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Saturday night, a tweet appeared then quickly vanished on teen heartthrob Justin Bieber's verified Twitter account: "everyone call me 248-XXX-XXXX :) or text". The number belonged to a teen in Detroit, and Justin apparently tweeted it out of revenge.
A little before midnight on Saturday, Justin tweeted this:
The tweet disappeared a few minutes later, . But not before thousands—if not hundreds of thousands—of Justin's followers retweeted it with expressions of multi-exclamated astonishment. Was that actually Justin's number!?
The number actually belongs to a Detroit teenager named Kevin Kristopik. At around 1am Sunday morning Kristopik tweeted "Thanks for giving out my # @justinbieber." (Kristopik has since deleted his twitter account.) Two hours, and over 10,000 text messages later, he posted this video to YouTube of his phone blowing up with calls and texts from Bieber's 4.5 million Twitter followers:
We called one of the numbers visible in the video, and the girl who answered confirmed she called Kristopik's number Saturday night after seeing Justin Bieber's tweet. "I thought it was some kind of prank number," she said. "I didn't think Justin Bieber would be stupid enough to post his own number."
It's unclear exactly what Kristopik did that caused Justin Bieber to sic the equivalent of Greater Boston's population on him. But it appears to be payback on some level for Kristopik hacking the Twitter account of a childhood friend of Justin's named Ryan Butler, and using it to get Justin's phone number. On July 27th, Kristopik tweeted "im the one who hacked ryan and got justins #." When asked today on Twitter, "You hacked ryan, and now jb wants payback so he tweeted your number?" Kristopik replied, "Kinda." (The hacking incident is well-known in the insular world of Justin Bieber micro-gossip.)
It's possible that Justin's own account was hacked. But he's made no mention of it and has been blithely tweeting stuff about Kanye West all morning. Kristopik, however, is fuming: "I never asked for it, @justinbieber is a dick," he tweeted. "i still like him, but this was so low."
We've tried to reach Kristopik multiple times this afternoon, but calling his number brings up only an automated message: "The mailbox belonging to 248-[redacted] is full and cannot accept new messages at this time."
[Picture of Kevin Kristopik from his (now defunct) Twitter account]


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Canadian crooner Michael Buble projects a strange dichotomy in his eighth studio album, "To Be Loved." It combines old and new, happy and blue, romance and more romance. His evident penchant for the golden standards, which he covers with aplomb, is what saves the record from sounding too modernly hollow. It's also the reason it sounds uneven, meandering from harried contemporary pop like "Close Your Eyes" to the smooth, seductive Dean Martin tune "Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You)."
The four originals on the 14-track album were all co-written by Buble, but apart from his joie de vivre and emotive voice, they mostly fail to capture the imagination. Not even the Bryan Adams collaboration on "After All," or Buble's deceivingly upbeat single, "It's a Beautiful Day," can save it from a big yawn chain.
Buble is at his best when reclaiming beloved classics as his own. Frank Sinatra's "Come Dance With Me" becomes playful and electric in his interpretation. Some songs, like the unexpected duet with Reese Witherspoon on "Something Stupid," are wild cards that can bring down the house.
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When Meg Whitman became chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. in September 2011, I offered her some friendly advice in a column that began: "Congratulations, Meg Whitman. You are next in line for the H-P boot."
I assured her she eventually would be fired like Leo Apotheker, who lasted all of 11 months, and several other predecessors, who were similarly sacked after embarrassing episodes I need not recount again.
I gave Whitman a list of ideas to ward off her inevitable fate for as long as possible. This turned out to be the crucial one:
"Back out of Apotheker's $10.3 billion deal to buy British enterprise-software company Autonomy Corp. Everyone says the deal is overpriced and depletes H-P's coffers. H-P will need the cash for tough times ahead."
I am no technologist. I possess no great financial training. I am just a simple scribe who believes that $10.3 billion is a lot of money to blow on a deal that the last bungling CEO wanted to do.
The breakup fee was only 1 percent — a mere hundred million bucks and change. This would have been like taking a batch of unwanted electronics parts back to the supplier and paying a restocking fee. Instead, Whitman carried on with Apotheker's folly.
