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We offer personal service, new cars and low prices

Terms and conditions

Age and driving license:

1) The lessee/driver of a passenger car or a jeep has to be at least 23 years old and driver's license held for at least one year.

2) The lessee/driver of a luxury car has to be at least 23 years old and driver's license held for at least one year.

3) The lessee/driver of a bigger vehicles which according to law at any given time requires extended driver's license shall present appropriate license at the start of rental.

Method of payment:

4) Cash rental deposit is not accepted as some charges might not be brought to your knowlegde until a few days after the rental period is over. Lessee’s valid credit card required. A credit card imprint will be taken at the start of all rentals for security reasons, even when a voucher covers the cost of the rental.This credit card imprint may be used to pay all extra charges, including extra km, extra insurance, parking tickets, damages, tank refill or any cost due to the use of the rented vehicle. Should a vehicle be returned prematurely according to the return time stated in the agreement, the full amount will be charged unless specifically stated in the agreement.

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Obligations of the lessee:

5) The lessee agrees to the provisions of the lease and has received a copy of it.

6) The lessee will return the automobile:
a) and all accessories (including tires and tools) in the condition they were in when received, with the exception of normal wear due to use.
b) on the date specified by the lease, unless otherwise agreed later.
c) to the lessor´s premises, unless otherwise agreed.

7) If the lessee does not return the automobile at the time agreed upon in this lease, or does not declare his intention to extend the lease, the lessor or the police are authorized to repossess the vehicle without further notice and at the lessee´s cost.  Extending the lease is dependent on the consent of the lessor.  If the lessee returns the vehicle 1 hour or later after the lease has expired, the lessor is authorized to demand up to 24-hours rental under the terms of the lease.

8) The vehicle shall be handled and driven carefully. Only those named as drivers on the first page of the agreement are authorized to drive the automobile.  The lessee is liable for damage resulting from use of the automobile for which no compensation will be paid by the insurance company. This includes damages to the automobile and/or injury to passengers due to the following:
a) off-road driving.
b) driving across rivers or any kind of water course.
c) intentional acts or gross negligence.
d) use of intoxicants by the driver.
e) vehicle use that contravenes Icelandic law and/or the provisions of the lease.

9) In the event of a collision or accident the lessee shall immediately notify the appropriate police authorities as well as the lessor of the incident, and the lessee may not leave the scene before the police have arrived.

10) The number of kilometers (km) that the vehicle is driven while the lease is in force is determined by reading a normal odometer supplied with the vehicle by the manufacturer. The lessee shall notify the lessor as soon as possible if the odometer is out of order or stops functioning during the term of the lease.

11) The lessor is not responsible for the disappearance of or damage to property that the lessee or any other party leaves in or transports with the vehicle.

12) The lessee agrees to pay the lessor, upon request:
a) a deposit amounting to the estimated cost of hiring the car.
b) any and all expenses incurred by the lessor if he has to bring the vehicle back to his premises, in the event that it has been left
somewhere without supervision, without regard to condition of the vehicle, the roads or the weather.

13) The lessee is not authorized to have repairs done or make changes to the vehicle or its accessories, or to put the vehicle up as any kind of security, without the prior consent of the lessor.

14) The lessee is liable for all parking meter charges and fines for breaking traffic laws.

15) The lessee is not authorized to use the vehicle to transport passengers for payment, lend it to others, or sublease it.

Obligations of the Lessor:

16) The lessor undertakes to supply the vehicle at the agreed time and see to that it meets the demands made for it.

17) If the vehicle malfunctions, the lessor shall supply the lessee with a comparable vehicle as soon as possible. If the damage is minor, the lessee is authorized to have repairs done on the vehicle after obtaining the lessors consent.

18) The lessor shall inform the lessee of the content of the agreement particularly as regards the obligations that the lessee undertakes by signing it.

19) The lessor shall inform the foreign lessee regarding Icelandic traffic regulations, traffic signs, and regulations banning off-road driving. The lessor shall particularly point out the dangers stemming from animals on the roads.

20) If the lessor wants to limit the use of the vehicle with regard to its equipment and/or conditions, this shall be done in writing
when the lease is signed.

21) The lessor undertakes to maintain valid liability insurance for his business operations.

22) The lease sum/rental fee includes mandatory vehicle insurance, including liability insurance and accident insurance for the driver and the owner.

23) Third-party liability insurance will consist of the amount stipulated by Icelandic law at any given time.

24) The lessee can purchase separate accident (All-risk) insurance. This policy will specify the amount deductible (own risk) in each instance of loss.

25) This accident/all-risk insurance does not cover:
a) Intentional damage or damage due to gross negligence on the part of the driver.
b) Damage resulting from the driver being under the influence of alcohol, stimulants or sedatives, or in any other way incapable of driving the vehicle in safe manner.
c) Damage due to race or test driving.
d) Damage due to war, revolution, civil unrest or riots.
e) Damage done by animals.
f) Holes burned into seats, carpets or mats.
g) Damage affecting only wheels, tires, suspension, batteries, glass (other than windows), radios, or loss by theft of parts of the vehicle and damage resulting from this.
h) Damage caused by driving on rough roads to the vehicles transmission, drive, other parts that are in or attached to the chassis; damage to the chassis resulting from scraping the bottom on rough roads as a result of ridges being left by the road graders; stones lodged in the road surface or on the shoulder of the road. The same applies to damage occurring when stones are thrown up, striking the underside of the vehicle during driving.
i) Damages resulting from driving in places where vehicle traffic is banned, such as paths, tracks, banks of snow, ice, unbridged rivers or streams, beaches, places only accessible at low tide, or other trackless areas.
j) Damages caused by sand, gravel, ash, pumice, or other kinds of earth material being blown onto the vehicle.
k) If the vehicle is transported by sea, no compensation will be paid for damage caused by sea spray/seawater.
l) Damage to vehicles caused by driving on roads marked with an F in public maps as well as driving on Kjölur (Road 35) or Kaldidalur (road 550)
m) Lessors loss because of the vehicle being stolen.
n) Water damage to the vehicle.

