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Tom and Julie sat in the doctor's office awaiting his conclusion. Placing his hand on her knee, the doctors looked directly at Julie, age 57, and said, "Now remember that you are who you are regardless of what you have and regardless of what I am going to tell you. I'm fairly confident that you have Alzheimer's."
"Julie, do you remember what we did after we got the news you had Alzheimer's?" asked Tom, her husband.
"I do," said Julie. "After I was told the news, we crawled into the back seat of our car and cried. Later we tracked down the biggest DQ Blizzard we could find."
Julie and Tom sat next to each other in two large leather chairs, reflecting on the events since Julie's diagnosis just 11 months ago. But this was not your typical exchange between a husband and wife. Instead, this conversation took place on a brightly lit stage in front of more than 1,000 people at the Meeting of the Minds Dementia Conference, March 12 in St. Paul, Minn.
The conversation turned to the difficult choices they've already had to make. Tom spoke about his job change and the reduction in hours he made to be more flexible and physically available to Julie. He shared how they've taken steps to reduce their living expenses, including selling their home. Recently, they made the tough decision to move into a senior independent living facility where they're the youngest.
Alzheimer's has required Julie and Tom, who have been together since high school, to negotiate new ways of communication. They spoke candidly about the challenges that memory loss has placed on their long established patterns of understanding one another. They openly discussed how their once equal partnership has taken an unbalanced and often uncomfortable shift in roles and in power.
Tom brought up a therapy session that the couple had back in August. During that session, Julie said she wanted to deal with the "end game." Tom asked Julie to share what she meant by that.
Julie responded, "When I can no longer take care of you, Tom, or be there for you in the way that you need, I worry. What will life be like for you? I ask that you surround yourself with others who will care for you. If one of those 'others' happens to be a woman, that's OK with me."
Through all of this uncertainly, though, Julie and Tom embrace humor. "As you know," Tom said, "I like to playfully use your loss of memory against you, like trying to convince you that it's been months since we've been physically intimate."
Julie laughed and then replied, "There are just some things we women don't forget!"
As this, the final session of the conference, was coming to an end, Tom concluded with these words:
"This experience has called on us to make a lot of decisions and to get clear about our values. We have put a premium on spending more time together and expanding our network of people who now share this experience with us. We chose to live in a place that is close knit and where there is a deep sense of community. We are making choices that are life giving."
I will never forget this extraordinary couple or the exchange they shared. For some of us, what we see reflected in Julie and Tom is our own humanness — a raw look into the vulnerable journey of life we all walk through. I believe Julie and Tom's story is not so much about trying to "get through it," but rather the spirit to live life fully "in it."
Angela Lunde
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This is a time of my life when I should be enjoying retirement and, instead, I am taking care of my husband who, because he decided to pack on hundreds of pounds, ruined his knees and his back, becoming an invalid by the time he was 60, while also taking in my mother who has early Alzheimer's. This is the same mother who was a horrible parent... beating the snot out of me and my brother (for some reason my younger sister wasn't touched)with anything that was handy. My brother isn't in a position to help and I really believe he's a sociopath, anyway. My sister's husband said, "Well, she can't live here." Period. I moved us all to a warm climate so that we didn't have to contend with ice and snow for their dozens of doctors' appointments and my mother-in-law is now right down the street where I can do some things for her, too. But I have lost all hope that my life will ever be good. people always say, "Oh, the good you do will come back to you," but it isn't true. For whatever reason, some people just have a ton of shit in their lives and some people don't.
This story is sad and beautiful at the same time. Sad because the pain they both went through, and beautiful because through sickness and health they are working through it.
I live 3 hours away from mom. Dad passed last year, they were divorced. She has been living in an elder community with her dog. I am sure the dog is keeping her well. Every day she seams to be doing well especially after getting the medicine. I stay with her for 3 to 5 days at a time. She still dresses well, we do laundry, take her for lunch and spend time just sitting. Mom was an artist. Now she spends her days looking at family photos and naming all her brothers and sisters over and over again. Mom reads all signs on her drives with me.. It can be so sad sometimes but I like her better now than when she didn't have dementia. In our early years she was very critical of me and my children. Now she can't remember their names.
Kathy - I understand every thing you are going through. My Husband was diagnosed at age 57. He was still working in law enforcement- Once he was disgnosed he retired. Our life changed at that point. Yes I hate the disease that has taken my husband from me. He kept getting worse and things had to change, the day he turned the lawn mower over on him with no one home, I knew that we would have to let the house go. He started doing things that I knew he could no longer be left alone all day. Although I wanted to I knew I could not quit working we needed the income. My life had already went from wife to caregiver. Even though he still knows who I am - I beleive he looks at me to solve his problems not as he once looked at me as his wife. Because I did not want strangers looking after him- my oldest daughter and my 16 year old grandson moved in with us. She is a trained Medical Assistant- but agreed to give up working to help care for her Dad. I need her there, but Andy and I losted our privacy. She also losted her privacy. This was a big adjustment for all of us. Andy says all the time he want things to be like they were. No always in words as he can no longer speak whole sentences. He uses a lot of gestures.It seems that every day I see something diffent in him - his disease is moving so fast and the docters just tells me that sometimes it does that.I hate it that I have to watch him go through this, I love him but he is no my Andy.
Like Julie and Tom, my husband and I have been together since high school. Rod is 53 years young and was diagnosed a year ago with Alzheimers. He repeats himself asking the same question over and over. He can not understand how things work. I look at him and he still looks the same, but his mind is so different. I love him and will be there for him, but right now I am angry. I can't believe that my life has changed so drastically. I still have to work and don't know what we will do when he needs help in his daily living. I wish I could quit work and stay home with him. No one really understands what we are going through. They can offer their ears and it does help to talk to someone, but I wish this was not happening to my husband and me. Whenever something new and different with him comes up, it is like a slap in the face because I know that I am slowly losing the person I knew and have to come up with new ways to cope. I HATE THIS!!
I think the fear that my mother has right now is of great sadness to me. She says she is "blacking out" and then "she's back". I assume this is the brain not functioning properly and it is something I cannot help her with. She is scared and is now remaining in her room all the time not going to eat with friends and losing what little life she has. Has anyone experienced this with their loved ones? How did you cope with it??
