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I'm getting ready for a quick trip to the West Coast for the HoneywellConnect 2013 event, which is taking place Nov. 7-10 in Los Angeles. This is a debut event for Honeywell, combining what used to be its First Alert Professional conference with events it did with its CSS and HIS dealers. I heard they're expecting more than 800 people. I'm looking forward to catching up with Security Systems News' readers that fall into all of those categories.
I was just checking out the App for the program. I'm impressed. The App includes descriptions and locations for the educational sessions and other events and a list of attendees. It also allows you to set up a personal schedule. What I like the best, however, is it allows you to send a message to another attendee from the App itself. Great idea. If you're reading this and have news to share, send me a message via the App.
The educational sessions at FAP have always been well attended and interactive, and I'm assuming Connect2013's will be as well. I'm looking forward to these sessions in particular: Connected Home/Connected Small Business; Integated Systems Revenue Opportunities; Strategic Business Planning; Demand Creation; 2G to 4G Migration; Grant Writing; Business Metrics; The Right Acquisition Strategy; Server Virtualization; Hosted Video; Regulatory Compliance Management; and Vertical Market Success.
I'll be blogging and tweeting during the event. Look for updates here Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Going to be a busy three days.
Some hiring news surfaced this week from north of the border. Yorkton, Saskatchewan-based SecurTek, which has three central stations in Canada and commercial and residential accounts in several provinces, hired Darrell Jones to be its new president and CEO, the company announced in a news release.
Jones comes to the SecurTek, a subsidiary of SaskTel, a Canadian telecom company, from outside the industry. He worked previously at the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation, and his background also includes active involvement as a board member with the Real Estate Institute of Manitoba.
He'll now be at the helm of a company with a dealer network of 150 partners, in retail, wholesale monitoring and security servicing. In addition to its commercial and residential security offerings, SecurTek provides video and medical monitoring.
"Darrell has established strong and positive working relationships with the non-profit sector, stakeholder organizations, and the private sector in his role with the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation," Ron Styles, SaskTel President and CEO, said in a news release. "Darrell will be a strong addition to the SecurTek team and I'm confident under his leadership SecurTek will continue to grow and thrive."
In the coming week I hope to speak with Jones about the transition to the security industry, and to explore how his background in real estate could be a boon to someone hoping to expand the company's residential and commercial account bases.
Sharon Shaw, who is well known in the security industry as an evangelist of managed services, a skilled trainer and director of education, has taken on a new role at Tech Systems Inc, an Atlanta-based systems integrator.
Shaw was formerly president of Integrator Support, and director of education for PSA Security. (She's also part of my TechSec Advisory board. )
Here's a link to a story I wrote about Tech Systems Inc. in January. TSI appears to be a great fit for Shaw's skills. She told me she was drawn to the company's "service-centric culture." The services piece—managed as well as services in general—is something Shaw knows well. And it's not an overstatement to say that TSI is big into service. When I did that story in January, Larry Simmons, TSI VP of client services, told me that if a customer is not interested in "a strong service offering, we don't waste resources [on that job]." As a result, TSI in January was "very close to achieving our goal of being able to cover 100 percent of our operating costs [with] recurring revenue."
AT TSI, If service techs want to leave a job site without completing a service call for any reason, the request must be approved by a regional manager, a director, and ultimately by the CEO or Simmons before that tech may leave the job without finishing. TSI's service program is called FOCUS, and the company reports some impressive results. "In 2012, TSI responded to 16,467 FOCUS-related service calls. We only failed to either achieve response time or functionality 30 times, giving TSI a 99.99 percent success rate. Our success rate has not dropped below 99.7 percent over the past three years," Simmons said.
In her new role as Client Development Manager, Shaw will develop continuing education programs for Tech Systems' customers and staff. The idea is to have a "quality communications programs and [see that there's] a continuing stream of relevant information so everyone is informed and when they're making decisions, they have the best tools and resources available to them," she told me.
Tech Systems has 164 employees across the country. Headquartered here, it has other brick-and-mortar offices in North Carolina and California. Employees elsewhere work from virtual offices.
Congratulations to Shaw, and kudos to TSI for a smart hire.
The good news keeps on coming from SAFE Security. I just wrote recently how the San Ramon, Calif.-based company—celebrating its silver anniversary this year—has doubled in size. Now, SAFE has announced this week that it has acquired more than 16,000 accounts, representing $650,000 in RMR.
The new accounts are CastleRock Security residential and commercial alarm monitoring subscriber accounts.
"These accounts fit very nicely into our U.S. and Canada footprint," Paul Sargenti, SAFE president, CEO and founder, said in a prepared statement in an Oct. 29 news release. "With this acquisition we have more than doubled our account base since 2012. We are well equipped to assimilate them and look forward to providing the highest standard in security services to these new subscribers."
