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ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) announced with sadness that Abraham (Barry) E. Cohen, a member of its Board of Directors, passed away on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at the age of 76.
Mr. Cohen has been a valued member of the Board of Directors and was a member of several committees, including the Audit Committee. Mr. Cohen had a long career in the pharmaceutical industry, where he played a key role in the development of international business for Merck & Co. While at Merck, Mr. Cohen was a leader in the development of Merck's international business, initially in Asia, then in Europe and, subsequently, in all international regions as President of Merck Sharp & Dohme, which manufactures and markets human health products outside the United States.
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Can central bankers reflate the world to prosperity? Probably not, but that still hasn't stopped them from trying anyway.
The Federal Reserve's unveiling of QE3 with no scheduled ending is generally the same path being forged by Europe, China, Japan and Brazil. It's a last ditch effort in a vicious cycle of too much credit, too much spending and not enough common sense.
Along the way, ETFs linked to stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities have surged. How much longer will this continue? How can advisors protect and grow client assets?
It's no secret that central banks around the globe are taking aggressive steps to ease monetary policy and bolster their economies. In Europe, the ECB introduced a plan to buy unlimited quantities of bonds from troubled eurozone members. The Bank of Japan increased its asset purchase program to 80 trillion yen. The People's Bank of China has cut benchmark interest rates twice since June to encourage bank lending and increase liquidity.
This type of inflationary behavior is not without consequence. In the short run, it may provide some temporary relief. But the longer-term ramifications are higher prices and market instability. It's important to understand where the puck is headed, before it gets there.
The introduction of "QE" or "quantitative easing" into the common person's vernacular began with the 2008 financial crisis and the "Great Recession" that followed it. The Federal Reserve's objective in keeping interest rates artificially low and making large scale asset purchases was to help the broader economy.
Before the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet was large but manageable. Today, the Fed's balance sheet has jumped from $900 billion in 2007 to almost $3 trillion today.
Past versions of QE worked like a charm because they calmed fragile markets from falling into a sink hole. QE3, however, is not like the others. It came just as stocks crossed above their multiyear highs and, for that reason, is far more subject to the law of diminishing returns. Has the Fed overplayed its hand? And if it has, who will bail out the Fed, if and when, the chickens come home to roost?
The stability of central banks shouldn't be taken for granted. The Fed was born in 1913 as a result of the Panic of 1907. It is actually the third central banking experiment in the U.S. Its predecessors were the First Bank of the United States (1791-1811) and Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836). Put another way, the history of central banks is shaky, which rightly makes us question their future viability.
QE Rewind
QE1 began in 2008 and was followed by QE2, which involved the Fed buying around $75 billion a month in government bonds. In 2011, Operation Twist was introduced and led to the Fed's $400 billion switch from short-term Treasury bonds into long-term Treasuries (TLT). How did markets react?
The S&P (SPY) rallied 37% from the first installment of QE1 (Nov. 2008) and 51% from the expanded QE1 (March 2009) to the end of QE1 (March 2010).
The market was already extended when QE2 went live, but was still able to add another 11% until QE2 ended on June 30, 2011.
After the QE3 announcement, the S&P jumped again and is less than 10% away from its all-time high of 1,565 set on Oct. 9, 2007.
Despite trillions of dollars of liquidity injected into the financial system, the erosion of wealth has continued. The median income for American households (around $50,000) has been largely unchanged since 2008. Yet, inflation—the present but invisible enemy—has been steadily chipping away at the middle class.
The real income for the average American household has declined in each of the past four years, resulting in a cumulative decline near 7%. Without coincidence, this happens to be the same period when the Federal Reserve embarked upon its unprecedented money printing experiment.
The downside of monetary expansion is higher inflation. And a lower dollar means Americans will be forced to pay more for imported goods. What about the raw commodities that are priced in dollars like oil, grains and cotton? The value of the dollar would have to rise just to stay equal with what those goods are worth in foreign currencies. Eventually, higher inflation translates into higher interest rates.
The reaction of certain commodities, particularly precious metals, has been astounding.
Over the past five years, SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), which is linked to the price of gold bullion, has surged by 134%. Over that same period, the S&P 500 registered a loss of 4.10 percent. Does this mean advisors should back up the truck and overweight precious metals? Hardly! Rather, it emphasizes the importance of incorporating commodities exposure into a diversified portfolio mix of various asset classes. The end result is better, more stable performance returns.
Another more diversified play on physical precious metals is the ETFS Physical Precious Metals Basket Shares (GLTR), which owns gold, silver, platinum, and palladium within the same shell.
Other Assets
The Fed's pledge to keep interest rates near zero until 2015 makes dividend income that much more valuable.
Aside from high yielding sectors like MLPs (AMLP), REITs (VNQ) and utilities (XLU), there are other routes to higher income but with less industry sector concentration.
The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG) applies the "Dogs of the Dow" theory to the S&P 500. The fund uses an equal weight methodology at both the sector and stock level. It caps 10% exposure to each sector and 2% exposure to each security. Unlike most dividend focused ETFs, it avoids over-concentration to high yielding sectors like financials and utilities. SDOG carries around a 5% yield and distributes dividends quarterly. The annual expense ratio is 0.40%.
Finally, investing in defensive currencies is another way to hedge. Some advisors are investing in currencies whose central banks are least likely to push down the value of their own currencies versus the U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Mexican Peso (FXM) and the Canadian Dollar (FXC) have held up well.
Protecting Assets
Yes, central bankers can lift the market. But the end game is less certain. What is the exit strategy for bankers? How do they stop stimulus without negatively impacting the market? How do they wean the market off its drugs?
Ultimately, the job of advisors is not just to manage wealth, but to find ways to protect it. We live in a stimulus- crazed world.


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Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale's indelible Batman collaboration comes to an end with "The Dark Knight Rises," opening Friday.
Two theater chains are making it easy for local Bat-fans to refresh their memories of Bruce Wayne/Batman's tale of woe and wow. The Harkins Northfield marathon begins at 6 p.m. and concludes with a 12:01 a.m. screening of the new flick.
More than 400 ticket have been sold for Regal Entertainment's Continental Stadium marathon, according to the company, which has a number of theaters screening the three movies, beginning at 6:30 p.m. It's a commitment, for sure, but few directors of blockbuster fare have taken the care to open and close a comic-book saga as smartly and artfully as Nolan.


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Why Cyber Insurance Will be DisruptiveForcepoint's Principal Analyst Leonard Shares Predictions for 2016
The cyber insurance industry in Asia is heating up, with more leaders recognizing that cyber threat can in fact have crippling consequences for organizations that are becoming increasingly digital. This is but one of the key cybersecurity trends to watch in early 2016, says Carl Leonard of Forcepoint.
"Cyber insurance industry is still in its infancy. As organizations look to spread the financial risk from from data breaches, cyber insurance is going to become a norm in 2016," says Leonard, principal security analyst at Forcepoint, formerly Raytheon Websense. "However, even now, it is very difficult in cyber to judge the exact financial cost of an incident should a breach occur."
Insurance companies are going to refuse payments for breaches caused by ineffective security practices, while premiums and payouts will become more aligned with underlying security postures and better models of the cost of an actual breach, he says. To some extent, insurance companies will affect security programs, as requirements for insurance become as significant as many regulatory requirements, he believes.
Leonard anticipates cyber insurance maturing in 2016, and that insurers will look to inform themselves better by turning to subject matter experts to figure out the cyber risk for particular industry sectors. Insurers are going to insist on evidence to support existing security processes, so that an accurate picture of the organization's risk can be determined. Cyber insurance will dramatically disrupt the way the security industry operates, he predicts. (Also listen to: 2016: Year of the Empowered CISO?)
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In differential equation theory, the Jacobian matrix plays a key role in defining the stability of solutions. As a simple example, consider the matrix ordinary differential equation where . Because this is a linear system, the solution will always be a linear combination of exponentials where are the eigenvectors and are the eigenvalues, and is time, which is positive. Since , we must have for the solution to decay to a steady state. If this is violated for any then that exponential "blows up" as , since it is an exponential with an ever-increasing postive argument. Note that if the eigenvalues are complex then the imaginary part of the eigenvalue is related to the oscillatory part of the solution.
