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Fresh-cut and value-added fruits and vegetables get much of the credit for the modest sales growth produce departments enjoyed in the past year. As consumers vote for convenience with their dollars, it's a trend that's likely to continue.
For fruit, fresh-cut rose almost 17% in dollars in 2012 over the previous year while value-added was up 12%, said Steve Lutz, executive vice president of Nielsen Perishables Group, West Dundee, Ill. Value-added vegetables rose 12%. Department-wide, produce grew just over 4%.
By volume, value-added vegetables were up 15% at retail in 2012 after gaining 10% the year before, according to Nielsen Perishables Group. Side dishes spurred that with a 16% volume gain. New products lifted the overall category as unique item count rose 11%.
"People are still time-starved and I think they're getting more time-starved," said Noel Brigido, vice president of operations for Canadian processor Freshline Foods, Mississauga, Ontario.
"There have been a lot of single-serve applications this year for the snack or filler market, for shoppers to grab something quick. It's up dramatically."
"What we continue to see across all fresh foods is consumers seeking out items that deliver convenience," Lutz said.
"There are more items coming into the store."
"If you end up with more items on the shelf, you're either decreasing shelf space for existing items to allow more in, or you're expanding the space," Lutz said.
"I can't prove it, but my guess is that fresh-cut items are continuing to pick up display space. With the growth rates we're seeing I'd really doubt it's otherwise."
Some of the space gains for fresh-cut are coming from the deli department and beyond.
"We continue to get a lot of competition from deli," said Ed Odron, owner of Stockton, Calif.-based Ed Odron Produce Marketing Consulting.
"Look at a Safeway deli — Taylor Farms is supplying a lot of those. Alongside the fried chicken and pizza, the salad section is getting substantial. We all thought it would hurt produce sales, but it hasn't and might have even enhanced it with complementary items. Value-added is profitable in both."
Fresh-cut and snacks
Produce Marketing Association research shows two-thirds of consumers buy non-salad fresh-cut items, said Kathy Means, vice president of government relations and public affairs.
That broad reach seems borne out by results like those of Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., which reported net sales up 11% in 2012 in fresh-cut. Chairman and chief executive officer Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh said his company is the biggest branded fresh-cut food supplier in the U.S.
For sliced-apple specialist Crunch Pak, Cashmere, Wash., past is prologue. Its future lies in snack and breakfast items, said Tony Freytag, marketing director. Sales of Crunch Pak tray snacks — such as Apple Snackers, Dipperz and Disney Foodles — are up about 250% over a year ago.
"We'll be introducing new products at United Fresh," Freytag said, referring to the May 14-16 trade show in San Diego.
Lately Crunch Pak research has focused on breakfast-themed snacks, he said.
"Clearly, innovation is more snack-driven in fruit," said Steve Kenfield, vice president of sales and marketing for Kingsburg, Calif.-based HMC Group Marketing Inc.
"Snacks are the strongest area we've got."
HMC Farms offers snacks under the Grape Escape label. It's also added a 1-pound tray to its line of ONEders destemmed grapes.
Pouch parade
In packaging, stand-up pouches are spreading. Freshline Foods, now in its second year with pouches, added nine stock-keeping units in 12 months.
"We're promoting those like crazy," Brigido said.
The Canadian processor's line includes sliced apples, peeled parisienne potatoes, cubes of turnip or butternut squash, and others.
Sales of value-added potatoes in microwaveable bags are up over last year but some retailers still aren't carrying them, Kevin Stanger, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Wada Farms, Idaho Falls, Idaho, said in March.
Getting trials in prominent display spaces has been a challenge, but so has a rise in products from competitors.
Kale, carrots, celery
In the salad mix category, demand for kale blends shows no sign of slowing. Salinas, Calif.-based Church Bros. LLC is the latest in a long line of product introductions with its Italian Greens for foodservice.
"Kale is the darling of everybody these days," Means said.
Oxnard, Calif.-based San Miguel Produce reports its value-added kale sales more than doubled in 2012. The company's products include four SuperKale Salad Slaws launched then under its Cut 'n Clean Greens label.
Carrots are also going along for the ride.
"The solid growth is coming from the value-added sector of our business, (which is up) 12.8%," said Bob Borda, vice president of marketing for Bakersfield, Calif.-based Grimmway Farms. He was comparing the four weeks ending Jan. 27 to a year ago.
"What's driving the business is the value-added along with the organic carrots," he said.
Organic baby and cello carrots are up 19%.
Grimmway is focusing its efforts on the snack category and marketing its Carrot Dippers, Borda said.
In celery, demand for fresh-cut remains strong, said Nichole Towell, director of marketing for Duda Farm Fresh Foods. The grower-shipper pegs annual processing at 134 million pounds, mostly off the West Coast.
Duda grows sweeter, proprietary celery varieties for such items as its 1.25-pound ready-to-eat pack, labeled as the equivalent of two stalks. A larger pack is sold in club stores.
"The snacking vegetable category is still growing," Towell said.
Salads are about 60% of the combined fresh-cut and value-added market, Means said. Excluding salads, carrots equal nearly half of the remaining vegetable segment.
For Ready Pac Foods, Irwindale, Calif., sales of its expanded Bistro salad line contributed to overall growth of nearly 22% in the single-serve salad category in 2012, said Tristan Simpson, director of marketing and corporate communications.
Data indicating 47% of meals are eaten alone suggests further increases are likely, she said.
"We're starting to get a variety of usage occasions in the salad set, which is going to increase overall consumption," said Samantha Cabaluna, vice president of communications and marketing for San Juan Bautista, Calif.-based organic grower-shipper Earthbound Farm.


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(April 8) Want to increase sales of the No. 1 item in your produce department? Then try your hand at banana promotions. Suppliers say that putting the top-selling produce item on sale draws traffic to your department and leads to additional produce scans.
Rick Utchell, vice president of marketing at Dole Fresh Fruit Co., Westlake Village, Calif., says bananas are an impulse item, and statistics show that consumers are more apt to purchase bananas when they are on promotion.
Banana promotions create a sense of excitement in your produce department, too, says Tim Debus, vice president of the International Banana Association, Alexandria, Va. He says your efforts to build that excitement will increase interest and consumption of the fruit.
Bananas can be a profitable destination category. David Lund, director of marketing at Chiquita Fresh N.A., Cincinnati, says 60 percent of consumers seek and buy bananas each week. When you promote the category, you remind consumers to eat bananas and keep the likely banana purchaser coming back to your store, he says.
But even though bananas are frequently shopped, John Loughridge, vice president of marketing at Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc., Coral Gables, Fla., says fewer banana promotions are eroding shopping habits, particularly among those 18 to 34 years of age.
