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Cracking the Computer Forensics Mystery
by Christopher Wall and Jason Paroff1
Only a few short years ago, the term "computer forensics" was a mystery to most attorneys. In the digital age, however, attorneys are discovering that a basic understanding of "computer forensics" and computer forensic protocol is crucial in both civil and criminal lawsuits. Without a doubt, most information generated today is stored electronically. In 2002, approximately 5 exabytes of new information was stored in print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media. 92% of that information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disk drives.2 Because of the increasing trend toward creating and using electronic documents, the computer is becoming a vital point of investigation in almost every case. Computer forensics can be essential in uncovering twenty-first century evidence.
A recent Minnesota sexual harassment and whistleblower case is a good example of how computer forensics technology can be used to solve a discovery mystery.3 In Anderson v. Crossroads Capital Partners, L.L.C., the court ordered the plaintiff to furnish the defendant with copies of all relevant documents that existed on the plaintiff's personal computer, including deleted or corrupted files. Pursuant to the judge's order, the defendant's computer forensic expert examined the plaintiff's hard drive and discovered that a data wiping software application had been installed after plaintiff had agreed not to "delete any existing documents." The court noted that the plaintiff's "exceedingly tedious and disingenuous claim of naivete' regarding her failure to produce the requested discovery...defies the bounds of reason" and issued an adverse inference jury instruction because the plaintiff intentionally destroyed evidence and attempted to suppress the truth. Anderson is just one example of the ever growing host of cases in which a computer forensic examination and expert have helped decipher electronic evidence enigmas.4
Computer Forensics 101: What is Computer Forensics?
A. Defining Computer Forensics
Computer forensics is the "who, what, when, and howÓ of electronic evidence. Typically narrow in scope, it attempts to reconstruct events, focusing on the computer-based conduct of an individual or group of individuals. The types of cases involving computer forensics are numerous and varied - from the personal (i.e. locating hidden assets in a messy divorce case), to the political (i.e. investigating alleged misuse of government computers for political gain), to the dramatic (i.e. "What was your client's former employee downloading from the Internet before he was fired and brought suit for wrongful termination?").
According to the Sedona Conference, a legal and political think tank founded for the purpose of establishing reasonable standards and principles for handling electronic evidence, "computer forensics is the use of specialized techniques for recovery, authentication, and analysis of electronic data when a case involves issues relating to reconstruction of computer usage, examination of residual data, authentication of data by technical analysis or explanation of technical features of data and computer usage. Computer forensics requires specialized expertise that goes beyond normal data collection and preservation techniques available to end-users or system support personnel."5
At the heart of computer forensics is the idea that within the electronic realm of evidence, delete does not really mean delete. The investigations into Enron's accounting irregularities illustrate how persistent deleted information can be. Weeks before Enron filed for bankruptcy, it became apparent that several major financial institutions had helped Enron manipulate its numbers and mislead investors with secret loans. During the subsequent investigations, one piece of evidence that received broad attention was an internal e-mail at JP Morgan Chase that described one of these secret loans called a "prepay." The email chain began, "Enron loves these deals as they are able to hide funded debt from their equity analysts because they (at the very least) book it as deferred [revenue] or (better yet) bury it in their trading liabilities." Another internal e-mail expressed concern: "Five [billion] in prepays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The reply? "Shut up and delete this email."6 JP Morgan's employees apparently were not aware of what some courts have said about deleted email. According to one court, "Technically, email messages are permanently recorded since 'most email programs keep copies of every message a user ever wrote, every message the user ever received, and every message the user deleted.'...'A deleted file is really not a deleted file, it is merely organized differently.'"7
Indeed, where relevant information can be expected to be located, deleted data can be recovered and the results of the forensic analysis can often yield a potential treasure trove of information. Regardless of whether the information is beneficial or detrimental, counsel can best assess the merits of the case the earlier he or she knows about it.
B. The Computer Forensics Process
Given the wealth of electronic information available to individuals and corporations today, laptop and desktop hard drives or networked servers and backups are often the best place to begin collecting potential evidence. An investigation involving computer forensics typically begins by making a bit-by-bit image or copy of the hard drive or electronic media in question, thereby preserving the integrity of the original media. This image of the data includes all of the unused and partially overwritten spaces on the electronic media where important evidence may reside. When properly done, a forensically sound image does not alter the information on the original hard drive or electronic media.
Once the forensic image has been made, a computer forensic expert can search for active data (data that was immediately accessible to an individual using the computer when the image was made), recovered data (files and directories that were recovered after they had been deleted), and unused space (portions of the media that are either "free" because they have never been used or because the information contained there has been deleted, and the computer has marked that space as available for use by new information).
II. Computer Forensics Case Law: Civil and Criminal Crackdowns
In the twenty-first century, the legal community is recognizing the significant evidentiary role that computers play in civil and criminal cases. Because of rapid advances in technology, case law and legislation dealing with computer forensics is changing daily. Some of the important computer forensic case law in both criminal and civil cases includes cases dealing with cyber sabotage, email investigations, deleted data, Internet activity, and spoliation.
A. Cyber Sabotage
Because computer crimes are increasing at alarming rates, law enforcement officers, investigators, lawyers and judges are increasingly barraged with technical issues. Accordingly, an understanding of current computer forensics law is vital in offering accurate and thorough computer expert testimony. In a 2001 case, U.S. v. Lloyd, testimony by computer experts led to the conviction of an individual charged with a modern "cyber-crime."8 Without testimony from the computer experts, evidence of the computer "time bomb" that sabotaged operations at an engineering company would not have been recovered.
B. Email Investigations
Perhaps more than any other technological innovation, email has become an integral part of daily activity and electronic discovery. As such, computer forensic engineers are regularly called upon to investigate and analyze email communication. United States v. Bach, a child pornography case, illustrates precisely how computer forensics can be used where email is at issue.9 Pursuant to a search warrant, Yahoo! computer experts retrieved all of the information contained in the defendant's email account. Because police were not present when the defendant's email account was searched, the lower court ruled that the seizure of the emails by Yahoo! was unlawful. The appellate court reversed the lower court decision, finding that Yahoo!'s search of the defendant's email account without a police officer present was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment and did not violate the defendant's privacy rights.
C. Deleted Data
Unless steps are taken to hide or remove deleted data more permanently, computer forensic engineers can recover and examine deleted information. And lest counsel think that the deleted information is not subject to discovery, significant case law suggests the opposite.10 The case law, both at the State and Federal level, is full of civil and criminal decisions where the individual quite clearly failed to understand that the "delete" key on the keyboard is not the equivalent of a paper shredder.