My husband was diagnosed about 18 months ago with mild Alz. He is older than me and retired. I am very busy in a demanding profession and really love my job. I also LOVE my husband very, very much. We are just at the beginning of the journey and there are already times when it is hard. I have increased my patience. Slowed down my pace. We really enjoy every day together and talk alot about the things that are important. About 8 months ago, my husband seemed to be getting worse. His doctor increased his medication, but he progressively lost his short term memory at a surprising rate. He also lost weight. About 4 months ago, we took a trip to Italy together (before it was too late). It was wonderfully romantic and bonding. And I made sure he was eating three meals a day. After the two week trip, his memory seemed to be improving. He confessed that he had not been eating meals when I was at work. WOW! He had lost 20 pounds and we thought it was just age and Alz taking over. He is eating regularly, now. I leave meals and make sure he has eaten them. He has improved so much. Part of his not eating was forgetting and the other part was not realizing it was important. I am thrilled to have a stronger, healthier husband today, but know it will probably reoccur again as his disease progresses. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any advice?
This is a wonderful blog. Thank you. I can relate to Joanne at this point except her husband can make lists and do simply household tasks - for my husband, 81, that is gone now. He is lying down at least 20 hours out of the 24 and sitting down the other 4 hours or less. His left knee is so painful he can barely walk but refuses to go to an orthopedist. A small dose of Haldol twice a day and 50mg. Sertraline keeps him from the psychotic episodes and he is pleasant to live with as long as I agree with him and never ever argue!!!! It is a cruel disease - I call it vascular dementia. And 2 of our 4 children just can't deal with it. One thing that helps is a fish! Of all things - we have one beta fish and my husband "talks" to it several times a day! Another is a jig saw puzzle - we only did one - of a beautiful locomotive in the mountains and I had it framed for his room. He also can play checkers like the pro he is (as long as he is reminded what color he is!) It gets lonesome without good conversation and few visitors in a rural area. I just live day to day and try not to even think about the future to the point of worrying. Better to face each problem as it comes because we can only handle one at a time anyway. Worry is unproductive. Prayer helps.
My dad was a veteran of 3 wars, put himself through college, graduated from the War College and died of Alz in 2008. My mother found strength she never had before to be beside him. My sisters and I were with him daily and laughed about the wonderful sense of humor he developed after being a very strict father. Hospice was there at the end and was wonderful. My mother has survived after a bad time, has a friend and her garden. The death was hard on my sisters and I & we have drifted apart. Alz takes its toll but my dad is always with me.
My husband (age 73) was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment about 5 years ago, and was told it is probably not Alzheimer's, but could lead to it. He is slowly getting worse. I find it hard at times to cope with his loss of mental ability and logical thinking. He tends to obsess or waffle about decisions - very different from how he used to be, and does not function at all well under even mild stress. At the same time he's sometimes as sharp witted as ever! I never know which person I'm with - the one who can remember long-past events and quote various authors, or the one for whom a reference to a past or current event is news. He is good at making lists for himself, and looks after many household tasks as I have some physical limitations. I've had to take on all financial planning activities as well as organizing things like our health-care directives, wills, taxes, and family records. I've made a detailed list of our bank info, credit cards, pre-authorized bill payments, passwords, passport numbers, etc. and have told our sons where they can find the info if it's needed. I wish there was something else I could do to ease what will surely become more of a burden for both of us. Neither of our sons seem to realize that complaining to me about their father's state of mind doesn't help - I've told them that if they have a problem with him, they should talk to him about it, or drop it. As we say in Al-Anon, I didn't cause it, and I can't cure it.
My husband a slow onset of Alzheimers until he had to have some surgery. After the surgery, little by little he stopped walking, could not get up from a chair and would not eat. There was no discussing anything with him. He only wanted to be home. I hired a service that provided caretakers. He fired every one of them. He found fault with everyone and everything. He then had a psychotic episode and was sitting in his wheel chair screaming that he wanted the police, that he was being robbed etc. He also started chasing after the aides in his wheelchair and made lewd sexual advances towards them. When he insisted on talking to the police we managed to get him to a hosppital where he told his story to a uniformed security person. The hospital transferred him the gerio/psych ward at. He was there ten days, screaming and hitting. Eventually he was moved to an Alzheimer facility where he continued his hitting and his sexually inappropriate behavior. The hospice nurse offered a shot of a medication that would calm him but shorten his life. This made him much more normal and I took him home. After a week he started refusing medication, became incontinent, both urine and bowel. Since he would not let the aides turn him and starated refusing all his medication, he developed bed sores which eventually killed him. I think I shall never recover from this horrible episode. He had been a gentle, consider person. Alzheimers killed him!
My mother had Alzheimer disease, my husband,daughter,and I took care of her for four and a half years, and now I facing some fears that I (daughter) may one day develop it. My doctor diagnosed me with Ischemic disease which put me at a risk of developing MS,Alzheimer, or Wilson disease.I do not have high blood pressure or none of the metabolic symdrome and the only thing maybe hypoglycemic which I am being checked now, it is hard in the caregiver and already told my husband that in the event I develop Alzheimer I would like to be in a Senior independent living facility. For now I feeding my body with foods that are nutrient dense, incorporating more exercise, developing my spirituall side, and LOVE which to me is very important in this equation. I want to believe I can heal my body and develop a strong shield against this debiliting disease. The couple/s story is very encouraging and inspiring because it proof to me that with LOve and dedication the situation that arises can be resolved. Right away I am also 57 years old.
Vicki, When I interviewd places for mom to live, I used the website A Place For Mom.com It is a free service, and they were very helpful in finding places in and around my area that would best suit my moms needs. The person I used called and would even make appointments for me and call them for me if I wanted them to. My helper's name was Dominic and he was very kind and helpful! I hope that helps! God bless you and your husband!
I would like to know more about these Senior independent living Facilities. Can anyone give me a web site to look this up in our area. My husband has advance Alzheimers and it is becoming difficult by the day keeping up with our home.
