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|Durreen Shahnaz
In the twenty years of her extensive career, Ms Durreen Shahnaz has had experience as a banker, media executive, social entrepreneur and also an adjunct associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Ms Durreen has contributed tremendously to the community, with her efforts evident through the founding and chairing of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), Asia's first social stock exchange which helps Asian social enterprises raise growth capital.
A woman with a heart of gold, she also runs Shujog, an advocacy, research and capacity building non-profit social enterprise. Ms Durreen was also the founder of oneNest, a social enterprise and global marketplace for handmade goods which connects village artisans to the rest of the world.
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|Fanny Lai
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|Jacelyn Tay
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Ms Tay's zest for healthy living prompted her to start The Health Club (now known as Body Inc.). Coupling her spirit for enterprise with the belief in natural healing remedies, Ms Tay's venture into healthcare grew her clinic that specialises in Chinese herbal remedies to one that also offers spa services and holistic medical treatments.
Laura Hwang
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|Eleanor Wong
Ms Eleanor Wong is a local playwright and the Director of the Legal Skills Programme Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore.
Eloquent and discerning, she prosecuted several high profile commercial and securities frauds as a deputy public prosecutor at the beginning of her career. She subsequently ventured into the media industry to join The Right Angle, a local production company where she was involved in business development, corporate affairs, technology ventures, communications training and consultancy.
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|Georgina Chang
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It's a partnership: The role of the Study Abroad Office and the Faculty Leader
Study Abroad Office
The Study Abroad Office is responsible for coordinating all faculty-led study abroad programs at Kansas State University. Faculty members wishing to design a faculty-led study abroad program are encouraged to contact the Study Abroad Office as early in the design process as possible. The Study Abroad Office will provide departments and faculty with assistance and support during all phases of program development and implementation.
Faculty Leaders
Faculty who choose to be involved in faculty-led study abroad programming often make the commitment because they know that study abroad programs can significantly enrich students' undergraduate and graduate education. Faculty-led study abroad programs can be satisfying for faculty as well, not only because of the travel, but also because of the opportunity to provide a hands-on, exciting academic experience for students. The Faculty Leader's role is crucial. He/she must design all academic aspects of the program, manage program logistics, and then implement a high-quality program that is managed responsibly from the standpoint of risk management.
Planning and implementing a faculty-led study abroad program is labor-intensive and truly a group effort. The faculty member enters into a partnership with the Study Abroad Office and the Office of International Programs. Successful implementation also will necessitate that the department's accountant work closely with the Office of International Programs' accountant.
It is helpful to articulate the role of the Faculty Leader and the Study Abroad Office. While every program is unique, this outline provides an understanding of what is involved in implementing a faculty-led study abroad program at K-State.
The Study Abroad Office agrees to do the following:
- Collaborate with the University Attorneys to ensure that faculty-led program policies and procedures are in full compliance with the State of Kansas' laws and regulations.
- Collaborate with the Provost to ensure that faculty-led programs operate in compliance with the rules and guidelines mandated by the Kansas Board of Regents and Kansas State University.
- Keep abreast of current standards in international education as well as K-State policies and procedures.
- Maintain relationships with institutional partners abroad.
- Sponsor mandatory Faculty Leader Workshop, including information on health and safety, emergency protocols and response, international medical insurance, risk management, Counseling Services, Lafene Travel Clinic, etc.
- Direct emergency and crisis plans, including the 24-hour Study Abroad Office Emergency Phone Line.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with step-by-step information and handbooks on the administration of faculty-led programs, development and management of program finances, risk management, health, safety, and emergency procedures (these handbooks are available on the Study Abroad Office website).
- Supply all necessary forms such as student application materials, incident report forms, program evaluation forms, etc.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with information about and contact details for third party program providers who can assist faculty with various levels of logistical support.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with information about and contacts for K-State's partner universities abroad.
- Assist the Faculty Leader in developing a program timeline.
- Assist the Faculty Leader in developing a program proposal and budgets in accordance with Office of International Programs guidelines.
- Assist the Faculty Leader in developing a program proposal and budgets in accordance with Office of International Programs guidelines.
- Create student payment schedule so participants will be aware of how much and when they have to make payments for their program.
- Assist the Faculty Leader in researching information on country-specific visas (if required by the host country), travel warnings and alerts as posted by the U.S. Department of State, and health information and immunization recommendations as outlined by the Center for Disease Control.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with information for visa processing service agencies and foreign consulates in the U.S.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with information concerning optional supplemental travel insurance.
- May provide referrals for travel agents and program providers which the Office of International Programs has successfully worked with in the past.
- Collaborate with the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Finance in obtaining signatory approval for third party provider contracts, as required by the University Attorneys.
- Be available to assist the Faculty Leader with the design and production of publicity brochures, flyers, and posters.
- Assist the academic college, department, and Faculty Leader in strategically advertising to and informing students of the study abroad program during meetings, classroom visits, study abroad fairs, and other recruitment events.
- Post program information and include in the Study Abroad Office online program search wizard.
- Advise students about program information, application process, payment plan, financial aid process, scholarships, acceptance process, international medical insurance, etc.
- Distribute, collect, and process comprehensive student application materials as required by the University Attorneys and Office of International Programs.
- Review and screen student applicants; admit students into the program in consultation with the Faculty Leader; and send notice of official acceptance to students via e-mail.
- Distribute Third Party Program Provider paperwork to students and collect/return paperwork to the provider.
- Liaise with the Division of Continuing Education (DCE) to set-up the appropriate course(s) associated with the program to ensure that students receive the proper credit for the experience.
- Advise the CIAC regarding what has worked well or has not worked well in the past for faculty-led programs, such as number of participants, cost, and other detailed information.
- Provide proposal summaries to the CIAC to conduct the peer evaluation of the program proposals.
- Liaise with the Office of Student Financial Assistance to confirm students' participation in study abroad and to create official student cost sheets so that students may be eligible to request additional financial aid need for the program.
- Collaborate with the Office of Admissions to assist qualified non-K-State students in applying to the university as non-degree seeking students.
- Assist the Registrar's Office and academic colleges and departments to facilitate the transfer of credit as appropriate.
- Liaise with the K-State Lafene Travel Clinic to offer health and safety information resources and services to students studying abroad.
- Issue international medical insurance to the students and the Faculty Leader as required by University Attorneys and the Office of International Programs.
- Provide assistance to the Faculty Leader for the student pre-departure orientation, including information on health and safety, emergency contact information, international health insurance information, etc.
- Monitor the DCE course approval process and student enrollment.
- Grant students permission to enroll in the course via ISIS and notify students when course enrollment is open.
- Create an organizational safe-keeping account for the program, which is less restrictive than a state account, enabling Faculty Leaders to have more flexible spending options and allowing cash advances, checks, and refunds to be processed in a matter of days.
- Handle monetary transactions, including collection of student program fees and disbursement of student funds. Provide students with receipts.
- Receive and process third party program provider invoices and faculty travel advances so that the Faculty Leader does not have to completely rely upon personal funding and wait for reimbursement.