Sargenti added, "SAFE is firmly positioned as a full service alarm company and this purchase complements our other growing revenue channels."
The company says it also is seeing strong organic growth from its dealer program, SAFE Dealer Network.
Some intriguing financial news out of the Monitronics/Ascent Capital camp. Ascent Capital Group's largest direct stockholder, media mogul John Malone, recently sold half his preferred shares—worth $32.7 million in cash—back to the company, according to a news release from Ascent Capital. The divestment comes nearly three years after Ascent acquired Monitronics in a $1.2 billion deal.
Malone, who sold 351,734 shares, now owns the same number of Series B shares, plus 198,540 Series A shares, which together comprise 21.6 percent of the Ascent shareholder vote, the release noted.
In an email exchange, Henry Edmonds, president of The Edmonds Group, a St. Louis-based investment bank, indicated that the move would likely please shareholders. "Ascent has had plenty of cash on its balance sheet so this is not a bad use of funds to help stock price," he said.
It will be interesting to see what (if any) effect this has on operations at Monitronics, a wholly owned operating subsidiary of Ascent. An investor I contacted seemed to believe it would not have much effect. Yesterday, the company announced that it will report its earnings on Nov. 12, 2013. On that date, the company will host a conference call in which management will give an update on Ascent's operations, including the financial performance of Monitronics, and "may also discuss future opportunities," the release said.
In all likelihood I'll be dialing into that conference call, which I'm hoping will shed some light on what those opportunities might be.
Jay Hauhn, chief technology officer and VP of industry relations at Tyco Integrated Security, has been named president of CSAA. The announcement was made at the organization's recent annual meeting in Quebec City. Hauhn, who most recently served as vice president for the organization, assumes the role held by Robert Bean, whose term expires this year.
Hauhn is actively involved in several industry organizations. Since 2011, he has served as chairman of the board at The Security Industry Association, a role in which he has executive responsibility for all interaction with industry associations, regulatory agencies and state and federal governments. His current term as Chairman of the Board at SIA ends this year.
Hauhn also sits on the board of directors at the Security Industry Alarm Coalition, and he is chairman of the Electronic Security Association's government relations committee.
I'm scheduled to speak with Hauhn later this week about his expanded role at CSAA. In that interview, I'll discuss some of Hauhn's short- and long-term ambitions as the newly minted leader of the organization.
Prism Skylabs, a two-year-old startup founded by Ron Palmeri and 3VR's Steve Russell today announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by Intel Capital, Intel Corporations' investment and M&A business. The round included investments from Presidio Ventures, Triangle Peak, Data Collective, Expa, and some existing investors, Russell told me.
Prism Skylab is a cloud service that transforms any video camera "into visual merchandising, auditing and business intelligence tool that can be accessed in real time from any device."
"On the business side, it's hard to overstate the value of having [an investor] like Intel for a company like Prism," Russell said.
The funding round was announced today in San Diego at the 14th Annual Intel Capital Global Summit where Intel awarded a total of $65 million in funding to 16 companies.
"At this conference we are able to look at how Prism might integrate with next-gen mobile devices [as well as the possibilities, for example, of using] new techniques in a data center that will allow us to increase our performance over 100-fold."
"The core of our business is the R&D and product work we do, and we'll continue to invest in that," Russell said, but the bulk of the funds from this round will be used for sales and marketing.
Since its launch, Prism has "brought on a host of interesting first customers, the new challenge for the business is to continue to serve the large customers we've won already and to build out our sales and marketing team to expand [the customer base] even further."
Prism SkyLabs has "well north of 50 customers" that include Fortune 500 companies and well-known brands that fall into the category of "large distributed retail companies."
"We solve one or two important problems for them," Russell said. "We provide a set of data and instruments in the real world that heretofore you could only get for online properties. … The other value we provide is allowing global brands to peek in and better manage their stores," he added.
"It's the analytic and visual [capabilities] that are really the secret sauce," he said.
Prism now has about 30 employees and Russell expects to double the size of the company within the next 12 months.
Prism raised $7.5 million in funding in October 2012.
"Intel Capital has long been known as a hands-on investor," Russell said. Among the ways the investor will assist Prism include "providing networking and matchmaking [among] its truly vast portfolio [of partners]."
The Intel Summit "[has] been an incredibly productive and fun three days for us," he said.
Timothy McGinn and David L. Smith, former partners in the Albany, N.Y.-based brokerage firm of McGinn, Smith & Co., which conducted dealings in the alarm industry, will serve out their fraud sentences in the same penitentiary, according to a recent Albany Business Review report.