My wife of 46 years is in the stage where she hallucinates about people coming in the house to steal her things. She can;t perform even the simplest tasks. She talks I to herself all the time and forgets who I am. The hardest thing to take is the mood swings. She is afraid all the time and constantly wants to know when we're going to lose our house. She thinks someone else owns the house. To make things worse our sons and her sister all wants us to go to a nursing home. They talk about her like she's a stranger, but all say "just tell me what you need". We need love and understanding
My 85 year old wife of 57 years was diagnosed at Mayo in September 2005 with "dementia of the Alzheimer's variety". Now our conversation consists almost entirely of, "Who are you?" Or some variation of,"Where are we now?" Even not knowing who I am, or frequently who she is, she very often says, "Give me a kiss." She has no memory of any of the 20 trips we took to foreign countries during the first 16 years of retirement. If I have been able to convince her that we are married, she may ask, "Did we have any children?" (We have two boys, ages 55 and 51 who who are vary close emotionally, if not geographically.) She often asks, "Will you take care of me?" She is in that stage which has been described as, "having no past, having no future, and only a very vague present". She enjoys flowers so I keep a fresh bouquet at all times. She was very musical but now never plays the piano. She does like the CDs I got through the Alzheimer's Store with songs by Tony Bennet, Perry Como, and Mel Torme. She likes to ride in our Subaru Outback which I bought because she can get in and out easily. We eat out at least twice a week in places where the waitresses and managers know us. I take her to the same hair salon, once a week, that she has gone to "forever". She was an excellent photographer and I now have 35 of her pictures hung on our condo walls. She doesn't remember she took them, but likes it whe
God bless you Tom and Julie...you are both so inspiring for those of us who walk this reality. What struck me as I read your story and these comments is that despite all of the many frustrations this disease can bring....what matters the most, what we hold on to, and what will last FOREVER is the LOVE we share with our loved ones!! My mom has early onset dementia and was diagnosed a few years ago at 66. There are ups and downs...but I always try to focus on "the now" and on expressing my love as much as I can. I think of that saying: the past is gone, the future is not yet, but the present is a GIFT (that's why it's called a PRESENT!) I will pray for all of you as you strive to make all of your moments(repeated or not) loving and joyful...I pray for patience, strength, and faith for all of you :) !
I really took to heart this story. My mother ,89 in April,has been afflicted for quite a few years. From the lost teeth,purses and keys to now hardly being able to communicate at all. I am the most like her and I fear I am seeing my future. This story made me feel somewhat better. Perhaps the future won't be so scary if my husband and I approach what might happen with the open eyes of these two.
Thank you for the caregiving of the early age onset AD families. My Greg was diagnosed at Mayo, age 54; is now in moderate stages. We are surviving day to day. The changes in personality, abilities, perceptions are difficult to manuever and compounded with the community setting. Our daughters have been great! Afraid but supportive. I miss my spouse greatly. This disease is cruel.
Thanks Angela for telling this story so beautifully. It was such an honor to be asked to share out story last week, and you have captured what we have said very well. Thanks to all of you that are making comments back. I learned something when I read the comment from Terry - knowing how to respond in the moment based on whether it is the disease or the person!! I love it! Good advice.
My wife of 56 years was diagnosed with AD several years ago. My health is good. We are both 77. It is not the forgetting so much as the mental confusion that troubles her. She keeps wanting the impossible, like seeing her parents and sisters who have died. She is confused as to time, place and situations. She wants me to take her home, but she is in the home where we have lived for 36 years. She needs 24/7 watching lest she get into trouble. I have a CNA here six days a week for three hours in the morning. I'm with my wife the rest of the time. If I leave for even a short time while the CNA is here, my wife has real separation anxiety. Taking her out of the house often to stores, restaurants and church seems to help her feel better. She enjoys it, and it distracts her. It calms her down for a time even though she does not remember going the next day. AD is a terrible disease I would not wish on anyone. I'll do the best I can by her as long as I can.
Terry your story is my story :-) Sometimes it's hard to remember if it's the AD talking, or is it really Len? And like you I respond to him the same way you do to your Rick. You made me smile.
My husband is in the final stages of the desease at age 76. He now has a 20 word vocabulary, doesn't carry a convedrsation and doesn't understand much of anything. Thank you somuch for this article. Caring for one with this desease does require a lot of love and patience beyone belief. We recently moved into a Senior Independent Community and find so much love, help and caring here.
Peggy .........Rick's in the mid stages of disease and the question I always ask myself .....Is it the husband or is it the disease. And if it's the disease I just smile and answer again ......if it's the husband I act like the wife and every married couples knows what that means :)
I really learned alot from this issue. It has really been tough learning all the things to help my husband. He is at the stage where he forgets what we just talked about, as much as I love him I found myself being really impatent. we were able to talk about it and came up with a easy solution and it really helps. We have a small note pad and just write down what we spoke about. A Little thing helps so much.
A truly moving and inspiring account. Thank you for posting it.
Reading this loving story of Tom and Julie I am struck on how it mirrors my life with Rick. Rick was had early onset. We are the new generation of Alz. I still work full time and have no help from our son. The road is difficult but paved with love and humor. Every day is a struggle for my darling husband in ways none of us can imagine. I asked him once was it like waking each morning in a foreign country ......he said "yes without the accents". His class and humor gets us through the day. I have someone who is with him a couple of hours a day and delights in his stories and person. I am only saddened that my son is not giving his children a time with this amazing man. My son's excuses will not stand the test of time and will ultimately cost him a life of guilt. But for me my husband is just the best, and he does the best that he can do. The road ahead is only tougher but so what.....from Garth Brooks.....I would have had to miss the dance and to tell u the truth we are still dancing
Thank you for sharing such an important time in your lives. We lost my mother last January to this disease and I must say my dad was my greatest hero during mom's illness. He was such a trooper as was she. During her last year of life before she had a stroke that prevented her from walking, she followed him around like a little puppy and he never let her out of his sight. We spent lots of time together before and during her illness. We were a very close family and I remember one time when my sister and I took mom shopping, my dad said "now don't lose her". How sweet was that? They were married 63 1/2 years and my dad passed away just 13 months and 5 days after we lost my mom. They were a living symbol of what we rarely see these days, true love and commitment for each other. She called him "my man" and he called her "babe". Alzheimers is a dreadful disease and a cure needs to be found quickly, but in the meantime we must support our friend and families suffering both as patients and as caretakes. I learned a valuable lesson while caring for my sick mother. That lesson is that love wil get us through this. Be kind and gentle, show patience and love, give hugs and kisses to the Alzeheimer's patients because when they are cranky and confused it is the disease that makes them that way, not the person.
