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District makes two administrative moves: New superintendent, CFO officially hired by board
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PLANO -- Two months after being named the lone finalist for the Plano ISD superintendent position, Richard Matkin was officially hired Tuesday night.
Matkin, who joined PISD in 2001 as the associate superintendent for business services and chief financial officer, has served as interim superintendent since the Jan. 31 retirement of Doug Otto, who led the district for 17 years. Matkin is a former teacher and coach, who has held finance positions in five other area school districts including Carrollton-Farmers Branch and Duncanville.
"Let me assure you that there is going to be full engagement. We are going to solve the problems that we have that are in the community ..." Matkin said after being officially hired. "We are going to be community connected and we are going to make sure the most important aspect of the district is our kids, and the fastest way to get to them is through the teachers. So the teachers need to be the No. 1 focus in what we do."
When Matkin was announced as the lone finalist on April 12, Board President Tammy Richards said even though the board conducted a nationwide search and evaluated 28 applicants, the choice was clear.
"As we went through the interviewing process, we realized there was one person who could lead this district and that was Richard Matkin," she said. "He has the heart of an educator. He cares about teaching and kids. The fact that he actually served as an Algebra I teacher and a coach shows that he is dedicated to education. We are thrilled that he is going to be at the head of Plano ISD."
Matkin was given a three-year contract, but district spokeswoman Lesley Range-Stanton said the financial terms of the contract were not immediately available.
To replace Matkin, the board unanimously voted to hire Stephen Fortenberry, who has served as the CFO at McKinney ISD since 2003. Prior to his time in McKinney, Fortenberry worked at three other districts, including a stint as an accountant and assistant director of finance at PISD from 1983-1987.
"We are getting a very special business service person and someone that I know will create the kind of trust we currently have," Matkin said, adding that he has known Fortenberry for many years. "We are very excited to have Steve on board."
Fortenberry is a 1981 graduate of Texas Tech University and will begin work in Plano ISD on July 2.
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My most recent ex use to twitch as i did this, i felt like i deserved a trophy lol
In The Usual fellatio position the receiving partner simply lays back while their partner performs oral from a lying position between the receiver's legs. The giver can also use their hands to explore the whole of the receiver's body. Although not overly intimate, this position is a great treat for the receiver...
i've recently lost my virginity and i performed oral on my boifriend .. he loved it and it was only my first time. i've never gave oral b4 until then and it was like i was a pro at it ! i thought i wuldnt kno what to do, but actually when i undressed him, i just got straight to it and didnt stop suckin his dick til about 15 mins straight !omg .. i love oral sex !♥
I just did this to my bf, he loved it!
i wanna try somthin like this with my gf, is this a fun 1 to do? any tips?
I love it!
It probably won't be too much fun for her considering nothing is happening sexually to her during it. But many females "get off" knowing they are pleasing their partner.
hey, i have an issue. You see, i LOVE giving head. Like..honestly. I adore it, and I've been told I do well! But my issue is my jaw tends to start to hurt. Very very very badly, usually it doesn't end up being an issue, but if I give head too often it starts to bug me so then we just end up having sex. Which isn't bad, but I also like the taste of cum and miss it. Does anyone have suggestions to help me with my jaw hurting issue? Please and thanks!!
you know me lol i showed you this sight lol. anyways here is my advice focus on the tip more then anything they will cum faster and your jaw wont hurt as much :)
Love a woman who knows her place.... Come over, get naked, dick in mouth, go!
I've never had a blowjob before, I feel like im missing out, Can anyone help me with this?
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that sux buddy, its a awsome feeling and its just amazing if you girl knows how to do it
that really is sad. especially since it's my favorite thing ;)
After we have sex my boy always busts on my belly. He likes it when i lick the cum off the tip of his dick. Says its hella sexy, Like something you'd see in a porno(:
I love waking my guy up this way in the morning :D
Thats just, the absolute perfect way to wake up :D
i love it when i wake up before the guy and he's got the total morning wood and i just slide down under the covers and start sucking him deep ;) they always start moaning
If I allow a woman to actually spend the night, I always remind her that's the way I expect to be woken up in the morning. Cum = Breakfast of champions for her!
try waking him up in the middle of the night my ex used to do that to me all the time. She would wake up to go to the bathroom at 2 or 3 see me passed out and just start going to town on my dick. then it would turn into a midnight fuck!
i fuck my best friends boyfriend before and i did that to him it felt good
Love it! Especially when my girlfriend starts to play and tease the end of my cock with her tongue..... Mmmmm.... 3:-)
I could use some advise on not gagging so badly and how to fit more in my mouth! :/ Anyone have any little tricks they could share? D:
Well, if you rub the tip across the roof of your mouth it makes pushing it all the way in not so bad. But unless you guys is dead set on you deep throating most guys are finish fine with you focusing on whatever fits comfortably. Also, you can use your hand on the bottom part to simulate the deep thrust sensation against their base, while you suck and lick on the top half.
This is basicially the usual for my boyfriend and I (whenever we're at his house of course :P) He lays back on his bed and I'll either get on my knees on his floor or on his bed and stick my ass WAY up in the air and give him a nice blowjob while he spanks me and while he's panting and moaning away and his entire body shakes and he goes insane and screams my name when I make him come and I swallow it all up :) This is my favorite way to give him head
Wow, that made my cock hard just reading this one. Sounds like a great time. This is a great way to get my cock worked on orally.
I've never had oral sex, and I"m just wondering if girls actually enjoy giving oral sex, or if it's just something that they do to make their boyfriend/husband feel good
For me honestly when I get really turned on I tend to bite things at first but then it gets to were I want to suck and lick on things and I want to give him oral. I enjoy the motion and when he gets really hard but I just wish I could fit more in my mouth. :/
I enjoy it mayjorly i love his warmth and how he owes me afterwards or even pays back during the oral
Personally I dont enjoy it but I do it because I know my bf likes it.He told me I dont have to if I dont want to but I think its unfair if he just does me.
my bf loves this! especially when i use a tingly lube ;] mint chewing gum or mint works just as good!
