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Over the course of my two days at the Dynamark Convention, I had the good fortune of speaking with several knowledgeable industry veterans, and I'd be remiss not to mention some of them in this space. Whether at the vendor show, educational sessions or during my tour of Dynamark's central station, I found no shortage of folks with industry expertise.
The vendor show featured a vibrant mix of companies, with virtually every facet of the industry represented, from access control and video surveillance to fire alarms and intrusion detection. There were distributors like ADI, which had a booth, and several attendees from The Systems Depot, including CEO Robert Pinion, who gave me a thorough description of the company's new call center, a 20,000-square-foot facility with an efficient layout that's rapidly adding new employees. In the spirit of the season, there was some gridiron chat weaved into the industry-specific discussions. As it turns out, Pinion's son is a punter for the No. 3-ranked Clemson Tigers.
Those very same Clemson Tigers travel north this weekend, heavily favored in their matchup with Syracuse, the alma mater of Tom Piston, vice president of sales & marketing at Dynamark. Piston, along with Lamar Shroyer, IT director at Dynamark, guided me and SSN publisher Tim Purpura on a tour through the central station. Shroyer showed us a veritable wall of servers and systems, which included Bold Technologies' Manitou automation platform, as well as servers from Israeli-based Tadiran Telecom.
Keith Godsey, Dynamark's vice president of central station operations, answered a few questions about Dynamark's training procedures. Training typically lasts two weeks, and operators accrue greater responsibility as they ascend to higher levels of training. Interestingly enough, Godsey noted that 80 percent of their operators have been at the station since the facility opened in 2011—no small feat for a profession typically prone to high turnover.
To conclude, I wanted to mention a final element of interest about the conference: The presence of companies offering peripheral services that both dealers and central stations are leveraging for value. I spoke with Joseph Narkin, director of business development at Demand, a marketing and business development firm that works with alarm companies, including Dynamark, and whose cold-calling team is comprised of qualified prison inmates (Narkin himself is a former prison inmate who said the company contributed tremendously to his rehabilitation and reintegration in society).
I also spoke with John Latimer, senior account executive at Keller Stonebraker Insurance, based in Hagerstown, Md. The company works with alarm companies, both dealers and central stations, to help transfer and mitigate risk—legal concerns of no small importance to the alarm industry as a whole.
In summary (I fully intended this update to be just that), my first voyage as part of SSN was a valuable and diverse experience, and the folks at Dynamark, and many others with whom I happened to cross paths, were nothing short of welcoming and bright.
Embrace new technology. Adapt. Preserve a human connection in sales and seize the opportunities provided by a market that's bound to become more aware of your products and services. Those were some of the words of wisdom offered by Wayne Alter, founder of Dynamark, and Wade Moose, CEO of The Systems Depot and Elk Products, in the keynote speeches at the Dynamark Convention 2013.
A spirit of optimism pervaded the basic message, and both Alter and Moose were engaging speakers, knowledgeable and honest, with a penchant for weaving helpful and often funny personal stories into their advice for dealers. Early into Alter's keynote, he predicted the penetration rate for the market would see a spike between 5-8 percent in the not-too-distant future. It's a lofty projection, but one grounded in the likelihood that market awareness stands to rise appreciably in the coming years due to the influx of new players, specifically the cablecos and telecoms, whose advertising clout could prove a boon to the entire industry. This development, together with a gradually recovering economy and a profusion of home management services that boost RMR and curb attrition, might be enough to nudge that stubborn penetration rate in an upward direction. I'll be keeping a close eye on market reports to see if Alter's prediction bears itself out.
Another point of emphasis in both speeches, particularly Alter's: The industry has come full circle. "It's new in some ways, and it's old in others," Alter told attendees. While the technology and the means of reaching customers have undergone dramatic transformations recently, some of the original principles of salesmanship remain as essential as ever, Alter noted. He mentioned Vivint's door-knocking summer sales model as an example of this, as well as the DIY monitoring systems, which Alter originally thought would appeal more to hobbyists than general customers.
