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I'm using the Slim PHP framework. Here's the .htacces that comes with the framework.
RewriteEngine On
# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.
# RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
I would lik to do two things:
a) Redirect all HTTP requests to their HTTPS counterparts.b) Point to an index.php file that is located in an "application" folder.
Here's what I came up with (not working):
RewriteRule ^https:\\/\\/.*/application/index.php [QSA,L]
Thanks in advance.
I think you actually want:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%/application/index.php [QSA,R=302,L]
If HTTPS is off, redirect all traffic to https passing along any querystring data.
Many thanks!
Just a quick question: shouldn't we check if HTTPS is "on" rather than "off"? What if I know for a fact that HTTPS is enabled? Do I still need the RewriteCond?
You wanted to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS, so you are going from someone accessing your site using HTTP (which means HTTPS is off for the request). Hopefully that makes sense. If you don't use that condition, it will try to redirect ALL requests no matter where they came from, HTTP or HTTPS to a HTTPS url. So you'll end up in an infinite loop. If you change it to "on", it will redirect HTTPS to HTTPS and that is pointless.
FWIW, we usually just set up a separate HTTP redirects site. Much cleaner -- loads simpler to make sure the secure site only listens to HTTPS and it keeps the rewriting much cleaner.
@cpradio: thanks for the clarification!
@wwb_99: How would I do that? My guess is: check the incoming request using a $_SERVER variable, check if "http:" then redirect to the "https" equivalent.
Not really -- more like you've got one virtual site bound to *:80 which only lives to redirect everything to *:443. Render unto infrastructure what is infrastructure's so to speak.
{HTTPS} can only have "on" or is null therefore "off" should never match. Okay, at least that's the way it was years ago when I learned to match "on" or "not on" ... but I preferred to use the {SERVER_PORT} and match either 80 or 443 as that would always work.
If anyone know that {HTTPS} has been changed ("on" or "off|null"), please show a link to Apache.org where this is specified.
No idea if I am mis-reading this:
HTTPSWill contain the text "on" if the connection is using SSL/TLS, or "off" otherwise. (This variable can be safely used regardless of whether or not mod_ssl is loaded).
source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
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Wreath-laying ceremony to honor veterans Saturday
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 9:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 9:17 p.m.
A nationwide day to honor veterans will include a Saturday wreath-laying ceremony at Forest Meadows East Cemetery Military Garden of Honor.
What: Local Wreaths Across America ceremony.
Where: Forest Meadows East Cemetery Military Garden of Honor, 3700 Hawthorne Road.
When: Noon, Saturday.
Now in its second year, the local Wreaths Across America event has grown from the laying of 30 wreaths last year to about 400 this year, said Ed Van Buren, the chaplain for American Legion Riders Post 16, the veterans motorcycle group that organizes the event.
"We're going to be able to put wreaths on every veteran's grave in the Garden of Honor," Van Buren said. "That's not too shabby in our second year."
The ceremony begins at noon Saturday at Forest Meadows East, 3700 Hawthorne Road.
Van Buren said Wal-Mart, the Daughters of the Revolution, the Civil Air Patrol and the Sons of the Revolution each contributed to this year's event.
While the local event is in its second year, county Veterans Services Advisory Board Chairman Don Sherry said Wreaths Across America dates back 20 years.
It began in 1992 with a Maine Christmas wreath company. That year, Worcester Wreaths had an excess supply of about 5,000 wreaths and made arrangements, with the assistance of Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, to schedule a wreath-laying ceremony on an older, less-visited area of Arlington National Cemetery, according to WreathsAcrossAmerica.org
Twenty years later, the event has grown to about 800 locations across the country and will include almost half a million wreaths, according to the Wreaths Across America nonprofit organization.
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The Internet has revolutionized the way that people communicate with one another and social networking sites have facilitated a far greater reach for word of mouth. Every day in the U.K., 59% of Brits log into their Facebook accounts and 13% sign into Twitter. Mintel's latest research reveals Brits increasingly use the Internet to research beauty products before purchase with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter informing purchase decisions on beauty products for 34% of would-be buyers.
In a new report examining the role of the Internet and online media in the beauty and personal care sector, Mintel finds just over two thirds (67%) of Brits who engage with beauty brands have visited the website of a beauty or personal care brand. Almost 10 million people visit beauty and personal care brand websites with just under nine million resorting to Google when they want to find out more about these products and brands.
Alexandra Richmond, senior social media and lifestyles analyst at Mintel, says, "People use social media to share what they think with many people—not just their friends and family. In fact, sharing their thoughts on beauty products with friends, family or colleagues is a key reason that people talk about beauty and personal care brands both online and offline. This illustrates the strength of word of mouth, and the Internet plays a key role in enabling people to influence other people's purchases whilst at the same time providing brands with valuable feedback."
Irrespective of the amount of time that people spend online, Facebook is the preferred vehicle to express thoughts or opinions on beauty brands when online. Almost three quarters (74%) of people who have used the Internet to contact a brand or discuss one have used Facebook to do so. Facebook users are more likely to become a fan or "like" a brand on Facebook than they are to post a status update or engage directly on the brand's Facebook wall. Almost two thirds (65%) of those who have contacted a brand via Facebook have become a fan or "liked" the brand compared to just one in four (24%) who have posted a status update on Facebook referencing a beauty or personal care brand.


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John Riley Mann married Sarah Ann Gee 11/26/1857 in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa. Five children were born to them, Malissie Jane 1861-1935, Florence California 1867-1937 (Believed to have married Frank Burt Dec 19, 1888), Ellen Elizabeth 1870-1912 (Married George Peppler on May 9, 1888), Emma Latilla 1874-1971 (Married George Pepper Sept 19,1892) and Cyrus John 1864-1931. Cyrus is the Father of S.Idella Nelson,The Mother of Walter Nelson,The Father of John I Nelson, The Father of Matthew J Nelson, The Father of John W Nelson. John Riley served his Country in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and was held as a POW at the Andersonville Prison known for it's terrible conditons. Constructed for 10,000 it held 33,000 at one time. Over 43,000 prisoners were held there during it's 14 months of existance. Physical abuse he received while there plagued him the rest of his life and he never fully recovered. An outstanding person, Honest and hardworking. He was 49 years and 11 months old at the time of his death. Records state: Civil War Veteran, Private, Company "C", 89th New York Infantry. Enlisted at Orange, New York on August 31, 1864. Wounded in action at Fair Oaks, Virginma. Discharged on August 31, 1865.


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I thought about this for some time and I still don't get it. Why did Dumbledore trusted Snape? I know that he's been right in doing so, but I can't understand what could make Dumbledore so sure in his trust for Snape. Was it because of Snape's love for Lily Potter? If it was, then how could Dumbledore believe that his love was genuine, knowing that Snape was a highly accomplished Legilimens, and capable of disguising/hiding his lies?


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Flightless FlierScience brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
There was a research center in Des Moines, IA, with a special team of scientists. They were trying to design a perfect flying aircraft that was lightweight, strong, and fast. One of the researchers went to the head chief and proclaimed,"We have done it! We have created an aircraft with zero drag! Isn't this great?"
The chief stared at him and said plainly,"You think you created an aircraft with zero drag. Well, you obviously slept during physics class. Now go back and try again."
What's the matter?
AnswerIt is impossible to build an aircraft with zero drag. On Earth there is air, air is made of matter, any matter rubbing against other matter makes friction, and friction leads to drag. Also there are four forces that must be balanced in order for an aircraft to fly. The forces are: thrust, lift, gravity, and drag. If any one of these are missing, it is impossible to fly.
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How to Shop, Live Well And Save This Year
Yes, you can buy what you need for you, your home, your friends and your family and still have money to spare!
-Teri Gault, CEO and founder of thegrocerygame.com
As CEO of TheGroceryGame.com and author of Shop Smart, Save More, I work full time helping people save money at the point of sale. I love fine things, but I refuse to pay full price for anything! 2012 has lots to offer as it will still be a buyer's market. There's lots of deals and great offerings in all things.
