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Are You 48 Years Old, or Older?
If so, here's a little-known strategy to help your CPA help you create millions of tax-free dollars. CPAs try to maintain and improve their clients' economic and tax health. In theory, our job is simple: we use our knowledge, and if we don't know how to solve a particular problem, we find someone who does. Often, a CPA's ability to help is more a matter of his experience than his knowledge.
But remember, no matter how knowledgeable or experienced, none of us know it all. Like it or not, that's often why the use of a specific strategy, method or concept that could have helped many clients falls through the cracks.
This article is about a simple strategy that few CPAs know exist, one that I've used hundreds of times. Let's introduce the strategy by starting with some basic facts, based on my experience: 70 percent of life-insurance policies are outdated. These policies, typically 10 years old or older, are not capable of performing like new policies available in the marketplace. Further, 90 percent of the time when an old policy is replaced with a new one, the client winds up with a significant increased death benefit, with no increase in out-of-pocket cash for premiums. And, every dollar of those death benefits are tax free—no income tax. No estate tax.
The following examples taken from my private client files illustrate the wealth-creating power of upgrading your life-insurance policy.
Example 1: Joe (age 82) and his wife Mary (84) had a 45-yr.-old policy on Joe with a death benefit of $396,000 and a cash-surrender value (CSV) of $355,000. Joe stopped paying premiums many years ago. My insurance consultant used the $355,000 CSV to purchase a second-to-die policy (on Joe and Mary) with a $706,000 death benefit. That's a 78 percent increase over the original $396,000 death benefit, with no additional out-of-pocket cost.
Example 2: Larry (age 58 and single) had a 15-yr.-old policy on his life: $788,631 death benefit, $239,027 CSV. Larry paid a $9000 annual premium. This time my insurance guru traded in (tax-free) the old policy for a new policy with a $1.7 million death benefit (a 116 percent increase), while maintaining the $9000 annual premium.
Example 3: Mildred, a 71-yr.-old widow, owned a 26-yr.-old policy: $10 million death benefit, $2.9 million CSV. Mildred's annual premium was $68,000, but because the CSV was large enough to self-carry the policy, she intended to pay no more premiums out-of-pocket, borrowing against the CSV instead. My insurance consultant pulled another rabbit out of the hat, trading Mildred's old policy for a new one (tax-free) with a $12.7 million death benefit and no additional premium payments by Mildred.
How can you join the tax-free wealth-building fun enjoyed by Joe, Larry and Mildred? Just meet the following requirements:
1) Are you 48 years old or older?
2) Do you have a policy that's about 10 years old or older, with a CSV of $200,000 or more?
3) Are you healthy for your age? If married, at least one of you must be healthy; best if both are healthy.If you meet these requirements, I encourage you to follow this strategy. Begin by sending a copy of this article to your CPA. Then, ask him to contact his insurance consultant to review your policy. Yes, a new subject like this als leads to good questions. So, do you—the reader—or your CPA have a question?. Call me at 847/674-5295. MF


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Joseph Benavidez Impressed with Demetrious Johnson, But Believes He'd Win Rematch
After winning a unanimous decision over Ian McCall on Feb. 2 at UFC 156, Joseph Benavidez is right back in the title mix at 125 pounds.
In a recent interview with the Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show, he discussed his victory over McCall, flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson and more.
On the decision against McCall: "I thought it was very clear that I won the first and the third. Honestly, I think I won every minute of that fight besides the little mishap on the ground. Even that second round, I was winning until that happened, which that is another story."
On how he got rocked in the second round: "I was rocked and I was recovering from something and I figured he hit me. When I told my cornermen, they were like, 'Dude, you didn't get hit or dropped by anything.' Watching the replay, I shot directly in past him and right into his knee. I guess it just rocked my head. I was rocked down there and I thought I got punched."
On where he stands in the division: "I think I'm right there. I think I'm the next best in the weight class. Demetrious is obviously the champion because he's beat the next three best guys. A lot of champions, even now, even the reigning champions, they haven't fought those next three guys. They might have wiped out the rest of the guys down there, but most of the champions haven't fought the number two-, three- and four-ranked guys right now at this moment and defeated them. Demetrious has."
On Johnson's title defense against John Dodson: "I loved it. It was a champion's performance. He was a champion. He faced adversity in the second round, and where he won the fight was the championship rounds. Everyone's going to be skilled and powerful and be good at this and that, but he showed those other attributes he has: his heart and his cardio and those small things that separate champions from other fighters. … I was happy for him. I was happy for the weight class. It was a great showcase because also, the challenger, Dodson, fought amazing. I think he's as dangerous as anybody for three rounds."
On what's next: "I'm willing to fight whoever the UFC wants me to. I'm ready for any fight. If the UFC wants to give me a title shot, of course I'm going to do everything in my power to go out there and take it and I'll be ready. I really, really believe I can defeat 'Mighty Mouse' this time and fight a lot better fight. If they want me to fight someone else, I'll just be even better by the time I do get the title shot. I think that's inevitable at some point."
Listen to the full interview (beginning at 1:54:20).

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The second of series of reports from Austin, by a few lucky BBH SXSW survivors.
Author: Helen Lawrence, Strategist, BBH Labs & BBH London
The most recurring topic of conversation in Austin during SXSW isn't the future of technology, it isn't the principles of responsive design and it certainly isn't what makes something viral. It's meat. What meat to have in your breakfast taco, what meat to choose for your lunchtime ribs and what meat should top your dinnertime hot dog (I can't believe Tim didn't mention this in his SXSW reflections!). This is a town dominated by BBQ joints and smoking shacks. I fear that after five days there I may have the incredibly sexy combination of scurvy and gout:
However, we have a problem. One hundred thousand years ago humans still needed 2000 calories a day to function. Back then, to produce that 2000 calories we'd get through 1800 to find and produce something to nibble on. Fast forward to today's brisket loving era and it takes 200,000 calories to produce those same 2000 calories. Our food production habits are screwed up. We waste everything: energy, resources and it even the food itself once we've got it to that juicy, edible point. It's not at all sustainable. We're messing it up, and we're doing it quickly.
So – who is the obvious person to turn to in order to solve this problem? An astronaut of course. Nothing beats an astronaut. Ahem.
The 100 Year Starship project is using the question of interstellar space travel to get to an answer:
"We exist to make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system a reality within the next 100 years. We unreservedly dedicate ourselves to identifying and pushing the radical leaps in knowledge and technology needed to achieve interstellar flight, while pioneering and transforming breakthrough applications that enhance the quality of life for all on Earth."
If we're going to have to consider exploration outside of our solar system we're going to have think a little beyond a simply bigger rocket. One self sustaining pod hurtling through the sky; it has to keep a bunch of humans alive for a century, stop them killing each other and prevent them from getting hungry.