Another two-part prescription Alter provided to dealers: Expand the number of people in your business and train them well. It's a tested formula for building an account base, if not always an easy one to enact. This piece of advice again harkens back to the recurring theme of the keynote—the theme of keeping pace with the evolution of the industry while preserving certain core requirements that have always been conducive to growth.
In a funny anecdote, Alter drove home the point that many of the same sales practices that work best now were the same sales practices that worked best when he started his business in 1975, a time when he had to scour phonebooks for sales leads.
There's much more to say about my experience at the Dynamark Convention. But since this space is reserved for a blog rather than a dissertation, I'll have to save these thoughts for my next post. Tomorrow I'll discuss my inaugural central station visit at Dynamark's Hagerstown, Md.-based facility, along with some other goings-on at the convention.
News reports lead with stories about how the U.S. government shutdown this week is sabotaging people's vacation plans at national parks. But Honeywell Chairman and CEO David Cote is concerned about how a long shutdown could have even greater negative repercussions on businesses and our economy.
According to an article this week from MoneyNews, Cote is among a number of CEOs of major corporations to worry the shutdown could harm the economic rebound both at home and abroad.
Here's some of what Cote had to say, according to that article:
"Everyone will get more conservative and pull back on hiring and investing," Cote, who served on Obama's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Trish Regan. Even if the budget fight is resolved, lawmakers would immediately move to the next dispute over raising the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. It also would be a "horrible idea" to block a boost in the federal debt ceiling, as some lawmakers vow to do, Cote said. "When you hear people starting to think that maybe we should default or not raise the debt ceiling and we will play chicken with it, are you actually serious?"
"Everyone will get more conservative and pull back on hiring and investing," Cote, who served on Obama's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Trish Regan.
Even if the budget fight is resolved, lawmakers would immediately move to the next dispute over raising the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
It also would be a "horrible idea" to block a boost in the federal debt ceiling, as some lawmakers vow to do, Cote said. "When you hear people starting to think that maybe we should default or not raise the debt ceiling and we will play chicken with it, are you actually serious?"
Of course, Honeywell is a huge, diversified company. But if the fears of Cote—recently named "CEO of the Year"—come true and we go back into recession again, smaller security companies also could be impacted in a negative way.
Let's hope this all gets resolved soon.
In the second leadership change at Stanley CSS in 16 months, Marty Schnurr—who was named president of Stanley CSS North America in May 2012—has moved to a new non-security role at Stanley Black & Decker.
Brett Bontrager is acting head of Stanley CSS, along with running Stanley Security Solutions, according to John Nemerofsky, Stanley VP Global Vertical Market Solutions.
Asked about the leadership change, Nemerofsky told me that Bontrager is expected to stay in a dual role for "four to six months" until a new CSS president is named.
Asked details about a search for a new president Nemorofsky said "no search was taking place."
An internal candidate will be announced within that time frame, he said.
Schnurr's reappointment was announced in an internal memo in at the beginning of the September.
Schnurr replaced Tony Byerly as president of CSS. Although he had worked with Stanley for 16 years, Schnurr had not worked in the physical security industry before being named president of Stanley CSS. He was president of Stanely Hydraulic Tools at the time of that appointment.
The bite of chilly weather hasn't yet snapped southern Maine, but that doesn't mean I don't welcome the opportunity to go 500 miles south for 48 hours, where stronger vestiges of summer remain. Tomorrow morning I'm off to Maryland with Tim Purpura, SSN's publisher, to attend the Dynamark Convention 2013 in Hagerstown, Md.
The event kicks off in earnest with a vendor show tomorrow evening, which will showcase products from a slew of manufacturers, with an emphasis on new and emerging technology trends. Day two opens with a joint presentation by Dynamark founder Wayne Alter and Wade Moose, owner of The Systems Depot, followed by workshops tailored to dealers, technicians, installers and sales personnel.
