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2 SDM Exclusive 2011 Innovation Delivered 2011 The concept of delivering innovative solutions involves more than just providing security. It positions Diebold, SDM s Systems Integrator of the Year, as an organization that meets customers needs beyond physical and electronic security, both operationally and financially. By Laura E. Stepanek, Editor Three of Diebold Security s top five executives Kevin Engelhardt (left), Jacqueline Grimm, and Jeremy Brecher are pictured at the World Trade Center where the company has been working since Diebold s approach is having a single end-toend organization that operates as a unified resource. To learn the story of Diebold Inc. one would need to go back more than 150 years to Cincinnati in 1859, when German immigrant Charles Diebold a locksmith by trade began to buy interest in a safe-building business where he had worked, later to be named Diebold, Baumann and Company. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 proved the worth of Diebold s fireproof safes, and the company went on to flourish in many markets over the next century. One hundred years after our founding, our product mix had expanded to include surveillance equipment, access control systems, alarms and devices, describes Bradley Stephenson, vice president of Security Solutions. As we moved toward the 21st century, we added ATM security, logical security and monitoring to our portfolio. As the company continually refined its breadth of services and depth of in-house capabilities, Diebold evolved into a total security systems integrator. From the simple installation of a single device to the most complex system implementations, we approach our work with experience, passion and commitment, Stephenson says. We begin our story of Diebold, not in 1859, but last month on an October morning in New York when three of Diebold Security s top five executives posed for an SDM cover photo at the World Trade Center (WTC) complex. It was a fitting location for Diebold s executives to be photographed amidst the construction of Tower 4 and overlooking the 9/11 Memorial. Diebold began its work at WTC in 2007 when it was awarded the contract for a wireless-mesh video system on the perimeter of the construction site. This led to other WTC projects including the most current the multi-phase 4 November 2011
3 implementation of a Situational Awareness Platform Software (SAPS) system. (See related story, Diebold at the World Trade Center, on page 56.) Securing what is perhaps the world s most visible commercial site is not the primary reason SDM named Diebold its 2011 Systems Integrator of the Year. Rather, Diebold was selected for all of the capabilities that enabled it to earn that project and many others, including security solutions for notable clients such as Christie s Auction House, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Postal Service, and more. Diebold s value as a systems integrator stems from a mission that reaches beyond traditional security systems. This mission, in part, states, While the core of our business is to protect our customers assets, our security solutions also help our customers address other critical business priorities. Some of these other business priorities are enhancing security and mitigating fraud, improving operating efficiency, delivering optimum experiences for their customers, and growing and retaining their customer base. Kevin Engelhardt, vice president, Security Operations, explains further: While we re focused on security, we also want to focus on our customer s business. We want to help them run their business better, and we try to affect their needs beyond just electronic physical security. (At press time, Diebold announced Stephenson s plans to retire, with Engelhardt filling his role until a replacement is named.) It may be difficult to embrace this concept unless you understand how Diebold s mission translates into a complete service offering. This suite of services enables Diebold to help customers meet their critical business needs, and it also dovetails into a business model of outsourcing or security as a service. Outsourced security, which the company calls Diebold Integrated Services, describes those services that are either managed or hosted by Diebold on behalf of end users. Because Diebold is a security integrator with a strong focus on security services, nearly every solution we provide includes some element of service, whether it be consultation, integration, monitoring, maintenance or any of the other value-add services we provide to end users, explains Greg Steffy, vice president, North America Security Solutions. He provides an overarching description of Diebold s services, as aligned with the following categories: Security integration and consultation Security services, maintenance and security outsourcing (managed and hosted) Diebold is deeply rooted in Ohio, having first begun serving customers with safes in Cincinnati in the mid-1800s, and then moving to Canton, Ohio, in about Its corporate headquarters, shown here, is in North Canton. Enterprise solutions Identity, credential and access management (ICAM) Intrusion detection and surveillance Fire detection solutions and services Security and energy monitoring Logical security Diebold at a Glance Founded as a security company in the mid-1800s, Diebold remains deeply rooted in security. As a leading security integrator No. 4 on SDM s Top Systems Integrators Report its focus is on the sale, installation and service of security components, as well as expert consultation regarding their application. Whether it s fundamental access control solutions or a comprehensive security system, innovative building security or complex data protection, Diebold takes a security management approach to combine physical, electronic and logical security principles with people, process and technology to deliver integrated security solutions that meet customers specific business and security needs. Headquarters: North Canton, Ohio Traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol: DBD 2010 revenue: $630.3 million across all markets Employees: Diebold Security has 331 full-time employees. Diebold employs more than 16,000 globally across the company, including more than 4,000 professional service technicians to service the security business. Locations: 90 branch offices in the United States Ranked on SDM s Top Systems Integrators Report: No. 4, based on $ million North American systems integration revenue. Source: Diebold PHOTO COURTESY OF DIEBOLD