How to save money grocery shopping
The number one place to focus on saving money in 2012 is on food. Too many people think of food costs as a given. You can eat the same food as always without paying full price! Here's three simple strategies that could cut your food costs in half (no coupons required):
1. Invest!
Yep! Food purchases should be viewed as an investment. You're going to buy it anyway. So why buy high? Take a look at everything you have in your pantry and fridge. Let me tell you it all went on sale at one time or another. You should have bought it before you needed it while it was on sale. That one new mindset alone will be life changing for your bank account!
2. Read the expiration dates
I buy three or four packages of tofu when it's on sale, but not because I'm going to eat four now! I check the date and if it's good for a few weeks and if it's on sale, I stock up on what we'll use in that time period. The same applies to honey, yogurt, peanut butter, pasta, oatmeal, organic cereal, butter, orange juice, and more. Start looking at dates. If it's on sale, and the date is three weeks out, ask yourself "How much of this do I normally buy in 3 weeks?" Doing anything to the contrary means you're saying, "I'll just buy one now, and come back next week and buy another at twice the price." Huh???? By the way, January is National Oatmeal Month, and the sales are as low as they'll be all year on oatmeal. Don't let me catch you buying only one! Check the date, and stock up accordingly, and you won't pay full price on most of your food from this day forward!
Read New Year, New You: 5 Celeb-Inspired Life Makeovers
3. Cut back on eating out without having to cook!
January is National Diet Foods Month. Now's the time to stock up on lean, low carb, high fiber frozen meals at great savings. For $2 or less and a simple salad, it's a lot cheaper than $15 out. Find meal replacement shakes at great savings and coupons to go with lots of those sales, making them 67 percent off or better! Stock up for months to come!
How to save on cosmetics and skin care
Save on cosmetics in unlikely places. Skip the department store and check out your drugstore cosmetic deals! Lots of us have learned that Maybelline, L'Oreal, Cover Girl to name a few, are comparable, if not the same as the department store counterparts that cost four times as much! Drugstore brands know they've been taking some market share on this due to this economy, and they are stepping it up even more! So I expect through 2012 we'll see even more great sales, and coupons to go with those drugstore sales!
Stack the beauty deals even further in drugstores. All the big chains, CVS, Walgreens, and RiteAid have rewards at the register. They're instant rebates that spit out of the register to be used like cash now or later to come back and buy more eye shadow, mascara, facial wash, and anything else you want to buy! And the best part is, buying on sale with coupon and the instant rebates, sometimes you get it all for free or better! Let TheGroceryGame figure out the deal stacking for you! And you'll want to kiss someone with your new free lip gloss!
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Strengthening Families in Times of CrisisFriday, May 8th, 2009
I was in Dallas on Monday, May 4 to make a presentation on strengthening families in times of crisis. Gathered in the room were people who have recently lost their jobs and find themselves looking for new work in a very tough environment. This gathering, of course, was a snapshot of millions of people all over the U.S. and in many parts of the world due to the economic crisis that has gripped us.
Being out of work and looking for work can have a troubling impact on families. The mounting stress, pressure and worries often impact a person's ability to be the kind of spouse or parent they would like to be. Communication might break down. Fighting or quarrels might increase in your relationships. And family members might feel neglected, scared or withdrawn.
In such situations, I counsel people to remember who are the most important people in their lives and what matters most to them Yes, being out of a job might have you in a crisis, but your family is your most precious possession. So what can you do to strengthen your family in times of trouble?
There are three things that I encourage everyone to do with their families in good times or bad:
- Write a family mission statement—identify what kind of family you want to be. For instance, what qualities define your family, what kinds of feeling do you want in your home, how do you want to build relationships? Get everyone involved in these questions and write something that describes your family and how you want to be.
- Hold weekly family meetings—gather your family once a week to talk about issues, problems or good things in your family. Refer to your mission statement to see how you are doing. Enjoy this time together; do something fun.
- Remember the emotional bank account—similar to a bank account, you can make deposits or withdrawals from each of your family relationships. Make a conscious effort to make meaningful deposits in your relationships. When you make a withdrawal, apologize and correct the mistake.
As you do these things, you will find your relationships strengthened in your family. You will take control of your life and your family's life rather than being tossed away by the storms of problems or crises that come your way. With a strong family, you will be more effective in your job search and your family will be your greatest source of strength and support.
For more ideas on strengthening families you may interested in reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families or other good books on the subject.
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SkyPilot's KONG Begins Premiere Run 10/20
In 1933, an expedition set out for the Indian Ocean, in hopes of creating the greatest film ever made. Instead, they brought back a giant captive gorilla. This was a terrible idea.
KONG: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla is a genre-bending deconstruction/parody of the classic King Kong story, with commentary on the 1933 film, audience participation, dinosaur fights, and a very large ape on a very small stage.
Director Jaime Robledo wrote and directed Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes, for which he was nominated for an Ovation Award for Direction, won Best Comedy Direction at the L.A. Weekly Awards and a Saturn Award for Best Stage Production. He has also directed the Ovation Honors winning Stoneface: the Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton, the Ovation Honors winning world premiere of Adam Szymkowicz's Hearts Like Fists, the West Coast Premiere of Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3:Requistion of Doom (Ovation Nominated) and the West Coast Premiere of Tallgrass Gothic.
Adam Hahn is a resident playwright at SkyPilot, which has premiered several of his short works, as well as Earthbound, a musical for which Adam collaborated with composer Jonathan Price and lyricist Chana Wise, in June 2012. (LA Weeklys "Pick of the Week") His play Feedback Loop premiered at the 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival. His ten-minute and one-act scripts have been produced by theatres across the United States. Adam holds an MFA from the Hollins University Playwright's Lab.
Starring: Eric Curtis Johnson, Sara Kubida, JR Esposito, Morry Schorr, Arden Haywood, David Caprita, Germaine De Leon, Samantha Macher, Kareem Cervantes, Nathan Wellman and Zelika Chante.
When: October 20-November 25, 2012
Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 7pm
Where: T.U. Studios, 10943 Camarillo St.
North Hollywood, CA 91602
Tickets: $20 and can be purchased at www.SkyPilotTheatre.com
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A MAN who died following a crash on Portland may have had a medical episode behind the wheel, Dorset Police have said.
The elderly man was rushed to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester following the two-car crash in Easton Square shortly after 6pm on Monday night.
However, the man, believed to be in his 70s, was pronounced dead a short time later.
Dorset Police said it is thought the man may have had a "medical episode" as he was driving the car, which then led to the crash.
The coroner is now investigating what the cause of death was.
The incident happened outside the Co-Op store in Easton Square and involved a red Ford Fiesta registered to a Portland person and a blue Ford Focus registered to a man from Hampshire. The road was closed for three hours while investigations took place.
The driver of the Focus was rushed to hospital by ambulance where he later died. The road was closed from Easton Square to the Straits and police officers at the scene were redirecting traffic.
Paramedics were also called to the incident.
A police spokesman said: "A road traffic collision occurred at 6.10pm in Easton Square involving a blue Ford Focus and a red Ford Fiesta.
"Unfortunately, the male driver of the Focus, from the Southampton area, was pronounced deceased at Dorset County Hospital a short time later.
"There is a possibility that the Road Traffic Collision could have been a result of the man who died having a medical episode at the wheel.
"The coroner is now investigating this."
Sergeant Stuart Pitman of Dorset Police Road Traffic Unit is appealing for witnesses to the collision and anyone who saw either car immediately prior to the incident to contact police as soon as possible.
A passer-by said that the emergency services were on the scene very quickly and that the casualty was taken to hospital.
She said: "I didn't think it was too bad at first and it is absolutely tragic that someone has lost their life."
The road was closed for three hours while crash scene investigators worked at the scene.
The spokesman added that Sergeant Pitman said he would like to thank the local community for their patience and understanding during this tragic incident.
A spokesman for the South Western Ambulance Service Trust said: "There was one casualty in the incident, an elderly man in his 70s.
"He was taken to Dorset County Hospital."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police on 101 quoting incident number 333 of August 25.


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Topic: Waiting for things to get better
It's been a very long time since I posted here. I'll be honest, after the initial comfort this site gave me, I couldn't get past the posts of those that had passed away. So I kept my distance. I always seemed to gravitate towards that link, probably indulging in my own self-pity.
But here is an update.
-I'm still stage 4...YAY! (Can I ever go down?)
-I made it to my 28th birthday.