I wrote here in August about their sentencing, after the two were convicted earlier this year of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion in a Ponzi-like scheme that caused investors to lose millions. A judge called 65-year-old McGinn "arrogant" and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Smith, 68, convicted of fewer counts than McGinn, received a 10-year sentence.
Now, the Albany Business Review reports, the two are both in the same prison in Brooklyn, N.Y. Here's more from the Oct. 17 article:
The federal Bureau of Prisons says both men are now at the Metropolitan Detention Center, in Brooklyn.
Prosecutors say as many as 900 investors lost money. …
Attorneys for McGinn and Smith originally believed the two would wind up in different prisons. Smith had requested to remain fairly close to his family, who live in Saratoga Springs.
Attorneys say that McGinn, meanwhile, needs special medical attention for his diabetes, and residual concerns resulting from a heart attack in 2010, months after the FBI and IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission began probing the McGinn-Smith operations.
The federal Bureau of Prisons says both men are now at the Metropolitan Detention Center, in Brooklyn.
Prosecutors say as many as 900 investors lost money. …
Attorneys for McGinn and Smith originally believed the two would wind up in different prisons. Smith had requested to remain fairly close to his family, who live in Saratoga Springs.
Attorneys say that McGinn, meanwhile, needs special medical attention for his diabetes, and residual concerns resulting from a heart attack in 2010, months after the FBI and IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission began probing the McGinn-Smith operations.
The two pleaded not guilty to the charges they faced, and maintained their innocence when testifying at trial. They are preparing an appeal, which may not be heard for several years.
A few developments surfaced today out of the SecureNet Technologies camp. The Longwood, Fla.-based company, which provides video monitoring services and interactive home features, announced the launch of the SecureNet platform, a system that gives alarm providers a cloud-based management service.
The system is designed to increase the speed of alarm responses while improving their accuracy by eliminating errors caused by traditional notes-based dispatching systems, the company noted in a news release.
As we continue to see, there are several benefits for central stations who deploy a cloud-based platform. First off, it improves redundancy in the event of outages or natural disasters. It also reduces the man hours required for continual technological upgrades. Interestingly enough, while SecureNet's platform is clearly moving with the hosted solution wave, it is also offered as a traditional on-site service.
The other piece of news, less of a strictly monitoring nature, is that SecureNet has joined the Z-Wave Alliance, a group of technology companies that design wireless home control products based on the Z-wave wireless communications standard.
SecureNet's Interactive Gateway Modules, a line of hardware devices that integrate with the with alarm panels, is designed primarily for its adaptability to home management services. The devices use Z-wave technology to control and communicate with interactive video monitoring, access controls, as well as an array of home automation features.
In the coming days I'll be following up with SecureNet to get a closer view of these latest developments.
A recent post on Honeywell's The Security Channel blog caught my eye because it refutes the notion that only large companies can reap the benefits of being integrators. That's not the case, says Jason Lutz, business development manager, First Alert Professional and CSS, in his post this week titled "Simple Integrations Can Lead to Increased RMR."
Here's what he says in his intriguing intro: "There are few things that can make some dealers cringe more than when I begin to talk about integrating systems. Many dealers think they are too small to do integrated systems or that integrating systems can be too complicated or even that there isn't enough Recurring Monthly Revenue (RMR) and therefore it's not worth the hassle. Before I go further, let's clarify what an integrated system is and how much money you are leaving on the table by not offering it."
He goes on to explain that "an integrated system can be as simple as two separate systems working together to satisfy a client's need."
Then he asks: "Are your current or potential clients expressing needs like these?*Can you set up my cameras to only record when my system is armed?*Can you make the cameras record only when I have an alarm?*Can you let me know when my DVR has a loss of video, loses its connection to the Internet or the hard drive has reached full capacity?"
Lutz goes on to explain how even a small security provider can answer such needs—benefiting both clients and the provider. Check out his post.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (November 6, 2010)—Making his first start beyond seven furlongs, Comma to the Top rolled to an easy victory in the $100,000 Real Quiet Stakes Saturday at Hollywood Park.
One race after Comma to the Top's heroics, Courtside Action's $259.20 stunner triggered a Pick Six carryover of $57,067 when racing resumes Sunday. Post time is 12:30 p.m.. The Pick Six begins in the fourth race.
In addition, there is a Super High Five carryover of $40,441.
Quickly establishing command from his outside post under jockey Corey Nakatani, Comma to the Top, a 2-year-old Bwana Charlie gelding out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Maggies Storm, disposed of closest pursuer Dime after six furlongs, then pulled away in the stretch to win by 6 ¼ lengths.
