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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."
It's that time of year: ESX is closing in on us, and my schedule for the show is beginning to take form. I'm envisioning a high-energy, well-paced show, with an array of educational sessions geared to new and important topics, and a show floor conducive to getting the skinny on the trends shaping the industry.
I wanted to use this space to draw attention to a seminar I'll be moderating Tuesday, June 24 at 3:15 titled "Monitoring: A Quality Customer Touch Point."
I'll be talking to Mike Bodnar, president of Security Partners, Tom Szell, SVP at ADS, and Brandon Savage, SVP of customer experience and operations at Alarm Capital Alliance / My Alarm Center about the new means of customer engagement brought on by the rise of mobile apps and interactive services, and how those in the industry can leverage these advances to minimize attrition.
With Nashville roughly ten days away, I encourage folks (particularly those on the monitoring side) to contact me in the days ahead to arrange a meeting on the show floor. Given the structure of the show, and its emphasis on education, I don't anticipate fodder for conversation being in any short supply. Industry shows like ESX offer a valuable stage not only for discussing initiatives specific to a single business, but also broader trends affecting the industry writ large. I look forward to chatting.
Honeywell's Scott Harkins is transitioning to a new role.
Honeywell spokeman David Gottlieb today confirmed that "Scott Harkins has accepted a new role within Honeywell to help develop global growth opportunities within the Connected Home space. He will leave his current post as president of Honeywell Security Products Americas by the end of June."
Honeywell Security Group has not yet announced a successor to Harkins. "Honeywell Security Group has a strong leadership team in place committed to delivering for our customers and ensuring a smooth transition while we execute our succession plan. We will share news regarding our new leadership as soon as we finalize this process," Gottlieb said in a prepared statement.
Harkins joined Honeywell in 1995. Before he was named president of HSPA in December 2011, he oversaw Honeywell's video surveillance and access control divisions.
I don't know if Harkins' new role will include working with Honeywell's Lyric thermostat, which it launched yesterday. There's been much in the mainstream news today about Honeywell partnering with Apple to "take on" Google's NEST. (Some of these guys do seem to forget that Honeywell HAS been in the thermostat business for a few years.)
Here's a report from Apple Insider . And here's a report from Bloomberg, which goes on to talk about the connected home.
In two separate, but related transactions, Securitas is getting into electronic security and Iverify is nearly doubling in size and adding new capabilities.
Guarding giant Securitas is making a concerted move into electronic security and "integrated guarding" with the purchase, announced June 2, of a 24 percent stake in remote monitoring firm Iverify. In a related move also announced Monday, Iverify bought 100 percent of the shares of commercial security and fire company TransAlarm. Iverify is the Charlotte, N.C.-based full-service security company noted for its "high-touch remote security monitoring" offering. Sean Forrest recently joined the company as its CEO.
Securitas has offered Iverify services to some of its customers for the past couple of years, Jim McNulty, EVP of Securitas USA told me. "We liked what we saw," he said.
"We had our toe in the pool, now we're jumping into the pool," he said. Using Iverify, Securitas plans to roll out "integrated guarding services" across the country. Integrated guarding is a mix of traditional guarding, mobile and remote monitoring services. Securitas has 100,000 employees, 400 offices and does $3 billion in revenue annually.
This will update Securitas' offering, McNulty said, so it can "leverage traditional onsite guarding with mobile and remote services—to give customers a more efficient and higher value security offering."
In the second transaction, Iverify bought TransAlarm, which is based in Burnsville, Minn., just outside the Twin Cities. Now, with the goal of really boosting their national accounts business, the two companies are merging. Sean Forrest will be CEO of the combined company and current Trans Alarm CEO, Steve Champeau will become president.
Trans Alarm has 120 employees, combined with Iverify, there will be more than 300 employees.
Like Iverify, Trans Alarm has a UL-listed 5 diamond certified central station. It has branch offices in Nebraska, Northern Wisconsin and Wyoming. It also has deeper capabilities in traditional security offerings such as intrusion, access control, CCTV than Iverify. On top of that, it has a network of installers located across the U.S. What it does not have, Forrest told me, "is the high touch remote video security monitoring that Iverify has. Conversely, Iverify didn't offer the other services in a big way and didn't offer fire at all."
"This gives us a full spectrum to offer customers and significantly improves what we have to offer. The commonality between the two companies is that we're both very customer-service focused," Forrest said.
