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Last year, AlarmForce Industries, a Toronto-based super-regional, announced that its board of directors was looking at selling the company. Now the board says the company won't be sold but grown instead, and has "terminated" AlarmForce's longtime President and CEO Joel Matlin.
Alarm Force announced in a news release Tuesday that it had "terminated the employment" of Matlin but said that he will "continue to serve as a director of the company." Matlin holds a stake in the company of about 8 percent, according to news reports.
Company CFO Anthony Pizzonia is now interim president and CEO, the release said. A search is underway to find a permanent successor to Matlin.
Earlier this month, the company announced that its board had completed its strategic review begun last August and will now focus on growing the company.
Here's more of what it had to say in a July 3 news release:
During the past eleven months, a special committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") comprised of the independent directors of AlarmForce (the "Special Committee") explored and considered available opportunities for the Company, including a possible sale of the Company. The Special Committee has concluded that the strategic review process did not result in a transaction adequately reflecting the Company's value. As such, the Board has decided to conclude the formal process and dissolve the Special Committee. The Company will now move forward with a focus on the Company's growth.
AlarmForce provides security alarm monitoring, personal emergency response monitoring, video surveillance and related services to residential and commercial subscribers throughout Canada and in some locations in the United States. The company says it is a leading provider of two-way voice alarm systems in Canada.
This week, iControl Networks, the software platform used by ADT's Pulse, and a number of cable companies, including Comcast's Xfinity Home, Time Warner Cable's IntelligentHome and Rogers Smart Home Monitoring, announced that it's launching an Android App Partner Program, called the "FastTrack App Partner Program."
It's an initiative that will "allows Android apps to be easily and quickly certified compatible with touch screens that support the iControl Converge deployment solution, which powers leading home solutions," iControl said.
In a prepared statement, Jason Domangue, iControl's VP of ecosystem development, said that program opens a new distribution channel for app developers. "FastTrack makes it easy and seamless for app developers to team with leading cable service providers for in-home distribution, and increases comfort and convenience for consumers by providing unique, innovative apps tailored for the smart home."
IControl announced the first five members of the partner program: Life360, which provides location and communication for families; MapQuest, which provides maps and traffic information; News Republic, which provides customizable global news alerts; TuneIn, which provides online radio and music streaming, and the Weather Channel, which provides detailed forecasts and future radar.
An app developers kit is available on the company's website. "Certified applications will live in iControl's marketplace and become accessible to millions of consumers around the globe," the company said.
After the May 20 F5 tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., we ran several stories about how the security industry was affected by the storm. Since, then, I've heard from others in the industry about their experiences.
Securadyne Systems, an independent integrator based in Dallas, which has a branch office in Oklahoma City, has helped out with the recovery efforts in Moore.
Following is an excerpt of a report that Securadyne's Abe Romero sent along to me.
On June 19 Securadyne Systems had 18 volunteers from branches in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Dallas working on the recovery effort in Moore. The photo below shows some of those volunteers.
One of Securadyne Systems' own employees was directly affected by the storm. Tracy Simon, an enterprise account executive in the Oklahoma City branch, spearheaded the effort to work with the Help Moore Rebuild disaster relief organization. Simon's home was damaged during the tornado and her daughter's middle school was completely destroyed.
At the relief organization's headquarters, the team was briefed on the types of jobs available throughout the Moore area. The Securadyne team helped clean-up a huge debris field scattered with the remains of homes destroyed in the nearby neighborhoods.
After the work was done, the group toured the areas of damage. "The most touching and challenging part of the visit was the stop at the Plaza Elementary school makeshift memorial. Plaza Elementary took the brunt of the tornado's fury on that fateful day and a number of children and teachers lost their lives. The day of volunteering reinforced the importance of giving back to our communities, which is a central component of our company's core values," according a company statement. The photo below shows the memorial.
There was additional speculation this week about whether activist hedge-fund manager William Ackman is intending to take a stake in The ADT Corp. An article in The New York Times said that his investing in the home security/home automation giant is more likely than his buying into FedEx, another company he is rumored to be considering.
The article said that's basically because Ackman would have less say in FedEx, a much larger company than ADT, where he could wield greater influence.
There's a possibility we could find out the answer later this week. Bloomberg reported July 9 that Ackman, who runs $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, was raising $1 billion over the next 10 days to buy a stake in a "large-capitalization, investment-grade U.S. corporation that principally operates in one business" that he didn't name.
If he's successful, that would mean he'd have the money by this Thursday or Friday and he could reveal his pick then. However, he also could wait until later this year before announcing the choice, Nicholas Heymann, co-group head of global industrial infrastructure for New York-based William Blair & Company, told me.
"The issue is once you raise the money you have to put it to work," he said. However, Heymann said, "chances are, especially if it happens to be including some of his other 12 billion dollars of funds that he manages in addition to the $1 billion single stock fund, you and I are not going to know what his positions are until they're reported 45 days after the close of the quarter, so we could end up hearing about this in mid-November." The news could come earlier if Ackman chooses to voluntarily disclose it, Heymann said.
