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'striking, inch-thin panel'
'excellent image quality'
'Reflections are a big problem in brightly lit rooms. '
'When it comes right down to it, this TV is a beautiful entertainment system masterpiece.'
'fancy Wii-style remote'
'the black level produced in the PK750 series of plasma HDTVs is far superior to the previous models of Plasma TVs.'
'black levels are very good processors and scenes of Terminator Salvation a good example of the contrast of this TV is capable of playing.'
Multiple, customizable viewing modes
'already diverse LCD offerings'
'Colors are accurate and picture detail is good, but black levels could be better.'
'LED TV features an attractive single piece glass bezel'
'sleek, elegant design'
'striking completely flat bezel'
'LG is claiming a 3,000,000:1 contrast ratio which sounds a little over the top but we'll be very interested in it considering the quality of the LGs we've recently reviewed .'
'The 47SL90 features a seamless, edge-to-edge panel and an ultra-slim cabinet depth for a look that's sure to turn heads, whether your TV is on or off.'
'You will be able to enjoy an edge-to-edge panel, which means there is no frame surrounding the display.'
'prominent, appropriately colored key'
'This means the TV won't be capable of producing deep blacks.'
'the controls are easy to use and the sound is fantastic, so maybe with a little extra engineering, this nine hundred dollar (depending as always on where you shop) may be just the system you're looking for.'
'Uneven screen uniformity.'
'Relatively expensive.'
'Above-average image quality, design, and usability.'
'clear smooth images'
'erratic sound quality'
'It is a full HD LCD model that is capable of playing HD movies at 1080p.'
'The set displays sharp and crisp images, and according to one judge in our testing panel, it looked "very pleasing overall."'
'Overt red coloration and funky styling'
'The menu system is quite extensive, so the easy-access quick menu for aspect ratio, picture, and sound modes, the timer, and other oft-used functions, is welcome.'
'Potential audio sync issues.'
'Images from Braveheart and Tomorrow Never Dies were crisp and background noise is nearly eliminated.'
'off-angle and the price tag is rather high, but the superior performance in every other aspect makes this a TV that should greatly serve as a fine centerpiece in any living room.'
'Good picture quality'
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. and SANTA ANA, Calif.—Allied Universal continues to diversify with the acquisition of ALERT Protective Services, a residential community security firm based in Sarasota, Fla.
"This is a company that does most of the high-end residential communities in South Florida," Allied Universal CEO Steve Jones told Security Systems News. "Not only are they providing the security guard services but they do it differently where they use technology to help augment that, which is what we have been pushing toward and striving toward with our business."
With a portfolio that consists of 95 percent residential condominiums and communities, ALERT Protective Services owns the homeowners association and residential lifestyle communities' security space in Southwest and Southeast Florida. Founded in 2005, the company has more than $10 million in revenue and 430 employees, most of which will be joining Allied Universal.
"We are excited to join Allied Universal," Jeff Haidet, CEO of ALERT Protective Services, said in the announcement. "Both companies embrace combining the use of state-of-the-art technology with manpower to provide an optimal solution to our customers. We also share the same passion and commitment to be the employer of choice for security professionals and provider of choice for security users."
Similarly to Allied Universal, ALERT Protective Services offers integrated security systems and uniformed security professionals to work in tandem with a complete security program at community gatehouses, concierge desks, or security command centers. Some of these solutions include remote video monitoring, access control and an electronic patrol-reporting program that enables security professionals to report threats in real time and alert authorities if back up is needed.
"This was an opportunity for us to not only expand our footprint in Florida, but to really get a springboard on providing those security officer services along with remote video monitoring and the use of technology for ingress and egress around the community, which is where we want to focus on," said Jones. "We are excited that we can leverage the technology applications that we feel are changing and enhancing the industry."
Moving forward, Jones said the company still has a few more acquisitions up its sleeve.
"We've got a pretty robust pipeline of deals that we are looking at—some in the technology space and some in the traditional manguarding space—and we hope to announce a few more before the year is over that will help us to diversify our company and bring more value to our clients."
With headquarters in Santa Ana, Calif., and Conshohocken, Pa., Allied Universal has more than 150,000 employees across North America.
I've been hearing a lot about PERS and mPERS lately. Specifically, I've been interested to hear views on how older PERS users feel about technology.
When discussing Essence's [email protected] Active offering, which uses a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone, company head of marketing Rafi Zauer said, "The obvious question is: How many seniors have smartphones now-a-days? There's ample evidence … [smartphone use] is going to become almost ubiquitous over the next few years with seniors for several reasons."
Zauer continued, "The availability of old phones, or non-smartphones is depleting. … Plus, the baby boomers in the next few years are becoming seniors themselves, and we know baby boomers use smartphones almost across the board."
Following that conversation, as well as others, I was interested to come across a new report from Pew Research Center, titled "Tech Adoption Climbs Among Older Adults," which looks at older Americans and their stance on technology.
The report's authors, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center research associate, and Andrew Perrin, research assistant, had some interesting figures about the way older generations could view technology.
The report reads: "recent Pew Research Center surveys find that seniors are also moving towards more digitally connected lives. Around four-in-ten (42%) adults ages 65 and older now report owning smartphones, up from just 18% in 2013. Internet use and home broadband adoption among this group have also risen substantially. Today, 67% of seniors use the Internet—a 55-percentage-point increase in just under two decades. And for the first time, half of older Americans now have broadband at home."
The report also mentions higher tech adoption in some areas among seniors that are younger, between ages 65 and 69. "Seniors ages 65 to 69 are about twice as likely as those ages 80 and older to say they ever go online (82% vs. 44%) or have broadband at home (66% vs. 28%), and they are roughly four times as likely to say they own smartphones (59% vs. 17%)," it read.
Though, the report also notes, that some seniors chose to "remain largely disconnected." Anderson and Perrin write, "One-third of adults ages 65 and older say they never use the internet, and roughly half (49%) say they do not have home broadband services. Meanwhile, even with their recent gains, the proportion of seniors who say they own smartphones is 42 percentage points lower than those ages 18 to 64."
I'll be curious to find out if increased technological familiarity among seniors will change the way PERS devices are designed in the years to come.
FLIR Systems Inc. announced yesterday that James J. Cannon has been appointed president and CEO, effective June 19, 2017. Cannon will succeed Andy Teich, whose retirement after 33 years of service was previously announced on February 14.
"The opportunity to join this outstanding leadership team and serve alongside over 3,000 talented FLIR employees worldwide as the company's next CEO is a great honor," Cannon said in a prepared statement. "The FLIR brand is synonymous with continuous innovation and delivering value to customers around the world. From my own personal experience having relied on FLIR technology as a combat veteran, I've seen firsthand the powerful, life-saving impact the company's portfolio of solutions can have for our customers."
Cannon served in the U.S. Army for 10 years as an infantryman and armor officer in a wide variety of assignments around the world, including Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Iraq.
Prior to joining FLIR, Cannon served for more than 16 years in a variety of senior leadership positions at Stanley Black & Decker Inc., most recently as president of Stanley Security North America & Emerging Markets, FLIR noted.
"As President of Stanley Security North America & Emerging Markets, Mr. Cannon held direct P&L responsibilities across five business units, managed over 5,000 employees, and oversaw the operations of numerous manufacturing plants and distribution centers. In this role, he successfully developed and executed a strategic plan that reduced complexity and cost while driving continued and sustained improvement," the announcement read.
Prior to his role as president of Stanley Security North America & Emerging Markets, Cannon was president of the Stanley's Industrial & Automotive Repair business unit, first in North America and subsequently in Europe and Latin America, before then serving as president of Stanley Oil & Gas.
"We are delighted to appoint a chief executive of Jim's caliber," Earl R. Lewis, chairman of the FLIR board of directors, said in a prepared statement. "Jim's proven track record of achieving strong results in both business and the military make him uniquely well qualified to serve as FLIR's next CEO."
Cannon serves on the board of directors of Lydall, Inc. and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration/Marketing from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. Cannon will be based out of the company's Wilsonville, Ore., headquarters.
The Security Industry Association (SIA) recently announced its establishment of the SIA Public Safety Working Group, which will be chaired by Steve Surfaro, industry liaison, Axis Communications.