In other instances, reference is made to the general conditions for accident/all-risks insurance.

General provisions:

27) Insurance: Third party liability insurance shall be equivalent to the amount stipulated by Icelandic law each time. The lessee is totally responsible for any and all damage to the car. By purchasing Collision Damage Waiver - CDW the lessee can insure himself against the disbursement of the driver liability; the amount of the own risk fee is according to lessor´s pricelist at given time, or isk 350.000. If lessee has already purchased CDW insurance he/she is able to purchase SCDW insurance and by doing so further lower the own risk.

28) However, no insurance covers damages to the underside of the rented vehicle or damages due to driving through rivers or any kind of waterfall. CDW and SCDW do not cover such damages. Such damages are always the lessee’s full responsibility. Please see more about insurance in the articles here above.

General terms:

29) The Lessee confirms with his or her signature to this rental agreement that he or she received the vehicle and attachments insound condition.

30) Signing this rental agreement is equal to lessee´s signature for a credit card transaction due to payments of charges which lessor charges to lessee’s credit card and is rightfully claimed by lessor according to provisions of this rental agreement.

30) This rental agreement shall always be in the vehicle while at the responsibility of the lessee.

31) Additions and amendments to the conditions and provisions of this lease agreement shall be made in writing.

32) Icelandic law applies to agreements made on the basis of terms stated above. This includes any claims for compensation that might be made. This applies both to the basis for and the calculation of compensation. The same applies to claims for damage based on liability outside this agreement. If legal disputes arise concerning the lease agreement, they will be heard before the lessor´s legal venue.

33) It should be pointed out that disputes between the parties to the lease agreement can be submitted to the Arbitration committee of the Icelandic Consumer´s Association and the Icelandic Travel Industry Association.

Please note that smoking is not allowed in our vehicles!!

Cancellation policy

Charges for cancellation are as follows:

Deposit is fully refundable up to 48 hours before start of rental.

Deposit is non-refundable if you cancel less than 48 hours before start of rental or do not show up at the pick-up.


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Birdlife diminishing in Russia’s southern wetlands

RT’s Close-Up series travels to the South of Russia, in the Rostov Region at the mouth of the River Don, where the variety of species of birds takes your breath away.

The biggest salt lake in Europe, the Manych Gudilo, is situated in Russia’s south and is home to more than 200 species of birds, where they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world.

But around thirty of them are in danger. The reason is that the region is one of Russia’s main agricultural hubs because of its extremely fertile lands, thus man’s impact is affecting the wildlife. The cultivation of the steppe has brought certain species to the brink of extinction.

Now people are trying to reverse the situation by guarding the places where birds live. The biggest populations of birds in the Rostov region live on the islands of the salt lakes in the steppe. The main point of concern is that those lakes are evaporating rapidly due to the last few years’ severe drought, as well as soil salinity and the reclamation of the marshland.

“Here we see the Great white pelican and several species of the Dalmatian pelican which are both in the Red Data Book. There are only 40-50 couples left in the region,” Viktor Minoransky from Living Nature of the Steppe NGO of Rostov region.

The pelicans, as well as other species at the Manych Gudilo, feed on fish. The best catch for them is in a small area of the lake, where the water is relatively fresh, as the fresh-water fish cannot survive in the saltier parts of the Manych.

And the lake’s getting saltier every year.

The Manych Gudilo is an artificial reservoir which was filled in the 1950s.

In the area’s hot climate, the water evaporates quickly, and the local soil’s natural salinity takes over.

Birds of the Manych Gudilo

“There are relatively few water sources here. Some water comes from the Don River and some from the Kuban. During the last 3-4 years we’ve had a really severe drought. Due to this drought we are practically standing on the bottom of this lake. It’s been falling every year. The majority of birds have been retreating as well. They nestle in the islands,” laments Viktor Minoransky.

Apart from birds, the drying out of the lake could also threaten one of the world’s biggest populations of mustangs – more than 400 of the animals live on one of the Manych islands.

The area is a protected wildlife reserve – it’s a place of serene peace and calm.

“They live and reproduce on their own, we do not feed them. Only when the temperature reaches above 35 Celsius, the natural water reservoirs dry out and there is no dew, do they come here to get water and ask for help,” says Lyudmila Klets, the head of biospheric reserve.

The horses appeared on the island some 60 years ago. First there were just two or three couples. They became wild and now there are hundreds of them.

In recent decades, dozens of canals have been dug around Manych Gudilo to cultivate the local steppes – broad, grassy plains.

This may be useful for humans, but it has badly hit many species of the animals here.

For instance Saiga antelopes – which are extremely shy – were scared away, only to be killed in the hundreds of thousands by poachers.

Folklore here believes the substance found in their horns can cure impotency.

Just some 40 years ago there were more than two million Saiga antelopes in Asia. They live nowhere else in the world. But people have brought the species to the verge of extinction and now, the only place you’ll find a Saiga in Rostov region is in a nature reserve.