I did this with my girlfriend the other day and all i have to say is WOW. Best position so far in my opinion.
this is the position i got my first BJ in, it was me and my girl 8 month anniversary, and we were layn in my bed and she looks up at me and whispers in my ear in the sexiest voice I've ever heard and says "I've got a surprise for u" i was like ok wht is it? she told me to close my eyes and relax, so i did, and she starts to take my pants off, then she starts putting my dick in her mouth and slowly goes up and down, and i loved it, she did tht for like 5 or so min, and then she climbed on top of me and road me like crazy, omg best surprise I've ever got
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Okay, So me and my BF are totaly in love.. i often give him a quick suck every few days and he absolutely LOVES IT. I love hearing him moan and pull my hair forcing more of his dick down my throat by pushing my head slowly up and down as i lick, bite and suck on his 8 inch dick making him have multiple orgasms i love the feeling of how iam making him feel great an knowing that iam the reason he is enjoying it so much, then i pull my mouth away and he rolls over on top of me an we have a nice long fucking whilst his cock is all wet and moist making an easy entrance into me so we can begin our hours of fucking, sucking and licking and sexual fun. Mmmmm i need his cock so bad right now but what i need to know is...were both in our teens, but the both of us have never had any sexual contact with other people except eachother, is there still any risk of disease?
well if you or him have kissed someone with oral stds like oral herpes theres a chance. but if not, then i'd say ur in the clear.
Were both eachothers first Boyfriend/Girlfriend, We havent ever been with someone else besides eachother, and we havent kissed other girls or boys but when we have oral sex we don't use any protection, we just yeno.. go straight into it. were both teenagers, we have kissed, french kissed, he has fingered me, i have sucked him, I swallowed his cum, he has licked me, we don't use any protection stuff for anything here? We take it seriously when it comes to me getting pregnant accidently, so we make sure if he has some of his cum on his hands or i have it on my hands, he washes hands alot before touching me down there again or he doesnt touch down there atall, strict rules. We have never had sex and don't plan on it until either the legal age, or marriage, So I know i'm not pregnant but I just need to know if i have STD\STI's Any help appreciated, thanks :-)
if you are both virgins, and have never done anything stupid with needles, then there is no chance of you two getting any diseases or infections
thats not true things jsut as simple as kissing can transmit deseases which is why you still should go and get tested every few months like my boyfriend and i do
please help im 50 and have never done this i so want to want to do it my ex would never try anything with him 30 years so i need a step by step guide is there a dvd
that chick on the demonstrations is lucky. i want to call my bf so we can do them all. see how long will it take for me to really drain him?
I was preforming the dirty deed to my man. We usually get quite kinky and dirty during sex and that day was no exception! Im pretty good at deepthroating and was making sure to do it lots!! Suddenly he grabbed my hair and thrust it in all the way and wouldnt let me breath! The next words to escape his mouth were "I'm going to make you do it and hard i want you to throw up for me." and sure enough i did it wasn't real sick just flem. If i wasn't so turned on i wouldn't of done what i did next ... but he didn't let go he held my hair firm and pushed my head down so my mouth was covered in it and told me to lick it up!! It's minging now i think but it shows the things you'll do when your turned on!
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I've been with my boyfriend for a long time now, and I'm ready to give him oral. Does anybody have advice on how to make it the best I can? Because I'm worried that it won't feel good for him.
Start by rolling on top of him and kissing him passionately. Which he will think is normal, but then start kissing and licking as you go down. By time you get to his chest he will have a good idea of what is coming. At this time look up at him and smile and even give a quick wink. Now that he knows what is coming, his anticipation will build. Don't take too long getting to his dick, but once you do slow down and take your time. Start at the bottom side of his dick at the base and kiss and lick your way up towards the tip. Be sure to spend some time at that V in the bottom of his tip. From here I like to run my tongue around the rim of the tip and kiss the surface of the tip. When it looks he is ready, take his dick into your mouth. I like to do this suddenly as my husband gasps ever time I do it. I love the feel of the soft spongy tip of my husband's dick in my mouth. You can work on his dick with your tongue as you go up and down on it. I also like to hum when I do this and my favorite song to hum is from the movie Snow White, "Whistle While You Work". From here it is real easy to move into the Cowgirl and give him a great screwing.
i cum to quickly can sumone tel me wat do to so i cnt , coz i dnt get that much sex or oral coz i finish too quickly
this is the way i usually give my bf bjs, he really likes it and he cums alot. i just dont know if im doin the best i can.. any tips?
If he cums a lot then you are doing just fine. You can try other positions, but this one is nice for the guy. He gets to watch as you work on his cock with your mouth and hands. He only has to concentrate on the great head you are giving to him and can fully enjoy shooting his cum when he climaxes.
if he likes it, then by all means keep doing it that way. you can also try different ways if youd like to see if he likes those as well. Also, get him to come here on the site with you so that way he can point out which ones he'd like to try. It'd be worth a shot.
Oh god. I have never had oral sex, but I came close once, and he called me after he left and was telling me how much he wanted me to do this to him, he is coming over tomorrow when my mom is at work... CAN'T WAIT!!


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The Ally at the Gate: Muslims, Christians and Jews
An 11th-century Mozarab (i.e. Arabic-speaking Spaniard) Antiphonary folio from Léon Cathedral
Reading recent books on the history of the encounter between Islam and the West, both Christian and post-Christian, Youssef Rakha posits a single civilisation adjusting its constituent elements through the centuries
"My fellow Christians love to read the poems and romances of the Arabs; they study the Arabs' theologians and philosophers, not to refute them, but to form a correct and elegant Arabic. Where is the layman who now reads the Latin commentaries on the Holy Scriptures, or who studies the Gospels, prophets, or apostles? Alas! All talented young Christians read and study with enthusiasm the Arab books; they gather immense libraries at great expense; they despise the Christian literature as unworthy of attention. They have forgotten their language. For everyone who can write a letter in Latin to a friend, there are a thousand who can express themselves in Arabic with elegance, and write better poems in their language than the Arabs themselves."