"If other items are promoted and bananas are not, the margins produced by this key item will decline over time," he says.
To keep this from happening, apply the following strategies to make your next banana promotion successful.
While there isn't a hard and fast rule for when to start planning your promotion, many suppliers suggest you start at least four to six weeks in advance.
"The more time you have to plan, the better the promotion will be," Utchell says. "We suggest you talk to a salesperson first and decide what you are going to do and how you are going to execute it."
The type of promotion dictates how much preparation time you need.
Marion Tabard, marketing director at Turbana Corp., Miami, says if it is just a sales promotion, advise your supplier two or three weeks in advance in order to load the additional volume, ship it, ripen it and deliver it to the stores. A marketing promotion, on the other hand, usually requires several months of planning, she says.
To make it easy on yourself, plan out an annual calendar at the beginning of the year and share it with your suppliers.
Jeff Adams, produce manager at Auchan Hypermarket, Houston, a two-store chain, says the stores promote bananas once every three to four months.
"Bananas are our No. 1 item and when customers see them on sale with a good price point, they associate the rest of our department with good price points," Adams says. "We don't really pick specific times of the year to promote them. We know that whatever time we choose, we will have a good draw."
Implement a creative theme in your promotions for added success.
"January is a great month to do a 'Healthy New Year's Resolution' theme," Lund says. "It's a time when consumers are trying to eat healthy. February is National Heart Month and bananas have no fat, no cholesterol and no sodium, and they are a good source of potassium, which helps reduce the risk of heart disease or stroke."
He says March is National Nutrition Month, so consider featuring bananas as part of a 5 a Day message. Loughridge suggests tying in local sporting events, marathons and walks for a twist on health promotions. He also says meal occasions are a good theme because retailers can showcase how bananas fit into breakfast, lunch, snack time and dinner.
In the spring and summer, encourage consumers to eat outdoors and try promoting bananas as part of a fruit salad. The summer also bodes well for promoting a tropical theme, which could lead to additional sales of other tropical produce items like pineapple, papayas and melons. Utchell says to carry the tropical theme throughout the store by merchandising bananas and pineapples in the meat department with chicken for a sweet teriyaki taste and putting bananas in the bakery for a banana cream pie.
Turbana's Tabard recommends holding a Banana-Rama promotion, in which you advertise and showcase the entire banana category including plantains, exotic bananas and organic bananas. She says a Banana Bowl promotion during football season or the Super Bowl is a good way to promote bananas as a healthy snack.
All suppliers point out a back-to-school theme is a top idea in late August for promotions, too.
"Bananas can go in a lunch box just as easily as apples," Lund says. "Kids eat about the same amount of bananas as apples, so focusing on kids and back to school is a great fall program."
At the end of the year, promote bananas as part of fruit salads for holiday get-togethers or as baking ingredients for muffins, cakes and pies.
Let consumers know in advance that a banana promotion is coming. As they anticipate the event, excitement will build and consumers will remember when they need to hit your store for the best deals.
In-store circulars can be the simplest way to spread the word. Adams says the Auchan ads promoting the banana sale are written four or five weeks in advance. Lund says retailers sell twice as many bananas during a promotion if the ad includes the Chiquita brand and logo.
When promoting specialty bananas, Utchell says it is important to advertise in store fliers. He says retailers should treat the specialty bananas differently in the ad by drawing more attention to them and giving usage ideas, examples of how they taste and information on how to select ones that are ripe.
Radio and television also offer avenues for advertising. Chiquita has used radio support for major events like the company's annual summer program, and Lund says he has seen retailers use television commercials to highlight the promotions.
Tabard, however, says television is expensive and most stores stick to advertising through fliers or radio spots.
During the promotion, you also could make use of your store's public address system. Adams says the stores make several announcements luring consumers to the banana promotion.
No matter which type of advertising you choose, Loughridge says there are certain messages you should highlight in your ad. He suggests advertising bananas' health benefits, their portability for consumers on the go, their value and their versatility.
When the time has arrived to build your banana display, be creative. Think about what would catch the eye and make purchasing bananas fun.
There's no rule of thumb when it comes to promotional banana displays, but almost all suppliers say it should be in the front of the produce department to instantly attract consumers.
"If bananas provide somewhere around 10 percent of produce sales, the display space should be at least 10 percent of what the store has available," Loughridge says.
Lund suggests expanding your everyday display by 15 percent to 20 percent. That can be done by adding to the original space using graphic boxes or other produce racks and equipment, or by building a secondary display either in the department or another location in the store.
Tabard recommends building the display twice as large as you normally would. She says waterfalls and winged displays help catch shoppers' eyes and increase impulse buying. Utchell also suggests using overflow tactics and placing the display on an endcap.
Auchan's everyday banana displays are 8 by 4 feet and hold half to three-fourths of a pallet of bananas. Adams says that during promotions, he increases the display to hold up to a pallet and a half of bananas.
"I usually use graphic boxes for a spill-over or waterfall effect," he says. "I place the boxes all around and through the display."
On Feb. 28, bananas were part of Auchan's storewide Market Day promotion. Adams put bananas on ad at 25 cents a pound and sold close to four pallets in one day, compared to selling one pallet per day at the 38-cent regular price.
The display was accentuated with 3-foot square signs with 1-foot tall numbers indicating the sale price. He says the large size lured customers to the display.
If you don't have signs like Auchan's, check with suppliers to see what they might have to offer. Del Monte has inflatable bananas that can hang over your display to do the trick, and almost all suppliers have point-of-sale materials like leaflets, signs and information cards available with their brand name to help make your display a bigger success.
"Things like point-of-sale price cards add to your display and can bring a nutritional or fun message to the promotion," Utchell says.
Successful banana promotions often incorporate fun events or activities that heighten the excitement.
Some suppliers hold display contests to get your creativity flowing. Loughridge says display contests provide participating stores the added motivation to do a good job of storing, handling and displaying bananas to ensure high purchase levels.
Other suppliers suggest holding in-store events where company mascots appear and entice the crowd.
"Our main promotion has been the Bobby Banana Shuffle," Utchell says. "It gets kids dancing and eating more bananas, and it's good brand recognition for Dole. We also encourage coloring contests and promoting our four miniature plush toys."
Tabard says using the Turbana Twins, Turbo and Anna, helps animate the produce department during promotions.
"Last year, the Twins went on tour with a decorated Volkswagen beetle to visit 32 Ahold stores. They took photographs and signed autographs at Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores in the northeast and Bi-Lo stores in the southeast over a period of two weeks," Tabard says.