Trained by Peter Miller for owners Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Kevin Tsujihara, Comma to the Top won for the third time in succession and is 4-for-8 lifetime. The $60,000 payday pushed his earnings to $116,600. He ran the 1 1/16 miles over Cushion Track in 1:43.56.
The first stakes win for the Florida bred came on the heels of consecutive sprint victories last month at Golden Gate Fields. Comma to the Top won those allowance races by a combined 10 lengths.
Prayer for Relief, stretching out for trainer Bob Baffert after a victory against $50,000 maidens Oct. 10, was a clear second, 4 ¾ lengths in front of Clearance Clarence.
The 4-1 third choice in a field reduced to eight after Clubhouse Ride and Hollywood Fierce were scratched, Comma to the Top paid $10.20, $6 and $4.20.
Prayer for Relief, who was nearly 13-1, returned $11.40 and $6.60. The show payoff on Clearance Clarence was $4.60.
"Pete and I believed down the road he would be a good two-turn horse,'' said Nakatani, who also won the 2007 Real Quiet with Colonel John. "He's a little bit green, but he has a high cruising speed like In Excess had and Bertrando had. He's a horse similar to them.
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Five of the six entered in the Sharp Cat are coming off victories, including Teddy's Promise, a 7 ¾ length winner against maidens Oct. 17. Joel Rosario rides the daughter of Salt Lake for owner-breeders Ted and Judy Nichols and trainer David Hofmans, who has won two of the first four runnings of the Sharp Cat.
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Tasty stale coffee.
One of the many joys working in the coffee industry, is trying endless amount of different coffees, in season being offered. For a year, I was subscribed to weekly and monthly coffee subscription from 2 of my favorite roastery. I've learnt so much by tasting different coffees itself, but what I was left with was countless amount of bags of half finished or even some unopened bags. I'm sure we all had this, but I want to focus on our customers, who buy these freshly roasted coffees from our shops.
Recently there has been substantial interest in manual filter brewing method from the customers, and beans have been flying off the shelves. If the beans were roasted on 1st of February, if FedEX does there jobs properly, it could be on the shop shelves on the 3rd of February. Now, we say that coffees taste the best when its 'fresh', where generally it is between 2nd day of roasting to 14th day of roasting. Now, I'm not saying it will suddenly taste horrible after 14 days, it will have so much factors affecting this, such as type of coffee, level of roast and also storage. Don't we all agree that you can drink milk 2~3 days after its best before by dates if they are refrigerated well? Same goes for eggs and many other product.
So customers have generally, 10~12days window to enjoy their coffee whilst its fresh, if its a 250g bag thats around 21g~ 25g of coffee being consumed every day to enjoy them whilst its fresh. Presonally, if you don't drink coffee every morning, I reckon you won't be able to finish the bag in time, or you'll get another subscription coffee and the old coffees are long forgotten.
So, people spend an average of £6 to £13 on bags of coffee, and most likely, they will have around 100g~150g of coffee still in the bag after 2~3 weeks, so what do you do with them? Well, there are lots of things on internet like using old coffees to use as compost, leaving them in fridge and even face pack! I wanted to find out if there are any guide lines, outlining what they can do to make decent cup of coffee using beans over 3 weeks old, rather than throwing it away. Even on the coffee bags, it states, 'enjoy within 4weeks of roast'. So should people use the same method of brewing for all those 4 weeks? Should they be put off brewing with coffee 3 weeks or 4 weeks old?
-This isn't a definitive guide to brew good coffee using old coffee, I firmly believe in using fresh coffee will deliver the best result in the cup!
- I will outline the changes you make to your recipe using old coffee from using fresh.
- its an experiment, and I'm not saying it will work for every coffee, as I've said before, there are lots of variables to take on board. - If anyone finds something other than what I state below, please comment!
- PLEASE remember, I'm NOT saying you can make the same QUALITY as fresh coffee but something you can enjoy without spitting them out, and actually drinking it rather than putting them in your fridge or your face.
So I wanted to experiment with a coffee I was familiar to, so I chose El Salvador Finca La Illusion roasted by Has Bean, because its on our shops brew menu as well as the espresso, so I know this coffee pretty well. Also luckily, I had an unopened bag of La Illusion which is 5 month old, one which is 4 weeks old and one which is 3 days old. So, I will brew these coffees, with extact amount of dose and water, time and temperature may vary. After brewing, tasting them and mojoing them, then make several changes to find that spot where the old coffees can produce 'acceptable' cup.
Firstly, I cupped these 3 coffees, and rated them with scale of 0~10, within different categories.
You can see from the cupping scores that 5month old coffee didn't do so well, expected really, but surprisingly had the best body from those 3 coffees.
What really surprised me was, how pleasant 4 weeks old coffee tasted like, the only major difference between 3 day roast coffee was lack in overall complexity, but in terms of acidity, it was bright and lively.