Thus Paul Alvarus of Córdoba, writing in Latin in the mid-ninth century: a Jewish convert, Alvarus was nonetheless a zealot whose approach to creed and identity is evocative of Bin Laden. After the monk Eulogius, Alvarus was the principal chronicler of the Martyrs Movement which, from 851 to 859, involved both clergy and laypeople individually declaring Islam evil and Muhammad a false prophet, thereby incurring capital punishment on themselves. Had such statements not legally required death unless recanted – and the Martyrs delighted in refusing to recant them – the Ummayyids under Abdur Rahman II and Muhammad I, it is often said, would have happily spared the utterers. It is something of a post-9/11 cliché to point to Muslim Iberia as a hodgepodge of identities where Christians and Jews enjoyed almost as much freedom as Muslims: a model for the kind of medieval multiculturalism Stephen O'Shea, author of Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World (St Martin's Press, 2006), calls convivencia. What is interesting in this quote – one of the most popular on the period – is the light it sheds on the Spanish Arabs' comparative modernity.
In bewailing the decline of grassroots Visigothic tradition, among other proto-European manifestations of Christian identity, Alvarus ironically says more about the rival culture: among other things, that it is more advanced, more interesting, more appealing to the young regardless of ethnicity. That this culture happens to be Muslim and therefore by definition unholy merely facilitates his tirade. Dogma is apparently a prerequisite for the existence of any institution of thought; limiting or negative as it can be, dogma nonetheless remains simple. Where it fits and how it is brought to bear on social and political change, however, is complicated. As dialogue- rather than clash-of-civilisations historians never tire of pointing out, since the emergence of Islam at the threshold of Europe in the mid-seventh century, there have been just as many wars (and alliances) between Muslims and non-Muslims as there have been between Muslims and Muslims, or non-Muslims and non-Muslims. Conflict was seldom over creed or culture, though creed and culture were often used as pretexts for starting a conflict.
Much like "fundamentalist" Muslims today – to a far greater extent than defending the faith or even, necessarily, revolting against injustice – Alvarus was horrified of difference and change. It was the Arabs' more sophisticated and decadent ways, not what they believed, that threatened him: magnificent architecture, effective medicine, and advanced philosophy-cum-science, not to mention powerful armies. He decried not the Quran's denial of the divinity of Christ, for example, but the influence of the Baghdadi musician and dandy Ziryab, who not long after arriving in Al Andalus (much like Western pop icons today) was already dictating taste across cultures, not only in music and dress but, even more frighteningly, in language and literature as well. Once again, this is not so different from the way present-day extremists on the Muslim side of the supposed divide regard Western tastes in art and attire, not to mention the fear, far more widespread in the Muslim world, of Western morality and science. Eulogius was one of the last Martyrs and Alvarus duly wrote him a hagiography, but he did not die for Jesus, justice, or even the glory of Rome – Alvarus died for insularity.
In a seemingly unprecedented departure from so called Orientalist norms, non-academic history books written in English have for a decade now sought not simply to "understand", reconcile with or tolerate Islam. Instead, they are finally claiming it as part of their own heritage; one shudders to think what it actually took for Westerners to pay enough attention to Islam to rethink it: 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo… how many more Palestinians dead? Yet worked through backwards, Islam re-emerges not as a threat to Western civilisation but as a worthy contestant (rival or ally), necessary for the ongoing process of generating it. These historians' interest in Islam is in many ways diametrically opposed to the interest that "enlightened" Muslims have taken in Europe since the 19th century. Rationalists like Sheikh Mohammad Abduh or Ali Pasha Mubarak were driven by a linear view of progress and impressed by the technological and humane achievements of the West; they saw the Enlightenment as a universal legacy to be adopted and emulated. This involved the humbling admission that the West was now clearly at the forefront of modernity (to some minds, a concession to imperialism), but it also involved the assumption that Muslims and Westerners were made of the same substance, separated not so much by some essential or irrevocable breach as by variable political, economic and social circumstances, capable of being in harmony.
The Arab-Muslim contribution to the earliest pangs of Enlightenment, notably through the transmission back into Europe of ancient Greek learning from Baghdad via Al Andalus, is widely acknowledged anyway. By reassessing the past directly and specifically in light of a seemingly more troubled present, this new genre of retroactive history has only served to emphasise it. Books like The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilisation by Jonathan Lyons (Bloomsbury, 2008), Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World by John Freely (Knopf, 2009), or The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy (Da Capo Press, 2007) all detail aspects of how Arabs, Arabised Persians, Berbers and later Turks frequently had the scientific or humane edge over eastern and/or Catholic Christendom. But only David Levering Lewis, author of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (W W Norton & Co, 2008), clearly argues that, if not for the existence of Muslim Spain, the many disparate proto-European cultural elements then in existence would never have merged into the West as a cultural entity or a seemingly whole civilisation – an astounding admission.
Sea of Faith beautifully portrays many of the major the interactions that took place between Islam and the West in the last 1,500 years starting with the Companion Khalid Ibnul Walid's triumph over the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in 636. But its author, in common with almost all the others, falls short of Levering's lucidity – or the promise God's Crucible seems to hold. O'Shea clearly has no wish to emphasise conflict or difference, in the end, but Sea of Faith presents the Mediterranean not as the alchemical crucible in which the substance of the modern world was brewing over the centuries, consuming offerings from Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but as a sort of arena pitting two sets of players against each other – which periodically metamorphoses from stadium to battlefront and back again. As Zachary Karabell writes in People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West (John Murray, 2007), war in the middle Ages was a far more physical, acceptable, everyday presence – and holy war aka Jihad was regarded as the best kind. That is why almost every armed conflict was touted as holy war, even when it pitted Sunnis against Sunnis or Catholics against Catholics.