My Hagerstown stay will conclude with my inaugural central station tour of Dynamark's facility, which opened in 2011. I eagerly await this phase of the trip, not only because it's my personal debut in a central station, but because the descriptions I've heard of Dynamark's facility tend to be peppered with superlatives.
I plan to be active on Twitter during the vendor show and workshop sessions (https://twitter.com/SSN_Leif), and I'll also be updating my blog over the course of the next two days as events unfold, distilling the sights and sounds and key takeaways from the speakers.
For those attending, I look forward to meeting you there.
AT&T's 2012 announcement that it would phase out 2G service left most in the alarm industry, well, unfazed. With wireless technology, such changes come with the territory. Moreover, it's not the alarm industry but the mobile phone industry that dictates network "sunsets." As Lou Fiore, Chairman of the Alarm Industry Communications Commission, put it in a recent conversation: "As long as you go cellular, there is no endgame here."
A few months after the initial announcement, AT&T attached a deadline (Jan 1, 2017) to its 2G sunset. Since that time, the AICC has established a regular line of communication with AT&T, which sends a representative to attend the organization's quarterly meetings.
AT&T informed AICC that, while interim changes would take place in advance of the 2G sunset, the changes would not affect the alarm industry. AICC members, Fiore said, were "skeptical."
"We tried to impress upon [AT&T] the fact that our control sets hang on the wall, and if you change the operating parameters of that network, it may not work anymore," Fiore said. "You can't ask the homeowner to move the unit around to see if it works."
Fiore, who is in the process of gathering information regarding possible outages for units tied to AT&T's 2G network, said that in given locations, customers might still get 2G coverage but that there's a chance it "won't be as deep as it was before."
Fortunately, there are some steps alarm companies can take to mitigate outages. Companies can switch to AT&T's 3G or 4G network by choosing matching hardware from a cellular alarm communicator, or to one of AT&T's competitors (the 3G and 4G networks of Verizon and Sprint are an option, Fiore said). Certain companies may be able to go with a wired network, but this is highly contingent upon business model, Fiore noted.
Still three years from the deadline, AT&T's 2G sunset promises to be a story with several more chapters. I'll be watching closely to see what kind of ripple effects it has on the industry.
Members of Security-Net, a group of 20 independent integrators that work together as a single national integrator, is having business meetings and doing some celebrating (its 20th anniversary bash is tonight) here in Chicago during the ASIS show.
On Monday, I spoke to Jim Coleman, president of Operational Security Systems, and newly elected president of Security-Net for 2014 and 2015. Other new officers include Skip Sampson, VP, Koorsen Security Technology, Steve Morefield, founder, Firstline Security, and Mike Painter of Alpha Corporation.
Coleman took some time out from training sessions that were taking place for the integrator's SalesNet and TechNet groups. SalesNet and TechNet are networks of sales people and technicians from the different companies. The groups' members communicate frequently and meet in person several times a year.
Coleman said the SalesNet group had a four-hour training session. "We brought in an expert to walk through the module and talk about sales leadership—how to be a sales leader in your organization," he said. The TechNet group was in a meeting about "how you use technology internally in your organizations, how the same databases and networks that we use in the systems we install [should be used] to make your company more efficient and productive … to keep up with change in your company."
Both groups were also spending time with Security-Net vendors working on product training. And speaking of manufacturers, Coleman said that Security-Net has negotiated an agreement with Honeywell, where "our members are going to become qualified to install and service Honeywell video and access control systems for national accounts that we would execute." I asked him if the group would be attending Honeywell Connect, a conference in November that will for the first time bring together dealers from Honeywell's three dealer groups, FAP, HIS and CSS. He said that Security-Net will have a large presence there. I'm going this year as well.