"This working group has been in the works for quite some time," Surfaro told Security Systems News. "SIA began working on public safety through some work with the Homeland Security Science and Technology group, and it was thought that one of the best ways to really serve the security industry and public safety industry was to come up with a very agile and focused working group."
According to SIA CEO Don Erickson, the goal with standing up the SIA Public Safety Working Group is to develop recommendations to improve the safety, security, and sustainability of cities and communities using technology, as well as provide advocacy of public policies in support of the group's mission.
"As new and developing technologies undergo trial and testing or enter the field in use by public safety agencies, it is critical that the security industry maintain its voice in the appropriate adoption and deployment of these technologies," Erickson said in the announcement. "SIA members are uniquely qualified to provide council alongside active practitioners in police, fire, emergency medical services and other disciplines to maintain the safety and security of our cities and communities."
Erickson is excited to have Surfaro as the inaugural chairperson for the SIA Public Safety Working Group. "His connections throughout the security industry are exemplified by his achievements, for example, as chair of the Security Applied Sciences Council for ASIS International," he said.
The working group will involve a number of different key entities within the security and public safety spaces, including practitioners, solution providers, systems integrators and specialty manufacturers.
"The most important thing to realize is the PSWG is going to have equal representation across all interested parties, by both practitioners and solution providers, especially SIA members," said Surfaro. "The mission is to provide guidance through education and publications, including special education sessions and events at ISC West and ISC East, for example, as well as a centralized repository of subject matter experts who have already had success overcoming public safety security challenges."
In addition to looking at emerging technologies, such as autonomous systems and unmanned vehicles, the working group is creating a Tactical Solutions Handbook, a working document that will be the working group's "first deliverable," said Surfaro.
"A while ago with Homeland Security Science and Technology we had some great success together with SIA in publishing a Video Quality handbook," he explained. "But now things are not just about video—they are about access control, acoustic sensing and signal detection, thermal imaging, screening techniques, body worn cameras, license plate technology, explosives detection—to name just a few."
He continued, "Everything that we are going to put into this handbook is going to be equally used by both public safety and corporations with high risk, which will be able to get guidance for hardening their facilities as well."
The working group should have four- to five chapters of the handbook ready by the fall, said Surfaro. "Each chapter will have a structure where a SME leads each chapter, and then has contributors," he explained. "And then each of the contributors for the other chapters are going to be reviewers on the chapters they did not write, which will add to the collaborative nature of the handbook."
Surfaro said the handbook will benefit greatly from having so many different perspectives. "We need to be agile enough to be able to work with multiple practitioner groups and leverage the SIA membership, which is very far-reaching with a lot of solution providers, and they will have a tremendous opportunity to contribute to the working group and to this handbook."
Another goal with the handbook is to provide a guide for matching the different types of emerging threats today with an appropriate tactical solution. "So it will be a nice use-case method where the security industry will learn more about what is happening in public safety and public safety will learn about how many of the solutions that they need to defend against these emerging threats already exist," said Surfaro.
Since the announcement, SIA and Surfaro have already gotten a great response from those interested in contributing. "In the past week alone, there are many who have reached out to SIA and myself pledging interest in the working group," said Surfaro. "And it has been a wide variety of folks—systems integrators, solution providers, as well as those who are involved in law enforcement and fire. Working within a consensus-driven environment is vitally important with a group like this."
As reverberations from last week's ransomware attack continue to be felt throughout the world and the security industry, the answer to how we can minimize the impact that these types of attacks can have on a company may be found in the cloud. For example, WannaCry ransomware, as it is called, preyed on Microsoft computers that failed to update the latest security patch that was issued in March, an oversight that an IT savvy company operating in the cloud would not fall victim to.
The good news continues to pour in on increased adoption of cloud-based services, including a new report from Intel Security, titled Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky: The State of Cloud Adoption and Security, which finds that cloud services are now a regular component of IT operations, and are utilized by more than 90 percent of organizations around the world.
Many are working under a "cloud first" philosophy, only choosing to deploy an internal service if there is no suitable cloud variant available, and as a result, IT architectures are rapidly shifting to a hybrid private/public cloud model, with those surveyed expecting 80 percent of their IT budget to be cloud-based within an average of 15 months, according to the report.
For the report, Intel Security surveyed more than 2,000 IT professionals in September 2016 to produce this annual review of the state of cloud adoption, representing a broad set of industries, countries, and organization sizes. In the face of a continuing shortage of skilled security personnel, the impact of this scarcity on cloud adoption was a priority for this year's report.
"Cloud first. Two simple words, but the approach is now well and truly ensconced into the architecture of many organizations across the world," Raj Samani, chief technology officer, EMEA, Intel Security, said in the report. "Our initial assumption when designing the survey, that there was a gap between intent and implementation and that the transformation to cloud would take several years, was proven inaccurate. The desire to migrate quickly towards cloud computing appears to be on the agenda for most organizations."
In the forward to the report, Jim Reavis, CEO, Cloud Security Alliance, said, "This report clearly resonates with the anecdotal information I have received in my travels representing the Cloud Security Alliance this past year. Cloud computing is maturing and broad-based adoption is occurring."
Overall, the study found that cloud services are widely used in some form, with 93 percent of organizations utilizing software-, infrastructure-, or platform-as-a-service offerings. Cloud architectures also changed significantly, from predominantly private-only in 2015 to increased adoption of public cloud resulting in a predominantly hybrid private/public infrastructure in 2016. Also, the average number of cloud services in use in an organization dropped from 43 in 2015 to 29 in 2016, indicating potential consolidation of cloud providers or solutions.
Interestingly, almost half (49 percent) of the professionals surveyed stated that they had slowed their cloud adoption due to a lack of cybersecurity skills.
The trust and perception of public cloud services continues to improve year-over-year, the report said, and most organizations view cloud services as or more secure than private clouds, and much more likely to deliver lower costs of ownership and overall data visibility. Those who trust public clouds now outnumber those who distrust public clouds by more than 2:1. Overall, 62 percent of organizations reported storing personal customer information in public clouds.
"Improved trust and perception, as well as increased understanding of the risks by senior management, is encouraging more organizations to store sensitive data in the public cloud," the report found.
Virtualization of private data center architectures is progressing, and on average, 52 percent of an organization's data center servers are virtualized, and most expect to have the conversion to a fully software-defined data center completed within 2 years, according to the findings.
Because businesses are trusting cloud services with a wide range of applications and data, much of it sensitive or business critical, the report stated that this movement of sensitive data to the public cloud may attract cybercriminals.
"Security vendors are delivering tools to address fundamental security concerns, such as protecting data in transit, managing user access, and setting consistent policies across multiple services," the report concluded. "Attackers will look for the easiest targets, regardless of where they are located. Integrated or unified security solutions are a strong defense against these threats, giving security operations visibility across all of the services the organization is using and what data sets are permitted to traverse them."
The report noted that organizations should ensure that they are using authentication best practices, such as distinct passwords, multi-factor authentication, and even biometrics where available.
"Despite the majority belief that Shadow IT is putting the organization at risk, security technologies such as data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, and cloud access security brokers (CASBs) remain underutilized," according to the findings. "Integrating these tools with an existing security system increases visibility, enables discovery of shadow services, and provides options for automatic protection of sensitive data at rest and in motion throughout any type of environment. Consider adopting a Cloud First strategy to encourage adoption of cloud services to reduce costs and increase flexibility, and put security operations in a proactive position instead of a reactive one."
The bottom line: The cost and resource savings of cloud services are real, and the wide variety of offerings makes it possible to choose the best fit for the organization, according to the report.
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MIAMI—On Monday I headed down to Aventura, Fla., just outside of Miami, to attend Affiliated Monitoring's second annual Catalyst, a conference focused on the sales and marketing aspects of PERS technologies. There have been a lot of interesting conversations happening at the conference; included below is a brief overview of the conference and some of the topics discussed.
Prior to the first official day of this year's Catalyst, the company held a PERS marketing primer for attendees. Mike Zydor, Affiliated's managing director, and Matt Solomon, director of software solutions for Affiliated, presented the introduction to the technology and the market. The number of people aged 65 years and older will increase in years to come, they said, adding that the typical PERS customer is in their low- to mid-eighties.
"We have lots of seniors and they live at home, they own their own homes and they want to stay in their own homes," Solomon said. Solomon and Zydor highlighted the point that often in selling PERS, a dealer is not interacting directly with the user, but with the user's adult children.