-I had an emergency hip replacement on 9/10 because one of the tumors had eaten away most of my hip and when it shrank, so did the support for my hip. It was either...replace it now...or blow it out and we can reconstruct it later. I opted for the replacement. I'm doing well. I finally ditched the walker last week in favor of one crutch. It suits me just fine and is less cumbersome than that stupid walker.
-I've been taken off of Gem/Cis and put on Oxaliplatin/5FU with horrible new side effects. Cold aversion. Neuropathy in my fingers and mouth. Tunnel vision. Increased painful Neulasta related side effect (I actually just posted a question about it - it causes me to have a fybromyalgia flare up for a few days)
-A new tumor had been found on my back. Its being radiated, and really...for the first time I can say that radiation has helped with the pain.
-My mother-in-law has finally pulled her head out of her a** and realized that I'm dying after making some really inappropriate comments at dinner a few nights ago. In her penance, she has donated her winter bonus to my husband and I for a once in a lifetime trip. We chose a 21 day cruise on the Mediterranean in December. It truly will be my one and only chance to travel with my husband since we always plan for it but can never afford it. Planning this trip has given me new purpose and a desire to stick around for a bit longer.
-Speaking of my husband, he was fired from his job because I cost too much on their health insurance. We hired a lawyer and got a relatively small settlement that includes them paying for COBRA, which is the most important thing. It was kind of a blessing in disguise because now I get to spend so much quality time with him. He's not stressed about work. He drives me to my teaching jobs. Its been really great. We also renewed our vows in August. 5 years we've been married. We wanted to celebrate with our friends and family in case...well...you know.
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Now is the time of year when family and friends get together to celebrate the new year. Spice things up this year and try the hot spinach red pepper dip. Your friends and family will love it just as much as mine have. Be sure to keep this recipe because they will definitely be asking you for it. This recipe came from AllRecipes.com.


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Capped at 30 students each per session, boot-camp sessions consist of land and water exercises based on the fitness programs of US Navy Special Operations and Warfare. One month of classes consists of three one-hour sessions per week, for four consecutive weeks.
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Navy Special Operators are recognized as some of the world's most feared warriors. Run using the same aquatic training program that tests the mettle of real-life divers and explosives techs, Hellbender's Amphibious Bootcamp sends exercisers plunging in and out of the water as they blast through a blend of calisthenics and aquatic exercises. A diverse collection of former sailors, soldiers, and firefighters lead the classes, shouting encouragement as as students switch from pushups and pull-ups to freestyle, breaststroke, and sprint swims. Movable obstacles including sandbags, weights, and decommissioned bathyspheres also wait beneath the depths, challenging endurance as they bulk up screaming muscles. Classes welcome all fitness levels, but exercisers should be able to tread water, swim at least 25 yards without stopping, and arrive with their own goggles and swimsuit.


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Writing six months after the fury of Hurricane Katrina may seem late, but with the end-times focus of this issue of the magazine, I am moved to relay a word spoken to my spirit three days after that storm hit New Orleans. I believe Katrina contained a word—a trumpet call to clarity of thought about where we are and what we're doing as pastors and leaders, now.
I have no doubt that you, just as I did, watched with stunned shock as New Orleans became a soup bowl of swill, flooding millions out of home, business and church properties. Like watching the World Trade Center towers dissolve into flaming dust, you felt you were watching something that—at least until that moment—you could only expect to see via a special-effects trick computerized into a Hollywood flick.
But it was real. And I will never forget watching the levees crumble before my eyes and feeling the Holy Spirit's heartbreak within me prompting compassionate intercession for the sparing of lives, the intervention of God's grace and the applied wisdom of emergency workers on the scene there.
The mess didn't go away. Over the next two days, even though the storm winds were past, the situation got worse, and my heart felt weighed down with pain for the human agony we witnessed: people standing on rooftops, families weeping as small crafts carried them from their homes, refugees stretched out in makeshift rescue centers from tent cities to Houston's Astrodome. But it was the third day that I heard a voice in my soul. Let me preface that prophetic "word" by providing two points of background I feel are important to contextualizing it.
I know my own emotions when it comes to observing natural disaster and its impact on people. I pastored a city, along with so many other shepherds in Los Angeles, through the aftermath of 1994's Northridge earthquake. I know the heaviness on the soul, on the culture, when disaster hits. But the "heaviness" I felt on the third day after Katrina was very, very different.
I heard the Spirit of God speak directly from the eternal Scriptures, words spoken by Jesus Himself—prophesied regarding the end times. There is no doubt in my mind that I am on safe terrain with this word—it comes out of God's Word, not only as a concept but as a direct statement.
It was three days into the aftermath of the hurricane's passing, while standing our den at home watching the live TV report of the status of things as of that moment, that I sensed a different heaviness.
It wasn't the emotional burden of shock, or the pained feelings for suffering people: I had felt these things already, and I had prayed and taken action along with other leaders at Foursquare's central offices as well as at The Church On The Way—action hastening relief teams and resources to the scene.
Feeling the deep heaviness still on me, I prayed: "Lord, I don't understand this burden; this is different than what I have felt before." And it was at that precise moment, a voice spoke deep within my being: "These are the beginning of sorrows." Though few, the words were crystal clear. They were weighty ... sobering, prompting me to prayerfully inquire further.
Of course I knew they were from Matthew 24:8, and was also aware that the Greek word translated "sorrows" means "birth pains." I began to see their special significance in the context of the moment, and turned to read their context—the New Testament passage recording Jesus' longest single prophetic teaching on the "end times."
As the Savior employs the idea of a woman in travail to make His point, He poignantly lists a series of "sorrows"—including societally-, naturally- and demonically-instigated disasters and heartbreak, revealing that they will come with gradually increasing intensity and frequency of pain, as with a woman's contractions en route to delivery of a child at birth. As I reflected on that, something else attended the moment.
I wouldn't necessarily suggest I saw a vision, but the next moment my thoughts were flooded by an unsought selection of mental "video-clips." They weren't assembled by analysis or reflection, but seemed to simply be streamed through my consciousness.
Without meditation, a rash of scenes spun before my mind's eye: the wreckage of the train blown up by terrorists in Madrid, the complete devastation of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the tsunami, the bloody bodies and scattered limbs from human carcasses at a Tel Aviv or Jerusalem suicide bombing scene—and other horrors as well: mudslides, earthquake-demolished multi-story apartment houses, along with the increase of mindless or demon-ministered murders and acts of depravity.
The connection was obvious: Katrina was being focused in my understanding as more than a single, painful event. Rather, I felt the Spirit of God seeking to impress me with the fact that this horror is among a cluster of things that we must understand will not only increase in number but in the devastating awfulness and agony our planet—our own nation—will experience as we spiral ever more closely toward "The End."
Let me hasten to say: I felt no need to issue any chronological timetables. But I did (and do) feel a heightened urgency regarding my accountability as a leader during days like ours.
Ordinarily such a word might seem to prompt a dour fatalism for some people, but I believe the "heaviness" it might hold is that which biblical prophets refer to as "the burden of the Lord." It's God's weighty call, alerting us by His Word—issuing a warning that calls the sensitive hearer to action. Such words are not doomsday prophecies, they are "your-day" prophecies—words God gives to prompt those who lead to greater expectancy, greater faithfulness and greater accountability to their task.
Katrina was just one storm,one explosion, one disaster, one upheaval—a single event among many more that have happened and will increase in a compact number of years—years encompassing your and my leadership. And to be sensitized to that is neither to project a specific timeline or prophecy any more than it is to prompt despair.
To the contrary, it is a call to hope—a call to take our place in our hour, bouyed in faith, knowing God's future through His own as well as for His own is always hope-filled! To focus practical steps of response, let me offer three thoughts that distilled in my own soul following that post-Katrina encounter.
We need to be shaken!
Jesus' message in Matthew 24 is directly tied to His "midnight call" parable in chapter 25. The ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom's return and the wedding celebration divide evenly into "the ready" and "the unready." There are two points:
First, even those interested in the coming wedding are divided in their "readiness." In short, being "interested" in prophecy doesn't qualify as being alive to the prophetic moment!