4 PHOTO COURTESY OF DIEBOLD Diebold was awarded a commemorative flag, which was flown at the World Trade Center complex on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, in honor of its security efforts at Ground Zero. It was probably the proudest moment I ve ever had as part of the organization, comments Engelhardt. Other Diebold employees pictured are: Luis Pinto, Dan Putnam, Nelson Barreto, Kevin Engelhardt, Jeannine Gallego, Gary Bergfield, and Adam Simkins. Often an organization with such a comprehensive breadth of services can be bureaucratic and inaccessible. The way that Diebold is structured overcomes any such predisposition. With service professionals who are trained and managed by Diebold, as well as an infrastructure of geographically dispersed locations, Diebold provides single-source service with one contract and one number to call for entire security programs, Steffy says. SERVICES INFRASTRUCTURE The service organization is structured for intelligent and swift response. Diebold Security has 331 employees, but it is part of a much larger and global organization within Diebold Inc., which employs more than 16,000 people. This is where Diebold Security gets its reach. Among this larger talent pool Diebold at the World Trade Center Diebold began working on the perimeter security at the Ground Zero/World Trade Center (WTC) site approximately four years ago. We were awarded a wireless mesh network project video that criss-crossed the site, describes Diebold s Kevin Engelhardt. Then we built a temporary command center on site. Subsequently, we were awarded the access control application and then it built from there. There were numerous buildings that were added on. Tower 4 was the first, then the transportation hub, then obviously this SAPS project. The SAPS system collects, correlates and displays information from a wide variety of the WTC site s critical security systems, as well as provides identity management capabilities. PSIM software from VidSys, combined with physical identity and access management (PIAM) software from QuantumSecure, serves as the basis of a full Situational Awareness Platform Software (SAPS) system for the WTC complex. The 4 World Trade Center (4WTC) skyscraper (located at 150 Greenwich St.) will be a 2.3-million-square-foot, 64-story tower rising 975 feet from street level. It will be the fourth-tallest skyscraper on the WTC site. The majority of 4WTC will house office space, one-third of which will be the new headquarters for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The building also will have two retail levels below grade and a transportation concourse. At the 4WTC skyscraper, Diebold is building a centralized security command-and-control center which will serve as the security hub. Diebold will install more than 500 biometric access control readers, more than 400 cameras, an elevator destination control system, a stairwell crossing system and X-ray equipment throughout 4WTC, and will integrate these solutions into the command center to centralize their management. Throughout the implementation of this massive project and for several months after its completion, Diebold will maintain an on-site presence. Advanced security solutions are paramount across the World Trade Center complex. Biometric access control readers will utilize card controls and fingerprint scans to manage access to areas housing mechanical, electrical and telecommunications systems, as well as entry points, elevators and other high-priority areas. Cameras will monitor those areas in addition to stairwells, lobbies, baggage-screening areas, loading docks and outdoor areas. The fully integrated systems will enable a card reader alarm event to automatically display the camera feed associated with that reader in the command-and-control center. The elevator destination control system will integrate access card data with floor access permissions. When an authorized employee scans his or her badge and fingerprint at a secure elevator turnstile, the system automatically assigns an elevator to access the floor on which that employee works. The stairwell crossing system will display up-to-date building evacuation routes in the event of an emergency. From the command-and-control center, security operators can review exit routes and update stairwell signage to reflect the best evacuation route at a given time. In addition, X-ray equipment to be installed in 4WTC s mailroom and lobby areas will be utilized to screen packages and belongings. Leveraging its expertise in complex security system integration, Diebold also is implementing advanced security solutions at the new WTC Transportation Hub. As part of this $ million project, Diebold s integrated system will include the installation of video surveillance, access control and alarm devices throughout the hub. In addition, Diebold Sidebar continues on the next page
5 there are 4,000-plus professional service technicians that are available to service security customers. When our customers are working with Diebold, they are most often working directly with Diebold, not through a third-party, Stephenson emphasizes. Diebold is one of the few large systems integrators that has the services infrastructure to support and service large construction deployments that require management of thousands of applications and devices. We are able to support such projects by holding all of our core functional positions in-house. The services infrastructure Stephenson references includes more than 90 branch offices in and near major metropolitan areas in the United States. This close proximity to a large percentage of our customer base enables our employees to have face-to-face interactions and maintain close relationships with their customer contacts, he adds. In addition, Diebold operates nearly 400 service locations including satellite offices, which are staffed by services professionals, and parts depot locations, which allow convenient and timely access to parts required to keep customers security equipment operational. (See Diebold Service Locations map on page 58.) Services professionals, as well as all of Diebold s employees, are a primary strength of the company due to the exhaustive training that every associate undergoes. Education is part and parcel of every department and at every level of the company. Sidebar continued from the previous page will expand the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation s (PATH) existing security system at the PATH WTC station. Slated to open in 2014, the WTC Transportation Hub will make Lower Manhattan the thirdlargest transportation center in New York. Housing the PATH rapid transit system, the hub will connect to 11 subway lines. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey expects the hub to eventually serve more than 250,000 travelers daily. A centerpiece of the project will be a state-of-the-art system for managing access to various areas of the hub. Diebold will incorporate access control points that will utilize both secure credentials and biometrics to identify and grant access to employees, contractors and security personnel. Diebold s integrated surveillance system will enable the Port Authority to monitor all areas of the WTC Transportation Hub, including entrances, exits, rail platforms and other pedestrian zones, as well as high-priority areas such as electrical and telecommunication rooms. The implementation also will integrate existing PATH cameras, providing a consolidated view of the entire site. Diebold will fully integrate all security solutions planned for the site into the WTC Transportation Hub s centralized telecommunications network. The integration will link multiple data elements associated with an event, enabling faster security response times. For example, a card reader alarm event will automatically display the video associated with that reader and initiate an action plan in the hub s command-and-control center. The most critical deadline we ve had to date was the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 and that was associated to the SAPS project, because the situation awareness project was tying together pieces of that site and they needed to be up and ready for the command center to be utilized to support the people who were on site the President and other high-ranking individuals, Engelhardt described. We successfully deployed phase 1 of that project by 9/11. It exceeded everyone s expectations, and then we were subsequently awarded on that day a commemorative flag that was flown on site on [the 10th anniversary.] It was taken down and handed to Diebold in honor of all the effort we had put in at Ground Zero. It was probably the proudest moment I ve ever had as part of the organization. Engelhardt explains that there are three more phases of the SAPS application, as well as numerous phases of the build and the Tower 4 hub, as well as the memorial. We have budgeted to be on site for another three to four years across all projects. PHOTO BY ARNOLD ADLER PHOTOGRAPHY