The two gave an overview of products on the market, such as in home technologies, fall detection, mobile PERS.
Zydor and Solomon delved into marketing in two key areas, direct-to-consumer and through partnerships. In discussing direct-to-consumer options, they gave an overview of paid search marketing, content marketing and SEO, print advertising, and social media among others. Of these, content marketing and SEO was highlighted as a good possibility for local efforts.
When looking for partnerships in the market, Solomon and Zydor said a dealer can look to hospitals, home healthcare agencies and senior services, among others.
The first day's educational sessions started with an opening keynote on the state of the PERS industry, presented by Affiliated VP Daniel Oppenheim.
"You are living in the golden age of PERS right now, the opportunity is right now," Oppenheim said. He stated that he wanted to give attendees three main things to consider and take away from the opening address.
Firstly, he pointed out several products in the industry and their impact. While the majority of units are still in the home, Oppenheim said he's seen fast growth in mPERS over the last two years.
The second item Oppenheim discussed is that dealers should learn more about their customers. Affiliated looked at figures from its interactions with PERS in 2016. PERS is about peace of mind, he said, pointing to the statistic that action was needed in response to a PERS button press 10 percent of the time during 2016.
Additionally, the company found out that of mobile PERS button presses, 53 percent of those users were at home. Similar to the previous years, the average age of a PERS user is 81 and the average age of an mPERS user is 78.
Lastly, Oppenheim discussed "the sale after the sale," and that a good customer is not only one who has it delivered but one that uses it. He shared a figure: if a PERS user tests their system within the first 30 days of getting it, they were five times more likely to still be a subscriber a year later, as compared to those that didn't test the unit within that time.
Oppenheim also noted that this year marks Affiliated Monitoring's 40th anniversary.
Following the opening keynote, Matt Solomon presented "Agile Management in Action." He described agile management as a methodology, or way of thinking about a business, in order to improve business efficiency.
Solomon discussed key aspects of the agile management philosophy, such as placing value in people and interactions instead of processes, delivering on the premise, working with customers and responding to change.
Agile management is a way of empowering employees to make decisions, he said. The methodology is also focused on shorter-term time frames, such as two weeks, as opposed to nine or 12 months. Agile is also about delivering value, he said.
Solomon gave attendees the chance to collaborate in a group activity, which was centered around working together, making decisions about prioritization, and ultimately seeing how the amount of work required for a task adds to the value of a business.
Prioritize, collaborate and get stuff done were three main points Solomon underlined.
"Executive Spotlight: DRTV and the Senior Market," was the next session. Here, Daniel Oppenheim sat across from Peter Koeppel, founder and president of Koeppel Direct, a direct response media firm. In this session, Koeppel and Oppenheim had a conversation about direct response television advertising, or DRTV, and how it might fit into the PERS industry.
To start, Koeppel defined DRTV as a TV ad designed to get a consumer's immediate response. Examples of DRTV would include commercials that instruct viewers to dial a number or visit a website to order a product or receive more information.
Koeppel said that seniors in particular are watching more TV, and they watch during the daytime, which is generally a less expensive spot for advertising. Longer time spots can work better with the senior market, he noted, allowing the number to remain on screen longer and slower talking in the commercial.
Koeppel showed two commercials as examples of DRTV and case studies for how they work—both chosen because they were designed for the senior market, much like PERS. Afterward he gave examples of how responses changed based on changes in the advertising, such as a better response to a rebate as opposed to other incentives, and more responses with a "repeater number" such as 555-1212.
In "Thought Leader Discussion: The Future of PERS," Mike Zydor moderated a discussion with four executives from the industry: Ryan Bangerter, VP of business development for Mytrex; Yaniv Amir, president of Essence USA; Scott McGeHee, VP of sales and marketing for Climax; and John Carpenter, VP of channel engagement for Nortek.
Zydor opened the session with a specific question for each speaker. Noting that Mytrex has a focus on in-home units, he first asked Bangerter about what led Mytrex to stay focused on this area of the industry. "The biggest thing is looking at demand," Bangerter said, adding that there is a demand for in-home products.
After mentioning that Essence focuses on monitoring aspects of daily living, Zydor asked Amir where he sees the market going. One of the things Amir pointed out is that monitoring daily living habits through Essence's system doesn't necessarily require a pendant, which can help. "A pendant is perceived [as] losing their independence," Amir said.
Zydor asked McGehee about Mytrex's work with both mobile and in-home PERS. McGeHee said that dealers look for an easy to use, simplified offering, which fits a senior who is not comfortable with an abundance of technology.
Next, Carpenter was asked for what he sees as key features of interest in the market, particularly considering that Nortek is involved with telehealth. Carpenter said that he sees being able to add more features and functionality as a benefit amidst other offerings that look to compete on price.
The second day of Catalyst 2017 started with "Keynote Conversation with Ken Gross- Executive Spotlight: Unrivaled Success in the PERS Industry," featuring a conversation between Daniel Oppenheim and Ken Gross, founder and chairman of Connect America. The two discussed Gross' approaches and successes in the industry.
Oppenheim opened with a question about Gross' history and how he came to the PERS industry. Gross answered that he first started an alarm business in 1977, sold it in 1989 and subsequently entered a 10-year non-compete. He returned to the industry in 1999 with a new business that he sold five years later in 2004. At that time he was investing in domain names, one of which was medicalalarm.com, which led him to enter the PERS business in 2004.
When Oppenheim asked about the key turning points in Gross' business, Gross pointed to two events, one which led to the other. The first event was a positive review in Good Housekeeping, which Gross said helped the company in forming a partnership with CVS. Through this partnership, Gross' business put a display in 6,000 CVS stores.
Oppenheim also brought the conversation to a topic from the previous day's conversation on DRTV. Gross said that he has used specific numbers, such as 800 numbers—as opposed to 877 or 833—and repeating numbers.
Gross underlined one piece of advice at a couple of occasions: picking the right partners, including the right vendor and the right central stations for the business. "Pick the right partners and stick with it," he said.
Dr. Robert Rohm, corporate trainer and author, gave the final presentation of the day, covering personality types and the best ways to interact with different types of personalities.
Personalities are oriented in a couple of different ways, according to Rohm. People are either more task oriented or more people oriented; they are also either more outgoing or reserved.
Outgoing and task oriented tends to make for a dominant personality, he said. This group of people is filled with natural born leaders and likes seeing results. This group can also be defiant.
Outgoing and people oriented means a person is very fun-loving, looks to be liked, though can be illogical at times. Incorporating fun into a sales call with an outgoing and people oriented person will help, he said.
If a person has both reserved and people oriented traits, they will be supportive and generally like teamwork and appreciation. This group of people values peace and harmony, Rohm said. This group can be a "sucker," he said.
The last group Rohm addressed is those that are task oriented and reserved. This group looks for value and quality answers and likes to be right. These traits mean a person likes patterns and to know what is expected of them. People who are task oriented and reserved can come off as cold, Rohm noted.
Attendees seemed really pleased with the event and the educational sessions, with quite a few returning from last year. Attendees were also positive on the networking opportunities and this year's location.
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—PSA TEC, PSA Security Network's annual conference in support of its integrators, vendors and members—including ProAV professionals following PSA Security Network's recent acquisition of USAV and CI Edge—provided some valuable education and networking, including some important takeaways for attendees.
In addition to training and certification opportunities from manufacturers as well as from SIA, ASIS and CompTIA, this year's educational program touched on many of the top trends in the industry today, from the cloud, biometrics and IoT to robots, drones and data analytics.
One of the big themes for the show this year was cybersecurity, which the PSA Security Network has "taken a leading position on," according to president and CEO Bill Bozeman, who pointed out that PSA has put a lot of time, effort and money into providing resources, education and support for members on this increasingly important topic. Bozeman noted that PSA Security Network's cybersecurity committee has made "great strides in just this past year."
This year's keynote, Matthew Rosenquist, cybersecurity strategist for Intel Corporation, in his presentation "Cybersecurity Risks and Recommendations—Where Your Focus Needs to Be," provided a nice launching point for many of the day's cybersecurity sessions and discussions.
Rosenquist pointed out, "Ten years ago we weren't having this discussion," noting that today it is absolutely imperative that the security industry has these cyber discussions, as "physical security and cyber have converged."