Asked what initiatives Security-Net is working on, Coleman said it plans to make further investment in its national accounts software platform that the group uses to share documents and other information among the different companies. Specifically, the group is working on some mobile apps for salespeople for when they do surveys, for installation people to report progress on what got accomplished, any issues in the field," he said. The apps will be used by individual Security-Net companies internally and in concert with other companies when they work on the same national account, he said.
I'm off to the McCormick Center now for a day on the show floor. Looks like a beautiful day in Chicago from my hotel room. It took me all day to get here from Maine yesterday, but I did get to sneak in a run along the lake in the early evening. I'm looking forward to me meetings today, but I'm hoping to get out on that running path asap after the showfloor closes.
In another illustration of the industry's evolution, Baton Rouge La.-based Skyhawk Security, which offers remote video monitoring, IP camera systems and access control systems for commercial customers (most in Louisiana, but some as distant as California), acquired local IT firm Big Networks. With the purchase of the firm's assets and intellectual property, the Skyhawk Group (the name of the merged company) will have an in-house IT unit to supplement its security offerings.
The move establishes an interesting hybridized security company in the Louisiana capital. Brett Lofton, one of three managing members with Skyhawk, said the acquisition, in addition to bringing in an "in-house IT decision maker," also presents some major cross-selling opportunities, particularly with respect to some of the clients the company inherited through the Big Networks buy.
Lofton said some of these accounts could potentially be a boon to Skyhawk's security business. "We'll certainly be cross-selling and trying to get in front of them to talk about [our security offerings]," Lofton noted, adding that this applies especially to companies with guards—customers who could find the security services palatable. Commercial customers may find value in the prospect of replacing or supplementing nightshifts with video monitoring, Lofton said.
Skyhawk also plans to explore cross-selling its hosted access control service, which Lofton believes is gaining traction. It will be interesting to follow what kind of role video monitoring and access control play in the company's primary near-term plan: organic growth—much of which could be fueled by business in its own backyard. Stay tuned for more on Skyhawk's plans and near-term goals in Louisiana and beyond.
Exactly why the board of Toronto-based AlarmForce forced out the company's CEO and founder, Joel Matlin, this summer remains unclear. Deepening the mystery is the fact that over the past year, the publicly traded company did very well with Matlin still at the helm, according to its recently released third quarter results.
I've gotten one side of the story: Matlin told me in August that his ouster in July as company CEO and president was "a mutiny created by my CFO, Anthony Pizzonia."
Pizzonia, who is now interim CEO and president as the company searches for a replacement for Matlin, has not responded to my repeated requests for comment.
Matlin, who resigned from the company's Board of Directors after his ouster, also told me that the company he founded in 1988 is "probably one of the best growing alarm companies in North America, with zero debt." Third quarter figures released earlier this month confirm AlarmForce is very healthy.
For example, the company said in a news release that "revenue in the third quarter grew by $3 million to $36 million, or 9 percent, over the comparative period of 2012. Canadian revenue was up 4 percent to $28.0 million and U.S. revenue was up 29 percent to $8.5 million over the comparative period of 2012."
Also, it said that RMR "increased by 8 percent in the third quarter and accounted for 91 percent of the total revenue. RMR growth was driven by an increase in subscribers and by a 2.5 percent increase in average revenue per subscriber, which rose to $27.07 as compared to $26.40 in the third quarter of 2012." RMR is now more than $3.7 million.
The release also confirmed that the company has no debt and "funded all growth and product development from internal cash resources."
Pizzonia said in a prepared statement: "For the remaining balance of the fiscal year, we will focus on growing our subscribers, increasing operating efficiencies, pursuing accretive investments that drive organic growth and returning excess cash to shareholders in the form of both dividends and share buybacks."
AlarmForce provides security alarm monitoring, PERS, video surveillance and related services to residential and commercial customers throughout Canada and in the United States. The company is a leading provider of two-way voice alarm systems in Canada.
When I reached out to Matlin this month about the company's earnings, he said his lawyer had advised him not to comment. Pizzonia has not responded to another request for comment.