So, I decided to brew these coffees as V60 pourover, I know I can't brew these coffees consistently, but I tried to keep everything the same and mojo the result which is below.
The result showed that with same dose, water, similar time and technique, as the beans that I used got older, more I extracted from the coffee. This has a correlation to the perceived bitterness I tasted from the cupping result.
With this result, I decided that it wasn't really worth experimenting further with 5 month old beans, as they didn't really taste good as V60, very stale, boring and bitter. These were worth going into the fridge and faces.
However, 4 weeks old coffee looked promising, it was bright, some sweetness with nice light body but had unpleasant bitterness coming through. Lacked in the complexity, exciting acidity, sweetness and the body compared to 3days old roast, but I wanted to change how I brewed the 4 weeks old roast to make it taste better and acceptable.
So this is what I've changed.
So, the dose was increased by 1g (6.25% increase from original dose) and amount of water reduced by 15g( 6.25% decrease from original dose).
Surprisingly, using the 6.25% increase and decrease method, When I slightly underextracted the brew, I've made myself a cup of coffee which was substantially better than one I made before, ok, it still wasn't good as 3 days old roast, but there was increase in that sparkling acidity and complexity, though sweetness and body was still missing- it was an acceptable cup.
I would be interested to see if anyone experiments with 6.25% increase and decrease method I used with different coffee and brewing method, using old coffees to see if they get a positive result like me.
I know for the experienced coffee professionals, you guys don't have to read this blog to figure out how to brew decent cup with stale coffee, again, this post is to help(hopefully) home brewers and having fun and learning myself. And please don't think I'm weird telling people to try stale coffee, but If you can make yourself a half decent cup of coffee when you have no fresh coffee at home; using 4~6weeks old coffee, and doing some experiments and having fun whilst doing so, I don't see why people should be trying it.
In this industry, you learn so much by tasting, tasting is believing!
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Friends of Scotts Valley Library has met its initial goal of raising $250,000 and will continue fundraising for capital improvements and programming to outfit the new branch in town.
Fundraising began in earnest when the Friends were formed in June 2009.
At present, the group is collecting donations to complete an outdoor patio with landscaping behind the library.
To continue the fundraising push, members recently named Scotts Valley resident Derek Timm as new president of the organization. He takes the reins from Elizabeth Walch, who had presided over the organization since its beginning.
"I only recently joined Friends of the Library," Timm said. "It was a good fit."
Timm, a real estate broker and a member of the state bar of California, also sits on the city's planning commission. He recently acted as chairman of the Scotts Valley Save Our Schools committee, which successfully fostered support for a $48 annual parcel tax that voters passed in June to help Scotts Valley's schools cope with shrinking state funding.
Timm is also the vice president of Scotts Valley Educational Foundation and was appointed by the Santa Cruz Office of Education to a task force on redistricting.
Walch, who was honored this week by United Way of Santa Cruz County for her work establishing a special-needs resource center at the library, was instrumental in pushing forward fundraising efforts at the library. She wrote a $15,000 grant that got the resource center up-and-running and provided training to librarians.
"It is absolutely satisfying and exciting," Walch said of completing the fundraising goal. "It really shows the community cares about the library."
Walch remains a member of the Friends but has stepped aside from the leadership role.
"(Derek) is organized and efficient and really excited about it," Walch said. "I think he's going to do a great job."
The $250,000 raised by the group so far has paid for a media room in the library, sculptures by a local artist, a fireplace and $70,000 in materials and labor for the patio.
About $25,000 worth of work remains to be done on the patio project, Walch said.
Timm said the Friends have begun to sell engraved planks made of Ipe wood decking for $200 that will be placed in the patio area. Ceramic leaves that can be personalized by children and displayed on the patio are also being sold for $50, and Timm said the organization is seeking a big-ticket sponsor to purchase the annual naming rights of the new patio for $5,000.
Additional fundraising will likely help pay for new programs at the library, including programs for preschool- and school-aged children and tie-ins with the senior center.
"It's been amazing to watch," Walch said. "(The library) is a happening place. There are people from all walks of life using every inch of it. It's just wonderful."
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Happy 2014!
Unless you live in a cave, you likely know that marijuana prohibition has come to an end in Colorado, just a few hundred miles away from our southern border. The mainstream media has been in a feeding frenzy since 2012, but the first few days of 2014 have seen news coverage explode beyond anyone's expectations. Reports indicate than an eighth of marijuana costs $70, and many stores will be forced to close temporarily because of they are running out of stock. On the first day alone, less than thirty shop owners collectively reported over $1 million in revenue.