But O'Shea does not sufficiently separate these two facts from what he terms "confessional competition" – the them-against-us assumption of some essential difference, however understated, subtly conveyed or cloaked in erudition and high morals – a quality that tends to confine his perspective to the religious dimension of the interchange and thereby limit it largely to conflict: Ideas, practises, even people like Leo Africanus (also known as Hassan Al Wazzan) could move fluidly between faiths; but however much they agreed or indeed coalesced culturally or politically, neither Muslims nor Christians could accept one faith without giving up the other. O'Shea's outline of the conflict is extremely useful in itself, but it does not significantly undermine the perennial notion (espoused in very different contexts and in very different ways by Sayyid Qutb, Samuel Huntington and, well, Paul Alvarus) that there exists, eternally or fundamentally separated on the opposite shores of some Mediterranean of the mind, a Them and an Us; and that the one must seek to eliminate the other if it is to thrive or prosper.
Likewise Andrew Wheatcroft: his two books – Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam (Random House, 2004) and The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe (Basic Books, 2009) – are constructed around the respective themes of enmity and fear. Each demonstrates everything the author would need to establish that all three religions belong to the same universe of thought, however dogmatic or racial a form they take, and that their adherents – whether debating the finer points of their respective theologies, engaging each other in profitable commerce, or roaring a blood-spattered "Infidel" – have on the whole had more in common than not. Yet in both cases – once again, with the best of intentions, no doubt – Wheatcroft sustains the age-old mental construction that places Muslims and Christians on the opposite sides of some impenetrable rampart. Sad but perhaps inevitable that, in such potentially explosive times, the emphasis should be on the mental space where a large-scale, media-oriented, appropriately globalised explosion can still occur, not on the possibility of transcending the baser human drive to be at the other's throat.
Of all Alvarus's possible heirs, Karabell is perhaps the most renegade – in the sense that he is the least like that fundamentalist Christian ancestor of the retrograde historians' – though Karabell too fails to conceive of Islam and the West as a single civilisation adjusting its constituent elements through the centuries. But somehow, in his unique formulation of a Muslim-Western comity, this shortcoming does not seem to matter. Karabell is also the author of Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation (Vintage, 2008) as well as the compelling book Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal (Knopf, 2003); but it is in People of the Book that he combines universal compassion with the down-to-earth urgency required by the times: "In a world where technology will make it easier for the angry few to do great harm, the perpetuation of a model of conflict is dangerous. Remembering that each of the three traditions carries the seeds of peace will not by itself heal the world… But if these stories" of conflict and alliance, especially of alliance "are integrated into our sense of the past and the present, it will be more difficult to treat religion as destiny."


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I did not & cannot take credit for the amazing amount of bodywork & majority of the custom touches that are found on this car, the drivetrain swap, wiring & fuel system is for a full time driver that is roadworthy in all conditions. Car gets about 20mpg locally & upper 20′s on the highway. Great cruiser that aside from the fuel pump humming you cant even tell is running until you give it some throttle. This car has about 3000 street miles on it since the drivetrain swap, about 1500 miles on it under my ownership. Pinstriped by one of the greats in the midwest area.
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We're now in hurricane season, which began in the Atlantic Ocean in June and won't end until the last day of November. And, according to a website that does annual reviews of home security companies, the company that stands out during such bad weather is Vivint.
6Webs.com selected Utah-based home automation/home security company as the "Best Home Security Company during Hurricane Season," according to a news release from that website, http://www.6webs.com.
The company says it does independent reviews of home security systems and "conducts an annual review of the leading home security providers and ranks them based on several categories that are important to consumers."
In awarding the recognition to Vivint – which is reportedly considering a sale – 6Webs.com cites the features the company offers including its Go! Control panel weather alerts, with inclement weather notifications via an iPhone, iPad or Android device; the back-up batteries it provides for all the home security systems it installs, which help ensure protection if the power goes out; its 24-hour customer service; and the fact that it provides cellular monitoring.
"In the case of a natural disaster not only could power be lost, but phone line service could be interrupted for a long period of time leaving your home less secure. This is also the case with Internet-based systems when power is lost, the connection to the monitoring center will be lost as well. Vivint's cellular security system is the most reliable way to ensure the connections with the monitoring center is not interrupted," the news release said.
The big development we're all awaiting in the industry is ADT parent company Tyco International's split into three independently traded companies as of Oct. 1: The ADT Corp., Tyco Fire and Security and Tyco Flow Control International, which will be renamed Pentair Ltd.
In advance of the split, Tyco put out a news release this week announcing that Sept. 28 will be the date that distributions of equity interests in The ADT Corp. and Flow Control will be made to shareholders. Those two companies "are the two wholly-owned subsidiaries formed to hold Tyco's North American residential and small business security and flow control businesses," the company said the Sept. 6 release.
Switzerland-based Tyco said the payment date is dependent on shareholder approval, to be obtained at a special meeting slated for Sept. 14, and other conditions. The distribution will be made to shareholders of record as of Sept. 17, Tyco announced.
As the company previously has said, Flow Control will merge with Pentair, Inc. immediately after the distribution. Tyco added, "Prior to the distribution and the merger, Flow Control will be renamed Pentair Ltd."
Tyco said it "currently has approximately 462 million basic shares outstanding." Based on distribution ratios, the company said, "approximately 231 million shares of ADT common stock and 111 million shares of Flow Control common stock will be distributed to Tyco shareholders."
ADT has filed an application to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "ADT," Tyco said. Flow Control's common stock will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under Pentair's current trading symbol, "PNR."
For more details, check out:http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/06/4241903/tyc...
The headline on the news release is an attention-grabber: "PhantomLink technology pushes alarm monitoring to the cloud, threatens industry." If that isn't clear enough, the subhead rephrases it: "Cloud-based technology set to undermine traditional alarm monitoring industry."