The region has been rich in life for thousands of years. But now, in a relatively short space of time, its vibrant diversity of creatures is threatened on all fronts by man and Mother Nature herself.

The Rostov region has lots of salt lakes which are very shallow, just 20-30 centimeters deep. As they dry out, they provide some of the healthiest mud, even compared to the mud from the Dead Sea. For decades people have come to the region for treatment, despite a lack of promotion of the health benefits.

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Capt Khan ballot tribute: Orthodox Jew dedicates vote to US Muslim soldier (PHOTO)
A Jewish man used his vote to pay tribute to a US soldier killed in Iraq whose family fell foul of a Donald Trump rant about Muslims.

Yosef Rapaport, an Orthodox Jew, moved to Brooklyn, New York from Montreal decades ago.

He posted a picture of his blank ballot to Twitter on Tuesday, alongside an image of US Army Captain Humayun Khan, writing that the young serviceman’s sacrifice made “religious freedom possible”.

Khan was killed by a car bomb while guarding a US military base in Iraq back in June 2004.

“I’m an Orthodox Jewish Immigrant,” Rapaport tweeted. “My vote is private. Dedicated in honor of US CPT Khan, his devotion makes (religious) freedom possible.”

Rapaport’s tribute has since garnered thousands of retweets and drew comments from other Twitter users noting that his salute brought them to tears.

Capt Khan, 27, was hailed as an American hero by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a campaign speech last year, where the former secretary of state recounted details of his “courageous” last moments.

However, it was her Republican rival Donald Trump’s war of words with Khan’s family that became one of many flashpoints during his race to the White House.

READ MORE: How Trump won the White House: Key moments of #Election2016

Capt Khan’s father spoke at the Democratic National Convention to criticize Trump’s controversial calls for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the US.The Republican then responded by implying Khan’s mother had not been allowed to speak at the convention because of sexism in her faith.

“If you look… she was standing there,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News in July. “She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”

Asked whether he had anything to say to the Khan family, he added: “I’d say, we have a lot of issues with radical Islamic terrorism, that’s what I’d say.”

READ MORE: 'Unacceptable': Republicans blast Trump comments about family of slain Muslim soldier

The comments provoked outrage and led to many prominent Republicans coming out in support of the Khan family.


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Target May Face Federal Charges Over Breach (March 19, 2014)

Target has been communicating with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but it is not yet known if the retailer will face federal charges related to a massive data breach that compromised payment card information of millions of customers late last year.

[Editor's Note (Pescatore): I've been a big fan of FTC enforcement actions in the past that have happened *before* shoddy practices resulted in actual impact to consumers. I don't see much value in the FTC piling on here, but Target would be wise to commit to continuing voluntary third party (beyond PCI) assessments for the next 10 years.
(Murray): The American people expect, and media demands, that government provide blood sacrifice whenever something goes wrong. If government is unable to identify and punish the criminal, then it is well advised to further punish the victim. Regulatory agencies work better than law enforcement for this purpose; it is simply too difficult to prove "criminal" negligence. ]

Many Companies Still Not Disclosing Breaches or Sharing Attack Information (March 18, 2014)

According to a report from Arbor Networks and The Economist Intelligence Unit, many companies still do not publicly acknowledge data security breaches. While 77 percent of organizations responding to the survey said they had experienced a breach in the past year, 57 percent said they do not voluntarily disclose breaches that are not required to be disclosed by laws. Just over one-third of respondents said they share breach information with others in their industry.

[Editor's Note (Pescatore): The 43% that *are* making non-required disclosures need to explain to their shareholders why they are doing so. There are many, many things that go wrong at every business every day that are not required to be disclosed publicly and therefore are not. Imagine if every retail company disclosed every shoplifting or employee theft event!
(Assante): There are no surprises here as companies are struggling with the benefits of sharing attack information past trusted circles. The lack of discussion and facts related to both attacker moves and actions and target weaknesses/struggles/breakthroughs hurts our collective understanding and advancement of practices. While at NERC, I was hopeful and had a vision that we could do as good as a job of detailing cyber incidents as we did analyzing bulk power system outages and events. NERC has accomplished transparency on how regulated entities are struggling with compliance, but there are few organizations or regulatory programs that provide timely and 'responsible' transparency around reported cyber incidents.
(Paller): The key to breaking through on sharing is the British Information Exchange model - trusted groups of companies in tightly controlled disclosure groups. In the US federal involvement in these has been counter productive because they were mostly truing to force or coerce disclosure. However, data is emerging that DHS's NCICC has developed a new model, closer to the British model, that seems to be gaining corporate participation. PS The key is the British model is that the government gives useful (often sensitive/classified) data for a long time (generally 12 months) before the companies feel enough confidence to start sharing back.
(Honan): Another worrying finding from this report is that 1 in 3 businesses have no incident response plan. ]

Univ. of Maryland Discloses Another Data Breach (March 20, 2014)

The University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) has disclosed another security breach, the second in as many months. UMCP cybersecurity task force chair Ann G. Wylie said that in the latest breach, the personal information of "one senior university official" was compromised. The earlier breach affected hundreds of thousands of current and former students, faculty, and staff.