After 80 years of failed prohibition policy, it is hard to understate the importance of this moment in history; yet, it is merely a taste of what the near future has in store. Legislators around the country are now seriously considering changes to their own laws, and voter initiatives are springing up seemingly everywhere.
Here at Montana NORML, we are very pleased to thank so many of our supporters for stepping up to volunteer their time, effort and financial support on behalf of our goal of creating a legal, regulated market for all adults in our great state. Our website and new database are nearly complete, and we can soon officially launch our own voter initiative campaign to end marijuana prohibition in Montana in 2016. Thanks to your help so far, we are well on our way.
The lawsuit spearheaded by the Montana Cannabis Information Association (MTCIA) is vital to preserving safe access for thousands of residents who rely on cannabis for the treatment of serious medical conditions. The parties will be back in court in May, and the MTCIA needs your financial help to keep the state from destroying what's left of our medical providers. Please visit their website for more information on how you can help.
We hope you'll join us this year as we engage with the public and our elected officials, and prepare to end marijuana prohibition in Big Sky Country.
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Marijuana: Resurgence underway — Missoula Independent
Hearing on ex-medical pot provider's bid to end sentence in Missoula this week
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I am planning a trip up the lion's head rout of the mountain, and I was wondering, is it possible to climb up that rout and ski down another? Or, is it possible to ski down any of the routes? Thanks!
I am planning a trip up the lion's head rout of the mountain, and I was wondering, is it possible to climb up that rout and ski down another? Or, is it possible to ski down any of the routes? Thanks!
Short answer no. Long answer yes, with a but.
Yes, you can ski off the summit, or very near the summit. The preferred route would be down the East Snowfields, traversing high above the Alpine Garden then dropping into Tuckerman Ravine, and down the usual way.
I'm skeptical telling you this because this descent is for experts only. Some, but not all of the risk include: Getting lost in the Alpine Garden and skiing into Huntington Ravine, falling down or over a cliff in Tuckermans, falling into a crevasse in Tuckerman's, and getting caught in an avalanche.
You cannot ski down the actual Lion Head's trail. It is too narrow, and people use it for hiking. So if you hike up Lion Head, you'll have to ski into Tucks without knowing the route. You won't know the safest line down Tucks, and you won't know the snow conditions. You may ski into Tucks and find yourself on top of a cliff where a fall could kill you.
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I am not much of a back country skiier and certainly no expert on skiing Mount Washington, Bill is lightyears ahead of me in that department. The reason I am commenting is this. The golden rule of back country skiing is, "Never ski down something you haven't climbed." Climbing the route you intend to ski back down gives you a preview of what to expect on the descent. Ice, rocks, bare spots, avalanche potential, etc. Having done this would have prevented a death to one skier and serious injury to another on Mount Clay a couple of years ago. So, I say if you're going to ski it, climb it first, and as Bill stated, you cannot ski back down Lion's Head Trail.
From Lion Head one could conceivably ski down The Sluice, Right Gully, or Lion Head Gully 1, 2 or 3, but I emphasize the need to know the course before skiing it, so, in my mind, climbing it first is essential. These routes can all be reached from the "Floor" of Tuckerman Ravine.
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As I sit here with a possible A.C.L. tear and a possible Petella Tendon torn in half all from a ski accident let me comment. Tucks is not a place to take lightly. It is extreme skiing in spots which means " you fall you die". Too ski from the summit to the Sherburne trail and out can be done but I would only attempt it if number one you are an EXPERT and number 2 only with someone who has done it before and knows all the ins and outs. tucks is a fun place to ski but it is not your local ski hill. you can go to the tuckermans friends forum to get more info on skiing tucks.
I should have added to my last entry that there is not enough snow to ski any of the gullies or the Sluice from Lion's Head. There is barely enough snow to ski The Bowl in Tux.
Rex, that is certainly bad news. Not to diminish your injury, but I had emergency surgery on my right knee in June '01 with 44 of 48 mountains on my NH 4000 footer list. I was pissed! I still finished my next 4 by 9/15 that year, so don't lose hope!
I play hockey, but that's not what happened. I did it playing frisbee at a hockey cookout! Years before I messed up the same knee playing softball. I was told then that I had a torn ACL. MRI confirmed it, supposedly. After hearing what the surgery would entail, I chose not to have it. I was playing hockey again, with a brace, in 6 weeks. Very painful at first but eventually got better.
With the more recent injury I broke miniscus cartilage that lodged between the upper and lower bones of my leg, keeping me from straightening my leg. I told the surgeon about the previous ACL tear. While he was scoping around and removing cartilage he took a picture of my INTACT ACL. Thank God I didn't have the original surgery.
Now, was the first surgeon wrong, or did my torn ACL just reattach itself?