ADT has told Security Systems News the company does not comment on market rumors.
But some other important industry news is also related to ADT, and that's the recent announcement that Monitronics plans to acquire Security Networks next month.
"We continue to look at the ramifications of the Security Networks acquisition by Monitronics as it relates to the implied value of ADT," Heymann said.
In a July 11 William Blair & Company industry report authored by Heymann, the company explained how that pending deal sheds light on the value of ADT. Here's some more detail from the report:
Our belief that ADT remains the most undervalued company in our multi-industry universe was starkly highlighted with the announcement after the close yesterday that Ascent Capital Group's (ASCMA $84.15) primary operating subsidiary, Monitronics International, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Security Networks for total compensation of $507.5 million, or about 60 times Security Networks' average recurring monthly revenue. Before the announcement of this transaction, Monitronics was the third-largest North American residential security company and Security Networks was the 14th-largest. Following the completion of the proposed acquisition, the combined company will have 1.034 million customers (almost the same number as Protection One, the current second-largest North American residential security provider) and, on a pro forma basis, hold just under a 4% share of the North American residential security market.
… The valuation paid for Network Securities by Monitronics would value ADT between $67 and $74 per share. On an implied market capitalization basis, ADT would be valued in a range of $15.4 billion-$16.8 billion, well above the company's current $9.2 billion market capitalization.
Our belief that ADT remains the most undervalued company in our multi-industry universe was starkly highlighted with the announcement after the close yesterday that Ascent Capital Group's (ASCMA $84.15) primary operating subsidiary, Monitronics International, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Security Networks for total compensation of $507.5 million, or about 60 times Security Networks' average recurring monthly revenue. Before the announcement of this transaction, Monitronics was the third-largest North American residential security company and Security Networks was the 14th-largest. Following the completion of the proposed acquisition, the combined company will have 1.034 million customers (almost the same number as Protection One, the current second-largest North American residential security provider) and, on a pro forma basis, hold just under a 4% share of the North American residential security market.
… The valuation paid for Network Securities by Monitronics would value ADT between $67 and $74 per share. On an implied market capitalization basis, ADT would be valued in a range of $15.4 billion-$16.8 billion, well above the company's current $9.2 billion market capitalization.
ADT stock closed at $42.68 per share today. That's down 28 cents or .65 percent from its $42.96 close yesterday and Heymann speculated later today that talk that Ackmann was NOT interested in buying into ADT may have caused the drop, the opposite of last week when ADT stock climbed based on speculation that Ackman was interested. "We think Ackman may have been at this big hedge fund meeting this afternoon and said something that implied he was NOT looking at ADT ... or an ADT type company," Heymann told me in an email this afternoon.
So which company does Ackman have his sights on? The situation is decidedly very fluid, and very interesting. I'll be reporting more on this. Stay tuned!
The trend of municipalities outsourcing false alarm collection services continues, and as in past instances, the most recent agreement involves Irving, Texas-based PMAM, a global IT firm with four U.S. offices and an office in Mumbai. Their slogan is "Around the World, Around the Clock," so you can see why their false alarm tracking and billing services might appeal to cities hoping to nip the problem in the bud.
According to an article from KSMU (Ozarks Public Radio) in Springfield, Mo., the police department in that city is the latest to do away with its in-house handling of false alarms, opting to transfer those duties to PMAM. Springfield Police Department dispatchers receive as many as 400 false alarm calls a month, the article noted.
Like any outsourcing move, the new arrangement saves resources, authorities say. In addition to being a drag on budgets, false alarms also stretch law enforcement in potentially harmful ways, sometimes preventing or delaying response to critical calls.
The advantage of outsourcing false alarm services to a company like PMAM is that, ideally, the IT giant has the capabilities to identify a false alarm, home in on the cause (an installation flaw or dated system is often the culprit), and then teach people how to avert future false dispatches, and the fines that eventually accompany them.
According to the article, the Springfield Police Department has received roughly 2,100 false alarm calls thus far in 2013. The city's ordinance levies a civil penalty fee, between $15 and $50, for those who have at least four false alarms. The charges escalate with each additional violation, according to the article.
False alarms are both a fiscal and logistical drain on towns and cities. But some of the things that might mitigate false dispatches, including system upgrades and more regular maintenance, are not always at the forefront of many customers' minds.
It seems that until there's more public awareness of the problem, and more measured steps to cripple the problem at its roots, municipal bodies are going to continue seeking out IT behemoths like PMAM for false alarm damage control.
The quest to reduce the dreaded attrition rate remains a high priority for anyone in the monitoring space, and companies continue to explore new ways to predict and prevent cancellations. Companies don't just track attrition rates; they look for clues, like usage patterns, that could yield information about whether certain customers may be more prone to stay or go.