A would be called an unstable eigenvalue of the system and also forms part of the vector space called the unstable manifold. Instability is defined as the tendency for a system to shoot away from a certain state when it is slightly disturbed (perturbed) from that state. Stability is the feature of a system to come back to a certain state if it is slightly perturbed from that state.
Stability has important consequences for applications, because it can determine if your chemical/combustion reaction will go out of control, of if the species in your mathematical model go extinct, etc, depending on what the differential equations describe. Whatever your equations describe, knowing if the solutions are stable is pretty important and usually the first step of an analysis. If you have stable solutions, then you can reasonably trust numerics but if you are trying to numerically simulate an unstable solution of an equation, you must be much more careful. In these situations you want to use specialized integration algorithms that preserve certain properties of your solutions, like if it is symplectic. More about this later!


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Day one: Domestic violence a focus during Abshire jury selection
A young woman allegedly raped in June won't be part of the jury deciding the fate of accused wife-killer Eric Abshire. She was one of several women dismissed as potential jurors on the first day of the highly anticipated trial in Orange County Circuit Court due to their experiences with domestic violence.
"I am very biased [against] men," said the young blond woman dressed in medical scrubs, recounting the alleged rape to explain why she couldn't be fair to Abshire. His first-degree murder trial promises to focus on his actions not only as an alleged killer but as an alleged domestic abuser.
Other citizens in this small farming community dismissed Wednesday, October 12, included a man soon scheduled to receive a heart pacemaker and a woman with Type I diabetes. However, a second-grade school teacher's mention of an impending field trip didn't win her an immediate dismissal, nor did one prospective juror's mention of foreclosure proceedings on her house.
Dozens of would-be jurors endured a nearly seven-hour wait to be summoned inside the compact third-floor courtroom, although more than 50 of the 94 called for duty never made it to the interrogation.
"I can't remember a panel that large," says Hook legal analyst David Heilberg, who stopped in to observe the proceedings during a break from another matter in the Orange County Courthouse.
"In a notorious case like this," Heilberg says, "you have to check to see whether people can be unbiased and fair."
Of the 94 who responded to the summons on a grim, rainy morning that seemed a suitable match for the bleak nature of the case, 19 were eventually dismissed, and the questions posed by prosecution and defense may give some indication of what's to come.
"Does anyone have feelings about someone who chooses not to testify on their own behalf," asked Abshire's attorney, Charles Weber, suggesting the possibility that the accused wife-killer won't take the stand in his own defense. Stressing the presumption of innocence that is a bedrock of the U.S. legal system, Judge Daniel Bouton repeatedly reminded the prospective jurors that no defendant is obligated to present any evidence, and that it is the prosecution's responsibility to prove guilt.
Weber seemed eager to find jurors willing to take an unpopular stand in this small county seat where talk about the alleged sexual exploits and alleged acts of personal violence by the accused have become the fodder for constant comment.
"Can you withstand personal scrutiny if the verdict is different from public sentiment?" asked Weber, mentioning both the 1995 acquittal of O.J. Simpson and the more recent proceedings against Casey Anthony as examples of unpopular verdicts.
For its part, the prosecution indicated that this is one courthouse drama that won't feature any confession or smoking gun.
"There are no eyewitnesses," said assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Rick Moore, calling his evidence a "circumstantial case" and asking the panel if anyone would have difficulty arriving at a verdict based solely on circumstantial evidence.
As extensively reported in the Hook, the now 36-year-old Abshire, a dump truck driver, was arrested last December and charged with the first-degree murder of his wife, the former Justine Elizabeth Swartz. She was a 1997 Western Albemarle High School grad who attended Hollins and James Madison Universities and taught kindergarten at Culpeper's Emerald Hill Elementary School.
While the November 3, 2006, death of the 27-year-old woman originally appeared to have resulted from a hit-and-run, her parents and police soon voiced suspicions about her widower's version of events.
Abshire, who appeared in court for a preliminary hearing last week wearing shackles and jail-issue jumpsuit, sported a fresh haircut for jury selection with a dark suit, a crisp white shirt, and black necktie with subtle stripes.
This husband was once so popular, according to the prosecution, that he cavorted with no fewer than eight girlfriends over the course of his courtship and marriage to Justine Abshire. But on Wednesday, Abshire's star seemed to have dimmed, as a scattering of media were the only presence on the defendant's side of the courtroom.
On the victim's side, the woman's parents, younger sister, grandmother, and two aunts sat stoically throughout the proceedings and declined comment.
After narrowing the panel to 24 qualified jurors, prosecution and defense each struck five, leaving 14: 10 women and four men, including two alternates, who will be dismissed before deliberations begin, although jurors are not told their status.
Opening arguments begin Thursday, October 13, at 9:30am.
Correction: The jury's gender make-up was reversed in the original version of this post.-edRead more on: Abshire trial
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How dat beady eyed mane get 8 bettys???
Told ya it was "circumstantial."
It's a shame that not only is domestic abuse part of the trial, but has eliminated several women from the jury leaving a skewed jury pool " 10 men and four women " .
Newsplex is reporting the opposite as to jury make-up: "Prosecutors and defense attorneys told a jury of ten women and four men (two of whom are alternates) what they can expect to hear in the days to come."


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Nelson Mandela, a man whose life's journey took him from activist to prisoner to President to global icon, has passed away. While it has been expected perhaps for some time, it does not make it any less sad. His passing led me to reflect on the impact of the man, not just in terms of politics but on global society and opinions.
I was sixteen, with the usual cares of a sixteen-year old boy, with some interest in history and politics but limited. Apartheid was a word that was known and I remember happily signing petitions against it, I also remember Barclays being known as the fascist bank due to investments in South Africa. There was also a campaign of pressure upon British PM Margaret Thatcher to push for a global campaign against the white supremacist regime. But these mostly failed to have impact, not just on the regime but also cognitively on many people.
It struck me how the name of Mandela probably entered the wider consciousness in Britain due to Jerry Dammers and his band The Specials AKA. The Two Tone scene had long shown that cultural fusion worked, and it had always had a political edge. Looking back I wonder how many children of largely conservative families, often those who would enjoy the racist jokes prevailing in the working men's clubs, variety shows and on television of the time, who wouldn't want their daughter to 'marry one', suddenly found themselves singing this catchy little song about a man with an exotic name. I do remember reading the story of Nelson Mandela in a piece that explained the song to the masses in a popular music magazine. Suddenly apartheid had a human face, one deserving of interest, of support, and the campaign had a cracking theme tune.
His release six years later was part of the new dawning of democracy, of freedom. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the Eastern European dictatorships that ruled in the name of communism had collapsed, and Nelson Mandela walked free from 27 years of imprisonment. That could have been the end of a story but it wasn't. He might also, perhaps justifiably, have left prison intent on revenge. But he showed the world a very important lesson. It is not revenge but reconciliation that rebuilds a society; his path to power was not on the back of civil war but a desire for civil society.
The long road to freedom was indeed long but the journey he embarked upon is not over. South Africa has come a long way from the days of Apartheid but there are still deep social and economic divisions. Equally, while a man of colour might reside in the White House, there remains currents of racism across the globe. Nelson Mandela's rightful legacy should be the eradication of inequalities based on colour, race or any other irrational and illogical mechanism that allows one group to be superior over another. While he has the absolute right to rest in peace those that follow the wisdom of his words and deeds need to continue his journey, he drew the map let us all follow.


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Victorino remains away from team with flu
BOSTON -- Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino, on the disabled list retroactive to March 30 with a right hamstring strain, continues to stay away from his teammates as he deals with flu-like symptoms.
Victorino took part in the pregame ceremony for Friday's home opener, when the Red Sox celebrated their 2013 World Series championship, but left Fenway Park after the ceremony.