- Provide the Faculty Leader with reviewer access to view the students' study abroad applications, emergency contacts information, and passport copies to have in the case of an emergency abroad.
- Assist the Faculty Leader in addressing student behavior, health, and safety issues.
- Process Faculty Leader reimbursements for costs which were not included in the travel advance.
- Process student refunds after program is complete, if not all estimated expenses were incurred.
- Manage the Faculty Leader's program-specific compensation contract.
- Transfer student tuition dollars to academic department account to pay faculty salary or DRA (Development Reserve Account – used at department's discretion).
- Conduct program evaluation with students and faculty leader following conclusion of program. The Study Abroad Office carefully reviews program evaluations and makes improvements as needed.
- Send the Faculty Leader a summary report of students' program evaluations following conclusion of program.
Faculty leading a faculty-led study abroad program should agree to do the following:
- Develop working knowledge of the Study Abroad Office's faculty leader handbooks, resources available on the website, reviewer access in the online system, and proposal development and review processes
- Work with the Study Abroad Advisor for your college to develop a program proposal and budgets in accordance with Office of International Programs guidelines
- Participate in mandatory Faculty Leader Workshop, which will include information on health and safety, emergency protocols and response, international medical insurance, risk management, Counseling Services, Lafene Travel Clinic, etc.
- Direct emergency and crisis plans, including the 24-hour Study Abroad Office Emergency Phone Line.
- Design academic and professional aspects of the program.
- Verify academic integrity of the program, including any courses taken at a host institution abroad.
- Present and obtain approval for program proposal and budgets by the department head, the college dean, and the Study Abroad Office.
- Work with K-State Room Services or academic department to schedule classroom space for on-campus pre-travel and post-travel class meetings.
- May elicit bids to third party program providers.
- May negotiate with third party program provider on matters relating to contract and pricing, marketing of the program, on-site orientation, etc.
- Take primary responsibility for designing all logistical aspects of program, including accommodations, transportation, cultural site visits, tours, lectures, etc.
- Unless working with a program provider, consider designating a secondary leader who will travel with the group for the entire program. This can be another faculty member, staff member, or graduate student assistant.
- Collaborate with academic college and department to designate a back-up Faculty Leader in case the original Faculty Leader is not able to lead/manage the group due to severe illness or emergency.
- Designate a local contact to lead and manage the group in the event that the Faculty Leader becomes incapacitated.
- Request vehicle (car, bus, boat, etc.) insurance policies for transportation that will be used in the host country. Submit this information to the Study Abroad Office.
- Work with the Study Abroad Office to review and approve all recruitment materials associated with the program.
- In partnership with academic college and department, take on primary responsibility for marketing the program to students and actively recruiting them to participate in it.
- Organize and make short classroom presentations in order to recruit students for the program.
- Arrange information meetings during the semester for students who are interested in the program or for those who have already completed an application.
- Participate in Study Abroad Office semi-annual Study Abroad Fairs and other recruiting events.
- Work with the Study Abroad Office to approve student applications through the online application system. Verify which students you approve to participate in the program. Direct students to appropriate visa service agencies.
- Submit the final host country itinerary that provides the in-country contact information for the faculty leader(s), program provider, accommodation(s) and transportation service(s) and flight itinerary to the Study Abroad Office two weeks prior to departure.
- Update the Study Abroad Office of any changes to the program including dates, cost, credit, location, etc.
- In collaboration with the Study Abroad Office, conduct extensive pre-departure orientation for students.
- Conduct extensive on-site student orientation within the first two days in the host country.
- Conduct post-travel debriefing session with students.
- Fly to the destination on the same flight as the students. If the Faculty Leader's arrival precedes the students' arrival, the Faculty Leader must meet all of the students at the airport.
- Teach courses while abroad and maintain the academic focus of program.
- Participate in all group activities and excursions.
- Serve as a guide, academic advisor, and responsible counselor to students while abroad.
- Carry a functioning cell phone and share this number with the students, their emergency contacts, and the Study Abroad Office.
- Notify the Study Abroad Office immediately if a student arrives late to the program or leaves early for any reason.
- Liaise with the host university to solve problems and interpret local regulations and laws on behalf of the students.
- Monitor students' conformance to K-State's and the host university's policies, standards of conduct, and local laws.
- Ensure that students are never left alone during the program.
- Take appropriate action if participant becomes ill, is injured, or in the case of an emergency.
- Address student behavioral issues as needed in collaboration with the Study Abroad Office.
- When risks arise, initiate risk management plan as appropriate while providing leadership and making decisions, clarifying risks to students, and providing options and choices as appropriate.
- Document the following items in the Incident Report to ensure that there is a proper paper trail: academic issues, student illnesses, K-State Student Code of Conduct violations, and steps taken in response to any and all emergencies or risks. The Incident Report can be found on the Study Abroad website.
- Promptly alert the Study Abroad Office and the Third Party Program Provider of any concerns or emergencies while abroad via phone, e-mail, or fax.
- Upon completion of the program, the faculty leader and students should request transcripts from the host university. Official, hard-copy transcripts must be sent to the Study Abroad Office within 30 days of the program end date.
- Validate academic credit upon return for any transfer credits awarded by the host university.
- Assign and post academic grades on ISIS within 5 days of the end of the last official day of the course.
- Submit all financial documents (receipts, ATM withdrawals, etc.) to the Study Abroad Office within two weeks of return to ensure proper reimbursement.
- Complete Faculty Leader program evaluation administered by Study Abroad Office via e-mail.
As you can see, organizing and implementing a faculty-led study abroad program requires a great deal of work, but it is manageable when we all do our part. The Study Abroad Office is always happy to discuss the design and implementation of a faculty-led study abroad program with you, so please give us a call at 785-532-5990, email email@example.com or schedule an appointment with the study abroad advisor for your college.

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A rare medical condition has robbed young Middle Tennessee boy of his ability to move his face, but with therapy, he has made great progress.
"He's all boy, into everything right now," said father Mitch Washer.
Like most little ones, Easton Washer is just as fascinated by books themselves as the stories they contain. But the 16-month-old has a very unique story of his own.
"His face wouldn't move when he was crying, right when he was born," Mitch Washer said.
Easton also couldn't close his eyes and was born with club feet.
Almost immediately, doctors determined he has a rare neurological disorder called Moebius Syndrome.
"Moebius is a condition that presents in children and prevents their eyes from moving and can't move facial muscles," said Dr. Kevin Ess, a pediatric neurologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "It's quite rare and something a pediatric neurologist may see only one, or two or three cases in their career."
The severity of mobeius can vary.
"We're extremely blessed in the fact that he can swallow, eat and chew. But as far as raising eyebrows, smiling or normal facial expressions, there is nothing they can do for that," Mitch Washer said.
Easton splits his days between play time and physical therapy.
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"He's been learning signs to eat, and other signs like 'more' and 'please,'" Mitch Washer said.
As for his walking, Easton has had three surgeries to help straighten out his feet. Most children with moebius will crawl and walk a bit later than their peers, but they eventually catch up.