The space race in the 60s was a tangible one: getting to the moon is a challenge that could be imagined and solved. The 100 Year Starship Project wants to set a challenge that trickles down solutions into our own fuzzy planet in the same way. The space race has given us some of the biggest everyday technologies we use now: scratch resistant lenses, GPS and water filters for example. By posing some of the biggest societal and sustainability questions out there and considering how we'd achieve them to last 100 years in space, we can hope for properly realistic solutions to the things we're messing up at the moment.
Meat is a big one, clothes are another. It's a terribly energy intensive hobby. We make too many, we own too many, we wash too many and we don't recycle nearly enough. 100 years at our current clothing rates would need a lot of wardrobes up on our space ship, not to mention cotton fields, plastics factories and silk worms. We can't take clothes to space, despite them being such a core part of our creative identity as humans – one solution put forward by the 100 Year Starship project includes reusable sheets that we project clothes onto, allowing us to change them whenever we like.
Back to the bovines. As much as I love the idea of cows in space, wearing little cow shaped astronaut helmets, it just can't happen. 'Fake meat' companies are popping up all over the place, even Twitter co founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams are investing. That's one possible solution for our 100 Year Spaceship. What else is there?
I like the 100 Year Starship project. It frames a problem into a great story. Mae Jemison, a brilliant astronaut, told the SXSW audience that we should tell better stories, ones that inspire and ones that can bring about social change. The project neatly frames sustainability into something we can picture. There are no cheats when you're somewhere outside of Alpha Centauri. So many of our so called sustainable solutions aren't that at all. We feel we're doing well when actually the problem is just popping up somewhere else. You can't do that on a spaceship.
This makes me ruminate a bit on brand strategy – we talk a lot here about strategy being the art of sacrifice. What would you sacrifice in your brand armoury if forced to focus on the essentials? And would your brand get a spot on the starship in the first place? Is it ducking and diving, pushing superfluous issues elsewhere? Perhaps not being quite as sustainable or transparent as it could be? Whack it in a bubble and put it in space: it's a good way to test it.
I'm excited about the 100 Year Spaceship. The hippies and the astronauts are getting it on. And damn, it's even sexier than gout.


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The 2012 election season will gain a lot of momentum with the upcoming party conventions — the Republicans up first in Tampa, Fla., this week and the Democrats the following week in Charlotte, N.C. As with any major event happening in the past year, a lot of attention is given to how the online population will factor in.
The party conventions are no different. All the networks, including PBS and C-SPAN, will be streaming the conventions online, and TV coverage will again connect viewers with what's happening on Twitter. Also, as they bring out a platter of social media accounts, both parties are looking forward to engaging the masses in political discourse.
There is lot to anticipate as these party conventions unfold, and the following resources will help you follow along on the web and mobile.
2012 Democratic National Convention official website
2012 Republican National Convention official website
Washington Post 2012 campaigns page
Huffington Post Democratic Convention
Huffington Post Republican Convention
Politico's 2012 Presidential Conventions Guide
Reuters 2012 Election l RNC/DNC Conventions Liveblog
National Review Online – The Campaign Spot
C-SPAN Convention Hub: RNC l DNC
NY DailyNews Live Coverage of RNC Convention
ABC News: RNC Convention Live Stream l Live Blog
Charlotte Observer DNC coverage
Joanne Peters, DNC Press Secretary
Karen McAllister, Tampa Bay Online editor
Democratic National Convention official FB page
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Facebook and CNN's 'I'm Voting' app
Pinterest: Dem Convention official
Quora: Republican National Convention topic page
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Storify: WUSF Tampa Bay coverage
NBCNews: The Social Media Story of RNC12
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Twitter Resources for #DNC 2012
City of Charlotte: DNC Information for Citizens
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Everything Changing For Convention Coverage
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If you know a resource that should be on this list but isn't, please share in the comments, and we'll add them!
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Not much more can be said by the thread topic alone. SRB2 Riders is being ported to 2.1, but in a more simplistic way. This version of SRB2 Riders requires no EXE, which means all of this works straight through Vanilla SRB2.
Unlike the Original, and because of actual development, there will be no kart mode for this. Instead, there are 2 types of levels: Rider and Foot-racing. If the stage is a Rider/Kart stage, the characters will ride on their hoverboards, if anything else, it will be a regular Foot-racing stage.
Here's how the controls will work for the Riders:
When you start moving fast, your board speed will be locked once you're on your board, you cannot go backwards or slow down, unless you've been hit, stopped yourself on a wall, or etc.
Jump - Jump
Spin - Boost
Strafe - Drifting
For drifting, while its really hard to replicate both Sonic Riders and SRB2 Riders, something that worked was used. Despite overall turning being more powerful, you can drift by holding the strafe keys around a corner and releasing them at the end will give you a momentary boost faster than your actual board speed.
There are shields in this mod as well, but more than one, they will only last 10 seconds:
Attraction Shield: Attracts rings
Whirlwind Shield: Allows extra jump and restores air every half a second (also does the same in zoom tubes)
Pity Shield: Protects the player from damage
Force Shield: Protects the player from two hits for 20 seconds
Invincibility: Surrounds the player in an orb and increases the board speed (like Mario Kart)
Speed Shoes: Speeds the player even faster than invincibility!
This mod is actually a Delta, as there are still some features I feel need to be in before making it the final release.
Let's cut the chase already.
A launcher has been included to launch the mod with any of the 9/12 characters you choose.
Spoiler: CHANGELOG
ENTER Version 2.51
Fixed MS' placement in Battleship Halberd
Added springs to a fly ramp in Sky Road
Boost features have been modified, you will no longer be "invincible" when boosting
Drifting features have been modified, instead of drifting forever till you let go to lose air, you will lose a lot air as you drift.
Patch 2.51.1
Fixed Dusty Dune's awful checkpoint design and MS has been re-recorded.
ENTER Version 2.52
Oh, and more Slopes.
The icons to tell what type of level you're in can now change colors adjacent to your color.
ENTER Patch 2.52.1
Fixed few of oversights related to HUD, MS recordings, and level pictures.
Patch 2.52.2
Very small but useful changes to the levels. Pity shield graphics have been updated.
Whaddaya want from me? I'm a very simple guy @_@
ENTER Patch 2.52.3
Attempted to added slopes in the Footracing levels, 2 levels were successful. City Heat, and Sunset Gardens.
Blaze's Player Icon now fully changes color.
The latest version of the Riders Launcher has been added.
CTF Levels have been restored.
ENTER Patch 2.52.4
Minor level fixes and optimizations
The player's boost and invincibility will no longer kill the opponent (foreshadowing :3)
ENTER Patch 2.52.5 Match Beta
Added Block Fort by Kitoko/Hinote (Cause perms are free)
Minor level and lua script updates
EMERGENCY Patch 220.127.116.11
Fixed a bug where you wouldn't be on foot in footracing stages.
Switched Babylon Garden to it's laggy 2.0 version due to unknown crashing in the latest version.
Fixed a bug where the level type Icon didn't show
Minor level adjustments
ENTER Patch 2.52.6 The Verification Update
Introducing a new checkpoint system from old!