Then came the big, pre-Thanksgiving, turkey surprise. On Nov. 20, H-P said it would write down the value of its Autonomy acquisition by $8.8 billion. It blamed more than $5 billion of that on "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy. In other words, H-P claimed Autonomy had fleeced it like a hapless Enron stockholder.
Former Autonomy chief Mike Lynch denied these allegations, blaming the sharp decline in Autonomy's value on H-P's mismanagement, which he said included running off the key personnel who actually sell and provide Autonomy's services.
Anyone can see that this is going to be a messy fight. Clearly, it is time for me to come to Whitman's aid with my free consulting services once again. Maybe this time she will listen to some of my thoughts:
• There are many constituencies that large corporations can shaft out of money, including customers, employees, retirees and shareholders. Courts are perennially clogged with these sorts of claims. The cleanest corporate shafting, however, comes when a company sells itself to another company for an inflated price. Usually, managements are too proud to admit they were suckered, and smart enough to know that nobody really cares if they were.
• True or not, Lynch's argument that the Autonomy loss was due to H-P's mismanagement will be difficult to diffuse. H-P is a company that has lost more than $100 billion in market capitalization over the past five years. It did most of this autonomously, without Autonomy.
• H-P's history of paying way too much for companies dates back at least as far as its 2001 merger with Compaq. Over the summer, H-P wrote down its 2008 Electronic Data Systems Corp. acquisition by $8 billion. A reasonable person selling a company to H-P could assume that overpaying is how it prefers to do business.
• A reasonable person also could assume that a technology company would know all the tricks that technology companies play on their books, and then bid accordingly. Don't pretend you've never heard of a company dressing up sales for a deal.
• Don't sue Deloitte. Yes, Deloitte was Autonomy's auditor. And Deloitte gets accused of a lot of things, from helping Iran launder money to improper conduct in auditing the financial statements of the debacle known as Adelphia Communications Corp. But they probably have nothing to do with your own lack of "due diligence" in purchasing Autonomy.
• Don't sue the accountants, lawyers and investment bankers who made millions from this ill-fated deal. They get paid to do deals. What? Did you really think they'd advise against a deal if it were too much? The books of America's biggest companies are loaded with "goodwill," an accounting category for the millions and billions they overpaid in mergers and acquisitions. Big companies frequently take big write-downs on their deals. They don't whine about it. They just do it. And nobody seems to notice what these write-downs really are: Quantified admissions of failure.
• Take back whatever findings you filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding Autonomy's alleged puffery. Does anyone at H-P really think the SEC has the resources to bother with accounting fraud claims? On Monday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro announced her plans to step down. She issued a statement highlighting her many accomplishments following the 2008 financial crisis–like cracking down on Ponzi schemes and insider-trading rings–but she offered few, if any, boasts about curbing accounting fraud at large organizations.
• Take back whatever you filed with Britain's Serious Fraud Office. Ask cast members from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" for directions to the Silly Fraud Office.
• Remember that Autonomy was your shopping spree, too. You voted to approve it as an H-P board member during Apotheker's brief yet destructive reign. You went forward with it when you took his desk. Now you've got buyer's remorse. But all this deflecting will only put you closer to the dreaded H-P boot.
* Take a bow. Despite this spectacle, your tenure has so far outlasted Apotheker's by three months. You're a real survivor, Whitman. Congratulations!
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Last week I wrote The Time for Change is Now: A Call to Action Part 1 and promised that I would follow up with Part 2 with stories of my family and friends who have inspired me with their volunteer efforts to help Barack Obama win this election.
We have just one week until election day. One week to rise to the challenge. One week to get involved and make a difference.
Earlier this month my friend Alison from GreenMe wrote Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You. I have to credit her with helping me reevaluate my priorities and giving me the proverbial kick in the pants I needed to go volunteer myself. She wrote:
Okay, so you would like to volunteer, but you don't have the time? I am sure that you — like myself — procrastinate on a daily basis. You put off the laundry or the vacuuming or dropping off the recycling — so that you can do something else. Right now there is nothing more important in your future and the future of your children and grandchildren — nieces and nephews than getting out the vote and talking to your neighbors. No single thing is more influential in your future than the future of your country. The last 8 years of President Bush have been a near disaster. The election is less than 4 weeks away — and YOU don't have time to volunteer? Not even 2 hours? What about 4 hours?