He told integrators in the audience that as much as there are risks as well as challenges in preventing and combatting cyber threats, there are also "opportunities here" to provide services to protect both physical security and cybersecurity. IT professionals, including CIOs and CTOs, he noted, now have great influence over security matters and decisions and have much more in terms of budget and funding, so getting IT at the table with security folks is key.
In the "State of the Industry" session, Bozeman told integrators, "We need to figure out how to sell cyber," pointing out the goal is to provide—similar to what is available on the physical security side—"a set of services for cyber that integrators can sell."
The State of the Industry session was moderated by Bozeman with a panel that included keynote speaker Rosenquist as well as Gunvir Baveja, CEO, eVigilant Security, David Sylvester, founder and president, 3SE, and Chuck Wilson, executive director, NSCA.
In addition to cybersecurity, the group looked at the impact of third party managed services businesses on the industry.
"This is a new problem for us," Wilson said, adding that these companies often come in after the project is done to offer managed services. He noted it is important "to grab that service contract early on" in the project.
Baveja said that his company offers the first year free to ensure that they get the service contract, noting that he has found that by using that approach "95- to 98 percent will sign a monthly maintenance contract."
"As the integrator on the project, you already have your foot in the door," added Sylvester, providing integrators with an advantage over third party companies in regard to offering a service contract. "Even cyber, too," he said.
Getting back to cybersecurity, and ways in which integrators can sell these services, Baveja, whose company has a division devoted to cybersecurity, confirmed what Rosenquist said during his keynote—that more and more security procurement decisions are being made by IT professionals, the CIOs, for example. "It is important to get the CSO and the CIO at the same table during a project," he said.
This topic of "selling cyber" also came up during the session, "Providing Cyber Ready Solutions and Services for Successful Lifecycle Project Implementation," which was presented by a PSA Security Network cross-committee panel that included PSA cybersecurity committee chair Andrew Lanning, co-founder, Integrated Security Technologies; PSA project management chair Robert Flynn, senior VP, operations, Aronson Security Group; PSA sales and marketing committee chair Sharon Shaw, client development manager, Tech Systems, Inc.; and PSA technical committee member Chris Peckham, SVP, CTO and special projects, Kratos Public Safety & Security Solutions, Inc.
Lanning pointed out that the committee has "come a long way in the past year" creating resources, improving processes, but he asked, "Where is the ROI? How can we monetize the value we can bring?"
He said that the "cross-pollination between committees" is helping to identify the value that integrators can bring to the cyber discussion, including providing guidance and services.
"Where do you want to play?" Lanning asked the packed room. "With the government and military, they require it [cybersecurity]," he noted, pointing out that in many cases, depending on what vertical a company works in, there are compliance standards that are regulated. "The demand is there and many clients are unknowledgeable but open to discuss," he said, noting that he "bundles cyber with our other services."
Peckham added, "Offer good, better, best; the value proposition is there—we just need to sell it."
Peckham pointed out that an often-overlooked aspect in the cyber discussion is employee education and training, which can include mandatory online training courses, in-house discussions and memos, even signs around the office. "Preventive measures are key in the workplace," he said.
Shaw added that she finds that people often need something they can relate to before it really sinks in. "Storytelling—giving examples and sharing occurrences—is very effective," she said. "Educate clients on their risks, including offering penetration testing."
The panel also agreed that the onus is partially on the manufacturers, which "aren't hardening products the way they should," said Flynn. He noted that many within the industry have their "head in the sand" on cybersecurity, which "needs to be addressed from sales to service."
During the State of the Industry, the panel got into the need for insurance on the cybersecurity side of things. Many on the panel agreed that coverage varies greatly from company to company, with Baveja pointing out, "Insurance companies are just trying to figure things out right now."
Rosenquist noted, "The insurance companies don't have it figured out because actuary data is not available. There is no predictability as attacks change constantly." He also said that coverage costs—as well as what is covered for the same project/job—can vary dramatically. "Even the application process varies wildly," he said, from a one-page application to one that can be upwards of 100 pages.
Bottom line: Expect your customers to ask for it.
The State of the Industry panel also agreed that this is a good time to be in the industry, which will continue to see a 6- to 8 percent annual growth rate moving forward, aided greatly by a booming construction market that includes increased technology infrastructure building and growth in the U.S.
To ensure that integrators continue to stay profitable, PSA Security Network provided an informative panel presentation called "PSA Financial and Operational Metrics." Nadim Sawaya, principal, EPC, has worked closely with PSA to help provide useful metrics that integrators can take home and start using right away. He went through some of the highlights and important aspects of a 70-page document that the PSA Security Network created as a resource for integrators.
All and all, PSA TEC was a great event, from the educational sessions, training and networking to the vendor awards, sponsor hospitality suites and trade show portion on Wednesday that featured more than 100 exhibitors in an intimate setting.
For those looking to next year, PSA TEC is changing its location and dates. PSA TEC 2018 will be at the Downtown Denver Sheraton from March 11-15.
UNION, N.J.—On Monday, connected living solutions provider Essence USA announced a new program, created in partnership with Affiliated Monitoring, to benefit dealers of Essence's PERS products.
"The fully customizable program gives dealers a range of options about how to best run their PERS offerings, including order fulfillment - direct to the consumer or distributed to the dealer, customer service, invoicing and collections, equipment retrieval and refurbishment, and branding options," the announcement read.
"PERS is a major focus at Affiliated," Daniel Oppenheim, Affiliated's vice president, said in a prepared statement. "We are excited to be able to provide this advanced system to our dealers who are interested in a turnkey PERS program."
"We can customize a program for any dealer to make it easier to get into PERS," Affiliated Managing Director Mike Zydor said in the announcement. "For the dealers already in the market, we can provide access to preprogrammed, leading-edge products at discounted rates."
Essence's [email protected] suite of PERS products benefits both dealers and end-users, Essence said in its announcement. The offering has a large radio communications range for devices, "allowing users maximum flexibility in moving around their home and property. They also offer a wide variety of safety and security sensors, giving dealers an attractive and scalable offering for their customer base," the announcement said.
"Essence is on the forefront of in-home PERS technology and has a veteran management team behind it," said Yaniv Amir, President, Essence USA, in the announcement. "Essence historically has only worked directly with larger players in the space, and we are excited to now bring our products to all Affiliated dealers."
The program is scheduled to launch within the Affiliated dealer network at the end of May.
Security Systems News, for the 11th year in a row, is seeking the best and brightest young professionals in the security industry for its annual "20 under 40" awards.
"The award recognizes the next generation of leaders in our industry—the ones who are going to help push the security industry forward and drive the constant evolution in technology necessary to keep it strong and vibrant," said Paul Ragusa, editor of Security Systems News.
Nominations are now open. If an integrator, installer, monitoring center professional, dealer or end user stands out to you, feel free to submit their name here. Please specify which class your nomination is for—integrator, which encompasses roles within the industry, or end user. The deadline for nominations is Friday, June 30.
Employees from manufacturing or consulting companies are not eligible. However, they are encouraged to nominate an integrator or end user that is eligible. Nominees must be age 40 or younger—born in 1977 or later. You can nominate more than one person, and you can nominate yourself.
"Each year we look for security professionals who make everyone around them better through their dedication and hard work, and through their innovation and ambition to make a difference at their company or organization, and in the communities they work in," Ragusa said.
Profiles of each "20 under 40" award winner will appear at www.securitysystemsnews.com and in our print editions later this year.
All "20 under 40" award recipients will be honored at a special reception at SSN's TechSec Solutions conference, held in Delray Beach, Fla., in February 2018. TechSec Solutions is the industry's premier conference on new and emerging technologies, and "20 under 40" winners are often invited to speak at the conference.
At ISC West last month it was nice to meet and catch up with Convergint Technologies' executive chairman and founder Dan Moceri, and president and CEO Ken Lochiatto, who were both kind enough to participate in an ssnTVnews video interview on the Security Systems News' trade show floor stage.
The global systems integration company has been very busy recently—and since its inception in 2001—and just completed an acquisition this week of Operational Security Systems Inc. (OSS), an Atlanta, Ga.-based security integrator with an additional location in Orlando, Fla. Founded in 1972, Operational Security Systems is run by president Jim Coleman, who along with more than 50 colleagues from the company will be joining the Convergint team.