While Iverify bought 100 percent share of Trans Alarm, this is a merger of the two companies both Forrest and Champeau told me.
"We're going to become one company. That's a key step for us," Forrest said. Sales and service will be cross-trained and "both companies will focus on a single point of contact, rather than branch delivery [approach taken by other companies]," Forrest said. This is not a fold-in purchase, he said. All offices and operations will be retained.
Forrest declined to give revenue or RMR figures. He did say: "Both companies have been growing at a rapid rate and we expect, on a combined basis, that that growth will be accelerated."
Both Iverify and Trans Alarm have customers in the national retail, property management and transportation verticals.
Champeau said said that Trans Alarm has sold and installed Iverify technology even before the deal was announced. He looks forward to "getting into additional markets that we haven't pursued previously [with the Iverify technology]."
McNulty is equally excited about the capabilities of the combined companies, noting that "they complement each other. Their combined offering will be a "good vehicle [for Securitas] to further the whole idea of integrated guarding." He likes the fact that the combined company will have redundant monitoring capabilities. He is also excited about the "vetted, capable, trained and qualified installers that Trans Alarm brings."
The offering of integrated guard services will be a "company-wide effort. … We're going to roll it out all over the place."
Securitas put this together this venture with Driehaus Private Equity, the majority owner of IVerify since 2006. Driehaus is a co-investor with Securitas in the deal. The PrivateBank provided Iverify with debt financing. Raymond James & Associate advised Trans Alarm.
Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is mulling the possibility of not responding to private alarms, citing a false alarm rate that looks bad even within that context.
According to a report from the Toronto Star, just 300 of the 20,000 private alarm calls Toronto police responded to in 2012 turned out to be legitimate. As a result, an internal police steering committee is reviewing the cost-savings that could be reaped by scaling back on alarm response (among other services), the report said.
By doing so, the committee estimates the police force could realize $613,222 in savings, according to the report. That amounts to 10,960 officer hours.
Additionally, the committee recommended police stop taking reports on lost or stolen property whose value does not exceed $500.
From a law enforcement perspective, it's sensible to do away with writing redundant reports for lost property, particularly when other institutions are better suited to deal with such events. But what could a non-response policy portend for alarm companies who would then have to provide private response services themselves? Not only do companies stand to incur the costs associated with this; they also stand to lose what many in the industry view as the most vital element of the value proposition of an alarm system—the guarantee of police response in the event of a legitimate alarm.
False alarms (and what to do about them) remain among the most polarizing issues in the alarm industry today. It continues to define, and sometimes roil, the relationship between private alarm companies and law enforcement.
So what's can be done? The theories about how to mitigate false alarms tend to diverge and dovetail, making the issue especially complex and difficult to navigate, much less reach a conclusion on. Some believe a clear and properly enforced ordinance, bolstered by measures such as cross-zoning and enhanced call verification, will do the trick, with fines for offending alarms helping to offset the losses. Others say private response is the inevitable long-term solution.
Others still, such as PPVAR, believe the relationship between law enforcement and the industry can and should remain intact so long as the alarm installed base evolves technologically and municipalities move toward a verified response approach (that's not to say the industry is in full agreement over what constitutes a verified alarm). The organization also espouses new video verification standards.
The issue continues to be a fraught one, with no definite solution in sight. To be sure, many cities have made great strides with false alarm reduction. But cases such as Toronto are a resounding reminder that there's room for improvement.
It was big news last summer when Provo, Utah-based Vivint opened a new 400-employee sales center in Liberty Lake, Wash., suburb of Spokane. But now, barely a year later, Vivint is closing that center, the company says.
Starr Fowler, Vivint's VP of human resources, provided this statement: "It has been a pleasure to be part of the Liberty Lake community, which has hosted one of Vivint's sales centers for the past year. Due to a reallocation of resources, the Vivint Liberty Lake office will close on June 27, 2014. At that time, all employees are eligible to receive severance, and some employees will be offered the opportunity to relocate to Provo, UT. If of interest, employees are encouraged to apply for other positions with Vivint, and their application will be considered. Vivint remains committed to providing world-class customer service to its more than 800,000 customers across North America."
It's not clear exactly why Vivint is reallocating resources away from the center. According to reports from Washington state media, it's also unclear whether Vivint ever reached its planned goal of hiring 400 employees.