Omochao now lets you know when Metal Sonic/Jet/Eggman(Rival) Speed up
Slight level updates and script optimizations
Next Update: 2.53 (The Airboard Update)
Featuring Old Riders turning (giving the drift a use!)
A RACE_HUD.wad lua for riders has been added as an optional lua to use with the mod. Approved by Tamkis.
Credits to:
MotdSpork(Character lua)
Lat'(Air meter)
HitCoder(HitKid61)(PhysAttk modified for this mod, over haul to clean up lua, Riders Launcher)
Tamkis(Assistance with his RACE_HUD.wad)
Somel(Character Startup sounds)
Super Chris(If he's anywhere on the MB)(Provided levels)
Chaos Zero 64(Permission, original sprites, assets)
FAQ (Future Asked Questions)
Q: Where are the Fly Hoops?
A: These we're removed mostly because the gimmick itself isn't easy to replicate.
Q: Where are the trick ramps?
A: Removed for the same reason as before.
Q: How come everyone can grind on the grind rails?
A: The grind rails are now speed pads, since the original grind rails can't really be brought back
Q: Will kart mode be in any time soon?
A: No. Kart Krew will be making their version, and it will be much better than what I have.
Q: Ew, why Omochao?
A: I thought about the original Riders and how the announcer, who was Omochao was constantly talking during the race. He's not verbally speaking in this one, but he'd be a way to announce the racer's status.
Q: Why didn't you just put this in Submissions?
A: To be honest, I was waiting for some friends of mine (or someone else) to create a launcher made specifically for this mod. But for now, the .bat launchers will do.
Q: Why is there a space countdown timer?
A: I originally wanted to make this mod playable in SP as well, sadly I stopped working on it once I realized two things: 1: The Metal Sonic racer had to have his laps tracked. 2: A lap system would have to be made for SP as well... I uh, never got up to that.
If anyone wants to submit an Airboard type of level, you can PM me for help on setting up the map for submissions. If you are trying to submit a Foot Racing map to the mod, DON'T. Put it in submissions as a normal racing map. Do NOT use this mod as a way to get past submissions, if it's been rejected, do not approach me with your rejected map.
If you are having camera glitches with the mouse, please refrain from using it until further notice.
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Are there any plans to update to newer characters? Also... why is this so difficult against metal sonic/jet/eggman?
Great mod though. Never actually played Sonic Riders, and I lag a lot on some these courses, but I found this very fun.
Permanently Banned
Don't expect anything coming from me in particular, allow Yacker to do this kind of mod a favor.
do i have to install the two archives?
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Hybrid Kart Mapper/Porter
You're giving me a little MANIA.
SRB2Kart Track Mapper
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Ahem, no you don't. The second archive is if you're planning to make levels for this deprecated mod.
im having problems with srb2 v2.1.20 it says a wad file was invaild or not found and is causing an error
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in srb2 v2.1.20 i am having issues it says a wad file was invalid and is having an error and is refusing to open
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Unfortunately, support for this mod is dead due to permaban
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I keep getting this when I try to use the launcher.
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Police in New Milford say the Dunkin' Donuts noticed the bills on April 25 and May 8, and turned them over to police.
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As of December 21, 2010, 25 of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia have enacted comprehensive smoke-free laws, and nearly half of residents in the United States — 47.8 percent — are covered by state or local smoke-free laws, the CDC said.
If trends continue, the nation could be 100 percent smoke-free by 2020, the researchers said.
But states in the South and parts of the West have resisted comprehensive statewide bans. Seven states — Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming — have no laws banning smoking in private workplaces, restaurants and bars.
That leaves about 88 million nonsmokers in the United States still exposed to secondhand smoke, the CDC said.
Only three southern states — Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina — have laws banning smoking in any two of the three venues (workplaces, restaurants and bars) and no southern state has a smoke-free law covering all three.
According to the U.S. surgeon general, measures such as separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air and ventilating buildings do not fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, and the only effective measure is to ban smoking in all indoor areas.
"We must zero in on those areas that continue to lag despite studies that show smoke-free policies benefit public health and the local economy with lower health care costs," Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.
According to the CDC, secondhand smoke causes an estimated 46,000 deaths from heart disease and 3,400 lung cancer deaths among U.S. nonsmoking adults each year.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – By Julie Steenhuysen
(Editing by Vicki Allen)
(This story was corrected in the headline, in paragraph one and in paragraph five to show that 25 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have enacted smoking bans, not 26 states)


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New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum
Bone-bothering boffins have discovered an entirely new species of horned dinosaur, despite having parts of its skull for the last hundred years.
Artist's restoration of the head of Spinops sternbergorum.
Credit: Dmitry Bogdanov, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
The fossilised remains of parts of the skull of the Spinops sternbergorum were discovered in 1916 by father-and-son fossil-collectors Charles and Levi Sternberg. They thought they had found a new species and sent the fossils to the Natural History Museum in London.
But the museum decided that the fossils were too small to be exhibited, so they were filed away for decades.
"This study highlights the importance of museum collections for understanding the history of our planet," Andrew Farke, lead author on the study that named the Spinops, said in a statement.
"My colleagues and I were pleasantly surprised to find these fossils on the museum shelf, and even more astonished when we determined that they were a previously unknown species of dinosaur."
The Spinops lived around 76 million years ago in Canada. The dinosaur was a plant-eating smaller cousin of the Triceratops that weighed around two tons.
The prehistoric lizard had a single horn on its nose and a bony neck frill that had at least two long, backward-projecting spikes as well as two forward-curving hooks, which are the unique features that distinguish it from other horned dinosaurs.
Although Spinops' face looks very similar to that of its close relatives Centrosaurus and Styracosaurus, the bony neck frill gives boffins a better understanding of how this structure evolved.
"In particular, the fossils of Spinops clarify the identification of the long frill spikes common in some horned dinosaurs," the statement said.
"Previously, scientists had inferred that these spikes evolved only once in the group. Careful study of Spinops, however, suggests that its spikes are located in a different position from that seen in most other horned dinosaurs, implying that the structures evolved independently."
The name Spinops sternbergorum (pronounced "SPIN-ops stern-berg-OR-uhm") means 'Sternbergs' spine face', referring to the headgear of the animal and honouring the original discoverers of the fossil. ®
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Autumn quarter is fast approaching! With that in mind, the new school year's contributors for My Fisher Grad Life have been added to the Authors page. To learn a little about the new authors – as well as those generous enough to offer their time for a second year – visit the Authors page, which is sorted by Full-time MBA, Working Professional MBA, MAcc, MLHR, and MBLE students.
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My mother wrote on the back, Barbie Brownie
October 17, 1950
Alameda, California
Years later I'm working on a scout project in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Both of my Scout leaders loved to camp, so my Lexington, MA troop camped often. Above was at my leader's summer home in Rowe, MA (taken in April 1959).