Easton has made great progress since he started therapy, but some things may not change. For one, he may never be able to smile.
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- A great ship asks deep waters.
- George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
- Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1759).
- And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book I, Chapter VII.
- Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Building of the Ship (1849), line 1.
- There's not a ship that sails the ocean,
But every climate, every soil,
Must bring its tribute, great or small,
And help to build the wooden wall!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Building of the Ship (1849), line 66.
- Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity.
- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Light of the Harem.
- The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 196.
- Ships, dim discover'd, dropping from the clouds.
- James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 946.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 703-04.
- A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill;
Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore, now.
- Charles Dibden, Sailor's Consolation. Attributed to Pitt (song writer) and Hood.
- The true ship is the ship builder.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of History.
- For she is such a smart little craft,
Such a neat little, sweet little craft—
Such a bright little,
Tight little,
Slight little,
Light little,
Trim little, slim little craft!
- W. S. Gilbert, Ruddigore.
- The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
- Herodotus, VII. 141. Relating the second reply of the Pythian Oracle to the Athenians. B.C. 480. Themistocles interpreted this to mean the ships. See Grote, History of Greece, quoted in Timbs, Curiosities of History. Nepos, Themistocles.
- Ships that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.
- Thomas Kibble Hervey, The Devil's Progress.
- Morn on the waters, and purple and bright
Bursts on the billows the flushing of light.
O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,
See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.
- Thomas Kibble Hervey, The Convict Ship.
- Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream.
An', taught by time, I tak' it so—exceptin' always steam.
From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God—
Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.
- Rudyard Kipling, McAndrew's Hymn.
- The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds—
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;
But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',
They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Liner She's a Lady.
- Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass,
And her ropes are taut with the dew,
For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail.
We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.
- Rudyard Kipling, L'Envoi, There's a Whisper down the Field.
- They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.
- Psalms. CVII. 23.
- And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
- Walter Scott, Kenilworth, Chapter XXIX. Introductory verses.
- She comes majestic with her swelling sails,
The gallant Ship: along her watery way,
Homeward she drives before the favouring gales;
Now flirting at their length the streamers play,
And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
- Robert Southey, Sonnet XIX.
- It would have been as though he [Pres. Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.
- Emory A. Storrs, speech in Chicago (c. 1865–56), when President Johnson threatened to imitate Cromwell and force Congress with troops to adjourn. As reported in the Chicago Tribune.
- And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill.
- Alfred Tennyson, Break, Break, Break, Stanza 3.
- Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you,
The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
- Walt Whitman, Song of the Rolling Earth, 2.
- Speed on the ship;—But let her bear
No merchandise of sin,
No groaning cargo of despair
Her roomy hold within;
No Lethean drug for Eastern lands,
Nor poison-draught for ours;
But honest fruits of toiling hands
And Nature's sun and showers.
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Ship-Builders.
- If all the ships I have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
Ah, well! the harbor would not hold
So many ships as there would be
If all my ships came home from sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, My Ships, from Poems of Passion.
- One ship drives East, and one drives West,
By the selfsame wind that blows;
It's the set of the sails, and not the gales,
Which determines the way it goes.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Winds of Fate.
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)[edit]
- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 223.
- A salvage service which hardly exceeds ordinary towage is naturally remunerated on a very different scale from an heroic rescue from imminent destruction.
- Lindley, L.J., "The City of Chester" (1884), L. R. 9 Pr. Div. 202.
- The impulsive desire to save human life when in peril is one of the most beneficial instincts of humanity, and is nowhere more salutary in its results than in bringing help to those who, exposed to destruction from the fury of winds and waves, would perish if left without assistance.
- Cockburn, C.J., Scaramanga v. Stamp (1880), L. R. 5 Com. PI. D. 304.
- I am sorry to see a decreasing tendency to aid vessels that are broken down.
- Butt, J., "The Benlarig" (1888), L. R. 14 Pro. D. 6.
- It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.
- Lord Kenyon, C.J., Cutter v. Powell (1795), 6 T. R. 320.


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By Kayla Hawkins, Hollywood Staff
Kanye West, former nemisis of Jimmy Kimmel, released his new music video for Bound 2 on Ellen yesterday. This video was rumored to star West's fiancée, Kim Kardashian. Well, the rumors are true, and sometimes, when you are presented with an embarrassment of crazytown-bonkers riches, it helps to organize exactly what's going on in the most logical way possible. So watch the video, then let us guide you through what you've just seen.


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According to the Palestine Police Department, a body found Monday at a home in the 100 block of Longhorn Drive has been identified as 81-year-old John Jerome Ferles of Palestine. Based on evidence found at the residence, Ferles' death is being investigated as a homicide.
"It's kind of hard to believe that it would happen in your neighborhood," said Joyce Crawford, a neighbor. Ferles' 2004 Chevrolet Impala was missing from his residence when police arrived and has now been recovered. Police say the vehicle was found an hour away from the home. The vehicle is currently being stored at an unknown wrecker facility. Investigators are traveling to view the car in an effort to identify any evidence in the case. Officers were dispatched to Ferles' residence to investigate a welfare concern. Upon arrival, police found the home's back door open. Officers entered the residence and located Ferles' body. After speaking with neighbors, investigators learned that the victim had not been seen by neighbors in several days.
Neighbors say Ferls' absence was not uncommon.
"I can't imagine anybody being mad enough to hurt him in any way. It's pretty much a shock for us," said Gene Crawford.
Gene and Joyce Crawford have lived in the neighborhood for 18 years. They say their neighborhood has been nothing but quite over the years, until last night.
"I saw a police car out here last night with a spot light. They were going up and down the street, especially in that area," said Joyce.
The fact that the case involves an elderly man has neighbors even more upset.
"It's hard to imagine someone hurting someone, especially an elderly person. Anybody at any age is a bad thing, but when they zero in on people that live alone and can't defend themselves, that's really sad. They are sick," said Joyce.
The death of a neighbor has since left some residents uneasy."It's going to make people feel more uneasy in the neighborhood," said Joyce. "People are going to be wondering, 'Who's next?'"
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the Palestine Police Department at 903-729-2254 or Crimestoppers at 903-729-TIPS (8477).Copyright 2013 KLTV. All rights reserved.
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The Stock Market & Mate Selection
Let's look at purchasing stocks and compare it to mate choice, shall we?
- Read as much as you can about the subject, be it the stock market, publicly traded companies, or finance. Websites are abound with information. The more you read, the more you will know what to look for in a company. Man or woman should be learning as much about the opposite sex as they can. Roissy, Spearhead, Girl Game are sample sites to choose from.
- Think of products you like or companies that provide quality or popular services. Look for attributes in a mate that are of interest to you – start with what you definitively know (e.g. church boys versus bar boys).
- Research the parent company that manufactures the product or service. Get to know your love interest by looking at who their friends and family are. For example, meeting the parents: sometimes it's amusing or scary, depending on how you look at it. (Watch the two vids – you'll get it.)
- Look at the company's financial statements. It takes lots of time to learn how to analyze these properly, but you should definitely have looked at them before investing in a company. It's very important to know how the potential mate handles their finances – know what questions to ask.