The new center was billed as part of the home automation/ home security company's plan to diversify its sales channel by increasing inside sales. Vivint has been known primarily as a door-knocking company. Vivint has said the Liberty Lake center was its second inside sales center and its first outside of Utah.
Vivint received a $150,000 incentive to open the Liberty Lake center from an economic development fund managed by the Washington governor's office, according to The Spokesman-Review.
Why the change in plans? I'm going to try to learn more from Vivint execs.
In the modern security environment, there's no shortage of relatively new, tech-savvy companies intent on revising the traditional alarm monitoring business model. That some of these upstart companies, such as Cambridge, Mass.-based SimpliSafe, are now attracting serious outside investment interest is a development that bears watching.
SimpliSafe, which provides wireless security systems and professional monitoring services without long-term contracts, recently partnered with Sequoia, a prominent venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, to raise $57 million. On its website, the company claims to have 100,000 customers.
SimpliSafe describes itself as a "disruptive tech company working to help people live safely," while touting its in-house maxim that "being safe should be simple."
Interestingly enough, SimpliSafe doesn't fit perfectly into the DIY/MIY mold; it's really more of a hybrid between those types of systems and more traditional security units. A Wall Street Journal blog noted that a SimpliSafe system with sensors and other burglary protection components, along with a hardware package, typically costs about $260. The company also offers monitoring services for $14.99 per month, but doesn't require customers to purchase them.
In a company blog, Chad Laurans, CEO of SimpliSafe, said the following: "We've eliminated unnecessary middlemen, so we can pass the savings onto our customers and pour our resources into product innovation and customer service."
Down the road, one of the biggest threats to central station RMR could be the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated DIY/MIY systems that unite ease of use and installation with competitive pricing models. As of yet, there's no clear writing on the wall that says central station RMR will suffer the effects of "disintermediation" at the hands of innovative MIY products. But a $57 million infusion is no small sum for the security industry. It goes without saying that an investment of this scale can be transformative from a product development standpoint.
It will be interesting to see if this pared down version of security and alarm monitoring indeed proves to be disruptive, and if so, how the monitoring industry responds to the challenge.
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The President may specify in any order issued under this section the periods of time during which such order will be in effect and the quantity (or rate of use) of natural gas that may be burned by an electric powerplant or major fuel-burning installation during such period, including the burning of natural gas by an electric powerplant to meet peak load requirements. No such order may continue in effect after the termination or expiration of such natural gas supply emergency.
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(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no court shall have jurisdiction to grant any injunctive relief to stay or defer the implementation of any order issued under this section unless such relief is in connection with a final judgment entered with respect to such order.
(A) On the petition of any person aggrieved by an order issued under this section, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia may, after an opportunity for a hearing before such court and on an appropriate showing, issue a preliminary injunction temporarily enjoining, in whole or in part, the implementation of such order.
(B) For purposes of this paragraph, subpenas for witnesses who are required to attend the District Court for the District of Columbia may be served in any judicial district of the United States, except that no writ of subpena under the authority of this section shall issue for witnesses outside of the District of Columbia at a greater distance than 100 miles from the place of holding court unless the permission of the District Court for the District of Columbia has been granted after proper application and cause shown.
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(1) The terms "electric powerplant", "powerplant", "major fuel-burning installation", and "installation" shall have the same meanings as such terms have under section 8302 of title 42.
(2) The term "petroleum products" means crude oil, or any product derived from crude oil other than propane.
(3) The term "high priority use" means any—
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In applying the provisions of this section in the case of natural gas subject to a prohibition order issued under this section, the term "petroleum products" (as defined in subsection (h)(2) of this section) shall be substituted for the term "heavy petroleum fuel oil" (as defined in section 717y (e)(7) of this title) if the person subject to any order under this section demonstrates to the Commission that the acquisition and use of heavy petroleum fuel oil is not technically or economically feasible.
Source(Pub. L. 95–617, title VI, § 607,Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3171.)
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Topics to be addressed in this introductory finance unit include: what finance is and why it is important to individuals and businesses; basic mathematical concepts involving the time value of money determining present values and future values; the nature of return and risk; risk measurement and management; equity markets and instruments; sources and types of short, medium and long-term business finance; savings and financial institutions; foreign exchange transactions; sources and types of personal finance; personal finance topics of insurance, superannuation and estate planning.
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The Navy PRT is our Physical Readiness Test. We take it twice a year, usually in the spring and in the fall. In autumn, it occurs around October or November. Woe be you if your PRT pops right after Thanksgiving, which mine did. Today.