Matlin had told me previously that he was working with his legal team to hold a proxy vote that he believes will result in the replacing of the board that forced him out.
However, the company already has moved to replace Matlin on the board. AlarmForce said Tobias Behrenwaldt "would serve as an independent director of the company until election at the next annual meeting of shareholders in 2014." Behrenwaldt is currently a partner in Behrenwaldt Investment GmbH, the company said.
Matlin previously had complained to me that the board has too many investment types on it. "Now you have the financial guys running the company, certainly not the marketing guys," he said. The board this summer also suspended Matlin's son, a key member of AlarmForce's marketing team, Matlin said.
Marketing expenses last year were substantial, according to the company's third-quarter results release: "EBITDA increased to $7.6 million, or 78 percent, due to the reduction of advertising expenses related to the launch of VideoRelay in 2012. Excluding the impact of these marketing expenses that result in a charge to operating income, adjusted EBITDA increased by 1 percent to $17.4 million from $17.2 million."
Was this an issue? Your guess is as good as mine. Stay posted as I follow this story.
As some know, the world of alarm monitoring can have murky legal waters, and it's sometimes difficult to tell what risks you're exposed to as a company until it's too late. Even exculpatory provisions don't necessarily make you immune to legal repercussions. If contracts aren't worded with sufficient clarity or designed with the correct protective provisions in place, the exculpatory clauses may be unenforceable.
Clearly it's best to err on the side of caution, and to ensure, if possible, that contracts are designed under the guidance of legal professionals with alarm industry expertise. A question posed today on Ken Kirschenbaum's newsletter illustrates some of these good instincts. And it touched on a growing vertical that's created something of an industry buzz: marijuana.
In summary, the questioner asked what kind of legal risks securing a marijuana dispensary or growing facility entails for an alarm company. Of course, with the substance being legal in certain states but illegal federally, it's unrealistic to imagine that risks are the same across the board. From a legal standpoint, the most interesting sub-question, posed by the same questioner, follows below in paraphrase:
What if, for example, a driver under the influence of illegally stolen marijuana gets behind the wheel under the influence of the stolen substance and strikes a pedestrian, killing them? Would the alarm company to any extent be culpable?
In his response, Kirschenbaum said all businesses, illegal or legal, carry some kind of risk, and marijuana dispensaries or growing facilities are no exception. If an alarm system is well-maintained, functioning properly and code-compliant, risk is minimized considerably. "Why should the alarm company care what's going on in the subscriber's premises when that alarm signal comes in?" he asked. "The decision is whether to dispatch and to which agency, police department or fire."
The marijuana example was merely the kernel which Kirschenbaum convincingly expanded into a much broader topic about what alarm companies can and can't control. "I don't think the alarm company is responsible for subscriber activity," he noted. These words from an industry attorney should, if anything, be a source of comfort for alarm companies, who may not have to worry about another front opening up in the war against legal liability.
Still, some caution is advised. But what's Kirschenbaum's advice for having dispensaries or other high-risk premises as subscribers? "If you get a call to alarm a pot dispensary, take the job and price it right," he said. "At least you don't have to compete against ADT."
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Orbert Davis, a Momence native, is a clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Governors State University's One More Night series will close its 2012-13 season with "DuSable to Obama: Music from Chicago's Black Metropolis."
The show will feature the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, led by trumpet player Orbert Davis.
"It's 100 percent classical and 100 percent jazz," Davis said of the CJP, which he co-founded .
"We create new music with the fusion of the two. By doing so, it created a sound and music that many people can identify with.
"I call it inner diversity. It's being diverse on the inside that allows us to be extremely flexible.
"What we do is so unexpected that the audience leaves fulfilled and wanting more."
The March 10 concert in University Park will include music from the Emmy Award-winning documentary "DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis."