Manager John Farrell said Victorino would likely report to the clubhouse Saturday night during the game to get treatment and leave before his teammates return to the clubhouse.
"He's still in that phase," Farrell said. "I don't have an update on how long his separation from the team will be. That'll be dependent upon how quickly he gets through the flu."
Whether Victorino's illness affects the progress and rehab on his hamstring remains to be seen.
"I can't tell you if it's going to prolong the DL time or when his date of return will be," Farrell said. "I don't think we had a specific date on the calendar that we expected him back regardless of the flu. So [we've] just got to progress through it."


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It's a story that could be ripped from the headlines of the National Enquirer.
A family feud. A multimillion dollar estate. Dueling allegations of fraud. Accusations of kidnapping, theft, and stalking. Tales of lavish spending that include a private jet chartered to transport 18 dogs.
And in the latest chapter, ongoing in a Florida courtroom today, a wealthy mother so fed up with allegedly being asked for handouts that she has filed a restraining order against her son.
The mother is Florida socialite and philanthropist Lois Pope, 79. The son is Paul Pope, 45, author of "The Deeds of My Fathers" and "Confessions of a Rich Kid from Hell." They are the beneficiaries of a multi-million dollar estate, received following the death of Generoso Pope, founder of the National Enquirer, and the sale of the paper in 1989.
Lois Pope initially received $200 million in the sale, and Paul Pope got $20 million.
In court documents filed in Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Lois Pope accuses her son of demanding more of her money. When she would not turn the money over, she says, he began stalking her, threatening her with violence and spreading rumors about her to gossip columnists and tabloid journalists.
Paul Pope "maliciously and repeatedly harassed his 79-year-old mother… Paul Pope's cruel behavior is causing Lois Pope to suffer substantial emotional distress and to genuinely fear for her safety," Mrs. Pope claims in a restraining order petition.
Paul Pope, his mother contends, "maintain[s] an excessive and extravagant lifestyle, but has never had meaningful employment."
Over the past several years, Paul Pope has repeatedly asked his mother for money, according to court documents. At times she has acquiesced, giving him $8 million and buying him a yacht, according to court papers. But for decades the two have been locked in a series of lawsuits and countersuits, culminating in this week's restraining order hearing.
Most recently, on March 14, Paul Pope demanded $875,000 from his mother on top of $4 million he had asked for in January, she says in her complaint.
When she didn't agree to the payment, she contends that her son contacted a gossip columnist to spread rumors about her.
Lois Pope contends that her son lied about her decision to take out kidnapping insurance on his three children. She accuses him of "suggesting that Lois Pope was planning to kidnap his child."
She calls the allegation an "outrageous baseless accusation," adding "the fact is that Paul Pope asked Lois Pope to provide kidnap insurance for him and his children."
Calls to Lois Pope's lawyer Gregor Schwinhammer and to Paul Pope's lawyer Louis Mrachek were not immediately returned. Paul Pope also did not respond to calls.
However, Paul Pope maintains a website and has released statements through a public relations service.
In a recent statement, the son announced he had filed a countersuit, also in Palm Beach, against his mother. That suit contends that Lois "promised to make him financially secure by providing him with a lifetime income of $1 million per year," but ultimately reneged.
His website, wheresthemoneylois.blogspot.com, chronicles what he says are examples of his mother's excesses and accuses her of stealing from charities, to which she donates.
Paul Pope says his mother throws lavish parties that cost up to $1 million and owns two private jets, so that she can travel in one and her 18 dogs in another.


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Developing A World-Class Lubrication Program At A Major Gulf Coast Refinery
EP Editorial Staff | November 10, 2010
A well-oiled team approach has made the efforts of Valero's Port Arthur site a model for others.
Many articles have been published on the key components of world-class lubrication programs. This one focuses on a major refinery that, over 10 years ago, implemented the necessary steps to establish a state-of-the-art program. These efforts, in turn, have led to major equipment reliability improvements. The Valero Port Arthur site has built one of the finest refinery/petrochemical plant lubrication programs I have ever seen. …Ray Thibault
The Valero Refinery in Port Arthur, TX, is rated at 310,000 bbl/day. It started out as a Gulf Oil Co. refinery (which became Chevron), and was later purchased by Clark/Premcor, through which the lubrication program was originally implemented in 1999. Valero purchased the refinery in 2005 and has supported continuous improvement of the program ever since.
John Gobert, a machinist, was trained and brought in as the lubrication champion in 1999 to evaluate and improve the program. The initial step was to choose a single quality lubricant supplier. The following criteria were used in selecting the supplier:
- Product quality
- Logistics
- Technical service
- Price
Four candidate companies were carefully evaluated based on the above criteria. The decision was not based on price alone—which is a common mistake made by companies with unsophisticated lubricant programs. The Hurt Company (Hurt), a Houston-based supplier, was selected. The five major objectives for the lubrication program were:
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- Condition monitoring
- Cooperation
No lubrication program is successful without a champion. From 1999 until his retirement in 2006, John Gobert, MLA II, MLT certified (first for Premcor and later for Valero), was just that type of champion—the individual most responsible for implementing a successful program. Mark Kavanaugh, now a CLS and MLA II certified, was brought in to work with Gobert on improving the program in 2001. Allan Thibodeaux and Jimmy Thomson, both of whom are now MLA II, MLT certified, joined the team of lube champions in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
While having a champion—or champions—is critical to the success of a lubrication program, so is having competent lubricators and the backing of management.
Valero has provided that backing by strongly supporting certification of employees involved in lubrication. Operators and machinists who perform lubrication have been involved in training programs by the in-house lube team, lubricant supplier and outside consultants. In fact, Valero now has more certified lubricators at its Port Arthur site than any other refinery or chemical company—and more than most manufacturing facilities. Lubrication certifications achieved by personnel at this refinery include:
- STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist — 1
- ICML Machinery Lubrication Analyst — 3
- ICML Machinery Lubrication Technician —17
(Editor's Note: In 2007, Valero's Port Arthur refinery received the John Battle Award for the Outstanding Lubrication Program of 2006 from the International Council of Machinery Lubrication. The site is the only refinery or petrochemical plant ever to win this prestigious award.)
Once upon a time, Valero's Port Arthur facility had several lubricant suppliers—and was using 48 different oils and 20 greases. After the selection of Hurt as its sole supplier, a lube survey was performed with regard to the refinery's nearly 11,000 pieces of rotating equipment. Following this survey, the site was able to consolidate down to eight oils and three greases. This led to significant savings in storage costs and helped eliminate the risk of introducing the wrong lubricants into equipment. Table I summarizes the lubricating oil used by major equipment type. Table II summarizes the greases used by equipment type.
The key component in the success of the Valero Port Arthur program was the delivery and maintenance of clean oil. The main requirement for the new lubricant supplier was to supply the major oils—ISO 32, 68 and 100 mineral oils—at a cleanliness level of 15/13/11, along with a goal of 25 ppm and a maximum of 50 ppm of water. Higher-viscosity oils are normally allowed an ISO Cleanliness Code two levels higher. Although these goals were initially difficult to achieve, the supplier quickly and consistently began meeting them.
Lubricants are delivered to the site twice a week, in dedicated trucks. Each shipment is checked to meet the cleanliness requirement and then filtered into the storage tank through a 1 micron Beta 1000 filter. Prior to that, the lubricants had been filtered through a 3 micron filter during loading at the supplier's plant.
Being able to maintain the desired level of cleanliness required the replacement of most metal tanks with custom-made plastic units. Seventy tanks—ranging in size from 110 to 1000 gallons—are currently in use for lubricant storage at this Port Arthur refinery. The smaller ones are used as storage for dispensing into small containers for small sumps. The larger tanks are hard-piped to the equipment with large reservoirs, where the oil is pumped from the bulk tank into the reservoir.