Think about the amount of difference that you could make in 4 hours? Supposedly, every 14th person that you contact is likely to actually "hear†your words and have a change of heart and mind. Consider this: if 100 people read this blog today and, 100 people then go out and each to talk to 50 people tomorrow — statistically that would result in 357 additional people voting for your candidate. In swing states, such as Colorado, 357 people just might make the difference in who is the next President of the United States of America.
Alison, who is a third generation Coloradoan and mother to a 15 month old son, has spent several hours volunteering herself at the local Democrats office, making phone calls and canvassing. When asked why she chose to get involved, Alison said: "Life on earth is interconnected. What happens today, what happens here, affects not only you and me, but future generations and people around the world. Obama understands the interconnectedness of life and he genuinely wishes that United States of American lives up to its own motto as a 'Government of the People, for the People, and my the People.' With that it mind? How could I not get involved in this election?"
Another "Obama Mama" (which is on a pin I've been wearing for the past week) who inspired me to get involved is my good friend Brandy Lance, who's currently living in Georgia with her husband and two young boys. Although she hasn't been able to volunteer as much as she'd like, she still found ways to get herself and her children involved in this election.
We decided we wanted to thank those who can donate more time. My boys and I began baking goodies for our local Obama office volunteers. We've made them cookies, muffins, and pretzels and even though a volunteer that lives just down the road from us has volunteered to take them to the office, I have driven the boys down each time. I at least want to show them how the volunteers are dedicating their time, what the office looks like and how appreciative the people are when they receive their gift of thanks. It's a small way to get children involved in the political process while helping to create a better sense of community and appreciation.
Brandy has also done some data entry work for her local Democrat office.
This is the first election Brandy has gotten involved in and says the reason is, "I believe that America needs major change now and needs to have some better policies in place for the sake of my children's future. If I don't help elect a candidate whom I believe can, and will, help our country, then it seems to me that I really don't care all that much."
Another mom who felt the need to get involved in an election for the first time is Erika Carlson, mom of two of Louisville, Colo., who organized the Louisville Mamas for Obama, which is comprised of a few dozen women. They held a bake sale which raised $650 for the Obama campaign and also got hundreds of bumper stickers, buttons and yard signs out to Louisville supporters, as well as managed informational tables at the Farmers Market. She's now working on getting the Louisville Mamas for Obama to volunteer for the Get Out The Vote efforts these last few days before the election.
When asked why she choose to get involved she said, "I felt last election that Bush could not possibly win, and he did. I want to make sure that our feelings of 'being ahead' in the polls doesn't lead to complacency."
A couple other women I've been inspired by as of late are my sister and my mom. Both have been doing work for the Democratic party in this election. My mom, a retired school teacher in northeast Michigan, has been volunteering a LOT – canvassing, making phone calls, and working in her local Obama office, and I've been really proud of her for it. She plans to work the last four days before the election, doing whatever they need her to do.
Although this isn't her first election to be involved in, the last time was many years ago when Bobby Kennedy was running for president. She decided to get involved again this year because, "Enough is enough. I cannot just sit by and let another Republican get elected. I declared myself a Democrat and started to volunteer. We have to have a president that really and sincerely cares about our country's future and the future of my children and grandchildren, and we have to improve our image globally."
So there you have it, four stories from four different women, all motivated to get involved to help shape the future of our country, and all of whom helped inspire me to get involved.
We have just seven days left before history will be made. Can you get involved? Do you have an hour or two to spare? Can you make some phone calls to remind people to vote and tell them their polling place? Can you drive people without transportation to the polls? Can you make a donation? Can you bring some food to volunteers on election day? Every little bit helps.
Here's one more (specific) way to get involved. Cynthia Samuels recently posted about a group called Election Protection that will work to protect people from voter suppression on election day. She urges, "If you are an attorney or law student or paralegal, please sign up to help." My little sis, who is an attorney, will be involved in those efforts.
Lastly, today Barack Obama gave a very inspiration speech in Canton, Ohio. You can watch the last six or so minutes of it here. A few things he said that especially stood out to me were:
"We have to work this week like our future depends on it in this last week…because it does."
"We can choose hope over fear and unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo."