It went well. I will just say outright that I got an Excellent. Not an Outstanding, a score I've received in the past. But just not today. For me to get an Outstanding, I have to get a little aggro. And it helps if I don't have a lot to do right after my test. An hour to recover or so usually works. This time, a meeting was scheduled after our PRT. And I pushed myself, fairly rigorously, just not overboard.
My hardest event was always the sit-reach. It involved sitting down and extending your legs straight in front of you. And then when the test proctor told you, you reached for your toes. For some reason, when I was issued my body, my arms were a half-inch too short and my legs were a half-inch too long. No complaints on anything else, though. Except for my tight hammies. (Which may be the reason my sit-reach is so poor. This is turning into a circular argument!) If you can't tell by the past-tense, sit-reach is no more. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, canned it. I really should rejoice.
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By RICHARD SHAWStaff reporter
The question of water ownership has always been a complicated issue. Current water law is more definitive than the earlier practice of considering the source, property ownership or direction of water flow.
The signing of the Colorado River Compact brought the basin into the modern era. All of the water in the creeks and rivers no longer belonged to the people living along the creeks or rivers. The water also belonged to people residing downstream- not just on the next farm or ranch, but a thousand miles away.
That is the dilemma that many faced at the beginning of the compact's impact on their world. But despite more than 80 years of dealing with the agreement and the subsequent Upper Basin Colorado Compact signed by Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico in the 1940s, there is still confusion about water rights and ownership in the West.
At public meeting, officials frequently throw out terms like primary and secondary water, stream flow, rights, shares, surface and ground water.
Federal and state laws governing water are generally written for specific purposes. But interpretations can remain unclear until the laws are tested in court and legal precedents are set.
Laws are usually tested during times of strain. For example, a string of mass murders and terrorist acts test the basis of homicide laws.
Improper deals, insider trading and mass embezzlement test financial laws.
And of course, a severe drought, when water becomes ever so much more precious, tests water law.
But first and foremost, when it comes to water law, it is the question of ownership. In other words 'Who owns the water?"
In Utah and in many states, the water is owned by the state itself; by the public.
The provision that names the state as the owner of the water is cited in 731-14 of the Utah Code.
This code states "All waters in this state, whether above or under the ground, are hereby declared to be the property of the public, subject to all existing rights to the use thereof."
In short, the state can do anything it wants with the water within it's boundaries, and has the right to regulate that water as well.
That is why when Utah signed some of it's water away to the lower basin states in the Colorado River Compact, it had the legal right to do so according to this specific water code.
It is of note that the Colorado River Compact is not the only compact the state has entered into when it comes to water either. Utah has also signed and agreed to two other water compacts.
The Bear River Compact was signed in 1955 and deals with the steams and tributaries of the Bear River in the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah.
Utah also signed the Columbia River Compact, which involves Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Utah's part in that compact however, is very minimal because only a few streams in the very northwest corner of the state feed into that system.
It is hard for an individual to imagine the vast amounts of water that are talked about in these agreements, particularly the Colorado River Compact.
Upper and lower basins are guaranteed 7.5 million acre feet annually. One can gaze at Lake Powell and imagine the water, but the depth of that lake, even in it's diminished state as of late, as well as it's breadth and length are hard to comprehend. And it is only a small part of the total water in the Colorado basin.
For an individual or even a community this means restraints on water; it means only so much of the water that passes by actually belongs to those who live by it.
When a resident discusses water rights, it is based upon a number of factors including quantity, priority, date, source, point of diversion and the nature of it's use.
Water rights in Utah are administered under what is called the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation.
This doctrine basically means "first in time, first in right." It has to do with the amount of water (which is just slightly more important than the quality of water) any one person or entity has a right to use.
Use is a very good word to note here. People, industry, communities only use water, they don't own it.
Under the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation those with the earliest (in time) dibs on the fluid are the ones who can divert the water they need first before those farther down the list.
Present stream flows, according to the United States Geologic Survey, are the lowest recorded in nearly 100 years in Utah this spring.
While droughts are just part of living in Utah, the severity of this particular four year period is nearly unprecedented. This affects not only surface water, but ground water supplies as well.