I had posted a comment about a month ago concerning my mother and the horrible nursing home she was in. My father had put her there about 5 months before he passed away from lung cancer. His last wish is that she would remain there because her sisters and brothers lived in the area and could visit her daily. Yet, with all the visitors she was receiving, her medical care was sub-optimal, and that is truly an understatement. My brother and I would have to travel 500 miles round-trip to visit her on weekends and this was wearing us out. To make a long story short, we moved her to our city last week. The nursing home she now is in is so beautiful, the staff are patient and compassionate and they are attending to her needs. Because the facility is larger, they are able to provide more services for her and they have a wonderful social calendar not to mention their food actually looks tasty. I have not seen my mom this happy in a long time. It created a bit of turmoil in the family as the siblings didn't want her to go, but we had to put medical care before family. It was a hard decision to make especially knowing we were going against our father's wishes. But I truly believe, if he saw this place and how well taken care of and how happy she is, he would be pleased.
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The ADT Corporation announced yesterday that it has closed its acquisition of Canadian monitoring giant Protectron.
ADT, which executed a definitive agreement to acquire Reliance Protectron in April, acquired the company for total cash consideration of CAD $555 million.
ADT has now officially added 400,000 customers and 31,000 accounts north of the border, worth approximately $11 million in RMR.
ADT, which already has two central stations in Canada, adds four more through the acquisition. Protectron, a portfolio company of investment funds managed by Alinda Capital Partners, has 900 employees. Its customer base is 75 percent residential.
ADT's plan, as stated at the time it agreed to acquire the company, is to use the acquisition as the platform for a stand-alone business in Canada with a dedicated management team, a move designed to address the country's specific market needs. In a news release, ADT said it planned to continue to using the Protectron brand under ADT ownership.
In late April, following the acquisition agreement, Lee Jackson, regional VP Canada, said it was too early to say whether ADT would keep all six Canadian central stations in operation. He noted that ADT has yet to determine which resources and administrative functions it will transfer to Canada to supports its expanded account base in that country, now up to 800,000.
The acquisition goes down as ADT's largest since becoming an independent company, far surprassing its 2013 Devcon deal, according to John Mack, EVP and managing director at Imperial Capital, who spoke to SSN when the agreement to acquire became public. At the time, Mack said the deal signals a return to "growth initiatives [through] high quality acquisitions" and predicted the deal would help ADT's attrition profile while bolstering its enhanced services sales.
It will be interesting to wait and see if Mack's words prove to be prophetic.
Bob Sawyer, who has been with AMAG Technology for 40 years, the past 19 as president and CEO as of July 1, is now chairman of AMAG's Board of Directors.
The new president of AMAG is Matt Barnette, who been with AMAG for 10 years, most recently as EVP of global marketing and sales.
Barnette will report to G4S Technology CEO, Keith Whitelock.
I had a chance to correspond via email with Matt yesterday and asked him to fill me in on any new deals AMAG has closed since I last saw him at PSA-TEC in May.
"Since I saw you last at PSA-TEC, we've secured several Fortune 100 companies with our Audit, Credentialing & Compliance software. We have installed our Symmetry SR product at two 5,000+ card reader end-users (one in telecommunications and the other in energy sector) and we continue to gain marketshare with our Symmetry Video platform. We are launching Symmetry v8 in August, so there is a lot of momentum right now," he said in the email. I also asked him about plans for the future. "Fortunately, we have a fantastic foundation here to build from. My plan is to accelerate growth by increasing our Business Development team, both in North America and Internationally, to help blanket the end-user and consultant community to update them on our tremendous products and services. In addition, [I want to] increase our footprint in services revenue by scaling that organization to meet the higher demands of the global accounts we've captured. We've found customers enjoy a much higher level of product satisfaction when they have a Symmetry Certified ProService Engineer working closely with them."
In a prepared statement, Bob Sawyer said: "Matt Barnette has a deep knowledge of all major aspects of the security products industry coupled with over 20 years of experience building and leading teams. Over the last 10 years, Matt has done an exceptional job leading the sales and marketing teams, while working closely with AMAG's senior leadership to support the growth of the company's global organization. His contributions, experience and integrity make him the ideal candidate to succeed me as president of AMAG Technology."
Prior to AMAG, Barnette worked for Andover Controls in its Integral Technologies Division.
AMAG Technology is based in Torrance, Calif., and has offices throughout the U.S., offering security and video solutions to government and private-sector customers in North America through authorized dealers.
"You Speak. Your Home Listens." That's how ADT is describing ADT Pulse Voice, a new app that adds personal voice commands to Pulse security systems.
Voice commands appear to be the hot new trend in home security. For example, I blogged recently about the voice control capabilities of Honeywell's Wi-Fi thermostat. And Alan Stoddard, senior director of marketing for Honeywell Security Products Americas, told me last week that a new release of Honeywell's Tuxedo Touch this month will provide for voice commands.
ADT announced the release of its new app today and bills ADT Pulse Voice technology as "the first of its kind in the smart home space."
The company says the technology "enables homeowners to log in and log out of the Pulse Voice app via custom technology that recognizes unique voice signatures. Once logged in, users can arm and disarm their Pulse security panel, control their home's lighting, adjust thermostats, lock and unlock doors, and check the overall status of their home – all verbally and virtually touchless through an iOS or Android smart phone."