"It won't be easy, it won't be quick, but you and I know it is time to come together and change this country."
We only have one week left. Let's come together. Let's get involved. Let's change this country!


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The Government announced today that women affected by the equalisation of the State Pension Age will be given a much-needed respite and will now wait a maximum of 18 months to claim their pension.
This will really help the 330,000 hard-working women born between December 1953 and October 1954 who would have been hit hardest, having to wait between 18 months and 2 years longer for their State Pension.
We welcome the changes that have been made – they have listened to our concerns and we appreciate that it is a significant financial commitment from the Government, amounting to around £1 billion, in what is a difficult time.
We would have liked the changes being made to have gone further. Having faced uncertainty twice already, these women must not be affected by any further changes to their state pension age again without sufficient notice.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of wireless executives is banding together to launch a $50 million venture-capital fund concentrating on some of technology's buzziest sectors: mobile and the cloud.
Dallas-based Naya Ventures is investing in early-stage companies, it said Thursday. Its targets of mobile and cloud services have become a big focus in venture given the global explosion of smartphones and Internet services that allow consumers to tap into data on the go.
Although it just announced its first close of fundraising, Naya began investing last year. Some of the companies it has backed include Zoomingo, a shopping app, and Glympse, a location-sharing service.
Naya is run by Dayakar Puskoor, a former Microsoft and Motorola executive; Prabakar Reddy, co-founder of outplacement service RiseSmart; and Gowri Shankar, a former Sprint executive.
Many funds are looking specifically at the cloud and mobile. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers runs a $200 million iFund dedicated to companies that develop apps and services for mobile devices, for example.
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A fake punt on fourth-and-1 from its 16-yard line with the game on the line; a call that Huskies' coach Jerry Kill admits is the kind that gets coaches fired. But instead of worrying about polishing up his resume in the unemployment line, Kill gave the go ahead on the fake that sealed a 28-21 win at Purdue on Saturday.
With a BCS team mounting a furious fourth-quarter rally, NIU quarterback Chandler Harnish was shocked by the decision.
"I was surprised, I had no idea," said Harnish about the fake punt. "We practiced it all week. If you get the look no matter what time of game you execute it. I thought it was a gutsy call. But, that's the way you have to be in the MAC when you play Big Ten teams you have to go for it."
Backup running back Justin Anderson took the direct snap from the up-back position for an 11-yard gain. The NIU (2-1) offense ground out two first downs after Anderson's run to post its first win over a Big Ten team since 1988.
Kill will enjoy the moment until film session begins on Sunday.
"This is a good win for the fans, the players and the team," Kill said. "We are going to enjoy it but after watching the film it'll be over with an I'll be getting after them to get ready for the next game. In college football you've got to stay consistent or you get in trouble."
It was NIU that looked to be in trouble early as Purdue (1-2) punt returner Aaron Valentin returned a punt 62-yards for a touchdown. But, Valentin was a high-wire act as he also had two fumbles recovered by NIU's Kiaree Daniels and Tyrone Clark.
After a first-quarter interception, Harnish settled into a rhythm. The sophomore quarterback completed 15-of-26 passes for 174 yards with a touchdown. He also had 44 yards rushing on 11 carries. NIU turned Valentin's second fumble into a touchdown as Harnish threaded a 10-yard pass to tight end Reed Cunningham over a pair of Boilermaker defenders to make the score 21-7.
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this is an original poem I just composed. I read some of the ones on your site and I came up with my own. my husband just got out on November 1 2002. we're still trying to adjust to civilian life. I hope you like it. We Didn't Know by: vicki hand on that day, not so long ago we were so happy, so joyous, but we didn't know. his four years were up, it was time to leave we were going home, but we didn't know. we said good-bye and shed some tears, our neighbors loved us, we didn't know. they sent us off with a basket of fruit. we didn't live on base, but in a trailer park close to the gate. good-bye 2-9 and USMC! we sped into the night, all packed up tight. and when we got "home" we didn't know. civilian life? what's that...you mean you don't plan a trip to the store? the longer we stayed, the more that we saw, this wasn't anything like we had foresaw. where were our friends and confidants? the barbeque's, candle parties, and laundromat fun? we traded 110 degrees for negative 10... dirt for grass, and palms for firs. where was the life that both of us knew? to return to that life we knew so well, well that would be grand and i'd go in a flash. My Marine is tough though, and he says "no," "let's give this a try. if the marines taught me nothing, they taught me that there's always a way if you just adapt." so here we will stay, in this life that's so foreign. a message to those who think that they're ready, no classes, or teachings will help you at all so good luck to all, whatever you choose, and i hope i have touched a few of you. Vicki McCoubrey


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I saw the bouquet on my front step late Sunday night. Wrapped in plastic. I smiled when my bouquet contained a bundle of roots — not long-stem roses. The carefully wrapped, freshly dug parsnips were 75 centimetres long and had been grown and delivered by my friends Dawn and Susan Sharpe.