Centrifugal-compressor reservoir circulating systems are equipped with B3=1000 filters, while reciprocating compressor oils, which are ISO 150, are conditioned with a B6=1000 filter. Heavier oils, such as ISO 220, in other circulating systems, utilize B10=1000 filters. This difficult environment calls for additional filtering of the oil in the reservoir. The goal is to maintain a 17/15/13 cleanliness level for centrifugal compressors and 19/17/15 for the reciprocating compressors—with a maximum of 200 ppm of water. These oils are consistently under those target limits. All bulk tanks are sampled quarterly. If cleanliness and water-level limits are exceeded, the oil in reservoirs under 200 gallons is replaced. Large reservoirs are treated by an outside fluid-conditioning company.
Use of drums at Valero's Port Arthur operation has been virtually eliminated. Dispensing for small sumps is through sealed plastic containers or other small plastic containers such as five-gallon pails and quart containers. This approach has led to clean oil being maintained in the equipment and, in turn, improved reliability. Fig. 2 shows a typical plastic tank used for storage.
Conditioning monitoring
The success of the Port Arthur program is directly related to its condition-monitoring program. John Gobert instituted the use of on-site oil analysis through the use of a CSI 5100 Trivector Onsite Analyzer. This was later upgraded to the CSI 5200. The instrument allows Valero to measure incoming oil for viscosity, cleanliness (through a laser particle counter), presence of water (through conductivity), ferrous wear and any chemistry changes in oil such as oxidation.
Kavanaugh, a machinist with 40 years of service, is responsible for all of the sample collection and analysis. He also monitors oil purifications and high-velocity flushes by FRS, a subsidiary of The Hurt Company. Thomson, a machinist with 35 years of service, works closely with vendors on all lubricants and oil-filter supplies for the refinery, and also keeps the refinery-wide lubrication and filter surveys current. Kavanaugh and Thomson work in the refinery's Rotating Equipment Reliability group along with other engineers, analysts and technicians who are responsible for the site's vibration and ultrasonic programs. Thibodeaux is a head operator on the refinery's 260,000 bbl/day crude unit, with 34 years of service under his belt. He assisted in the data collection and evaluation of lubrication and filter upgrades before changes were implemented refinery-wide.
Sample collection and evaluation of the data at this site—along with the quality of the oil-analysis program—is impressive: It has prevented catastrophic failures through the early detection and resolution of equipment problems.
All major and critical machinery is sampled quarterly and oil is evaluated on-site. That includes compressors, critical pumps, gearboxes, blowers and other equipment. The oil is checked for cleanliness, water, viscosity, wear debris and oxidation. As mentioned previously, all storage tanks are sampled quarterly for viscosity and contamination. Kavanaugh also runs all "troubleshooting" samples as they occur. Total sample counts average 70 to 90 per month. An outside laboratory is utilized for more extensive testing—such as analytical ferrography—when required. Less than 20 samples per year are usually sent out, resulting in early detection of problems. In most cases, the outside laboratory confirms Kavanaugh's findings.
Valero has established a real partner relationship with The Hurt Company. Besides doing an outstanding job of delivering clean, quality products, this lubricant supplier has provided excellent service by helping resolve difficult technical problems in a timely manner.
Hurt's fluid-conditioning group, FRS, also is very responsive when it comes to keeping equipment running at the refinery. A recent example was a seal leak in a centrifugal compressor on ISO 32 oil, causing the viscosity to go as low as 24 cSt. This was detected through on-site oil analysis. It was decided that the lubricant supplier would bring in a degasification unit to keep the compressor running for three months until new seals arrived. Preventing this shutdown resulted in millions of dollars in savings.
A similar partnership was developed with Hy-Pro, a leading filter manufacturer. This supplier teamed with the Port Arthur facility to conduct a filter survey, then developed a program to meet Valero's stringent cleanliness requirements in a difficult operating environment.
The road to success
As illustrated by Valero's Port Arthur operations, a well-designed, properly implemented lubrication program can result in significant savings. For example, the maintenance shop at this site is not constantly repairing bearing failures. Rather than running in a reactive mode, it can instead focus more on preventive and condition-based maintenance.
John Gobert succeeded in getting the Port Arthur lube program on the right track by first establishing lubricant cleanliness and quality standards, then developing partnerships with the right suppliers to meet his goals. This was augmented by instituting an effective on-site oil analysis program to monitor both condition of the lubricants and condition of the equipment.
Although Gobert retired in 2006, his vision and efforts have been carried on—and expanded—by Kavanaugh, Thibodeaux and Thomson. As this account of a world-class lubrication program shows, people really can make a real difference on the road to success. LMT
Contributing Editor Ray Thibault is based in Cypress (Houston), TX. An STLE-Certified Lubrication Specialist and Oil Monitoring Analyst, he conducts extensive training in a number of industries. Telephone: (281) 257-1526; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
All photos associated with this article, including the cover photo of THE Port Arthur refinery, are used courtesy of Valero Energy Corp.


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Im pleased to release the Samaritan Pentateuch as digitized by Aleksandr Sigalov, who blogs at http://thedeserttabernacle.blogspot.com.
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A Leavenworth minister has announced he's running for the Kansas House of Representatives.
A Leavenworth minister has announced he's running for the Kansas House of Representatives.
Tony Barton, 52, is running for the 41st District, which is made up of portions of the city of Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth.
Barton, pastor of the New Life Fellowship Church in Leavenworth, is the second Republican to announce he's running in the 41st District.
"The Republican Party needs to be represented," Barton said.
He said the Democratic Party seems to have a lock on the district.
Barton said he wants to give voters an opportunity to have a choice.
The 41st District currently is represented by Melanie Meier, a Democrat. Leavenworth City Commission Larry Dedeke is the other Republican who has announced he's running for the seat.
A primary will be held Aug. 5. The general election will be Nov. 4, 2014.
Barton said the local economy has struggled and it's been difficult to bring businesses to the community. He said he wants to do something to change that.
"We need to flourish," he said. "We need to grow."
Barton described himself as a supporter of First and Second Amendments.
"I'm pro-life," he said.
Barton has lived in Leavenworth since 1999.
As a child in a military family, Barton moved around a lot. He graduated from Bellvue West High School in Bellvue, Neb., in 1979. He served four years in the Navy and attended Berean College in Springfield, Mo.
This is his first run for political office.
"I just really feel it's time to get involved in this level," he said.
He said he'd been asked about running by former state Rep. Jana Goodman.
Barton said he and supporters have collected signatures so he can file by petition. He said the signatures were turned in this past week.


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Mia Wasikowska, with her almost spectral elegance and innate grace, is somehow the love child of Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton. This otherworldly quality made her the perfect actress to portray out-of-time heroines like Alice (in Wonderland) and, most recently, the title character in the new Jane Eyre. Though 21, the Australian actress is convincing as a modern teen in The Kids Are All Right and the upcoming Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant. She often has a faraway, slightly unknowable look in her eye: Wasikowska and her characters seem to have secrets, which fuel the mystery of both.
What was the first movie that made a big impression on you?
I think it was Bambi. I remember being traumatized by the experience—I was so upset when the mum died in the movie. There were a few films that got me interested in acting and cinema. I'm Polish, but I grew up in Australia. My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films. I really, really loved Krzysztof Kieslowski's films, especially Blue and Red.
Do you speak Polish?
A little bit but not very well. When I was eight years old, we lived in Poland for a year. I was just there about three weeks ago—it definitely seems very familiar. I am at home there, but I feel like I could live anywhere now.
Perhaps that's because you've been on movie sets all over the world from the time you were a teenager. Did you get your start in school plays?
I did a few amateur theater productions when I was young, but I was really shy. I didn't like drama classes, so it has always surprised me that I ended up in films. I'd always done dance. I was eight when I started ballet. I was really serious—I danced about 35 hours a week. I finished with dance when I was about 15.
All of a sudden?
Well, I started not enjoying ballet, because it was so much about physical perfection. What I like about film is it explores imperfections. That was something that really attracted me.
