thinking about how to influence the masses leads to missteps in understanding what's driving the decisions of the few people you have the best chance of reaching and impacting right now.
Like any revolution, success happens one user, one customer, one raving fan at a time. Never be afraid to start small.
Selling The Dream
When you're starting a business, the secret to success is getting everyone — from customers to suppliers — buying into your vision.
I started a company in 2016 offering road building in residential areas for local municipalities. I realised that there is too much risk involved and I do not have the capital to purchase machinery. The overheads are also too high. I feel more comfortable supplying municipalities with commodities. I have been in sales and have good people skills and sales experience. However, I'm struggling to get a foot in the door. Manufacturers are reluctant to give me a credit advance. As a result, I had to let go of many opportunities. How do I overcome this obstacle? — Martin
I can only speak from my own experience selling to municipalities. I did it once, successfully. This is how I did it:
- I convinced the municipality to roll out public WiFi in low-income communities.
- The municipality awarded me a contract.
- With that contract in hand I shopped around to find a company that I could sub-contract. That company had to take a risk that the municipality would pay me, and I would in turn pay him. I had to take the risk that the sub-contractor wouldn't deliver the goods.
- I found a sub-contractor.
- We deployed the WiFi.
- The municipality paid its bills.
- There was never a hint of corruption.
In retrospect I realise I was the beneficiary of a succession of benevolent miracles.
Miracle No. 1: Meeting a political leader that shared my vision and was competent.
Miracle No. 2: Getting a legitimate contract out of a municipality.
Miracle No. 3: Finding a sub-contractor I could trust, and that trusted me.
Miracle No. 4: Successfully working with the municipality to fulfil the contract.
Miracle No. 5: Getting paid by the municipality.
Miracle No. 6: Avoiding corruption.
If you believe in miracles, keep going. If you're slightly more risk-averse (or less desperate) than I was, then rather don't target municipalities to build your business.
You'll note that I solved the supplier credit problem by finding a sub-contractor that trusted me. That's the only way to do it. Not only do you have to sell the dream to the customer, you must sell the dream to the supplier. I recommend reading Shoe Dog, the story of Phil Knight and Nike.
Related: Alan Knott-Craig Answers You Questions From Business Idea To Start-up
I want to start a business, but I don't know how to approach my local bank or investors, probably because I don't have any experience in the business field. I am currently in a full-time job and holding on to the security of the monthly salary (which I know is wrong) but I have responsibilities. How do I break out? — Lorenzo
First, the security of a monthly salary is under-rated. Don't be so quick to wish it away! Of course, a salary is a long-term dead-end. When you're forced to retire at 65, you're likely to be staring at 35 years of supporting yourself and your family relying on pension and savings alone. Assuming they don't retrench you before age 65.
Be grateful for a salary, but be on the look-out for a way to make a living on your own terms.
That way you will learn skills that can be used after forced-retirement age, and even more important, you will be able to keep yourself busy rather than spending your old age pottering around the house in boredom and driving your significant other mad.
Forget about banks and investors. If you want to start a business, you must do it without 'other people's money'. Find a problem in your industry, solve that problem, get paid for solving the problem. Repeat.
Ideally find a like-minded colleague that you trust, pool your efforts and partner to find a way to make a living in your own business. Partnership massively de-risks entrepreneurship.
Related: Pay Your Dues Before Raising Capital
Alan Knott-Craig's latest book, 13 Rules for being an Entrepreneur is now available.
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5 Lessons To Follow As You Take Your Product To Market
Don't overly complicate things when launching your business. Instead, follow this advice from a successful entrepreneur so you'll do things right.
When launching a new business, product, or service, the most common mistake entrepreneurs make is trying to do too many things at once in the belief that going to market with "more" is better.
It isn't. During your initial launch period, or when relaunching new products or services, "more" means additional risk. More also means unnecessary complexity, as well as additional time to market, so more capital will be required.