- Decide how much money you are willing to risk. Imagine you were to lose all the money you invested, how much would you put in? Analyze how much you're willing to put into this relationship, what would happen if you over-invested with this particular mate? What are the risks?
- Enter an order for a certain number of shares after you have followed the stock for a couple weeks to see where it is. Ease into the relationship slowly, test it.
- Learn how to identify stocks with criteria that may indicate potential for future price appreciation. Keep your eyes wide open. Learn how to identify quality.
- Determine a method of knowing when to be buying a stock and when to avoid adding new money to your investments. Date a lot this way you'll know how to identify the real McCoy.
- Learn technical analysis tools like candlestick charting, EMA, MACD, etc. to better time your entries and exits. Learn Game to better time your entries and exits from relationships.
Stock choice tips 'stolen' from Wikihow.com.
A wise friend/reader puts it another way:
If a car manufacturer designed a car that required 100 gallons of gasoline per 100 miles, needed its tires to be changed every 200 miles, whose engine broke every 1000 miles, etc., that car wouldn't even be brought to the design board, let alone be manufactured. That car would be one heck of a "high maintenance" car.
A girl/guy with good fundamentals, on the other hand, is all the more opportunity for a good LTR. Good entrepreneurs, designers, investors, etc., all look at the potential winners of tomorrow. That's how you get a serious ROI (return on investment). You build/create something that hasn't been built/created, and you reap the rewards handsomely. Nobody got rich by buying today's winners, say a stock at $148, and selling it the next quarter.
So my friends invest wisely for your futures.
I'm off on a mini-holiday to the US – so if any comments are made directly to me – I won't be ignoring you – I'll be shopping and helping the US's embattled economy like a good Canadian neighbor should.
November 13, 2009 7:56 am
interesting analogy.
you should check out this article on Psychology Today's blog.
It talks about "loss aversion" in behavioral economics and its application to the mating game. In short, we are still in our primal state in that we'd rather forgo loss than gain something of equal value because it was much more necessary to keep our scarce resources that were imperative to survival. Gain was of less importance.
Men are less risk averse than women. Depending on the mating strategy employed, men have to accept risk when vying for a mate. Those that were too risk-averse wouldn't procure a mate and their aversion would be sifted from the gene pool.
This doesn't apply directly to your post, but its along the same financial vein.
November 13, 2009 10:04 am
What, no stop-loss orders?
Derek permalinkNovember 13, 2009 12:13 pm
oooh innovative. hey about the regurgitating same obvious game and relationship advice using a different metaphorical category? maybe sports? football would work. how do you evaluate the right player to draft and invest in? do spend a high draft pick taking the wide receiver with flash or trade down for the left tackle with excellent fundamentals and work ethic? oh my!! you could get a whole post out of it.
Willard Libby permalinkNovember 13, 2009 12:58 pm
I'll be shopping and helping the US's embattled economy like a good Canadian neighbor should.
Remember to use real money when you're in the USA.
We don't take that phony Canadian money.
But I see you've started to color yours, taking a hint from your Northern neighbor eh? -aoefe
Il Capo permalinkNovember 13, 2009 6:03 pm
This analogy provides a proper cue for an interesting story.
A friend of mine, a highly successful "finance guy" was considering getting married at age 24 (recently out of college). His older brother, also a successful finance guy and single, provided him the following advice:
"Bro, a marriage is like a merger. You don't want to merge when your stock is undervalued and the other company's stock is overvalued. Your value will do nothing but increase since you only recently got your job and will start putting your education to work. You will also gain valuable life experiences and become more mature and confident. Her value, on the other hand, is at its peak now. Her value will only decrease with time as she ages.
Why would you want to merge now?
This is pretty true in general. – aoefe
November 14, 2009 6:30 pm
Obsidian..I wonder how much of the lesser impact that this recession has had on women (so far) is actually due to a higher % of women being employed by governments (teachers, for example)…and government jobs have traditionally been more secure.
Just a hypothesis..haven't looked for any numbers on this yet. But maybe this isn't really a male vs female distinction, but rather the disparate impact of the recession on the private sector vs on a relatively-privileged public sector.
November 15, 2009 3:11 am
No game is worse than no cash, as you well know. Women tend to want both. To compound the problem, a man has a knock to his mental state when cashless: he loses confidence.
The male supply just got lower and the demand is worse than ever. A good stock is harder to find; the asking price a man may demand hikes up.
Could this be a reason why my experiment is working better than I ever thought it would at this stage? I have lots of cash and presumably I have absorbed some game by osmosis if nothing else.
Abject Man permalinkNovember 15, 2009 12:59 pm
I understand you ladies have made up your minds: that you're sticking with hypergamy. Good to know. That should make it even smoother for MGTOW.
@LSB: deciding future performance by past performance is actually betting on the $150 stock. Going for the stock that has NOT performed well yet and investing in it and toughing it out all along the way with a view to win in the long run is the strategy implied in buying low and selling high. Just to correct the logic.
November 15, 2009 2:00 pm
Great Posting!
I'll be sure to apply it in my investment techniques
November 15, 2009 2:51 pm
That the reality of the dating market is that the supply of eligible men is decreasing doesn't automatically translate into the dating scene and female behaviour. I'm not on the ground so I can't say whether any changes actually occured.
Right. The mancession is a very recent event. I seriously doubt it has been going on long enough for any changes into the dating scene yet. Obsidian is also making the potentially mistaken assumption that the mancession is permanent. The US government can't continue with trillion dollar deficits for much longer. Once that ends that means female unemployment.
At a personal level, I live in the greater DC area which means that we haven't seen the mancession locally to the same level as everyplace else. There shouldn't be an effect in the local dating scene to benefit me.
You're still pick of the pack anyway, right?
You tell me. I honestly don't see why I'm so successful especially since high school and college in terms of dealing with women were the effective equivalent of banging my head against the wall. Even now, I'm not sure what my desirability among women really is.
I think it's a little beyond osmosis of Game. The inner conviction that you don't need a woman and are happy without one is very powerful in terms of desireability, Mr. Tech. As in, if the convinction holds true, it results in the behaviour that you have options.
That is true.
Abject Man permalinkNovember 15, 2009 4:19 pm
You and I seem to have a communication problem: you seem to get the impression from me that I have in mind something like lining up women and hollering to the guys to have a go at them indiscriminately.
This is a bit disappointing coming from a smartie-pants like you.
My emphasis is not on whether people should have qualities for choosing spouses or not. It is on how human desire operates in different social contexts.
For that, refer to my reply to LG below.
These days we see many people refer to the HBD paradigm to justify their individualistic choices. Your rhetorical statement "I wasn't aware anyone had perfected the art of truly transcending their innate biological nature" is along these lines: that we, as individuals, are unable to help our nature.
Of course, we do NOT need to transcend our innate nature to deal with this. For example, I, as a male, am wired to kill, rape, steal, plunder, backstab, etc. Fortunately, we have LAWS regulating such tendencies which, I confess, operate at a lower degree of finesse than an "art of truly transcending [our] innate … nature" but gets the job done of stopping outright bloodshed in the streets.