For example, in United States v. Tucker, Utah District Court Judge Campbell found Jeffrey Tucker guilty of knowingly possessing child pornography.11 Computer forensic evidence gathered from deleted Internet cache files that still resided on Tucker's hard drive, even after being deleted, were an integral part of the case against him. The cache files were stored on his hard drive when he visited various websites containing child pornography. Even though the files had been deleted, they were still recoverable by a computer forensics expert. Cases like Tucker illustrate how critical computer forensics can be in finding seemingly deleted data.12
D. Internet Activity
Computer forensics can also play a vital role in criminal investigations. State v. Guthrie, a case dealing with a criminal prosecution for murder, is a good example.13 In Guthrie, a preacher's wife was found dead in the bathtub, a victim of an apparent suicide. Suspicious of the apparent suicide, investigators began looking into the case. Shortly thereafter, a suicide note appeared. Investigators enlisted the aid of a computer forensics expert, who discovered that Guthrie's computers at home and at church had been used to conduct numerous Internet searches on subjects related to bathroom deaths. Additionally, the forensic analysis revealed that the computer-printed suicide note, offered to exculpate the defendant, was created several months after the victim's death. Needless to say, Mr. Guthrie now finds himself preaching to a congregation of a different stripe.
E. Spoliation of E-Evidence
Courts will not hesitate to admonish or sanction parties for bad faith maneuvering, rule violations, and negligent or intentional spoliation. Sanctions for such conduct have included adverse inferences or presumptions, preclusion of evidence, monetary sanctions, and dismissal or default. Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen demonstrates that Utah courts are not hesitant to impose sanctions for electronic discovery violations.14 Procter & Gamble was an unfair competition case in which the defendant moved for sanctions, alleging that the plaintiff violated its duty to preserve relevant email communications of five key employees. Finding that the plaintiff breached its duty to preserve, the court sanctioned the plaintiff $2,000 - $10,000 for each of the five employees. The court also granted the defendant's motion to dismiss the case without prejudice, since the plaintiff failed to preserve relevant electronic data that it knew was critical to the case. The court determined that the plaintiff's violation of four separate discovery orders made defending the case "basically impossible" since the crucial electronic evidence was apparently no longer available.
An Illinois federal district court also imposed sanctions for deleting electronic evidence in a recent patent infringement case, Kucala Enters. Ltd. v. Auto Wax Co.15 Based on digital clues left on the hard drive, computer forensic experts were able to determine that the plaintiff used "Evidence Eliminator," a software wiping utility, to delete and overwrite over 12,000 electronic files. An expert further determined that 3,000 additional files had been deleted and overwritten three days earlier. Although there was no clear indication that relevant evidence existed among the destroyed files, the court described the plaintiff's actions as "egregious conduct" and emphasized the plaintiff's apparent intent to destroy evidence that it had a duty to maintain. The magistrate judge recommended to the district court that the plaintiff's case be dismissed with prejudice and that the plaintiff be ordered to pay the defendant's attorney fees and costs incurred in defending the motion.
As Procter & Gamble and Kucala illustrate, courts will not hesitate to impose sanctions for intentional or negligent spoliation of electronic documents. Spoliation cases dealing with electronic evidence are legion, and the cases cited here are but a sampling of how some courts are dealing with the issue.16
III. Computer Forensics Best Practices: Decoding the Computer Forensics Mystery
When it comes to gathering and searching computer data for relevant information, many attorneys may feel inexperienced. Multiple computer systems may be involved, each of which may contain hundreds of gigabytes of data or more. Complicating matters, many different types of computers may also be involved, and each can contain a different operating system (i.e. Windows, Macintosh, Linux, etc.) or serve unique functions (i.e. email, database, file/print/antivirus server, etc.). Each may require different handling methods in order to effectively retrieve, copy, and search the data they possess. Listed below are three basic guidelines that counsel and their clients should follow when facing a computer forensics issue in litigation.
A. Clueing in on the Computer Forensics Process
When retrieving electronic data, the following steps should be taken: (1) consultation with clients and computer forensic experts, (2) data preservation, (3) data collection, (4) data recovery and analysis, and (5) expert testimony and reporting.
First, an attorney should consult with the client and a computer forensic expert to create a strategy for collecting, analyzing, and processing the data. The strategy may include analysis of where the critical information could exist as well as the identification of properly qualified individuals to perform the work.
Next, attorneys should take proper precautions to preserve data. In many cases, a computer forensics expert using industry best practices will first make a mirror image, which is a bit-by-bit copy of a hard drive that ensures the computer system is not altered during the imaging process. Additionally, the expert will ensure that no possible evidence is damaged and that no computer viruses are introduced. Techniques that are generally understood within the industry and are considered to be reliable must be established for the handling of data. Though not an exhaustive list by any means, examples include chain-of-custody control, protection from magnetic fields and other dangers that can damage data, mirror imaging, and duplication techniques that do not alter the data and can verify that an exact copy was obtained, and analysis tools that accurately convey the information being reviewed.
Once the relevant data has been identified, a computer forensic expert can retrieve data from virtually all storage media and operating systems, including legacy and obsolete hardware systems. During the data recovery process, the expert will recover active data, deleted data, and/or email and access inactive and unused data storage areas. Finally, a computer forensic expert can help win a client's case by offering expert testimony and reporting. The expert can customize reports about the data collected and produced to support the case, provide data for affidavits or other pleadings, and provide expert testimony at a trial or hearing.
B. Hiring a Cybersleuth
Computer forensic investigators must have advanced computer knowledge, with specialized data recovery and computer investigation analysis skills. Ideally, such experts should have some formalized training such as law enforcement training courses offered by large departments and agencies and certification courses offered by recognized private sector companies. Not every computer forensics specialist has deep systems knowledge, and most information technology specialists know little about computer forensics procedures. The needs of a client can be broad, and often a team of individuals with different skill sets may be required to effectively handle a case heading for, or involving, litigation.
Reliable techniques and protocols may include:
* Recreating a specific chain of events or user activity, including Internet activity, email communication, file deletion, etc.;
* Searching for key words and dates and determining what resulting data is relevant;
* Searching for copies of previous document drafts;
* Searching for potentially privileged information;
* Searching for the existence of certain programs such as file wiping programs; or
* Authenticating data files and the date and time stamps of those files.
A forensic expert's job does not necessarily end with recovering a lost or deleted "smoking gun" document. Often, the expert can also determine whether an electronic file has been tampered with, altered, damaged or removed. In essence, the expert can help recreate a course of events relating to the primary user of the computer in question as if the hard drive itself were the scene of a crime or event. Once that analysis is complete, the computer forensic expert can provide expert reporting and testimony to assist the court, counsel, or the fact finder in resolving a case.