Second, the distinction He makes is between those who have oil and those who don't. In other words, to have had an experience in the Spirit's anointing is no substitute for my living in the fullness of His presence daily—my light shining in today's darkness. Here was a "Katrina shake-up, wake-up call." Our bridegroom is coming soon! Let's go forth—ablaze daily—to meet Him!
We need to be sobered!
In the same vein, Luke 17:22-37 warns of the dangers of living in days likened to "the days of Noah." They point to the ease with which people will be "drunk"—not only by alcohol, but by means that dupe or disorient us. For some among us who believe, the headiness of the wine of success holds the potential of a kind of inebriated fall.
I also wonder if the growing habit of superficial worship—so happily celebrative, but so seldom leading to sobering encounters with God—might qualify as a point of danger? In any case, let us pray, "Lord Jesus, I invite Your review of my habits, my reading, my worship, my entertainment, my diversions and any inadvertent presumptuousness or rationalized compromises. Guard me, dear Lord, from the dullness of this age's drunkenness."
We need to be secured!
Luke's gospel (12:39-40) also discerns the secretive, undermining and end-times "digging through"—of the break-in of a home, which Jesus likens unto the personal loss of values which reduce an individual's readiness for His return. He notes the other thief (see John 10:10), our Adversary—so very different from our heavenly Bridegroom who will "come as a thief in the night (see 1 Thess. 5:2).
But a constant sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's warning will avoid such loss, and for me, the "word" following Katrina pins the call on the wall: We aren't called to talk "end times," but called to live and lead in them—shaken awake to the hour, sobered by its seriousness, and secured in Christ as those who will lead in His wisdom as we remain guarded against all that would erode the values and clarity of purpose to which we're appointed in Him.
Jack W. Hayford, Litt.D., is the founder of The church on the Way in Van Nuys, California; chancellor of The King's College and Seminary and the president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
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A new Chase branch opened across the street from my apartment recently. I was considering opening an account there for the convenience, but I haven't given it too much thought. I'm more inclined to simplify my finances rather than open new accounts. I'm in the process of reducing my collection of accounts in order to simplify my life. While the new Chase branch is a block away, my brick-and-mortar institutions of choices, Wells Fargo and TD Bank, are just down the street.
This weekend, I received a notice in the mail that Chase is offering a $100 bonus for opening a checking account. These offers come in every so often, and can be for any amount between $100 and $200. The account must be opened with a low minimum of at least $100 but there are no fees only if you initiate direct deposit. I'm happy with my current direct deposit arrangement, whereby funds from my paycheck are automatically deposited into my ING Direct Electric Orange account and then distributed to savings from there.
This bonus does not appear to be available online. It required the physical certificate received in the mail or a code to be given to an account representative at a Chase branch. Here is the full "fine print" on this offer:
Chase Free Checking™ requires a $100 minimum opening deposit of new money (money not currently held by this bank or its affiliates) to qualify for the bonus. Chase Free Checking has no monthly service fee when you have a monthly direct deposit. Limit one personal checking account-related reward/premium per customer, per calendar year. Offer not available on account conversions or in combination with any other offer. Bonus will be automatically deposited into your new account with 10 business days of account opening, but not considered part of minimum opening deposit. Checking account must remain open for a minimum of six months or the bonus will be debited from the account at closing. Account is subject to approval. Bonus is considered interest and will be reported on IRS for 1099-INT.
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And if you're looking for an online checking account with a $400 bonus, consider the Citigold® Checking Account. Citi offers 40,000 ThankYou after signing up, setting up one direct deposit and making two online bill payments.
If you successfully use any of these codes, let me know. I'll keep this article updates with the latest codes.
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We LOVE Domo-Kun, the Japanese television mascot. Who knew that a corporate marketing ploy could be so friggin' adorable!?!?! This version is made of rotocast vinyl, and flocked. So it's fuzzy. Like velvet. And that, dear friends, is just flippin' sweet!! 8" tall, rotocast vinyl. Filled with kittens and love.


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Alan Wardle kindly sent me details of the following website. Thanks Alan!
Fareham Borough Council have a free searchable online database that covers all eight of the cemeteries in it's care. You can search by surname, cemetery or plot number and once the right entry has been found the details given include full name, cemetery, plot number. A search just on the plot number of a certain cemetery gives the details of all those buried in that plot.
Very helpful site, wish I have ancestors from this area!


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Sony ditching DualShock controller with PS4 – rumor
Sony plans to retire its DualShock controller with PlayStation 4, according to a CVG source.
Dualshock headlines
Sony seeks feedback on new DualShock colours
A post on the US PS Blog has invited fans to submit designs for a new line of coloured DualShock controllers. You can submit your idea or vote on others' contributions here. So far RainbowShock 3 has the most votes in our in office poll, especially as a bunch of dudebros have downvoted it, but […]
White 320GB PS3 to retail for £240, exclusive to GAME
The new PlayStation 3 SKU will feature a 320GB white PS3 slim console, two white DualShock controllers and a 90 day PlayStation Plus Subscription. GAME has secured exclusive UK retail rights, MCV has reported. The bundle will be available from next week, Friday June 29 and is available to pre-order from GAME's website.
Move's Navigation controller can be skipped for DualShock
Sony's Anton Mikhailov has revealed that if you don't want to bother with getting the Navigation controller to go along with Move – just use the DualShock you already own.
Yahoo! - PS3 is "all fun and games until the battery dies"
This is brilliant. An article on Yahoo! Finance about Christmas gifts has claimed that PS3's pads must be replaced after running out of charge. "It's all fun and games until the battery dies," said author Anne Kadet. "Unlike its competitors, which use replaceable AA batteries, the PS3's remote control is glued shut. When the battery […]
Sony may sue over Change4Life ad
According to this MCV piece, Sony is considering suing over the use of a PlayStation controller in the "early death" Change4Life ad. From the piece: A source close to Sony revealed to MCV that the agency behind the ad, The Gate, had not contacted the platform holder to ask about using a controller that bears […]
DualShock celebrates ten years in control
PlayStation's DualShock controller is ten years old, apparently, and IGN's written lots of words about it. If you're a controller fan, it's essential stuff. If you're not, it's not. Reasonably simple, to be honest.
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A couple weeks ago, I bought a bright red lacy bra without giving it too much thought–it fit me and it was on sale, so why not? But I soon found out my impulse purchase comes with some delightful side effects: I feel like a total bombshell whenever I wear it, no matter what clothing I'm wearing or what I'm doing. It's like a sexy little secret. It's amazing. I think everyone should get to experience the Red Bra Effect, so I rounded up 10 fabulous red bras in sizes 28A to 46HH. Click through to check 'em out!


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By Michael Pomerleano
In response to the financial crisis, the most immediate fundamental reform adopted by several developed countries is to have a "systemic regulator" overseeing the stability of the financial system as a whole. Through data gathering, analysis and ultimately regulation, the systemic regulator is expected is expected to mitigate the risks associated with highly inter-dependent relationships between financial institutions. Many central banks are receiving significant new responsibilities for macroprudential supervision. Changes to the UK regulatory framework in 2010 gave the Bank of England responsibility for microprudential and macroprudential regulation. In the US, the Dodd-Frank Act established the Financial Stability Oversight Council, to be led by Treasury Secretary including the heads of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Several arguments have been put forward for justifying why central banks are receiving a prominent role in macroprudential supervision: financial supervision offer insights into the condition of financial institutions that is essential in the conduct of monetary policy; and central banks are inextricably involved in the financial stability function through their lender-of-last-resort function. Read more


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Ledbetter transferring from Florida
Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 6:09 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 6:09 p.m.
Florida sophomore fullback Rhaheim Ledbetter announced on Instagram on Wednesday that he is transferring to another school.
Ledbetter, a three-star safety prospect from Shelby, N.C., was switched to fullback in the spring and did not see any playing time at the position this past season.
The cousin of former UF All-America linebacker Brandon Spikes, Ledbetter would have likely entered the upcoming spring listed third on the depth chart behind Hunter Joyer and Gideon Ajagbe.
Ledbetter was high school teammates with starting UF defensive end Jonathan Bullard.
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Golf is not just a sport—it's a way of life. Golfers will play any time of the year, in rain, snow or heat. Their love of the game never fades. That is why golfers are so particular about their golf clubs. For professional and amateur golfers alike, the quality of the golf equipment is a critical factor.