"This upcoming performance features some of the most talented musicians from the Chicago area," said Davis, a clinical associate professor of music at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Those musicians include saxophonist Ari Brown and singer Maggie Brown.
The free panel discussion "What is Next for Chicago's Black Metropolis?" will follow the concert.
Moderated by Craig Gilmore, board chair of 100 Black Men of Chicago Inc., the panel will include Davis, who grew up in Momence.
"It's the closest venue to my hometown," he said of GSU. "There's so much of the community that I just love and I know. I feel a part of the community."
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♦ Bennett Johnson II, of Third World Press.
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"When I started scoring the film, I learned so much about not only African-American history as it pertains to Chicago but just Chicago history," Davis said.
"For me, music is the soundtrack to our lives and the aspect of being a part of a musical performance and having the discussion is going to open many people's eyes not only to what the music was about, but what the documentary taught.
"It allows us to discuss and debate various issues. I think that's through education. That's so different from students studying to take a test.
"It's really about discovering the history of the arts and discovering who we are in the process."
March 10's show will include video highlights.
"It's that powerful," Davis said of the documentary. It's something that everybody needs to see.
"There will be parts that will touch everyone's hearts. So this opportunity to present it live, we're really excited about it.
"Stories can be told in different ways through the documentary, through newspapers, through books, but for this experience the music tells the story."
"I think of it as a silent movie," he said about the March 10 gig. "There's sections where images will be on screen and music will be played to the images.
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Materials: A re-painted lamp skeleton meets a baby toy "Mula".
Description: A finding from the coarse trash – the lamp skeleton was painted into yellow. Together with a outgrown baby toy from Ikea and a matching lamp cable in red…
~ Pierre Ohlson, Stockhom-Avesta
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Aside from being downright ugly and silly looking – why would you make a lamp from a toy that someone might be tempted to play with that includes a burning hot bulb?
A burning hot bulb? Last time I checked, CFL's run pretty cool.
Geez… fun police much? I think this is awesome, and very clever.
Surprised that someone bothered to pour criticism over a pretty fun revamp, and also point at things like the creator already described: "outgrown baby toy" indicates that no one seems tempted to play, and these lights is as someone said never warmer than the Swedish summer of 2012.
First off, I am quite annoyed with such criticism on this site towards people who try to encourage the creative thought process. Criticism as a whole is purely a misconception to these "haters". The feedback box is misunderstood as a means to reply and encourage or give an opinion with a deeper meaning. Not just to discourage or put someones ideas down when you are to lazy to come up with anything else.
Second this is a great idea and the last time I checked, a child that would be "interested" in this would have the height to get close to touching it. Not if it was in their play pen or 2 ft off the ground that would be one thing. It is primarily the same concept as a baby mobile (not sure if that is correct) which is hanging above a crib for mainly the baby to have something to look at. I for one think this is a fun and creative idea. The only thing that I would express concern for is the heat on which the cubes or other materials would be exposed to. Considering it is a CFL one should not be to worried about it. It makes great decor for an item in a childs room that is typically not very creative to begin with!
A very clever and original idea! I tip my hat to the reuse of the lamp skeleton. In fact, I tip my hat to the whole concept. Well done!
This lamp is really awesome and creative, it looks really colourful and would look great in a childs room!
Thanks to all of you, i.e. everyone who appreciates the playfulness, color and recycling
Nice idea, the red and the yellow seems to belong together and really nice that the cord have the same thickness as the steel cable of the babytoy.
Very creative
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The Case for Environmental Education
Just as service learning has been proven an effective way for students to learn, develop valuable skills and retain concepts, the utilization of environmental education in the classroom as a "connecting thread" or context for other academic disciplines has also been shown to be educationally beneficial.
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In its 2002 publication, Education & The Environment/Strategic Initiatives for Enhancing Education in California, the California Department of Education made several important points about the key to excellence in education. "A main element, generally agreed on, is that integrating subjects aids learning. For that reason, integrated education and cross-subject instructional materials have proliferated."