C. Solving the Computer Forensics Mystery in Court
People have been known to falsify evidence, alter it, or attribute it as something other than what it really is. As a result, courts have a right (and an obligation) to question the validity of electronic evidence. Maintaining a "chain of custody" on pieces of relevant media is the best way to proactively ensure admission of the data into evidence at trial. A proper chain of custody ensures the reliability of evidence and minimizes any risk that evidence was changed, altered, or modified from its original form on the hard drive.
When called to testify, a computer forensics expert might be asked the following questions and provide the following hypothetical responses:
1. What is the evidence, or what does it purport to be?
Forensics Expert: "This is a printout of data that I recovered on 1/1/04 from the hard disk drive primarily used by John Doe of the Acme Corporation."
2. Where did it allegedly come from?
Forensics Expert: "The hard drive was taken from the office of John Doe on 12/15/03. It was contained within a Generic PC bearing model XXXX and S/N YYYY."
3. Who created, discovered, or recovered it?
Forensics Expert: "The data appears to have been created by John Doe. I discovered and recovered it from his hard disk drive using computer forensic techniques."
4. How was it created, discovered, or recovered?
Forensics Expert: "I made an image of the hard disk drive using a forensic imaging device. This device is designed to make a perfect copy of a disk and does not alter the data on the disk being copied."
5. Were there any material changes, alterations, or modifications during the recovery of the evidence such that it may no longer be what it once was?
Forensics Expert: "No. Our processes as well as the tools that we use are designed to ensure that no changes whatsoever occur to the original media and data we work on. We use write-blocking devices as an extra precaution in this regard. We test our tools, both software and hardware in order to validate that no changes are made to the original media, and to insure that a perfect image is made of that media."
6. What has happened to it since the time it was created, discovered, or recovered? Is there any chance that the evidence was changed, altered, or modified between the time you imaged the drive and today?
Forensics Expert: "Here is our 'chain of custody' documentation which indicates where the media has been, whose possession it has been in, and the reason for that possession. There is no chance that during that time any of the evidence was changed/ altered/modified from the form in which it existed on the drive that we imaged on 12/15/03."
After a computer expert is able to verify the authenticity and reliability of the evidence, a court is well within its province to admit the evidence for consideration by a jury. Accordingly, an attorney will be in the best position to argue to the judge or jury the weight that should be given to the evidence. Just as the computer has become essential in modern times, computer forensic evidence is becoming a crucial aspect of many investigations and legal matters. A solid understanding of electronic evidence concepts will help attorneys solve any computer forensics mystery.
1. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Charity J. Delich, Kroll Ontrack Electronic Evidence Law Clerk and second year law student at William Mitchell College of Law.
2. Ninety-two percent of new information is stored on magnetic media, primarily hard disks. Film represents 7% of the total, paper 0.01%, and optical media 0.002%. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/ research/projects/how-much-info-2003/ execsum.htm#summary
3. Anderson v. Crossroads Capital Partners, L.L.C., 2004 WL 256512 (D.Minn. Feb. 10, 2004).
4. See, e.g., In re Lorazepam and Clorazepate Antitrust Litig. v. Mylan Lab., Inc., 300 F.Supp.2d 43 (D.D.C. 2004) (requiring Plaintiff to take CD-ROMs to a computer forensic expert); Physicians Interactive v. Lathian Sys., Inc., 2003 WL 23018270 (E.D.Va. Dec. 5, 2003) (directing that discovery must be done with the assistance of a computer forensic expert); Playboy Enters., Inc. v. Welles, 60 F. Supp.2d 1050 (S.D. Cal. 1999) (appointing a computer expert who specialized in the field of electronic discovery to create a "mirror imageÓ of Defendant"s hard drive).
5. The Sedona Principles: Best Practices, Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Discovery (Sedona ConferenceSM Working Group Series 2004). http://www.thesedonaconference.org
6. Brown, Gary M. "Senate Investigator to Enron's Lawyers: It's Not Over." Corporate Board Magazine, Special Legal Issue, 2003. http://www.boardmember.com/issues/ archive.pl?article_id=11523
7. State v. Townsend, 57 P.3d 255 (Wash. 2002) (Bridge, J. concurring).
8. United States v. Lloyd, 269 F.3d 228 (3rd Cir. 2001).
9. United States v. Bach, 310 F.3d 1063 (8th Cir. 2002).
10. See, e.g., Dodge, Warren, & Peters Ins. Servs. v. Riley, 130 Cal.Rptr.2d 385 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003) (ordering Defendants to allow a court-appointed expert to copy the data, recover lost or deleted files, and perform automated searches of the evidence under guidelines agreed to by the parties or established by the court); Simon Property Group v.mySimon, Inc., 194 F.R.D. 639 (S.D. Ind. 2000) (requesting party should have access to active and deleted data alike); Caldera, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 72 F. Supp. 2d 1295 (D. Utah 1999) (finding that a series of intra-company emails offered "direct evidence" that the corporation was actively trying to destroy a competitor).
11. United States v. Tucker, 150 F. Supp. 2d 1263 (D. Utah 2001). See also, United States v. Tucker, 305 F.3d 1193 (10th Cir. 2002).
12. See, e.g., State v. Townsend, 57 P.3d 255 (Wash. 2002) (Bridge, J. concurring) (court affirmed that deleted information is fully discoverable if relevant).
13. State v. Guthrie, 654 N.W.2d 201 (S.D. 2002).
14. Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen, 179 F.R.D. 622 (D.Utah 1998), rev'd on other grounds, 222 F.3d 1262 (10th Cir. 2000). See also, Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen, 2003 WL 22080734 (D.Utah Aug. 19, 2003).
15. Kucala Enters. Ltd. v. Auto Wax Co., 2003 WL 22433095 (N.D.Ill. Oct. 27, 2003). See also, Kucala Enters., Ltd. v. Auto Wax Co., 2003 WL 21230605 (N.D.Ill. May 27, 2003).
16. Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen, 179 F.R.D. 622 (D.Utah 1998), rev'd on other grounds, 222 F.3d 1262 (10th Cir. 2000) (where Plaintiff's breached its discovery duties, court imposed $10,000 in sanctions - $2,000 for each of the five custodians); see also Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen, 2003 WL 22080734 (D.Utah Aug. 19, 2003) (granting Defendant's motion to dismiss with prejudice where the Plaintiff failed to preserve relevant electronic data that Plaintiff knew was critical to the case, violating four separate discovery orders requiring production of the data); Anderson v. Crossroads Capital Partners, L.L.C., 2004 WL 256512 (D.Minn. Feb. 10, 2004) (granting adverse inference jury instruction because the Plaintiff intentionally destroyed potentially damaging evidence); Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, 2003 WL 22410619 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 22, 2003) (ordering Defendant to bear the Plaintiff's costs for re-deposing certain witnesses for the limited purpose of inquiring into the destruction of electronic evidence and any newly discovered emails); Landmark Legal Foundation v. Environmental Protection Agency, 272 F.Supp.2d 70 (D.D.C. 2003) (finding the EPA in contempt and concluding that the appropriate sanction was Plaintiff's attorney's fees and costs incurred as a result of the EPA's conduct); RKI, Inc. v. Grimes, 177 F.Supp.2d 859 (N.D. Ill. 2001) (ordering Defendant to pay $100,000 in compensatory damages, $150,000 in punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and court costs).