6 MAP COURTESY OF DIEBOLD Diebold Service Locations Diebold operates 90 branch offices in and near major metropolitan areas. It also operates nearly 400 service locations, at which it stores equipment and parts related to its field services operations. On this map, the blue dots represent branches, the olive dots represent Diebold customer service engineers, and the green dots represent parts bin locations. Diebold is very much a learning company, describes Jacky Grimm, vice president, Security Solutions and Business Development. It s important to us to have our [employees] always keep up with the latest technology and continue to evolve and improve themselves so we can serve our customers better. First, it really helps keep the focus on the customers and keeps our employees committed and focused on our core business. Second, it s also a reason for employees to stay with Diebold. To that end, Diebold employs two full-time security sales educators and 10 security service educators. It maintains is own education center on the campus of Stark State College in North Canton, Ohio. Diebold Security s Management Team Years with Diebold Bradley Stephenson, vice president, Diebold Security*...38 Kevin Engelhardt, vice president, Security Operations...7 Jacqueline Grimm, vice president, Security Solutions...29 Jeremy Brecher, vice president, Technology Services...16 Greg Steffy, vice president, North America Security Solutions...25 *At the time of this writing, Bradley Stephenson announced his retirement. A search is underway for his replacement, and Kevin Engelhardt will be filling this role in the interim. Classroom training is only one aspect of Diebold s educational initiatives. Recognizing that continual education requires training content to be available in many different forms, Diebold offers workshops, peer coaching, online modules, webinars, on-thejob training, and more. Content spans job responsibilities from sales to technical to customer service to management. Technicians are required to obtain at least 40 hours of training per year. Two of the many notable programs within Diebold are its Leader-to-Leader program and Compass Professional Development Platform. Stephenson explains that in the Leader-to-Leader program, Diebold managers and supervisors can develop their leadership styles and communication styles, and learn best practices for developing employees and fostering successful business relationships. In the Compass platform, an online resource enables Diebold employees to manage their professional and career development. This tool provides them with a wide variety of educational opportunities, resources, coaching and mentoring tools. Grimm attributes the heavy emphasis on education and training to a management philosophy within Diebold. It s really a management core goal. Part of how we re measured is how well we train our employees for the next job, she says. We have tuition reimbursement plans at all levels of Diebold, because it s important as you re moving into the future and everything is moving so fast. You can t go to the future with yesterday s skills. Diebold s employees on the whole hold an extensive number of certifications more than 175 different ones across many disciplines as well as specific products. CUSTOMER REACH Diebold continues to provide industry-leading ATM security solutions on a global basis. The Diebold Security division remains focused on the financial, retail, government and commercial markets within the United States, as well as in Australia and certain areas of Asia and the Middle East. The Diebold Security business was previously aligned by core vertical markets, including financial, retail, commercial, government, critical infrastructure, transportation, healthcare and education. We served each market independently, with individual teams providing services and solutions to individual markets, Stephenson describes. Diebold recently reorganized the company as a single security organization that supports all markets.
7 PHOTOS COURTESY OF DIEBOLD In addition to its Monitoring Center in Uniontown, Ohio (pictured), Diebold also operates monitoring centers in Hawaii and Mexico. The center is Five Diamond certified by the CSAA and is UL, ULC and ULCRZM certified by Underwriters Laboratories. It is among the first centers to earn UL certification as a National Industrial Security Monitoring Station, which certifies the center to deliver alarm monitoring services to the U.S. government. Diebold Security s Monitoring Center earned the distinction of being named Central Station of the Year in both 2011 and 2007 in CSAA s Excellence Awards. It also received a 2010 Call Center Excellence Award from the International Quality & Productivity Center, and was named the North American Commercial Monitoring Company of the Year in 2009 and Diebold s Brecher on Emerging Technologies What new or emerging technologies does Diebold believe will have a significant impact on the security market in the coming months or years? According to Jeremy Brecher, cloud-based services and wireless connectivity enabled by technology such as 4G, will be standard in the industry of the future. More security applications will become more cloud-aware. What PSIM is telling us is that the value of everything is shared information. As things move into cloud and standards get created, there will be an easier ability to share information with different agencies and even different peer groups, Brecher says, adding that proactive analytics will be a part of that scene. Near field communications technology over the next five to 10 years could really be a game-changer, Brecher says. NFC could change the way we do credentialing and authentication today. He also referenced the fact that most manufacturers are starting to embrace Web services architecture. That alone will contribute to more collaboration between manufacturers and integrators and end users, where things could be integrated more easily, data be shared, best-ofbreed components could come to the surface. Ultimately, that s going to be a big game-changer. That technology trend is a driver towards taking what is siloed as a security device or security application, and extending it beyond just the security means; getting more value out of it, Brecher says. You read about how in retail, heat maps tell retailers how they re loading their