DHgate offers a broad selection of high quality 9-piece golf iron sets with graphite shafts. The driver, or "wood", may be the star of the golf bag, leading off each hole with a momentous drive, but the irons are the solid foundation that the game is built upon, transporting every golfer along the fairway, through the challenging rough, over the water hazards and out of the sand traps. For every golfer, a quality set of golf irons is a must.


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You have migrated to LiveCycle ES from a LiveCycle 7 environment and notice that some of the tasks do not have a process name populated in the task view in Workspace. This problem occurs in the migration scripts, which do not correctly update the task information in the database.
This issue has been addressed in LiveCycle ES2 (18.104.22.168) and later versions. A patch is available to solve this issue in LiveCycle ES 126.96.36.199. Contact the Adobe support team if you require this patch and ensure that it is suitable for your environment.
Additional information
The patch can only be applied during the migration process. If you have already migrated and are seeing this issue, the patch will not fix the already migrated tasks in the database. To correct this issue in this situation, manually run the following SQL:
UPDATE tb_task SET process_name = (SELECT tb_process_instance.service_name FROM tb_process_instance WHERE (tb_process_instance.id = tb_task.process_instance_id)) WHERE process_name IS NULL
You should backup your database before applying the above SQL changes.
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The mass notification systems at Umpqua Community College in Oregon may have failed when a gunman killed nine people and injured another nine on the campus, according to a newspaper account.
The Oregonian/Oregon Live reported that three associate professors said they did not receive a notification on their computers, and two of them said that, even being enrolled in campus alert system, they did not receive any text messages as promised under the system. They said they did receive one warning "sent manually" from a secretary after police arrived, the newspaper said.
Umpqua college leadership told the paper it is too early to tell about the extent—if any—of emergency notification malfunctions.
If we've heard anything, time and time again, especially from end users at our TechSec conference, it's that all the best security equipment in the world is for naught if proper protocol is not in place.
Granted, this mainstream media article doesn't get into the details, and I truly hope an emergency notification meltdown didn't happen. It's just such a tragedy, and this is where emergency notification comes into play in such an important way.
Security Systems News sends its condolences to those affected by this terrible event.
As marajuana, medical and otherwise, becomes legalized in states, pot appears to be growing vertical market.
DirectView Holdings, on Oct. 6 announced it landed a $150,000 contract to complete a "comprehensive security and surveillance installation" at a Colorado marajuana facility, which includes a large grow house, two dispensaries and management offices. The announcement said the installation will be complete by the end of the year. Here's some background on DirectView.
The installation will include "DirectView IP megapixel security cameras, DirectView's NVR video and audio storage server as well as a access controls and a comprehensive intrusion alarm system."
DirectView will also provide alarm monitoring of the facility. The announcement did not say whether DirectView is providing the monitoring itself or if it is using a third-party monitoring provider.
In a prepared statement, Roger Ralston, CEO and chairman of DirectView, said this is "another cannabis installation [won as the result of its] exclusive security partnership with [a design and build firm for marajuana facilities] Cannamor. We continue to solidify our position as a trusted source for the security needs of the cannabis industry enabling us to win larger installation contracts like this one. We are also beginning to gain traction in ongoing alarm monitoring services which can provide and important source of future recurring revenue. The cannabis industry continues to grow and we intend to work diligently to build on our momentum in Colorado and other geographic regions in the country."
Bold Technologies has launched its new cloud-based automation platform, Manitou Cloud Services, and is working to add 30,000 accounts to it by the end of the year, Rod Coles, Bold's president and CEO, told Security Systems News.
Designing the service to be UL compliant was the company's top priority, Coles said, and it is currently in the process of attaining that certification.
Coles said the release of Manitou Cloud Services was sooner than he expected and credited a rise in consumers' confidence in cloud-based systems. "Hosted solutions seem to have a better reliability than individual service because they have so much redundancy."
"The first installations will be on our existing Manitou platform," Coles said, but the cloud automation will also be ready to use Manitou Neo, the next version of Bold's central station automation, to be released in 2016. Coles estimated its release to be around ISC West 2016.
Bold first talked about the service at its annual Users' Group Conference in early August, Coles said, and now has a couple of clients transitioning.
Bold has experience with hosted services, according to Coles, through similarities with the company's disaster recovery center—a separate cloud-based center that Bold has been offering for years.
The cloud center will be based in Colorado Springs, Bold's hometown, because of the area's small risk for natural disasters and its location between both coasts, the company said.
Manitou Cloud Services can make operations easier for Bold users, according to Coles. "We're getting to the stage now where people [have] to replace their hardware, every few years. They're also having to employ staff to look databases, to look after operating systems to make sure that these things are running 24/7. All of these [issues] go away when you have a hosted solutions."
Icontrol Networks says it has won its patent fight with Alarm.com. Alarm.com says the solution to the "fight" was the result of a settlement with icontrol dated Jan. 1, 2014.
In the latest activity, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month canceled claims to Alarm.com's claims to a patent about the use of a mobile app in smart home systems, saying the system was developed instead by icontrol.
Icontrol has been issued a new patent, covering methods and systems for interacting and synchronizing with home security and automation systems using mobile applications, according to icontrol.
"Recognition of icontrol as the inventor of this key mobile application technology for home control is a testament to the strength of our intellectual property, " Richard Mosher, icontol's general counsel, said in a prepared statement. "Early investments in developing our intellectual property portfolio have resulted in some of the earliest patent awards for cloud- and mobile-connected home solutions."
The new icontol patent defines the mechanisms needed to deliver a mobile application that synchronizes with a premise security system, presents security system state information to the user and enables the user to in some way control the system.
"We focused on delivering home automation and remote control for mobile and cloud long before they were technology buzzwords, and we're happy to see the USPTO recognizes our early leadership," Bob Hagerty, icontrol CEO said in the statement.
Icontrol, contacted by Security Systems News, declined to comment further on the ruling beyond its prepared statement.
Alarm.com announced in 2014 that it had and settled and dismissed all patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies, including litigation involving Telular Corp. and FrontPoint Security.
"As part of the agreement, Alarm.com and iControl each retain all ownership and rights to their respective patents and have also expanded their respective portfolios of licensed intellectual property via certain cross-licensing agreements. The patents included in the cross-license agreement represent some of the earliest, seminal intellectual property for Connected Home technology today. The respective CEOs of each company commented that they were pleased to reach resolution around these serious intellectual property matters and each company is looking forward to refocusing on its customer's deployments," Alarm.com said in the prepared statement.
Alarm.com declined to comment further.
Fire Monitoring of Canada has been working to increase awareness of its offerings outside of fire monitoring, Kevin Allison, GM for FMC told me.
"Obviously, we do installations of fire alarm monitoring, sprinkler monitoring—those are our primary focus, in terms of what we do," he said, "But we also do—and the thing people might not know about us just given the [company's] name—typical security installations and monitoring, CCTV, both IP and analog [services], access control, card access … nurse call systems."
"Our name says fire monitoring, which is great from that perspective, because it is primarily what we do," said Allison, but the company excels in many other areas as well, he added. At the same time, the company wants to maintain its core business in fire monitoring, Allison said.
Increasing awareness of FMC's full service abilities will be an ongoing initiative for the company over the next 12 to 14 months, he said. The company gets its message out through radio and digital advertising, he said.
The company first increased awareness efforts about a year ago and the proportion of business other than fire and monitoring has increased, he said. Currently, about 70 to 75 percent of FMC's business is fire and monitoring focused; about a year ago it was closer to 80 percent.
Allison said that much of FMC's business is with buildings required by code to be monitored. FMC's monitoring center is ULC-listed, CSAA Five Diamond, and based in St. Catherines, Ontario.
Wednesday, Sept. 30, Day 3 at ASIS 2015
The show is done!
A very quick wrap-up of Day 3 follows. I'll be expanding on some of this next week.
I stopped by to talk to Perry Levine at cloud access control provider BluB0X and also got to catch up with Dakota Security's Eric Yunag.
Spoke to Wayne Arvidson at Quantum, a 35-year-old storage technology company that specializes in handling unstructured data like video. Quantum's presence in the physical security space is growing, he said.