When I decided to pursue acting at 15, I heard that you had to have an agent to do film and television, so I did a Google search for acting agencies in Sydney. I hounded one to take me on and started auditioning. I did some films in Australia, and then I started working in America on [HBO's] In Treatment when I was 17.
You played Sophie, a 16-year-old Olympics-bound gymnast who was in a state of emotional anguish.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. When it came to the last episode of In Treatment, I was a mess. That character was like my friend—I was in another country, away from my family—and then she was gone.
You've embodied two very famous characters: Alice, in Alice in Wonderland, and now Jane Eyre. Was it difficult to play such icons?
Alice is beloved, so that was a responsibility. I did about five auditions for Alice before I got the role.
Did you have to wear a corset as Alice?
Yes—for two scenes, and it was very painful. But now, having done Jane Eyre, I realize the Alice corsets were sissy corsets. The corsets I wore in Jane Eyre were incredibly painful. Ballet hurts, but it's more like your feet are killing you. With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
But does wearing the proper costume help you get in character?
Absolutely. It's the last piece of the puzzle. Once you get in the costume, it's like, Okay, this is who this person is. With Jane Eyre the corset helped me understand the repression and pain of the character.
You have a natural sweetness—do you think anyone would ever cast you as anything but a heroine?
I would love to play a villain. I'll have to learn to seem more diabolical.
Michael Fassbender is the movie star as chameleon. In the past few years, he has been seductive and menacing in Fish Tank; suave and wry in Inglourious Basterds; and, in the new Jane Eyre, he casts a unique spell as the cloudy, mercurial, and doomed Mr. Rochester. For Hunger, his first major film role in 2009, the 34-year-old Irish actor lost 40 pounds in order to transform himself into Bobby Sands, the IRA activist who led a 1981 hunger strike during his incarceration in a Northern Ireland prison. "When you stop eating, your mind changes," he told me. "There's a thin line between control and madness. I like characters that walk that line."
You are very young to play Rochester in Jane Eyre. Did you love the book? Or were you just intrigued by the part?
I'm probably 10 years too young for Rochester, so I went for a Byronic sort of hero. I didn't read Jane Eyre in school, but my mother and sister were always talking about it, and that was a big reason why I did it. I didn't have a preconceived idea of Rochester—I just saw him as encapsulating so many interesting elements: a shady past, intelligent, self-destructive, destructive, passionate. And he has a terrible secret. I'm curious to see what my mother and sister think of my Rochester.
Did your mother get upset when she watched you starve in Hunger?
Yeah, she did. Also, I die [Laughs]. The makeup artist on the movie I'm doing at the moment said, "God, all you do in your films is dying. That's your thing." So maybe I'll have to start saving lives. Or living, at least.
Is it harder to do a death scene or a sex scene?
It depends. Sex scenes can be quite awkward. As a guy, the first thing you want to do is make sure you're not taking advantage. You don't want the girl to feel like you're getting a free feel or something. I try to make a fool of myself in one way or another to lighten the mood and then just go for it, because you don't want to be doing take after take. As for dying—to not play like you're dying is the way to go when you're dying in a movie. I think it's best to look like you're about to fall asleep.
You just finished portraying a superhero, Magneto, in X-Men: First Class. What is your superpower?
I can manipulate metal. I practiced every day with a spoon in my kitchen. I did my Uri Geller.
It didn't work. I was really upset. I was convincing myself. I was like: It bent! Did you see that? It bent a little bit! There was no one else in the room with me, though. When I was a kid, I thought I was Superman. I still do [Laughs]. When I was six I thought I could hear a buzzing in my ear at night, and I thought it was Krypton calling me home. I never got up, though. I was too lazy.
If you could choose to be invisible or to fly, which would you pick?
Fly. I'd like a tail, though. I'd like to be one of those Indian gods that's like a flying monkey man. I'd like a long tail.
That sounds scary. Do monsters in movies frighten you?
No. Real-life threats frighten me more. Growing up, the movie that scared me most was Jaws. I sound like such a mama's boy—my mother told me not to watch it, that I'd have nightmares. But I watched Jaws anyway. And that night I was lying in bed with no water anywhere near me, and I was really upset. And whenever I'm out at sea, I am terrified of a shark attack. But the movie that created the most lasting fear for me was The Omen.
Were you raised Catholic?
I was. I was head altar boy.
When was the last time you went to confession?
A long time ago. I was always a bit confused about the idea of confession, even as a young boy. Everyone said: "God is always with you. You can talk to him." So now I talk to God directly. There's no buffer.


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U.S. mink pelt prices skyrocket with demand in China
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — U.S. fur farms are rebounding after struggling through the past 15 years with low prices and competition from overseas.
Retail fur sales in the U.S. remain in a slump with the economy still struggling.
But new wealth in China is creating a surge of demand there for high-quality furs. That has sent pelt prices skyrocketing from an average of $41 in 2008 to a record $94 in 2011, the most recent year for which figures are available.
Federal agriculture officials say U.S. fur farmers sold nearly $260 million in raw mink pelts to South Korean and Chinese buyers last year.
Many pelts are made into coats sold to Chinese consumers. The China Leather Industry Association says Chinese consumers bought more than half of the fur coats sold globally in 2010.


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The language activists and politicians use in immigration debates may be as important as the policies they are debating when it comes to long-term effects, according to the author of a new study in the April issue of the American Sociological Review.
"When we talk about immigration policy, we are usually focused on the content—who deserves benefits and who does not," said study author Hana E. Brown, an assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest University. "We don't typically talk or think about the language that we're using to make those arguments, but my study suggests that we should."
In her study, "Race, Legality, and the Social Policy Consequences of Anti-Immigration Mobilization," which draws on interviews, archival materials, and newspaper content analysis, Brown shows that in Arizona and California during the 1990s, the tenor of earlier immigration debates directly affected welfare reform battles later in the decade. "In both Arizona and California, very powerful anti-immigration movements were trying to restrict the rights of undocumented immigrants," Brown said. "But, while they were pushing for similar policies, they used different language in order to make their arguments."
In Arizona, activists and politicians talked about immigration as a racial problem, arguing that Hispanics were taking resources away from white citizens, Brown said. In California, they argued that immigration was an issue of legal status, claiming that deserving legal immigrants suffered most from illegal immigration, and drawing a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. Even after the immigration debates died down, these linguistic differences continued to have important political consequences, resurfacing during welfare reform fights in Arizona and California.
"During welfare reform debates, activists and politicians in each state largely used the same immigration language that had been employed in these big anti-immigrant conflicts a few years earlier," Brown said. "Arizonans talked about welfare in racial terms and Californians used the language of legality just as they had during the immigration debates."
Brown said that the language differences affected what kinds of coalitions emerged during the welfare reform battles. "In California, the legality frame encouraged immigrant and citizen groups representing an assortment of interests to join forces," Brown said. "Latino groups, Asian groups, children's rights groups, and others were able to come together and find unity and commonality through this language of legality. But, in Arizona, the language of race discouraged non-Hispanic groups from allying with Hispanic groups because there was a stigma associated with Hispanics."
Afraid of alienating voters who viewed legal immigrants positively, virtually all California lawmakers voted to extend welfare benefits to legal immigrants, even many who were ineligible for federal benefits, Brown said. In Arizona, by contrast, where legislators saw welfare as a "Hispanic" issue, a bipartisan majority enacted restrictive policies for all Arizonans, limiting welfare access for legal immigrants and even for citizens.
Brown said there are some important lessons from her study that are applicable to the ongoing comprehensive immigration reform effort that is playing out on the federal level. "One is that my study shows that the language we use in immigration debates can have unintended consequences for other policy battles down the road, so we need to pay careful attention to how political leaders and activists are characterizing immigrants," Brown said. "Using harsh anti-Hispanic rhetoric is divisive and can translate into restrictive social policies later on. But, alternative framings of immigration can create openings for powerful coalitions in other policy debates."
