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I'm addicted to peppermint Mentos.It started when I was stuck in a long check out line at the grocery store; I noticed a mentos display and grabbed a couple of rolls.I started eating them in the car, and was pretty much hooked after the first roll.For the next few weeks I found myself buying some every time I stopped by the store. They cost a dollar per roll, and so I'd limit myself to spending no more than five bucks at a time.Then, a few weeks later I found myself in the candy aisle. Oh man, they came in six packs! I grabbed a couple of those and figured I was covered for the whole week.Nope.I was right back in that same candy aisle a couple of days later, and I ended up buying the whole row. I wasn't too worried, I mean, they have to restock their inventory, right?A few days later, I was back. I headed straight for the candy section only to see the peppermint Mentos section completely empty. This was the point where I should've probably called it quits, but I didn't. I found myself quietly standing in line at the customer service area. When it was finally my turn, I asked them if they could go check in the back to see if there were any Mentos in the stock room that hadn't been put out yet. The customer service guy told me that they get deliveries on Tuesdays and that I should check back then.Tuesday was three days away plus the guy didn't give me a definite answer about the Mentos reappearing, so I did what any peppermint candy addict would do; I got in my car and drove 20 minutes to Costco. I figured Costco has everything, the place is like Disneyland and they sell things in King Kong sized amounts, so I grabbed my membership card and waved it at the card checker guy, and headed in behind the slowest family on Earth. They spread out in front of me, all six of them, and decided to stop and block my path. I finally slalomed around them and started looking around the store.I had no idea where to go; there's no clear sign telling me where the candy section might be. I cut diagonally across the field of jeans and folded flannel shirts until I caught sight of a sample lady. She was cutting up little squares of pizza and talking like a radio announcer about the pizza being microwavable. I figured I was getting close; pizza is food and candy is kind of a food, so I kept going. Finally, along the far back wall I found it. Boxes and boxes and more boxes of candy. I scanned the boxes and there they were, my peppermint Mentos.I grabbed five small boxes and headed toward the check stands. My total bill was $40.00. I had just spent forty bucks on candy.Here is what shame looks like in peppermint form.

This is a multi-billion dollar industry. Most of the profits go to the system provider and the educational facility.Hidden Payments Industry That Is Growing RapidlyToday this is still a fragmented industry. There is a drive for consolidation and the momentum is taking hold. One of the growing leaders and growing larger every year, with few challenges is Heartland Payment Systems, of Princeton, New Jersey and their Campus Solutions division. There of course are others, for example Oracle Financial systems is also a large player but does not offer the wide ranging systems to effectively compete with Heartland. They are primarily a backend system, however Stanford University's SU PCard is operated by Oracle. Oracle is looking at becoming more competitive in this space in the future so I would not count them out.Heartland's Campus Solutions was really formed by the acquisitions of General Meters Corporation in October 22, 2007 and School-Link Technologies, Inc. in October 11, 2011. General Meters Corporation had a significant portion of many state and private Universities when they were acquired. The School-Link Technologies, Inc acquisition expanded a market reach to K-12 school systems, both public and private as one of the largest companies in this segment.Rather dry marketing overview of the OneCard product.Heartland created the OneCard system as a customizable solution for just about any education environment. However, there is far more then just Payments involved with these solutions they are really quite complicated and all encompassing. This really creates very high barriers to entry into this market. There is also a very difficult and long vetting process that most education environments require. There is always going to be competitive bidding, however on some contracts it is only Heartland bidding since few players offer the depth of product offerings.How Does Campus Solution’s OneCard System Work?In a typical scenario the student is issued a private label Discover debit card issued through the Central National Bank. This is a prepaid debit card for each student to make on- and off-campus purchases. They must meet and satisfying Title IV, Regulation E and PCI requirements.Students have mobile and web access to their Discover card information, transaction history and transfers to other accounts through the online portal. This speeds up the receipt of financial aid refunds 5-7 days sooner than with traditional checks. The debit card anywhere Discover cards are accepted including ATMs.Rather dry marketing overview of the dining aspect of the OneCard product.The University has back office tools to calculate the direct awards, excess disbursement amounts and payroll distributions, then prepares a simple ACH file and submits it to the bank to load student debit cards.Online & Offline Bookstore ManagementWireless Access ControlSecurity Identity ReadersFood Service Business ManagementIn-Building Emergency Notification SystemInformation-Driven Video SurveillanceMobile Communication SolutionOn-Demand Transaction Enabling ApplicationsIntegrated Off-Campus SolutionsPOS/Inventory Management InterfaceAccess control to Network Vending, Laundry, Copier TerminalsSite access control though Zigbee Coordinator and Zigbee Door Lock systemsParking access systemsAccess control using RFID, NFC, Mag Stripe, Chip Card and BiometricText Messaging Notification System, email Notification SystemStudent Voting systemsYour Smartphone Is Your Student ID CardThey recently upgrade the system to ultimately fully implement the use of smartphones. MyPay is a virtual student ID card in lieu of their physical ID. The MyPay app enables students to make on-campus purchases at bookstores, vending and laundry machines, dining locations, print and copy stations, and more.MyPay can send payment information to the point-of-sale terminals while waiting in a checkout line, allowing cashiers to