Moceri told SSN that he is excited to have Coleman and his entire team joining the Convergint Technologies family, as the company shares many of the same values as Convergint.
"We have a lot of respect for Jim and his company as he has created a strong culture and team that is very focused on the service side of the business, which is how we have grown our organization," said Moceri. "In addition to being strong from a service perspective, Jim has developed a very strong engineering company and a solutions provider that brings additional capacity and capabilities to our team."
"Operational Security Systems and Convergint Technologies share two common core values: looking after the needs of our customers and looking after our fellow colleagues," Jim Coleman said in the announcement. "Joining the Operational Security Systems team with Convergint Technologies brings deeper resources to our clients and new and exciting opportunities for our colleagues. This acquisition will prove beneficial to all involved."
Convergint Technologies has seen a steady track record of both organic growth and growth through acquisition since its founding in 2001.
"We continue to grow very aggressively organically, but you can only grow so fast organically, so when we have an opportunity like this to bring in good quality people all at one time, we certainly want to take advantage of that," he said.
Will Convergint continue to stay active on the acquisition front? "Absolutely—stay tuned," said Moceri. "As always, we've got a nice pipeline of acquisitions and we expect another exciting year on that front. We've started off very strong in the first quarter along with very strong organic growth over the last year and we continue to supplement that growth with acquisitions."
In addition to this acquisition, the company just opened an office in Toronto, which is part of the company's planned expansion in the greater Toronto area. The new office is strategically located in the Bell Trinity Square beside the Eaton Centre on the PATH system, which is mostly an underground walkway that links about 30 km of shopping, services, and entertainment in downtown Toronto, the company noted.
"This exciting new location enables us to be at the doorstep of the downtown Financial District and to support all of our existing and future clients in the area while delivering our Values & Beliefs to be our best customers' best service provider," Greg Taylor, vice president, Eastern Canada Operations for Convergint Technologies, said in the announcement.
Security and building automation technicians, as well as locksmith services, will also be added to this location to provide rapid response for clientele, and the new office will also serve as a satellite learning center. "We plan to host Lunch & Learns at the site with our technology partners to provide our clients with information about the latest trends and technologies in electronic security and building automation solutions," Eric Heagle, business development manager for Convergint Technologies, said in the announcement.
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Penn State students' replica engine selected for display at Henry Ford Museum
Penn State students' replica engine selected for display at Henry Ford Museum
DEARBORN, Mich. -- A replica of Henry Ford's first combustion engine, built by Penn State Beaver engineering students, went on display June 17 as the highlight of an exhibit at The Henry Ford Museum's Greenfield Village celebrating Ford's 150th birthday.
"Anything that does stuff that people can get up close to is great for us," said Tom Varitek, senior manager of program operations at the Dearborn, Mich., museum.
"We're benefitting greatly from having the engine on display. All our guests this summer will as well."
The engine was built as a class project for Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics taught by James Hendrickson (a 1982 engineering alumnus), instructor in engineering. While researching the project, students found several sources that said Ford destroyed the original.
"The test of a good project to me is: Does it have historical significance? One of the things I try to do is make students appreciate how great something actually was in that time period because it's hard to do now."
-- James Hendrickson, instructor in engineering at Penn State Beaver
In point of fact, museum curators have the original safely in storage. They also have a nearly identical replica of it on display in Greenfield Village.
So why would The Henry Ford want to borrow Penn State Beaver's model?
"The replica they have doesn't work," Hendrickson said. "Ours does."
But if Hendrickson has his way, that could soon change.
The Project
Hendrickson is famous for the projects he gives his students. Over the years they've created a 3-D model of a mill in Ohio, worked on the restoration and redesign of the waterwheel at Gaston's Mill at Beaver Creek and reverse engineered the Bessemer oil field pumping engine at Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pa.
"The test of a good project to me is: Does it have historical significance?" Hendrickson said. "One of the things I try to do is make students appreciate how great something actually was in that time period because it's hard to do now."
His second test: "Have any college students ever accomplished such a thing before? And if the answer is 'no,' it moves up on the list," he said.
"And the last one is, 'Could I actually do that?' If I'm not completely certain I could, then it's a good student project," he said with a small smile.
The engine project occurred to Hendrickson after he read the owner's manual to his grandfather's 1908 Model T.
"I started to think about it. This might be a neat project. We could build a car here," he said. "So I started puttering around a little bit, and I discovered this engine which nobody seems to know a whole lot about."
It seemed like a great idea for a project, Hendrickson said, and he handed it over to his class of 11 sophomores with ample funding.
"Being a generous sort, I gave them a budget of $1," he said.
The class was thrilled.
"When Mr. Hendrickson gave us the Henry Ford project, I looked at what was required and I thought, 'Oh, we are all so dead,'" said Valerie Fudurich, a nuclear engineering major from Monaca, Pa.
"We got this massive project. It was just horrendous, so many things to do," said project manager Michael Eiben, an architectural engineering major from Wexford, Pa. "And little by little we got pieces and pieces together, and it just came together. Everyone worked so well together. It brought out our efforts as the engineering team."
The lack of funding meant that the students had to fabricate the parts themselves or get them donated. Mostly, they made the parts in the garage of team member Allie Stewart, whose father owns a machine shop.
"We hand-machined parts and put them together to create a running engine," said Stewart, an aerospace engineering major from Georgetown, Pa.
"We built a working engine from scratch," said Brennen Koji, petroleum engineering major from McMurray, Pa. "We harnessed explosions and turned them into mechanical energy."
The $1 budget went to a cup of coffee, Koji said. "We shared it to stay awake while we were working on the engine."
Ford's first combustion engine, historically known as the Kitchen Sink Engine, was never installed in a vehicle. Instead, it served as a proof of concept for his 1896 Quadricycle.
"The story goes that on Christmas Eve 1893 Henry Ford had his wife put down the turkey and come to the kitchen sink to help him start this thing," Hendrickson said.
The engine was plugged into a light socket, and Ford and his wife regulated the fuel intake by hand. They got it started, and Ford went on to automotive history.
Detroit Road Trip, Part 1
Hendrickson wanted to claim a tiny slice of that history for his students.
Once their engine was working, he contacted Ford Motor Co. to invite Chairman William Clay Ford Jr. to campus for a demonstration.
"Our understanding was that Henry Ford's original was thrown out somewhere along the way. I thought his great-grandson would like to see one running," Hendrickson said.
When that effort faltered, Beaver alumnus John Grace (a 1990 engineering alumnus), managing engineer of the paint facility at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant, was called in to help.
"I liked Penn State Beaver's engine because it's using a preeminent historical story and object and reinvestigating that. It's obviously a piece that works. More importantly, when I talked to the students about it, I could see there's a real team here."
-- Christian Overland, executive vice president of The Henry Ford Museum
Though Grace has little access to the executive suite, he knows many people at the museum thanks to his interest in antique cars and bicycles. He put the professor in touch with Jim Johnson, senior manager of creative programs at The Henry Ford.
"When we found out that the students had a reproduction that actually works, we were very interested," said Johnson, who invited Hendrickson and his students to display their replica at the 2012 Maker Faire Detroit, an invention fair hosted annually by the museum. The students were given space in the museum's tent alongside reproductions of the Quadricycle, an 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an 1885 Daimler Reitwagen and Ford's 1901 "Sweepstakes" race car.
"Everyone loved seeing the engine run and hearing the students talk about it," Johnson said.
That included the judges of the fair, who awarded the students three blue ribbons for their project. Christian Overland, executive vice president of The Henry Ford Museum, was particularly impressed.
"I liked Penn State Beaver's engine because it's using a preeminent historical story and object and reinvestigating that," Overland said. "It's obviously a piece that works. More importantly, when I talked to the students about it, I could see there's a real team here."
Clara Deck, the museum's senior conservator of historical resources, choked up when she saw the reproduction running. "We have the original, but I've never seen it run," she said, swiping at a tear.
Deck arranged for the students to visit a storage room in the museum. There, among long rows of shelves filled with history, she showed them the original engine in all its glory. At the students' request, she carefully set the engine's wheel in place and gently turned it.
Ford's original was smaller than the students' replica, but it was obvious they had taken care to reproduce his work. It was also obvious they were itching to do more than look at it.
"We'll get it started for you," Koji said, grinning up at Deck from where he squatted next to the engine. Deck laughed and declined. "We preserve the artifacts. We don't start them," she said.