shelves, as well as help shrink or loss prevention. Help them run their business and extend beyond just security is what you re going to see happening a lot more. Our holistic approach for integrated security solutions will ensure that we are a single point of contact for our customers in terms of our deliveries to support security implementations and our services to support ongoing security initiatives. However, approaching all of our customer segments in a similar fashion will allow us to better scale our services and leverage our systems and people, Stephenson conveys. SECURITY AS A SERVICE Words like value and partner may well be overused in business circles, but at Diebold, programs such as Diebold Integrated Services are what put the bite behind the bark. The name for this security outsourcing model describes services that are either managed or hosted by Diebold on behalf of end users. Diebold Integrated Services are solutions to a growing business problem: insufficient capital for security expenditures. At the same time, providing security as a service, rather than as a capital outlay, assures clients of having technology that doesn t limit the expansion of their system and provides the most up-to-date functionality. We approach our customers in a very consultative manner that allows us to deploy true solutions, Engelhardt describes. The assumption is that they have a limited amount of capital and have to solve a significant, endless amount of problems or threats. We ll deploy a solution in the proper environment that will probably be able to expand significantly
8 Industry Leadership outside of their original thought. So while their budget or their money allocated to the project might answer today s problem, we apply knowledge and technology that will allow them to leverage it to where they re going to want to go. We provide them with a network-based solution that can drive services, taken from more of an operating expense model. It gets them out of the capital expense and depreciated-hardware solution to a more flexible technology-refresh, network-based model. With Diebold s outsourcing model, technology is rolled into a monthly services agreement to enable a predictable, operational expense, Steffy explains. Through solutions such as managed access control, event monitoring, IT support services and logical security managed services, Diebold can provide consistent management of critical components of a security operation. Sometimes an outsourced service solution includes a service that may be delivered through Diebold s highly acclaimed monitoring center, such as Managed Access Control/Door Control or Site Sentry Remote Video Monitoring. Diebold offers a Diebold serves the security industry through an investment in and commitment to several trade organizations nationally, regionally and locally. Diebold s executives and employees contribute to boards and task forces. They re involved in committees and certification programs. They serve as event hosts and speakers. They execute sponsorships and trade show exhibits. They also help shape regulation and policy through partnerships with governing boards and public agencies. Here are a few examples of Diebold s participation in the industry: Diebold participates heavily in the Electronic Security Association s (ESA) conferences, summits, workshops and other events, serving as a silver sponsor, sharing best practices and assisting with educational opportunities. Our engagement with the ESA enables us to promote and enhance the growth and professional development of the security industry and provide a strong networking alliance for its members. John Stroia, vice president, corporate development, serves as vice chairman of the Security Industry Association (SIA) board of directors. SIA named Stroia its 2009 Chairperson of the Year for his exemplary service to the industry as the organization s 2009 Government Relations Committee chair. Steve Ipson, director, advanced dealer development, serves as a member of the Central Station Alarm Association s (CSAA) Marketing and Communications Committee, the Long Range Planning Committee, and is spearheading the initiative to refresh the CSAA Five Diamond program. As a member of CSAA, all of Diebold s Monitoring Center supervisors attend CSAA-sponsored seminars. 5-Year Revenue Snapshot $813,000, $775,402, $643,589, $630,345, $611,435,000 - $630,345,000 * *estimated, as reported on July 27, 2011 wide selection of such services, and foresees strong growth in this area. In 2010, 64.5 percent of Diebold Security s revenue stream was recurring. Across all our markets, services for us are going to be our driver and our No. 1 growth area, says Jeremy Brecher, vice president, Security Technology and Integration. We want to be an extension of our customers operation and also provide the level of service that allows them to run their businesses better, maybe even improve customer satisfaction for certain retailers, he says. To act as an extension of its customers, businesses, Diebold s service offering must be robust and it is. In addition to traditional burglar and fire alarm monitoring, Diebold also offers Site Sentry Remote Video Monitoring, Site Sentry Remote Video Storage, DVR Health Check, Managed Access Control/Door Control, EnergyAlert TM Monitoring Services, and Disaster Backup services. (For more information about Diebold s services, see and search Diebold.) People have a limited amount of capital but they have a lot of issues and problems to solve. So now these managed services take what had traditionally been a capital-intensive budgetary decision and we re moving towards more of a pay-per-use model with remote services, Grimm explains. Diebold s suite of managed services, its outsourcing model, its highly trained and geographically dispersed services infrastructure as well as many other well-conceived and well-executed programs and practices underscore a philosophy and a core belief held by employees that the customer is at the forefront of everything Diebold undertakes. Innovation Delivered is not just a tagline at Diebold. It is a living mantra that appears between-the-lines of contracts, on the plans an engineer draws, and in the voice of the operator in the monitoring center. Innovation delivered is not just about technology, Engelhardt claims. It s about being innovative in anticipating and relating to our client s business priorities from a partner perspective. Reprinted with permission from SDM Magazine. Copyright.
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Ever since I moved from Paris to the San Francisco Bay Area, I've gotten many questions about the differences between the two startup scenes, even more so since the Parisian one has been changing at a noticeably fast pace. Those interrogations were coming from both people in the Bay Area, and people in France, probably simply interested in understanding where they stand, themselves.
Even though two startup ecosystems ultimately have obvious pros and cons when compared to each other, one caveat to providing answers to such questions is that they have to be heavily influenced by one's own experiences. The best way to make this kind of study as objective and realistic as possible despite everyone's own limited scope, is to make it be a mix of many people's points of view.