While usage patterns remain a valuable tool for evaluating customers and forming effective business strategies (conventional wisdom says upsell to active users, and reduce prices to the less engaged), it's not the only predictor companies use. There is also a significant correlation between credit scores, or Beacon scores, and attrition rates, according to Michael Barnes, a partner in the consulting and advisory firm Barnes Associates, who in a response on the CSAA's Accent forum, said his firm reviewed data on over 2 million accounts. Here's a bit of what he had to say:
"Generally speaking, the correlation changes over four ranges of scoring. Below 600, the statistical experience is very bad. That is, the accounts have a very high cancellation rate. Between 600 and 650 the results improve dramatically, with a general inflection point around 620+/-, which is why so many dealer programs (and, in some cases credit facilities) have restrictions around this area of scoring."
Barnes added that scores above 700, in terms of attrition and retention, tend to behave the same as scores around 800. Scores in the ballpark of 650 tend to have poor cumulative performance, with the rates of cancellation almost twice as high over the first four years, Barnes notes. Unsurprisingly, rates of "infant mortality'—cancellations within the first year of existence—were exceedingly high among those with sub-650 Beacon scores, according to Barnes' data.
While the data sample is large enough to provide a thorough understanding of the relationship between credit scores and attrition, Barnes points out that some qualifications are needed, since a slew of factors can create exceptions. Some of these key variables include installation fees, services provided, pricing and payment method, and even geographic location.
The above graph, made for SSN in 2009 by the Edmonds Group, also charts the correlation between attrition rates and Beacon credit scores.
IR announced in December that it would spin off its security division, and earlier this month announced that the spin off would be called Allegion, On Monday announced that David Petratis will serve as CEO, president and chairman of it security spinoff, Allegion.
Petratis, who will start his new job on Aug. 5, will join Allegion from Quanex Building Products, where he is currently CEO, president and chairman. Quanex, based in Houston, is a manufacturer of building products.
IR CEO Michael Lamach called Petratis an "accomplished leader in the manufacturing and marketing of code-compliant, high-value products that are specified by architects and engineers, and used by commercial and residential builders," in a prepared statement.
Previously, Petratis was COO and CEO of Schneider Electric North America from 2003-2008, where he "grew its North American operations by more than $2 billion, doubled its revenue and completed several successful acquisitions." From 1994 to 2003, he was president of MGE UPS Systems Americas.
On Monday, Allegion also revealed its new logo.
Allegion will share IR's headquarters in Swords, Ireland, but its operations will be based in Carmel, Ind.
Allegion, a $2 billion company, will have 7,600 employees in 35 countries including 20 production and distribution facilities.
Earlier today, a participant in the Central Station Alarm Association listserv broached the topic of turnover in central stations. The author discussed several themes relevant to this topic, including the potentially negative impact on the bottom line, the strain on the training department, and the relationship between turnover and a central station's culture.
The redeeming point from the post was the author's statement that supervisors, rather than accepting a lack of continuity as inevitable, should instead take steps to better understand why people are leaving, and resolve to change the culture before more operators are out the door.
It's a highly sensible approach to addressing the problem. But in the monitoring world, it's easier said than done.
Steve Doyle, vice president and CEO of the Central Station Alarm Association, said turnover is a "perennial problem" for central stations, particularly when it comes to operator jobs, which are entry-level, often require late (or very early) "graveyard" shifts, and are seldom viewed as long-term career jobs.
Monitoring, of course, is not the only industry to encounter this problem. Traditional call centers, Doyle said, have an even higher rate of turnover. But while the issue may be native to the industry, there are steps central station managers can take to mitigate it.
Doyle said educational programs are a good idea. They can help operators "get a wider perspective of what they do, and how they relate to the authorities who have jurisdiction." Recognition is another means of decreasing turnover, he said. CSAA, in particular, has been at the vanguard in terms of recognizing central station operators, particularly through its CSAA Excellence Award for Operator of the Year, which was recently presented for the eighth year running. But individual central stations can also present their own intra-company award.
Certifications and awards have become a source of pride and credibility for many central stations, not to mention a form of public outreach, Doyle said.
"If you go around to central stations and see certifications on the wall, what they're saying to the public is that we didn't just put somebody in the chair here," he said. "We taught them the right way to do things."
The takeaway from my conversation with Doyle was that even a problem as persistent as central station turnover can, to some extent, be curtailed.
Is the activist hedge fund chief William Ackman planning to buy a significant stake in ADT? There's been some speculations that that's the case, and as a result ADT's stock price was way up yesterday. It rose 5.2 percent, its largest gain in months.
Ackman runs $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management. According to a Bloomberg report, Ackman is raising money over the next 10 days to buy a stake in an unnamed "large-capitalization, investment-grade U.S. corporation that principally operates in one business."
That information is from a letter that Bloomberg said Ackman sent to investors. He also said the stock trades at a lower multiple than its closest competitor and described the business as "simple, predictable, and free-cash-flow-generative, and enjoys high barriers to entry, high customer switching costs and substantial pricing power."