The Sharpes make me envious with their 2,500-square-foot, fenced, chicken-manured garden. Those of us confined to smaller spaces or less perfected soils can't grow prize-winning parsnips, nor will we be freezing gallons of homemade tomato sauce. Instead, we are thankful for a modest space where we wedge in outdoor living, pets, composters, sheds, shrubs, annuals and perennials.
A new twist for the small space gardener is to insert a few edibles in pots or small garden spaces between ornamentals to add some culinary treats to ordinary yards.
Tomatoes and edgy veggies
I have scaled back my experimental tomato farm for lack of sunny space. Tomatoes love full sun and they don't like to share — they need their own pot.
Horticulturist John Duncan of Greengate Garden Centre makes me laugh when he says he moves his veggie pots around his garden every day to follow the sun. Duncan says tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers thrive in black pots better than cold garden soil because these crops love heat and black pots warm quickly.
Last year was cold, according to meteorologist Steve Rothfels, with average temperatures in the region below normal all year except for October. So, I've reduced my "crop" to the few tomatoes I can fit in pots on my sunny deck. I've planted Sungold, Juliet and the new hybrid, Mountain Magic. They are currently being hauled in and out until I decide evenings are warm enough to leave them out for the season.
Two other edgy veggies I'm growing are cardoon and purple artichoke, although I grow them more as ornamentals than true veggies. They need heat and grow best in pots, so I plant them in my front yard pots along with another pretty heat lover: zucchini.
Popular herbs
Everyone has their favourite culinary herbs and, luckily, many will grow easily in patio pots or small sunny spaces in the garden.
Greengate's Duncan says the top sellers are basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano and parsley, with cat grass at the bottom of the list of herbs.
Personally, I love flat-leaf Italian parsley. It reaches a height of 60 centimetres and can be a dramatic addition to a pot of edible flowering plants because it holds its own in both form and boldness.
For a more delicate look in the shade with edible flowers, try begonias or pansies with the smaller, more typical, curled parsley.
A warning about basil: it's easy to grow from seed, but seed-grown basil flavour varies widely from bland to fantastic. After last year's disappointment, I tried Sweet Nufar F1 basil from seed this spring and it has superb flavour.
It takes about eight weeks from seeding to healthy-sized plants, so starting these indoors from seed today will yield a good supply of basil by the time the tomatoes start to ripen.
Other herbs are starting to become more popular, according to Duncan. "We sell more lemon verbena than we used to. People use it in tea; it has a more powerful lemon scent than lemons."
Edible flowers
Not just an edible herb, lemon verbena also has edible flowers. Other edible herb and vegetable blooms include arugula, radish, mint and all types of squash.
Where there is an in-ground planting area with at least a few hours of sun, perennial flowers such as day lily also produce edible blooms. Bee balm and carnation flowers are edible perennial flowers, but they prefer a hot spot. Annual edible flowers, ideal for pots, include nasturtiums, geraniums or bachelor buttons for the sun, or begonia and pansies for the shade.
Flowers in pots grown as ornamentals may also satisfy the cook in the house. However, they don't all taste sweet. Nasturtiums, for instance, have a peppery flavour, with a bit of a bite.
Others, like begonia blooms, are tart and lemony. Nasturtiums are wonderful with a savory crab-and-cream-cheese stuffing. To decorate cakes with sweet edible flowers, dip them first in whipped egg white and then fine white sugar and lay them on waxed paper to dry a bit before eating.