I saw a demo of Honeywell's MAXPRO Cloud by Michael Coniff. MAXPRO Cloud is another products that's aimed directly at the SMB market.
At Verint, I spoke to Kevin Wine about enhancements to Verint's Situational Awareness Platform: Dispatch Manager, Mobile Reporter and Mobile Responder. There is big interest from end users who like that the mobile enhancements are app-based, DeWine said.
At MicroPower Technologies I spoke to Dave Tynan about the new SOLVEIL camera. Tynan said there's growing acceptance of the company's solar, wireless cameras.
My last #ASIS15 visit gets my vote for coolest product: Iscon Imaging is an IR scanner for people. It uses thermal technology to scan a person (like at the airport). The cool thing is that it has benefits that other scanners don't have and it doesn't have the problems that other scanners have. It can't see through clothing, but it can detect objects made of any material, not just metal. And, it doesn't emit millimeter waves or radiation. "The only thing that comes out of the camera is warm air," said Iscon CEO Bill Gately. The warm air makes objects visible in the IR image. This scanner does not provoke privacy and health concerns and it's better at detecting objects of all kinds, Gately said. The product is available in two forms: as a walk-through scanner and there's also a hand-held version. The product has a time-and-date stamp, it can take screenshots, and it has a USB port so images can be downloaded easily. And, it's ripe for integration with other security system components, Gately said. This was the first security trade show for Iscon.
Tuesday, Sept. 29, Day 2 at ASIS 2015
I began Day 2 at the Oncam breakfast, which was off of the showfloor at the Hilton. Jumbi Edulbehram, who joined Oncam as head of the Americas in March, gave an overview and demo of Oncam's 360-degree technology. At the show, Oncam is showing off its Evolution-12 cameras (12-megapixel $K Exmor R sensor to deliver 9.6 MP high-resolution image). Joining Edulbehram were Eddy Collier, director of surveillance technology and corporate surveillance at MGM Resorts, Ted Whiting, director of surveillance MGM Resorts International, and Darryl Daniel, Sr. Consultant, Houston Airport Systems. The end users discussed of how 360-degree cameras are used in the airport and gaming industry to watch what's going on at the tables and slot machines and how the cameras are used for customer service. "360" is a verb at MGM, Whiting said. "We 360 you, [to return lost property, for example]," Whiting said.
Whiting used the example of money falling out of someone's pocket at a slot machine. The surveillance staff may notice that, retrieve the money, use Oncam equipment "to 360" the customer who lost the money and return the money to that customer. Much of the time, the security staff returns items before the customer even knows they've lost something. Collier said a PTZ camera in a casino "may be used three times a month, but a 360-degree camera is used for situational awareness 100 percent of the time."
On the showfloor, I caught up with Keith Jentoft of Videofied. You did not need to locate a booth to see Videofied's newest outdoor battery-powered camera, Jentoft was walking the aisles, camera in hand, doing demos on-the-go.
Caught up with Jonathan Healey and Kristin Papa at Brivo. They're talking about Brivo's new Mobile Pass at the booth. Here's a story I wrote last week on that. Healey is going to be moderating an educational session at Cloud+. Plans are almost complete for Cloud+. Here's the current program.
At the Diebold booth, I spoke to Jeremy Brecher about Cloud+ and about TechSec 2016. Diebold announced its ASIS news a couple weeks ago, they've introduced Site Sentry, "video management technology which enables customers to view, assess and respond to security events in real time." It is integrated into Diebold's online software-as-a-service platform, SecureStat.
I met with George DeMarco, ESX chairman, to talk about technology trends and ESX 2016, which will take place in Dallas June 8-10.
At Assa Abloy, Peter Boroskin said all of the company's main locks lines for commercial and institutional applications now support mobile devices. Assa Abloy's first mobile device-enabled lock was in 2011. Sustainability is an ongoing theme for Assa Abloy, which is developing energy-efficient locks. Its Eco-Flex technology, works "like a hybrid car" he said, it uses a battery for 23 hours a day and then for one hour it's connected to a power source to charge the battery. "It's 98 percent more efficient [than a wired connection]," Boroskin said. He also said the POE is growing faster in the company's portfolio than Wi-Fi. "Why? Because it's easier to route," he said. Assa Abloy is also showing new solutions for multi-family buildings.
I ran into Benjamin Butchco who is doing an educational session today called "The Great PSIM debate." Don't miss it! It's at 1:45 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 30) in room 202B. The genesis of this session was TechSec2015. It was a dynamic debate that day, and I'm sure it will be a great discussion today as well.
I had a chance to meet with the folks at IDIS, a newcomer but not a newcomer. IDIS made its debut at ISC West this year, but it's actually been in business for along time OEMing products to many other companies. I met with Keith Drummond, Andrew Myung, Benjamin Bryant and Peter Kim. Bryant told me that IDIS's goals for the show are "awareness of the brand, awareness that we have a 20-year history in the industry, and awareness of our commitment to innovation."
I had a chance to interview Jim Cannon, president of Stanley Security. Cannon talked about his vision for the security division in its current post-acquisition chapter. It's focusing on its vertical market strategy, having made good progress in the healthcare and retail verticals in particular, he said. Cannon talked about "Stanley Insights," Stanley's efforts on harnessing data, "the raw material of our time" to turn it into information for Stanley customers. He also talked about "Stanley Standards," an initiative to ensure that installation technicians, service technicians and monitoring staff all of Stanley's 61 branches are highly trained. Finally, we talked about Stanley's goal to hire more veterans. "I want one-third of our future recruits to come from the military," he said. Look for a longer story on this interview next week.
I left the show floor at 4 p.m. to board a bus to Irvine for the grand opening of the new Irvine Axis Experience Center. In 2014, Axis announced plans to expand its presence in North America with more local resources and brick-and-mortar presence. I've been to the Experience Centers in Lund, Sweden and Chelmsford, Mass. While they're nice facilities, this new one in Irvine stands out for its creative but practical design. It's sited in an office park, but it doesn't feel like an office park. The center has floor-to-ceiling glass walls and a reflecting pool that surrounds the building. Beyond the pool is green space and palm trees.
The office has a large training room, where Axis can do hands-on training at 28 desk stations. It can be used as a meeting room for many more people. Fredrik Nilsson, Axis GM Americas, said the center is open to the industry to be used by associations and also by Axis customers. The center features a product display wall that is designed to be able to swap out products. The center also features vertical market-themed displays, which are cleverly fitted into a small area. There's a Gaming Area with a BlackJack table and a slot machine (Bill Wendlandt, West Business Area Manager for Axis, had to find a slot machine that was more than 20 years old, for legal reasons.) The slot machine works, but with Axis "chips." A Transaction Area, recreates a bank teller-type scenario. A short wall on near the transaction area houses an Axis Access Control solution. Wendlant wanted the access control devices to be visible, so the entire wall is glass. Why is there a plastic water bottle at the bottom of the wall? It's a tribute to the contractors who left a trail of water bottles in their wake, Wendlandt said. There's also a Retail Area, an Airport waiting area which looks out in the direction of John Wayne Airport, so you can see planes taking off and landing. (Talk about thoughtful design.) There's an Educational Vertical area that also serves as a kitchen/pantry for the office. It can also double as a restaurant or bar, and that's how it was set up at the grand opening. We saw the server room and engineering lab/testing lab. I've seen lots of testing labs, but I don't think I've ever seen one with windows. This seems like a pretty nice place to test products. There's a large conference room and a large the sales office. One side with cubicles has a giant glass wall; the other side has a giant photo of Fenway Park, to recognize the home office in Massachusetts. Axis plans to open an Experience Centers in Canada and Mexico and two more in the U.S. in the near future.