The new fund will be capped at $1 billion and will invest alongside the New York-based firm's main hedge funds, Bloomberg reported. Pershing will invest about 15 percent its $12 billion worth of capital in the same stock, "meaning the total investment could approach $3 billion. The firm, which already has a position in the stock, plans to buy more than 5 percent of the company and will talk to the board and management to bring about change."
I'd like to hear some speculation about what kind of change Ackman might have in mind. I called Sarah Cohn at ADT, who said that the company does not "comment on market rumors or speculation."
And this is all speculation, of course. Shares of FedEx were way up yesterday too, as some investors were betting that Ackman is looking at FedEx and not ADT.
Will keep you posted.
Fifteen days after the Senate passed S. 744—the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act—the House Republican caucus will hold a meeting to discuss immigration, just as the House prepares to tackle its own legislation, should it follow through on Speaker John Boehner's plans to scrap the Senate bill. The meeting, which will be private, is slated for Wednesday, July 10.
The Senate bill, which passed 68-32 on June 27, would earmark about $46 million to bolstering security on America's southern border over the next decade. The border security portion of the bill includes some large-scale provisions, most notably the installation of monitoring technology along the southern flank, the construction of an additional 700 miles of new—and higher—fencing, and a substantial increase in the number of Border Patrol agents.
Also included in the sprawling piece of legislation—it's nearly 2,000 pages in length—is a measure that would require foreign workers to carry biometrically verifiable ID cards, which include a photo and a fingerprint.
Last week I spoke to Marcus Dunn, director of government relations for the Security Industry Association, who said he was encouraged by this inclusion, and optimistic that even if the House does its own immigration bill, biometrics would remain part of the equation.
In our conversation, Dunn made a strong point regarding technology-based measures included in mammoth—and often polarizing—pieces of legislation like the Senate Immigration bill. Such measures, he said, have the advantage of being less emotionally charged than, say, debates about paths to citizenship, employment implications and wages. So, should the House take its time crafting piecemeal immigration reform, it's not unrealistic to imagine a technological solution preceding a policy one.
Testament to the relative emotional neutrality of some of the security measures can be found in the amendment package, proposed a day before the bill passed, by a pair of Republican Senators: Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and John Hoeven, R-N.D. Many of the aforementioned provisions were contained in their eleventh hour proposal, and several commentators have credited the amendment as a key reason the bill gained enough bipartisan support to pass. It doesn't seem like a stretch to say that the security portion of the bill was crucial in allowing the Senate to function as it's supposed to: like a political "cooling saucer," a chamber where cooler heads prevail and compromise can be struck. In an era defined by deep ideological fissures in Washington, these things cannot be taken for granted.
With political pressure mounting to get some kind of legislation passed, the meeting scheduled for Wednesday bears close watching. Will Speaker Boehner backtrack on his statements about the House doing its own legislation, or stand firm? Will the Senate bill be jettisoned, or does it have more support in the House than many think? For my part, I'll be looking for what lawmakers have to say about that $46 billion figure. Stay tuned...
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"[Blank] is the best [blank] never to win [blank]."
It comes up all the time. How long did we hear "Phil Mickelson is the best golfer never to win a major"? Then he finally won the 2004 Masters and sights turned to Sergio... who still hasn't won a major. Virtually everyone fills in those blanks with "Dan Marino" and "Ernie Banks" when discussing the Super Bowl and World Series, respectively. For a while, there was another foregone conclusion:
"Tony Kanaan is the best driver never to win the Indy 500."
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The 38-year-old hit the groove on a late restart, overtaking Ryan Hunter-Reay in Turn 1, just before three-time champ Dario Franchitti -- to mixing racing metaphors -- took to wreckin' and brought back the yellow flag. Kanaan cruised the final three laps to win the 97th Indianapolis 500. It was the fastest on record, topping Arie Luyendyk's first win in 1990. The 68 lead changes shattered the previous record of exactly half that. The race also saw 14 different drivers lead a lap, yet another record, but Kanaan led the most important one.
I had heard a lot of experts pick Helio Castroneves to join the elite four-Indy-wins club. Helio did finish a respectable sixth. They got the Brazilian part right; they just picked the wrong Brazilian.
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The question now becomes: who's next? Who is the next "best driver never to win the Indy 500"? It's up for some debate but, for my money, the fireproof gauntlet has been thrown down squarely in front of Australia's Ryan Briscoe.
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Is this the beginning of the end for HP?
The iconic tech company takes an $8.8 billion impairment charge related to accounting improprieties at Autonomy. The rest of its quarter was dismal as well.
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Shares of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) were trading down nearly 10% Tuesday after the Silicon Valley stalwart reported that it took an $8.8 billion charge upon finding "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy, a company it acquired in 2011. Oh, let's not forget that the Palo Alto, Calif. company also reported earnings that were god-awful.
HP's announcement regarding Autonomy is simply mind-blowing. Though the company wasn't using the word, CNBC's David Faber described it as "massive fraud." If that's true, it's huge, not Enron- or Worldcom-huge, but enormous nonetheless.