Names on the backs of my photos above: Mrs. Marthe Osborne, Marsha Cameron, Mary Bea Lingane, Jane Connell, Judy Anthony, Ellen Fitzgerald, Nancy Collins, and Sally Warren. One of these girls was my best friend, and I really need to contact her.
Below photo was taken at a Girl Scout round-up in New Hampshire (Aug. 1960).
Names on the backs of my photos above: Mrs. Marthe Osborne, Marsha Cameron, Mary Bea Lingane, Jane Connell, Judy Anthony, Ellen Fitzgerald, Nancy Collins, and Sally Warren. One of these girls was my best friend, and I really need to contact her.
Below photo was taken at a Girl Scout round-up in New Hampshire (Aug. 1960).
I have no memory of my Brownie days, other than I received a pin. When I moved from California to Massachusetts, I was in the Lexington Scout group for about 7 years and had the best Scout leaders, only two of whom I remember their names, a Mrs. Anthony and the other (shown above with the cap) was Marthe Osborne. In the early days, we worked on badges, all the normal things each scout did. I especially enjoyed learning to cook Spanish rice and penuche. Our big trip was to New York City, although I had already been there, this was extra fun because I was with friends and not my parents.
Our troop sold cookies every year, the first price I remember was $.35 a box. My neighbors bought boxes and boxes. The other annual thing we did was to march in the Patriot's Day Parade every April 19th in Lexington. Although it was a two-mile walk, I loved being waved at. Those two things are such nice memories.
Recently (August 2017) I returned to Lexington and drove around my old neighborhood. Here is the house where one of my leaders lived, and where we had many meetings. Thank you, troop leader, Mrs. Anthony.
I continued on in Scouting when I moved to Chelmsford, MA going into my Senior year, and do remember my mother forcing me to wear my uniform to Church one Sunday. During several summers in Lexington, I went to a day camp, Camp Cedar Hill in Waltham, MA, and helped my mother who was a leader there. Prior to that, I went to two different Girl Scout summer camps, one was Camp Four Winds in Plymouth, MA and Camp Helen Storrow also in that area, each was a two-week camp. Even before these Scout camps, I went to a special day camp in Concord, which I will write about when John Tew and I do a joint post. For those, who didn't see that post, the camp was Camp Hart located at Walden Pond in Concord. My boating and swimming lessons were in Walden Pond!
All my minor experiences with Scout camping helped me get my first job. I clearly remember acting as "adult" as possible when I went to their headquarters on Joy Street in Boston and applied for a counselor position at Camp Runels (I love their fb page) in Pelham, New Hampshire for the summer of 1962. Yes, I got the job and worked there for 9 weeks for a salary of $400. Nice memories there, met a lot of friends and grew up a little that summer. Also, remember being on the dock with my transistor radio hearing that Marilyn Monroe had died.
Update of information: Recently, I discovered several entries in my baby book and am sharing here.
1. Brownies at age 7-Installation and Troop 120 meeting on Mon. P.M.'s. (Alameda, California)
2. New Brownie troop - 20 at Mrs. Hamacher's. (Lexington, MA, 1954)


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Validus Holdings Obtains Required Regulatory Approvals for the Acquisition of Flagstone
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: FSR) ("Flagstone") today announced that all regulatory approvals required for Validus Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE: VR) ("Validus") to complete the acquisition of Flagstone have been received.
As previously disclosed, the shareholders of Flagstone have approved all matters required to be approved by Flagstone's shareholders in order for Validus to acquire Flagstone.
Flagstone expects that the acquisition will be completed prior to the opening of the U.S. markets on November 30, 2012, subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions to closing.
About Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A.
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A., through its operating subsidiaries, is a global reinsurance company that employs a focused and technical approach to the Property Catastrophe, Property, and Specialty reinsurance businesses.
Flagstone is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSR" and the Bermuda Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSR BH". Additional financial information and other items of interest are available at Flagstone's website located at http://www.flagstonere.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release may include forward-looking statements, both with respect to Flagstone and Validus and their industries, that reflect Flagstone's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Statements that include the words "expect," "intend," "plan," "believe," "project," "anticipate," "will," "may," "would" and similar statements of a future or forward-looking nature identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Flagstone's and Validus' control. Accordingly, there are or will be important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such statements and, therefore, you should not place undue reliance on any such statements. Flagstone believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events; (2) issues relating to claims and coverage that may emerge from changing industry practices or changing legal, judicial, social or other environmental conditions; (3) rating agency actions; (4) adequacy of Flagstone's and Validus' risk management and loss limitation methods; (5) competition in the insurance and reinsurance markets; (6) cyclicality of demand and pricing in the insurance and reinsurance markets; (7) adequacy of Flagstone's and Validus' respective loss reserves; (8) the estimates and judgments that Flagstone and Validus use in preparing their respective financial statements, which are more difficult to make than if Flagstone and Validus were mature companies; (9) retention of key personnel; (10) potential conflicts of interest with Flagstone's and Validus' respective officers and directors; (11) continued availability of capital and financing; (12) potential loss of business from one or more major insurance or reinsurance brokers; (13) the credit risk that each of Flagstone and Validus assume through their dealings with their respective insurance and reinsurance brokers; (14) Flagstone's and Validus' respective ability to implement, successfully and on a timely basis, complex infrastructure, distribution capabilities, systems, procedures and internal controls, and to develop accurate actuarial data to support the business and regulatory and reporting requirements; (15) the risk that Flagstone and Validus could be bound to policies that contravene their respective underwriting guidelines by managing general agents and other third parties who support certain of their businesses; (16) availability of reinsurance and retrocessional coverage; (17) the effect on Flagstone's and Validus' investment portfolios of changing financial market conditions including inflation, interest rates, liquidity and other factors; (18) the impact of currency fluctuations on Flagstone's and Validus' operating results; (19) the impact of heightened European sovereign debt risk on Flagstone's and Validus' fixed income portfolios; (20) the integration of Flagstone or other businesses Validus may acquire or new business ventures Validus may start; (21) the legal, regulatory and tax regimes under which Flagstone and Validus operate; and (22) acts of terrorism or outbreak of war, as well as Flagstone and Validus management's response to any of the aforementioned risks and uncertainties.
Additionally, the proposed transaction is subject to risks and uncertainties, including: (A) that Flagstone and Validus may be unable to complete the proposed transaction because, among other reasons, conditions to the completion of the proposed transaction may not be satisfied or waived; (B) uncertainty as to the actual premium (if any) that will be realized by Flagstone shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction; (C) uncertainty as to the long-term value of Validus common shares; (D) failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, including as a result of failure or delay in integrating Flagstone's businesses into Validus; and (E) the outcome of any legal proceedings to the extent initiated against Validus, Flagstone and others following the announcement of the proposed transaction, as well as Validus and Flagstone management's response to any of the aforementioned risks and uncertainties.