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How many of you watched last night's episode of The Biggest Loser?
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I tried finding a video that shows you how to do it, but couldn't find any. So if you're interested, you can go on hulu and watch the latest biggest loser episode, and you'll see it at about 13 minutes in, and Bob will explain it in more detail at the "commercial break" at the end.
So you start out in a push up position.
You then want to lift your leg up behind you
You then bring your leg that's behind you, up and over to cross your body. So if your right leg is in the air, you move it behind you to the left, and vice versa. You bring your leg over to flip yourself so you're in the "crab walking" position and looking up at the ceiling
From here you bring the leg opposite of the one you previously kicked in the air and lift it in front of you. So if you originally started with your right leg in the air, crossed it behind you to the left, and got into the crab walking position, then you will lift your left leg into the air in front of you
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Organize and De-clutter Your Desk and Office
Best of 2011
As resolution season approaches, many of us will be resolving to clean up our acts and get the desk and office in order. We figured it'd be smart to help you out by gathering a collection of some of our best posts on the topics. After the jump we have a wide range of posts from helpful discussions, tips, hacks, inspiration, and products to buy. And if you come out of it not feeling compelled to tidy up a messy desk in the new year, well, there might be no helping you.
• 1 5 Successful Steps to a Clean and Uncluttered Desk Drawer
• 2 How to be Able to Clean Your Desk in 5 Minutes
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• 5 Dealing With a Messy Deskmate (and Girlfriend)
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Much as I try...I always end up right back where I started. No place for everything I need. With all these great ideas I am sure to get it right!
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Here's The Opening Ceremony Tribute To Terrorism Victims NBC Doesn't Want You To See
The major transitional element of today's London Olympics opening ceremony was a downtempo performance of adoptive sporting anthem "Abide With Me" by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé. The song and accompanying dance were a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 terror attacks in London that claimed 52 victims days after the 2012 Summer Olympic hosts were named. (It's also been suggested the performance was a memorial to the war dead.)
Regardless, it was a rather significant and emotional moment in the opening ceremony, coming just before the parade of nations—and it wasn't aired in the United States. Instead, viewers were treated to a lengthy and meaningless Ryan Seacrest interview of Michael Phelps. NBC regularly excises small portions of the opening ceremony to make room for commercials, but we've never heard of them censoring out an entire performance—especially to air an inane interview. We've asked NBC why they didn't air the tribute, and if they get back to us we'll let you know what they say. In the meantime, enjoy the performance everyone else in the world saw. [BBC]
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Paul Beranger is a self-confessed "small car guy" and admirer of the Volkswagen Golf. Nothing especially strange in that, most would say, but as Corporate Manager for Style and Design at Toyota Style Australia (TSA), Beranger is better known for his work on the styling of the mid-sized Camry Hybrid and the V6-engined Aurion.
His interest in the small VW came to light in conversation with the Carsales Network during the local launch of the Camry Hybrid earlier this week. As Toyota's Australian styling chief admired the Golf test vehicle we were driving, we asked him for his opinion on what the future holds for TSA.
First up, Beranger explained that TSA was in a formative state. Currently, no more than 25 staff in total work out of a dedicated premises in Port Melbourne.
"[TSA] is only now maturing within TMCA [Toyota Motor Corporation Australia]," he began, but the company was "now beginning to find a real role." As we had previously learned from Beranger, the Aurion has been the standard bearer for TSA -- the styling studio being tasked more and more with new projects as a consequence of the work done on the Camry-based large car.
Unlike design centres established by Holden and Ford "40 or 50 years ago", Toyota's in-house studio is a new kid on the block; having gone from "parts design group" to "major body redesign work" within a very short space of time. The studio was established no more than eight years ago.
"TSA has had to establish credentials with its parent company," Beranger continued. The Aurion has been an important step in that, but now TSA is securing a role within other projects of importance for the Asia/Pacific region.
As a "global resource for Toyota," TSA "fits very comfortably within the regionalisation strategy announced by the company president, Akio Toyoda."
In this respect, it's incumbent on TSA to "understand regional demands and meet regional expectations," says Beranger. In other words, TSA is effectively a centre of expertise for styling new products specific to the Asia/Pacific region.
"Australia is probably the most mature country in the region," explains Beranger. Within our part of the globe, this places TSA in a strong position to influence styling for future regional products -- the Aurion being an existing example of that.
"TSA has a lot to offer Japan," Beranger continues. "There are products that are global and have a regional focus." TSA can be heavily involved in the development of those products.
Once again, the Aurion is the obvious example of this sort of product. It's built on a global platform (Camry), but has a regional application (Aurion/'prestige Camry' upper body). The Aurion is built and sold throughout Asia, as well as Australia and it's exported from Altona to 20 other countries, but it's not built or sold in North America or Europe. To that extent, it's a regional 'niche' product.
"Australia is extremely well placed within the region," says Beranger. Not only is it located in the same time zone as Toyota's home base in Japan, it's located in close proximity to "sophisticated component suppliers" and TMCA's Altona manufacturing plant and the Anglesea proving ground. At least as importantly too, TSA is a stone's throw from TTCAu (Toyota Technical Centre Australia).
TTCAu and TSA work hand-in-hand on projects, but they can also work apart. Neither department needs to undertake projects on behalf of TMCA, necessarily. TTCAu's engineering expertise can dovetail nicely with TSA's styling expertise on collaborative projects like the Camry Hybrid or the TRD HiLux.
According to Beranger, Toyota is embarked on harmonising its global styling language, just as Lexus has done, but Toyota still sees room within that global design language for niche products to emerge.
"We're confident we can play a role in that," says the TSA chief.
"Toyota's very, very strong in mainstream, high-volume manufacture, but it's becoming more aware of niches."
Beranger believes that niche-product design can help Toyota "change from its mainstream, conservative image".
"Upper body design has a role to play in that," he adds. Once again, the Aurion is a classic example, but Beranger's thinking in terms of concepts a bit more radical than that, referring to "personal mobility" -- presumably as in the i-Real concept unveiled by Toyota back in 2007.
Beranger believes there's an opportunity for TSA in "short-term productionisation of concepts that have been shown at motor shows".