Going into the storage area of the museum was a rare opportunity, said Hendrickson. "We actually got to see it. These students will never forget that."
Dalton Petrillo, a mechanical engineering major who traveled to Detroit from his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., found out how big an honor it was when he told one of the museum workers about it. "He was jealous. He said they never show it to anyone."
That only added to his pride in their work. "When you make a project, most of the time you're going to be proud of it, no matter if it's crappy or not," said Petrillo, leader of the technical research and 3-D modeling team. "But when Mr. Hendrickson told us that he had contacted Ford Motor Company about it, at that moment I was really, really proud of the project."
Eiben also was pleased. "Taking the engine out and talking to people about it is great," he said. "They get really excited about it because you're excited. You can see it in their faces. And you think, 'We did that for a dollar.'
"At the start, I promised the team that this was going to be our best project," Eiben said. "I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't know it would go this far."
Detroit Road Trip, Part 2
After the campus' successful appearance at Maker Faire, it was clear that Hendrickson and museum officials were both interested in forging a lasting relationship.
Hendrickson offered to lend them the engine. "I thought it would be great for them to put it on display," he said.
In the fall Hendrickson entered into discussions with Varitek, who was heading up Greenfield Village's plans for Ford's 150th birthday celebration. At the time, he and his team were working on a hands-on, interactive display at the Village.
The exhibit, "Henry Ford and His Machines," is housed in a reproduction of Miller School, which Ford attended as a youth. The school is next to Ford's rebuilt childhood home and stands near other buildings important to Ford and his work, including the shed where he created the Kitchen Sink Engine and the Quadricycle.
The exhibit follows a young Ford at three crucial stages in his life: at 12, when he took apart his father's watch; at 19, when he became interested in steam engines; and at 30, when he began investigating gasoline engines.
"We thought there's no better way to illustrate that than to show the Kitchen Sink Engine," Varitek said. "We wondered, 'Can we get our model working for the anniversary?' When we saw (the Penn State) engine at Maker Faire, the question became, 'What if we get that engine and show it?'"
Penn State Beaver's engine was a perfect match for the exhibit, Varitek said.
"One of the things we like to stress about Henry Ford, and history in general, is its relevance points. The fact that Jim and his class decided to do this smacked of relevancy. Here's how history is being used today in the classroom. That, to me, worked better than trying to restore our own model."
Varitek is excited about having the engine in the exhibit. "The ability to actually show it working is a perfect diagram for young people to be able to see how the engine in their car works, with the piston going in and out and the wheel turning. It's like being able to get inside their car's engine."
In early May, five students accompanied Hendrickson to the museum to deliver the engine to Varitek. They weren't involved in the actual build but had been analyzing it for several months. In addition, they'd been running it at campus events and professional engineering group meetings since the fall.
"It's better to start part of the way through than to never have worked on it at all," said Jeremy Canonge, a mechanical engineering major from Freedom, Pa.
The students were instrumental in training museum staff how to operate the engine.
"All of us are pretty knowledgeable on how the engine runs," said Matthew Haig, a mechanical engineering major from Stephens City, Va. "We're not trying to take credit for building it. We're just teaching the people there how to run it."
Staff members and trusted volunteers will be running the engine outside Miller School several times a day from June 17 through Aug. 18, and if it breaks down while it's there, Hendrickson isn't worried.
"I'm sure that if there's a problem with it, I'll never know about it. They'll just fix it and get it running again," he said. "These people fix Model Ts and keep the Quadricycle running. There's no one better to take care of it."
Hendrickson is still a bit awed by the attention the project has gotten from museum officials. "My biggest surprise is how it's been adopted by them," he said. "I didn't really expect it was going to be something that would end up on display at The Henry Ford. That part of it kind of took on a life of its own."
Road Trip to Beaver?
Now that the engine is on display, Hendrickson has set his sights higher.
"My goal is to get their replica and bring it back to get it started," he said.
Though it sounds like a pipe dream, it might be possible, and Varitek is pushing to make it happen. "Having Jim and his students work on it seems like something that would be really good," he said.
To help move things along, Hendrickson is willing to offer a trade. "If it makes our case easier, we could just leave ours up there while we're working on their replica," he said. "I think if they see that our engine draws a big crowd at the Miller School every time they run it this summer, that's going to help the cause. Plus, that's what Henry Ford wanted. He didn't want static displays. He wanted things to run. That's why the village is there."
Varitek believes the museum's replica was originally created in the 1930s at the direction of Henry Ford to take to world's fairs. It's not known when it last worked, but Varitek said it's been part of the static display in Ford's 58 Bagley Ave. shed for at least 15 years.
The problem is that "sometimes the reproductions get so old that they become artifacts themselves," he said. In deciding whether it can be loaned out to be repaired, the museum must look into its history and how it is being used. "We believe it was built to be in working order. If that turns out to be the case, then it's likely we'll decide it's appropriate for it to be used that way again."
Once the museum gives the go-ahead, the University will have to assess the risks as well, and both parties will have to come to an agreement on the particulars of the loan.
"I'm sure it will come with stipulations," Hendrickson said. "I'd have to have pretty heavy-handed involvement with it. We'll have to find someplace secure to lock it up."
Hendrickson said he's likely to hand-pick some students to work with him on it as an independent study. "The museum people love the notion of student involvement, but I also know they're not going to take any risk of destroying that thing."
Varitek and Hendrickson are both hoping the Ford's replica can be in Penn State Beaver's hands by mid-September when Hendrickson returns to Dearborn to retrieve Beaver's engine.
"It depends on how big a priority I put on the research," Varitek said. "It's the main thing I'll be pushing for this summer."


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In yet another instance of "unintended consequences," a recent study has determined that this year's drought damage to corn crops is even worse because of Bt corn, and failure to rotate crops.
GreenMedInfo, claiming to be the world's most widely referenced, evidence-based natural medicine resource, posted an August 23 article revealing the result of the findings of farmers and crop and pesticide management experts. The website specializes in posting abstracts (brief summaries of research articles or in-depth analyses of particular subjects) of scientific findings and academic papers. Dr. Bruce Potter, University of Minnesota professor and farmer Charlie Sandager concluded that the primary corn pest rootworm has developed resistance to the proteins in the GMO (genetically modified organisms) Bt Corn that was designed to kill the pests.
Bt corn is a type of GMO and the subject of the recent investigation into the rootworm outbreak. One effect of the pest's presence is that it prevents corn roots from absorbing water, especially serious given this year's drought. Pest experts suggest that the primary reason for the rootworm-infested crops is that rootworms have become resistant to the Bt protein, resulting in strong and larger rootworm populations.
But not only are corn plants unable to absorb water, the plants become unstable and can easily topple over. Sandager said, "Strong wind came up and it just tipped the corn plants over like a big old tree."
Indeed, RawStory reported that last fall, the EPA warned of the problem. Bt corn, engineered a decade ago by Monsanto specifically to ward off the rootworm, is losing its battle. Even the EPA wondered if the company's monitoring was "inadequate and likely to miss early resistance events." With this year's drought, corn crops hardly have a chance.
Crop rotation traditionally took care of the problem. Alternating corn crops with soybeans, which didn't attract the rootworm, allowed it to die off, but GMO growers have abandoned the practice. GMO seed producers and distributors have suggested to farmers that crop rotation wasn't necessary since the modifications were supposed to kill the rootworm.
The toll on crops isn't the only casualty. Pete Riley of GM Freeze said in a 2011 article that biotech companies are not liable for the failure of the crops, so farmers have no recall when infestations are economically damaging. As they certainly are now in the worst U.S. drought in decades. Riley added, "Strategies to prevent pests becoming resistant are either not being correctly implemented, are failing, or are suffering from a combination of both. The result is more pesticide use rather than less. Throwing more GM at the problem may work in the short term, but the history of artificial pest control in agriculture has repeatedly shown the pests will win over the longer term.
"The sooner we switch to agroecological farming techniques, such as avoidance of monocultures, long rotations and the use of natural predators to control pests, the better."
Organic practices such as natural pest remedies, crop rotation, and proper fertilization make crops more drought- and pest-resistant, and increase yields. Even the United Nations has concluded that organic practices among African farmers could substantially increase the region's ability to feed Africans.