So, I took some time to lay down my own observations made over the past few years as a starting point, and I'm inviting whoever has sufficient experience in both ecosystems too to request edit rights on it and change it as they wish, so that we can get to a point where the observations are not limited to my own subjectivity. And in a matter of transparency/democratic process, anyone, even without experience within both ecosystems, is free to comment anything they want.
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Enable to your kid join your household' meals at the table the same as numerous other members are the fantastic way to bind him in addition to various other participants, certainly, the meal times end up being a whole lot a lot more delightful for both him and you. However, your child that is under 2-year old isn't truly tall ample to rest on the routine chair as grownups, which shows he calls for a tool to place him higher. For this reason, the high chairs are ending up being really hassle-free and useful.
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The requirement of a high chair will certainly be a little various depending upon the various ages of kids. A baby might call for a high chair to maintain a baby- rest on chair greater while his mama stands to feed him.
As well as, the harness will certainly work as safety belt to avoid him from sliding out of the chair when his mom's hands are hectic holding the spoon, as well as the meal. Nonetheless, when your infant is older, he often intends to find how you can be a grown up. You will certainly see that he would certainly delight into mimicking just exactly what grownups do.
Furthermore, he would be desired take part adults' jobs definitely. Hence, remaining on a baby high chair and consuming on his own tray no more interest rate him. After that, you recognize that it's time to let him sign up the family member's dinner time.
Back to the much younger babies, who still need the harness to maintain them rest on chair firmly, let them continue to be to a baby high chair, in addition, a great way to preserve mother cost-free doing various other tasks.
As well as, the high chair is upgraded with great functions like exchangeable in addition to removable attributes, as a result, the high chair disappears utilized merely indoor, you could take it all over you go, which suggests the feeding time not handle any kind of kind of trouble.
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Picking products constantly call for abilities to get the best premium one, certainly, which is included the selection for a best high chair. Nonetheless, we could not get the perfect one if we have absolutely no skills on it. Precisely just what are points to take factors to consider when choosing a baby high chair? The option is whatever kind of high chairs you choose, it should be strong, risk-free and really easy to clean. Additionally, different other functions might be contained in the products need to look like these.
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Due to the fact that the primary function of having a baby high chair is to increase the infant's elevation, it would be superb if the chair has flexible different altitudes. Some of them are furnished with a switch on the base which enables you to adjust with your foot rapidly, while others are altered by hand. You need to inspect which highest degree of the chair is, so you conveniently understand whether it fits your attitude or otherwise.
Reclined function
Not every one of the baby high chairs attribute reclined attribute, consequently, choosing the one that makes it possible for to cloning right into different levels will be fantastic, because of that, your youngster is supplied the comfortable sensation while relaxing.
Safety harness
The harness is the device to keep your kid safely remaining on his chair, subsequently, it needs to function well and also fit totally your youngster. Numerous of high chairs would absolutely include 5-point harness, which offers a whole lot even more excellent fit.
Most of the baby high chair have a tray yet not all is established with the detachable feature. Therefore, the detachable one will certainly be optimal when your baby is older as well as have to take in on the family's dinner table. And also, the removable tray will absolutely assist you to clean it much easier as compared to others.
Seat pad
Most of the seat pads for high chairs are made from textile, which is softer and also lighter but worldly seat pads could be unnecessary for youngsters as well as older. Furthermore, seat pads must be detachable for simpler cleaning.
Chairs are connected ideal wheels will absolutely help it to be moved from location to place better as well as easier. And, the wheels attached the locks will stop the chair from undesirable sliding in any type of guidelines. Furthermore, they have to be removable for detaching when necessary.
Caring for a youngster is a hard job yet we constantly have devices in order to help our task a lot easier in addition to a great deal more simplicity, that's why high chairs exist. The trouble is how you can select the very best baby high chair that fit your needs? With the help of reviews along with buying guides your approach to choosing one of the most efficient high- quality things is actually easy, and also bear in mind that the high chair possessed adaptable elevation settings and detachable tray features are one of the most reliable ones you should take aspects to consider.


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Bill Burkett, the president of the Mountain Lakes Board of Education, was bounced out of office by his constituents last Tuesday, April 17, with the added kick of being the low vote-getter despite the fact he was the only incumbent in a field of five candidates.
His defeat is as good a barometer as any of just how angry Lakers are about the mess of the sending-receiving relationship with Boonton Township that sends township high school children to Mountain Lakes High School at a cost of about $10,000 per child.
Burkett, a 12-year veteran of the school board, was one of the people involved when the two districts entered the agreement to begin this arrangement back in 1992. Now, with the 10-year deal up for renewal negotiations, the Mountain Lakes school board is faced with a tremendous problem.
The enrollment projections made back in 1992 were off. Way off. There are many more children in Boonton Township than were expected and Mountain Lakes, too, has more children heading to high school than were anticipated.
In a nutshell, to maintain the arrangement with Boonton Township as it is, Mountain Lakes will have to construct an addition for the high school. If the 350 some Boonton Township children were no longer in the district, that would not be needed. Since Boonton Township is essentially on a pay per child basis and is not a regionalized part of the Mountain Lakes district, it cannot be asked to help fund the cost of that addition.
Most people who attended a meeting in the Mountain Lakes High School auditorium on Monday, March 26, are pretty clear on what they see as the solution to the problem. They want the arrangement with Boonton Township ended.