ADT says it's all about making life simpler for today's busy homeowners. No longer do they have to interrupt what they're doing to manually control their homes. "Instead, a homeowner's voice can trigger ADT Pulse functions by recognizing select key words, device names and phrases to perform. In addition to accepting personal voice commands, the ADT Pulse Voice app provides auditory feedback to confirm actions and system status for all of its connected devices."
The technology is a boon for the visually impaired as well, ADT says.
The company says it has also taken steps to secure homeowners' privacy in case a mobile device is lost or stolen. ADT says it does that by leveraging "a multi-layered identification process allowing only registered members of a household to log in. Through voice commands, a user is approved by three personal checkpoints: a secret phrase, state-of-the-art voice recognition, and confirmed identification of a mobile device. …Without all three verification checkpoints confirmed, any login attempt will be denied."
The company says existing ADT customers can download the new app for free in the Apple App Store, as well as through Google Play.
With ESX 2014 in the rearview mirror, I wanted to combine some of my experiences into one summarizing blog of an event rich in educational seminars and insightful speakers. Here are some of the sights and sounds, in more or less chronological order:
How, in 2014 and beyond, does a security company remain relevant? That's the question Safeguard Security CEO John Jennings addressed at the ESA eye-opener breakfast, urging audience members to free themselves from outmoded ways of doing and thinking about business.
Titled "Dinosaurs, Woolly Mammoths, Saber tooth tigers and you," the presentation very directly explored strategies to help security companies avoid becoming, well, extinct. His recommendations? Promoting unorthodox perspectives, challenging the obvious and fostering divergent ideas. He encouraged listeners to emulate the disruptive, risk-taking attitudes prevalent in the tech startup culture—first by considering failure not as an endgame, but as an occasional and even necessary obstacle along the pathway to better ideas.
Jennings also told attendees to ask the tough questions about their businesses, and to be uncompromising about having employees who both perform in the field and elevate the atmosphere in the office.
Strategic planning, Jennings noted, can be relegated to the dustbin of history. In an industry so rapidly evolving and so hard to predict, such projects no longer constitute a good use of time. Oh, and organizational charts? Those can go too. Divisions between personnel need no longer be so neatly divided or even hierarchical, as leaders should aim to pool ideas from all levels of their management structure.
Jennings also made a persuasive and rather funny case for doing away with the term "central station." "Central station—really?!" he asked with half-serious outrage. He then asked if anyone outside the industry actually knows what a central station is. He's got a point. There's something a little unsleek and Star Trek-y about the phrase. And that's misleading; the facilities I've visited are nothing if not sleek.
In the afternoon I moderated a seminar featuring Tom Szell, SVP, ADS Security, Mike Bodnar, president, Security Partners, and Brandon Savage, SVP customer experience and operations at My Alarm Center/Alarm Capital Alliance. It was a good mix of perspectives, and the trio wasn't shy about proposing some forward-thinking ideas. Savage urged attendees to make customer support not just a differentiator but the key differentiator at their companies. Szell affirmed that the interactive services revolution is an enormous positive for the industry, but said the next imperative is figuring out how to provide top-notch support for this ever-expanding array of services. With respect to the hiring and training process, Mike Bodnar encouraged attendees to identify people with the right mix of hard and soft skills, and added that the demand for operators with those characteristics is only going to increase.
From a monitoring standpoint, the panelists left no stone unturned: PERS, mobile PERS, installer apps, subscriber apps, the ASAP to PSAP program, customer surveys, video verification, and interactive services and the new expectations for customer support they've produced.
In the latter part of the session, the audience members posed some superb questions as well. Some asked how to extend the life of PERS accounts or how to develop the most effective and informative customer surveys. Others asked about the threat of DIY / MIY systems and how best to cope with broader market awareness of these systems.
The ESX show floor kicks into full gear Wednesday. I plan to be there the next two days and to make a point of getting to as many of the educational seminars as possible.
It had the feel of a seminar anyone in the monitoring space needed to hear. Moderated by Don Childers, COO of Security Central, the panel titled "IP, the Central Station and All that Jazz" got down to the brass tacks of what it takes to be a monitoring company in 2014. One of the ruling themes: You need to honestly assess the strengths and weaknesses of your monitoring company now to determine how well suited or not it is to be reliable hub of IP signals.
The panelist lineup included Sascha Kylau, VP central station solutions and services, OneTel; Morgan Hertel, VP of operations at Rapid Response Monitoring; and Mark McCall, director of IT, Security Central.
The "Internet of Things" movement was broached early in the session, with Kylau mentioning some possibilities for monitoring that might have seemed farfetched a few years ago but that now seem totally plausible. Pet tracking, mobile medical monitoring, mobile tracking, geo fencing, aggregating information from household appliances—Kylau touched on all these possibilities. Some of these services, such as PERS, are already well-established streams of RMR for some monitoring companies, and only stand to become more mainstream in the years ahead.
The panelists agreed that investing in quality ISPs and bandwidth will pay off in the long run. Hertel noted that during Hurricane Sandy, Rapid Response was hit was an astonishing rate of signals for two weeks straight. With such taxing scenarios in mind, he advised monitoring companies to invest in reliable, first-rate ISPs, and to work closely with automation providers to ensure their company can accommodate IP traffic in any set of circumstances. To that point, McCall added that it's crucial to invest in a network monitoring platform that tracks signal information and informs you when the IP firewall is about to max out.
The panelists didn't just discuss the equipment investments in the central station IP domain. They also touched on the human capital aspect of the business, which is evolving in proportion to the technology. Hertel said Rapid Response now employs a 25-person IT and software development team.
Later in the day I caught up with Jeremy Mclerran, director of marketing at Qolsys. The company's big news at the show was the launch of its new user interface intended to make the customer experience more consistent and sleek. To that end, the new look is a rousing success; it's an uncluttered, clean, visually appealing interface. McLerran explained that Qolsys is so closely integrated with Alarm.com that remodeling the company's own interface to make it closer in alignment with that platform's look and feel "just made sense."
Though the new look features flat, monochromatic icons, McLerran pointed out that the changes aren't just cosmetic. The company's intent was to design a "forward-compatible" panel that interoperates with a host of wireless radios and has a slew of home control functionalities already embedded. Qolsys also managed to elicit some guffaws with its anonymous banner ads adorning the escalators: "1980 called. It wants its panel back." The banners also encouraged industry members to take a deep breath and "just say no" to rubber button keypads.