The PR piece from Phantom Data Services proceeds to trumpet the company's new PhantomLink project, which encourages homeowners to monitor their own security systems for no charge via the Web. The project "leverages existing equipment, requires only a simple retrofit, and is offered for free with no recurring costs."
"Nearly 80 percent of households in the U.S. have Internet access," states Adam Peters, founder of PhantomLink.com. "So why are people still paying their hard-earned money to a central station to monitor their alarm? Just connect it to the Internet and monitor it yourself!"
The news release describes PhantomLink as a small, easy-to-install, build-it-yourself device that links an existing security system to the user's wireless Internet connection. If the device senses an alarm, company servers alert the user with an email or a text message. Circuit schematics, interface specifications and instructions for using the "self-monitored security system solution" are available for free on PhantomLink's Web page.
"Do-it-yourself alarm installers and electronics hobbyists are encouraged to participate in this project to develop and expand the capabilities of this technology," the company states.
Visitors to the PhantomLink website will find all of the information mentioned in the news release, but little about the company promoting the device. Phantom Data Services is described only as "a New Mexico limited liability company specializing in website development and data-processing products and services."
So is this the new age of monitoring? Is it time to mothball the central station and say goodbye to RMR? Will homeowners tired of "simply paying for piece of mind," as the news release states, now opt for self-service?
Grammatical glitches aside, peace of mind is what many alarm customers are seeking. Millions have shown the willingness to pay a professional for it, even in a down economy. Do-it-yourself security will obviously appeal to some, but free doesn't mean free of responsibility.
This also isn't the first time the alarm industry has been down this path, said Morgan Hertel, vice president of operations for Rapid Response.
"This kind of stuff has been around for years," Hertel told Security Systems News. "In the '70s, it was tape dialers calling neighbors, work numbers and sometimes police departments. In the '80s, we moved to pagers—you could get paged on alarms. Now we have email, SMS and IVR."
While there is always something new coming down the pike, the bottom line remains the same for alarm companies: provide professional service at a competitive price and chances are you'll stay in business. PhantomLink and other do-it-yourself offerings are unlikely to change that.
"The professional monitoring and installation companies are still here doing their thing," Hertel said. "What most [customers] come to realize is that the cost of a monitored security system is so affordable these days, and is packed with so many features, that most people who take security seriously don't ever consider [a DIY] solution."
Minnesota systems integrator Identisys, which in June acquired the ID division of Claritus, is moving forward with its stated plan to expand geographically. Yesterday, Identisys announced that it's acquiring the Identification, Security and Presentation divisions of Mountainland Business Systems. Mountainland Business Systems is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and has additional offices in Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming.
I will have more on this deal after I interview Deb Ferril, president and COO of IdentiSys, on Thursday, but MIchael Shield, founder and CEO of Identisys, said in a prepared statement: "Our strategy in this case, targeted expansion further west of our headquarters in Minnesota. With the addition of the Mountainland Business Systems Divisions, we now offer sales and on‐site services in over 50% of the U.S., including Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the District of Columbia."
IdentiSys is a $40 million company that is privately owned by Shields. It began 13 years ago as an integrator of pure identification systems, but it does full security integration in a variety of vertical markets.
IdentiSys has made 10 acquisitions over the past seven years and this deal is the third acquisition in the past 6 months.
Mountainland's specialty is "providing identification technology solutions including digital photo ID systems, embossed card personalization systems, loyalty or membership card systems, smart card/biometric applications, secure access/access control/CCTV and patient identification solutions to the corporate, government, healthcare, education, membership/loyalty, first responder and emergency management markets in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming."
I reported in May that AT&T was entering the security space with summer trials in Dallas and in Atlanta of its home security/home automation services called Digital Life. The telecom also spoke then of its plans to transform that space through such innovations as letting customers try out its new Digital Life offering in its 2,000-plus retail stores around the country.
Now, the first demos of Digital Life are about to begin in AT&T's first flagship retail store on Chicago's famous Magnificent Mile, the company announced today.
The 10,000-square foot store will open this Saturday, Sept. 1. AT&T said that among the products and services "also found at AT&T's more than 2,300 retail stores nationwide, the Michigan Avenue store offers customers a glimpse of the future, including AT&T's first retail demos of the new AT&T Digital Life home security and automation services and of a connected car that shows how wireless technology can aid driving. … With more than 100 digital screens throughout the space, every aspect of the store is designed to educate customers about future wireless technologies and services."
According to the company, the demos will be in the "Family Life" area of the store. "Customers can see how the services will enable them to adjust the temperature, raise and lower a window shade, and control their home using AT&T wireless devices," the company said.
"Our Michigan Avenue store is where customers can immerse themselves in everything AT&T is about and truly explore the technology we have to offer," said Paul Roth, president of AT&T retail sales and service, in a prepared statement. "AT&T is about delivering innovation that makes a difference in our customers' daily lives. All of that will be ready for customers to experience at our flagship store."
In case you haven't had enough of politicians this election year, you'll have a chance to hear some notable politicos at ASIS this year. ASIS yesterday announced that, as she did last year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano will speak deliver a keynote address on the first day of the show, September 10, from 12 to 1:30.
Other keynote speakers include former defense secretary Robert Gates and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (from 1997-2009) and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei
ElBaradei will speak on Tuesday, Sept. 11, from 8 to 9 a.m. From the program: "In his last months as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei found himself at the explosive crux of the world's nuclear politics, leading negotiations between the Obama administration and Tehran in an effort to break the stalemate over Iran's nuclear program. He had been intimately involved with this crisis in the previous six years as the IAEA worked to verify the nature of the Iranian program. Drawing on his career as a diplomat, international civil servant and scholar, Dr. ElBaradei will address global security, the peaceful use of nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, international organizations and international law." Gates, who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, will speak at 8 a.m. on the last day of the show, Wednesday, September 12. One of the most respected leaders in recent U.S. history, Robert Gates served as a trusted advisor to eight U.S. presidents, driving U.S. intelligence and defense policies over the past four and a half decades from the Cold War to today's ongoing war on terrorism. As Secretary of Defense under two presidents—Barack Obama and George W. Bush—and through two wars—Iraq and Afghanistan—Gates shares his candid insights on global politics and world affairs, U.S. intelligence and defense strategies, leadership and leading change in a large institution, and the global challenges of the 21st century. Join us for this provocative presentation.