Below are some important things to remember as you prepare to take your product to market:
1. Don't try to build Rome in a day
I have a good friend who raised $2 million in a very tough market to start a consumer internet business. Finding that much money to start a new business was amazing, and I congratulated him on a big win. He was ecstatic and told me he couldn't wait to get to work on the site.
One year later, I ran into him again and asked how it was going. He sang the blues. He said he was doing terribly. In fact, he was on his way to his attorney's office to shut the company down. They had launched a few months before but had already run out of money. I asked how that was possible, and he talked about his big vision, how his company aimed to provide everything their target customer could possibly want to buy in the category. Their goal was to be a one-stop shop. He and his team invested all their time and money building something big and comprehensive, confident their target customer wouldn't want to go anywhere else once their website was up and running.
When the company got started, they were solving one problem for one target customer. It was a simple concept. But when the money came in, everyone started working on other "great ideas" and "shiny objects." They kept building and building and building. They went from solving one problem for one very specific target customer to building a one-stop shop that did a lot of things for a lot of different people. Then they started running low on cash, so they decided to push the product out.
After the launch, they learned, much to their surprise, that about 95 percent of their users used just 5 percent of the site! And that 5 percent was the original product to solve the original problem.
So that means 95 percent of the time and money invested was essentially wasted. What can you learn from this?
Related: Hello Group's Initial Product Failed The Night Before Launch. Today They Are An Industry Disruptor
2. Focus on one thing, the simplest thing
When kicking off a new product or service, put all your energy and focus into that product or service. Focus on one thing at a time. It shouldn't be the hardest thing; it should be the simplest, what we'll call the minimum viable product (MVP). The MVP provides the opportunity to learn the most about your customers, with the least amount of time, money and effort.
The MVP puts you in a position to go to market quickly, collect valuable feedback and not waste time building things customers don't want. This strategy significantly mitigates your risk and helps avoid the trap my friend fell into. Remember, Amazon started just as an online bookseller.
3. Follow the 85-percent rule: Good is good enough
Striving for perfection is the enemy of any product launch. As a rule of thumb, when the new business or product is 85 percent of the way there, you're ready to go. In my experience, the level of effort required to reach 100 percent isn't worth the additional time and expense at this stage. You'd be much better off getting something into the market and beginning to test.
4. Be great at collecting, and learning from, feedback
Once you've launched, listen to and learn from your users. Develop feedback loops to learn everything you possibly can.
- What do users like and dislike about the product or service?
- What features would they like to see added to enhance their experience?
- Which features don't work or generate little interest?
Do whatever you have to do to engage with your users. That may include offering incentives to get feedback on surveys or in focus groups, reaching out on social media, or generating outbound calls to learn more.
The hardest part of this process for many entrepreneurs is to be completely receptive to what customers tell you. Given your passion and all the time you've spent on the project, you may not want to hear negative feedback. You may be inclined to think the customer just doesn't get it. But feedback is the most valuable tool you have as an entrepreneur. So listen, consider, and use what you learn to iterate, improve, or even throw out some of what you have built or planned.
Related: 3 Start-up Funding Tips To Help Launch Your Company
5. Avoid the shiny ball syndrome
As you start developing your MVP, you must fight "feature creep" at every step. You, your team, partners, and everyone else you share your vision with will have ideas about what should be added. While many of them will sound good at the time, they are instead shiny objects that distract you.
Your job is to stay focused on one thing, get it to market and then deliver the next thing. By focusing on one thing at a time, you can get to market quickly, learn a great deal about your product or service from actual customers and make changes based on their feedback And if your launch doesn't fly, you have significantly mitigated your risk.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.
How To Launch An Online Coaching Business
Cut through the noise and create a viral product.
Work from home? Control your own schedule? Impact people across the world with your product or service?
Internet marketing is on the rise for a reason. It gives you the ability to scale your business to a global level without forfeiting your personal freedom. Still, there's one question that still prevents entrepreneurs from entering the online space: "Is it really possible to make a living off the internet?"