(Side note: When it comes to curbing men's innate tendencies, girls seem to be very, very conservative and do not refrain from resorting to the Iron Fist of the State, requiring umpteen laws be passed. When it comes to curbing THEIR tendencies by laws, custom, and norms, they give us the "hey, I'm wired to be like this" excuse, and cry "oppression" when this is pointed out.)
Let's look at this with an analogy.
Most of our primal instincts are mechanisms regulated by parts of our brain that have evolved way earlier than, say, our frontal lobe. The evolutionary process goes way earlier than the estimated 60,000 years around which homo sapiens is said to have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of years is a better time frame.
This means, for millions of years, our primate ancestors lived in small groups entirely at the mercy of nature, which is characterized, before anything else, SCARCITY. The implication of that is, those with a higher urge to, say, consume sugar (it being a primary source of energy for our organism) had a better shot at survival. As spotting sources of (and consuming) sugar requires way more arduous an activity in nature, our strong hunger (i.e. the psychological urge) for it is an inevitable BY-PRODUCT of that scarcity.
Now, fast forward the film to present day, and imagine a woman who managed to become 350 lbs. due to a large intake of glucose and fat (way more than she needed) for a long time. She can do that because her primal urge to consume these is no longer limited/curbed by scarcity, nor by any mental discipline/will power. She has become a PERFECTIONIST: a perfectionist of sugar/fat consumption.
Sexual urges or hypergamous tendencies are not inherently much different from this.
We live in societies where scarcity in most things (including finding sexual partners) has almost disappeared, and we have hardly any harsh constraints on our urges.
Unless curbed by either Nature, or by very strict/conservative norms/laws (which were invented by the wise elders of previous societies to replace Nature to deal with this very fundamental problem of "setting boundaries"), our blind urges will run amok, and poison our thinking.
Do you think it is *enlightened* behavior to just insist that unless you get the PERFECT guy, life is not worth living in such a social context?
Here's another analogy. Imagine you had a baby, and he
* required specially filtered air to breath since anything less than a perfect mixture caused allergies in him;
* could not sleep unless a perfect anechoic chamber was created for him — the slightest patter disturbed his sleep;
* could not eat any food other than the purest mixture of ingredients; dust, the most benign bacteria, the food being too hot or too cold, any of these turned up his digestive system;
* had to be clothed with the finest fabrics since his skin was too sensitive to most;
etc. He's a perfectionist, now, isn't he? This would be the baby you'd like to have?
There's an unspoken assumption in modern day bourgeois public discourse when it comes to social issues: that without our "imagination" the world have been a poor place to live in. As if we were beamed here from an alternative universe, and the world, alas, is a bitch that just refuses to provide us what we're able to fantasize.
For the healthy mind, giving up living according to the dictates of a fantasy-addled brain IS the true liberation. It is insisting on perfectionism that is the real sacrifice: sacrifice of human resources, of economic resources, of a shot at happiness, etc.
Perfectionism is the biggest imperfection of our still-mostly-chaotic brains.
(Side note: Two economic laws should give you a hint on why, from Nature's angle, perfectionism is a waste of resources: the law of diminishing returns, and the law of marginal utility.)
This write-up by Aoefe does contain good advice, but I'm afraid quite a few will misinterpret it. The message (if I'm not mistaken) isn't that you should go for the winning stock — something any dog can say when knowing the winning stock itself is the billion-dollar question for all investors, and going for today's winners bring you hardly anything. Only people with the entrepreneurial mind set, i.e. those who can see a handful of good fundamentals in a potential investment which the majority may shun like the plague, will invest in it, tough it out to grow it into a successful business, and will in the end be handsomely rewarded.
The risk of totally failing is part of the package. Otherwise, we wouldn't need the whole process of investment.
Making up long lists of (allegedly) desirable qualities, on the other hand, is saying, loud and clear, that you do NOT want to take any risks. That you'd just like to grab the cream bottle from the fridge and spray it into your mouth. Doesn't lead to bliss.
November 15, 2009 8:01 pm
If you haven't finished your work, don't read this until you're done.
Can't really propose more ideas beyond what has been discussed. Basically limited by not knowing what you're like in real life.
Fair enough and I don't have any women IRL who I could trust to give me a honest analysis about this. However you did say "pick of the pack", and you must have had a reason for saying that.
November 15, 2009 8:57 pm
It is not my particular theory that the economy in in some, perhaps many, ways is going to be irrevocably altered – this is the view of virtually every major economical voice out there. All I'm doing is examining the ways in which the dating scene will adapt to this reality.
Obsidian, it was the view of every major economic voice a few years ago that home prices were climbing to a permanently high plateau. I disagreed, and it turned out they were right and I was wrong.
Getting to the real point, saying that economy will be fundamentally changed doesn't tell you what exactly the LONG TERM change will be. We have a mancession now, but there is no guarantee that this is sustainable. A great deal of female employment is dependent on the government running multi-trillion dollar deficits which are not sustainable. Either our creditors will give up or enough people will be close to a revolt when they are losing their jobs while public sector employees are getting high raises (i.e. the tea parties). California is what the future looks like unless some drastic changes are made so we know this situation isn't sustainable.
We may be heading to European levels of unemployment. However this doesn't mean the mancession will necessarily continue. You're asking the GG chicks to comment on something that hasn't filtered to the dating scene yet because its too recent and in some ways at least probably isn't permanent. Even with Euro levels of unemployment the male vs. female ratio of unemployment may not be so out of whack to really have an effect on the dating scene.
November 15, 2009 11:44 pm
Nice White Knighting move
White knighting? WTF?????? I have a long standing reputation of pissing women off including at least one time on this blog. I don't white knight anything.
Congratulations on missing the point. No one knows yet if the mancession is permanent or not. The answer is probably not since female unemployment will increase when the federal government reaches its breaking point and as California shows that will be soon.
I have no interest in debating whether the GG authors have achieved their stated objective.
Obsidian, I don't know why you seem to keep picking fights wherever you go, but I'm not sure what your problem is with me. I have better things to do than engage in a flame war with you.
November 16, 2009 3:45 am
I suppose it could be something like that except that I didn't have any women try to flirt or otherwise throw themselves at me in college.
Until I started my experiment a few weeks ago, I didn't have any second dates or first dates so there was no opportunity for me to make any sexual advances on any woman. Now, I have women throwing themselves at me on the "first date", so sexual advances on the second date are kind of moot.
Bhetti has a really good understanding of whats going on in my life, especially this:
The inner conviction that you don't need a woman and are happy without one is very powerful in terms of desireability, Mr. Tech. As in, if the convinction holds true, it results in the behaviour that you have options.
November 17, 2009 12:21 am
You could be like Harry Markowitz, and heavily diversify. In game language: always have a pair and a spare. Beta is indeed riskier!
Or, you could be like Warren Buffet, and only by depressed assets. In game language: find a boy or girl when they are down on their luck, and profit! Only buy simple assets that you understand.