Suppliers also suggest cross-merchandising items that work well with bananas. Dole has worked with Jell-O in the past. Retailers built displays incorporating Jell-O products and provided recipe ideas using both Jell-O and bananas.
Turbana suggests cross-merchandising soy products like tofu and promotingbanana shakes.
Sampling is another simple, yet often overlooked, addition to promotions. Tabard says demos that provide recipes and educational information can help sell the whole banana category during the promotion, especially unfamiliar plantains and exotic bananas. Loughridge says sampling specialty bananas during your promotion gives consumers a risk-free way of trying the products.
If you are looking for even more ways to make your banana promotion stand out, consider working with other organizations like the International Banana Association, the American Heart Association, Dallas, or the Produce for Better Health Foundation, Alexandria.
Chiquita partnered with Ford Motor Co. last summer and gave away a Ford Windstar. Two years ago, the company built its summer promotion around the Country Music Awards.
"We are very selective about who we pick to partner with. We choose those who deliver a consistent message similar to what the Chiquita brand stands for, as well as those who can bring an exciting prize to consumers that they wouldn't go out and buy for themselves. The CMA trip was a fantasy trip that consumers couldn't buy, and last fall we gave away a trip to a Costa Rican rainforest," Lund says.
When you put these strategies to work, suppliers say promotions become more successful. Tabard says banana promotions usually represent a 30 percent to 40 percent increase in banana sales. In some cases where the promotions have been really successful, retailers have recorded that sales double, she says.
Loughridge says Del Monte tells retailers to expect a minimum of a 25 percent increase with a banana promotion, although some retailers have experienced a 100 percent increase with well-executed programs.
"Successful promotions are ones that are simple to execute and that don't overly burden the store to execute," Loughridge says.
Typically, if banana promotions fail, most suppliers attribute the failure to one of two things: either the display wasn't properly stocked at all times and kept full, or there wasn't accurate color and staging of bananas.
Adams says he stocks half of the display with a greener banana at a ripeness stage of 2.5 or 3 and the other half with ripe and ready-to-eat bananas. Suppliers also say displays must maintain a good appearance no matter what time of day the shopper arrives at the store, and produce clerks can't forget to stock secondary displays as well.
(April 8) Want to increase sales of the No. 1 item in your produce department? Then try your hand at banana promotions. Suppliers say that putting the top-selling produce item on sale draws traffic to your department and leads to additional produce scans.

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Rox ride De La Rosa to eighth straight victory
Left-hander fans four D-backs batters in six shutout innings
DENVER -- Now that he's healthy, left-hander Jorge De La Rosa is roaring back from his June 2011 Tommy John surgery.
De La Rosa gave the Rockies another scintillating start on Saturday as they beat the D-backs, 4-3, for their eighth straight victory. At 13-4, the Rockies are off to the best start in franchise history through 17 games. The Rox are also 8-0 at home, extending their franchise record at home to start a season. The Rockies are the only undefeated team at home in the Major Leagues.
De La Rosa held the D-backs to two singles while pitching six scoreless innings, duplicating his previous start Sunday at San Diego. De La Rosa ran his scoreless streak to 17 consecutive innings. During that span, he has allowed seven hits with five walks and 12 strikeouts.
After throwing 25 pitches and facing four batters in the first, De La Rosa needed just 57 pitches to get through the next five innings.
"I think we saw a lot of what we've been seeing from Jorge lately, commanding his secondary pitches," manager Walt Weiss said. "He's getting a lot of outs from his changeup and his slider."
Asked if he is all the way back from his Tommy John surgery, De La Rosa said: "That's in the past. I feel very good right now. I'm getting stronger every time."
Early mistakes hurt the D-backs. Catcher Wil Nieves threw a ball past third base and down the left-field line, allowing Josh Rutledge to escape a rundown and score in the second. The D-backs had runners thrown out in successive innings. A.J. Pollock was caught stealing second to end the third. After Martin Prado led off the fourth with a single, he tried to tag up on Paul Goldschmidt's fly to center and was thrown out at second on a relay that went 8-4-6 to complete a double play.
"We didn't play well," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We played great all year. Tonight wasn't one of those games."
Michael Cuddyer's solo home run in the sixth proved to be the winning run after D-backs pinch-hitter Eric Chavez hit a two-run homer off Edgmer Escalona in the eighth, and the D-backs scored a run off Rafael Betancourt, who stranded runners on second and third in the ninth to earn his seventh save.
The D-backs' frustrations boiled over in the seventh when Cody Ross flipped his bat in the air after a called third strike by home-plate umpire Chad Fairchild. He ejected Ross immediately, and Gibson moments later after he came out to argue the call.
"He threw him out for flipping his bat, and I thought it was a short fuse," Gibson said. "I think he threw me out shortly, as well. But that's over with, we have a game to win tomorrow."
De La Rosa's outing gave the Rockies back-to-back scoreless outings of at least six innings from their starters for the first time since June 19-20, 2006, after Jhoulys Chacin did so on Friday. Byung-Hyun Kim and Jason Jennings did it in 2006. Overall, the Rockies' starters are 10-2 with a 3.73 ERA. Weiss said he considered sending De La Rosa out for the seventh and would have had his spot in the lineup not come up with two outs in the sixth.
"He was throwing really well." Weiss said. "He'd have been fine running out there again, but I'm trying to protect our starters over the long haul, too."
Weiss said he considered bringing in left-hander Rex Brothers to face the left-handed-hitting Chavez, but stuck with Escalona.
"If it's less than four runs, I probably would have [made the change]," Weiss said. "I didn't feel bad about that matchup. I thought he had a chance to get a double play right there. Sinker-slider guy, he was throwing the ball real well."
Unlike the D-backs, the Rockies did the little things well to score twice in the third. Eric Young Jr., whose drive to right-center in the first was hauled in by Pollock just before he banged into the wall, led off with a triple over Pollock's head. Cahill then hit Dexter Fowler on the right wrist with a 1-2 fastball, and Fowler stole second on the next pitch. Young scored and Fowler took third on No. 3 hitter Carlos Gonzalez's groundout. Cleanup hitter Troy Tulowitzki's sacrifice fly made it 3-0.
"We don't have to hit the long ball sometimes," Gonzalez said. "Sometimes, all we got to do is that -- just play smart. Like I say, every night, it's somebody else ... and we continue to play good baseball.