[Editor's Note (Paller): This story illuminates a key opportunity to improve cybersecurity around the world. Colleges need to teach hands-on cybersecurity as part of their core programming classes, not as electives. The web sites (which now UMCP officers say are being reviewed) were developed by people who rarely learned secure coding or about vulnerabilities in web application development systems like ColdFusion which are today the most commonly exploited access method for malicious actors attacking state and local governments and universities. Stopping errors from getting into the applications in the first place is the most promising proactive cyber defense action, but unless UMCP President Mote and his counterparts at other schools force their faculty to first learn and then teach secure, defensive programming as part of the core curriculum, they will continue to be a major part of the cybersecurity problem. ]

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Network Time Protocol Reflection Attacks Prompt Patching of Vulnerable Servers (March 20, 2014)

A recent uptick in Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection attacks has prompted the patching of vulnerable devices. Approximately 93 percent of the 1.6 million vulnerable NTP servers have now been patched.

Darlloz Worm Now Mines Cryptocurrencies (March 20, 2014)

The Darlloz Linux worm, which has been targeting home routers and security cameras, has now been modified to infect computers. The malware has also been updated to mine cryptocurrencies like Dogecoins and MinCoins. Once it has ensconced itself on a computer, Darlloz block other malware from infecting the machine and prevents attackers from accessing the machine through previously established backdoors.

[Editor's Note (Pescatore): I don't think we should call these things "crypto-currencies," as the term "currency" implies a whole lot of criteria that none of these *.coin offerings meet, like broad use and some kind of guarantee of value. Cyber-scrip would be better but probably cyber-tulip would be best. ]

Malicious Tor App in Apple iOS App Store (March 19 & 20, 2014)

A phony Tor app has been available in the Apple Store since November, according to the Tor Project, which has been unsuccessful in its attempts to get Apple to remove the possibly malicious app. The questionable Tor Browser app is bundled with adware and spyware, according to Tor developers.

Full Disclosure eMail List Shuts Down (March 19 & 20, 2014)

The Full Disclosure mailing list has suspended operations "indefinitely." Administrator John Cartwright said the decision was the result of pressure from a researcher to remove huge amounts of content from the list archives. The list was created in July 2002. ISC:

[Editor's Note (Murray): It is difficult to argue against transparency. However, it seems clear that the publication of special knowledge on this list has lowered the cost of attack for criminal hackers. No other "security" community in history has ever freely shared its esoterica with amateurs. Perhaps this move will make security research as satisfying as vulnerability research. ]

Compromised Gaming Site Server Used to Steal Apple ID and Other Sensitive Info (March 19 & 20, 2014)

An online gaming server was being used to host a phishing-related site that tried to steal Apple IDs, payment card data, and personal information. The attackers appear to have infiltrated the server through flaws in old calendar software. The server, which belongs to Electronic Arts, has been fixed.

PHP Hijacking Vulnerability Still Being Exploited (March 19, 2014)

A PHP vulnerability first disclosed nearly two years ago is still going unpatched, despite a report last fall about an easier way to exploit the flaw. More than 80 percent of websites are written in PHP; of those, about 16 percent are vulnerable to the exploit, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. A patch for the flaw was released in May 2012.

Man Arrested in Thailand Will be Extradited to Switzerland to Face Cybercrime Charges (March 19, 2014)

Authorities in Thailand have arrested a man wanted in Switzerland for allegedly breaking into computer systems at banks in that country causing US $4 billion in damage. Farid Essebar has previously served prison time for other cyber crimes. He will likely be extradited within the next 90 days.

Mozilla Releases Firefox 28 (March 18 & 19, 2014)

Mozilla has released Firefox 28. The newest version of the browser addresses 20 vulnerabilities, five of which were found at the Pwn2Own contest last week. The next version of the browser, Firefox 29, is scheduled for release on April 29.

Operation Windigo Used Unix Servers to Infect Computers with Malware (March 18 & 19, 2014)

An attack known as Operation Windigo has infected 25,000 Unix and Linux web servers which are being used to infect website visitors with a variety of malware. When Windows users visit compromised sites, Windigo redirects them to exploit pages. Mac users are redirected to dating site advertisements, and iPhone users are redirected to pornography advertisements. The compromised servers are also used to send spam.

[Editor's Note (Honan): Dealing with Windigo will be a major headache for system administrators as it requires the wiping of the server and re-installation of all software, resetting all passwords and re-issuing fresh SSH keys. This is a good example as to why you should integrate your security incident response with your business continuity plans to enable the business to continue to operate while you deal with the incident. ]

UK Cyber Security Challenge Winner Named (March 17 & 18, 2014)

A 19-year-old student has been named the winner of the UK's Cyber Security Challenge. The pool of 3,000 entrants was winnowed down to 42 finalists over the 12 months of competitions. William Shackleton outplayed 41 competitors in the Masterclass Final portion of the competition, which involved defending the city of London from a simulated cyberattack. Shackleton has an internship at Facebook for this summer. He will also choose from several prizes, including industry training, university classes, and information security industry events.

Judge Says Government's Warrant Request is "Overly Broad" (March 18 & 19, 2014)

A federal magistrate in the District of Columbia has denied a government request for a warrant to search a certain email address saying the request was too broad. Magistrate Judge John Facciola wrote, "The government continues to submit overly broad warrants and makes no effort to balance the law enforcement interests against the obvious expectation of privacy email account holders have in their communications." He goes on to observe that it appears that the government is seeking a particular set of email messages but the warrant request seeks "all electronically stored information in email accounts."