Balzer is the author of No Guff Vegetable Gardening and a regular guest on CBC Radio. See her blog at donnabalzer.blogspot.com.


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The soccer player doesn�t feel it yet. The parents cheering have no way to discern the trouble. The referees with their shrill whistles can�t tell. The dog knows.
Something unseen is wrong beneath a boy�s freckled skin.
An elusive malfunction is occurring inside an intricate human system, along the canals and tributaries that transport nutrients to lanky legs for trampling turf, to the brain for processing the pattern of the ball, opponent and goal shining under brilliant floodlights.
The soccer player doesn�t feel it yet.
The parents cheering have no way to discern the trouble.
The referees with their shrill whistles can�t tell.
The dog knows.
A falling concentration of blood sugar can daze Josh Putnam, can leave him sweaty, dizzy, confused. Unchecked, depleted glucose, a result of Type 1 diabetes, can cause seizures, blackouts, death.
At 12, Putnam pricks his own finger a dozen times a day, drawing a speck of blood for measuring the sugar in his system.
A handheld meter gives him a real-time picture, a number that says his level is high or low at the exact moment.
It can�t tell him what�s coming next.
The dog can.
Best friend to many
Scout, a 24-week-old Labrador retriever, is Putnam�s diabetic alert dog. Warren Retrievers of Orange, Va., trained the puppy and delivered her to Gastonia�s Putnam family in late July.
Nearly two dozen similar service dogs live in the Gaston region, says Dan Warren, in addition to diabetic alert dogs throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Warren, one of the rare diabetics diagnosed with Type 1 in adulthood, is a retired U.S. Marine who formerly trained narcotic- and explosive-detecting dogs.
In private business, he�s developed programs to search and rescue and even bedbug-detecting canines.
Today, he focuses only on service dogs, primarily for sufferers of what he calls invisible disabilities.
The retrievers assist and alert people with seizure disorders, traumatic brain injuries, stress disorders, autism and other similar disorders.
Dogs can, he says, detect the onset of seizures 20 minutes or more in advance.
They can sense blood-sugar fluctuations up to 45 minutes beforehand.
The trainer attributes the abilities to a dog�s powerful sense of smell, an idea medical professionals say is plausible.
Humans have around 5 million nose receptors, according to Warren. Canines have 230 million.
�In a glass of iced tea, we can smell a teaspoon of sugar,� he says.
�Dogs could smell that teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-size swimming pool.�
Warren also trains retrievers not only to alert to potential problems, but to go after insulin shot kits that can head off low blood sugar episodes, retrieve food that can do the same, even to call 911 in an emergency.
In people with autism, he says service dogs can help redirect from repetitive behavior, reduce feelings of anger or frustration and encourage better socialization.
Onus on patients
Diabetes, says Dr. Dorothy Kodzwa of CaroMont Endocrinology Associates, is a complex disease that requires a lot of work on a patient�s part.
People who suffer with the condition decide on their own insulin dosages and give themselves the injections.
Many who have lived with fluctuating blood sugar levels no longer have the ability to tell when blood sugar if out of balance.
The kind of early warning a dog can provide can be all-important, according to the doctor.
�Something to help you recognize your symptoms is definitely a great option,� she said.
�A huge relief�
Twelve-year-old Josh Putnam wears an insulin pump. Before that, he learned to give himself shots of the all-important hormone his body does not produce on its own.
That means a series of science-fiction-sounding doorways, conjured on organs throughout the human body when insulin meets cell, won�t open for the sugar necessary for to keep functioning. Muscles, heart, kidney, brain � they all need the glucose that travels through those doorways.
To monitor and compensate for the lack of insulin, Josh Putnam has to count carbohydrates in each of his meals. He gets up at 3 a.m. to check his levels.
All of that is far better than the alternative, say his parents, Robby and Melissa Putnam.
When their son�s diagnosis was new, they read harrowing statistics. One in 20 Type 1 diabetics die in their sleep after blood glucose plummets.
Warren calls it �dead in bed syndrome.�
A lifetime of too-high blood sugar can lead to lost circulation, to conditions with the feet, kidneys and eyes and multiple other health problems that decrease life expectancy.
They can�t rely on how their son looks to know he is OK, can�t put a hand on his forehead and feel certain Josh is healthy.