But is there a project for TSA to take on board in the future, one that would be closer to Beranger's heart? It's here that he admits to being a "small car guy" and suggests that he'd like to develop a sort of hot hatch based on the Corolla platform, but something a little 'left-field' by Toyota's usual standards. He's quick to steer talk away from a new-age MR2, but has the germ of an idea for a front-wheel drive sporty with Corolla underpinnings.
"With the comfort people have with front-wheel drive, I think a Corolla derivative, [but] a sporty, urban derivative..." he responds to the question we put to him: 'What vehicle would inspire you the most and you'd like to build as a Toyota?'
Something like the Toyota iQ for Sports (pictured)?
"A small car, Corolla-size [with] a sports hatch package," he responds, tipping something slightly more practical than the iQ concept.
"I'd be very happy to support Japan if there was a need for that in the region."
But such a car is kind of a pipe dream for the moment at least. There doesn't appear to be a specific need for a vehicle of that specification. Furthermore, it would be more demanding of resource and time than it would appear on the face of it.
"All designers doodle sports cars," Beranger explains. "If they don't, they're nuts."
The problem is that an "all-out sports car" is not where the challenge lies. Building into it the work-arounds for packaging constraints and all those boring design conflicts -- that's where the development of a sports hatch must be more than just a "kid's school project".
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UC Davis study suggests link between obesity and autismMonday, April 9, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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OWENSBORO, Ky. - Jane Bellamy McDaniel, 97, of Owensboro, KY passed away Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. She was born May 18, 1915 in Daviess County, KY to the late Lum and Anna Belle Ray Sutherlin. She retired after 32 years of employment with General Electric Company and was an Avon representative. She was a member of Owensboro Christian Church and a member of the American Business Women's Association. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Hubert Bellamy and second husband, Sherman McDaniel.
She is survived by her daughter, Connie Cecil of Owensboro; her son, Wayne (Connie) Bellamy of Owensboro; four grandchildren, Stephanie (Raymond) Stone, Kristi (Mark) Palazzi, Amy (Kraig) Krueger and David Earl Cecil; five great grandchildren, Ashlie Simpson, Taylor Edge, Keeley Palazzi, Raymond Stone, Jr. and Luke Stone and a niece, Judy Solano of Florida.
Services are 12:00 noon on Friday, March 29, 2013, at the Chapel of James H. Davis Funeral Home & Crematory in Owensboro. Burial is in Rosehill Cemetery in Owensboro. Visitation is from 10:00 a.m-12:00 noon on Friday at the funeral home.
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Carr: U-M will compete in B1G with consistent defense, bigger players
"The biggest thing (is) you can't be changing defenses every year," Carr said on the Sports Pen on ESPN 970-AM. "The players need to learn a system, and you can't learn a system if you're changing every year. (Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison's) brought in the 4-3 defense, and I think we've got to recruit some bigger players."
Rodriguez's offensive and defensive systems were predicated on smaller, quicker players. Many questioned the wisdom of using those players in the Big Ten, where tradition (and weather) generally dictates the use of bigger, stronger players.
"We've been a very, very small team for the last three years," Carr said. "In this conference, to play championship football, you need big people because you're gonna play against big people almost every single week. And when you're a much smaller team, you're gonna wear down, you're gonna get beat up, and you're not gonna be able to finish a season.
"In this conference, it's at the end of the season that you have to be strong if you're going to do the types of things and have the kind of seasons that we've always aspired to have here."
Click here to read the full article: http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2011/05/lloyd_carr_on_espn_970...
Lloyd Carr: Hall of Fame
Carr Was Almost a Spartan Coach
Lloyd Carr was almost a Spartan at one point. The article says how he was good friends with Perles and if Perles had gotten the job over Waters he would have hired Carr away from West Virginia. Instead, Waters got the job and Lloyd became the DBs coach at Michigan under Bo.
Three years later Perles got the MSU job and offered the DC position to Carr, who eventually turned it down to stay at Michigan.
Pretty interesting stuff. I never knew his connection to Perles. There is more in the article, interesting read.
Link: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110428/GW01/104280341/Duffy-Daugherty-Award-U-M-s-Carr-nearly-Spartan?odyssey=obinsite
My Encounter With Coach Carr Last Night
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Evening, folks. Last night I had the honor of meeting and having a pleasant conversation with Lloyd Carr, so I thought I would share the story. Nothing too exciting but some of you may find it interesting.
One of my friends, who is a prominent athlete from Windsor (prominent to Windsor people, probably not to you guys) was up for an award at the Wespys. So i went with him without even knowing that Lloyd was the keynote speaker. When I found out, excitement ran over me. After the awards, we went to his table and he told us to sit down as he congratulated my friend for being nominated, although he didn't win. I should mention at this point that when one meets Lloyd Carr, he exudes class and sincerity even before he begins to speak. He then asked me if I was up for any awards, to which I replied that I was simply a spectator and am currently in law school. His reaction to this was to ask what I studied as an undergrad. When I mentioned philosophy, he said "Wow, that's excellent, you must be a heavy reader."
As a Michigan football fan of gargantuan proportions and a boy who became a man during the Lloyd Carr era, my first reaction upon hearing that Coach Carr would be speaking at the event was to behave like a child meeting Santa Claus and ask him a million football related questions. However, as someone who intends to become a hockey agent after law school and who knows a few athletes, I understand that these people receive the same questions ad nauseum from the general public. It is understandable, but at some point they develop pre-packaged, often repeated, and extremely generic answers to these encounters after hearing them constantly. Thus, I decided to refrain from asking any football questions at all and just enjoy his company.
The conversation was about 8-10 minutes long and we mostly discussed literature and philosophy. There was a great point in the conversation when we talked about writers who make their work inaccessible to most people by unnecessarily writing in complex schemes just for complexity's sake. I said I prefered the simple, classic, and understated genius of writers like Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, whose complexities come from the depth of their characters. He agreed.
When it was time to go, I shook his hand and told him it was a pleasure to meet him, to which he responded, and I'm paraphrasing, "You're a very charismatic young man and I'm sure you will go far." This, to say the least, made me feel like a million dollars well into today, and probably beyond.
So, I have nothing new for you guys, no inside knowledge about about his opinions on Hoke, Denard, or Rodriguez. Just a very enjoyable evening with a world-class human being and someone we should all be proud to say coached our football team. Thanks for reading.
Lloyd Carr Coaches Michigan Hockey
"Okay, boys. We have a one score lead. I want you to run up the middle three times and punt. We'll play solid prevent, and then we'll do it again, and again."