"The effect of the drought on ground water resources is two fold," indicated Chris Wilkowske, a hydrologist for the geologic survey organization. "First, decreased precipitation leads to a decrease in a recharge to aquifers (natural underground storage from which wells draw their water). Second, decreased surface water resources lead to an increase in ground water withdrawals (by those wells). In fact, an increase in water well construction permits can be directly correlated to periods of drought."
For some individuals, they see the rule of water law as not pertaining to "underground water." In some states, such as Texas, Rule of Capture as groundwater pumping under private property is called, has been upheld.
Consequently, the water that a landowner can draw out of a well is his. But in Utah, the water is the states and ground water is regulated by permits.
Runoff is also another bone of contention among some Utah residents. In various places in the United States, property owners can capture large amounts of runoff from their property that either falls as rain or snow, and utilize it at a later date.
In Utah, once the water has reached the surface of the land it is the states. While few people would argue with someone having a rain barrel under their gutter to use water that fell from the sky to water their flowers, capturing large amounts of water in a man made reservoir that is not permitted would be a very different situation.


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TUCSON (KGUN9- TV) - A controversial Ethnic Studies statute is now in the hands of a Federal judge after both sides made their cases in court Monday. The hearing is just one of several challenges regarding the Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson Unified Schools. The statute is the reason that program is under fire, but students and teachers are firing back, calling the statute unconstitutional.
Many of the supporters attended the motion hearing in front of Judge Wallace Tashima. He will give a summary judgment on whether or not the law is constitutional. Plaintiffs say the statute violates their First Amendment right to information, and remains to vague and over-broad.
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne fought every argument.
"It doesn't involve the First Amendment because it's not restricting the rights of teachers or students to say whatever they want to," he said, adding that the statute merely prohibits schools from teaching racial resentment, ethnic solidarity and creating courses geared toward one ethnic group.
"It's perfectly okay to teach students about instances of historical oppression even if that leads to the unintended but natural consequence that some of them will feel resentment," he argued, "but what's not alright is to teach the course in a political, one-sided, emotionally-charged way."
Horne pointed to complaints from other teachers and students provided as evidence in the case. They describes incidents of "cult-like" behavior from students encouraged by their instructors in class, and discrimination against other students based on ethnicity.
When asked where students could learn about their ethnic background, Horne said the home would be more appropriate.
Some students like Nicolas Dominguez argue that's not possible, and the statute stifles their education.
"This knowledge and culture was taken away from first my grandparents and going back through the ages," he said, "so we don't really have that opportunity."
Maya Arce is among the plaintiffs, though she was never enrolled in the class.
"I wanted to take the classes and that's why I'm a plaintiff," she said, "because I'm getting those opportunities taken away from me."
Horne says his goal is to see a school system which teaches about contributions from all ethnicities and teaches good American citizenship and individuality, but Karina Lopez says broader classes won't compare to a more focused class.
"That doesn't give full credit to that culture and that history, which I don't think is right."
Both the plaintiffs and defendant are optimistic about the judgment to come. So far, there is no expected time-line for the decision.
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I'm of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden.
Mind 1: Pursue the little traitor to the ends of the earth, drag him back to Washington in chains, and hang him from a 100-foot gallows on the mall (after a fair trial before the FISA court, of course).
Mind 2: After the local buzzards have had their way with him (the ones with wings, not wing-tips), cut him down and give him a posthumous Presidential pardon, a state funeral, burial at Arlington and the Medal of Freedom.
Fortunately, we can do both.
Snowden needs to be punished as a traitor not just to deter future traitor wannabes, but because his treason has done incalculable damage to the country's security.
Gen. Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and the NSA before that, says the information Snowden stole informs the country's adversaries "of American intelligence's tactics, techniques and procedures."
Glenn Greenwald, the reporter for Britain's Guardian newspaper who is Snowden's journalistic enabler, agrees. He says Snowden has documents that are "basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built … very sensitive, detailed blueprints of how the NSA does what they do."
And "there are already reports of counterterrorism targets changing their communications patterns," Hayden says.
"And I would lose all respect for China's Ministry of State Security and Russia's FSB [formerly the KGB] if they have not already fully harvested Snowden's digital data trove," he adds.
Some leftist and libertarian apologists for Snowden argue that these national security concerns are grotesquely overblown, that the supposed nothing foreign threats are largely a product of neoconservative fever swamps, and that the path to true national security is to stop provoking other nations, peoples or religions.