Jack Etkin is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Sheraton features a freeform outdoor pool and a fitness room; guests also receive access to a 24-hour health club onsite. An American restaurant serves all meals. A computer station in the lobby has a printer, fax machine, and high-speed Internet access. Guests also have access to a 24-hour business center. Wireless Internet access is available in the lobby. The hotel also offers 12,000-sq feet of meeting and event space. The Sheraton San Diego Hotel, Mission valley is dog friendly; some restrictions apply.
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After second, third, and fourth opinions, I believe we are proceeding with radical resection, despite very difficult location of tumor and super-duper high rate of recurrence. Expect to have chemo post-op, so it's going to be a memorable fall and winter, I guess.
I have about three weeks to pull my life together -- that shouldn't be a problem!
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For those who have gone through resection: what did you do to prepare? What did you wish you had done, but didn't? How did you prepare mentally? Have any of your found means of combatting that terrible and long period of fatigue?
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Prof. Layton is back, ready for his first ever forray onto the Nintendo 3DS. As this trailer will show, the animated sequences are better than ever, though we've got to admit that we're even more excited for the gameplay. The 3DS's 3D capabilities could lend themselves to some truly fiendish puzzles, and we can't wait to see what Level 5 cooks up. Check out the storyline trailer, and let us know if you'll be grabbing this one when it comes out later in the year.


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Callaspo exits game with hamstring strain
SEATTLE -- Alberto Callaspo strained his right hamstring trying to beat out a ground ball in the second inning of the Athletics' series opener against the Mariners at Safeco Field.
Callaspo said the injury wasn't bad, but it will likely keep him out of the lineup leading up the All-Star break.
"[It might take] like a week to get ready," he said. "I'll be back soon."
With Oakland leading 2-0, Callaspo led off the second by hitting a chopper to Mariners shortstop Brad Miller, who fielded and made an off-balance throw to nab Callaspo at first.
While running down the line, Callaspo grabbed his hamstring. He followed by walking slowly back to the dugout. The next half-inning, he was replaced at first base by Nate Freiman.
Adam Lewis is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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TORRINGTON >> Torrington Public Schools' Director of Student and Professional Operations, William Joslyn, is expected to retire by the end of the fiscal year. The Torrington Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday evening to accept the 34-year public servant's resignation.
"Sorry, Bill. We're letting you go," joked board of education chair Ken Traub.
"Thank you," responded Joslyn.
Traub said it had been, "Time well served."
Joslyn's resignation will be effective June 30, 2013.
Reach Jessica Glenza at 860-489-3121 ext. 324.


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News that China had cancelled sales commitments of 300,000 tonnes of U.S. soybean sales sent the Chicago bean market sharply lower Tuesday morning. As one would expect the grain markets also reacted poorly to the news, especially since they have recently suffered from perceptions of weak export demand as well. Weak basis bids and persistent concerns about low Mississippi River levels also seemed to weigh on the corn market. Improved South American weather, which bodes well for their forthcoming crops, may also be weighing upon U.S. prices. March corn had fallen 5 1/4 cents to $7.18 3/4 by late morning, whereas the December 2013 contract slipped just one cent to $6.21/bushel.
China reportedly cancelled prior purchases of 300,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans overnight, as did the buyer of 120,000 tonnes previously headed to an unknown destination. That news more than offset a report of a fresh 110,000-tonne sale to another unknown buyer. This news probably caught the market off guard, since prices had recently been rising. We wonder if they have decided they now own enough beans to meet their short-term needs and will start looking to South America for their mid-2013 requirements. Given their position as a huge player in the soybean and product markets, speculation about their likely activities could greatly influence the Chicago market for the foreseeable future. January beans dove 19 1/4 cents to $14.69 per bushel in Tuesday morning trading, while January oil was down 0.58 to 49.21 cents/pound and January meal had fallen $7.4 to $447.5/ton.
The wheat market also fell substantially in reaction to early morning news that China had cancelled 300,000 tonnes of U.S. soybean purchases. Indeed, given the fact that wheat futures had fallen in six of the last seven trading sessions, one could easily argue that it might set to move sharply lower, especially if the March CBOT contract fell below the psychologically important $8.00/bushel level. However, after testing technical support in that area, the markets turned decisively higher, thereby suggesting prices have fallen enough lately to attract renewed buying interest. We are not sure wheat futures are being affected by the storm sweeping into the Central Plains, since the weather maps look as if most of the anticipated snow will fall northeast of most winter wheat areas. March CBOT wheat had rebounded 5 1/4 cents to $8.08/bushel by late morning; March KCBT wheat rose 4 1/4 cents to $8.60 1/2 and March MGE futures bounced 7 3/4 to $9.04 per bushel.
Nearby live cattle and feeder futures built upon the big weather-driven surge posted Monday in Tuesday morning trading, since traders are apparently still concerned about the potential negative performance impact of wintry weather moving into the Central Plains today. Such talk and the bullish CME reaction will almost encourage producers to boost their asking prices for fed cattle sharply, whereas flat to weak wholesale values will not encourage packer buying. Nevertheless, bulls rather clearly have the upper hand at this point, as exemplified by the fact that the most-active February future has reached its highest level since last March. February had advanced 0.30 cents to 133.80 cents/pound, while April rose 0.17 cents to 137.75.
Bearish short-term prospects seemed to weigh rather heavily upon the hog and pork complex again Monday. The afternoon slide in direct market swine values across the Corn Belt seemed particularly negative. CME prices continued their slide in early morning trading, possibly due to anticipation of continued seasonal losses by the ham market. However, nearby futures bounced modestly from early morning lows, possibly on strength spilling over once again from the cattle pit. As pointed out previously, hog traders are trying to balance short-term bearish prospects and the potential for a sizeable rebound in early 2013. February hogs inched 0.15 cents higher to 84.82 cents/pound this morning, while its June counterpart rose .05 cents to 99.20.