I guess the moral here is GET TWO OPINIONS.
Whether you have surgery or not go through with whatever therapy they give you, this is the ONLY WAY to get better. Many people don't and suffer with a bad knee the rest of their lives. I went through it after surgery and returned to play hockey 2-3 times a week and took up skiing which I hadn't done since I was a child. My knee is not 100% but I can do everything I did before, plus skiing. I have also done the 4000 footers two more times since then. THERE IS LIFE AFTER KNEE SURGERY!
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I am just getting into archery and am looking to buy my first real bow (one I will hunt with). I noticed the Saber and was wondering if the 2011 upgrades are good enough to pay a little extra for, or would the 2010 model be just fine?
Also, this is one of the lower end bows, but I can't really figure out the major differences in this or a $1000 bow. The specs are pretty impressive! What will I be missing out on by buying a lower end saber, vs saving up for a high end bow? I'm not thinking the differences would be worth it, but I thought I'd check your opinions. Thanks!


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City Council to hear public opinion on historic preservation master plan
SALISBURY — Residents will have another chance to comment on the Salisbury Historic Preservation Master Plan when City Council holds a public hearing at 4 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall.
Mayor Paul Woodson pulled the public hearing from a lengthy agenda at the last City Council meeting. A large group had turned out for the hearing, many wearing stickers in support of the Chestnut Hill neighborhood, where historic preservationists are focusing a new revitalization effort.
But this week's City Council agenda is shorter, and the public hearing is first on the action items.
The Historic Preservation Master Plan is an action-oriented road map for improving the city's preservation programs and a tool to help strengthen collaboration on preservation issues.
The plan includes more than 100 specific recommendations, distilled from community input that included three public forums, 50-plus stakeholder interviews and focus groups, as well as an online moderated forum.
Organizations that participated in interviews included all historic neighborhoods, Downtown Salisbury, Rowan County Visitors Center, Historic Salisbury Foundation and others.
The plan was funded by a $15,000 federal Historic Preservation Fund grant, along with $8,000 local match. Salisbury received the grant through its participation in the Certified Local Government Program, which is a national program to promote effective preservation at the local level.
Many of the recommendations in the plan are simple and can be accomplished without additional expense, while others would need to be programmed into future budget cycles as funding allows.
Also on Tuesday's agenda:
• Woodson will proclaim May 27 as Veterans Memorial Day and Nov. 9 as Purple Heart Trail Day.
• The consent agenda includes several donations and grants to the Salisbury Police Department.
Council will approve $19,000 in donations to the department to be used for purchasing body cameras for all officers, a bar scanner system for evidence and items for the recruiting program.
The department also has received a $24,221 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant that will be used to upgrade a van so it can be used as a command post for events and crime scenes, as well as purchase of chemical munitions kits, night vision goggles, gas masks and body cameras.
• The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has reimbursed the city and HS&E Inc. $430,060 to pay for contamination clean-up at the proposed site of the downtown school central office at 329 S. Main St.
The city and HS&E removed orphaned fuel storage tanks and supply lines. HS&E oversaw the remediation of contaminated soil.
The city and Rowan-Salisbury Schools are working on an agreement that would spell out the financing, construction and lease of the $8 million central office. The city would borrow the money and build the facility, and the school system would lease it and pay back the loan with state sales tax revenue.
• City Council will consider an application from Timothy Rogers to operate a pool hall located at 723 Klumac Road.
Rogers wants to have two pool tables at the Stars and Bars Tavern. Police said they are comfortable with Rogers' plan to maintain an safe environment.
Council members will hold a public hearing.
• City Council to hold a public hearing regarding financing, acquisition, construction and equipping of certain telecommunications capital improvements to upgrade the city's 800 Mhz trunking system.
• Public comments.
• City Manager Doug Paris' comments.
In other city news:
• The Salisbury Parks and Recreation Department will host "Movies in the Park" May 31 at City Park. Pre-movie activities begin at 8 p.m. The movie will begin at approximately 8:45 p.m. Bring a blanket or chair to watch the featured movie "Brave." The event is free and open to the public.
Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.


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Taylor also established his official meeting schedule as the first Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m., which continues the schedule used by former commissioner Clarence Brown.
Within the commissioner's office, the appointments included Peter Olson to county administrator, Kathy Gill to county clerk, Jo Taylor to chief financial officer, Lane McMillan to assistant county administrator, Debbie Andersen to deputy county clerk and Boyd Pettit to county attorney.
Olson said he was ready to start serving the county.
"I'm excited. I mean, next year is going to be tough budget-wise," he said. "Things are still ugly economically. It's exciting to be involved in the county government and lots of forward-looking stuff. I'm looking forward to it."