According to Brown, there is at least one high profile participant in the comprehensive immigration reform effort who is aware of the impact language can have. "It seems clear to me that President Obama is aware that language matters," said Brown. "If you look at how different parties are talking about immigration reform right now, there are some people who still refer to undocumented immigrants as illegal immigrants. But, President Obama's leaked immigration bill would give undocumented immigrants a new label, 'lawful prospective immigrants.' That phrasing clearly marks these immigrants as deserving, while the term 'illegal' signals the opposite."
Earlier this year, media outlets around the country reported on a leaked draft of President Obama's immigration bill that would create a "lawful prospective immigrant" visa for illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and would pave the way for them to become legal permanent residents within eight years.
"I think there is this assumption that once the debates are over, our immigration discussions are done," Brown said. "But, the language that we use now is going to be a resource that people can draw on even after this debate winds down."


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Avere Systems gives NAS acceleration devices an edge
Avere Systems upgrades NAS acceleration software, adding more control over namespace and asynchronous replication for the cloud.
Avere Systems Inc. today upgraded its operating system to give its FXT Series of NAS acceleration appliances greater control over data, including the ability to asynchronously replicate between filers.
Avere Operating System (AOS) 3.0 can turn FXT into what the vendor calls an edge filer that can be positioned in front of NAS located at remote sites or in the cloud.
FXT appliances use global namespace and a combination of DRAM, NVRAM, solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives to accelerate performance on other vendors' NAS nodes, which Avere Systems calls core filers. Avere first launched its FXT in 2009.
Avere's FXT appliances still optimize NAS devices instead of replacing them as primary filers. But AOS 3.0 gives Avere FXT cluster filers more control over the namespace and core NAS protocol commands, such as the ability to handle data creation and deletion requests. This reduces latency because the Avere cluster doesn't have to get permissions from the core NAS systems to manage data.
"3.0 is the release we always wanted to build. We knew it would take us time to get there. We've fundamentally changed the latency profile within the Avere layer. Now all synchronous operations are turned around locally in Avere cluster."
Ron Bianchini, Avere Systems' president and CEO
"Previously, when the file was created or deleted, we would have to go to the core filer and that took time. We don't have to do that anymore," said Rebecca Thompson, Avere's vice president of marketing.
AOS 3.0 supports two types of replication, FlashMove (asynchronous) and FlashMirror (synchronous). Ron Bianchini, Avere Systems' president and CEO, said FlashMove and the new low latency give FXT devices the ability to move primary data to the cloud.
FlashMove allows administrators to move data nondisruptively between core filers. Besides moving data to the cloud, this allows load balancing and the ability to migrate data to a new core filer. FlashMirror replicates data on primary and secondary filers. It keeps both sources in sync and can switch to the secondary filer if the primary becomes unavailable. Avere Systems claims FlashMirror can replicate to any vendor's NAS systems, and is useful for disaster recovery and content distribution.
Bianchini said "3.0 is the release we always wanted to build. We knew it would take us time to get there. We've fundamentally changed the latency profile within the Avere layer. Now all synchronous operations are turned around locally in Avere cluster."
Russell Fellows, an analyst and senior partner at Boulder, Colo.-based Evaluator Group, said Avere built in more of the NFS commands into its AOS so the FXT devices act more like "full-featured virtualization appliances that can sit in front of NAS devices."
"Before, they had to go to the back-end storage filer for some metadata. Now, because they do more, it enables a new use case. In terms of functions, this expands their use cases. You have local storage in the data center and the Avere FXT in the front, and you get improved performance."
AOS 3.0, with the ability to do file creation and deletion, is available as a free upgrade to current customers but the replication features are separate licenses. FlashMove costs an extra 15% of the price of an FXT node, while FlashMirror is an extra 25% of the price of an FXT node.


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BOCA RATON, Fla.—Red Hawk Fire & Security, a provider of fire, life safety and security services based here, is providing resources and integrated systems expertise as a charter donor for the command and control center at the new National Sport Security Laboratory (NSSL) at the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
The lab officially opened on Sept. 1, bringing to life NCS4's vision to be the world's foremost academic research institution to address sport safety and security risks and threats. Since its inception in 2006, the NCS4 has worked to address the evolving security challenges of the growing $60-billion U.S. sports industry through quality training, research, technology assessments, certifications and professional development.
The new lab is designed to test, evaluate and showcase vendor neutral safety and security solutions as well as to assist the training, research and development needs of venue operators and security professionals at sports settings globally.
"Red Hawk is well-equipped to bring our practical, hands-on experience integrating systems at several prominent stadiums and arenas to enhance the efforts of NCS4 as they do the important work of responding to this significant community safety concern," Rick Tampier, Red Hawk's senior director of sales and product strategy, said in the announcement.
Daniel Ward, the director of the National Laboratory and Training Center, describes the new facility as a living laboratory that gives students, academia, industry and government a place to research and learn.
"The center incorporates cutting-edge technology which provides the university with capabilities to gather, process, analyze, display and disseminate planning and operations data for research and training," said Ward.
The NSSL's new center now connects to the numerous sport facilities on the University of Southern Mississippi's Hattiesburg campus allowing researchers and solutions providers to immerse themselves in a real-life sports safety and security environment.
"Connecting our athletic facilities as part of our laboratory provides amazing opportunities for our students," Dr. Lou Marciani, NCS4 director, said in the announcement. "They will be able to work with professional, intercollegiate, interscholastic and marathon sports organizations and facilities to test theories, translate lessons learned and best practices into real-world solutions while also building the sports safety and security profession for the future."
NCS4 recently earned accreditation for its Certified Sport Security Professional (CSSP) certification program from the American National Standards Institute Personal Certification Accreditation Program (ANSI). CSSP is the nation's first professional security credential designed for those responsible for the planning and overall security operations of sports venues and events.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Earlier this week StoneLock, a biometrics company focused on designing and manufacturing access control and identity management solutions, announced that Jim Trani is the company's CTO.
"My job, basically, is to create that vision of what we need to do to take us out of our advanced startup mode into a full-blown, high-tech producer, and to implement that," Trani told Security Systems News.
StoneLock's readers use near-infrared light to see multiple layers of a persons face. "We process a near-infrared image, and from that, we derive our biometric data that is used for match on subsequent verification," Trani said. This process is completed at an edge device, as opposed to leveraging surveillance cameras and servers, he noted.
"[Biometrics] has never really made the inroads that I think it could make. And, I think our introduction of near-infrared, and the performance we get from that, and bringing it out to the edge like we do, really allows facial recognition to emerge as the gold standard for biometrics," Trani said.
He continued, "I believe that over the next three to five years, with the way we've structured ourselves, biometrics can be in every household, and it can affect your life in many more ways than just being a mechanism to get you through a door at some institutional facility."
Trani has "40 years of experience in research and development of engineering solutions," the announcement noted. Trani previously worked with Tyco, Pelco, Infographic Systems and Compass Technologies/Wheelock.
StoneLock was started in 2012. The company, based here, has about 40 employees globally.
Demand for security cameras in the U.S. is projected to increase 7.2 percent annually through 2021 to $2.8 billion, according to a new report entitled Video Surveillance Equipment Market in the U.S. from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based research firm.
The company found that gains will result from a variety of factors that support replacement demand and sales of higher value, upgraded versions, including:• Ongoing product advancements in camera technology.• Increasing affordability of cameras with expanded features, such as internal recording capabilities.• Continued shift toward upgrading existing legacy analog systems to either IP or HD analog systems in order to utilize more feature-rich cameras and systems.• Rising interest in higher value, more niche camera types—such as thermal or explosion resistant—as their prices continue to come down, which will work to expand the base of installed cameras.
In 2016, dome cameras accounted for the largest share of video surveillance camera demand with 42 percent, the report found. "Sales of these products have benefited from developments over the past decade, such as increased durability and higher resolutions," the press release read. "This has allowed for broader use of dome cameras in both indoor and outdoor applications. Dome camera sales have also gained from the rising use of cameras indoors, where these constructions are still highly popular due to their discreet appearance."