[Editor's Note (Honan): It appears the desire to read emails is not isolated to the US Government, Microsoft has admitted to reading emails for one of its Hotmail customers while conducting an internal software leak investigation
. Two timely reminders that email is not secure; and any sensitive data, commercial or otherwise, should be encrypted before sending by email. ]

Normalizing IP Addresses

Cisco Updates

Witty Worm 10 Year Anniversery

Microsoft Internal Documents Published after Phishing Attack

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Avast Safeprice Feature

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John Pescatore was Vice President at Gartner Inc. for fourteen years. He became a director of the SANS Institute in 2013. He has worked in computer and network security since 1978 including time at the NSA and the U.S. Secret Service.

Shawn Henry recently retired as FBI Executive Assistant Director responsible for all criminal and cyber programs and investigations worldwide, as well as international operations and the FBI's critical incident response. He is now president of CrowdStrike Services.

Stephen Northcutt teaches advanced courses in cyber security management; he founded the GIAC certification and was the founding President of STI, the premier skills-based cyber security graduate school, www.sans.edu.

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is Chief Technology Officer of the Internet Storm Center and Dean of the Faculty of the graduate school at the SANS Technology Institute.

Ed Skoudis is co-founder of CounterHack, the nation's top producer of cyber ranges, simulations, and competitive challenges, now used from high schools to the Air Force. He is also author and lead instructor of the SANS Hacker Exploits and Incident Handling course, and Penetration Testing course.

Michael Assante was Vice President and Chief Security Officer at NERC, led a key control systems group at Idaho National Labs, and was American Electric Power's CSO. He now leads the global cyber skills development program at SANS for power, oil & gas and other critical infrastructure industries.

Mark Weatherford is a Principal at The Chertoff Group and the former Deputy Under Secretary of Cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security.

William Hugh Murray is an executive consultant and trainer in Information Assurance and Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Sean McBride is Director of Analysis and co-founder of Critical Intelligence, and, while at Idaho National Laboratory, he initiated the situational awareness effort that became the ICS-CERT.

Rob Lee is the SANS Institute's top forensics instructor and director of the digital forensics and incident response research and education program at SANS (computer-forensics.sans.org).

Tom Liston is a Senior Security Consultant and Malware Analyst for InGuardians, a handler for the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, and co-author of the book Counter Hack Reloaded.

Dr. Eric Cole is an instructor, author and fellow with The SANS Institute. He has written five books, including Insider Threat and he is a founder with Secure Anchor Consulting.

Mason Brown is one of a very small number of people in the information security field who have held a top management position in a Fortune 50 company (Alcoa). He leads SANS' efforts to raise the bar in cybersecurity education around the world.

David Hoelzer is the director of research & principal examiner for Enclave Forensics and a senior fellow with the SANS Technology Institute.

Gal Shpantzer is a trusted advisor to CSOs of large corporations, technology startups, Ivy League universities and non-profits specializing in critical infrastructure protection. Gal created the Security Outliers project in 2009, focusing on the role of culture in risk management outcomes and contributes to the Infosec Burnout project.

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Four concepts that will help you outpace the competition

Jeff Alford, SAS Insights editor

When you’re considered the largest US retailer of new and preowned vehicles, there are lots of organizational parts that need be maintained if you’re to achieve peak performance. For AutoNation, with more than 280 dealerships in 15 states, it required unifying its marketing approach as the organization rapidly grew and new dealerships were acquired.

Prior to 2013, the company was a collection of dealerships operating in regional groups. After coming under the AutoNation brand, the company launched an awareness campaign that included elevating the marketing department under a CMO.

To further build and support the brand, AutoNation identified some core marketing concepts that could be clearly and consistently implemented at its stores across the country. The advice that follows based on a discussion that appeared in Argyle Conversations between Karen Joslyn, vice president of manufacturing and energy at SAS and Greg Revelle, former CMO of AutoNation.

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Concept #1: Focus on the external

What AutoNation inherited was lots of individual websites that were mostly third-party managed and bore little in common – except displaying vehicle inventory. The marketing office helped develop a common website approach that also fostered a stronger brand presence.

AutoNation brought in experts were focused on the digital marketing and knew how to use data and analytics to better understand its customers and their shopping behaviors.

Concept # 2: Be a customer advocate

In the early days of AutoNation, it was more important to sell inventory than establish relationships with car buyers. That quickly changed as the marketing department’s organizational influence grew. As a result, AutoNation became a more customer-centric company that thinks about the needs of its customers and they built the company’s value propositions around meeting customer needs.

Concept # 3: Bring diverse experts to a complex problem

If you’ve ever bought a vehicle, you know what a challenging, and sometimes mysterious, process it can be. Adding to that challenge for the company was helping buyers through the purchase process online. To help eliminate the mystery and complexity, AutoNation needed expertise in building an ecommerce presence from scratch. That included bringing in web designers, user-interface experts and gurus for all of the other technical pieces that needed to be in place to launch an easy-to-use website that helps guide customers through their purchase decision.

Concept #4: Strike the right balance between short- and long-term goals

The monthly and quarterly auto sales goals have to be the driving, short-term goal for the company. The trick for the marketing department is putting the right amount of energy into that effort while keeping enough resources in reserve to use on longer-term investments like e-commerce and analytics. Former AutoNation CMO Greg Revelle said that it’s a constant juggling of priorities.
“That’s the biggest pressure for me on a day-to-day-basis: When there’s a small fire burning, how much water do we want to put on that fire if it jeopardizes some of the big picture things we’re doing?,” Revelle said.

So far, it appears AutoNation has made the right trade offs.