text: CHEVROLET CORVETTE CONVERTIBLE TO PACE 2007 INDIANAPOLIS 500 February 1, 2007 12:00 AM INDIANAPOLIS--"The 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible will serve as the Official Pace Car for the 91st Indianapolis 500, a record fourth consecutive turn at the front of the field of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." It's the ninth time Corvette will pace the Indianapolis 500, a record for the event. The previous years were 1978, 1986, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. It's the 18th time a Chevrolet will lead the field, also an event record. The 91st Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for Sunday, May 27 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with live coverage on ABC Sports and the IMS Radio Network. The Pace Car driver will be announced at a later date. "Corvette is synonymous with speed to millions of worldwide automotive enthusiasts, so it's only fitting that the 2007 Corvette Convertible will pace the field for the 91st Indianapolis 500," IMS President Joie Chitwood said. "The heritage of Corvette performance that started with the first model in 1953 is a perfect match for the history and tradition of 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.'" The 2007 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car Corvette Convertible will be featured in Chevrolet's display at the 99th Chicago Auto Show, the largest auto show in North America, from Feb. 9-18 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The car also will be prominently featured in Chevy's media activities Feb. 7-8 before the show opens to the public. Chevrolet will produce 500 special-edition replicas of the Indianapolis 500 Corvette Convertible Pace Car for sale to the general public. The cars, manufactured in Bowling Green, Ky., will be available starting this spring. It's the first time since 1998 that Chevy will offer a regular production replica of the Indy 500 Pace Car. But several dozen copies of all the Pace Cars have been used for official activities in support of their respective Indianapolis 500 races, such as parades. These cars " known as "festival" cars " have become prized collectibles, along with the limited-edition, regular-production replicas. The performance-bred Corvette handles its official pace duties in nearly factory-stock trim, with little more than racetrack-required safety equipment, strobe lights and eye-catching graphics added. In years past, many Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars required modification to perform their on-track tasks. The 2007 Corvette's powertrain and suspension, including a 400-horsepower (298 kW) LS2 small-block V-8 engine, are more than adequate to maintain the speed, acceleration and handling required to lead the pack around the famed 2.5-mile oval. "Chevrolet and Corvette have a long, storied history at Indianapolis, and the new Pace Car special edition commemorates that heritage with what will surely be an instant collectible," said Ed Peper, Chevrolet general manager. The distinguishing features of the Pace Car replica include: •Atomic Orange exterior color, including door handles •Indianapolis 500 exterior graphics " including gold ribbon graphics that flow outward from the front fender vents and "Indianapolis 500" door logos •Special Indianapolis 500 fender badges •Z06 rear spoiler •New aluminum "split-spoke" wheels in Sterling Silver •Ebony seats with embroidered Indianapolis 500 logos •Interior trim plate and pods painted Atomic Orange •Atomic Orange engine covers All of the Pace Car replicas are equipped with the Z51 performance package. A six-speed manual transmission is standard, with the six-speed paddle-shift automatic optional. The navigation system with Bose audio and OnStar also are standard. *** 2007 Indianapolis 500 tickets: Tickets are on sale for the 91st Indianapolis 500, scheduled for Sunday, May 27, 2007. Back to News


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text: June 23, 2015 Make a style splash in the kitchen Kitchen splashbacks are likely something you've paid no attention to, until you started shopping for a new house that is! Whether your preference is for tiles, glass or mirrors, read on to discover what makes a modern kitchen splashback a lasting style success. Read more


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Dad, If You Only Knew... : As exasperating as parenting can be during these volatile years, your teen is depending on you for steady faithfulness, love, and guidance. And because teens often find words elusive and expression difficult, they probably haven't told you the things they wish you somehow automatically knew. So let Dad, If You Only Knew... be your guide. Josh Weidmann, just out of the teen years himself, joins his father, James, to help dads understand where their kids are coming from. It's a messy world they live in, and meeting them in it is no simple task. But knowing these essentials now makes fatherhood eight times easier!
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Myers close to returning from fractured wrist
ARLINGTON -- Wil Myers, who has been on the disabled list since June 1 with a right wrist fracture, has appeared in three games for Triple-A Durham on his rehab assignment. He is 4-for-9 with a grand slam, three walks and three stolen bases.
"Wil's doing well," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "... He's doing good. Feels really good. The biggest thing he's doing right now is basically just timing. ... Otherwise he feels really good."
"... He's getting close. He's not far off. Primarily, as soon as he feels like he's seeing a fastball well, he'll be ready."
Last week, Maddon speculated that Myers needed "20 or 30 at-bats" before he'd be ready to return to the club.
"Yeah, probably three or four more games," Maddon said Thursday. "That will get him to 25 or so. Again, it could be longer than that. Once he says he's seeing the ball well, it feels good. That would be it."
Maddon allowed that Myers could be back by the end of the upcoming homestand, which runs Friday through Thursday.
"It's not impossible to see that happening," Maddon said. "There's no rush. It just really depends on, 'Hey, I'm seeing the ball good.' He's been really honest. ... He's just going to tell you what he thinks. So right now he just needs to see the fastball better."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Barack Obama Re-Elected President of U.S. – Rockers React via Twitter
Barack Obama has been re-elected President of the United States after defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the national election on Tuesday, Nov. 6. The news of Obama's victory has resonated loudly throughout the world, including the rock community.
Rockers such as Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee, Disturbed singer David Draiman, the Offspring's Noodles, Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro, Ted Nugent, All That Remains singer Phil Labonte and more took to Twitter in the minutes and hours after the result was announced to express their thoughts about the election. See what they wrote in the Tweets below:
— Dave Navarro (@DaveNavarro) November 7, 2012
4 more beers? -N
— The Offspring (@offspring) November 7, 2012
Wise choice America! Proud!!!!
— TOMMY LEE (@MrTommyLand) November 7, 2012
Whew, I'm really glad Rosanne Barr didn't win tonight.
— Nikki Sixx (@NikkiSixx) November 7, 2012
— DAVID DRAIMAN (@DAVIDMDRAIMAN) November 7, 2012
Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools
— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) November 7, 2012
I guess the "entitled" 47% and those binders filled with women made their voices heard in yesterday's US election. Congrats to the US.
— Danko Jones (@dankojones) November 7, 2012
Secondly, I'm thankful that Romney didn't win. Cause I can still hate everyone who gets paid by sucking the government tit!
— Philip Labonte (@philthatremains) November 7, 2012


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UW-Madison undergrads to design a room that's literally out of this world
Think of it as a high-tech screened porch for astronauts.
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate students from majors across the university is among three teams selected to design, build and test an inflatable habitat that will integrate with an existing NASA operational hard-shell prototype, providing a space crew with more livable room.
The students will participate in the first NASA and National Space Grant Foundation inflatable loft competition, along with teams from Oklahoma State University and the University of Maryland. In June, the three teams will compete at NASA's Johnson Space Center as part of the first eXploration Habitat Academic Innovation Competition (X-Hab).
The National Space Grant Foundation will award the three teams $48,000 each to build a prototype of the approximately 4 meters tall and 5 meters in diameter habitat. The prototype designs have to allow the habitat to be transported inside the astronauts' vessel and then inflated at the mission destination, whether that be orbiting Earth, the Moon or Mars. When the astronauts prepare to return to Earth, the habitat can either be deflated or simply released.
The winning collegiate team will receive an additional $10,000 to cover costs for monthlong testing with NASA.