Or, you could be like Nassim Taleb, and bet against Black Swans, by short-selling out-of-the-money calls and buying out-of-the-money puts with the proceeds, but that one probably doesn't apply to Game :)
I am working on a stock option valuation model to estimate how long a woman should expect to wait to marry, based on the volatility of alpha male sexual encounters in her past.
November 17, 2009 3:26 am
Well, you know what it is. You don't take the b/s and you're confident in yourself, aren't you? In terms of being pick of the pack: Clever, successful and outwardly giving off all the indicators that you're a happy, adjusted man.
That's right.
Noone's suggested otherwise and that's how you're treated, isn't it?
There are some who have suggested otherwise, but they're all online and have an obvious agenda, but otherwise that is correct.
Oh, I picture you as a suit type. Is that right?
Well, this is complicated. I don't wear a suit on a day to day basis. The industry I work in (computer software) is the industry that invented dressing down for work. If you work at my office, and you're wearing a suit (and not doing something like meeting a customer) people start assuming you're interviewing for a job at a different company. One of my coworkers as a joke decided to make everyone at the office paranoid by wearing a suit almost every day for a few weeks.
I don't know if that answers your question or not.
I could ask whether you give a more humorous/fun vibe, a (stoic?) serious one or a dangerous one (my just-now-invented categorisations!). I don't think you'd give off dangerous at all but how much of the 'heartbreaker' component of danger? I know you can definitely do being fun from online but I don't know if that's reflected in real life.
Yes, I do the fun vibe in real life. I know I'm not giving off any type of dangerous vibe whatsoever. As for the "heartbreaker" component of danger, I really don't know. I suspect I will have to continue with everything I'm doing to find that out.
May 29, 2010 2:58 am
I like the points Il Capo and gunslingergregi make about value and loyalty. Sure if youre stocks at a high you will get the "best" girl in terms of physical/social appearance. But as GSG says, you wont be able to test their metal properly unless you can introduce points of stress into the relationship to test if they bend or break.
No point going into a merger with your stock at a high, theirs at a low, only to find out they run off with your capital and do a merger with someone else :P


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Is Obama Monty Python's Black Knight of Socialism?Monday, June 18th, 2012
Well…HERE'S a tidbit.
One of the Emperor's former Law Professors at Harvard says that Obama needs to be…DEFEATED…in November!!!
Whoa…hang on…It's NOT what you think it is.
According to Roberto Unger, the reason the Emperor must be removed from the throne is because, "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."
Ah HAH!!!
Unger continued, "There will be a cost … in judicial and administrative appointments" but, "the risk of 'military adventurism' would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama because the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."
Isn't that quaint?
According to a liberal/socialist Harvard Law Professor who had the future Emperor as a student…


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INSTRUCTIONS: Click the "GRIND" button to, well, grind! Once you hit the required level on the sign, click the "KILL" button to defeat the boss!
YOU ARE THE FORMIDABLE KNIGHT KNOWN AS SIR PROTAG. COMING UPON A CASTLE STOCKED WITH EVIL MONSTERS, YOU KNOW BUT ONE PATH: A BLOODY ONE, CARVED THROUGH YOUR ENEMIES. But first? Some light grinding on your training dummy (by clicking endlessly) - don't want to get hurt now, do we?
This was a short (short? *evil chuckle*) game I made for F*ck This Jam. It's essentially a game that highlights how ridiculously stupid grinding can get in some RPGs. Massive props to whoever finishes the game manually.
NOTE: IF YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO CLICK A MILLION TIMES (fair enough) SIMPLY HIT LEFT & X ON YOUR KEYBOARD IN THE FOURTH BATTLE ONWARDS TO RECEIVE A HUGE LEVEL BOOST.
Thanks go to the following freesound.org peeps: ERH, DJ Chronos and FreqMan.
Rated 4 / 5 stars September 13, 2013
fun little game, but i found an odd bug. beat the game (get the 1m clicks) watch the end credits, and start a new game. you keep your 1m clicks, so killing the bosses is easy. if you use the cheat listed above, the "kill" button does not go away (even though you are 1 click short) if you then click the "kill" button, you launch your attack, and fail. even if you click to the right number, you do not get another chance to kill the boss. i know, really odd bug. i am not expecting this to be fixed, but just wanted to bring it up for future games. :) loved the music. good game all around.
Aha, both worthy of note.
The first bug is probably because when the game completes I've forgotten to reset the variable that tracks your level, so it carries on into the next game.
The second one I'll have to investigate.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, mitthar! :).
Rated 4 / 5 stars November 12, 2012
WOW XD THAT HURT MY HAND BUT it was fun :D
Haha, glad you liked it! :D.
Rated 4 / 5 stars November 11, 2012
I really like it! :D
And thx for putting the x cheat in the game. I wouldn't like to click 1M times ;)
You're welcome! I did it for that reason - seems a shame you can't see all of it otherwise.
Rated 4 / 5 stars November 11, 2012
The message of this game has been burned into my skull indeed.
Good stuff!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars December 31, 2012
I see what you did there. The minotaur is hilarious. It would be nice if the boss kill animation got better as the game went on.
Great idea!


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Making a light used by a human more agreeable to a human sounds like a pretty reasonable goal.
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Hundreds of TrendNet customers found out the hard way that products they purchased, billed as home security cameras, weren't all that secure. In January 2012, a hacker was able to breach TrendNet's website, circumvent security credentials and access some 700 live-camera feeds monitoring inside customers' homes. Many of the videos were then disseminated on the Internet, a curious fact by itself in light of the complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, which said security flaws in the cameras allowed for the "unauthorized surveillance of infants sleeping in their cribs, young children playing, and adults engaging in typical daily activities." The online community continues to recover from the trauma of being exposed to such tedium.
But for obvious reasons, customers were unnerved. The FTC wasn't happy either. The oversight committee's complaint alleging that TrendNet misrepresented its software as secure and failed to adequately protect its customers resulted in a settlement, which was reached last week, according to multiple reports.
The story reached mainstream news. Unsurprisingly, it's on the alarm monitoring industry's radar as well, as I discovered in a short conversation with Stephen Doyle, executive vice president and CEO of CSAA. Doyle said he just returned from an Alarm Industry Communications Committee meeting in which 65 industry members were briefed by an industry lawyer on the legal ins and outs of the TrendNet snafu.
In terms of pertinence to the industry, the case seems fringy in some respects, relevant in others. It's true, after all, that TrendNet cameras are unattached to alarms, and designed specifically for remote monitoring of homes via smartphones and other mobile devices. But it's relevant to the industry insofar as it deals with a few topics in the forefront of people's minds.
One of those topics is the viability and security of do-it-yourself monitoring systems. Another is cloud security, a topic that stands to grow in significance with the spread of IP panels, and as more companies migrate information and services to the cloud. Whether a company's data becomes more or less secure when it's transferred to the cloud is a hot-button industry debate with little consensus. Cloud adoption is likely to expand, but that doesn't mean there won't be skeptics. Either way, the TrendNet case perhaps intensifies the debate.