A Long Island, N.Y., city frustrated by unpaid false-alarm fines is taking a familiar corporate path to change its fortunes: It's outsourcing the collection work.
Long Beach Police Commissioner Michael Tangney told CBS News that the city of 35,000 is the first on Long Island to hire an outside company to go door-to-door collecting the fines.
"I'm proud that we are innovative and the first ones doing this," Tangney said. "And I think many municipalities will follow suit."
The City Council on Aug. 7 voted to hire Texas-based PMAM Corp. to collect the fines, which start at $100 and rise to $700 for chronic offenders. The company will receive 24 percent of all revenues collected.
While the work went to a firm with stateside headquarters instead of one based in Mumbai, many city residents have voiced their displeasure about the outsourcing and have questioned why the city can't do the job itself.
"I think it shows how desperate the community is for collecting revenue, and turning it over to a collection agency is a little ridiculous," business owner Steve Felix told CBS.
City Manager Jack Schnirman defended the move, saying the city doesn't have the resources to collect the money.
"Like many other municipalities across the nation, this is the form we're choosing to move forward and go out and collect the fines," he told the Long Beach Patch, adding that outsourcing is "a lot more cost-effective."
Apparently lost in the discussion is what could be done to reduce the 1,100 false alarms that city police respond to annually, which would mitigate the fines and the need for the collection work.
Maybe a SIAC session is in order.
Four years ago, fire manufacturer VES was acquired by Kentec Electronics, a U.K.-based manufacturer of fire panels. At the time, an executive at VES (formerly Viking Electronic Services) said that "joining with Kentec brings us the international experience we didn't have previously." The official cited India, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and other Arab countries as the markets the company would move into.
Now, it looks like VES' international experience may get even broader as its parent company, Kentec, is acquired by a Tokyo-based fire manufacturer.
According to a recent news report, Hochiki Corporation Japan has entered into an agreement to acquire Kentec's stock as of Oct. 1. Then, the report said, Kentec will become part of the Hochiki Group of Companies.
The Aug. 23 release said that "Kentec Electronics will continue to be run by its current management team as a separate unit within Hochiki Corporation Japan and will continue to use existing suppliers and support all of its customers including the current sensor partners."
And it said that its American subsidiary, VES, "will be amalgamated with Hochiki America Corporation and continue to operate from its east coast base in the United States."
The release said that Hochiki was established in 1918 as Japan's first fire alarm manufacturer. The report called Hochiki "a leading manufacturer of fire detection products with an expanding presence across the world."
Kentec was founded in 1985. Together with VES, it "produces and supplies a range of control panels for fire detection, extinguishing media release, water and smoke detection and sprinkler control," the report said.
The report said that Kentec "believes this is an opportunity to benefit both parties and to further develop its business and allow access to new World wide markets."
How specifically will VES benefit? I've reached out to the company, and hope to find out.
ASIS on Aug. 27 announced its choices for its "ASIS Accolades," what it considers the ten most innovative products/services/solutions that will be shown at the Sept. 9-12 ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits in Philly.
AlertEnterprise, Booth #3859Alert-n-PreventAlert-n-Prevent enhances security through behavior and predictive analytics with risk-scoring capabilities. Critical Infrastructure Protection is enforced by monitoring physical access as well as logical access that includes both IT systems and SCADA systems controlling plant operations. A rules-based engine ensures enforcement of security policies while ensuring compliance with regulations.
ASSA ABLOY Americas, Booth #1708HES K 100 Cabinet LockThe HES K100 battery-operated cabinet lock with Aperio™ technology makes it easy to bring access control and asset protection to cabinets, lockers and drawers. It communicates wirelessly with existing access control systems & offers real-time communication without the inconvenience of wiring. K100 offers seamless integration with existing iCLASS® credentials.
ASSA ABLOY Americas, Booth #1708Securitron ICPT Wireless Power TransferThe Securitron ICPT Power Transfer ports power wirelessly and invisibly across the door gap to run electrified hardware on the door. The ICPT can be installed at the latch side or hinge side of the door and transfers power without pins or wires, eliminating points of vulnerability and wear … and no need to core the door!
Axis Communications, Booth #2622Axis Camera CompanionAXIS Camera Companion is the market's easiest IP video surveillance solution for small systems up to 16 cameras. The system is an all-in-one, easy-to-use IP-based surveillance solution consisting of Axis cameras and/or encoders, SD cards, a switch or router and free recording software - no DVR, NVR or computer is needed for operation.
CAST Lighting, Booth #4239CAST LED Perimeter LightThe CAST LED Perimeter Lighting System is comprised of low-voltage lighting fixtures that provide an extremely cost-effective highly-targeted region of illumination along perimeter fence lines. Mounted directly on the fence at 20 or 30-foot intervals, these 7W LED fixtures are glare-free and provide sufficient illumination for intruder detection and deterrence.
D3 Security Management Systems, Booth #2024Geospatial Intelligence Analytics (GIA)D3's GIA is the next generation security management system created to protect organizations from internal, external, local and global threats. It provides security professionals with the situational awareness and information they require to assess risks and react appropriately and effectively to deal with threats or emergency situations.
Gamma Two Robotics, Booth #1463Vigilus™ Mobile Camera SystemThe Vigilus™ Mobile Camera System is your robotic partner in patrol and report security, carrying IP-ready devices such as cameras and authentication tools. Using voice commands or the (supplied) Command Console interface, the robot is your reliable, affordable asset on the ground, where you need it, when you need it.