In addition to the sheer dollars, Mountain Lakes residents at the meeting expressed concern about having the high school increase to an 850-student school. They argued a big part of the high school's success over the years is its small size, which is conducive to individual attention and support for each child. Also talked about by some is the drop in the high school's test scores in the years since Boonton Township children joined the population.
Test scores were also an issue when the arrangement was started, namely the test scores in Boonton High School, which is where Boonton Township children went at that time.
Boonton demographically is a less wealthy population than the Mountain Lakes community. Boonton Township has a more mixed makeup. While there are many large expensive homes in Boonton Township, there are also many smaller ones. And, while Mountain Lakes is very much known as a bedroom community for New York City professional, college-educated executives and their families, Boonton Township still has a somewhat rural character.
Be that as it may, when Mountain Lakes school board members were looking to tap into a steady stream of tuition paying students to help them maintain the full spectrum of their course offerings in the face of their own dwindling enrollment, they decided Boonton Township folks would do quite nicely. The towns already share some recreation and social programs, so it seemed like a natural fit.
Then the student numbers started going up, and up, and up. In the past couple of years, the Mountain Lakes school board debated reconfiguring its grades among the buildings, possibly cutting the high school back to grades 10, 11 and 12 for a couple of years. Some money was spent at the Briarcliff Elementary School on building improvements with an eye to possibly putting more grades there on a temporary basis. Still, the numbers overran the potential solutions. There is another problem. Mountain Lakes doesn't even have room to build recreation fields, let alone expand its schools. The only way it could go is probably straight up.
Now, between a rock and a hard place, the Mountain Lakes school board is facing tremendous pressure from its residents to end the Boonton Township arrangement.
It isn't that simple.
Any proposal to do so will have to be approved by the state Commissioner of Education. While Mountain Lakes may be able to make a compelling case for terminating the arrangement, Boonton Township also gets to present its case.
It is quite compelling too. While Boonton Township students have been filtering in to Mountain Lakes, Boonton High School has also experienced an increase in enrollment. Since Boonton Township may have been said to have kicked Boonton Schools when they were down by making much of the Boonton High School test scores as they went off to one of the top high schools in the state, Boonton school officials may not be ready to welcome back those Boonton Township children.
In short, Boonton Township school officials may simply stand before the commissioner and ask, "Where would you have us go?"
The commissioner could give a number of answers. He could force regionalization with Mountain Lakes. Perhaps he could tell Boonton Township to build its own high school.
Litigation seems to be a virtual certainty regardless of what decisions are made.
We wonder if a joint presentation to the commissioner in which both districts offer to cooperatively fund a facility, either through renting space or perhaps building it, would better serve everyone involved. Perhaps Boonton Township could even pay "rent" to Mountain Lakes to help offset construction costs. The two districts made a mutually beneficial agreement in 1992. Surely, working together, they could do the same again.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Ś A trainer flooding the field with five horses. A black jockey trying to make history, and a woman rider, too. Louisville coach Rick Pitino seeking a double Ś champions in racing and basketball. HeÆs sure in the right place.
The 19-horse field for SaturdayÆs Kentucky Derby is balanced, with no definitive favorite.
Orb is the pre-race choice, just barely. Nearly overshadowed is his trainer, Shug McGaughey, who really, really wants this race. Doug OÆNeill trying to win back-to-back. And then thereÆs the threat of rain, which has done in some of the best-laid plans on race day.
It sure looks like a topsy-turvy Derby.
ōI donÆt think weÆve got Secretariat in this bunch, even Seattle Slew,ö four-time Derby-winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas said, ōso I think itÆs going to boil down to the trip and the pace and a lot of other things.ö
Todd Pletcher will saddle a record-tying five horses Ś undefeated and early second choice Verrazano, Revolutionary, Overanalyze, Palace Malice and Charming Kitten.
ōWe laid out a plan to get here with them, and itÆs all come down pretty much like we hoped,ö said Pletcher, who has one Derby win with 31 previous starters.
Verrazano is 4-0 in his young career, not having run as a 2-year-old. HeÆll be trying to disprove an old Derby jinx: no horse since Apollo in 1882 has won without racing as a juvenile.
Relative unknown Kevin Krigger will be aboard Goldencents, trying to become the first black jockey to win since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902.
ōIÆm going to ride us the race that should get us to the Kentucky Derby winnerÆs circle,ö Krigger said.
The colt is partly owned by Pitino, whose Cardinals won the NCAA championship last month. The coach recently got elected to basketballÆs Hall of Fame, so a Derby win would complete the ultimate trifecta.
Rosie Napravnik wants to grab history for herself, too.
No female jockey has ever won the Derby, although she came closest, with a ninth-place finish in 2011. Napravnik will ride 15-1 long shot Mylute.
ōHe feels great, heÆs acting great and IÆm very confident heading into the Derby,ö she said.
Orb was the narrow 7-2 early favorite for the 139th Derby. He comes in on a four-race winning streak for McGaughey, the 62-year-old trainer whose Hall of Fame resume lacks a Derby victory. HeÆs making his second appearance since 1989, when he finished second with Easy Goer.
ōI hope the track is fast and safe for everybody and nobody has any excuses, and let the best horse win,ö McGaughey said.
Goldencents will be trying to deliver for more than Krigger and Pitino. HeÆs trained by OÆNeill, who put unknown Mario Gutierrez aboard IÆll Have Another last year and won. The trainer is following the same script this time, giving Krigger a big break while trying to become the first trainer to win back-to-back Derbies since Bob Baffert in 1997-98.