It is a narrative that seems plausible to a lot of people, and is likely to remain plausible to them — right up to the next time some excitable boys fly an airliner into a skyscraper, or a nuclear power plant, or a football sta dium on game day, or blow up a van full of explosives in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge at rush hour, or merely shoot up the Pearl Street Mall on a Saturday night. Or until someone sets off a nuke in lower Manhattan.
Then they'll start howling about intelligence failures.
Leftists and libertarians may be loath to admit it, but the United States and the American people have real enemies. There are actually people out there who want to kill Americans and destroy the United States — and who, given the opportunity, would launch attacks that would make the 9/11 attack look like a walk in the park.
Snowden has made the job of protecting the American homeland and the American people orders of magnitude harder, by essentially handing over the complete order of battle of the lead agency in detecting threats to America's adversaries. For that he should hang.
But at the same time, Snowden has performed a service of incalculable value for the American people — by exposing the existence of a dagger pointed at the heart of American liberty.
What Snowden has revealed is that the government's counter-terrorism programs, which have had undeniable success in keeping people safe, are based on the government seeing and knowing — everything.
Snowden's disclosures, and the subsequent congressional hearings and press investigations of government surveillance, have made it clear that the answer to today's version of the Watergate question, "What did the government know, and when did it know it?" is:
"It knows everything that it is possible to know, and it has known it since it became possible to know it."
In other words, it has become the government that knows too much.
In the interest of defending the American people against the threats of asymmetrical warfare in the nuclear age, the United States government has transformed itself into a surveillance state, which, if allowed to evolve unchecked, will transmogrify into a totalitarian state.
The problem is that once the government has the capability of collecting information that reveals potential terrorism and crime, it must collect it.
And once it has collected the information, it must act on it. It can't help itself. To do otherwise would be dereliction of duty — and would actually be immoral.
The way to prevent the emergence of a totalitarian state that will inevitably evolve from the surveillance state that is now in place is to dismantle the surveillance state and not collect the information in the first place — and to explicitly agree to live dangerously in the interest of living free.
Whether a country that is crawling with nanny statists and neurotics who are afraid of everything from guns to fracking to Big Gulps to their own shadows has the guts to abandon the surveillance state remains to be seen. I doubt it.
At any rate, for alerting the American people to the existence of the surveillance state, and for doing so in a way that is forcing us to confront its reality and its implications, Snowden deserves to be recognized as a hero.
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I find myself disgusted by old man Danish's "get off my lawn" rant regarding Edward Snowden. It reads as so regressive and superficial, not to mention so full of self-righteous bloodlust, that it should probably be dismissed outright as merely cynically trolling for hits. Since when has Paul Danish been so gullible that he believes a government acting with impunity in secret is safer than one in which the people it is purported to be protecting actually know and approve its actions? When did we become required to submit to such an ignorant elitism? It might be said that alarmists such as Danish and all the others spouting the specious concept of treason, according to their geriatric conception of the "offense o' the day," have wreaked more destruction than they ever prevented. All right, I will say it: Let these fools and their enemies embrace each other right to hell, and leave the rest of us out of it.
Will the surveillance state inevitably turn into a totalitarian state? No. Quite the contrary. Actual individual rights will continue to increase, as they have continued to do in the areas of voting rights, protections against discrimination, and the winding down of the drug war.
Will Americans let themselves be blown to bits to prove they have guts? No. They won't. There are ample real-world examples of states that can't provide security and stability and as a consequence are becoming completely dysfunctional.
Just as Orwell's notion of the monolithic totalitarian state has thoroughly penetrated the popular imagination, it is already going the way of the Dodo. The real threat to individual liberty in the future is not the totalitarian state, but the disintegration of societal institutions and their replacement by digital anarchy, and government by mass tantrum. The kind of hacker culture that Fast Eddie exemplifies is not unlike a high-tech version of the Athenian democracy that kept the Founders awake at night.
So what's the deal with the government knowing who you communicate with and how long. Well with this information the government can determine if you are with us or against us. Just think Jews, Minorities, Political undesirables and people who disagree. With a few key strokes now, lives can be destroyed or even rounded up and eliminated. Think that can't happen here? Where have you been?
This is the key paragraph:
"The way to prevent the emergence of a totalitarian state that will inevitably evolve from the surveillance state that is now in place is to dismantle the surveillance state and not collect the information in the first place — and to explicitly agree to live dangerously in the interest of living free."