In the afternoon I met with Dave Mayne, VP of marketing at Resolution Products, which today announced the release of its new Helix panel, scheduled to ship everywhere in December. Mayne said the panel reflects Resolution's goal of creating a panel that reduces the amount of time dealers need to spend servicing accounts, while giving them a pathway to adding new home control functions. The Helix employs software and interactive services from SecureNet. It will ship to a select group of early adopters in July, he said.
I also spoke with Kirk MacDowell, VP sales, intrusion-Americas, at Interlogix, about the company's recent acquisition of Ultra High Speed, a technology provider of telecommunications infrastructure equipment. The move expands the company's global intrusion portfolio in the residential and small- to medium-sized retail verticals. A big draw, MacDowell said, was that UHS was a "proven, developed and launched" service.
First thing tomorrow morning I'll be attending the ESX Rise and Shine breakfast, where I'll be listening closely to what some of the new entrants to the industry have to say about their go-to-market strategies and their vision for the security industry of tomorrow. I'm eager for this session, and from what I've heard from attendees, I'm not alone. I expect to see few if any empty seats.
Day 3 - ESX 2014
The final day of ESX began with a highly anticipated panel moderated by ESX chair George De Marco. The panel was intended to showcase how some of the new security entrants envision the direction of the industry.
The lineup included Adam Mayer, VP strategy and new business development, Time Warner Cable; Gene LaNois, GM, Nest Labs, Pro Channel; and Mike Hackett, VP sales and marketing, Qolsys.
De Marco did not refrain from asking the tough questions, or in other words, the questions the audience wanted to hear. In view of Google-owned Nest recently acquiring Dropcam, he asked LaNois if he thought third-party monitoring centers and installers would remain crucial components of security, or if DIY systems would factor them out of the equation. The response from LaNois, and from the other panelists who chimed in, were not exactly discouraging for installers or monitoring personnel. Yes, both LaNois and Mayer agreed the DIY market was poised to take off. But they also agreed that for more complex integration projects, installers will still be in high demand, and will continue to play a major role in shaping the industry moving forward. The key takeaways of the panel were that lifestyle services and monitored security can and will share a symbiotic relationship, and that DIY systems, while a threat to central station RMR, are not necessarily going to destroy the entire central station model. If anything, they might just modify it.
After the seminar I caught up with Telguard's Shawn Welsh, VP marketing and business development, and Pamela Benke, director of marketing, to discuss the company's new cellular alarm communicator for CDMA networks, the TG-1 Express CDMA. Welsh said the product goes along way toward expanding the company's residential reach, turning rural or hilly regions, where cellular coverage can be spotty, into more viable zones for Telguard's services. Compatible with Verizon's 3G/4G wireless networks, the CDMA alternative is being marketed as a replacement to soon-to-be obsolete GSM products. Telguard is making the product eligible for the company's Upgrade Incentive Program, which allows dealers to receive $25 for replacing GSM units.
On my final day at ESX, I got wind that the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response met its ESX deadline for developing video verification best practices. Mark McCall, IT director at Security Central, Keith Jentoft, president at Videofied-RSI Technologies, and Peter Tallman, program manager at Underwriters Laboratories shed some light on their roles in the process, and on the numeric threat evaluation criteria outlined in the new recommendations.
Pam Petrow stands out in the industry as one of just a handful of female CEO's of a leading security company.
Now, four years into her leadership as CEO and president of Vector Security, Petrow is being distinguished again, this time for winning the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for her region, the Pittsburgh-based company announced this week.
As the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia award winner, Ms. Petrow will be automatically eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 national program, the winners of which will be announced in November, according to a Vector news release.
The EY award "honors distinguished entrepreneurs who demonstrate widespread success, a commitment to innovation and forward thinking and unwavering passion for business," the release said. Former recipients have included CEOs, private capital investors and regional leaders of a wide range of businesses.
Petrow succeeded Vector's longtime president, John Murphy, after his death in October 2010. She formerly was Vector's EVP and COO.
In a prepared statement about her EY award, Petrow credited company employees and the community with the win. "Being recognized for this prestigious award is not only a testament to the dedication of our employees, many of whom have made serving our customers their careers, but also to the stability and pioneering spirit of the people and businesses in our communities," she said.
Vector serves nearly 300,000 residential and business customers. The release said Petrow "challenges managers to learn what their direct reports do on a day-to-day basis and to adapt their management style to extract the best performance from their employees."
It also noted that she "held leadership positions in a number of security industry associations and received a number of awards including the Public-Safety Communications Officials International President's Award and Central Station Alarm Association recognition for her outstanding contributions to the electronic transmission of signals between central stations and 911 dispatch centers. In 2012, Ms. Petrow was inducted into the Security Sales & Integration Hall of Fame."
Pretty impressive!
Like many in the security industry, I was saddened to learn about the death June 12 of Tim Feury, president of systems integration firm Altec Systems. Feury was 56 and died of complications of heart failure, according to an obituary in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
I've interviewed Tim and his wife and business partner, Mary Feury, several times and enjoyed getting to know them at various events, especially PSA Security events. I have been in touch with Mary this week and plan to publish a more detailed remembrance of Tim once she and I have a chance to talk in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, here are a couple of links to stories I've written about Tim and Mary and Altec Systems. In this story from March, they were getting ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Altec systems (and their 10-year wedding anniversary as well.) And here's one from 2011 that talks about how Mary brought IT services to Altec Systems.
Tim Feury graduated from James Caldwell High School in New Jersey and moved to Atlanta in the early 1980s. In addition to his wife, Tim Feury is survived by sons, Andrew Feury of Atlanta, Matthew Feury of Atlanta, and Ryan Feury of Marietta; sisters, Patricia Borys of Marietta , MaryAnn Baker of Flanders, N.J. and Elizabeth Feury of Mount Olive Township, N.J.; brothers, John Feury of Verona, N.J. and Robert Feury of Lincoln Park, N.J.; and one grandchild.