As part of the competition, Frederick Elder, a UW–Madison adjunct professor of mechanical engineering and engineering physics, will lead a dozen students in a two-semester course. The first semester is dedicated to design and in the second semester, the students will build a full-size prototype. Among the students are engineering mechanics and astronautics, business, mechanical engineering and interior design majors.
Elder says the idea is rooted in student initiative.
"They found the competition and did the work to enter," says Elder. "It's a great opportunity for them to learn NASA procedures and standards and merge together NASA's technological history with the next generation of workers."
One of the students who approached Elder is Nathan Wong, an engineering mechanics and astronautics senior with a passion for space exploration. Wong found the competition announcement on Twitter in July and quickly assembled a team to write a proposal, which outlined design, budget, outreach, class integration, materials and recruiting.
"This is a great opportunity for a NASA project to come to Wisconsin — and even better is the chance for us to design something useful for NASA," says Wong. "To build and test a prototype in nine months will be a challenge, but we're hoping to succeed by drawing from all over the university and outside as well."
Wong aspires to own his own company that builds habitats and rockets to increase human exploration in space.
As part of its outreach mission, the UW–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) will provide financial support to connect the students with various in-house experts and a private systems engineer from Bjorksten | bit 7.
"This project will allow us to improve upon an already excellent educational design course model, specifically in the area of systems engineering, while attracting a broad range of organizations," says Fred Best, SSEC technical director. "I think this group of students is going to be very successful and I hope to see more collaboration like this in the future."
Other groups supporting the project include the UW–Madison departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Physics, the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, Orbitec and Boeing.


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Rockies Select the Contract of Jason Pridie from Triple-A
DETROIT - The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club has selected the contract of outfielder Jason Pridie from Triple-A Colorado Springs. In addition, left-handed pitcher Pedro Hernandez has been designated for assignment. Following last night's game, Hernandez was optioned to Triple-A. Pridie (#26) will be available for the Rockies tonight against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park (5:08 p.m. MT).
Pridie, 31, has spent the entire season to date with Colorado Springs playing in 87 games. He has hit .275 (93-for-338) with 13 doubles, 4 triples, 10 home runs, 43 RBI and 51 runs with 22 stolen bases in 28 attempts. During the month of May, Pridie hit .317 (33-for-104) with 6 doubles, 1 triple, 5 home runs, 18 RBI and 15 runs in 27 games. It will mark his fourth straight season (2011-14) appearing on a Major League roster, all with a different club. The Phoenix, AZ native has hit .228 (53-for-232) with 12 doubles, 3 triples, 5 home runs, 24 RBI and 32 runs in 124 Major League games.
Hernandez, 25, made a spot-start on July 31 at Chicago Cubs and has appeared in the Majors for the third-straight season. The Venezuela-native made one start for the Chicago White Sox in 2012 and appeared in 14 games/12 starts for the Minnesota Twins last season. Overall in the Majors, Hernandez is 3-5 with a 7.33 ERA (66.1 ip, 54 er), 26 walks and 33 strikeouts. Prior to his call-up, Hernandez had spent the entire season at Triple-A Colorado Springs, where he went 6-6 with a 6.14 ERA (85.0 ip, 58 er) in 18 games/16 starts.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, alleged Marathon bomber, should be arraigned in Middlesex County slaying, prosecutors say
Middlesex County prosecutors have obtained a warrant for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev so they can arraign him on charges that he murdered an MIT police officer in Cambridge.
Tsarnaev, 20, of Cambridge was indicted by a county grand jury in June in the murder of Officer Sean Collier on April 18. He also faces a variety charges of other charges, including armed assault with intent to murder for allegedly attacking Watertown police officers in a shootout in the early morning hours of April 19, a few hours after Collier's murder.
"It is the intention of the Middlesex District Attorney that the defendant stand trial for these charges in Middlesex County,'' District Attorney Marian T. Ryan's office said in a statement.
Prosecutors won the default warrant at a hearing this morning in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn.
They explained that it was a procedural step necessary to ensure that Tsarnaev eventually appears in state court to be arraigned. Tsarnaev will likely not appear there until the conclusion of his federal trial.
Tsarnaev is already being held in federal custody on charges that could bring him the death penalty for allegedly planting the bombs that exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, killing three and wounding 260 others.
Prosecutor Adrienne Lynch asked Magistrate Judge Michael Sullivan for the warrant. Neither Tsarnaev nor his attorney appeared in today's hearing.
Tsarnaev's partner in crime was allegedly his brother, Tamerlan, 26. He died during the confrontation with police on April 19 in Watertown. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev slipped through the police dragnet but was discovered hours later hiding in a boat stored in a Watertown backyard.


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Even in the afterglow of last year's Olympic gold medal win for Team USA, executive director Jerry Colangelo was already thinking ahead.
Not just to the next major tournament—the '14 World Championship—or to the next Olympics, but rather looking ahead to how the structure of Team USA would hold up in coming years.
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"It is very fulfilling to be here and to be at the top," he said at the London Olympics. "But it is harder and harder to stay there. Teams all over the world are getting better and we need to be able to keep up and respect those teams and what they can do. It is not an easy thing."
Colangelo caught a break when he was able to persuade his coach, Mike Krzyzewski, to forgo retirement from the international game and remain in his position. Now, though, Colangelo and Krzyzewski will have to cope with a different problem, one that will have the greatest impact on USA Basketball's ability to maintain its dominance: players.
Beginning on Monday in Las Vegas, Team USA will hold a minicamp on the campus of UNLV, during which a new batch of 27 young players will be sized up in terms of their value. (One player, Kawhi Leonard, withdrew because he is rehabbing his knee.) That's especially important, because it is likely that the 2016 Olympic team will take on a different look than the teams that won the last two Olympic golds.
All five of the players who were on both of those teams—Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Deron Williams—will be 31 or older, and their participation in the '16 games is no guarantee. Even with those potential departures, though, competition for Olympic roster spots will be tough. The potential Olympians to watch this week:
Paul George. George and Leonard, should he continue his development with the Spurs, could eventually be the pair that replaces Anthony and James as Team USA's versatile combo forwards. Many teams go small in international play, which is why James, Anthony and Kevin Durant often played more like power forwards than small forwards in the Olympics. George is 6-8 and ultra-athletic, able to play inside or outside on both ends of the floor. That kind of versatility is a must in international play.
Anthony Davis. Davis was at the end of the bench for the '12 Olympic team, and because there is a decided lack of size on the American roster, he could be back in 2016. His rookie year in the NBA was marred by injury, but he was still very productive and showed his defensive chops. Krzyzewski prefers big men with some offensive versatility, but as he showed with Tyson Chandler, he will utilize a defense-only big man.