Through 2021, sales of all video surveillance products are projected to increase 5.6 percent annually to $4.9 billion, according to the Freedonia Group, which noted that growth "will be driven by the increasing affordability of feature-rich systems that incorporate enhanced capabilities, which will work to expand the base of end users that choose to install video surveillance systems and spur replacement and upgrade demand among existing users."
Here at Security Systems News, we cover a variety of topics related to the physical security industry. As a result, we get to track trends in the industry; we see when they first come up and we see when they become more prevalent. The matter of false alarms is one that I can say I've been watching since I started with SSN.
Some municipalities have sought to fine alarm companies for users' false alarms. In late 2014, shortly after I joined the publication, I was speaking with the Security Industry Alarm Coalition about the City of Chico, Calif., that passed an ordinance like this. The city then revised the ordinance after a response from SIAC and California Alarm Association.
More recently, Sandy Springs, Ga., also looked to bring fines for false alarms to the dealers.
California has now stepped in to stop alarm companies in the state from being fined for false alarms that the installation or the equipment didn't directly cause. Read more about that here.
Security Systems News' latest monthly News Poll asks about whether false alarm ordinances, particularly the ones that fine alarm dealers and installers, pose a large problem for the industry. Feel free to weigh in on that here. Additionally, feel free to share your thoughts on the best methods for reducing false alarms.
Different areas have taken different approaches to false alarms. In 2015, New Orleans considered outsourcing alarm fine collections to CryWolf, which specializes in issuing and collecting fines, permit fees, and compiling alarm system data. This is a practice that SIAC recommends.
Back in 2014, I spoke with another SIAC's, Steve Keefer, about an interesting approach: using volunteers to reduce false alarm dispatches. These were "regular citizens that just want to help out in the community," Keefer said, by notifying repeat false alarm offenders and discussing ways to reduce false alarms.
I am very excited to announce Security Systems News' Cloud+ 2017 conference education program, which can be found here. The show is Nov. 28-29, and back at the beautiful and relaxing Lost Pines Resort in the tech-savvy city of Austin, Texas.
This year's education program is expanded, as we strive to be the education destination for those who are pioneering within the cloud community, which is revolutionizing security today.
As you look through this year's program it will quickly become apparent that "Selling the Cloud" is an underlying theme for the conference, as sessions will look at how integrators, specifiers, dealers, suppliers—anyone looking to increase revenue and profits while providing cost-effective solutions with a high ROI—are leveraging cloud technology and computing with great success. Some of the leading integrators in the industry will uncover how they are transitioning from the traditional sales model to a more managed services model that increases RMR and lowers creation cost.
And subject matter experts from the leading cloud solution and services providers in the industry will not only be there on panels to share best practices and the latest advances and research, but also many will be exhibiting, so you can dive in deeper and get face to face with the top cloud companies working in security today.
There are also cloud-centered sessions looking at the rise of smarter, safer cities and the potential there for the security industry; cybersecurity in the cloud; how to hire IT-savvy employees who can talk cloud; and much more!
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The global smart home market is forecast to exceed $14 billion in 2017, with 10 percent of homes globally being smart by 2025, according to an IHS Markit report published this week.
"The smart home market has seen significant growth since 2010, when fewer than 0.5 percent of homes in the Americas region had connected devices such as thermostats, lighting, security and entertainment," Blake Kozak, principal analyst, IHS Technology, said in a summary of the report. "By the end of 2017, nearly 7 percent of households in the region will have a connected home, averaging six devices per home."
According to IHS, The global market for smart homes is currently worth $14.7 billion, with the Americas region representing 48 percent of global revenues, and by 2021, the EMEA region will represent the largest portion of device revenue with a 42 percent global share.
"When excluding large ticket items, such as major appliances, the global market size for smart home devices is forecast to be worth $3.3 billion by the end of 2017, reaching $9.4 billion in 2021," Kozak noted. "Although the EMEA and Americas regions are expected to represent more than 70 percent of revenues for smart devices over the next five years, Asia is expected to dominate in terms of unit shipments. In 2021, the Asia region is expected to represent about 46 percent of unit shipments. Leading the unit shipments in Asia in 2021 will include light bulbs, air quality sensors and video cameras."
The report also found that the top five players account for 36 percent of revenue in the space, including Nest, Amazon, Honeywell, Xiaomi and Netgear, who rounded out the top five for smart home revenue accounting for 36 percent in 2016 when excluding appliances. The top five players for unit shipments in 2016 accounted for 34 percent of global unit shipments and included Xiaomi, Amazon, Honeywell, Nest and Koninklijke Philips N.V.
"Globally, 19 manufacturers had more than 500,000 annual smart home device shipments in 2016," said Kosak, while "46 manufacturers had more than $10 million in revenue in 2016, when excluding appliances."
The top smart home devices to watch in terms of unit shipment growth include radiator valves, air quality sensors, smart speakers and appliances.
"Home audio (smart speakers) will continue to be one of the most disruptive trends in smart home through 2021," Kosak pointed out. "The primary reason voice assistants in the smart home will gain significant traction across all three regions is the ability for these devices to aggregate disparate systems. So instead of using five different mobile applications in order to control the smart home features, voice can be used to aggregate all control, reducing the need to interact with a mobile device once the product is setup."
Although appliances were the fourth largest device type in terms of unit shipments in 2016, they will be the most shipped device type in 2021, according to IHS, which noted that many appliances are already embedded with Wi-Fi capabilities that only need to be turned on by the manufacturer.
ADR Security, a full-service electronic and physical security provider based in New York City, on Aug. 11 announced a new business: ADR Security Monitoring, a joint venture with Security Partners that caters to the specific security needs of high-end jewelers in New York City.
ADR Security services about 4,500 individual sites, offering intercom, intrusion, electronic access, video surveillance, fire and life safety, locksmith and AV cabling among other services. The business, by sales, is 90 percent commercial with 10 percent in high-end residential.
"What we were trying to do was figure out a way to go to market with a solution in the jewelry industry," Peter Goldring, EVP and COO of ADR Security, told Security Systems News. ADR found that working with Security Partners provided the best outcome. "We're going to be able to issue central station certificates here in the New York market, serviced out of New York," said Goldring.
Security Partners operates four redundant, UL listed, TMA Five Diamond monitoring centers throughout the United States; in Lancaster, Pa., Anaheim, Calif., San Antonio and Las Vegas.
Goldring described ADR Security Monitoring as "an extension of a retail business that still has very deep roots into the wholesale, third party business. And, it—of course—will afford the opportunity for the other third party dealers to work with ADR Security monitoring, to partner with us, to issue certificates where necessary."
This business differs from that of a traditional alarm dealer-monitoring center relationship. "ADRSM is the full-circle approach, the operator is able to take service requests, is able to dispatch the runner. Everything is in house, under the roof of Security Partners' facilities, helping us with the day-to-day operation of the business. So, it really is a much more intense relationship, but it truly is a partnership," Goldring said.
"We believe there is a huge, underserved market for certificate service – bigger than ever before – and this is a great opportunity for us to partner with a strong, independent and financially solid company like ADR Security," Patrick Egan, founder of Security Partners, said in a prepared statement.
ADRSM's announcement mentioned the possibility of expanding after establishing a presense in New York's Diamond District, and the company is exploring locations for its next markets. "The next two most significant markets are in California, in Los Angeles, … and then of course there's a fairly large industry in Las Vegas, with a number of jewelry stores and high-end boutiques that often requires the certifications," Goldring said. "Those are probably the next areas that we'll jump into."
PITTSBURGH—Vector Security announced in early August that Newport News, Va., is now live with Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP). Newport News joins other municipalities in the state of Virginia using ASAP, such as the City of Richmond, James City County, York County, and Henrico County.
The ASAP to PSAP program, created by The Monitoring Association—formerly CSAA—and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials automates communication between alarm monitoring central stations and 911 centers.
Transmitting alarm information digitally results in improved accuracy and faster emergency responses by eliminating the need for communication over the phone between PSAP centers and monitoring centers.