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- Utilizes group work, a skill critical in higher grades and in the workforce. In 1999 the National Business Education Association noted that it seeks "employees who can work in teams, create analytical reports, interpret data and make decisions," all skills developed through environmental service learning.
- Cultivates critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, as students measure what they learn in the classroom against real-world situations, a continuous feedback loop that promotes flexibility, teamwork and leadership.
- Nurtures community involvement and active citizenship—the backbone of our democratic government. The Western Governors' Association has declared, "Beginning with the nation's youth, people need to understand their relationship with the environment. They need to understand the importance of sustaining and enhancing their surroundings for themselves and future generations. If we are able to achieve a healthy environment, it will be because citizens understand that a healthy environment is critical to the social and economic health of the nation." Environmental service learning projects strengthen students' relationship to community, and make them want to be active participants in creating meaningful change.
A March 2000 study2 funded by the California Department of Education paired eight conventionally structured California schools with eight demographically similar schools that had reorganized their curriculum to use the environment as an integrating context for learning. These latter schools used proven educational practices, but emphasized the local community and natural surroundings as the primary venue for learning. Students in the schools using the environment-based model earned higher scores on standardized tests than their counterparts in more traditional settings.
[2] Lieberman, G., & Hoody, L. (2000). California Student Assessment Project: The Effects of Environment-based Education on Student Achievement. San Diego California: State Education & Environment Roundtable.


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Pamela RiemenschneiderAvocados flew out of U.S. grocery stores over the holidays, and the Super Bowl shouldn't be any different.
Mexico, by far, will be the largest supplier of avocados for the Super Bowl, set for Feb. 3 this year, said Phil Henry, president of Escondido, Calif.-based Henry Avocado Corp.
"There's been a dramatic change the past few years" in the increase in Mexican product and decrease in Chilean product for the Super Bowl, Henry said.
Some California fruit will be harvested before the game, Henry said, but for the most part, supplies will be limited.
"There won't be large enough quantities to impact the marketplace," he said. "I would be surprised if there were many promotions."
Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing for the Irvine-based California Avocado Commission, agreed.
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Promotable volumes of California avocados are expected from mid-March through September, she said.
But volumes from Mexico will be abundant for the Super Bowl, Henry said.
The Association of Michoacán State Avocado Producers and Packers (APEAM) projects 986 million pounds of Mexican avocados will be shipped to the U.S. in 2012-13, up from 782 million pounds in 2011-12.
"All retailers will be able to have very good promotions, and the sizing and quality are good," Henry said.
APEAM's marketing efforts for the game include broadcast TV in select markets, targeted e-blasts, display and mobile ads, Facebook ads and outreach to bloggers, said Eduardo Serena, APEAM's marketing director.
"Avocados from Mexico are on track with volume projections and we expect to keep movement strong this winter and spring in order to guarantee another record season," Serena said.
Excellent movement over the holidays bodes well for the Super Bowl, Henry said. And despite the heavy volumes, he doesn't expect markets to change much in the runup to the game.
On Jan. 2, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $18.25-19.25 for two-layer cartons of hass 48s from Mexico, down from $26.25-27.25 last year at the same time.
On-ad retail prices for avocados averaged 95 cents a piece on Dec. 28, down from $1.14 the week before and 97 cents at the same time in 2011, according to the USDA's National Fruit and Vegetable Retail Report.


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Moving the Temperature Hum
26 Aug 2013 10:20 AM
Cynthia Robinson
I had quickly placed the temp hum in the top super a couple of weeks ago. Saturday the 24th, I took time to get it placed in the brood chamber. Success!
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Let the Education Begin
14 Aug 2013 10:29 PM
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Everyone that is involved with the Hive Scale Project is gearing up. We are learning how to read the scale data. We have learned the components of the scale, Gray Box (box with Raspberry Pi card), Temperature Hum (detects temp and Humidity) for hive and outside. This hive scale kit is a powerful unit. There will be a learning period and we will have more information soon.