Monday, Sept. 28, Day 1 at ASIS 2015
After traveling all day Sunday from Maine to Anaheim, Calif., my ASIS show experience began at 3 in the afternoon with more transportation: a one-hour van ride to Paramount Picture Studios to check out the new GSOC and SureView System' Immix platform. SureView's Scott Haugland, Rob Hile and Tom Bradley gave an overview and a large contingent from the Paramount security team was on hand to lead the tour and answer questions including Louis Lam, executive director of security services, Roy Condon SVP Environmental Health, Safety and Security, and Jeff Reider senior analytis business resiliency. Rob Hile started the presentation saying, "You're about to see a PSIM that works." Hile has spoken about PSIM a lot at industry events including at TechSec this year. SureView was able to deploy this system within three months of talking to Paramount, and Lam said that total ROI will be achieved in three years. SureView's Graham Johnson spoke to me about the importance of rapid deployment at ISC West this year. SureView continues to work with the security team at Paramount to refine and improve features of the system. Hile emphasized that it's "not customized, but it's specialized." He said that integrations SureView has added to the Paramount PSIM—with graphics specifically—are benefitting all SureView customers. Asked how the security department works with its IT department, Lam said all IP products—security and otherwise—run on one network. So the IT department owns everything. "They buy it, they own it. We tell them what [security systems] to buy and we house all the data in our data center." I'll have more on this later, but it was a great tour and very interesting to attend the event with some specifiers including Bill Jacobs, who asked some pointed questions. Here's an interview with Bill that I did this summer.
Monday on the showfloor I visited Protection 1 and the first person I saw was Bob Ryan, formerly with ASG who is now leading residential and commercial sales for Protection 1. He's also going to speak at Cloud+ in December. Check out the educational program here. He reports to Jamie Haenggi, who also has a new role at Protection 1.
Last year at ASIS, Protection 1 talked about its recent Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Express Partner Certification. This year, Haenggi talked about how the company's managed services is evolving to enhance the user experience. For example, managed services features can give a retailer or coffee shop information that enables them to enhance the experience for their customers. Now managed services can provide "ease of use" for the end users' customers, Haenggi said. Protection 1 announced "a milestone it the design, implementation and monitoring of security-only networsk. ... it now has "more than 1,000 network devices under management across 750 networks, representing 18 customer logos."
I also got a look at Protection 1's newest eSuite 2.0 which has new features for mobile devices.
Some big news today from Lenel and AlertEnterprise. I spoke to Lenel's Ron Virden and AlertEnterprise's Jasvir Gill. They've signed a strategic alliance deal, finalized on Monday infact, so Lenel dealers can resell AlertEnterprise's Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) software to support an advanced PIAM and compliance solution. Look for a full story in our newswire this week. The integration enables some cool stuff for the two companies' Fortune 100 company customers, and they're viewing this as a big opportunity for their integrator partners as well.
Stopped by the Genetec booth and spoke to Kevin G. Clark, Andrew Elvish, Jimmy Palatsoukas and Francis LaChance about Genetec's focus on the "security of security" which involves encryption and privacy in its Security Center 5.4. I also met with Genetec technology partner Evgenia Ostrovskaya of KiwiSecurity and saw how their software will pixilate a video (streaming or otherwise) so that only authorized viewers can see non-pixilated video. Its a privacy technology that's commonplace in Europe and becoming more in demand in North America, Elvish said, as privacy concerns are raised in certain video surveillance applications such as city surveillance.
I spoke briefly with Courtney Mamuscia about expanded focus for fraud, risk and compliance Solutions and for security intelligence for the education vertical. Verint is also organizing its very first customer conference, which will take place in late June in Chicago. Briefcam
I stopped by SRI and spoke to Mark Clifton about two ASIS accolade award winning products, an iris biometric embedded terminal for access control. It's ideal for access control in a warehouse, he said. I also saw their iris biometric door lock for residential applications. It's battery operated, but you hit a button to turn the batter on whenever you want to open a door.
At the Milestone booth, I met with Jeff Simpson and Cheryl Bartley of Lentix, a Milestone partner showing camera-agnostic light correction. The cameras do not need to be high end, and the product became commercially available as of Monday.
Moti Shabtai at the Qognify booth showed me their new video analytic tool Object Origin, which won an ASIS accolade award. Here's an interview I did with Shabtai last week.
I also stopped by BriefCam to talk to Rachel Nieman. She showed me some work that BriefCam is doing on the visual presentation of data. The company can filter video by color, size, speed of object, etc and it's working on ways to present that data, for security and non-security information. Cool stuff.
I met Jeffrey He and Alex Asnovich of Hikvision for the first time at a reception Monday afternoon.
ASIS is next week. I'll be heading to Anaheim, Calif. this weekend because, of course, the show begins before the show begins.
Among my first events is a Sunday afternoon tour of Paramount Studios to check out their Sureview System.
I'll be at the show all three days, Sept. 28-Sept. 30 and I am looking forward to getting some exercise on the floor running from one meeting to another.
I do have a couple of open times--like 30 minutes each day on Monday, Tues. and Wednesday. I reserved them for compelling last-minute invites. If you've got something really cool that you think my readers--the integrators--will really care about, let me know what it is and why my readers need to know too via email by EOD Thursday. Thank you!
I'll be checking out the ASIS Accolade award winners. Here's a link to the award-winning products and booth numbers.
New Orleans is looking at outsourcing its false alarm fine management and collections to CryWolf False Alarm Solution from Maryland-based Public Safety Corp, according to a report from The Times – Picayune for Greater New Orleans.
This particularly interested me because, just last week, I spoke with SIAC's executive director, Stan Martin, about the process of automating false alarm fine collections, following a report that Pittsburgh was considering it.
When talking with Martin he said it was a great practice, one that SIAC recommends.
Martin said that increased collection efforts, through automating or outsourcing the process, can have a positive effect on reducing false alarms. Properly administrated fines provide offenders with an incentive to change their behavior.
I greatly look forward to following up with Public Safety Corp. about CryWolf and how it can help a city with false alarm management. CryWolf has worked with cities such as Atlanta, Los Angeles and Sante Fe, N.M., according to its site.
BOSTON— Battery Ventures today closed the NICE physical security business unit deal and announced that the new independent business will be called Qognify.
Battery Ventures announced its intention to acquire the business for "up to $100 million" in August. Here's a story on that announcement. Today's announcement did not include details on the final price.
In August, I spoke to Battery Ventures' Jesse Feldman about the deal. I have a call into Feldman to talk more and I'm hoping to catch up with Moti Shabtai, former GM of NICE's PSBU, who was named president of Qognify, at ASIS. Sept. 22, 2015 Update: Here's an interview with Quognify's Moti Shabtai.
Feldman said that Battery plans to continue to invest in the PSBU and expand into other market segments. In addition to possibly adding access control capabilities, Feldman said that Battery would consider acquiring analytics capabilities, video and otherwise. NICE's customers include banks, utility companies, airports, seaports, city centers and transportation systems and sports venues.
Here's the company's new web site.
As you can read on the SSN website, GHS Interactive Security recently secured a $50 million credit facility.
Michael Barnes, founder of Barnes Associates Inc., the consulting and advisory firm that specializes in the security alarm industry, provided SSN with interesting insights about the non-traditional deal, noting that GHS had recently reached a milestone $500,000 in RMR.
Here's what he told SSN:
"GHS is a very interesting company. Steve Baker and Topspin Partners were looking for an opportunity in the industry and liked the idea of buying a sales and installation engine and building a full-service company around that, as opposed to buying an existing integrated alarm company. We [Barnes Associates] had sold an ADT dealer the year before and knew there was real value in companies that have the account origination capability … but no RMR.
"This is not the normal path by which private equity invests in the industry. Typically, they seek out fully operating companies that have a material customer base and RMR that can be leveraged, Day One. At market prices for these companies, however, most investors can't get the returns they are looking for without substantial growth after the initial acquisition.
"Steve Baker and Topspin Partners recognized that buying a highly capable originating company, and then building up the operations around this capability and the RMR they could generate afforded the chance to grow a large successful company using a better cost dynamic. Rather than buying a fully functioning, integrated alarm company and then taking the risk associated with developing additional growth capability at a low cost, they bought the growth engine and took the risk that they could build a functioning full-service company around it.
"Basically, this is following the path Vivint took, where they first developed a material account origination capability and then started to keep the accounts and build up the necessary infrastructure to own and service them.
"Steve Baker knew the perfect company to acquire—LifeLine Security. The company was founded and owned by Gordon Johnson and John Fox, who had perfected the year-round door-to-door sales model (as opposed to the "summer sales" model), in several California markets. They were generating almost $200,000 a year of new RMR under a dealer program and were looking for a way to change their model to one that would build a fully integrated company.