Vector Security was the first alarm company to use ASAP in the City of Richmond, Va. in 2012. Vector Security assisted with implementation in Newport News by helping to perform extensive testing prior to the system going live.
"Alarm users in Newport News, including several hundred Vector Security customers, will benefit from faster and more accurate emergency response with the implementation of ASAP," Anita Ostrowski, vice president of central station services at Vector Security, said in a prepared statement. "We hope the positive impact that ASAP will bring to Newport News will encourage other major 911 centers in the nation to adopt this technology as well."
Ostrowski continued, "As a security provider, we seek ways to promote ASAP's value to municipalities and public agencies, and help other alarm companies implement it for the greater good of the industry and the safety of our communities."
Other municipalities that have implemented ASAP include Houston and High Point, TX; Washington D.C.; James City County, York County and Henrico County, Va.; Tempe and Chandler, Az.; Boca Raton, Fla.; Cary and Guilford County, N.C.; Kernersville and Durham County, N.C.; Johnston County, N.C.; Denton County and Grand Prairie, Texas; Morgan County, Ala.; Delaware County, Ohio; Bucks County, Pa.; and Highland Park, Texas.
The $600 million Interface Security Systems deal has sent—as The Beach Boys once sang—"good vibrations" throughout the security industry, as it provides not only a vote of confidence for what Interface is doing as a modern systems integration company, but also a vote of confidence in the security industry, in general, as companies like Interface represent a new breed of integrator that is staying at the forefront of new technology and innovation.
John E. Mack III, executive vice president, co-head of investment banking and mergers & acquisitions at Imperial Capital, which acted as financial advisor to Interface on the deal, astutely pointed out that this deal goes beyond validation of what Interface is doing in the space.
"This is a very cool story for the sophisticated new-age security provider, which is what Interface is—the 2.0 version of what the right kind of security player should be," he told Security Systems News. "We spend so much time in this industry talking about the residential side of the business, which is interesting, but there is a massive opportunity on the commercial side of the business that Interface is tapping into that I think is a compelling theme."
He continued, "There is a lot of validation for a very successful business model here that Prudential is putting up $180 million of new capital, and SunTx is putting up additional capital into the deal. And that you've got a very attractive set of debt investors, and just the fundamental backing for the business, is a meaningful part of a positive message for the industry."
Jeff Frye, SVP for Interface, told SSN that the support from equity partners is not only a stamp of approval for what the company is doing, but the "capital gives us more fuel to build on our current, better than 15 percent compounded annual growth rate, so we know that we can do more with a little more gas in the tank and we are anxious to prove it."
Frye noted that the equity will allow the company to expand its products and services around providing business intelligence, as security is becoming so much more than just, well, security.
"As a network provider, and a managed services provider of network services and cybersecurity services, we touch a lot of aspects of our customers' businesses," Frye explained. "And as a leading purveyor of Internet of Things services, we are able to aggregate intelligence from all of those sensors and data sources to bring actionable insights to a customer's business. There are some new verticals that we would like to focus on more, including financial services and banking, so this makes that horizon much brighter and much more approachable."
And it also makes the security industry's horizon a little brighter.
Allied Universal, a leading facility services company and one of the largest security forces in North America, marked its one-year anniversary this week after forming a year ago via the merger of AlliedBarton Security Services and Universal Services of America.
In the announcement, Steve Jones, Allied Universal CEO, thanked all of the company's 150,000 employees and its clients "for their continued support and commitment that contributed to a phenomenal first year as our new company! I look forward to our continued success in the security and services industries."
Over the past year the company has made several acquisitions, as it continues to transform to a full-service security company, moving beyond the manguarding services the it has been known for.
Jones told Security Systems News, after the company's most recent acquisition of ALERT Protective Services in May, that the company continues to look at acquisitions as a way to diversify its offerings.
"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."
In the press release announcing the one-year milestone, the company outlined some additional organizational achievements since the merger:
• Became the unequivocal leader in guarding services throughout North America. Our security professionals and our company play a major role in keeping the U.S. and Canada safe and secure.
• Provided service to over half of the Fortune 500 companies and nearly every major retail mall in the U.S. From healthcare facilities, commercial office buildings, manufacturing and industrial plants, residential communities, transportation facilities and government services, Allied Universal has a significant security presence.
• Managed the integration of a workforce of over 150,000 security professionals to perform our jobs on a daily basis and serve our growing customer base.
• Implemented a world-class training program, the AU Institute, which offers over 1,000 training assets and professional development programs to enhance our security professionals' delivery of service and protection.
• Introduced several technological innovations to expand our physical and operational security solutions and service offerings to enhance the protection of client properties and assets.
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Westfall is currently the assistant city manager and recreation director. He was hired three years ago as recreation director and quickly moved into the assistant city manager position when Pehrson was hired as manager.
Westfall is excited for the opportunity to be city manager. He said, "The next few years holds a lot of exciting things for Monticello." He mentioned a number of projects that will keep the city busy in the future, including the annexation of the Rocky Mountain Power substation, construction of the Big Four tractor building, metering of the secondary water system, construction of a community center / golf clubhouse, and continuing development of the city airport.
Westfall has a dual bachelors degree in business management and entrepreneurship from Colorado Mesa University and a masters degree in public management from Ashland University.
He is married to Jennifer Redd Westfall and has two children.


text: Generations adidas | Red Bulls U-16 tied in first place after fall qualifying Tweet © New York Red Bulls U-16 traveled to Toronto for the first round of the Generation adidas Cup fall qualifiers. After three games, the Red Bulls sit on top of the East region tied with Toronto FC with six points each. New York has a goal differential of seven, while Toronto's is one. READ: Generation adidas Cup The Generation adidas Cup is Major League Soccer's annual elite youth tournament for U-17 academy teams. Teams are divided into three regions (East, Central and West) and participate in two qualifying events per region. The final round of qualifiers will be held in the spring on Feb. 12-15, 2016. The top two teams in each region after both qualifying events will participate against other international sides for the Championship Division title, while the remaining teams will play for the consolation Premier Division title. Both finals tournaments take place in Frisco, Texas on March 18-26, 2016. Last year, the Red Bulls U-16s won the Premier Division title, defeating Colombia's Independiente Medellin in the final, 2-1. Game 1: New York Red Bulls (1) vs. Toronto FC (2) TORONTO (October 9, 2015) – The Red Bulls U-16s opened qualifiers against hosts Toronto FC. New York came out strong, but could not finish their early chances. Toronto made them pay when they scored off a rebound to go up, 1-0. The score remained the same into the second half until Ben Mines was taken down for a penalty kick. Omir Fernandez scored the penalty to even the match, 1-1. The Red Bulls continued to attack the Toronto goal before a red card was handed out to Red Bulls midfielder Mines. Toronto scored soon after and held on for the win, 2-1. Scoring Summary: Toronto FC NY: Omir Fernandez (PK) Toronto FC Game 2: New York Red Bulls (5) vs. New England Revolution (1) TORONTO (October 10, 2015) – The Red Bulls came out strong against the New England Revolution and scored early with Omir Fernandez getting the goal. New York headed into the second half with the 1-0 lead and scored early in the second half. Fernandez scored again off a feed from Zach Ryan. After a New England goal, the Red Bulls scored three consecutive goals to go up 5-1. Fernandez, Jack Valderrabanno and Bratislav Petkovic scored the final three goals. Scoring Summary: NY: Omir Fernandez NY: Omir Fernandez Toronto FC NY: Omir Fernandez NY: Jack Valderrabano NY: Bratislav Petkovic Game 3: New York Red Bulls (4) vs. Philadelphia Union (0) TORONTO (October 12, 2015) – The Red Bulls continued their strong play when they faced the Philadelphia Union in the final match of the fall qualifiers. After a back and forth first twenty minutes, Omir Fernandez scored his fifth and sixth goals of the weekend. Zach Ryan added two of his own to clinch the win, 4-0. Scoring Summary: NY: Omir Fernandez NY: Omir Fernandez NY: Zach Ryan NY: Zach Ryan Back to news