HID Global, Booth #1509iCLASS Seos™ CardHID Global's iCLASS Seos™ smart card is based on a secure, standards-based technology to manage and authenticate identities within the Seos ecosystem. This breakthrough credential leverages HID's Security Identity Object™ (SIO); streamlines migration by concurrently supporting multiple technologies; and can store data for multiple applications on a physical card or mobile device.
iView Systems, Booth #1901iGWatch® IP iDentify Face SearchThe iDentify biometric solution automates database person searching, by instantly narrowing down possible subjects from 1000s, to one or more individuals in seconds. This solution replaces manual systems such as operator comparison of known subjects to "mug" books, providing a real-time aid in the identification of persons of interest.
SpotterRF, Booth #1244SpotterRF C40 Compact Surveillance RadarThe Spotter C40 is an IP Radar that makes PTZ cameras smart by providing 20 acres of automatic tracking and cueing in a package that weighs a mere 1.5 lbs. The C40 is the first of its class and makes radar as inexpensive and easy to use as IP cameras.
The Inc. 5000 has released its 2012 list, and again, there are a number of physical security companies included.
Top among the physical security companies that I saw on the Inc. 5000 list, which was officially released yesterday was VMS Alarms, a residential and small business security company and Monitronics dealer.
VMS Alarms ranks #526 on the 2012 List. It had a three-year growth rate of 731 percent; 2008 revenues of $2.3 million, and 2011 revenues of $19.5 million.
Here's my blog on security companies who made the list in 2011, and below are some other manufacturers and installers from the security industry:
#636 EP Technology: 2008 revenues of $2.8 million and 2011 revenues of $18.6 million. Manufactures and distributes intelligent video security products. Focuses on manufacturing and supplying closed-circuit television systems, security cameras and digital recording devices.
#770 Eid Passport: 2008 revenues of $5.3 million and 2011 revenues of $29.2 million. Offers products and services that combine identity authentication, background screening, and access management to make facilities, assets, and people safer and more secure. Eid Passport's patented programs enable highly secure facilities such as military installations, government buildings, manufacturing and distribution sites, ports, and commercial buildings to increase security and streamline access for authorized personnel.
#826 Exacq Technologies: 2008 revenues: $6.3 million; 2011 revenues: $32.3 million. Develops open architecture, video management system solutions for security and surveillance applications.
#943 Sting Alarm: 2008 revenues: $1 million; 2011 revenues: $4.5 million. Installs and maintains advanced video surveillance and burglar alarm systems for high-rise residential towers, casinos, retail chains, and other customers.
#1097 LogicMark: 2008 revenues: $2 million; 2011 revenues: $7.7 million. Manufactures a line of personal emergency response systems. Users, such as the elderly or those with serious medical issues, wear a pendant with a speakerphone, and can push a button to call for help.
#1123 Nationwide Security Solutions: 2008 revenues: $1.6 million; 2011 revenues: $6 million. Sells and installs residential and commercial security and automation systems. Serves as the primary distributor for represent Monitronics International, a producer of security and monitoring technology for burglar, fire and medical emergency systems. Also offers two-way voice, cellular, and medical monthly monitoring plans.
#1255 Integrity Alarms: 2008 revenues: $1.6 million; 2011 revenues: $6 million. An ADT authorized dealer that sells, installs, and maintains home security systems in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware.
#1312 Radiant RFID: 2008 revenues: $1.9 million; 2011 revenues: $6.3 million. Designs, installs, and integrates technology that tracks, locates, and monitors people and products for government, education, and corporate customers. It can be used to keep track of and protect a company's physical assets; for access control in gated communities; to monitor attendance and capture traffic flow at large events such as trade shows; and to manage large-scale evacuations.
#1464 SecurityHunter: 2008 revenues: $2.3 million; 2011 revenues: $6.9 million. Designs, manufactures and installs electronic and physical security systems that are used by federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.
#1483 AMP Alarm: 2008 revenues: $8.5 million; 2011 revenues: $25.7 million. Sells and installs security systems to protect people, their homes, and their possessions and to arrest and prevent burglary, fire, and medical emergencies.
#1485 Alert Logic: 2008 revenues: $7.1 million; 2011 revenues: $21.4 million. Provides security services for cloud computing allowing customers to defend against security threats and address compliance mandates. Alert Logic partners with over half of the largest cloud and hosting service providers to provide fully managed intrusion protection, vulnerability assessment and log management for nearly 2,000 enterprise customers.
#1661 InVue Security Products: 2008 revenues: $36 million; 2011 revenues: $98.9 million. Designs and manufactures security devices that allow retailers to openly display electronic merchandise that poses a high risk of theft.
#1824 Smith Monitoring: 2008 revenues: $2.1 million; 2011 revenues: $5.3 million. Offers home security and monitoring systems, and home automation integration systems.
#1894 NDI Recognition Systems: 2008 revenues: $2.1 million; 2011 revenues: $5.3 million. Designs and manufactures automated license plate recognition technologies for use in law enforcement and other public safety applications. Its offerings include both mobile and fixed cameras, mobile processors, the Talon recognition engine, VeriPlate mobile application software, and installation and support.
#2056 Defender Direct: 2008 revenues: $312 million; 2011 revenues: $136 million. Sells and installs ADT home-security and Dish Network systems for homeowners.
#2192 IntraLogic Solutions: 2008 revenues: $1.4 million; 2011 revenues: $3 million. Provides security and surveillance services and systems to school districts, municipal clients, state offices, government agencies and private-sector clients. Designs, installs and maintains broad-spectrum security systems that use the latest technology and cost controls.
#2196 DTT Surveillance Systems: 2008 revenues: $7.9 million; 2011 revenues: $17.2 million. Supplies, installs and supports digital surveillance and monitoring equipment for the restaurant and hospitality industries. DTT's video systems include security, theft-prevention and quality-control products.