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Bringing analytic rigor to pharmaceutical couponing programs

Knowing how doctors, patients use coupons helps PSKW grow pharmaceutical marketing business 140% annually

PSKW has dramatically increased its business by providing the one service other pharmaceutical marketing companies often skip: analyzing exactly how the coupons they create for clients are used by physicians and patients. By tracking return on investment by physician, region, drug and program, the midsize company has grown its business 140 percent each year for the past three years.

"We are bringing the same rigor to the coupon industry that pharma has used to measure the effectiveness of detail (sales calls) and samples. No one had ever done this before," explains Robert Caprara, Chief Methodologist for PSKW. "This provides a differentiator for our business."

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Pharmaceutical coupons are a less expensive alternative to sending detailers (drug reps) to physicians' offices with boxes of free samples. For companies that sell branded drugs, the coupons help grow market share. If a generic equivalent becomes available, coupons help the companies maintain market share.

Before PSKW started its two-person analytics department, the company created and deployed coupon programs – but didn't track outcomes. When Caprara began consulting with the company he realized PSKW was sitting on a data goldmine. "We have coupon usage data for more than 450,000 physicians. We had data for thousands of (coupon) programs on tens of millions of patients."

Caprara began mining data and brought in another programmer to deploy SAS® Business Intelligence for Midsize Business so business users have access to the mined data. "We didn't want to be the bottleneck," Caprara explains. He recommended SAS to company executives because of its strength in merging data from multiple sources.

Matching coupons to ROI

When Caprara first started with PSKW he discovered that the norm in the pharmaceutical marketing industry was a "pray and spray" approach to sending out coupons. That might have been fine in the beginning "but it's grown to be several billion dollar expenditure by pharmaceutical companies," he says. "Today, instead of us just asking 'How many coupons do you want printed up?', it's now an analytical sale. We analyze their targets and make recommendations before the coupons are even printed."

Coupons are designed so that when they are redeemed PSKW knows when, where, how and which doctor prescribed the drug. By incorporating other data on prescriptions, it can tell its pharmaceutical clients whether physicians continue to prescribe the drug even after the coupons ran out, and whether patients refilled prescriptions. From there, pharmaceutical companies can get a better sense of which physicians' offices respond to coupons and which patients might need follow-up coupons to continue filling a prescription.

Caprara also assesses coupon programs with ROI studies. He says for most programs, the ROI ranges from 4:1 to 12:1. More important than the financial return is the strategic information that PSKW provides to inform further promotions. This includes:

  • Measuring efforts to retain market share when a drug loses its patent. By analyzing the results from various coupon trials, PSKW helps branded drug marketers understand what price point helps its drug stay competitive with a generic drug. "Coupons allow patients and physicians to have the option to stay on a branded therapy that is working for them. We often see market share erosion stop and even reverse itself versus generics when this option is made available,'' Caprara says.
  • Analyzing the benefit of placing coupons with pharmacists who offer them to customers concerned about the cost of a drug. This reduces the chance the customer will call back to a physician's office requesting a different drug.
  • Identifying physicians that are most likely to prescribe the drug if they have a coupon/free sample, along with determining which drugs will benefit from having a coupon. For one client, there was 40 percent uplift in drug prescribing when PSKW helped them target the right physicians. "We did one analysis that showed that for every coupon that a doctor uses, he is writing four or five other prescriptions. That was a deciding factor in keeping the program,'' Caprara explains.

The analysis work has been so well-received that PSKW is growing by word of mouth within large companies – one brand tells another brand about PSKW's work. "We've averaged 140 percent growth every year in coupon usage since 2009 and it doesn't appear to be leveling off," Caprara says.

"Our clients have a ton of data. They don't want any more. What they want are insights and wisdom," Caprara says. "You need tools to turn data into knowledge. I've never seen anything as flexible and powerful as SAS for doing that."

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The signs of the holidays have arrived: dropping temperatures, changing leaves and, of course, pumpkin spice everything. Bringing some of the holiday cheer indoors through decorations is a simple and fun way to transform a house into a home. Decorating doesn’t have to be difficult or a budget breaker, either. Take a cue from our list of ten easy tips below to help prepare your home for the festive season with items you can find around the house or grab in a quick trip to the dollar store.

Bring a special room together by adding a centerpiece to your mantle or table. You might be surprised to find that many of the materials you need to create a fantastic DIY centerpiece are already in your home. Fill a vase halfway with popcorn kernels, and add a candle to the center. Or, simply place a glass hurricane in a bowl and surround it with pinecones.

TIP: Hot glue cinnamon sticks to the outside of several candles of varying sizes for an instant centerpiece with a bonus — when you heat the cinnamon it will release a lovely scent.

Purchase a bag of tiny pumpkins, and simply stack them on a side table. The decoration should seem almost unintentional, so don’t think too critically about placement choice. To make the arrangement last longer, soak your pumpkins in bleach before placing them out in your home. Mix pumpkin colors or add height by placing a particularly interesting pumpkin atop of a smaller table or stool.

Borrow a bit of the outdoors. Collect pinecones to use as decorations, just make sure you eliminate hitchhikers first. Bake the pinecones for 45 minutes at 200 degrees to get rid of any bugs.

You’ll need to purchase a straw wreath-form for this project. Your local craft store is sure to carry wreath-forms, especially around the holidays. Once you have this base, spend some time collecting blooms and foliage in a variety of colors and glue them to the wreath frame. The savory scents and array of colors will combine to create a sensory heaven in your space. Add a glass hurricane and candle to the center of the wreath and display flat, or tie a ribbon to the top to display on a wall or the front door.