Obama should pardon Snowden. China and Russia learned little or nothing new from him.
"Leftists and libertarians may be loath to admit it, but the United States and the American people have real enemies. There are actually people out there who want to kill Americans and destroy the United States — and who, given the opportunity, would launch attacks that would make the 9/11 attack look like a walk in the park."
Why do so many people hate the USA so much? If they are irrational, or mad, then what is it about them that makes them so? If Americans are rational and sane what is it about them that makes them so? It cannot simply be Americans are good because they are Americans as that is a circular argument. Sure, irrational monsters exist, but demonizing entire population groups or religions does not help America. E.g. killing 20,000 Afghani civilians by carpet bombing as a first response to 9/11 could only result in anger and resentment amongst those who, until then, had no reason to dislike the USA. How America deals with its enemies creates enemies. Some irrational and insane Americans LIKE that! Sane rational Americans need to find a way to moderate American behaviour so that it has a chance of dealing with its enemies instead of creating more of them.


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The family also sued Pockets Billiards, but the bar settled out of court.
In June 2011, Jonathan Palacios went out drinking with his friends and split their time between the bars.
That night, he drove the wrong way down N.P.I.D. and crashed head-on into a car driven by Bryan Hernandez.
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Verizon has finally given the official word that their testing of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is complete, and the Android 4.0.4 update (build IMM76K) is good to go. We're still waiting for Verizon to get the update to customers, but their sharing of the news means we'll have it very soon.
Lately Samsung has been doing everything right: building great cell phones like the Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 X, Galaxy S2 LTE, Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab tablets.
Verizon's support page has the details of the benefits of the software upgrade. Here is a summary of the fixes you can expect:
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- Email messages will display properly when the text size is set to large.
- When sending a multimedia message to an Outlook email address, the file extension will send, allowing the recipient to successfully open an image.
- Successfully deleted emails on the device will be deleted from the desktop as well.
- Successfully send text messages without experiencing network connectivity issues.
- When viewing a Calendar reminder or appointment, you will now be able to view the full notes associated with the appointment.
- A down arrow has been added in the Calendar application that will expand the calendar message body, allowing you to view the entire message.
Samsung has a reputation for being pretty slow with bringing its accessories online. Industry leading manufacturers continue to provide the greatest selection of top brand cell phone accessories from Bags and Sleeves, Batteries, Bluetooth Headsets and Bluetooth Car Kits, Car Holders, Cases and Skins, Data Cables, Earbuds and Headsets, Keyboard and Protectors, Memory Cards, Screen Protectors, Speakers and Docks as well as Stylus and Pens
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- Successfully turn on Wi-Fi using the Power Control widget.
- Updates have been made to prevent the display from freezing or becoming unresponsive.
- Complete calls without experiencing choppy audio, clicking noises and one-way audio noises.
- Successfully access Voicemail and other automated systems without error.
- I'm glad that Verizon finally got this update approved, but Galaxy Nexus owners should expect more of the same with future updates. Google will announce their Android 4.1 upgrade next month and it will hit the GSM Galaxy Nexus shortly, and then Verizon subscribers with the CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus will be left waiting for months before Verizon approves it.
This build was first leaked in early May and appeared on Google's servers again just last week. If you already flashed this, you have the same version that is going out to all customers.


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Poll: How many years for Bourn, if draft pick is protected?
According to multiple reports, the Mets have discussed signing free-agent OF Michael Bourn, who has been seeking a five-year deal worth around $15 million a season. However, other reports have suggested he might instead sign a one-year deal and test the free-agent market again next winter.
The Rangers and Mariners are also reportedly interested in Bourn.
As it stands, teams would have to surrender a first-round draft pick to sign Bourn.
However, the Mets are lobbying MLB to get their No. 11 overall pick protected, meaning Bourn would not cost a pick.


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An Evans Mills man avoided a potential state prison sentence Thursday in Jefferson County Court by agreeing to participate in a substance abuse treatment program.
Joseph M. Cimineri, 25, of 27943 Rogers Road, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and was referred to Drug Court.
He had been charged with damaging a vehicle owned by Bernice Clark by kicking and punching it Feb. 15 in the town of LeRay.
If he successfully completes the treatment program that is designed to serve as an alternative to incarceration, he is expected to be sentenced to three years probation and be ordered to pay $3,581 in restitution.
If he is unsuccessful, he faces a 2�- to 5-year prison sentence, along with the payment of restitution.