Have you heard of Feenics? It's a new cloud-based access control platform that's being run by an industry vet and that attracted the attention of some integrators who are demoing, or getting ready to install "Keep" which is Feenics' first product.
Paul DiPeso, who was most recently with Lenel, is running the show for Feenics as VP and GM, and this week he's at the Feenics' office in Ottawa conducting a "voice of the customer" meeting with some integrators, including Alpha Corp, GS Security, Contava, TRL Systems, Open Systems and Koorsen Security.
I had a chance to speak to Di Peso as well as Skip Sampson and Shannon Martindale from Koorsen, and I'll have a regular story on the whole Feenics offering next week.
Suffice it to say, Sampson and Martindale are excited about the offering. Sampson believes Keep will be an RMR generator for his company and a product that his customers will like.
Sampson installed Keep at the Koorsen office and tested it for six months. "We gave [developers] feedback and they were quick to acknowledge and implement [some changes]," he said.
He's sold two systems and "has quite a few in the pipeline," he said. Asked about hosted and managed services, Sampson said he's dabbled in hosted video, but he believes that managed access control is "the most viable managed service. You don't need a huge pipe, huge SAN or attached storage, a DSL works just great," he said.
And with Keep, which works with standard Mercury panels "there's comfort that if the customer for some reason doesn't like it, you can put in something else without replacing the infrastructure. I think Sam was wise in doing that. We play on that point."
Sam is Sam Shalaby, former owner of FSC, who developed the product. Shalaby is still 100 percent owner of Feenics and sits on the board of advisors, but he is not involved in the day-to-day business.
Sampson acknowledged that there are "multiple other products that do similar things, but what's different with Sam's is that he didn't take a product that's been out there for 10 to 15 years and take the same GUI, and same layout and try to make it work as a hosted product. He started to build it with an integrator's mindset. It's not an access control panel-centric product."
Sampson called it "fresh and new and relevant," and said it has "kind of a Google look to it."
Working with DiPeso are Dave Charles who does business development, Ralph Shillington who is CTO and who developed the original software, and Anthony Shalaby who is running logistics.
Check back next week, for more details on Feenics' and DiPeso's go-to-market strategy.
One of the most visible illustrations of the Internet of Things movement, the connected home continues to open up an expanding world of RMR possibilities for the security industry. But according to a recent CNN Money report, it's also opening up some new and murky legal terrain that, like many Internet-related matters, raises fundamental questions about privacy and information rights.
The headline is as blunt as it is Orwellian: "Cops can access your connected home." While the article references smart home technology writ large, the piece mostly focuses on the video aspect of the connected home and the potential for cameras to generate footage that could someday be used in legal proceedings.
In the article, Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst from the American Civil Liberties Union, is quoted as saying, "We're seeing law enforcement across a variety of areas arguing that they should be able to access information with lower standards than before the electronic age."
The source also notes that information from the home can provide a "window into the things you're doing in your private space."
Still, authorities cannot get their hands on such footage without a warrant or subpoena, as the article notes. A judge authorizes a warrant when the prosecutors show "probable cause" that evidence exists that could be linked to criminal activity. Subpoenas, however, have a somewhat looser standard, requiring only that the data being sought is relevant to a given investigation.
Security companies offering interactive services are typically very sensitive to the notion that customers have lingering concerns about privacy. Andy Stadler, division manager, advanced services, at Security Partners, illustrated that awareness in our conversation a few weeks ago about the company's recent adoption of Alarm.com's new video verified alarm service. During the development phase, he said, Security Partners and Alarm.com took pains to erect privacy measures that would perform the dual task of giving central stations the information they need without infringing on the customer's privacy.
This left me wondering: With home automation offerings so widespread, could the implementation of more robust and consumer-friendly privacy measures emerge as a real differentiator? Are the more tech-savvy, privacy-conscious consumers going to start asking companies how long they store footage on their servers? Are they going to ask how and why authorities might access data generated in their homes? Are they going to ask about what cyber security measures are being put in place to thwart hacks?
This will be a fascinating industry topic to watch on several levels. At the business level, it could just be that the companies most attentive to privacy protections will view public skepticism as an opportunity rather than a hindrance.
In 2013, there was a restructuring at the top of DEFENDER Direct, with CEO and president Marcia Barnes exiting and company founder David Lindsey stepping in to take her place. Now, the company announced today, it has a new president, and it's a promotion from within.
Lindsey is passing the mantle of president to Jim Boyce, the company's chief operating officer for almost three years. Boyce will also retain his COO title. His leadership has helped the Indianapolis-based company to grow dramatically, according to a June 16 news release.
DEFENDER bills itself as ADT's only authorized Premier Provider. In business since 1998, the company employs more than 2,000 individuals in 48 states with over 143 branch offices nationwide.
Boyce actually joined DEFENDER's Board of Advisors in 2009 and became the company's COO in October 2011. Prior to joining DEFENDER, Boyce served on the executive teams at two large, global businesses, Convergys and Procter & Gamble, the news release said.
As president, Boyce will lead all day-to-day company operations, including overseeing DEFENDER's Business Improvement Team, which includes key leaders from around the business who collaborate to achieve organizational alignment and continued success, the release said.
"In his time at DEFENDER, Jim has done an amazing job leading our security business. Key components of our business have dramatically grown and improved under Jim's leadership," Lindsey said, in a prepared statement.
In his own statement, Boyce said, "I am pleased with the success we are having and am incredibly optimistic about the future for this healthy, growing and inspired company. We have lightning in a bottle!"
Boyce is active in charitable work, according to the news release. He currently serves on the United Way of Central Indiana Board of Advisors and supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He is also involved with organizations such as the YWAM Homes of Hope Program, Junior Achievement and Habitat for Humanity.
I hope to learn more about DEFENDER's growth and future plans. Stay posted.
Honeywell has released its new LYNX 5200 wireless security system and Alarm Grid DIY Security Solutions, a new Florida company that focuses on helping customers install their own security systems to keep costs affordable, says it is "on a mission to make the L5200 the perfect panel for security system Do-It-Yourselfers."