Resistance to GMO foods in the United States is growing. And so is resistance to corporate cronyism favoring companies such as agri-giant Monsanto. Critics are being given more ammunition to dismantle claims that GMO foods are better, but in the meantime, be prepared for higher corn prices.
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2000hrs Brasilia Standard Time
Are there more? A few hours after Spain's Acciona announced a new nacelle plant in Brazil's Bahia state, Jaques Wagner, Bahia state governor said during the conference opening remarks that more manufacturers would be coming to the state.
Was he referring to Acciona, I asked one of his aides? "He meant several others," the aide replied and smiled, offering no more.
Bahia came late to wind power, but in this year's auction it consolidated its position as a leading state for wind power. "It's not our fault that God gave us good winds," Wagner remarked in the opening session.
As well as Acciona, Gamesa also assembles turbines in Bahia and Brazilian Tecsis makes blades, among others.
The end of a positive and upbeat opening day at Windpower 2013. It has been fairly quiet on the exhibition floor so far, but the conference hall has been busy. Looking forward to more activity tomorrow.
1930hrs Brasilia Standard Time
Aside the expected back-slapping of a sector that surged from almost zero four years ago to 2.8GW today, the Brazil Windpower conference welcomed but questioned the government's guarantees of tendering 2GW a year and planning for the transmission sector.
Energy Minister Edson Lobão reaffirmed plans to continue to install wind power capacity at a rate of 2GW a year through to 2020 in the country's energy network.
Soon afterwards Maurício Tolmasquim, president of the government's planning division (EPE), confirmed once more that it has concluded studies for expanding Brazil's 100,000km transmisson grid to wind prominent areas.
Welcoming the announcements, Otávio Silveira, chairman of the Brazilian Windpower Association (Abeeolica), said the industry needs to enter further discussions with the authorities about this. "It's essential for the development of the non-regulated market", he said.
On a more sober tone, Steve Sawyer of GWEC, urged delegates to think ahead and question what will be the real and sustainable size of Brazil's wind industry based on local production. "We still have the luxury [of time] to think about that", said Sawyer at the start of the event.
1830hrs Brasilia Standard Time
First notes from opening session: Steve Sawyer of Global Wind Energy Council urges the industry to consider the supply chain and the size of the market in Brazil. Bahia state governor Jacques Wagner is nominated as Brazil's Wind ambassador, and Brazil's energy minister Edison Lobão reaffirms the government's intention to install 2GW of wind power a year until 2020.
1800hrs Brasilia Standard Time
The Brazil Windpower 2013 conference and fair starts with most of the companies' stands undergoing last minute preparations and main executives not yet arrived. But Acciona from Spain has already set itself one a step ahead after announcing earlier today its new production facility in Brazil for the AW3000. A company spokesman told me that the 3MW turbine, launched earlier this year, is expected to be adaptable, available with different size steel and concrete towers, and rotor blades up to 125metres long. The aim is to capture market opportunities in Brazil's southern and north eastern region. He declined to say how much would be invested in the new plant.
1300hrs Brasilia Standard Time
Four hours until Brazil's energy minister Edison Lobão officially opens Brazil WindPower 2013 conference, joined by Brazilian Windpower Association's (Abeeolica) executive board, led by Elbia Melo and Otavio Silveira, and GWEC's Steve Sawyer here in Rio de Janeiro under a 30C winter sun.
In contrast to last year, the local industry is optimistic after selling 1.5GW in new projects, at higher local prices, at last month's reserve auction and because the government decided to allow wind developers to bid on the 12 December.
These latest developments will be discussed at a conference panel today.
This contrasts with Elbia Melo's statement that, "2012 was a year to be forgotten" by the Brazilian wind sector. That year, falling wind energy prices, new electricity regulation and lack of demand resulted in a sale of only 282MW in wind power projects.
This year's players are showing they still have an appetite to invest in Brazil despite complex and tough local content rules from the National Development Bank (BNDES), lagging transmission infrastructure and a sluggish economy.
With another two auctions still to happen in 2013 and a stock of at least 16GW in wind projects, the Brazil WindPower Conference 2013 will be good a place to look for indications whether new market opportunities (such as the non-regulated market and exports to South America) and financing alternatives can really come true.
1030hrs Brasilia Standard Time
Only a few hours before the Brazil WindPower 2013 conference starts and Spain's Acciona Windpower has announced it is building a nacelle assembly plant in Brazil.
Acciona Windpower will build a nacelle assembly plant in Brazil complying with national content rules, the company said in a statement.
Acciona will produce the AW3000 turbine which has a 3MW capacity. The new plant will have capacity to produce 100 units a year.
The company did not say how much it will invest in the project but said operations should start by the end of 2014. The new plant will be in the northeastern state of Bahia.
In March, the company announced a hub plant in the same state.
Acciona has supply contracts with developers in Brazil for 210MW or 70 AW3000 turbines until the end of 2014.


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Find a still spot out of doors to steep your tea. Set your intention. Add the herbs to a glass jar after sundown, fill with water. Leave the tea alone for a few hours. The tea will work best if you are taking care of yourself while you wait for it to steep; doing yoga, meditating, stargazing, not worrying, ect…okay, I am totally kidding about that one, but it can't hurt! Recall your intention and drink the…ah…interesting (bitter!) moon tea. Of course you may add things to make it more palatable, if you wish. Go to sleep and dream away.


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Hello everyone. Earlier today, myself and Nicholas Gray gave out the 2013 Roundtable Awards for the best in independent wrestling in 2013. Some we agreed on, others we had different winners for. Here is the winners of the following awards:
Best Gimmick: The H.O.T. in ROH (Jason), Leva Bates of SHINE and SHIMMER (Nick)
Best Finisher: Kevin Steen's Package Piledriver
Best Tag Team Finisher: The Young Bucks' More Bang for your Buck
Best Commentator: Lenny Leonard of DGUSA, EVOLVE and SHINE (Jason), Denver Colorado of CZW and WSU (Nick)
Most Hated Character: Eddie Kingston of AAW, ROH and CHIKARA (Jason), Johnny Gargano of DGUSA and EVOLVE (Nick)
Most Popular Character: Kevin Steen
Best High-Flyer: Andrew Everett of CZW, DGUSA and EVOLVE (Jason), ACH of ROH, PWG and AAW (Nick)
Best Brawler: Kevin Steen
Best Technical Wrestler: Drew Gulak of CZW and Beyond Wrestling
Most Charismatic: ACH of ROH, PWG and AAW (Jason), Truth Martini of ROH and AAW (Nick)
Best on the Mic: Adam Cole of ROH, PWG and CZW (Jason), Saraya Knight of SHIMMER, SHINE and WSU (Nick)
Feud of the Year: Leva Bates vs. Kimberly from SHINE
Best Non-Wrestler: Steve Corino of ROH
Women's Wrestler of the Year: Jessicka Havok of SHINE, SHIMMER and WSU (Jason), Rain of SHINE (Nick)
Tag Team of the Year: The Young Bucks of PWG, CHIKARA, DGUSA, EVOLVE and ROH
Wrestler of the Year: Michael Elgin of ROH, PWG, AAW and AIW (Jason), Johnny Gargano of DGUSA, EVOLVE and PWG (Nick)
Match of the Year: AR Fox, Rich Swann and Candice LeRae vs. The Young Bucks and Adam Cole from PWG Battle of Los Angeles Night 2 (Jason), Adam Cole vs. Sami Callihan from PWG Is Your Body Ready? (Nick)
Most Improved (male and female): Kyle O'Reilly, Ivelisse
The one to watch in 2014 (male and female): David Starr, JT Dunn and Nikki Storm (Jason), Chris Dickinson, David Starr, Rhia O'Reilly (Nick)
Show of the Year: PWG Battle of Los Angeles Night 2
Promotion of the Year: SHINE (Jason), PWG (Nick)
Comment below on if agree or disagree with the picks and if you disagree, what would be your choice for the awards? Thanks again and happy holidays!
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Suntory 1981 "Kioke Shiomi"
Vatted malt (?). Probably Hakushu. Please see the comments.
The best translation I can offer for the name "Kioke Shikomi" is "matured in a wooden tub". The normal word for barrel is not being used here. Instead the vocabulary is more associated with the "tubs" used in sake making. The red characters say a "direct fired" distilling method was employed. The label also talks of a heavy and powerful taste.