As fans, we remember this as the most irritating trait of Coach Carr. His endless focus on reducing variance and stalling his way to wins was infuriating. We recall the many games against Tressel and our bowl opponents that this strategy cost us. We remember punting from the 40 on 3rd and 2. We remember that fourth quarter field goal when M was up only 3 that we just knew would come back to bite us.
What we forget is that in the years Lloyd had a satisfactory defense, it worked. It worked to the tune of an 88% winning percentage. It worked to the tune of 5 Big Ten titles and a National Championship. And it didn't work because Lloyd was lucky. It worked because he knew exactly what he was doing. I mean, seriously, I assume that nobody who knows anything about college football would ever question whether Lloyd Carr had a plan. At times, certain coaches seem to be winging it, throwing things out there just to try to find a magic formula. Not Lloyd Carr. Even during losses, he was always in control.
Last night, the ghost of his coaching career possessed Red Berensen. Shawn Hunwick stopped 40 shots, and Michigan spent the final two periods of the game playing prevent. Defensemen flew all over the ice, clogging lanes and disrupting flow. When Michigan did obtain the puck, we made three rushes up the middle and punted, clearing the puck from about center ice and setting up the defense again and again.
"Make that lead hold up, boys! Drive them crazy!"
Just like a Lloyd coached game, UND had chances, and plenty of them. But what they got very little of was the break away, one on that makes goalies around the world wet themselves. Most of their good chances erupted from a pile of bodies, more of which were Maize and Blue than Green and White. But it was always in a pile of chaos that's hard to take advantage of.
"We're gonna out-execute them. No mistakes. Do it right every time."
As fans, like so many Lloyd coached games we watched, a lead felt an awful lot like a deficit until a kid named Scooter buried an empty netter with 35 second to play. We spent most of the night screaming at the TV, "Cmon! Get it going on O! Get some shots! Generate some pressure!"
Red knew though, as Lloyd did, better than us. UND was, and is, an offensive juggernaut that will make you pay for your mistakes. But discipline, quality play and the refusal to make any of those mistakes will drive your opponent crazy. They continue to push, waiting for that moment when you dedicate four to their end and they can put out a two on one break. Don't give it to them.
Does it always work? No. Can you do it with just anybody? No. You need a star, too; someone to make a play when variance does overwhelm discipline. It's important to recognize those stars. They're the guys that make Lloyd and Red's brilliance work. Lloyd had Charles Woodson. Red has Shawn Hunwick.
But that's all part of the plan. Play clean. Play smart. Execute. Get your stars in position to pick up the slack and win the big ones. Stymie everyone. Be solid. Be stoic. Be brave. Be Michigan, and you will be a champion.
We Salute You, Coach.
Lloyd Carr to speak at free SPH talk on sports injury prevention April 5th!
I just got an e-mail that Lloyd Carr will be speaking at the School of Public Health on April 5th at 3:30 PM in the SPH II Auditorium. He joins Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher of the Michigan NeuroSport Program and Dr. David Sleet, Associate Director for Science, CDC National Injury Prevention and Control.
The talk is entitled "Play Smart: Injury Prevention on and off the Field" and is free and open to the public. They are requesting that if you plan on attending, you register here: http://www.sph.umich.edu/scr/playsmart/
Hope some of you can make it out for this! Go Blue!


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State inspectors temporarily closed five Tampa Bay eateries from June 9 through June 20 after discovering rodents or roaches.
We've listed the restaurants that were closed below, along with details about what inspectors say they found.
Goodfellas Pizza & Wings at 11002 4th. St. N. in St. Petersburg
June 9, 2014: Restaurant temporarily closed with 28 violations
June 10, 2014: Restaurant reopened with 10 violations
Dan's Clam Stand at 2315 N. Sunshine Path in Crystal River
June 10, 2014: Restaurant temporarily closed with 14 violations
June 11, 2014: Restaurant reopened with 7 violations
Lanores Nifty 50s Cafe at 817 Clearwater- Largo Rd. in Largo
June 11, 2014: Restaurant temporarily closed with 18 violations
June 12, 2014: Restaurant reopened with 2 violations
Evergreen of Inverness at 238 Highway 41 S. in Inverness
June 12, 2014: Restaurant temporarily closed with 35 violations
June 13, 2014: Restaurant reopened with 17 violations
Razzles Cafe at 5914 Gail Boulevard in Zephyrhills
June 20, 2014: Restaurant temporarily closed with 15 violations
June 20, 2014: Restaurant reopened with no violations
Inspectors from Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation conducted the inspections. The department cited violations of Florida's sanitation and safety laws, which are based on the standards of U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Code.
While most establishments correct all violations in a timely manner (often during the inspection), the division's procedures are designed to compel compliance with all violations through follow-up visits, administration action or closure when necessary, according to the Florida DBPR website.
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Savannah -- Thousands of Georgians are on the front lines of war, on missions many of us can't imagine. Their loved ones are enduring worries some of us couldn't bear. One woman has worried more than most. Her husband deployed to the middle east four times in five years. As she anxiously waited for his latest return, she got horrific news from another part of the world.
As Melinda Olver gets ready to welcome her husband home from war, she remembers the night he first came into her life. "I met Brian in a bar downtown," remembers Melinda, laughing. "I knew that night I was going to marry him."
Five weeks later, Melinda Lotti and Brian Olver were engaged.
Melinda quickly called the one person who's opinion mattered most. "My mamma, I called her and she said 'Let me call you back, I just need to think about it.' My family thought I had lost my mind."
But a year later, they were married, and Brian was n Sergeant based at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah facing his second deployment to Afghanistan. "We got married August 31st, and he deployed early October."
Two deployments to Afghanistan and two more to Iraq made the first years of marriage anything but ordinary. "He left around January 24, 2005. So we're just a couple days shy of him being gone a full 365 days."
And now, just a couple hours shy of their final homecoming. "I'm excited all of it's over. Well, almost."
Waiting for Brian at home in Savannah are his wife, his three cats, and a pile of wrapped presents. "They've been pretty much my only company for a year," she said with a laugh." "For me, it's worth the sacrifice to wait for him to come home."
"To him, Christmas came and went without him but hopefully it will be a little something here to let him know everybody thought of him at Christmas time."
In about six hours, Melinda will be reunited with her husband. "Now, the nerves are starting to set in."
Never has a reunion for the Olvers meant so much. "On August 22nd, I got a phone call from Atlanta. My mother and brother we're traveling in Peru and there was a plane crash."
The airliner carrying Melinda's mother Sherra Young and brother Steve Lotti crashed in a Peruvian jungle. "I fell on my knees and said.... 'I don't not want them to be in pain, whatever that means.' I didn't know if they were suffering in the middle of the jungle. It was terrifying."
She didn't know if they were alive or dead, and she was alone. "I wanted him to hug me and tell me it was going to be okay. I didn't have that luxury."