"Gordon and John also had experience earlier in their careers in other parts of the Southwest, and had the proven capability to expand into new markets. This meshed with Steve Baker's vision to broaden geographically into Texas, Arizona and Nevada in order to have a more diversified footprint and a larger overall market opportunity."
"Starting with no accounts in mid-2013, when GHS acquired LifeLine, they have grown to over $500,000 of RMR.
"This rapid growth requires capital, and we have enjoyed working with the GHS team to develop the best approach to satisfying this need. We identified Topspin Partners as the best fit for the equity, given their highly successful prior play in the industry and their appreciation for the opportunity. The debt part of the capital structure was a challenge, however, as the company needed a lender that could start small, Day One, and grow rapidly with the company. Most of the lenders that truly understand the industry dynamic typically require the full servicing infrastructure to be in place and proven, and a seasoned existing account base. Neither of these were present with GHS. Additionally, most of the industry lenders had minimum initial borrowing amounts well above GHS's initial need. We found a division of Barclays that provided the initial facility.
"Fortuitously, Brent Humphries and Patrick Fear had left Barclays and moved to Alliance Bernstein to head up a very large non-bank debt fund, AB Private Credit Investors. Brent and Patrick were instrumental in setting up the initial facility and were intimately familiar with the company. We conducted a relatively broad placement process, and they quickly distinguished themselves by proposing a highly flexible package of debt capital that met every one of GHS's needs, along with highly competitive pricing and an ability to cycle through the approval and closing process quickly. Since they are not a bank, they brought an inherent flexibility that was attractive. They are truly a capital partner, rather than a "lender" in the traditional sense.
"AB was great to work with. Not only are they perfect for GHS, but I know they have the appetite to do more in the industry."
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A band is releasing 52 singles in a year in a bid to raise money for the homeless.
The three piece jam band Egokiller is aiming to release one single per week to raise as much money as possible for people who are destitute.
Band member Bryan Diggle, who is a former pupil of Guiseley School, said they were trying to prevent people suffering or dying by helping Shelter, The Big Issue North and Crisis.
The band is about halfway through the mammoth effort – and they are asking for more support. "We are trying to raise as much awareness as possible for the charities," Bryan said.
"To combat this we are about to introduce a new £1 a month subscription to the 52 singles – or £10 for the year in one go – and also getting CDs printed so people have a physical copy.
"The dream is to be able to give as much money to the charities to help the people caught in what could be the worst winter in 60 years after one of the worst financial slumps in history."
He said all profits will go to the three charities. The band will continue to collect money for the homeless after the release of the last single up until New Year's Eve 2014.
Bryan stressed: "Like all of us, charities are under increasing financial pressure right now with more and more people becoming homeless while there is less and less Government help."
The band has previously released a charity single in aid of the Cancer Vaccine Institute and has played shows in aid of The Dogs Trust, Cloth Cat, Hollybush Conservation and Unity Day.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (2-2 SSC) fell in the first game of their second Sunshine State Conference series in a 3-1 loss to the visiting No. 11 University of Tampa Spartans (15-4, 3-1 SSC). The loss dropped the Lions' record to 17-8 on the season.
Senior Megan Still started in the circle for the Lions in the first match-up of the weekend, tossing four and two-thirds innings before freshman Alana Tabel took the mound in relief. Although the Spartans took the win, the Lions pitching staff combined for seven strikeouts and allowed only two walks in the contest.
The University of Tampa Spartans were first to put a run on the board, scoring first in the top of the third inning. Designated hitter Erika Shick jumpstarted the inning with a single to centerfield, followed by a bunt single from Tampa's Brie Walton which advanced Shick to second base. The Spartans then sent pinch runner Meagan Brislin to second base, just before Katie Bannon sent a single up the middle to advance all runners one base. First baseman Meagan Burke then sent a single to left field, which scored Brislin and put the Spartans up, 1-0.
The Lions answered back in the bottom of the fourth inning, when McKenzie Burns led off with a walk to first base, and was able to steal second base safely. One out later, a groundout to first base allowed Burns to take third base, just before a single to left-centerfield by junior Chelsey Steedley sent Burns home to tie the game.
Moments later, the Spartans took the lead yet again by scoring two more runs in the top of the fifth inning. With one out, Brie Walton collected another infield single to quickly give the Spartans a base runner. The next batter, sophomore Kayleen Boatright then sent a scorching double to the left-centerfield fence, which scored Walton and put the Spartans ahead for their second lead of the game. Two batters later, Meagan Burke snagged her second hit of the night by ripping a double to the left-centerfield wall, which scored Boatright and put the Spartans up by two.
The Saint Leo Lions will return to the field on Saturday, Mar. 9, when wrap up the Sunshine State Conference series against the visiting Tampa Spartans. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 1:00 p.m.
For more information on the Lions softball program, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter and Instagram.


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Steele meets its match in Duncanville buzzsaw
Updated 12:16 am, Sunday, March 3, 2013
AUSTIN — There weren't many tears from the Steele players as silver medals were placed around their necks on the Erwin Center floor Saturday night. Star guard McKenzie Calvert even danced with her teammates.
The Knights came up short in their hunt for a state title. But they lost to possibly the best team in the country.
Duncanville cruised to a 59-36 victory in the Class 5A state final, winning its second straight championship and pushing its incredible win streak to 70 games. The Pantherettes (41-0) claimed their eighth state title overall.
"We don't have anything to hang our heads over," Steele coach Kari Wallace said. "To be as resilient as we've been and to be second in the state of Texas, I'm very proud of them."
Steele (33-6) couldn't overcome a dreadful first-half shooting performance. The Knights made 3 of 23 shots in the half against Duncanville's tight defense, which allowed 32.4 points per game all season.
"The ball didn't fall our way," said Calvert, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds.
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The Knights hung close early on, trailing 11-6 after the first quarter.
Duncanville pulled away with a 16-1 run in the second. SMU-bound guard Kiara Perry scored 13 of her 20 points in the first half, including a highlight-reel alley-oop layup. The game's MVP also had 13 rebounds.
The Pantherettes took control with a Perry-fueled sequence. The senior stripped Kyra Lambert at mid-court for an easy lay-in and, on the next play, sank a shot while falling down, drew the foul and made the free throw.
Steele fell behind by 20 on Tasia Foman's 3-pointer with two minutes left in the half. Senior Chelsey Leck had Steele's only field goal of the quarter on a layup with 13 seconds remaining.
Steele started the second half by making its first two shots — a Lambert 3-pointer and a Jade Brady jumper — but Duncanville never let up. Any momentum Steele had built was lost with three turnovers late in the third quarter.
Ariel Atkins added 13 points for Duncanville. The Pantherettes shot 46.9 percent for the game to Steele's 17.8.
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This kind of dominance was nothing new for Duncanville, which beat Spring Dekaney by 38 points in last year's state final, the most lopsided 5A title game ever. The Pantherettes won every game but three this season by double digits.
Dallas-area teams have won seven of the past nine titles in 5A.
Steele became only the third area team to ever advance to the 5A state championship game.
And the Knights have every intention of getting back next season with their entire starting lineup returning.
"We wanted to win, but the steps we took to get here were great," Calvert said. "And we will be back. You can mark my words."
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I was suddenly reminded of my failed Microwave Soap Grenade invention when I came across this great little invention called The Nana Saver!
It's for people who are too small to eat a full banana and don't want the leftover piece to turn brown. I myself am a small person (but not so small that I can't finish a banana you a-holes!) and I often cut half a banana over my Vector cereal! This little invention would be kinda worth having, although I guess I could just be a man and… no not deal with the piece turning brown, I was going to say be a man and throw the other half in the garbage! Just joking Mother Earth!
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#19Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
For most, I am made going left first then right.
Right-and-then-left's an unusual sight.
I'm used at the end when there isn't enough,
Sometimes I'm used to show other people's stuff.
HintYou're thinking too hard! I'm common as can be!
In this teaser, you can find seventeen of me.
AnswerThe letter s.
Most people write an s from the top down, curving on the left first and then the right, though some do it the other way. S is used for many plural nouns and can also be used with an apostrophe to show possession (Clayton's).
The title refers to s's location in the English alphabet - the 19th letter.
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