Not only is it possible, it's lucrative when done correctly. We live in the Golden Age of internet marketing. Thanks to social media, everyone can get in front of a camera and pitch their idea to the masses. Good enough, right?
Not quite. These days a big idea will only get you started; it's what you do to bundle and package that idea that matters. Here are the three steps you need to take to launch a profitable online business.
Flesh out your idea
Of course, before you create your product, you need an idea. Your idea must solve a specific problem that a specific group of people face. Make sure you establish that before you move forward.
Now, before you begin creating your product, you need to write your sales copy. Your sales copy (or sales video, if that's what you prefer) should be enticing enough to take prospects from "I'm interested in this" to "I need to buy this now."
Related: Paddy Upton: People Centred Coaching
But, why write your sales copy before creating your product? Too many entrepreneurs write copy that promises a lot but delivers next to nothing. When you write your copy before creating your product, you build the blueprint to create a product that satisfies your customers' needs –without overpromising.
Your sales copy should address the prospect's problem, explain how your product is the solution to that problem, and include a list of bullet points that summarise the benefits of your product. Make sure you nail the first 500 words – easily the most read section of your sales copy. Finally, always create a sense of urgency or people at home won't be motivated to buy your product.
People always ask me, "Well, what if I'm not a good writer?" That's OK. Just say your pitch out loud, record it and send it to an online transcribing service. For a relatively inexpensive price, you'll get your sales copy written out for you. Just review it, copy it and paste it to your website and boom – there's your sales copy!
Build the "know, love and trust" factor
Most people believe you need to sell prospects first, then deliver results. But, what if you flip it? It's much easier to sell someone once they know, love and trust you as an authority in your space, rather than selling them on your product before they even know if you can deliver the results you're promising.
That's why the most successful internet marketers – including myself – give away boatloads of free content via blogs and videos. Granted, the stuff we give away for free could easily be packaged together into a high-priced course, but that would be short-sighted. You don't want prospects to buy from you once and move on – you want them to become long-term paying clients.
See, you deliver free quality content to your prospects, then they take it and implement it into their businesses. They start to see results in advance, which leads them to trust you more and more. Soon, they begin to crave more knowledge from you, and their willingness to pay for your products and services increases.
Eventually those prospects become your most loyal clients. They buy your front-end products, your upsells and your flagship products – all of which I'll get to in just a second. But, before you get that far, make sure your prospects know, love and trust you before you worry about selling them anything.
Create your front-end product and upsells
Once your copy is written and you're building the know, love and trust factor, your next move is to create a front-end product – a product that's easy to sell. This could be an ebook, a membership site or a course that comes with follow-along videos.
Now, you might be tempted to charge a high price for that product. Here's the thing: Most of the money is made on the back end. I'll talk more about this in a second, but for now just remember that the front-end product is not the final product you're really trying to sell them. I – along with many of my fellow internet marketers – don't mind breaking even or losing money on front-end products because I know I'll more than make my money back with my flagship product.
Instead, your aim should be to use that front-end product to upsell them instead. So, after they purchase your front-end product, offer them three different upsells. An upsell is a higher-priced product or service you offer a customer after they've bought something from you. These upsells should be done-for-you, and they should enhance the front-end product by making it easier to understand or more efficient at getting results.
Why are upsells so important? Besides adding value to your front-end product, you'll be able to recruit more affiliates to promote your business. An affiliate promotes your product to their own audience for a commission fee. If you make money through upsells, affiliates will choose to work with your business over your competitors because you can pay them higher commissions. The payoff? You get more traffic going to your webpage and ultimately more bottom line revenue.
Related: 6 Questions You Should Be Asking When Coaching
Move them to your flagship product
That's how you set up the front end of your online business. But, what about the back end? Remember I said that most of your money will be made on the back end and not the front end?
That's why you need a flagship product to pitch your clients once they're done with your front-end product. But, what in the world does a flagship product look like?