In other court activity, Willis T. Baughman, 48, whose last known address was 54381 Otter St., Alexandria Bay, admitted violating probation by being charged with a new crime.
He was charged June 14 by Alexandria Bay police with fourth-degree grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 worth of unspecified property May 30 in the village.
The alleged incident occurred the same day he had been sentenced in County Court to three years probation in connection with a second-degree trespassing charge stemming from a March or April 2012 entry into Bonnie Castle Marina, Alexandria Bay.
Resentencing on the probation violation was deferred until Aug. 6, at which time there also is expected to be a disposition in the pending grand larceny matter.
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Submission BlackBerry devices to run Android apps->
crankyspice writes: RIM is allegedly prepping the QNX-based operating system running their forthcoming PlayBook tablet to run Android applications, according to a Bloomberg article. As RIM has stated (http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/rims-mike-lazaridis-qnx-coming-to-blackberry-phones-when-dual/) that the QNX platform will run at least some of its upcoming smartphones as well, this could cinch Android's status as the lingua franca of smartphone application environments, especially with BlackBerry's current market leadership (http://www.wirelessandmobilenews.com/2011/02/nokia-iphone-blackberry-samsung-htc-top-smartphone-makers-says-htc.html) and Android's explosive marketshare growth (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/android-beats-nokia-apple-rim-in-2010-but-firm-warns-about-2011.ars).
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2012-13 (Senior): Scored first career goal Nov. 9 at Clarkson ... Finished season with one goal and two assists ... Appeared in all 29 games for the second straight season.
2011-12 (Junior): Two assists in 29 games.
2010-11 (Sophomore): Four assists in 28 games.
2009-10 (Freshman): First career point came on assist vs. Dartmouth Nov. 21 ... Two assists in 28 games.
Hockey Canada/International Hockey: In addition to Canada and the U.S., has played games in Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland ... Traveled to Australia with Edge School in April 2009 to train and compete in a development camp with the Australian and New Zealand national teams ... Selected to attend Top 46 Team Alberta U-18 Provincial camp in 2008 ... Placed fourth with Rocky Mountain Storm at Czech Hockey Challenge Cup in 2008, finishing behind three teams from Russia and ahead of select teams from Czech Republic and Slovakia that included national team players ... Storm tied German South U-22 team in exhibition in Fussen, Germany ... Received bronze medal with Rocky Mountain Storm at Czech Hockey Challenge Cup in Prague in 2007, placing behind teams from Russia that included national team players ... Storm defeated Austrian National Women's Team, 2-1, in Graz, Austria ... Selected to represent Calgary in the Alberta Winter Games, and attend the Hockey Alberta U-16 Program of Excellence camp, in 2006 ... Invited by head coach of Swedish Women's National Team to participate in Swedish International School of Hockey, an invitational camp for players born in 1990 and 1991, in July of 2006 ... Traveled with Storm to the Czech Hockey Challenge in August 2004 as an affiliate player and played with former Bulldog defenseman Carlee Ness '09 in a game against a Czech club team.
Before Yale: Part of inaugural season for Edge School's varsity team in 2008-09, serving as assistant captain ... Team was third in the Junior Women's Hockey League and fourth at the JWHL Challenge Cup ... Earned President's Award, for an average above 90 percent in one or more courses, in senior year at Edge ... Honor roll and honor roll with distinction selection from grades seven through 12 ... Qualified for Alexander Rutherford Scholarship from grades 10 through 12 ... Also played basketball at Edge, winning ISAA championship and qualifying for provincials in 2009 ... Ran track at Edge as well, winning 4x100-meter relay and placing second in 4x200-meter relay and 800-meter run at Calgary Independent School meet ... Led Calgary Bruins Midget AAA team in goals by a defenseman in 2008.
Notes: Oldest sister, Erin, played at Western Ontario, earned a B.S. in chemistry and is currently at the University of British Columbia earning a degree in dentistry ... Sister Katie played defense for Dartmouth, class of 2009, majoring in mechanical engineering ... First visit to Yale was when she was in 10th grade, to see Katie play vs. Yale at Ingalls Rink ... Edge School teammate Jen Matichuk also plays for Yale ... Traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands with the Edge School in March 2009 ... Volunteered with Amnesty International to raise awareness around Calgary about genocide in Darfur ... Also helped raise funds for victims of Darfur.
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