She was able to call her husband. "He was just devastated, and didn't know what to say." Helplessly thousands of miles away, Brian could not be there for her in her worst hour. "I was concerned about Brian who was going to combat, not my mom and brother who were going on vacation."
The next day brought news of survivors, but her brother and mother had died. "I cried, I fell apart, and pulled back together I knew my family needed me." With help from a Congressman, the military and a lot of prayers, Brian made it home. "With Brian there, I knew there was someone I could lean on and that he would be strong for me."
On August 31st, Melinda buried her mother, a 33 year kindergarten teacher and mother of four who was loved for her big smile and even bigger heart. "She was just the most special woman that I've ever known. I'll try the rest of my life to be somewhat like her."
She also said good-bye to her 28 year old brother. "His life was so exciting. He was Indiana Jones."
The world traveler and archeologist had just come home from serving two years in the Peace Corps in Bolivia. "I can say Steve died with a complete life. He just completed it a lot faster than most of us do."
Melinda was suffering unimaginable grief, sorrow that Brian knew all too well. "He lost his father in a plane crash. He knows that hurt and that feeling."
Brian's father, Lt. Colonel Eric Olver, died in a military plane crash when Brian was just nine. That experience helped him help her even after Brian went back to Iraq two weeks after the funerals.
"He's kept me moving forward. He's a great inspiration because he's been through this the same. He has a positive life after it, even though he's had something tragic happen to him." Melinda was alone again and lonelier than she'd ever been with Brian gone.
"My family now is Brian. I've always said my home is with Brian so where ever that it."
"I get to go to bed every night in my own bed, I'm homesick because he's my home." "When I want to share something and Brian's not here, it was always my mother who I would call. There are days when I fell really lonely."
But soon at last part of her loneliness will be gone. At Fort Stewart, Melinda waits with hundreds of other military families. They're now just minutes away from welcoming their soldiers home from war. "It's coming more and more realistic as the time gets closer." The crowd spots the buses carrying the soldiers. "I have my sign that identifies me as Mrs. Sgt. Olver," Melinda says.
She hopes her sign will be a bright beacon leading Brian to her at last. The families attack the field, Melinda is lost in the wave of folks. But then she spots him. "I can't believe how skinny you are!" she exclaims. He's a little skinner, but safe and ready to get home. With Brian at her side, Melinda too is home again.
"There was nothing I could do from where I was," said Brian. "I could sit there and talk on the phone. I couldn't hug her, hold her, can't be physically there for it. It sucks, it's tough." As a soldier his task was to secure and protect the top commanders. But in Iraq, he felt helpless knowing he couldn't protect the woman he loved. "I knew I had to get home, I knew that much."
And tonight that desperate hope became a reality. "I had to suffer a horrible loss in 2005. But in 2006, I got to have this night. You can't even imagine the feeling I have right now. Now they're as happy as the night they first met. "The happiness that I have tonight makes up for a lot of the unhappiness I had to experience in 2005."
Brian is back with Melinda. Back home for good. Sergeant Olver earned the Bronze Star for valor in Iraq and was also part of the unit that saved Private Jessica Lynch there.
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History of hot dog and its place in America topic of lecture
Roger Horowitz charts rise of previously obscure meat to its now ubiquitous status
10/04/05Although summer is over and the baseball season almost history, the importance of the hot dog is still a hot topic. Roger Horowitz of the Hagley Center for the History of Science, Business and Technology in Delaware is presenting "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener": Hot Dogs and the Transformation of Meat in 20th-century America" on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 6:00 p.m. in Albers Hall, Room 103. The lecture is in conjunction with history professor Karim Tiro's class, the History of the Pig in America.
Horowitz is using the prominence of hot dogs at the 1939 World's Fair to chart the rise of this previously obscure form of sausage to prominence as one of America's most ubiquitous meat products. He is also using the hot dog to explain the larger dynamics of meat consumption in America.
Originally just one of countless sausage varieties, hot dogs became popular in the early 20th century as a quick and easy food in places of popular culture, such as baseball games. The 1939 World's Fair presented newly developed production technology that allowed hot dogs, following World War II, to become a popular meal at home as well, especially among families with children.
The lecture is drawn from Horowitz's forthcoming book, Putting Meat on the American Table (Johns Hopkins, December 2005). The book explains how America became a meat-eating nation from the colonial period to the present by looking at the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing in the production of beef, pork, chicken and hot dogs.


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Affinity Group Reunions
Several affinity group reunions were held during Alumni Weekend, including:
Multicultural Alumni Happy Hour
Alumni enjoyed a networking reception at Ozio's with members of the various multicultural alumni associations.
LGBT Alumni Happy Hour
Members of the LGBT community met for drinks and light hors d'oeuvres before heading to the All Alumni Kick Off.
Shabbat Service & Dinner followed by Oneg in the Sukkah
Hillel students and friends met for a service, complimentary Kosher dinner, and special Oneg (dessert) under the stars in the Sukkah and experienced Jewish life on campus during Alumni Weekend.
GW Athletics Reunion
The first ever Athletics Reunion took place with alumni athletes, coaches, and staff. The Reunion included multiple team reunions that connected student and alumni athletes.
Alumni Emeriti Society Luncheon (with the Class of 1959 50th Reunion) & Induction Ceremony
Alumni who graduated 50+ years ago, or who are 72+ years of age, celebrated the Class of 1959's 50th Reunion and joined them for the inaugural Induction Ceremony into the Alumni Emeriti Society.
Green Alumni Network
The Green Alumni Network, a new opportunity for GW alumni to learn about what GW is doing to make our campus and our world more sustainable, hosted their first event. The network offers opportunities for volunteer engagement and enables alumni to share their expertise with GW. To learn more about the network and to join, visit alumni.gwu.edu/green.
Sigma Chi New House Dedication
Members of GW's Sigma Chi Fraternity dedicated their new chapter house on F Street.
Latino Alumni Association Kick-Off Event
This new GW alumni group began their inaugural year with a wonderful mid-day social event.
GW Black Alumni Association Showcase
The BAA hosted its annual awards reception which recognized the outstanding achievements of three Black alumni.
Presidential Administrative Fellows (PAF) 20th Anniversary
Fellow PAFs and staff commemorated their milestone anniversary at a dinner with President Knapp.
View a slideshow of some of the weekend's highlights here.
For more photos, view the complete gallery on Flickr.
View a video of GW President Steven Knapp's "State of the University" conversation with moderator Dick Golden.
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So much did NY2O president Elias Slubski enjoy the taste of the city tap water from his childhood home in Brooklyn that 20 years later he began asking around about how to sell it.