At TechSec 2014, Jeremy Brecher, VP of technology, electronic security at Diebold, will tackle some issues in this vein as part of the educational program, while also exploring ways security companies can thrive in an increasingly cloud-based environment.
This morning I had the opportunity to chat with Stan Martin, executive director of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition. He proved to be a valuable font of information about the current state of the alarm industry, in particular the three-pronged relationship involving alarm monitoring companies, law enforcement and municipal governments—all of which play huge collaborative roles in responding to legitimate alarms and mitigating false ones.
When I asked him what he considers an ideal alarm ordinance, it became abundantly clear just what kind of challenges an effective alarm ordinance has to address. A whole constellation of considerations go into curbing false alarms.
"We've studied alarm management issues for twenty plus years, and we know what best practices will reduce these unnecessary dispatches," Martin said. "We list them in our model ordinance."
A model ordinance, Martin said, should require all alarm systems to be registered with local police. It should mandate the use of Enhanced Call Verification, or two-call verification, a protocol that requires alarm monitoring stations to attempt to confirm a signal is valid before requesting dispatch. It should require that panels feature the newest equipment standards, meaning they are compliant with the ANSI/SIA CP-01 Control Panel Standard – Features for false alarms—a standard that minimizes the single biggest cause of false alarms: human error.
Martin also emphasized the tremendous importance of strict enforcement of an alarm ordinance, but acknowledged that enforcement measures vary by municipality, and are often dictated by local politics—particularly with respect to the number of free responses permitted. The SIAC recommends no more than one or two free responses. It also recommends suspending response once a fixed number, generally between the range of six and 10, has been surpassed.
Martin says this curtails chronic abuse and holds some of the larger commercial entities accountable. "You do need to stop responses," he said. "Otherwise, the higher-end clients, commercial clients, banks in particular, will just write the check. They consider that easier. It's the cost of doing business. But when police say they're not going to come any longer, they have to take some kind of corrective action."
I received an announcement today from Davis Mergers and Acquisitions Group about super-regional security company ASG establishing a strategic relationship with Ray Cannedy Security & Investigations (RCSI), a guard company based in Wichita Falls, Texas. According to their website, RCSI is a provider of: patrol service, armed and unarmed guard service, courier service, and armored car service. Davis Mergers and Acquisitions Group represented RCSI in the transaction, the announcement said.
Integration companies partnering with guard companies is a trend we've seen lately. Securitas and Convergint partnered in 2011. Here's that story. Stanley partnered with U.S. Security Associates in April. Here's that story. And in 2009 guarding giant G4S got into integration with the acquisition of Adesta. Here's that story. So I assumed at first that this was the same sort of partnership, except on a much limited basis. However, I just spoke to Ralph Masino, CFO at ASG, and he clarified that the deal was, in fact, a small account acquisition deal. RCSI historically has done both guarding and some limited alarm monitoring, he said. The company decided to shed its alarm monitoring accounts, which were acquired by ASG, Masino said. RCSI is still continuing with all of its guard services.
Today, Ken Kirschenbaum, an industry attorney, broached the topic of valuation in the alarm industry in his email to subscribers. In the monitoring space, a company's valuation is based "exclusively on a multiple of RMR," Kirschenbaum explains. A reason for this is that, in a sale, an alarm company isn't selling its ongoing business so much as its subscriber accounts.
While the RMR multiple can shed light on the value of a company on the verge of a sale, it doesn't tell everything. In fact, as Kirschenbaum explains in the preface to an article by Dorsie Mosher of the Davis Group, RMR multiples can fall into a wide range based on several variables, such as contract stipulations, as well as financing and accounting decisions within the company.
This is why investors and financial institutions tend to prefer EBITDA—earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization—to RMR. They regard the former as the more telling valuation metric, says Mosher, because, simply put, the figure is less prone to flux due to uncontrollable variables. Through EBITDA, investors can get a better idea of how much cash will be generated to pay debts and finance future growth.
"A company can have $1 million in RMR and still be losing money, which is certainly not what the investor is looking for," Mosher writes.
Kirschenbaum, for his part, believes EBITDA is not about to replace RMR multiples as the primary valuation metric in the alarm monitoring space. But when it comes to mergers, acquisitions and financing, it's worth keeping in mind that RMR isn't the only valuation category all parties are taking into account.
Just last year, I wrote about leadership changes at DEFENDER Direct, the country's leading ADT dealer, when longtime employee Marcia Barnes took over as CEO and president, replacing company founder David Lindsey, who was stepping down to do philanthropic work.
Now, about 15 months later, Barnes is out and Lindsey is back in his old job, according to a recent news release from the Indianapolis-based company.
Here's some of what the company had to say:
Lindsey replaces Marcia Barnes, who has left the company to pursue other business interests. … "The board and I are grateful for Marcia's 13 years of leadership in the company, which helped us achieve our strong growth," said Lindsey. "Our company is at an exciting point in its journey and I look forward to continuing that momentum."
The release also said that, "the company has named Brad Cumings as chief marketing officer and has promoted Scott DeNardin to the role of regional VP of its HVAC business division."
Founded in 1998, DEFENDER bills itself as the nation's leading ADT dealer. It has more than 2,400 employees in 50 states and more than 140 branch offices, according to the company. Its residential services include offerings from Williams Comfort Air, a heating, cooling and plumbing company.
Barnes had been with the company since its early years and worked closely with Lindsey, rising to the rank of president before she became CEO. I've got a call in to DEFENDER to learn more about what the latest leadership change will mean for the company. Stay posted!
Aronson Security Group, the Washington-based independent integrator, is opening a new world headquarters in Renton, Wash. next week.
I'll be speaking with Phil Aronson on Aug. 29 about the new headquarters and other ASG news. Look for that story next week. The official opening is Wednesday, Sept. 5., so if you're in the Seattle area, give ASG a call to see if you can attend and get a tour of their new facility. The event starts at 3 and tours will go until 6 p.m.
In a prepared statement, Aronson said guests will tour ASG's new Business Optimization Center that "provides tangible examples" of how ASG ensures that an end user's security system aligns with organizational goals and also "follows a proper technology roadmap." The tour will illuminate how security data from "people, processes and ... technologies ... is gathered, organized, consumed and measured."
Aronson's father founded the company in 1963, so the opening of the new HQ coincides with the systems integrator's 50th year in business.
Canary, a New York City startup with what it bills as the "the first smart home security device for everyone," has managed to raise nearly $2 million in 35 days from prospective customers and supporters through crowdfunding.
The company's experience suggests this is a funding approach other security companies may want to take a look at.
I wrote about Canary—which is both the name of the company and the home security device it sells—back in July when it launched the campaign on Indiegogo. Like a canary in a coal mine, the company was trying to see how much support it could garner from crowdfunding and set its goal at a modest $100,000.
But it exceeded that on the first day. Now, with the campaign recently concluded, Canary has raised a total of $1,961,494 from 7,460 funders, according to Indiegogo's site. Most paid to receive one or more of the devices when they're made and shipped early next year, but 123 people paid $5 each just as supporters of the product who want to be kept updated on it as it goes into production.