This raises many disturbing questions. How could have HP, its investment bankers, auditors and lawyers been so thoroughly snookered by Autonomy? The first clue that something was amiss came in May when HP CEO Meg Whitman fired Autonomy CEO and founder Mike Lynch, who originally was supposed to stay on and run the company after it was acquired. At the time, investors linked the ouster to Autonomy's poor performance, CNET reported.
Whitman wasn't responsible for the Autonomy deal. That distinction belongs to Leo Apotheker, one of three HP CEOs who have been ousted. Apotheker had argued that the Autonomy deal was needed to enable the company to break its dependence on the PC. In that respect, the acquisition was a dismal failure.
Now that its accounting has come into question, HP should immediately try to recoup some, if not all of the $25 million golden parachute that Apotheker received, according to CNNMoney. CNBC reported that HP has contacted law enforcement officials in the U.K, where Autonomy is based. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice may get involved as well.
Most investors will probably overlook the HP's quarterly results in the wake of the accounting bombshell. Unfortunately, there wasn't much good news there either. The company reported a net loss of $6.85 billion, or $3.84 per share, an improvement from a loss of $8.86 billion, or $4.49 per share, according to the company's earnings press release. Revenue fell 7% to $30 billion. Excluding one-time items, the company earned $1.16 per share. For those keeping score, HP was forecast to earn $1.14 per share on revenue of $30.4 billion.
Going forward, the company is expected to earn between 68 cents and 71 cents in the first fiscal quarter, way under the 85 cents that analysts had expected. Earnings per share for the year are seen at $3.40 to $3.60. Analysts' expectations were for $4.04 per share.
HP's big problem is hardly a secret: the company has failed to adapt to the post-PC world. This is painfully obvious. Hardware volumes plunged 20% and both desktops and notebooks units were down 12%. Apple (APPL), among others, continues to decimate HP.
Meg Whitman has been tasked with cleaning up the mess that her predecessors made. She's already announced plans to slash 29,000 workers by the end of fiscal 2014, Bloomberg reported. With Tuesday's news about potential massive fraud, her job just got much more difficult. HP may eventually be forced to find a suitor but it seems unlikely that will happen until the Autonomy issues are resolved.
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I remember about 5 years ago I went to the store to replace my ink cartridge, it was used up. I saw the price was $95.00, seemed way to high, I then noticed a new printer was $110.00. I told a near by store clerk that landfills are going to be full of my old printers as I might as well by a new one for the price difference, she looked at me and said I get much more value out of buying just the cartridge. I asked how do you figure that? She said they only fill the cartridges in the new printers half full..............
So to me it seems like the company has been a bit dirty all along so no surprise that it goes all the way to the top. Ussually comes from the top doesn't it?
Guessing they don't like the "paperless society" idea.
Well, "What did you expect?" or "Of course another TBTF company is in trouble." Take your pick. No American business really concentrates seriously on the business of doing business. Its all about politics. It's all about giving people the business. There probably hasn't been any old-fashioned, serious, business conducted by American companies in over 45-years,
Business is all about politics. Union busting. Employee busting. Customer busting. Lobbying to bust unions and employees. running away from standing behind the product produced. Special interests organized to skirt the consequences of producing poisons that kill people, that kill the land, that kill the world, that kill the planet. Why else would a company advertise itself as "We bring good things to life . . . ." if the exact opposite wasn't actually taking place. Gotta love that old PR.
Business is all about politics. Downsizing. Butt-sizing. Pay-check-sizing. Out-sourcing. In-sourcing, creating H1B visa systems to kick Americans out of their jobs by foreigners right here at "home." Globalization, which is nothing more than making a moveble plague of Capitalism. Jobs for some, starvation for the many.
No American company knows how to either run a business or even do business unless it is giving the business to as many people as it can. Phony accounting practices. Non-existent safety practices. Obscene bonuses. Fraud. Theft. Cronyism. Bullyism. Thugism. Non-existent accounting practices. Under-funded (read "raided") pension plans. Non-existent health insurance plans. Phony bankruptcies. The list of criminal behavior is endless.
Meanwhile, the whole world goes off a cliff.
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16941. Federal assistance with respect to violations of registration requirements. 16942. Project Safe Childhood. 16943. Federal assistance in identification and location of sex offenders relocated as a result of a major disaster. 16944. Expansion of training and technology efforts. 16945. Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking.
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16961. Access to national crime information databases. 16962. Schools SAFE Act. SUBCHAPTER II—CIVIL COMMITMENT OF DANGEROUS SEX OFFENDERS 16971. Jimmy Ryce State civil commitment programs for sexually dangerous persons. SUBCHAPTER III—GRANTS AND OTHER PROVISIONS 16981. Pilot program for monitoring sexual offenders. 16982. Assistance for prosecution of cases cleared through use of DNA backlog clearance funds. 16983. Grants to combat sexual abuse of children. 16984. Grants for fingerprinting programs for children. 16985. Grants for Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. 16986. Children's safety online awareness campaigns. 16987. Grants for online child safety programs. 16988. Jessica Lunsford Address Verification Grant Program. 16989. Fugitive Safe Surrender. 16990. National registry of substantiated cases of child abuse. 16991. Annual report on enforcement of registration requirements.