Collect a grocery bag worth of leaves, round up some mason jars and stop by the craft store for glue. Remove the stems from the leaves, soak them in mod podge and apply them to your jar (stop with one for a minimalistic look, or layer them for a different effect). Once the jars have dried, you can fill them with candles, and add twine and glitter.

Make your neighbors jealous with a gorgeous topiary that is unbelievably cheap – ringing in around four dollars. Purchase foam pumpkins from the dollar store, and paint them light cream. Shiskabob them atop one another on a bamboo skewer, and place in a planter. Add floral moss between each pumpkin as well as at the base to cover any blank space (if you prefer a different look you can add colored leaves rather than moss). You can also apply vinyl letters onto each pumpkin for a holiday message. Update the topiary throughout November with Indian corn.

Fall3Give a dollar store find a quick face-lift with free printable. If you already have a computer and printer, then your creative options for this project are endless. Find a sizeable clipboard from the dollar store. If you don’t love its color, give it a quick coat of paint before beginning this project. Then, Mod Podge the surface and apply your printable – carefully applying to ensure that you have no air bubbles. Glue magnets to the back of the clipboard to create a simple, aesthetically appealing reminder board for your refrigerator. Add any extra crafting supplies you have handy at home, like twine or burlap, to make your creation season-specific.

Pick up fabric paint, burlap fabric and letter stencils. Arrange the letter stencils on the burlap fabric in your desired message and then go over the letter stencils with your fabric paint. Iron over the paint to set it. For a perfect, last minute runner on Thanksgiving try ‘GIVE THANKS’.

Candles instantly improve the aesthetic in any room, and the chances are you have some around – or can easily find them. Place leaves on a surface, then group candles together atop the leaves. Choose candles of staggering heights for a clean look.

….and one for winter. We may not always see snow flakes in the south, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use them as decorations. Create the illusion of snowdrifts by cutting out handmade snowflakes and stringing them from a simple mobile with thread. Attach them to a spray painted branch, existing pendant lights or chandelier if you don’t have a mobile handy.

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A recycling company that specializes in the recycling of old cell phones and other forms of electronic waste has been implicated in the illegal exporting of that waste to Africa.  Environment Waste Controls (EWC), one of the biggest recyclers of used cell phones and other forms of electrical items in the whole of the United Kingdom, has confessed that some electrical waste from its sites in the south of London have been shipped to Africa in flagrant disregard of regulations specifically designed to prevent electronic waste being dumped on developing countries.  Many of these countries have neither the knowledge nor the resources to dispose of them properly and end up harming the environment and being potentially dangerous to human health as well.

BBC television series “Panorama” teamed up with the Environmental Investigation Agency, using GPS to track the passage of the electronic waste.  “When disposing of used electrical goods at civic amenity sites, the public has a right to expect that the equipment will be disposed of in accordance with the law,” the Environmental Investigation Agency says.

For their part, Environment Waste Controls has copped to the charge and issued an apology.  “This is unacceptable and EWC has put in place measures to prevent a reoccurrence of this practice and to undertake a full investigation in cooperation with the regulator and relevant authorities.  We have instructed all our sub contractors that no electronic equipment deposited at designated collection facilities operated by EWC should leave the UK until further notice.”


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Here is Martin’s 622 SLX, with custom komodo pink paint. The guys at Bicycle Speed Shop in Houston delivered it for us.

Hi! Hope all is well and that you are building bicycles like crazy. Yesterday Brian came to Mexico (to visit his brother) and brought my beautiful Seven 622 SLX in person. I am still out of words and I have a very jealous wife & kids back home. Today I had my professional fitting done and the fitter was out of words too. Attached a few pictures of the final build. Please thank everyone at Seven for their masterful work.

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The Big Ideas – The 5 Elements of Customization

The Big Ideas, as a series, is about this whole bike building project we embarked on in 1997 and the foundational ideas that make what we do possible. The first installment was about Single-Piece Flow (SPF). The second installment was about Just-in-Time manufacturing (JIT).

This week we explore the 5 Elements of Customization.

It is all well and good to tell someone you can build their ultimate bike, but if they don’t have the vocabulary to tell you what that bike should look like, you’re no closer to that bike existing than you were before you met them. The 5 Elements give riders a useful way to think about customization.

The 5 Elements are the language of Single-Piece Flow on the bike shop floor.

RyanDrafting1) Fit & Geometry – Think of the upper half of the bike, the points where you touch the bike, saddle height, set back, reach, bar height. These are the angles and centimeters that address different riders’ size, proportions, age, style and health (injuries). We address these, at the shop, through a bike fitting, and then follow up with body measurements that allow us to consider that fit in terms of your new frame’s geometry.

2) Handling and Performance – Think of the lower half of the bike. This is where we fine tune for rider weight, comfort, handling and riding conditions. Bottom bracket drop, fork rake, chainstay length, all these things affect how the bike feels. If you tell us you want your bike to be stable or quick handling, we can produce those characteristics through fine tuning of handling and performance features.

Gatson43) Tubing & Materials – We work in steel, titanium, and Ti/carbon mix. We start from the beginning when designing a bike for you, choosing a material that speaks to the kind of riding you do, then we go further, picking a tube set, in that material(s), that matches your specific preferences for stiffness and/or comfort, then we go further still, refining your rider-specific tube set through tube butting processes to accomplish the most personalized on-bike experience available from any custom builder, anywhere.