This, like the "Furudaru Shiage", calls itself a "Pure Malt Whisky" and no particular distillery is mentioned, so again I am guessing it is the vatted product of more than one distillery.
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"Suntory 1981 ' Kioke Shiomi' (43%, OB, circa 2005)
Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: Much more happening in this one. Starts like a mix of nutmeg just like in the Hibiki 30 yo, butter, hay and mashed potatoes, getting then sort of smoky and oaky and finally rather grassy. Not particularly heavy I'd say.
Mouth: Again, much more happening in this one than in the "Furudaru Shiage". Heavier indeed, pleasantly rough, malty, quite candied again but also rather smoky, liquoricy, almost kind of peaty – or is it peat indeed? Gets slightly cardboardy after that but it's fine whisky no doubt. I'd say 'northern Highlands style', and direct firing may well have brought that extra-punch and body to it.
Finish: Longer than the "Furudaru Shiage" for sure, still very powerful but probably grainier and more honeyed now. Good and very 'Scottish' if I may say so. 81 points." (Serge`s scoring system is explained on this page.)
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- Michio said...
various japanese blogs seem to identify this one as a Hakushu?
eg: http://resort.usukeba.com/e11922.html
- May 14, 2011 at 9:39 PM
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Tonight I guest taught at one of my good friend's dojo. It is a different style of Karate than mine, and I taught body dynamics for about an hour and a half.
Teaching and explaining koshi to students who generally do use it -- particularly to the extent that we concentrate on it in Kishaba Juku Shorin-Ryu -- has become one of my hobbies (for want of a better word). I get great joy when I see a student move in a way that is surprising to him. When a student can move faster, easier and with more power, he starts to smile.
It does not matter whether the student is a child or an adult. The result is always the same.
Tonight I told the class that I was trying to infect them with whole body mechanics. I meant it. Learning to use koshi is like catching a cold. It might start with a little sneeze but it gets worse! Koshi might start with one accidental movement, then two. Soon the student is infected with koshi!
If a student can do one movement correctly, he can learn to do all movements correctly.
When my own students move with koshi, I take it for granted. I expect them to do it. I am concerned when they do not.
It is fun for me to show koshi to someone who has practiced Karate for months or even many years, and did not know that there was a much easier and more effective way to move. It is a challenge for me to learn to communicate in a way that is understandable to students of another style. It is a challenge for me to design movement sequences or drills that can convey the basics and bridge the gap between our styles -- how can I get someone to "see" something they are not used to seeing?
Tonight I used the Taikyoku kata as a vehicle for teaching different principles. This kata is used by many styles, and is very similar to our Fukyugata Ichi (the first seven movements are essentially the same). Taikyoku is much simpler than the Pinan (Heian) and easier to modify. For example, I asked the students to replace all the stances in the kata with jigotai dachi. This is very easy to do. And actually, gedan barai in jigotai dachi or Naihanchi dachi is much more effective than in zenkutsu dachi, in my opinion, particularly a square shouldered zenkutsu dachi.
I used the Taikyoku kata to show how to pull the elbows toward the body between movements, how to pull the leg to set the weight and balance, and how to learn to move the stance with the body rather than step.
Just was we generate power with our core and channel that power through our arms and legs, we can move our body with our core rather than stepping like a robot.
Anyway, I enjoyed teaching tonight. If I can help even one student to use their koshi even once, I am happy. Tonight I saw many students move well.
I am beginning to imagine how my own Sensei felt when I first started to learn koshi dynamics from him. I was a "lost soul" in Karate and have been happy every day since then! Teaching others, even in different styles, is one way that I repay my Sensei.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. The family of a boy shot dead in last month's elementary school massacre said Thursday it has been contacted by the White House regarding its desire to be heard in the discussion over gun control in Washington, D.C.
Alexis Haller, an uncle of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, said a White House official he met during President Barack Obama's visit to Newtown after the Dec. 14 shooting encouraged him to reach out if he had any concerns. He said he asked officials earlier this month if victims' families would be informed of initiatives stemming from the massacre and finally heard back Thursday evening about consultations between the White House and families.
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"There is no perspective more meaningful in this process than that of a parent who has lost a child," spokesman Matt Lehrich said in an emailed statement.
Noah, who loved to read and to figure out how things worked mechanically, was among 20 first-graders killed by the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary. His twin sister, Arielle, was assigned to a different classroom and survived the shooting. Their mother, Veronique Pozner, had said she wondered why she hadn't received more information about legislative proposals regarding guns in the weeks after the shooting.
"As the mother of a six year old victim of a cold-blooded massacre of school children, I am puzzled and disappointed by the fact that I have had no information or opportunity to be heard regarding the upcoming legislative proposal in Washington," she said in a statement released earlier by Haller, her brother.
Haller said the family has ideas it wants to share with the White House and wants to be part of the discussion about the response to the school massacre, in which the gunman also killed six adults before committing suicide.
"I think the families have an important voice, and I think those voices need to be heard by the people who are proposing the reforms," said Haller, who stressed he was speaking for only his family.
The Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence that would include a ban on sales of combat-style weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun buyers.
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The Central Connecticut women's lacrosse team faced a four-goal deficit in the second half, but a 7-0 run lifted the Blue Devils to a 12-10 victory at Siena on Wednesday. The Blue Devils (2-2) trailed the Saints 9-5, but CCSU scored seven second half goals to secure the victory.
The Blue Devils were led by sophomore Falynn McCartney who totaled five points, including four goals in the contest.
Trailing 8-5 at the half, the Blue Devils surrendered a ninth goal to the Saints just 92 seconds into the second half, but following that score CCSU dominated play scoring seven straight goals to take a 12-9 lead.
McCartney opened the run with an unassisted goal at the 27:47 mark and followed it with another unassisted score at the 24:11 mark. Senior Amanda Toke cut the deficit to a single-point on a free position goal with 21:01 left to play and 12 seconds later sophomore Elyse Malecki tied the game on a free position goal.
The trio continued to score as McCartney gave CCSU a 10-9 lead with 17:42 left to play, again on an unassisted goal. Toke and Malecki each followed with scores to give CCSU a three-goal advantage with 10:35 left to play. Freshman Jessica Giangarra was credited with the assist on Toke's goal.
Junior Brigit Hogan, McCartney, senior Claire Healy and freshman Alexandra Hooker each scored goals for CCSU in the first half. Hogan scored CCSU's first and fifth goals of the half with McCartney and Toke recording the assists.
McCartney's first half goal was unassisted, as was Hookers. Healy scored on a free position shot.
Defensively, the Blue Devils caused eight turnovers in the contest. Sophomore Madison Hughes caused three turnovers and scooped up a pair of ground balls.
Freshman Courtney McPartland and Marissa Soto each recorded a team-high three ground balls. Senior Cierra Ward also had two ground balls and a caused turnover for the defense.
Junior goalkeeper Morgan Tullar improved her season record to 2-2 with the victory. She made six saves and had two ground balls in the game.
Toke (4), McCartney (3) and Soto (2) combined for nine of CCSU's 11 draw controls in the game.
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Sometimes, it's amazing how information moves in mysterious ways. What am I on about? Bear with me... Some of you may remember we wrote a post about a wonderful bar up in Hokkaido called "Gyu+" (also known as "The Fridge Door Bar"). Ioanna - who runs the bar with her husband, Hisashi - was in Tokyo for the weekend, so we had arranged to meet up first thing after she'd landed. Among the many omiyage she had brought, was a "Bourbon"-washed cheese, made in Hokkaido. Obviously the bourbon isn't made there (it's I.W. Harper, I was told), but the cheese is. It's a camembert-type cheese "washed" in bourbon. (If you don't know what that means, Google's your friend!) I dropped Ioanna off at Shinanoya in Shinjuku, but not before advising her to get some "The Game III" for her bar, which she did - just in time, because as of today it's officially sold-out. This morning, I get a lovely email telling me how the staff at Shinanoya were really helpful. She also wrote that they'd told her they would be releasing a cheese "washed in The Game III". Surely, the same company -Tokachino Fromages - couldn't be involved? (That's a rhetorical question - in case you were wondering.) She asked, and although the staff couldn't be sure, they thought it was the same company up in Hokkaido. (On further inspection, the box is exactly the same, so it probably is.)


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