It will be interesting to see how much traction Alarm Grid—founded in 2012 and based in Lighthouse Point, Fla., and which offers its customers no-contract central station monitoring—is able to achieve with its DIY approach.
It's clear the company really likes the new Honeywell panel.
"The L5200 is the sister panel to this year's ISC [West] 'Best in Intrusion' winner, the Honeywell L7000, which is expected to be released in the latter half of 2014," Alarm Grid said in a June 11 news release. "Like the predecessors of these two panels, Honeywell has designed the L5200 to be an integrated system that combines state-of-the art wireless security features such as Advanced Protection Logic (APL) and interactive services that allow an user to control the system from any smart device, with the incredible convenience afforded by modern home automation products."
Alarm Grid said that with the new panel, "Honeywell has gone far to address many of their consumers' demands, and it's clear that with this panel the company is furthering its commitment to improved user experience. … The Honeywell L5200 comes with more zones of protection, the ability to display a camera on screen, and one of the most exciting developments in Honeywell's technology comes with the announcement that the L5200 is flash upgradeable … which allows the panel to download the latest software updates that have been released for the unit."
Alarm Grid believes that DIY is the wave of the future and that Honeywell's new panel is perfect for DIYers. The company says it is making it available to end users through its website.
"Do-It-Yourselfers have really taken up the reins in this industry. These panels are easy to understand, they are simple to program, and they are simple to install," said Joshua Unseth, Alarm Grid's director of marketing, in a prepared statement.
The news release continues: "While the release of a security system like the L5200 would generally mean big money for installers who bank on consumers knowing very little about how these systems work, Alarm Grid has already released the L5200 manuals, they have begun writing L5200 frequently asked questions, and they have even released a L5200 DIY installation video, which they say shows just how simple installing this system yourself can be."
"We don't think you have to be an experienced DIYer to install a security system," Sterling Donnelly, Alarm Grid president, said in a statement. "… Our goal is to make it easy. For those who want to give it a try, our tech team patiently guides them through every step of the way."
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Loc: London, UK If you suffer from panic attacks,
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#208701 - 01/03/13 10:13 PM Let's face it [Re: A C Bowden]
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That a fire in the hold
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The tight rhyming scheme
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In her essay "How Quantum Physics Can Teach Biologists About Evolution," published in the July 5, 2005, issue of The New York Times, Cornelia Dean suggests that biologists would do better to defend evolution not by insisting on its truth per se but by explaining the scientific methodology on which it is based. "Intelligent design" legislation in New York diesWhen the New York State Assembly's legislative session ended on June 24, 2005, Assembly Bill 8036 died in committee. If enacted, the bill would have required that "all pupils in grades kindergarten through twelve in all public schools in the state ... Hearings on Pennsylvania "intelligent design" billThe Pennsylvania House subcommittee on basic education held hearings on June 20, 2005, on House Bill 1007, which would allow school boards to include "intelligent design" in any curriculum containing evolution and allow teachers to use, subject to the approval of the board, "supporting evidence deemed necessary for instruction on the theory of intelligent design." Science still under siege in Kansas
Following the widely criticized "kangaroo court" hearings on evolution in May 2005, the place of evolution in the Kansas state science standards remains unsettled. The standards have been revised along the lines suggested by local advocates of "intelligent design," and are to be reviewed by the original writing committee in early August. Later in August, the board will consider the standards again in light of the original writing committee's comments, and decide on a final version, which will then undergo external review. A final vote is now expected in September. ACS issues statement on teaching evolution
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Trigger Gets Help Roy Rogers is riding through the Wild West on his trusty horse, Trigger, When he happens upon a group of Apache Indians. Not pleased at having trespassers in the territory, The Indians capture Roy and bury him up to his chin in the sand. Before leaving him to die in the scorching heat, the Indians decide to grant him one last wish. "Could I say a parting farewell to my trusty steed?" comes the request. The Indians seem to understand, and agree, so Roy beckons Trigger to come closer, and then whispers in his ear. The horse bolts off at once in the direction of the nearest town. Half an hour later, the horse returns with a gorgeous, scantily clad prostitute on its back. The prostitute jumps down from the horse and gently removes the small, frilly knickers she's wearing. Sitting astride Roy Rogers' face, she then proceeds to give him firsts, seconds and thirds of her fanny, almost suffocating him in the process. Well, the Indians think this is magic and decide that he clearly deserves another wish. So Roy beckons his horse again and whispers in his ear. "I said fetch a posse, you stupid git!"
Death or Bulunga Three missionaries are taken hostage by a primitive tribe in the deepest, darkest lands of Africa. The chief approaches the first missionary and says, "Choose death or Bulunga." The first missionary, not wanting to die, replies, "Bulunga." Accordingly, he is dragged from the hut and is tied up, facing a pole. The natives appear one by one and have anal sex with the bound missionary. Once the natives have finished their deeds, the missionary is untied and led away. The chief then approaches the second missionary and says, "Choose death or Bulunga." The second missionary, not wanting to die, also replies, "Bulunga." Accordingly, he too is dragged from the hut and is tied up, facing a pole. The natives appear one by one and have anal sex with the bound missionary. Once the natives have finished their deeds, the missionary is untied and led away. The third missionary, having witnessed the fates of the first two missionaries, decides that he wouldn't be able to live with the humiliation. The chief approaches the third missionary and says, "Choose death or Bulunga." The third missionary replies, "Death!" "Alright then," says the chief, "Death by Bulunga!"
Gone Fishing.... A young guy from Texas moves to California and goes to a big department store looking for a job. The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Texas." Well, the boss liked the kid, so he gave him the job. "You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did." His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down. "How many sales did you make today?" The kid says, "One." The boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?" Kid says, "$101,237.64." Boss says, "$101,237.64? What did you sell him?" Kid says, "First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fish hook. Then I sold him a larger fish hook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing, and he said down at the coast, so I told him he was gonna need a boat, so we went down to the boat department, and I sold him that twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4X4 Blazer." The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and truck?" Kid says, "No, he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife, and I said, 'Well, since your weekend's shot, you might as well go fishing.'"
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