ōWe think it is our time,ö OÆNeill said. ōWe think it is us.ö
DonÆt look for the white-haired Baffert on Saturday. The three-time Derby winner isnÆt saddling a horse this year, but like everyone, he had an opinion.
ōWhoever has the heart will win it,ö he said.
The forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of rain and a high of 59 degrees. The last Derby run on a sloppy track was in 2010.
ōItÆll make the Derby that much more wide open,ö said trainer Ken McPeek, who has two starters, Frac Daddy and JavaÆs War.
Lukas has two horses Ś Oxbow and Will Take Charge Ś ready for his 27th Derby. The four-time winning trainer planned to sleep soundly the night before.
ōI donÆt get uptight, donÆt even get excited when they go in the gate,ö he said.
At 77, Lukas would be the oldest trainer to win.
OxbowÆs jockey, Gary Stevens, will be pulling double-duty Saturday. HeÆll ride in his first Derby since ending a seven-year retirement earlier this year, and then return to his job as a racing analyst on NBCÆs telecast. The 50-year-old rider has won the race three times.
ōYou go out there with the highest hopes,ö he said. ōIÆve walked back too many times after the Kentucky Derby and itÆs a disappointment if they donÆt run their race. If weÆre fortunate enough to win it, I know how to celebrate.ö
Calvin Borel is one jockey always worth watching in the Derby. He and Revolutionary will break from the No. 3 spot in the starting gate, putting Borel near his favorite path on the track Ś the rail. The rider nicknamed ōBo-railö for his fence-skimming rides has three Derby wins in the last six years.
ōThis is his home court,ö Lukas said. ōHe does better here than anywhere else.ö
Normandy Invasion can count on his own rooting section among the expected throngs at Churchill Downs. The colt named for the Allied assault on Normandy in World War II has four D-Day veterans backing him. They were flown in for the race by owner Rick Porter, and met the colt up close on Friday.


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Kabul (AFP) May 25, 2012
President Francois Hollande on Friday defended France's imminent exit from Afghanistan, saying 2,000 combat troops will leave in a coordinated withdrawal this year but vowing not to abandon the country.
Hollande met French soldiers deployed in the volatile province of Kapisa and held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his first visit to the country where French troops have been fighting the Taliban since late 2001.
He explained his decision to recall French combat troops by the end of 2012, a year earlier than Paris initially planned, and two years before NATO allies.
"It's a sovereign decision. Only France can decide what France does," he told soldiers at Nijrab Base in eastern province Kapisa, where most of France's 3,550 troops in the country are based.
"It will be conducted in good understanding with our allies, especially President (Barack) Obama, who understands the reasons, and in close consultation with Afghan authorities," Hollande said.
Kapisa, which commands part of the access to Kabul from Taliban flashpoints on the Pakistani border, has proved a tough fight for the French, troubled by turf wars between the Islamist insurgents and drug dealers.
Hollande said the threat posed by terrorists in Afghanistan had not been eradicated but had been "partially curbed" since the 2001 invasion toppled the Taliban regime for sheltering Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks.
In a news conference with Karzai, he said France wanted to help Afghans become self-sufficient, by focusing on education, culture and even archaeology.
He also mentioned economic "prospects" in housing, renewable energy, oil exploration and agriculture, but stopped short of providing any details.
Paris has so far reserved judgment on contributing to the cost of the Afghan security budget, estimated at $4.1 billion a year from 2015.
"We want France to stay in Afghanistan in a different guise than in the past," he said, adding that the counter-terror mission "was on the point of completion", which should be a matter of "great pride".
By the end of the year, there would be no more French combat troops in Afghanistan, he said. "We will repatriate 2,000 people. At the beginning of 2013, the only personnel will be in charge of repatriating our equipment."
Hollande later met members of the local French community at the French embassy before leaving Afghanistan after a visit of some eight hours.
France, which has lost 83 soldiers in Afghanistan, provides the fifth largest contingent to NATO's 130,000-strong US-led force. Allies have downplayed the effect of their early departure, saying Afghan troops are ready to take over.
The relatively quiet Kabul district of Surobi, where French troops are also based, was handed over to local control in April.
Kapisa has been included in the third of a five-phase transfer, which Afghan officials say could take as little as six months, but which NATO's International Security Assistance Force has timetabled at 12-18 months.
Analysts have expressed concern about NATO's withdrawal, pointing out that Afghan forces have a mixed record at best and questioning whether a security vacuum will only heighten violence if not hasten a return to civil war.
"Clearly there is a rush for the exits by Western leaders, but there is no Plan B to address worsening battlefield conditions and political crises if they occur," wrote veteran Afghan watcher, Ahmed Rashid, in The New York Review of Books.
Separate bomb attacks on the day of Hollande's visit killed five people and wounded at least 11 others in the south, officials said.
More Afghan civilians died in 2011 than the total number of NATO troops, 3,009, killed since 2001. And last year's 3,021 civilian deaths marked the fifth straight year that the toll has risen, according to UN figures.
The number of internal refugees last year hit nearly half a million, the highest for about a decade, part of what Amnesty International has called "a largely hidden but horrific humanitarian and human rights crisis".
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How Does the Body Regulate Blood Pressure?