The foregoing review of important risks and uncertainties should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included herein and elsewhere, including the risk factors included in Flagstone's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and the risk factors included in Validus' most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and other documents of Flagstone and Validus on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). In addition to the risks described above, risks and uncertainties relating to the proposed transaction are more fully discussed in the proxy statement/prospectus included in Amendment No. 2 to the registration statement on Form S-4 filed by Validus with, and declared effective by, the SEC on October 23, 2012. Any forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements, and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by Flagstone or Validus will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Flagstone or Validus or their respective businesses or operations. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement and, except as may be required by applicable law, Flagstone and Validus undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
The contents of any websites referenced in this press release are not incorporated by reference herein.
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Veronica Santangelo
Veronica Santangelo, voiced by Felicia Day (of YouTube fame) is a young, free-spirited Brotherhood of Steel scribe working out of the 188 Trading Post. She's eager for adventure, and has explored much of the wasteland already before the player meets her. If the player engages Veronica in conversation, she will express her desire to travel with you outright. Veronica is most likely the easiest companion to aquire due to the fact that there is absolutely no requirement for obtaining her.
Veronica's weapons of choice are special companion weapons, meaning they will never break or run out of ammunition. Veronica's main weapon is a Brotherhood-issue Power Fist, which deals a significant amount of damage, yet puts her in higher danger due to the fact that it is an unarmed weapon, forcing her to get in the enemy's face to attack it. If you prefer to have a companion with a ranged attack, Veronica's other weapon is a P99 10mm Pistol, which does a mediocre amount of damage while giving Veronica a good ranged attack.
Veronica's initial clothes are some old, rugged Brotherhood robes. They have a very mediocre damage threshold, and aren't very easy on the eyes. Veronica is best suited to have light armor if using ranged attacks, and heavy armor if melee.
Veronica's "personal" quest is "I Could Make You Care", which expands upon Veronica's disapproval of the Brotherhood's underground bunker, which they almost never leave. This quest requires specific triggers to occur, which you can find more about by visiting the quest's wiki page. This quest is full of difficult decisions, murder mysteries, and even some light combat.
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I am not disputing the value of Vectric products. My experience so far is the PhotoVCarve and VC Desktop do a very good job and are fairly intuitive to navigate. If at some point I am able to afford Aspire I most certainly will do that. In the meantime I will continue to turn out great work within the limitations of what I can afford.
By free for those that can afford it, I mean that if you can afford the premium programs in the first place then the gadgets will work for you; for the rest, not so much. While nesting, tool path templates and rotary machining can be useful for smaller machines, I do not have use for those features right now. The gadget that would be of greatest use to me is the drag knife app. It will just have to wait until I can upgrade.
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20 years of the Family and Medical Leave Act – are you covered?
When you are welcoming a new baby, caring for an ill family member, or struggling with an illness yourself, your job is probably the last thing on your mind. Family challenges sometimes require our undivided attention, even if that means taking some time off work. This reality was addressed twenty years ago, when the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law. Since 1993, the FMLA has helped thousands of American workers by allowing them to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for themselves and their families, secure in the knowledge that their jobs would be waiting for them when they came back.
In 2008, the FMLA was expanded to cover the families of service members. The new provisions allow family members of wounded, ill, or injured service members and veterans to take unpaid leave to care for them. Families of service members deployed overseas are also eligible to take unpaid leave in some circumstances. The expansion of the law has benefited many military families. As one spouse of a wounded veteran says, "It has been really a huge relief to know my job is protected but I can use the days as needed for his care."
However, not every military family affected by deployment, illness, or injury is able to take advantage of the FMLA. To be eligible, an individual must have been employed by his or her employer for at least 12 months. Smaller companies with fewer than 50 employees are not covered by the Act. And some families of seriously wounded service members find that recovery takes longer than the 26 weeks of unpaid leave allowed under the FMLA, which forces them to quit their jobs.
February 5 is the 20th anniversary of the passage of the FMLA — a chance to look back on how the law has helped families and where it has fallen short. The National Partnership for Women and Families is collecting stories from people who have used leave to care for a new or adopted child, a sick family member, their own serious health condition, or to address a family member's military deployment. They also want to hear from people who haven't been able to rely on the FMLA's protections because they weren't covered by the law or couldn't afford to take leave without pay.
Do you have a story to share about the FMLA? Visit the National Partnership for Women and Families' Story Collection Survey and tell them about your experiences – or leave a comment below.
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Lower RADON in your home
How to Lower the Radon Levels in Your Home
Since there is no known safe level of radon, there can always be some risk. But the risk can be reduced by lowering the radon level in your home.
There are several proven methods to reduce radon in your home, but the one primarily used is a vent pipe system and fan, which pulls radon from beneath the house and vents it to the outside. This system, known as a soil suction radon reduction system, does not require major changes to your home. Sealing foundation cracks and other openings makes this kind of system more effective and cost-efficient. Similar systems can also be installed in houses with crawl spaces. Radon contractors can use other methods that may also work in your home. The right system depends on the design of your home and other factors.
The cost of reducing radon in your home depends on how your home was built and the extent of the radon problem. Most homes can be fixed for about the same cost as other common home repairs. The cost to fix can vary widely; consult with your state radon office or get one or more estimates from qualified mitigators. The cost is much less if a passive system was installed during construction.
Radon and Home Renovations
If you are planning any major structural renovation, such as converting an unfinished basement area into living space, it is especially important to test the area for radon before you begin the renovation. If your test results indicate a radon problem, radon-resistant techniques can be inexpensively included as part of the renovation. Because major renovations can change the level of radon in any home, always test again after work is completed.
Lowering high radon levels requires technical knowledge and special skills. You should use a contractor who is trained to fix radon problems. A qualified contractor can study the radon problem in your home and help you pick the right treatment method.
Check with your Iron County Radon Specialist for names of qualified or state certified radon contractors in your area. You can also contact private radon proficiency programs for lists of privately certified radon professionals in your area. For more information on private radon proficiency programs, visit www.epa.gov/radon/radontest.html Picking someone to fix your radon problem is much like choosing a contractor for other home repairs - you may want to get references and more than one estimate.
If you are considering fixing your home's radon problem yourself, you should first contact your state radon office for guidance and assistance (see www.epa.gov/radon/whereyoulive.html) .
Most homes can be fixed for about the same cost as other common home repairs.
You should also test your home again after it is fixed to be sure that radon levels have been reduced. Most soil suction radon reduction systems include a monitor that will indicate whether the system is operating properly. In addition, it's a good idea to retest your home every two years to be sure radon levels remain low.
Note: The diagram is a composite view of several mitigation options. The typical mitigation system usually has only one pipe penetration through the basement floor; the pipe may also be installed on the outside of the house.


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Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A sharp rise in attacks on Sunni holy sites in Iraq is feeding fears that the country could spiral into a new round of sectarian violence similar to the bloodletting that brought Iraq to its knees in 2006 and 2007.