"Where does New York water come from?" Slubski asked. "What makes it so good? What are the qualities that give us the best bagels, the best pizza, the best culinary scene in the U.S.?"
With the help of some hydro-geologists, Slubski thinks he's answered those questions and traced the tastiest tributary of New York City water back to the aquifers in 2,000 protected square miles of the Catskills. He opened NY2O in a water district pulling exclusively from that region and developed a filtering system, he says, to strip away any impurities while still retaining the minerals that give his water its flavor.
Slubski allowed his architect mother, Esther, just two years to design an award-winning bottle -- thick and indented so it can't roll -- and in 2013 NY20 entered the national premium water marketplace (premium brands cost a little more and generally originate from just one source; think Evian and Fiji and not Poland Spring and Dasani).
"There was not really a single American brand out there competing against all the foreign imports," Slubski said.
The toilets and water fountains in Greenburgh City Hall use the same water from the Catskill Forest Preserve NY2O pipes into its facility before filtering and bottling.
"I'd prefer Greenburgh water to Perrier," Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said.
Feiner had yet to hear of NY2O but said he loved the idea of finding his town's water sold around the world (particularly since NY2O must remain in the area to continue bottling its original recipe).
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Early in his career, Bryan Smith fulfilled a childhood aspiration of owning a truck.
Flatbed hauler Bryan Smith knew managing a one-truck operation wouldn't be an easy endeavor, but after becoming a company driver for Schneider National in 1991 upon his return from Saudi Arabia and Desert Storm, Smith says he had a childhood dream to accomplish.
He knew the risks, he says, and he knew all of the "headaches that can come with it." He stayed at Schneider only briefly before moving on to Art Pape Transfer of Dubuque, Iowa, as a company driver. Two years later, he used savings earned during his short trucking tenure as a down payment on a '91 Freightliner FLD 120.
"I knew it was a risky business," the 41-year-old says. "I wanted the freedom that went with it, and I wanted the chance for the rewards that come with it if you do it right."
Loras Pape, president and CEO of Art Pape Transfer, says Smith has "continued to work himself up to his most recent truck purchase in 2008 – a brand new Peterbilt."
That 2009 Model 386 was Smith's fourth truck and his third new one.
In 2010, Smith netted $43,000. In the years before the recession, 2005-2008, Smith netted more than $60,000 each year.
"His work ethic and his patience are just unbelievable," Pape says of Smith. "He won't cut any corners."
The Dubuque, Iowa, resident says achieving success as an owner-operator starts with balancing several things at once and keeping a close watch on equipment.
"You've got to find the right company, and find freight that's going to pay you. You have to keep your costs down, keep your idle time down, [hold] speed down, get better mileage, do your own maintenance."
Smith's interest in mechanics led him to complete a two-year automotive technician course. He uses the knowledge to work on his truck, which increases his profits.
"He keeps his truck up and his downtime to a minimum," says Dave Leach, service adviser at Hawkeye Truck and Trailer in Dubuque. "He pays very close attention to things and always gets his maintenance done on time. His truck is always spotless."
"You've got to have some luck sometimes, too," Smith says, "but you've got to work hard and manage your business – that means all aspects."
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Adirondack Artists Guild member Suzanne Langelier-Lebeda is the illustrator of the children's book "Green Golly and the Magic Flute", which introduces children to the joys of classical music. She will be at the Artists Guild on Saturday Dec 7 from 11 - 1 pm to display and sign books. Great for holiday gifts!
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What's My Style?
This is something I've struggled with for years…what is my style?! I am inspired and intrigued by so many different styles that I have had difficulty settling on just one. I enjoy experimenting with new techniques and styles all of the time and love combining them in my work. Some people call this eclectic, some people call it indecisive…I think it's just plain FUN!
However it was after discussing and considering this topic in depth as a part of the Indie Business 3.0 Workshop I am currently enrolled in–that I took this photo of one of my son's toy cars. We had just recently bought this very nifty set of cars that are made of wood and have a very vintage feel to them, however they're shaped like modern sports cars and pick-up trucks, with brightly colored windshields and tire covers and they can be pieced together like legos:
It was as I looked at this photo that it dawned on me…THIS IS MY STYLE!
I know what you're thinking…that I've lost my mind! But in all of my exploration over the past week, I've found but one common theme that existed in everything I love and almost everything I create–that was present in my son's car set as well–and that is a blending of old and new!
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As I look around at the fashion and the decor I am drawn to, as well as, the movies and music I enjoy–I see it time and time again: bold colors and patterns paired together with a classic or vintage design, modern music and fashions infused into a delightful period piece or the sound of punk music accompanied by a beautiful piano melody.
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Monday Makeover: Making Over Your Workspace (Part Two)
Last week we began this Workspace Makeover series by talking about "Taking Control" of our spaces. Today we're going to build on that idea by…
In order to organize your space in a manner that leaves you knowing what you have and all of your supplies with a home–it may be necessary to "Take Inventory." This will help to let you know how much space you'll need for storing your supplies and what if any, storage you'll need to purchase. Let's start by getting an overall idea of how you plan to store your supplies and therefore what kind of an inventory will best suit your needs.
Visual vs. Physical Inventories
A visual inventory relies more on SEEING what you have, rather than knowing. I am a very visual person and as a result, I like to keep my supplies out in the open so I know what I have and am inspired to use them. An open system works best for me and others like me who prefer to keep their supplies visible, as a means of properly rotating and using products. A visual inventory can be executed by keeping your supplies easily accessible and visible from your primary workspace so that you have an adequate visual picture of your stash. Often an organizational plan, a labeling system, visual displays and constant maintenance are required to keep up the appearance of your visible supplies.
Other people may prefer to keep a physical inventory of their supplies, by keeping an up-to-date record. This can be a handy way for those who like to keep their supplies contained and out of sight, to know exactly what they have and need. This method requires less maintenance of your actual supplies, but a constant maintenance of your record of those supplies. Take a look at the following video by Christie Hund which shares a fabulous inventory system to model your own after! She also offers some product specific charts to include in your own inventory book, on her website Creations by Christie.
Divide and Conquer
Once you've chosen a method that's right for you can begin taking inventory by following these steps:
- Group like supplies together.
- Test each supply within a respective group to see if it is in working order.
- Purge products no longer of use to you.
- Determine the amount of, as well as, the type of storage necessary to house the supplies within each group.
- Make note of items that need to be replaced or added to your stash.
- Repeat Steps 2-4 for each grouping of supplies.
- Execute an inventory of your supplies by developing either a written record, ideas for visual displays, a labeling system and/or an organizational plan for your supplies.
Join me next week for the third part in this four part series, "Taking Action," in which we look at piecing together a space that is organized, clean, practical and inspiring.