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Charlie and Audri totally look alike!!! I bet when they are older people will think they are twins since they are so close together in age.
And Bridget, I would trust you completely with my kids. Having to pick up a child a little early is not big deal. I'm sure the parents understand the position you are in and this incident specifically was caused through no fault of your own. As long as the kids are happy and enjoy coming to you, I'm sure the parents won't have any problems with leaving their LOs in your care.
Okay, tell me if I'm crazy.
DH has been talking about flying back for 4th of July weekend, which I'm really excited about. One drawback - I'll be around CD5 so no possible chance of TTC if I see him that weekend. He told me tonight he's getting another 4 day weekend in "about 2 weeks." Right now I'm on CD 8 of a 30-35 day cycle. Is it worth the money to fly him out that weekend on the chance the timing is right? Oh, and to see him, of course. That would be nice, too.
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Yikes. I've been hearing sirens and I noticed one stopping near our house and my dogs were barking, so I went and looked out the front window. We live on the edge of a residential area by a major street, and there are businesses along the big street. There are currently 9 fire vehicles (fire trucks, paramedics, "public information officer" vehicles, etc.) and 2 police cars parked at a business across the street. The place is crawling with firemen, and there is definitely a hose running from the trucks to the doorway. I don't see any flames, but I think I see smoke coming out the door. There are firemen up on the roof doing something. And there are about 3 random cars parked outside my house just watching the activity.
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And Ashley, I keep meaning to comment on how adorable your girls are.
Oh, and I thought that picture of Megan Fox on the beach was gross. A six pack on a woman just isn't....womanly. Or maybe it's just her that bugs me because every interview I read is her talking about how hard it is to be hot.
My brother just called me. He's with my mom. He's really upset because he says she keeps getting mad at him and telling him to stop confusing her when her tries to help her. That's how she's been. They had to take her from hospice to the hospital to put a tube in her arm for a different type of pain medicine that will go directly to her nerve. My dad and older brother went with her and while they were taking her in the room she was asking my dad if he was trying to kill her. My brother said that my dad just looked like he wanted to curl up and die right there. He lives and breathes for this woman and I know for him to have to think for one moment that she thinks he's trying to hurt her is just.....too much.
She thinks everyone is trying to hurt her, kill her, trick her, confuse her and has this look of fear on her face all the time. It's so awful. She's also been saying really weird things like, "The cats are coming and I have no clothes on"
I really don't think I'm going to tell her I'm pregnant. It's hard to explain but it's been on my mind non-stop. If I were to tell her when she was of sound mind I think she'd say, "Oh, Bridget..." and then she'd express all her worry about dbf's lack of help, our small house, our small income....and then eventually she'd get to being happy about it. But with her condition right now, her thought process is only going to be the first thought she has. Not sure I can take it if she has a negative reaction. Is that selfish. I suppose eventually when I tell my dad, I'll ask him what he thinks.
That must be so hard, Bridget.
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Bridget -
I know, there's been far too much sadness on APA lately. It just breaks my heart what people have been going through.
On a lighter note, is Katy around?? I need her baking expertise.
I made some maple syrup cookies and they're sickly sweet. I don't want to eat them, but I was wondering whether I could use them as the base for another desert - maybe crumble them into some kind of custard or cheesecake type thing?
Pie crust?
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Me Katy?
I would dry them out in a low oven and them crush them and use them for a cheesecake or pie crust - same recipe and proportion as graham cracker. Except if they are really super sweet you could probably decrease the sugar. Or make your own ice cream bars -
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I confess DH just called and he's going to fly home next weekend! We'll have 3 days together! And it should be right around O time!
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Hugs to you, Bridget.
To whomever contrasted the joy and sadness - it's a real reflection of life. Our culture so much avoids death as an integral part of life that we seem to forget that pain and sadness is as important to the fabric of this living thing as is joy. Makes me a little crazy.
I, for one, think Bridget is a pretty amazing example of a woman able to live successfully in this pretty tenuous balance.
Stacy, . Reading that honestly touched my heart.
And......now I'm bawling.


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Dog Walkers With Multiple Dogs
How many is too many?
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I wonder exactly what is being accomplished by dogs being walked in large groups like this. Is it purely to allow them to relieve themselves? Because I can't imagine they get many chances to sniff. And for big dogs, leash walks aren't usually vigorous enough to provide serious exercise.
I guess it's only about the poop.
Some communities are passing laws mandating limits but I think the key will be for dog guardians to think seriously about what they're hoping to do for their dogs and make sure the dog walker provides that experience.
Submitted by Anonymous | September 10 2010 | Permalink
How many dogs is to many for a dog walker to handle. I have been a pet care professional for over a decade. Yes, there are many issues with inexperienced walkers with no education in canine behavior walking far to many dogs. There are also extremely responsible and experienced dog walkers who are also certified trainers walking groups that are matched for compatibility.