Kyrie Irving. If Paul and Williams both play, there will be a very crowded field at point guard. Russell Westbrook has Colangelo's respect because he played for the 2010 World Championship team, as does Derrick Rose, who is coming back from knee surgery. There's Stephen Curry to consider, too. But Irving is one of the brightest young talents in the league, and his shooting ability allows him to play off the ball. If Paul or Williams—or both—don't play, Irving is in.
Klay Thompson. Thompson has the potential to bring Team USA something it lacks—a young guard who is a terrific pure shooter. He shot 40.6 percent on 3-pointers in his two NBA seasons, and though he is likely to have competition from another young shooter, Bradley Beal, Thompson would seem to be an ideal fit for a team looking for a floor-stretcher.
Greg Monroe. Oddly enough, a roster spot in '16 could come down to competition between two teammates, Monroe and center Andre Drummond. Team USA needs more size, and that advantage goes to Drummond. But Monroe is a much more refined offensive big man, and his passing ability would work well in Krzyzewski's offense.


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- AWS has released Amazon Cognito. In many cases Amazon Cognito will replace the use of a Token Vending Machine as specified below. Please consider using Amazon Cognito in place of a TVM.
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Authenticating Users of AWS Mobile Applications with a Token Vending Machine
This article discusses an architecture that enables applications running on a mobile device to more securely interact with Amazon Web Services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). The architecture discussed uses a "Token Vending Machine" to distribute temporary security credentials to the mobile application.
About Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services ("AWS") is a collection of cloud computing infrastructure services that you can use to develop applications. The services include computing, storage, database, and others. AWS uses a "pay-as-you-go" service model: you are charged only for the services that you or your applications use. To make AWS more approachable as a platform for prototyping and experimentation, AWS offers a free tier, a level of services that allows some AWS users to access AWS at no charge.
Authentication, Credentials, and AWS Costing
Amazon Web Services are accessed programmatically through a RESTful web services interface or through method calls that are exposed in SDK libraries provided on the AWS website. In either case, every request made to AWS contains authentication information that associates the request with an account owner. AWS uses this information to ensure that requests access only those resources for which the account owner is authorized. AWS also uses the information to determine the account that should be charged for service usage. The authentication information is derived from credentials that are issued to the account owner when he or she signs up.
Whose Credentials to Use in the Mobile Application?
When developing a mobile application that interacts with AWS, you will need to decide whose credentials to use for authentication. In some scenarios, the end user of the mobile application will have an AWS account and use his or her own credentials. For example, you might develop an application that other AWS developers will use to monitor their own computing instances in the AWS Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. In this case, the end user would be authenticated with his or her own credentials in order to view resources associated with his or her own AWS account.
There may be other scenarios in which it is preferable that the application not operate under the end user's credentials. For example, the application might need to access AWS resources, such as an Amazon SimpleDB domain, that you, as the developer, own. You might be tempted in this scenario to allow the end user to use your root credentials, that is, the credentials associated with your account. However, for security reasons, you should never embed your root credentials in an application. These credentials provide complete access to all your AWS resources as well as your billing information. You should always keep these credentials as secure as possible and use them only when necessary.
A safer alternative to using your root credentials would be to use IAM user credentials. Using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, you could create a user that has credentials which are distinct from your root credentials and which have only those permissions that are necessary for your application. Because the IAM user's credentials have limited permissions, a malicious user who obtained these credentials would be similarly limited in what they could accomplish. (For more information about how to create and permission IAM users, see the IAM documentation.) However, even though IAM user credentials limit exposure, it is still relatively easy for a malicious user to obtain them if they are embedded in a mobile application. Therefore, this strategy still incurs considerable risk.
An additional issue with embedding credentials in your application is that there is no easy way to update the credentials once the application is deployed. Updating--also called "rotating"--credentials is a fundamental best practice for maintaining security. If you embed credentials in your application, the only way to update the credentials is to deploy a new version of the application. However, any user that does not install the new version will find that the application no longer works once the updated credentials are required for authentication to the service.
The Token Vending Machine (TVM) which uses the AWS Security Token Service provides a solution for the issues described above. In addition, it provides benefits that aren't available if you use the risky strategy of embedding credentials.
With the TVM, the application uses temporary credentials which expire after a period of time. These credentials can be limited in scope in the same way as the IAM user credentials described above. However, the temporary credentials expire and are therefore refreshed periodically by the application. This characteristic of the credentials brings two benefits.
One is that because the credentials expire, even if they are obtained by a malicious user, their usefulness is time limited. More importantly though, if you as the developer discover that the credentials have been compromised, you can immediately revoke their permissions. You can then deploy new credentials to the application, and you could configure these new credentials with updated permissions. If you embed credentials in the application and you later need to revoke their permissions, it will render the application unusable until you issue an application update.
The TVM provides additional flexibility in other ways as well. With the TVM, you can customize permissions--or revoke them--on a per-user basis.
AWS Security Token Service
The AWS Security Token Service is a feature of Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM). AWS Security Token Service provides temporary security credentials that are derived from, but not equivalent to, the credentials of an AWS account. These temporary credentials can be qualified to allow access only to specific AWS services or even to subsets of the functionality provided by an AWS service. For example, temporary credentials could be configured to allow access only to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or only to a particular storage bucket within the S3 service. Unlike account credentials, temporary credentials are time limited. For example, the authorizations associated with temporary credentials can be set to expire after 12 hours. The maximum time that temporary credentials can remain valid is 36 hours.
The temporary credentials provided by AWS Security Token Service consist of four components:
- Access key ID
- Secret access key
- Session token
- Expiration time
For simplicity, in this document, we'll refer to all four of these components collectively as temporary security credentials or just temporary credentials.
Token Vending Machine
In order to make it easier to leverage temporary credentials, we provide two sample reference applications, called Token Vending Machines (TVMs).
Note: The TVMs are provided as an example of one way to implement the interaction with AWS Security Token Service. You are free to use the TVMs as provided, modify them to fit your application, or use them as inspiration for an entirely separate implementation. The source for the TVMs is available at GitHub for both the Anonymous TVM and the Identity TVM.
In a typical implementation, a mobile application calls a TVM to request temporary credentials for a user. The TVM requests the temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service and then passes the credentials back to the application. The application uses these temporary credentials in subsequent interactions with AWS. When the credentials expire, the application contacts the TVM for new credentials.
The following diagram shows the flow of the temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service to the mobile application.
To simplify interaction with the TVMs, the AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS include code samples that demonstrate a possible TVM client implementation. As with the TVM itself, you are free to use this sample code as is, to modify it, or to take a different approach.