It could be high-end coaching sessions. It could be a spot in your exclusive mastermind group. It could even be a suite of software that teaches them everything they need to know about their industry. The front-end product is a way to get your clients through the door; your back-end product is the money-maker product, the one they're more likely to buy once they've already purchased something from you.
I'll give you an example. People will often find my products online. Usually when they finish using those products, they're still hungry for more knowledge and advice. At this point, they're considered qualified leads for my mastermind program, so we make sure they know about that programme and how to become a member of it.
That leaves you with one problem: How do you send marketing emails to every single person that buys your front-end product/upsells? It's basically impossible, unless you're in front of your computer screen 24/7 (which I'm sure you're not). Fear not, because it's actually easy to do when you use an auto-responder system to send out all those emails on your behalf.
It's simple: When your clients purchase your front-end product, the system automatically sends them emails from you. That way, you can build a sequence where you give away even more of your best free content before sending them an offer for your flagship product. By the time they get to your flagship product, they'll be so confident in your expertise and results that they happily pay the higher price for your higher level of service.
That's the simple science behind converting your prospects into clients, and your clients into fiercely loyal clients. It's how you sell your highest-priced online programmes without running into any of the typical sales objections. Follow these three steps and start building your own online business empire today.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.


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Things are going crazy in Sant'Agata, otherwise known as Lamborghini's hometown.
The Italian automaker just might be going off its rocker. I'm all for a slick white Gallardo or murdered-out black Murcielago, but some recent designs coming from the Raging Bull are leaving a lot of people with dropped jaws and shaking heads.
Lamborghini has always existed on the edge of what is acceptable for automotive design. Stark angles and heavy creases have defined the brand for the last few generations of cars, but that's recently been taken to a whole new level.
The results of these changes seem to cross the line of cool and wade into the dangerous waters of the comical.
If a 14-year-old Halo-obsessed car fanatic were asked to create an extreme Lamborghini, the results would probably look something like the new Egoista concept. It's an exaggerated parody of all that makes Lamborghini, well, Lamborghini.
Even the name seems like a joke in poor taste. The Egoista is a 50th birthday present, of sorts, from Lamborghini to itself. The car has only one seat, enough to barely fit one egomaniac. I say "barely" because even getting in and out of the car requires a challenging multi-step process. More on that in a second.
The Egoista's extreme design is said to be modeled after an Apache helicopter, but it looks more like a failed Matchbox experiment. Part Star Wars ship, part F1 racer and part industrial blower, the Egoista embodies the selfish ways of a wealthy single egomaniac. As fast as the car will be, with its 5.2-liter V10 engine, the driver had better hope he never needs to make a quick escape. According to Lambo's press release, getting out of the car requires some heavy maneuvering.
to get out of the vehicle, the driver must remove the steering wheel and rest it on the dashboard, open the dome with an electronic command, stand up in their seat, sit down on a precise point of the left-hand bodywork, then swivel their legs 180 degrees from the inside of the cockpit to the outside of the vehicle. at this point they can set their feet down and stand up. [sic]
Maybe Lamborghini designed the car that way so as to at least try to limit the egotism of its driver. Sounds like mastering the art of exit and entry won't exactly be an exercise in grace!
Would it be good or bad if the Egoista signals the coming design strategy for Lamborghini?


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BOSTON -- Two members of Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether a specialty pharmacy linked to a nationwide meningitis outbreak violated any federal laws or regulations.
The number of illnesses associated with contaminated steroid shots distributed by New England Compounding Center climbed to 233 in 15 states, the Centers for Disease Control reported Tuesday. Fifteen people have died.
Criminal investigators from the Food and Drug Administration were at the Framingham company Tuesday, company spokesman Andrew Paven said. He had no further comment.
FDA spokesman Steven Immergut said the investigators were there as part of the broad investigation by several state and federal agencies into the outbreak.
Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz confirmed that her office is part of the investigation. "I think that it is entirely premature to suggest what the results of the investigation will be," she said.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department that the list of products recalled by the company appears to include controlled substances that fall under the jurisdiction of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
The DEA requires pharmacies that sell or compound controlled substances to be registered with the agency, which NECC was not, Markey wrote. He added that the rules only allow pharmacies to sell controlled substances directly to patients with specific prescriptions unless the pharmacy registers with the DEA as a manufacturer or supplier.
"This is a matter that I believe requires further investigation by the DEA to ensure that this facility, already believed to have broken Massachusetts state law, has not also skirted federal law related to controlled substances," said Markey, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee in whose district the Framingham, Mass., company is located.
Gov. Deval Patrick said last week that NECC might have misled regulators and done work beyond the scope of its state license. Federal and state investigators have said they have found fungus in more than 50 vials from the company, but they have not said whether they have pinpointed the source of the contamination.
In a recent letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, also called for a criminal investigation of the company, its officers and employees, pointing to reports that NECC "may have flagrantly and blatantly violated both state and federal law."
The Justice Department in Washington had no immediate comment on the letters.
NECC, in a statement, did not directly respond to the legislators but said it was cooperating with ongoing probes by other agencies.
"We continue to cooperate with the FDA, as we are with the CDC and the Board of Registration in Pharmacy of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. As we have said, we will respect those public agencies' processes for investigations and will not comment while they are underway," the company said.
The CDC said Tuesday that 231 of the reported illnesses were cases of fungal meningitis linked to shots for back pain and two others were nonfatal joint infections.
Markey also planned to file legislation that he said would strengthen the FDA's oversight of compounding agencies and tighten gaps in federal regulations.


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Benn Steil – The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
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When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account.
A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn, The Battle of Bretton Woods is destined to become a classic of economic and political history.
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If you experience any of the following issues, it is likely you are not connected to the Internet.
- You encounter issues sending or receiving messages or downloading media.
- You see a clock next to sent messages.
- You see Unknown under your Account expiration (to check: open WhatsApp and tap More > settings > account).
- You have a problem updating your profile picture, status or favorites list.
Basic troubleshooting
- Confirm you are using the latest version of WhatsApp Messenger from the Store.
- Make sure you have a data plan with your carrier's network or a Wi-Fi connection with a working Internet access.
Important: To use WhatsApp on a Windows Phone, it is important to have a data plan. Wi-Fi only devices may encounter problems.
- Make sure your device is within a coverage area supported by your mobile carrier or Wi-Fi network. The connection should be stable and reliable.
- Reboot your phone (power down, wait 30 seconds, power up).
Further troubleshooting
Some carriers commonly have issues with WhatsApp on Windows Phone, even if the app works on other platforms. If websites and other apps are working but WhatsApp cannot connect, it is possible your network configuration does not permit the type of connections (socket or non-HTTP connections) necessary for WhatsApp.
Please check the following:
- Check your carrier's Access Point Name (APN) settings. There may be a different APN your carrier allows for non-HTTP connections like WhatsApp. To find out how to change the APN settings on your device, please visit here for: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8. After you change the APN settings, please be sure to reboot your phone for the changes to take effect.
- If you have a Windows Phone made by Nokia, try using the Connection Setup app from the Nokia Collection in the Store (this application may not be available in some countries).
For issues with receiving notifications for WhatsApp messages, read this article.
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Spring roster is up. http://woffordterriers.com/roster.aspx?path=football
No real surprises with it. Vaughn is back (a very good thing) but Nick Ward is not. I think he graduated and is attending Sam Houston State for grad school and playing ball there to exhaust his eligibility.
I didn't realize it but we basically lost our second DL wave of Cornellier, Bryant (who had a great career and was a force in the playoffs), and Boudreaux. Lots of playing time available on DL for those on roster and incoming freshman.
I expect many recruiting starters to be limited in spring practice due to off season surgery and rehab (Patterson, McAfee, Watson, etc).
It will be critical to get OL gelled without Warhby, Miller, Jones, Way.
Sure hope we don't go live on our 2 QBs.