Submitted by Deborah | September 12 2010 | Permalink
I would never pay someone to walk my dogs when he/she is walking several at the same time. No way.
Submitted by anonymous | September 13 2010 | Permalink
My struggles are with dog walkers at the dog park. They'll have as many as ten dogs. How are they supposed to manage ten dogs in the narrow sections of the park? What if there's a dog fight? How can anyone wrangle ten dogs in that situation? I've had walkers complain about my son in the park because he has a funny gait. It's not a problem for people with one, two or three dogs, but for some reason a walker with ten dogs has a problem with him. I think they should limit the numbers of dogs any one person can bring to the park, especially for profit!!
Submitted by SaraG | September 13 2010 | Permalink
Submitted by Anonymous | October 3 2013 | Permalink
A fee really is not appropriate. If a dog walker didn't take the dogs then the same dogs would go there with there owner. Worse still, prices would have to go up to cover the cost and owners would prefer to leave their dog at home without the break.
Submitted by Julia | September 13 2010 | Permalink
Hello from Western Australia
My husband and I have 3 dogs of our own plus we foster dogs for rescue groups. We know our limit is 3 dogs each but it is unusual to have that many and often it is an emergency situation for us to have 3 foster dogs in residence. So its more likely that we have our 3 and 1 foster dog.
We vary what we do with the dogs including formal training, & funtime at home and time as a group in an off leash area. We also take them around the local area for a walk. We have several reasons for this. One is to get the foster dog used to all the scary things out there in the world and see from us, and the other 3 dogs, that it's nothing to be worried about. We have also found the walk is a good way to get new dogs to integrate into the "pack" that will be their home until they are adopted.
However, it has taken a lot of effort and hard work to be able to walk 4 dogs at once and I agree with a previous post on how in tune you have to be with body language etc. I have found the "discipline" of the walk for the pack to be an invaluable tool in creating calm, non reactive and confident dogs. Even when idiots decide to "buzz" us on their bikes or yell out to try and get a reaction - we even had someone use a loud horn several times to get the dogs to react - I am proud to say our pack just kept on walking.
However, the walk is only one tool and is not a substitute for other activities as a group or one on one depending on the needs of the dogs. It does take experience and skill but you only get those my actually doing things.
Submitted by Margaret | September 14 2010 | Permalink
I totally agree with the statements made in this article and the other commenters' points. I recently moved to northern CA from Seattle and have seen some interesting differences. In Seattle it is not uncommon at all to see dog walkers at the dog parks with 10-12 OR MORE dogs per ONE person (Ive counted as many as 16 dogs to 1 person before). In fact, to see a dog walker at the OLAs with less than 6-8 dogs is an anomaly. However, in California it is LAW that no dog walker have more than 6 dogs. Depending on the city, it is also often law in parks/dog parks for there to be no more than 2-3 dogs per person, and people with more (dog walkers) need a permit and still can not have more than 6 dogs. I was so shocked and PLEASED when I started seeing these laws around here in CA. Other cities & OLAs need to follow suit.
Submitted by Anonymous | September 17 2010 | Permalink
I agree. I exercise dogs and I never take more than four, usually two, (however one client has three little dogs, so they are a package deal.) I do what is best for the dogs, not whats best or most convenient for me, and carefully monitor their safety and comfort. I take my job very seriously, i do not make a lot of money doing it, but i do it because i love it. period. it is the source of great joy and entertainment and is very educational too. I find that when off leash, playtime is fun for all and they stay together and romp in a safe area (they must be compatible / friends or they do not walk at the same time) and if really troublesome, i say it is not a good fit and suggest they find someone else. However, i like to give a fair chance to everyone when possible. Often times, the problems originate more with the owners than with the dogs. ahem...I think everyone should become more educated about doggie body language and communication in order to prevent incidents. And yes, I do pick up the poop. I sometimes put a model dog together with another dog who needs doggie social lessons and it works wonders. When a dog is with you, they are top priority just like they are your dog -at that moment, they are... They are your responsibility. Period. I too cringe when i see a picture of someone walking so many dogs, usually in a city. Sometimes people show me a picture on their iphone of this and say, hey, you could do that too and make big bucks, and I say, Nope, thats not for me. sure i know it is possible to do, but i would rather not. Dogs are precious beings and you are responsible for their wellbeing. It is not just about bucks. If you have a mishap, guess what, the bucks stop there. and at what price ? ~ And so I say to other dog walkers, be attentive, and responsible to the needs, happiness and comfort of the doggies you have with you as well as those around you. Be a good steward. You are a human and you are supposed to have good sense. ~~Ahem. There is a lot to be learned from observing dogs. Pay attention and take note.
Submitted by Yvonne | August 15 2013 | Permalink
We have enough legislation...leave people and their pets alone.