Was Canary's crowdfunding experience unusual? According to a website called Android Police, the answer is "yes." Here's what was recently written about Canary on that site:
Relying on crowdfunding is inherently risky. Regardless of whether a project's on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, some never get a fraction of the funding they aim for. Others fall slightly short or, if they're lucky, barely manage to crawl over the finish line. Still, a select few completely blow the doors off. The Canary [is one of them].
Now, is this because Canary is truly the unique product it's billed to be or do crowdfunders just really like home security? Time will tell us the answer, I guess.
Over the weekend, the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response, a public-private partnership comprising stakeholders in property crime, announced the addition of a major manufacturer to its membership ranks. The company? Honeywell Security.
After speaking with some in the industry involved with PPVAR, including Keith Jentoft, president of Videofied and RSI Video Technologies, it is increasingly clear to me why this carries major implications for the future of video monitored alarm systems. A recurring theme I'm hearing is that Honeywell's decision to come on board with PPVAR reflects significant progress toward "mainstreaming" such systems.
In a PPVAR statement, Donald Young, president of PPVAR and chief information officer at Protection 1, said the following: "Honeywell will help us in our efforts to strengthen our partnerships with law enforcement using monitored video alarm as a mainstream solution." In the same statement, Scott Harkins, president of Honeywell Security Products Americas, stated: "Honeywell is pleased that the PPVAR supports continued police response to all burglar alarms. We also recognize that video verification is an important product category as we look to the future of security."
If you synthesize these two statements, PPVAR's message becomes clear. The organization encourages the mainstream adoption of video verification alarm systems in both commercial and residential settings, since this appears to be the trajectory monitored alarms are on. But what's also apparent in the statement, particularly through Harkins' quote, is that both the organization and its members remain firmly positioned as allies of the monitored alarm industry and its stakeholders in general—whether we're talking about video monitored alarm systems or traditional ones. PPVAR's emphasis is on priority response.
With monitored video alarm systems becoming more affordable, it may only be a matter of time before video verified alarm systems reach a tipping point in their adoption. It's a development that some in the industry, as well as in law enforcement, will hail—especially as municipalities across the country continue to search for ways to mitigate false alarms.
Honeywell's membership status with PPVAR only helps advance the industry closer to that adoption tipping point. On that front it is a major illustration of progress. Equally instrumental for achieving broader adoption, however, could be PPVAR's positioning itself not as a threat to the existing, largely non-video installer base, but as an ally.
2GIG is still innovating. That's the message I got yesterday from a briefing with Bruce Ehlers, SVP engineering for Linear, and Mike O'Neal, Linear president. It's also working with some providers it did not work with previously. The 2GIG panel has historically worked with alarm.com software. Ehlers and O'Neal emphasized that it still works with alarm.com, but it now also will work with iControl, Telular and Uplink.
"We are not walking away from alarm.com. We have a strong relationship with alarm.com. But, we're now providing an alternative [for dealers] who want an alternative," O'Neal said.
You'll remember that Linear's parent company, Nortek, aquired 2GIG in February. Here's that story. Linear and 2GIG's relationship goes back to 2007, however, when the companies began working together to develop the Go!Control panel. Once it was developed, Linear manufactured the panel, and it continues to manufacture it today.
2GIG and summer-model giant Vivint have always been separate companies, but they had the same owners until the Nortek acquisition in February. Now, "Linear and 2GIG are one and VIvint is a customer, one that we intend to support for a long time, but a customer," Ehlers said.
One of the benefits of the acquisition, Ehlers said, is that there was a perception previously that dealers who bought the 2GIG product were buying a Vivint product. The perception is going away, particularly as Linear continues to develop new feature sets for the panel and to develop new partnerships, Ehlers said.
O'Neal said there was some concern six months ago that "somehow Linear would pull the 2GIG product in and rest on our laurels of the past. But what you're seeing now is that we're taking the product further. In the next six to 12 months you'll see more innovation than what you've seen in the past. Bruce and his team are taking the historical product well beyond where it has been."
"Linear is investing in the innovation that was the hallmark of VIvint and 2GIG in the past. We're not taking our foot off the pedal," O'Neal said.
The acquisition and separation from Vivint "is opening up a pent-up demand for 2GIG," he said. More dealers are signing up and non-Vivint sales of the 2GIG panel are 30 percent ahead of where they were one year ago, according to O'Neal. The company is also recruiting 50 engineers to work on this and other Linear products, he said.
AT&T just launched Digital Life, its home automation/home security product, this April. But it's already approaching its goal of expanding into 50 markets by the end of 2013.
The Dallas-based telecom announced today that as of Friday, Aug. 23, it will introduce Digital Life in six more markets: Orlando, Fla.; Providence, R.I.; Virginia Beach, Va.; and the cities of Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse in New York.
That will bring the number of markets for Digital Life to 39, just 11 shy of the company's year-end goal of 50 new markets.
After successful trials of Digital Life last year in Dallas and Atlanta, AT&T in April launched the service in 15 additional major markets nationwide, ranging from San Francisco to Miami, and has rapidly been adding on other markets.
In July, for example, AT&T introduced the service in Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; San Diego; San Jose, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla.
Digital Life is professionally installed and also professionally monitored by At&T's two monitoring centers, one here and one in Atlanta. In June, the company announced that had received Five Diamond certification from the Central Station Alarm Association for its monitoring capabilities.
Customers can use their existing home broadband provider and any wireless phone service to use Digital Life, the company said.
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Can You 'Catch' Obesity?!
There's a report circulating that obesity is something you can catch, like a virus ... and that it's contagious. Not so fast, says our pediatrician. She wants you to know you can't "catch" obesity.
Today, we reported that scientists have declared obesity can be "caught" as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands. The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus which causes sniffles and sore throats. Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar said the virus, known as AD-36, infects the lungs then whisks around the body, forcing fat cells to multiply and also causing sore throats. "When this virus goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why the fat tissue expands and why people get fat when they are infected with this virus," Dhurandhar said. In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11% of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug.
But can you really "catch" obesity? Here's what our pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson had to say:
"The Mayo Clinic, a highly esteemed clinical and research center, did report in 2007 that a number of viruses have been correlated with obesity," Dr. Cara explains. "But this doesn't mean that when you catch one of these viruses -- much like catching a cold -- your weight skyrockets. Rather, the viruses seem to affect the way triglycerides and adipocyets (fat cells) behave in some people. One virus in particular, AD-36, is found in about 30% of obese people, but it is also found in 11% of non-obese people. So what is the bottom line? Viruses may affect fat cells and triglycerides in some people, but there are clearly many other reasons that account for excessive weight gain. In my opinion, you can't 'catch' obesity."
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COEUR D'ALENE -- A number of parents contacted KREM 2 News Tuesday asking about a possible threat against Coeur d'Alene students on Friday.
We checked into this with the Coeur d'Alene School District and Coeur d'Alene Police and found there is no threat.
A person in Western Washington made a vague comment on Facebook that a few people found threatening.
Authorities checked it out and found no credible threat.
School will go on as normal on Friday.