On the Department of Family and Children Services Board, Mike Abernathy was appointed to replace Taylor's wife, Sandra, who stepped down from the position after Taylor's election. Jody Elrod, who also serves as the Bartow County Schools's director of transportation, was appointed to replace Cindy Smith.
Taylor believed Abernathy would be a good fit for DFCS. He cited Abernathy's desire to help the less fortunate within Bartow County and his recent charitable activities as a minister.
Appointments to the Bartow County Resource Recovery Development Authority, which can initiate projects on solid waste, included Rip Conner, Olson, Taylor, Gill and McMillan.
"There's no activity in it now, but we were advised it's worth keeping open in case, in the future, we want to do a waste-related project through that mechanism," Olson said about the authority.
On the Bartow County Board of Tax Assessors, Howard Smith was appointed to replace Bob Mines and Dawn Brock was appointed to replace Keith Taylor.
Bryan Canty was appointed to the Bartow County Planning Commission to replace Wade Morris. Olson said the appointment was an effort to keep diversity within the board.
"I came to Bryan and asked him, because Wade had been the only African-American [on the board], we felt like we've got to keep some diversity on the board," Olson said. "So, as president of New Frontiers, I said, 'Do you know anybody who might be interested?' He said, 'I'd be interested.' So we thought, you know, old Bryan, he does need another iron in the fire, doesn't he?"
The final appointments included Paul Newell and Cynthia Wainscott to the Regional Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Board to replace Bill and Bob Poston, respectively. Both of their terms had expired earlier in 2012.
Other commissioner business included:
• Renewing an agreement with Billy Goodwin to perform tax inspections on mobile homes in the county.
• Entering into agreements between the county commissioner and the tax commissioner with Adairsville, Cartersville and Emerson for tax collection. Olson said these agreements were standard procedure for cities that collect property taxes.
• Approving a permanent easement of .109 acres of right of way on state Route 140 to the Department of Transportation for planned road improvements.
• Approving a contract with C.H. Kirkpatrick & Sons Welding Service, Inc., for water system improvements on Bishop Road, Hendrick's Road and Hawkins Road in the sum of $301,000.
The county commissioner's next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. at the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center.


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Welcome to the Martin Tech Forum OnzaXX, and by the way those are some nice bows that you have.
Welcome to the Martin Tech Forum OnzaXX, and by the way those are some nice bows that you have.
2011 Martin Firecat 400/NAP Apache Dropaway/Truglo Xtreme Sight/Custom 8" Stabilizer/Victory V6 Arrows
2007 Martin Jaguar /Trophy Taker Dropaway/Extreme Sight/Custom 21" Stabilizer/Victory V6 Arrows
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Yes ! Right kewl bows.... 87 pounds... man, if I could pull 87 pounds, I'd be 'dangerous game'! Thanks for pics!
Welcome aboard and Yes, real nice looking rigs....
Seems the only bows I ever saw prettied up were Martins.
Welcome to the family!!!!! Everyone here is very helpful and extremely friendly!! Glad to have ya!
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Trophy Ridge 3pin Cypher Sight
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60% of the time it works every time!
Those are some beautiful bows!. Welcome to the forum.
Those are some nice custom bows! Welcome to the forum as well. I never seen such bows.
Appreciate all of the comments. It is fun to take older bows to a 3-D or indoor game and out shoot folks who have morgaged their house on a new bow with all of the do-dads.
WOW those are some beautiful bows! Welcome to the forum
In God and guns we trust;
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- A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
2011 Onza 3: 70#, 28.25 draw (AMO), 384 gr arrow, 288 fps
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Home Instead Senior Care of Salisbury is offering free Alzheimer's training classes for family caregivers in the Cabarrus and Rowan communities.
This workshop series of four classes will teach you about the causes of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. You will learn how to recognize symptoms and discover how Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are diagnosed. You will earn about situations you may encounter as the disease progresses, and ways to manage your stress and unique behavior challenges of caring for a loved one with dementias.
The series will cover:
• Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, today, April 4
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Diabetes can harm the eyes. It can damage the small blood vessels in the retina, the back part of your eye. This condition is called diabetic retinopathy.
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Diabetic retinopathy is caused by damage from diabetes to blood vessels of the retina. The retina is the layer of tissue at the back of the inner eye. It changes light and images that enter the eye into nerve signals, which are sent to the brain.
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American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes -- 2013. Diabetes Care. 2013;36 Suppl 1:S11-S66.
Brownlee M, Aiello LP, Cooper ME, et al. Complications of diabetes mellitus. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Saunders; 2011: chap 33.
Rosenblatt BJ, Benson WE. Diabetic retinopathy. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, Augsburger JJ, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 6.19.
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