#2961 PowerHome Technologies: 2008 revenues: $9.6 million; 2011 revenues: $16.8 million. Specializes in the sale and installation of residential and small business security systems.
#3477 Intelligent Access Systems of North Carolina: 2008 revenues: $8.8 million; 2011 revenues: $13.5 million. Offers electronic security integration, primarily in the critical infrastructure, healthcare, and higher education markets.
#3842 Electric Guard Dog: 2008 revenues: $12.4 million; 2011 revenues: $17.5 million. Provides perimeter electric security fencing across the nation for industrial and commercial locations.
#4175 Sentry Communications: 2008 revenues: $3.9 million; 2011 revenues: $5.1 million. Installs and services security systems, including digital CCTV, fire systems, and access control, for commercial, industrial, and residential clients.
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AutoTweetNG v6.4.5 is available, also with ListBingo support
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Today, we are releasing AutoTweetNG v6.4.5. This version is a regular update with a set of improvements and a new plugin.
This time we are adding support for ListBingo. Listbingo is an essential tool to build your own classified site in Joomla. When a user submits a new Ad, AutoTweet posts the ad to the social channels. Welcome to the family!
Improvements in AutoTweetNG v6.4.5
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Featured Plugin of the Month: JomWALL
In this opportunity, we have the pleasure to showcase the JomWALL plugin.
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About Security Practices: Warning! Don't download extensions from untrusted websites!
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Today, we've been reading the news about how a user discovered the fact about free untrusted downloads.
In the article Warning! Don't download joomla extensions from untrusted websites!, Daniel describes how he downloaded, and installed an extension from an unknown author. Soon, he discovered that the source code has a hidden link.
Also, he tried to download again the module, to discover a different hidden link! So, the untrusted author's been not only surreptitiously adding links, also rotated the hidden links as a regular operation.
As Daniel notes, a hidden link is one way to get your site hacked. Also, the source code can have worst attack vectors. For example, accesing your site customers, user passwords, and social media accounts.
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IWHC Statement at the United Nations 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS, June 1, 2006 |
Summary: Statement delivered by Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition, at Roundtable 4 of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS, New York, June 1, 2006 (2 pages). Regarding progress since 2001, I have a very simple point: We have failed utterly to control this pandemic. Since these negotiations began four weeks ago, 340,000 more people have become infected, and 200,000 more have died. None of our work for this high level meeting will matter unless governments reach consensus today on a powerful action oriented agenda. This week we must re-examine and redesign our policy and our budget allocations. Answers to the four questions posed for these roundtables can provide a road map for action. First, re-intensifying HIV prevention requires redefining it to catch up with the changing pattern of the pandemic. Prevention must be for all and by all. Yes, we must do more and better to reach men who have sex with men, sex workers, and intravenous drug users. But we must also broaden prevention to empower and protect girls and women who bear a disproportionate AIDS burden. A key to empowering and protecting girls and women is a strong health system that provides universal access to sexual and reproductive health services. Creating separate, vertical services or just "integrating" them into weak health services is not enough. Rather, we must strengthen our national health systems as the foundation for sustained comprehensive HIV/AIDS services. Second, how do we translate information into knowledge, and knowledge into behavior change? We must provide information through comprehensive sexuality education that empowers young people. Such education helps young people learn about human rights, including gender equality, and develop the skills to treat each other with mutual respect. These programs provide girls with safe spaces, including school classrooms, free from harassment and discrimination; alternatives to early marriage; and activities to help build their self-esteem and confidence. These programs help boys learn to take responsibility for their own behaviors and to understand that violence and coercive sex are not their birthright. Research shows that this approach to sexuality education changes behavior. It empowers young people. Third, how can we overcome financial bottlenecks? I would make one point rarely made. Much of the work to change the factors that drive the pandemic must happen outside the health sector and far beyond HIV/AIDS budgets. We can maximize the return on HIV/AIDS-specific resources by requiring every sector to have clear targets for gender equality that are closely monitored and enforced. Finally, how can governments, multilateral and bilateral organizations further engage civil society? First, by including those civil society groups led by, or representing, those most at risk—especially women and youth. Second, these groups desperately need financing. You cannot go on expecting volunteer labor. Third, partnerships with civil society require that governments and international agencies respect civil society autonomy and provide access to the policy table. Let me end where I began. Today is the day for firm commitment to concrete actions—for solidarity across diversity to successfully combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. |


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I recently spent five hours fly-fishing in the Big Thompson River near Estes Park, Colorado. With the amazing coaching of my guide, Jim, I caught more fish in that half day than maybe in the last ten years combined. My wife Kim bought me the guided fly-fishing tour for my birthday. Best present ever! The weather was beautiful. The river was high and raging. I was scared out of my wits at time. It was one of the best days EVER!
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27.Feb.09 Coach tutors being sought
The future development of all our athletes depends upon quality coaches. New tutors are needed to deliver the exciting new courses across England and the rest of the UK.
27.Feb.09 Entries for Women's 6 Stage Road Relay Championship
Information and forms for club entry to the English Road Running Association Nike National Senior Womens 6 Stage Road Relay Championship to be held at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham on Saturday, 18 April 2009.
24.Feb.09 Diamond day for England team
A trip over the boarder into Wales this weekend saw a very successful team return with the trophy from the Under 20's Celtic Cup.
24.Feb.09 Book now for officials course
A Level 2 Officials course covering Track, Field, Timekeeping & Starter/Marksman is to be held at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham.
18.Feb.09 Aviva England Athletics Open Under 20, 17 & 15 Indoor Champs
Full round up of the action from the indoor championships at Birmingham NIA.
16.Feb.09 England Athletics Pole Vault Coach Development Day
Coaches from athletic clubs in the West Midlands have the opportunity to attend a Pole Vault Coach Development Day at the High Performance Centre, Alexander Stadium Birmingham on Sunday 29 March 2009


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