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The New Clear Threat
A hundred millennia from now, perhaps a new civilization will have arisen atop the remains of the civilization we now know. And as this new society explores the land and its secrets, at the base of what we call Yucca Mountain, Nevada, it may stumble on artifacts that warn-in as universal a way as was conceivable to the humans that lived before-that those who find these markers should stay away.
Why? Because under that mountain, there will be some 100,000 tons of still-active nuclear waste sitting in barrels-and by then, even in the absence of any geological upheavals in the intervening thousand centuries, about 1 percent of that lethal material (as now estimated by the U.S. Department of Energy) will have leaked out and may have entered the groundwater, creating a spreading plume of contamination.
Of course, we cannot predict what will happen geologically, biologically, or sociologically in 100,000 years. But atomic waste is collecting at 131 minimally secured sites in the United States-and many others around the world-and the need to contain the threat continues to mount.
In fact, we are finally coming to realize that securing nuclear waste is an essential step in improving environmental and global security. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the control mechanisms that regulated its stockpiled nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have withered. Between the 1.5 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium that are generated each year by Russian nuclear power plants, the tactical nuclear weapons and radioisotope thermal generators that are easily transportable and poorly secured, and the thousands of underemployed weapons scientists, the threat nuclear materials pose to the world's people and environment has become undeniable.
Fortunately, at least in Russia, there is movement to secure WMD and component materials. In 1991, soon after the end of the Cold War, Russia agreed to allow the United States to help secure and decommission part of its arsenal. Under the leadership of U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, the Cooperative Threat Reduction program was enacted, and over the course of a decade it has destroyed over 6,000 nuclear warheads, helped to increase security at 40 percent of the facilities housing nuclear materials, and employed tens of thousands of weapons scientists in peaceful pursuits.
More importantly, as Senator Lugar notes (see sidebar), there is great potential to expand this initiative multilaterally. That would increase the speed and effectiveness of the program and help build the political cooperation needed to eventually phase out WMD, but at the same time would help prepare the global community for any eventuality of their ever being used.
While we may be able to secure these deadly materials in the short run, our civilization is still in its infancy. Governments come and go, empires rise and fall. How can we find a system to contain materials that will last 50 times longer than our recorded history? We don't even have materials that will last this long, except, of course, the ones we're trying to contain. The goal must be to avoid creating any more waste in the first place. Yet how do we do this when 17 percent of the world's electricity comes from nuclear power, using more than 65,000 tons of uranium per year?
Many governments have concluded that, contrary to the claims of nuclear industry advocates, nuclear power is not safe, economical, or pollution-free-and they are starting to phase out this hubristic technology. Belgium, which gets 58 percent of its energy from nuclear power, has introduced legislation that would phase out nuclear power by 2025. Nuclear power plants won't last forever; in the United States their initial licenses are for 40 years. Even with license extensions, if the other 31 nuclear countries were to agree to build no more reactors (and several have agreed already), we could be ushering in a nuclear-free world by mid-century. However, some governments have proposed new construction. In the United States, where no new reactor has been ordered in 25 years, the Energy Department in 2001 released a report promoting the construction of at least one new plant by 2010 and an estimated 50 more by 2020.
While proponents of nuclear power argue that it is a cheap and clean alternative to fossil fuels because it does not produce air pollution, nuclear energy is not a viable alternative to renewable energy. Besides creating waste that remains lethal for millennia, nuclear power costs two to three times more than wind power (10-14 cents per kilowatthour, compared to 4-6 cents). It is also a massive environmental and security threat. In 2002, at the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio, boric acid ate a hole through the 17-cm thick reactor vessel head. Just half a centimeter of stainless steel prevented the escape of pressurized coolant, which could have triggered a reactor meltdown. In addition, nuclear plants are often unsecured against terrorist attack. In January, 19 Greenpeace activists stormed the U.K.'s Sizewell power plant, scaling the reactor without resistance. The goal was simply to expose the plant's vulnerability, but if the intruders had been actual terrorists the result would have been catastrophic. Finally, nuclear materials have also been known to disappear, and not just in Russia; early this year, the Japanese government admitted that it could not account for 206 kilograms of plutonium-enough to make 30 to 40 bombs.