Submitted by Wren | March 23 2014 | Permalink
We live out in the country on 120 acres and operate an alpaca farm and sanctuary, so we also have a few donkeys, horses, a rescued hog, chickens, etc. We utilize three LGDs (Great Pyrenees) in order to provide optimum protection of the other animals, especially the alpacas, from the many types of predator wildlife we have here. A public road runs through our property and we have animals on both sides. For years, our LGDs have been guarding our land, and they pretty much just do that - they don't wander away for miles or any such thing. Anyway, we have a neighbor on 50 acres north of us who moved there from the city. This neighbor now has about 14 dogs and she elects to walk her dogs past several farms, including ours, almost every day. She walks ALL of them at the same time. This is quite a spectacle to see, and it has been overall both amusing to look at but worrisome, too. She walks down the middle of the road with the dogs spread out the entire or most of the width of the roadway. This alone is dangerous around certain bends and rises in the roadway, but what became a huge problem and changed everything for us here is she started unclipping two or three of her dogs routinely, right when getting to our property, and our dogs, who we were told were "okay" being on the road to get to our other barns, go to the other side, etc., were still there. That still might have not been an issue had her dogs not run down onto and into our property by many yards and even attacked our senior Pyr, so his partner jumped to his defense and attacked the attacker, pinning him down. No blood, just a bit of pee and a firm tail between his legs and our girl let the boy up to run back to his "handler/mom." Ever since that time and another (similar experience) our dogs do not trust hers...especially those she has continually taken off lead. Yes, ours have been off lead, but they have been home and years ago we were told we weren't doing anything wrong and were okay. NOW she has more dogs and more tension, so the dogs are more nervous and she got really mad at us for our dogs being there, and threatened very loudly to "shoot them." I heard her from inside my home office and looked out - no attack was happening, no violence, just her continually shouting this threat to shoot our dogs as she continued to walk. I thought I should call her number and leave a message that I heard her and didn't feel it helpful...that we would all need to make some changes (like please don't walk them by unleashed) and if we could know WHEN she was coming, perhaps we could have the dogs somewhere else, though this time of year the bear come right off the hill and cross that road to where the alpacas are. Anyway, this enraged her, and she came over here in her truck, got out screaming, banged on two of my doors with her fists yelling at the top of her lungs and when I answered the door and went outside she continued and so violently she was spitting all over my face...she was in an out of control rage so bad that we (three of us here) ultimately had to call the state police...we opted to file a report but not press charges. Truly, we are concerned for her mental state. She had slammed her body into me twice with her fists clinched. We didn't now what she'd do. Anyway, she filed a complaint against us for our dogs and the dog control officer in our tiny little country town called and told us the laws had changed and that we now would have to do whatever necessary to not allow the dogs to get on the road (unless leashed) or even to cross the road to the other half of the property (again, unless leashed). She did not issue a ticket - and I think it's because she remembered telling me a couple of years ago we were "a.o.k." Whatever...but this woman has lied and said she's never had any of her dogs off lead when she does unclip the leashes for at least three of the now 14 or more dogs she has acquired from NYC and NJ. I never see her holding a bag of poop or anything for that, either during her miles long walks. Other farmers and home/property owners have also had problems and told her to keep her dogs off their property, yet unless she walks down the middle of the roadway, she and/or her dogs WILL end up on other people's property, including ours - and that is what our dogs guard quite protectively. She's not a professional dog walker - just a private person who "rescues" all types of dogs all the time. I think that's great, but why on earth doesn't she either get several people to walk two or three each with her on these walks so they can walk on the SIDE edge of the road like they're supposed to? WHY doesn't she obey the leash law on that public access roadway? WHY doesn't she cut trails and maybe a cool agility trial set-up on her 50 acres of fields and woodlands? Why doesn't she make any alterations at all with some understanding of our farm business here and perhaps choose to walk in any of the four other directions she could go in especially considering now that HER dogs started it all and have attacked ours ON OUR PROPERTY and caused the whole distrust among the dogs to begin with? Now we are all having to make major changes and the dogs here are going to be very confused....all because of her irresponsibility. The initial attacks HER dogs instigated, and on our property - not the public road - and we opted not to prosecute her; however now she's called the dog control officer on us...(sigh). Such a disappointment. This is the country - wide open spaces - not a city. I don't know how in the world anyone could or should be allowed to walk 14 or more dogs in any more urban environment, for sure, because it doesn't even work HERE. There is no way she could control a situation should anything happen at all out of the norm or "event-less." She is in danger when she opts to walk so many at once, and so are those dogs the way she walks down these roads. Tractors and other farm vehicles need to go by, horses, Amish in their buggies, regular cars and trucks, like speedy UPS and FedEx delivery guys. We knew we were taking our chances a little bit and I was putting out a prayer every day for protection of our LGDs as they have guarded both sides of the road so well (and so necessarily). Plus, it seemed more logical (and affordable) than trying to fence and gate (dog proof) BOTH sides of over a mile of road frontage, plus we'd need dog-proof gates on our driveways, too! Sorry for the long post, but this is the only experience we've had with a "dog walker with multiple dogs."
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