Majority Shiites control the levers of power in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Wishing to rebuild the nation rather than revert to open warfare, they have largely restrained their militias over the past five years or so as Sunni extremist groups such as al-Qaida have targeted them with occasional large-scale attacks.
That may now have changed.
If it turns out that Iranian-backed Shiite militias are responsible for the recent attacks on Sunnis, it could signal a turn toward cyclical retaliatory violence.
At least 29 Sunni mosques were attacked between mid-April and early May, according to Mahmoud al-Sumaidaie, the deputy head of Iraq's Sunni Endowment, which oversees the sect's holy sites. At least 65 Sunni worshippers were killed, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press from police reports.
By contrast, two Shiite mosques were hit in bombings that killed one person over the same period, police and hospital officials said. Dozens of Shiites were killed in attacks by Sunni extremists at places other than holy sites during this time.
In all of 2012, there were only 10 recorded attacks on Sunni holy sites, al-Sumaidaie said.
In a sign of increasing fears by the Shiite-led government that the country might be descending into sectarian strife, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned last week that terrorists and extremist groups are taking advantage of the turmoil by targeting "certain areas and mosques."
"The attempts to stir sectarian strife again by warlords, terrorists, and militia leaders will not succeed and we will confront them with full force," he said, adding that the army and police would boost security around houses of worship.
Even if the will is there, al-Maliki's government is considered too weak to ensure security and control militias and other extremist Shiite groups that are allegedly linked to and partly financed by Iran.
And many contend that al-Maliki's government planted the seeds for more sectarian tension by becoming more aggressive toward Sunnis after the U.S. military withdrawal in December 2011.
For the past five months, Sunnis have been protesting against what they claim is second-class treatment by the government and to demand an end to some laws they believe unfairly target them. Violence has flared on occasion between security forces and protesters.
But the matter came to a head April 23 after government troops moved against a camp of Sunni demonstrators in the town of Hawija, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad. The clashes there sparked a wave of violence across Iraq that has killed more than 230 people, posing the most serious threat to Iraq's stability since the last American troops left in December 2011.
Al-Sumaidaie suggested the spate of recent attacks on Sunni mosques might be aimed at pressuring Sunni protesters to quit their anti-government rallies.
"These attacks aim to terrorize the worshippers and they might be a reaction on some issues such as the protesters," he said.
He also accused Shiite militias of being behind the recent attacks on Sunnis, but refused to specify which groups.
In February, Sunni households in mixed areas of Baghdad began receiving threatening leaflets signed by a militant faction known as the Mukhtar Army. The leaflets called Sunnis the enemy and warned them to leave the neighborhood. Their appearance raised new concerns among many Sunnis in the capital because overt threats like that had largely disappeared as widespread sectarian fighting waned in 2008.
The Mukhtar Army was formed by Wathiq al-Batat, a one-time senior official in Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, which has no direct link to the better-known Hezbollah in Lebanon. Al-Batat has said the militia's aim is to confront Sunnis who might attempt to topple the Shiite-led government in Baghdad in the same manner that Syrian rebels are trying to overthrow Bashar Assad's Iranian-backed regime in neighboring Syria.
Last week, al-Batat was quoted by Iraqi media issuing new threats against "the centers of terrorism and the people with turbans who are calling for terrorism" — an apparent reference to extremist Sunni clerics.
"We will work to intensify the jihadist operations, by using all means, in order to hunt for these terrorists and strike their economic, social and political interests, and we will not exclude anybody who promotes or calls for terrorism," he said.
Under Saddam, Iraq's Sunni minority held a privileged position, while the Shiites were largely oppressed. But since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam, those dynamics have been flipped, and a Shiite-led government now holds power in Baghdad.
Attacks on Sunni mosques have become rare since the peak of the sectarian strife, which was ignited by the bombing of the Shiite al-Askari shrine in the city of Samarra in February 2006. That attack was blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq and set off retaliatory bloodshed between Sunni and Shiite extremists that left thousands of Iraqis dead and pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
The new wave of unrest rolling across Iraq now is worrying in part because of the country's recent past.
Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, warned in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on April 30 that the situation in Iraq has taken "a very dangerous turn" since last month's crackdown in Hawija.
He described the recent violence as reminiscent of the dark days in 2006. Al-Qaida's Iraq arm, he wrote, is regrouping in areas that Iraqi and American forces "cleared at enormous cost," and its ally Jabhat al-Nusra is "attempting to hijack the secular resistance" to Syria's Assad.
"These developments threaten not only to unravel the gains made since 2007, but also to energize the forces of violent extremism in the heart of the Arab world, already burning in Syria," Crocker said.
Ahmed Hussein Saleh, a Sunni resident of Baghdad, said the current political tension has contributed to the deteriorating security situation and the comeback of sectarianism.
"The politicians, Shiite militia leaders, and even al-Qaida, want to restart the sectarian war because it is the only way to keep the people divided and thus rule the country the way they want," said Saleh, who has decided recently not to let his two kids go outside the house on their own, fearing for their safety.
Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Saad Maan Ibrahim said the ministry has taken extra precautions to try to secure mosques, including deploying more security forces and undercover policemen.
"The ministry is giving this issue top priority now because we are aware that this tactic has been used before in order to create a sectarian war among the Iraqi people, but they failed," Ibrahim told The Associated Press.
He said that an investigation is underway to determine which groups are behind the mosque attacks, and cautioned against jumping to any hasty conclusions.
"Basically, these attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaida, but we do not rule out the possibility that the militias from the other side might be behind this violence," he said.
At the Mohammed Fanadi al-Kubaisi mosque in western Baghdad, shards of glass litter the prayer hall nearly three weeks a bomb killed three people on April 26. At the front entrance, dozens of slippers and shoes are still neatly stored in the wooden shelves where worshippers left them before fleeing the in a panic.
The mosque's imam, Hussein Ali, who had just started into his Friday sermon when the bomb placed outside one of the windows blew up, said those who targeted the building "want to reignite the civil war among the people here."
"I am sure that God's revenge will fall upon them sooner or later," he said. "It is only a matter of time."
Associated Press writer Adam Schreck contributed to this report.
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ESPN Full Court Schedule – 480 Games of Delicious GoodnessPosted by rtmsf on November 7th, 2010
Once again this year we've been inundated with requests for our annual release and analysis of ESPN's Full Court Schedule, which for some reason the WWL makes very difficult to find and use every year. You'd think that if they want us to pay $104 for this product, they'd make it considerably easier to know exactly what we were buying. Alas. Keep in mind that according to ESPN every one of these games is simulcast for free on ESPN3.com (previously ESPN360), so the decision point on whether to spend the hundy probably comes down to whether you enjoy watching games on a 15″ or a 50″ screen. We didn't want the length of this post to be a mile long, so we've thumbnailed the entire schedule (which we re-organized in a useful way) below.
Note: You'll have to click the table in the new page to expand it to full size.
A fully sortable Google Doc that we created containing the same information is also located here. You can sort the table by your favorite school or conference if you like, a feature that ESPN with its boring .pdf format simply doesn't provide.