With the threat of climate change upon us, it is obvious that we need to move away from fossil fuels. But we also need to follow the example of Germany and reject the nuclear option in favor of renewable resources like wind and solar power. Germany only began a serious transition to renewables 10 years ago but is now the leading global producer of wind power. This industry has been an economic and ecological boon, generating clean and cheap energy and 40,000 jobs (compared to 38,000 in the entire German nuclear industry, which still produces six times the energy that wind energy does). And wind turbines and solar panels, which are decentralized and inert, make poor terrorist targets. If we are to secure our future, we must secure current stores of nuclear materials as well as ensure that we don't produce any more of them.
Richard Lugar, on Increasing Security by Expanding Nonproliferation
In 1991, Senator Sam Nunn and I pushed a bill through Congress that began a sustained American effort to assist states of the former Soviet Union in safeguarding and destroying their enormous stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Our argument was straightforward: with the Russian economy crumbling, the huge Soviet arsenal had to be secured, or weapons and materials of mass destruction inevitably would be stolen, sold, or diverted with disastrous consequences to U.S. national security.
Eleven years ago, when the Nunn-Lugar [Cooperative Threat Reduction] program was conceived, the terrorist threat was real, but vague. Now we live in an era when catastrophic terrorism using weapons of mass destruction is our foremost security concern. We must not only accelerate weapons dismantlement efforts in Russia, we must broaden our capability to address proliferation risks in other countries and build a global coalition to support such efforts.
On June 27, 2002, leaders of G-8 member states agreed to participate in a "Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction." The agreement pledges the United States to spend $10 billion toward WMD dismantlement efforts over the next 10 years. Similarly it commits the other G-8 nations as a group to spend $10 billion for the same purpose [the "10 Plus 10 Over 10" agreement]. If the agreement were fully implemented it would double the resources currently being expended on the broad range of Nunn-Lugar-style programs.
At a time when some U.S. allies and their populations are skeptical of military approaches to combating terrorism, the 10-Plus-10 formula offers a nonmilitary means through which they can have a profound impact on preventing catastrophic terrorism. Although 10-Plus-10 is a G-8 initiative, it welcomes participation by other countries outside the G-8. If other states were to become involved, additional resources and expertise could be devoted to disarmament and a truly global coalition devoted to preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction could be built. The agreement envisions that some projects may go beyond weapons dismantlement efforts to include counterterrorism, nuclear safety, and containing environmental damage.
The Nunn-Lugar program provides a model for international action and could coordinate assistance for those nations seeking help in securing or destroying weapons or dangerous materials. It would create international standards of accountability for protecting and handling nuclear materials and deadly pathogens. It would help organize international pressure on states to comply with those standards. Coalition members could also develop cooperative procedures for coming to the aid of victims of nuclear, biological, or chemical terrorism.
Our ultimate goal should be to build on the Nunn-Lugar success by constructing a global coalition to safeguard nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons and their component materials and technology. The real question is whether there exists sufficient political will to devote the requisite resources and attention to these programs. If we are to block terrorist acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, vision, statesmanship, and patience will be required over many years.
U.S. Senator Richard Lugar is Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His full article can be read in the December 2002 issue of Arms Control Today available at www.armscontrol.org.


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edit: BTW did you manage to get it working?
BTW I don't know if anyone would be interested in this, but I have found that the RF22 library is not compatible with timer based hardware servos. Very weird and hard to debug. It is because the interrupt driven read function takes too long, messing up servo PWM timings. I had to modify the library quite a bit, but now I have hardware servos! If anyone else have problems with the servo library I'll let you know what to change.