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Progress from this past week
13 Aug 2013 2:14 PM
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A lot has happened since I last blogged. Sally and I had to make a small trench in her yard, which was about 100'. I made the trench but was unable to lay the cable that day.
Up until Saturday it was sitting in her office. Back tracking to the Monday before....There was troubleshooting with Paul on the phone to get connected. When working with routers and modems you have to know what you are doing. Or someone has to have a clue-Thank God for Paul Volk. I knew just enough to find the buttons to click on. Anyway we got connected.
Saturday is the day we lay the cable and install the hive scale outside. I had contacted Jonathan Williams prior to Saturday and he
is a lovable little geek. He came out to lend a hand. He had run cable before so his job was to get us out of the office, under the house, through the cactus garden, down the driveway and to the hive. May i add it was blazing hot!! In the middle of it, the question was asked whatever happened to wireless? We will get to that later.......
We connected the hive scale and it works. You can now see the York Hive Scale online at www.HiveTool.org at SC003.
Wireless connections requires an additional cost of about $100 (not included in the research grant). It is definitely a cost worth considering. Sweating is no fun and digging in dirt is horrible on the manicure.
Cynthia Robinson
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Continuing Hook Ups
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It has been slow progress to make the hook up of the hive scale. Been working on different projects away from the farm and had little time to focus on making final adjustments for data to flow from the hive scale. Paul and Bobby are working with me to make all the connections and answering questions.
The scale is working but not yet sending data out. There has to be another step in the process, not sure what that is but learning as we go. Today, we are going to lay the coax cable down that feeds the data from the scale to the router then to the server and to your computers (simplified version).
I sit on the edge of my seat knowing in less than 24 hours, people from around the world can know what our honey bees are doing at MamaBeehive Honey Farm. Whether they are taking a cleansing flight, bringing in nectar & pollen, making honey or anything. Stay tuned!
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Hive Scale Project-The Beginning
27 Jul 2013 11:00 PM
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The Summer Conference marked the official beginning of the Hive Scale Project for South Carolina. The Hive Scale Kits have been issued and three clubs have taken them home for installation. York, Charleston and Greenville will be online in a few days from now. The first Scale had been online in
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The first-ever pope from the Americas may have been a compromise candidate in the end given the age of Jorge Bergoglio, Chicago scholars said Wednesday.
They don't exactly expect the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, now known as Pope Francis, to lead a decades-long papacy.
"I think that his age means that maybe this is again an instance where the church is kind of marking time," said Michael Budde, chairman of the department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University. "Trying to buy some time, maybe."
Susan Ross, chairwoman of the theology department at Loyola University Chicago, said his selection is still a recognition, though, of the growing church in the global south. Latin America accounts for about 40 percent of the world's Roman Catholics.
"This is both indications that this guy probably isn't going to be around for 25 years," Ross said, "but on the other hand he's the first pope from the new world."
The experts pointed out the new pope speaks Italian and was trained in Europe. Budde said that might have helped him come across as a potential pontiff Italian church leaders could understand.
"He's no different in that sense than all the other cardinals," Ross said.
They also noted Bergoglio's reputation as a humble man who worked closely with the poor, rode the bus to work and cooked his own meals. They said the name he's chosen — an assumed reference to St. Francis of Assisi — strikes a note of simplicity given St. Francis' devotion to the poor and vows of poverty.
But Patrick Callahan, a professor of political science at DePaul, noted St. Francis was called by Jesus to rid the church of corruption in the middle ages. Since St. Francis is so revered in the church, he said, past popes might have thought taking the name was too presumptuous.
Callahan acknowledged it's a bold choice by Bergoglio, who might have been trying to send a message.
"It's my hunch that the majority of the cardinals believe it's imperative to fix up the mess in Rome, and that they chose him over others," Callahan said of the new pope.
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