If that's too much to look at, here are the twenty games that we find the most compelling on the package this year. There are some legitimately good games on this list, including several matchups where talented mid-majors having something to prove visit a ranked team's gym (i.e., Morehead State @ Florida; ORU and ODU @ Missouri; Ohio @ Kansas). Additionally, some of the conference matchups later in the year could turn out to be important games for the overall standings and in terms of NCAA Selection Committee seeding (i.e., Kentucky @ Georgia; Maryland @ Virginia Tech; UNC @ NC State).
Here are the schools with the most appearances on Full Court this year. If you enjoy bad Big 12 basketball (Iowa State and Oklahoma), then you're in luck, but the package's comprehensive coverage of the SEC's Georgia (with probable first-rounders Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie) and Mississippi State (with Renardo Sidney) should be interesting. Seton Hall is on FC fourteen times, and given the amount of talent the Pirates are bringing back with the level-headed Kevin Willard entering the fray, it might be worth catching several more of their games. And if you're not getting enough of Jacob Pullen through the usual channels, the Full Court package will give you eleven more opportunities to fear the beard this season.


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Q: I did a spring cleanout; do I need to do a fall one too?
Robert – Reston, VA
A: Whether it's the spring or the fall, cleaning out your pond can be a chore. You have to pull out your gear, pull on your hip waders and gloves, and get dirty and wet. As much as you love your pond or water garden, it's hard work!
The answer to your question depends on two factors: the condition of your pond, and your personal preference. Let's take a closer look.
Condition of the Pond
Step outside and examine your pond and the area surrounding it. Have you, um, neglected it this summer? Perhaps the fish or algae have taken over the pond. Maybe leaves and dead plants are bunching up and decomposing along the water's edge. Hey—don't worry about it; it's been a busy summer, right?
If your pond isn't quite up to snuff, it's a good idea to break out that pond vacuum and your Laguna Collapsible Pond Skimmer Net and do some cleaning. It's also a good idea to add some beneficial bacteria, like Pond Logic® Seasonal Defense®, and maybe even do a partial water change to help remove excess debris before winter. Remember that debris left in the pond will continue to decompose and may pose a threat to your finned friends.
If your pond is looking good, however, and you've maintained it since the last cleanout, simply toss in some cool-weather bacteria, like Seasonal Defense®, to help remove any minor buildup that occurs until the pond starts to freeze over.
Personal Preference
Of course, personal preference matters, too. If you enjoy spending time pond-side as the trees do their color-changing thing, or if you plan to have some autumn soirees, Halloween haunted houses or other parties in your yard as the weather cools, then a clean-up is in order.
On the other hand, if you don't really care how your pond looks during the fall and winter months, do a quick cleanout to remove excess debris and add some cool-weather bacteria, like Seasonal Defense®—but definitely plan to do a thorough cleanout come spring.
Pond Talk: Is it more important to you to regularly maintain your pond or do big seasonal cleanouts twice a year?
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Your analysis of your local problem should give you a better understanding of the factors contributing to it. Once you have analyzed your local problem and established a baseline for measuring effectiveness, you should consider possible responses to address the problem.
This section reviews what is known about the effectiveness of various practices in dealing with check and card fraud. Unfortunately, the information is severely limited because few of the common preventive practices have been evaluated. Card issuers, retailers, and bankers have been reluctant to conduct the necessary studies, or to share the results of those they do conduct. The government has funded little research in this field, generally regarding it as the private sector's domain.
The following response strategies provide a foundation of ideas for addressing your particular problem. It is critical that you tailor responses to local circumstances, and that you can justify each response based on reliable analysis. In most cases, an effective strategy will involve implementing several different responses. Do not limit yourself to considering what police can do: give careful consideration to others in your community who may share responsibility for the problem. It will be essential to work closely with local businesses and community groups. The most effective program to reduce check and card fraud reported to date involved banks, retailers, business associations, database administrators, and local, regional, and national police. 28
As noted, local police can do little on their own to prevent check and card fraud. In many cases, you will have to persuade local bankers and merchants to act. You may have to explain why police can achieve little using traditional responses such as surveillance and arrest, and why heavier court sentences are of limited value. You may want to explain to merchants that the way they process check and card payments may be contributing to the problem. You may have to convince retailers and bankers that they cannot ignore the problem, because the costs to the community are too great and, in the long run, the stores and banks themselves suffer. Finally, you will need to advise them on preventive measures they can take to reduce the problem.
It is important that responses be selective and based on a thorough understanding of the particular circumstances. For example, fraudsters often target high-priced electronic gadgets and appliances because they promise more cash. 29 Or, it might be better to concentrate on preventing check and card fraud by casual offenders, who are easier to deter, than to focus on the much smaller number of "professionals," who are harder to defeat. Again, such choices depend on your local circumstances. In framing advice, you must think carefully about the nature of the risk, which varies greatly depending on the kind of store and goods offered; the types of cards accepted; the store's check-cashing policies; and the store's or bank's marketing practices. These factors determine the nature of the remedies. Department stores with huge turnovers of expensive goods can afford to spend much more on security than small retailers can, and their corporate headquarters often dictate security procedures. In all cases, you must appreciate stores' need to make a profit. It cannot be emphasized enough that the success of your efforts will depend heavily on how well you can convince local retailers that improved security procedures can and do increase the bottom line . In making your case, you may need to
Most large retail stores now have standard antishoplifting technology, such as item tagging, tracking, etc. However, such technology cannot prevent card fraud at checkout. People commonly do not notice their credit cards are missing until a day or more after their loss. Unlike shoplifters, card fraudsters are in no immediate risk of being detected or of setting off alarms. Thus it may be expected that, as technology makes shoplifting more and more difficult, thieves may turn more to card fraud.
The 2000 British Crime Survey (Home Office 2000) found that 50 percent of respondents reported being fairly worried or very worried about credit/bankcard fraud-more than for mugging/robbery or physical attack.
You can do much to inform merchants about modern verification procedures, particularly small businesses that, unlike large retail chains, may not have ready access to account and cardholder databases. Many police department websites offer lists of specific actions merchants can take to detect check and card fraud at checkout. In general, sales clerks must do the following:
Researchers have shown that adding simple security procedures can significantly reduce check and card fraud. In one U.S. study in a retail store, 32 a system that used picture IDs of customers who paid with credit cards reduced fraud by over 80 percent. Furthermore, retail stores (especially supermarkets) have found that customer databases that issue customers ID cards can also be used as an effective marketing tool to advertise special sales and promotions. A study in Norway 33 showed that legislation requiring people to show two forms of ID when cashing checks reduced check fraud by over 80 percent.
Since the late 1990s, U.S. retailers have increasingly required a customer thumbprint (using special invisible ink) to accept checks. Some police departments provide the ink for free to local retailers. However, unless police work closely with retailers, retailers may fear this requirement will have a negative effect on customers, who may consider it an invasion of their privacy (even though the print is used only if the check turns out to be fraudulent).