I'd be interested in buying a booster pcb from you (same layout as Melih for the same chip), maybe if you could design it in a way that the resistors, caps, diodes, etc would be of a bigger size, for easier diy work...Do you manufacture these pcbs by yourself?
Can you upload your modifyed library or explain here what to change? Did you solved the glitches issue with this mod?
Quote from: Dfidalgo on Apr 12, 2012, 01:18 pmte]Edit: Important notice, please make sure that you can find a 5V source on your radio, this board does not have a voltage regulator for the arduino, so you can not power it direct from your TX battery. Well, my TX is a Graupner MC-19, I think that a LM7805 can solve the problem dont? Anyway, I do intent to use your tx uhf with a joystick that generates the ppm signal from another arduino (details here: http://www.ianjohnston.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30:project-rc-ppm-trainer-port-joystick) I have done this on my homemade console that you can see here at work:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUw7Lfdme4The joystick will be a old but cool "Top Gun" , and a pair of old T2m rudder pedals, all for FPV obviously.
te]Edit: Important notice, please make sure that you can find a 5V source on your radio, this board does not have a voltage regulator for the arduino, so you can not power it direct from your TX battery.
Yeah except I really don't know much about RF design... If I tried to make one of those high power amps it would probably catch fire!
The joystick will be a old but cool "Top Gun" , and a pair of old T2m rudder pedals, all for FPV obviously.
No need to worry about that since at would be runing it at 1/7 of its total output power and in such conditions you dont even need a heatsink for the chip..
One step at a time, let me get this simple board working properly first!
In the meantime I'd like to ask you, which vreg could be a suitable replacement for the one Melih uses - mic5205...I read the datasheet and saw it has a really low dropout voltage or something like that..Is there any other which has a low dropout voltage but a higher maximum current?So you use LM1117?Regarding Melihs design besides powering the atmega and rfm22, does anything else use power (maybe the driving of the servos? and if so do they use such a small amount)? Because that mic5205 has a small max current..Thanks!
The RF22 only draws 85mA at full power, plus maybe 20mA for the atmega. Also the transmission only happens in quick bursts so it's not always on. The mic5205 should be plenty, since servos are powered separately from the BEC. I think any regulator will work as long as the drop out voltage is not much more than 1V, obviously lower is better to prevent brownouts.
Thanks! you gave a very clear answer ...Why does flytrons TX module have 2 vregs, mic5205 and a LM2937?
What you think about a integration of the RFM12BP with your circuit in the future? Seems to be very similar to rfm22 but with 500mw. It is possible without modifications on your code?


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One of the funniest things to happen to me since I started writing this blog was seeing people quote me on totally different forums...and then use my point here to argue with me there. The best example was over at Elitist Jerks.
I still chuckle about that one.
The next step, of course, is that someone is going to use a previous blog point to argue with me and be right.
I try to be consistent with my names through various forums or make sure that people know it's me here and there, but just in case there's any confusion, here's who I am.
I'm Kalon. That's my real name. I'd like to say that it has some awesome historical context, but honestly the story is that my mom was a hippie in the 70s and thought it sounded cool.
On a lot of forums out there, I go as kalbear. That includes EJ, the ASOIAF forums, and even Television Without Pity. You can even find some of my old guides for D2 Assassins if you look hard enough.
On the official wow forums, I try and stick with Felhoof. Sometimes I'll go with Failhoof (my DK, name thanks to my raid leader), and on the test realms I go with Feltest.
So, if you see one of those people quoting something from here, or you see one of them arguing a point - it's me. :)
Monday, December 29, 2008
[General] Who I am...ON THE INTARWEBS
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Heh, I'm pretty sure I referenced you in one of the threads you discussed over on the official forums. But I think I got the point right.
Then again, the clueless usually do.
- December 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM
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That is an interesting name, my friend. ^^ My mum wasn't a hippie but I got named after a romance novel heroine.
I don't think I've ever quoted you but you are my go to guy for your gear list and burr advice.
- December 29, 2008 at 11:21 PM
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