In the implementation shown in the above diagram, the TVM sample library has been linked with the mobile application and is part of the software deployed to the mobile device. The application uses the library only to obtain the temporary credentials. Once the application has the credentials, it can interact with any AWS service for which the credentials are authorized.
Anonymous TVM and Identity TVM
We provide two versions of the TVM sample reference application. One version is designed to associate authorizations only with a unique identifier for the mobile device. We refer to this version as the anonymous TVM, because the identity of the mobile device user is not stored in any way.
The other version of the TVM supports user registration and login. It is intended to demonstrate a design that could support features such as varying the authorizations provided depending on the user's identity and collecting data about who is using the application and how. We refer to this version of the TVM as the identity TVM. Let's walk through the interaction between the mobile application and each of these two versions.
Anonymous TVM
The mobile application initiates communication with the TVM by calling the registerdevice method with a unique identifier and a secret key. The unique identifier (UID) is a globally unique identifier (GUID). The TVM associates the UID and secret key with each other and then stores them for future reference. The secret key is used to secure subsequent communications between the application and the TVM.
After this initial registration, the application obtains temporary credentials by calling the gettoken method with the UID, a cryptographic signature, and a timestamp. The cryptographic signature is an HMAC hash generated from the timestamp using the secret key. This signature authenticates the device to the TVM: the TVM uses the UID to look up the secret key and then uses the secret key to verify the signature.
The TVM responds by sending back temporary credentials, which have been encrypted using the secret key. The TVM uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for this encryption.
The application decrypts the temporary credentials using the key and can then use them to access any AWS services for which the temporary credentials are authorized. Eventually, the expiration time of these temporary credentials will be reached, at which point the application can call gettoken again to obtain new temporary credentials.
Identity TVM
The process for the identity TVM is similar to the anonymous case; however, the first step in the anonymous case, registerdevice, is replaced by two steps in the identity case, registeruser and login.
The application initiates communication with the TVM by bringing up a browser on the mobile device to enable the user to register a user name and password with the TVM. The TVM derives a secret key from the password. The TVM stores the user name and secret key for future reference.
The application calls the login method with the user name, the unique identifier (UID), a cryptographic signature, and a timestamp. The cryptographic signature is an HMAC hash generated from the timestamp, using the secure secret key derived from the password. The TVM uses the user name to look up this same derivation of the password, which it then uses to verify the signature. The TVM then sends the application a new secret key that will be the shared secret that enables the TVM and application to communicate securely. Finally, it stores the UID with the user name and the secure encryption key.
The application can now obtain temporary credentials by calling the gettoken method with the UID, a signature, and a timestamp. The process is the same as in the anonymous case. The TVM authenticates the application using the signature and then sends the application the temporary credentials, which have been encrypted using the shared encryption key.
When the application receives the encrypted temporary credentials, it decrypts them. The application can then use the credentials to access any AWS service for which the temporary credentials are authorized. As in the anonymous case, the temporary credentials will eventually expire, at which point the application can call gettoken again to obtain new temporary credentials.
Clearing the UID, Username, and Secret Key
The UID, user name, and secret key that are used to interact with the TVM are stored by the application in a special area of the mobile device. For Android devices, this area is called Shared Preferences. For iOS devices, this area is called the Key Chain. In both of these areas, information stored by one application is not accessible to other applications on the device.
In some cases, the application might need to clear the UID, user name, and secret key from the device. For example, the application might support a logout <9D> function that clears this information. The samples that are provided with the AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS demonstrate how to clear this information.
Hosting the TVM
The TVM samples that we provide are designed to be deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The TVMs are packaged as Java web archive (.war) files, which makes deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk straightforward. Although the samples are designed to work with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, they could easily be adapted to run on Apache Tomcat or in some other environment. To learn more about deploying the TVM, go to the pages for the anonymous and identity TVMs.
Secure Transfer of the Session Token
For security reasons, we strongly recommend that you use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt communications between the application and the TVM. SSL encryption will prevent a malicious third party from copying the password or secret key while it is being transferred.
In order to enable SSL to work with the EC2 instance that hosts the TVM on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you will need to configure the security group of the EC2 instance to allow inbound traffic on TCP port 443 or whichever port you use for SSL traffic.
You must also ensure that the certification authority that you use to sign your SSL certificate is one that is recognized as valid by your mobile operating system.
For more information on using SSL with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, go to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) User Guide.
The TVM User and Limited Authorization
Although you will need to use your AWS account credentials to deploy the TVM, we recommend that you do not run the TVM under your AWS account. Instead, create an IAM user and configure the TVM to use the credentials of this IAM user, which we will call the TVM user. You can attach policies to the TVM user that limit how he or she can interact with AWS. Because the TVM uses the credentials of the TVM user to request temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service, the authorizations associated with these temporary credentials are constrained to the authorization available to the TVM user. By setting policies that allow the TVM user access only to the services and data necessary for the application to function, you protect the rest of your AWS resources from inadvertent or malicious access.
Policy Objects Further Limit Authorization
As just described, the authorizations associated with the temporary security credentials are constrained by the authorizations associated with the TVM user. You could further constrain the authorizations for the temporary credentials by modifying the provided samples to attach a policy object to the temporary credentials.
Because a distinct policy object could be attached to each set of temporary credentials, you could specify authorizations on a per UID basis, that is, for each user of the mobile application. For certain types of applications, this capability can be important. For example, consider an application that enables users to upload photos to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If every user had the same authorizations, then users would be able to view each other's photos. To avoid this issue, associate a policy object with each user's credentials that limits each user's access to his or her own photos.
You would need to modify the provided samples in order to implement these user-specific policy objects. For more information about policy objects, see the Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation
Next Steps and Additional Resources
If you are designing a mobile application that will use AWS, we recommend that you download the files and documentation for the TVM and investigate how you might be able to leverage it in your application. To do so, go to the pages for the anonymous and identity TVMs. For an example of using the Identity TVM to provide per-user segregated access to an Amazon S3 bucket, see this article.
If you haven't already done so, download the AWS SDK for Android or the AWS SDK for iOS--or both if you are engaged in cross-platform development. Each of these SDKs includes a sample client library that works in conjunction with the sample TVM reference applications.
Finally, we recommend the Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation for information about the process of creating IAM users and designing policies that appropriately limit the scope of their access to AWS.
Want to learn more?
To learn about mobile development best practices, follow our AWS Mobile Development Blog. You can also ask questions or post comments in the Mobile Development Forum about this or any other topic related to mobile development with AWS.


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