simply press a button to complete a transaction.The MyAccount is like a bank account app and enables students to manage their OneCard account, check balances, report a lost/stolen card, add funds, purchase services such as campus events, meal plans or parking passes, as well as upload photos for the student ID system.The OneCard Mobile Admin gives the ability to manage the OneCard System from a mobile device with administrative features including viewing student card use information and managing building and room access control for additional security.Revenue ModelHeartland generates revenue from a number of direct and indirect sources. The Off-campus merchant program has no cost to educational organization and it allows the surrounding town to directly participate in the closed loop side (non Discover) of the OneCard. This certainly creates a “preferred” merchant list for students and will drive significant traffic to participating merchants. Merchants can pay from 1.5% - 3% with some commissions returned to educational organization. There is also the Give Something Back network that allows for fundraising built around the OneCard network and participating merchants.Heartland also generates revenue from the hardware sales, software sales, support, services, etc. In most cases these systems support themselves by the direct and indirect revenue stream generated for educational organization.Just One Of The Hidden Opportunities Startups In Payments Are MissingI am neutral on Heartland as a company. There is now doubt they have made significant mistakes in the past. However Campus Solutions is a brilliant move into this huge market and they have years of head start.As I mentioned there as a bit of a roll up taking place in this sector. I seem to always surprise Analysts and many startup companies when I point out use cases like this. Billions of dollars are running through these private networks and most observers in Payments, investment community and the tech media do not notice.There are many other examples that are similar that have just as large of a market potential and not a single new Payments Startup has noticed (I confirm this on a weekly basis). While most of the startups in the Payments space are focused, rightly so on making the best possible experience and reaching for the lowest hanging fruit on the trees, some of these companies are fully ignoring huge market opportunities because they refuse to study history and value wisdom from industry experts. By steadfastly wanting to reinvent the wheel all over again and not working with people that really know this stuff, potentially large markets drift by like ships in the night.In the next few years we will see these types of payment solutions morph to far larger systems with even more opprotunities.

To answer one must look at the Germans approach to invasion codenamed “Operation Sealion”. The crossing by ship and barge would have taken about 12 hours. The build up for such an operation at the time would have been extremely difficult to conceal. The British had 2 forms of “tripwire” alert. These were air reconnaissance and about 200 patrol craft on picket duty, every night off the north coast of France. Other issues were that at that time the German airforce were not adept at fighting, bombing or sinking sea going vessels. A couple of examples of this were Off Norway, the Home Fleet had been bombed for days on end, but only two of its destroyers (out of an inventory of over eighty) were sunk. During Dunkirk, many destroyers were damaged by air attack, and for a while the most valuable ones were withdrawn (in the manner of Fighter Command from France), but none of the four sunk by the Luftwaffe were in open water and free to manoeuvre at speed when fatally attacked. Even if Hitler had decided for operation Sealion to be launched, he would have found British destroyers between them and their intended landing-beaches when they approached on the morning of D-Day. As well as torpedoes and guns, each destroyer carried 40 depth-charges filled with 600-800lbs of Amatol (depending on Mk) which could have demolished the tows of wallowing barges packed with soldiers and horses.The second tranche of RN interventions would have been the thirty-four corvettes and sloops, and the MTBs, employed on East Coast and Channel convoy routes. Then, within twenty-four hours of the alert, the cruisers and capital units of the Home Fleet would have started to arrive from the far north and west. 165 minesweepers of varying pedigree were at hand to maintain swept channels. Finally, many of the thirty-five submarines based in home waters would have headed for the Channel to disrupt the shuttling back and forth of barges required by the German build-up for the next ten days.yes the RN would have taken casualties, but clearly the RN was in a position to thwart and German Amanda at the time.The ‘Brief Statement of Reasons for Cancellation of Invasion of England’, prepared by the German Naval Historical Staff in 1944 states:As the preliminary work and preparations proceeded, the exceptional difficulties became more and more obvious. The more forcibly the risks were brought home, the dimmer grew faith in success… just as in Napoleon’s invasion plans in 1805, the fundamental requirement for success was lacking, that is, command of the sea. This lack of superiority at sea was to be compensated for by air superiority. But it was never even possible to destroy enemy sea superiority by use of our own air superiority… The sea area in which we were to operate was dominated by a well prepared opponent who was determined to fight to the utmost of his ability. The greatest difficulty was bound to be that of maintaining the flow of supplies and food. The enemy’s fleet and other means of naval defence had to be considered as a decisive factor. Owing to the weakness of our naval forces there could be no effective guarantee against the enemy breaking into our area of transports, despite our mine barrages on the flanks and despite our air superiority.To invade Hitler needed both air and sea superiority he had neither. So although the Navy’s part in the “Battle of Britain” is not deemed to have been significant it was in fact the existence and naval superiority aspect of the RN that was.My acknowledgment toDr Andrew Gordon who is Reader in Defence Studies, King’s College London, and Maritime Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the UK.who’s insight and knowledge of this matter has been invaluable. Battle of Britain: The Naval Perspective Follow this link for more information.