4) Options – Brake types, rack and fender mounts, decal colors and placement, paint, cable-routing, couplers, chain or belt drive component optimization, the configurations and permutations are close to infinite. This is how you dial the bike in. This is how you meet ALL your goals for your new bike, without compromise.

5) The Future – This is how we make our design as durable as our materials. We plan for the rider’s aspirations. Racing? Touring? Commuting? How does the bike age with the rider’s body? Is it adaptable? How do we keep the bike useful for the rest of the rider’s life?

You don’t have to be a bike designer to collaborate with us on the design of your new bike. You just need to be able to express your preferences in simple terms and let us map them onto the 5 Elements of Customization.

Adam K’s 622 SLX refresh

We built this 622 SLX for our friend Adam at Get-a-Grip Cycles in Chicago last season, but he just gave it the fresh bar tape, fresh saddle treatment, so he sent us a picture. We love the Swimming Pool Blue he chose for the carbon tubing, and the Campy EPS build out turns it into something of a show bike. Fortunately, we know the Chicago winter is coming to a close, and we expect this one to leave the showroom and get back on the road shortly.

Titanium/Carbon Mixes – The Best of Both Worlds

622-lugsIf you were to take a carbon fiber tube and wrap it against the wall, then hold your ear to it, there would be little if any sound emanating from the tube.  If you did the same test with metal, it would sing like a tuning fork.  The same holds true for frames, metal sings and carbon whispers.  These two qualities make for very different experiences on the road.  Carbon bikes, like our Diamas line, make pitted and potholed roads feel like you are pedaling over wall to wall carpeting; smooth, with very little feedback.  Metal bikes, like the Axiom, Resolute, Sola, and Mudhoney, on the other hand, provide constant feedback keeping you in tune with the surface of the road.  Once we start customizing and manipulating tube sets, we can alter how compliant or how stout the frames will be, but the material dictates how the road’s vibrations will be relayed to the rider.

There is a gap between whispering and singing, and to some, that’s where the perfect bike resides.  By adding carbon tubes to a titanium frame, or vice versa, we can fabricate a bike that hums, bridging the gap between the two materials.

tubingThe idea of a titanium frame paired with carbon seat stays for the intended purpose of soaking up road vibrations was a notion that Seven pioneered and first implemented with the Odonata back in 1997, and though there have been some updates and improvements the same basic model exists today, now known as the Elium SL.

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I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before. I am new to this community, but understand how annoying it can get to hear the same questions over and over. I have read the FAQs and did not see my question answered, so here it is:
---I am getting ready to begin cultivation of mushrooms and had planned on buying the growbag from SporeBank because it looked like the easiest method out there for growing. I have read on this site, however, bad reviews for SporeBank, and now have second thoughts.
But I was wondering, instead of buying the bag from SporeBank, is there an easier method?
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If I get a growbag labeled 'for grain-loving species', as seen on sites similar to SporeBank, would it be a good idea to try and grow psilocybin in this?
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At WWDC today, Apple unveiled iOS 6, which it claims is the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. Due in the autumn, iOS 6 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch boasts 200 new features, including a new Maps app featuring Apple-designed cartography.

Upgraded Siri features include support for new languages, movie listings and sports scores. You also can ask Siri to update your status on Facebook, post to Twitter or launch an app.

Among the Facebook features revealed at WWDC is sign in once and post from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps, including Photos, Safari and Maps. Your Facebook friends’ information is kept up to date across all your iOS devices, automatically updating details in Contacts when they change, and scheduling events and birthdays in your Calendar.

Users can also ‘Like’ content directly from the App Store and iTunes and see what friends recommend.

A new Eyes Free mode enables you to interact with your iPhone using nothing more than your voice.

The new Map app features a Flyover view and turn-by-turn navigation. The new Maps app with vector-based map elements make graphics and text smooth, and panning, tilting and zooming fluid. It also boasts photo-realistic interactive 3D views and real-time traffic information that suggests alternative routes if conditions change.

The new Map app also features information on more than 100m businesses with Yelp ratings and available deals.

“iOS 6 continues the rapid pace of innovation that is helping Apple reinvent the phone and create the iPad category, delivering the best mobile experience available on any device,” said Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice-president of iOS Software.

“We can’t wait for hundreds of millions of iOS users to experience the incredible new features in iOS 6, including the new Maps app, expanded Siri support, deep Facebook integration, Shared Photo Streams and the innovative new Passbook app.”

iCloud integration and other interesting new features

Shared Photo Streams allow you to select the photos you want to share, pick which friends you want to receive the album, and the Shared Photo Stream album is instantly available on their iOS devices, iPhoto and Aperture on their Mac, via the web or even through Apple TV. You and your friends can leave comments on or ‘Like’ any photo in a shared album.

Apple also revealed a new Passbook app that allows users to gather all their passes in one place, including boarding passes and sports tickets.

The app lets users scan coupons with their iPhones or iPod touch devices for such purposes as getting into a concert or checking into hotels.

Another new feature is Guided Access, which allows parents, teachers or guardians to disable hardware buttons, lock the iOS to specific apps or confine touch input to certain parts of the screen.

Significantly, the new mobile OS comes with support for FaceTime calls over cellular networks.

Other improvements, particularly for iOS users in China, include text input and support for Chinese web services like Baidu, Sina Weibo, Youku and Tudou.

The new OS will be available in the autumn to work with the iPhone 4, the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 3GS, the new iPad, the iPad 2 and fourth-generation iPod touch devices.

Editor John Kennedy is an award-winning technology journalist.