When the heart muscle contracts, it forces oxygenated blood through all of the major vessels in the body, and out into the capillaries where the oxygen is delivered to the tissues. Blood pressure is the force of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries. The pressure of blood in the arteries correlates directly to the amount of blood pumped by the heart and the amount of resistance in the peripheral blood vessels, according to Merck Manuals Medical Library. Blood pressure is normally held within a narrow range to provide an optimal amount of blood to the tissues without damaging the walls of the vessels. Although many factors influence blood pressure, there are two primary ways the body maintains blood pressure control.
The Central Nervous System
The sympathetic nervous system provides a quick response to a drop in blood pressure. Areas of the carotid artery and the aorta contain pressure-sensitive receptors that detect tiny changes in blood pressure. When pressure falls, these receptors send signals to the brain stem. Hormones are then released from the adrenal glands, causing the heart to beat faster and to pump blood more forcefully. The diameter of the peripheral blood vessels narrows, pushing more blood through a tighter space. These events lead to a rise in blood pressure. Conversely, when blood pressure rises, the heart muscle is stretched. This results in the release of a hormone from the heart that brings blood pressure back down.
The Kidneys
Long-term blood pressure control is provided by the kidneys due to its effects on blood volume, explains the American Heart Association. The kidneys, like the aorta and carotids, contain receptors that respond to pressure changes in the arteries. If blood pressure falls too low, an enzyme called renin is released from the kidneys. This enzyme drives the production of a potent constrictor of blood vessels called angiotensin II, creating a rise in blood pressure.
Angiotensin II also causes the body to retain sodium which leads to an increase in blood volume, further contributing to an elevation in blood pressure. On the other hand, when blood pressure rises too far, the kidneys excrete more sodium and water, bringing pressure back into the normal range.


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The San Antonio City Elections begin in less than 10 weeks. Mayor Julian Castro appears to have escaped a serious challenge. But the same cannot be said for half of the other ten races. We will hear from the key candidates in those contested races over the next two months but today we will discuss the issues and the candidates with the two metro columnists with the San Antonio Express News.


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You can't spell Plano without "plan", and a great plan to have is to enjoy an amazing family day out in this great Texas city!
Want to take the kids back through time? The Heritage Farmstead Museum is a living history site with preserved farmsteads in amazing condition! Kids can literally experience the past!
There are animal attractions with places like Mill-Again Stables Riding Academy, and super fun activities for those kids who have extra energy to burn off! Jump Mania has an incredible 10,000 sq. ft of trampolines, and Amazing Jakes Fun and Food has a climbing wall, go-karts, rides and mini golf! Pretty cool!
Nature in the city? Of course there is! Arbor Hills Nature Preserve is 200 acres of tracks, playgrounds, and space to run and play.
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It's hard to imagine, but plenty of games are still banned in Germany - including Bethesda's open world opus Fallout 3. Now that decision has been overturned, and it raises some interesting questions.
Developer and Publisher Bethesda Game Studios worked with the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Minors to get Fallout 3 taken off the list, in a rare case which managed to end the ban before the regular 10 year sentence was up. A large fine had to be paid in a long process taking many months, and it was finally that "Fallout 3 will be removed from the list because its content is no longer classified as harmful to minors from today's perspective."
But why did Bethesda fight so hard to get this more than seven year old title off the lists? It's all but guaranteed that it is because they have some intention of re-releasing the game in one form or another. If they didn't want to bring out the same game again they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of releasing this content, so we could learn about a hd re-issue for current gen consoles.
Bethesda would only say "We cannot give a statement at the moment, but will answer your questions in a couple of weeks."


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March 21, 2011 by staff
Dexter Killer Edmonton, The murder trial of Edmonton director Mark Twitchell resumed Monday with testimony from his former wife in the couple's strained relationship.
Jess Twitchell, 35, said the couple had met in the fall of 2005 on a dating website and married in January 2007. In the fall of 2008, things in the relationship "were not good," said Jess the courtroom.
"We lived lives very particular," he said.
Marcos was sleeping in the basement, Jess recalled, while Jessica and her daughter Chloe, now three, were sleeping in the master bedroom.
Jess said she stopped living with Mark October, , when police arrived at his home in St. Albert and said "they thought that Mark had killed someone," the court heard.
Asked about a film Mark shot in late September 2008 – a film called House of Cards that the claims of the Crown reflected the way that Mark killed his alleged victim – Jess said it was a "horror movie" inspired, Marcos said his marriage problems and his interest in the horror genre.
Twitchell, 31, is charged with first-degree murder.
In a keynote address to the jury on Wednesday, Crown prosecutor Lawrence Van Dyke Twitchell said he wanted "the experience of killing another human being."
To do that, Twitchell used an Internet dating service to lure Johnny Alting to a garage on the pretext of an appointment or a sexual encounter is possible, "said Van Dyke.
And once your trap the killer was suspended, "Van Dyke said Twitchell killed at 38 years old, Alting so forceful in the head with a copper pipe and stabbed to death with a hunting knife.
The courtroom heard Twitchell then proceeded to dismember the body of their prey and dispose of remains in a sewer of the City of Edmonton.
Jurors were then bombarded with disturbing pictures of the police details of the alleged murder Alting.
The images – on a large screen in the darkened courtroom of Edmonton – the game includes images of a hunter game processing, the city police Const. Nancy Allen described the jury as a piece of 12 "killing a whole."
Among the tools in the game was a butcher knife, skinner knife, a boning / fillet knife, cutters, spreaders a saw, a fork and the rib.
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