While these simple measures seem obvious and commonsense, if you visit any retail store and observe the security procedures for verifying checks or cards, you will see that sales clerks rarely or only casually use the ones described here. As noted, merchants often do not implement such procedures because they fear the negative effect they may have on sales. There is, however, no research to justify this view-although there is research that suggests that checkout delays do reduce sales. Therefore, you must take these concerns into account if you try to get local merchants to change their security procedures. Simply informing them about security possibilities is not enough. To avoid the negative effects of checkout delays, a carefully planned system has to be developed. This may require the input not only of the merchants, but also of security experts. Finally, an evaluation of the program's effectiveness must be built in to show that the savings from frauds prevented more than offset the cost of implementing the program . Without this assurance, retailers are unlikely to adopt security procedures.
A simple, inexpensive, and quick procedure that can be done without checkout delays is to use black light to check for counterfeit cards. All major cards (MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover) contain images that are visible under black light. The Troy (N.Y.) Police Department has successfully implemented this procedure.
Thumbprint at checkout improves customer authentication
In the meantime, there are three important ways you can help businesses train staff:
As with other responses in this section, you will need to gain a considerable amount of trust from businesses-and, where appropriate, security professionals-to participate in staff training. You must make your role and goals very clear to businesses, so they know you are not out to find something amiss in their business practices.
Unfortunately, there are merchants who set up bogus companies to collude with co-offenders to process fraudulent purchases made with credit cards, or to defraud honest cardholders. Merchant-alert databases have been successfully used in the United Kingdom to identify fraudulent merchants and warn honest cardholders of possibly risky locations and businesses (Levi and Handley n.d.). [Full text]
Web sites and mass mailings make applying for credit cards easy
Visa claimed card fraud reductions of up to 20 percent after it introduced software that detected unusual spending patterns (Maremont 1995).
The obvious difficulty with this response is that it does not focus as much on a specific crime as is usual in problem-oriented policing, but instead entails a more general approach of enhancing police-business relations. Thus, although it may help in implementing some of the other responses described in this section, it may be difficult to evaluate its specific effects on online credit card fraud.
In the first case, local police can do very little. But in the second, they might work with delivery companies to locally track items bought online. Tracking technology is revolutionizing retailing and many other business areas, and it is certainly at the operational core of UPS, Federal Express, and other delivery companies. Small transmitters are rapidly replacing bar coding, the most pervasive tracking technology of the late 20th century. These transmitters can be placed on retail items (they have proved particularly effective in reducing shoplifting), 37 vehicles (including delivery vehicles), 38 pets, livestock, and even people. They can be programmed to hold substantial information and to transmit location. Such devices make the recovery of stolen items much easier and can precisely track the delivery of products. Indeed, some companies already provide this service for stolen cars and trucks. 39 Because of the massive increase in online retailing, many more products are delivered to the home, creating opportunities for theft en route. The following are ways you can help businesses verify product delivery and detect possible card fraud:
The amount of card fraud committed through nondelivery claims is probably quite low, though there are no data to support this assumption. There may be high rates of product theft from delivery vehicles in some densely populated urban areas. 41 You may have to balance your delivery-monitoring efforts against competing demands on police time. But bear in mind that your responses to delivery theft may also work in reducing other crimes, such as selling stolen goods, returning stolen goods for refunds, and shoplifting.
Who should tell cardholders about these precautions? Local police do not have the ready access to customers that merchants and card issuers do: it is much easier for merchants and card issuers to provide crime prevention information along with customer bills and statements, or on ATM welcome screens. However, police do have access to two groups of customers (or potential customers): those who are typically targets of scams-senior citizens-and those who know little about banking or using credit cards-children. With the cooperation of local businesses and community groups, police could set up educational programs to give talks to senior citizen groups, and to visit schools to talk to students about responsibly managing personal information, bank accounts, and payment cards. While it would be sensible to target high school students, as some either already use credit and debit cards, or soon will, there may be good reason to target younger students as well, as they increasingly use the Internet. Of course, the effectiveness of such a program will be difficult to measure, since it requires a broad approach directed at affecting future behavior.
One response is to publicize what is known about fraud-emphasizing its financial and human costs, and spelling out the steps people can take to avoid becoming victims. Response #2 entailed working with businesses to increase the reporting of fraud, and response #1 suggested ways of raising responsibility awareness among merchants, card issuers, and customers. The most direct and-probably-effective way to reach all those affected by fraud is through the local media, which tend to be very interested in reporting on crime victims. 46 Police could write a piece outlining the costs to both victims and police: for example, it can take victims up to three months to straighten out credit problems caused by stolen identity, and may cost police up to $20,000 to investigate a case of identity theft. 47 As usual, you must take care to ensure that any publicity is linked to a planned prevention program agreed to by local business associations and merchants.
You should be on the lookout for bogus websites, as well. (Again, not much skill is needed to set up a website. Nor does it cost much, if anything, to do so.) Fraudsters have tricked many unsuspecting web users into sending credit card and other personal information to bogus companies. There are websites that constantly monitor the Internet for such scams, so you should routinely visit these to check on the latest incidents. Again, unless you have help from an ISP or a computer crime expert, you may have difficulty determining the location of the people operating the scams. As suggested in response #6, you should keep in close contact with nearby police departments that have specialized computer crime departments, and with the relevant state and federal agencies that monitor Internet fraud. You can also check with the Better Business Bureau or other local consumer-reporting agencies, as well as pay attention to news reports, to find out if there have been scams in your area.
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Apple set to Introduce a 7.85-Inch iPad in 2012?
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The iPad 3 rumors are in full swing and many of them are focused on a new device possibly arriving as soon as the first quarter of 2012. But a new bit of information has just emerged that makes the next generation of iPads even more enticing, and it has to do with a smaller form factor.
Chinese tech site Digitimes has gone on record with a source that says Apple will introduce a new iPad size in 2012. According to the source, the new size will be 7.85 inches, a size specifically designed to compete head-to-head with the newly popular Kindle Fire from Amazon. The current generation of iPads are 9.5 inches tall, while the Kindle Fire measures just 7.5 inches, making it easier to tuck into a spare pocket or hold for extended periods of time while reading an e-book.
According to the report, the smaller iPads wouldn't arrive until later in the year. The report states, "In addition to purchasing 7.85-inch panels from LG Display, Apple will also buy panels from AU Optronics (AUO), indicated the sources, adding that makers in the supply chain are likely to begin production of the 7.85-inch models at the end of the second quarter of 2012."
In the past Apple has shrugged off rumors of developing a smaller iPad. Just last year Steve Jobs told reporters in an annual conference call that 7-inch tablets were "dead on arrival." But history has shown that relying on Apple's public statements to divine the company's future product plans is usually a waste of time. Jobs once declared that "people don't read anymore," and he later introduced iBooks as the second coming of publishing.
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