�Scout,� says Melissa Putnam, �is a huge relief. You look down and see that she�s nice and calm. You know he�s good.�
�A normal life�
Tony McCraw has lived with diabetes for 32 years, so long he doesn�t often feel the shakes and cold sweats from low blood sugar. The condition is still there. The danger remains. But he doesn�t know he needs to eat or drink something to boost his blood glucose.
That�s Radar�s job.
The year-old lab from Warren Retrievers was among the first in the Gaston County area, and McCraw, 52, credits the pup for keeping him out of the hospital on multiple occasions.
Like other families, he also attributes to Radar an immeasurable peace of mind.
Just before the dog came to live with McCraw, the Gastonia man�s wife woke him up in the middle of the night.
His shirt was wet from sweat. He was confused. It took paramedics and an IV to bring McCraw back around.
He signed the paperwork saying he didn�t want to go to the hospital, and he spoke to the emergency responders. His blood sugar level looked fine.
Less than half an hour later, he felt the telltale sign of a seizure in his back. He told his wife they�d need to call the paramedics.
McCraw could not remember they�d been there before.
Now, Radar�s bark will wake the McCraws before the situation gets out of hand � and let them know that even if things appear OK, trouble is on the horizon.
�Radar is more sensitive than the glucose meter,� he says.
And the dog, according to McCraw, has helped ease the lives of other people, as well.
An article last year in The Gazette garnered phone calls from around the area, many from parents living with the high stress of their children�s conditions.
�Parents are just in shock for the first six to eight months,� he said. �I get a lot of calls and messages from people who find out about Radar.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for a third straight day on Tuesday, pushing the S&P above 1,400 for the first time since early May, on growing optimism the European Central Bank would act soon to contain the euro zone's debt crisis.
Trading was light, which could distort the level of optimism investors truly have that Europe will follow through with adequate measures. ECB President Mario Draghi boosted hopes last week when he spoke of restoring calm to the euro zone's troubled bond markets.
Since then, good news from Greece and declines in borrowing costs for Spain and Italy from peaks above 7 percent have kept sentiment positive. The relative calm allowed the S&P to break through the psychologically important 1,400 level after trying unsuccessfully the past couple of sessions.
"If the ECB expands its balance sheet, it will keep pushing these bond yields lower, which can help these countries finance their debt, giving markets a bit of reprieve," said Joseph Tanious, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds in New York. "It's likely we won't get anything official for a few weeks, and until then investors are likely to be skittish."
Summer holidays have added to light trading volume, which has contributed to volatility. Equities cut their gains just before the close on Tuesday, mirroring Monday's late-day action.
About 6.39 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, below last year's daily average of 7.84 billion.
The real tests for markets may come in September. The ECB is expected to face decisions about controlling the euro zone debt crisis and the Federal Reserve could take stimulus actions to aid the flagging U.S. economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 51.09 points, or 0.39 percent, at 13,168.60. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was up 7.12 points, or 0.51 percent, at 1,401.35. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was up 25.95 points, or 0.87 percent, at 3,015.86.
Despite worries over the economies of Europe and the United States, investors have pushed the S&P 500 up more than 11 percent so far this year. Yield-hungry investors have kept buying stocks as U.S. and German government bond prices soar and yields hit historic lows.
Tuesday's advance was led by stocks in cyclical sectors like energy, materials and consumer discretionary, while defensive sectors like telecoms and utilities edged lower.
Energy stocks .GSPE rose 1.3 percent, helped by Chesapeake Energy (CHK.N), which jumped after it said it would sell some assets and spend less on new properties. The stock surged 9.4 percent to $19.37 and was one of the top percentage gainers in the S&P 500.
Banking shares .GSPF rose 0.5 percent, lifted by Morgan Stanley (MS.N), which was up 2.5 percent at $14.50.
"Despite what seems like a weekly scandal of some sort, the banks have posted incredibly large profits. The Fed has made it very easy for them to take on very little risk and make very large profits," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.
Watch and fashion accessory maker Fossil Inc (FOSL.O) soared 32 percent to $91.77 after it forecast growth in Asia and Europe.
With 82 percent of S&P companies having reported quarterly results, 68 percent have beaten profit expectations, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Pfizer (PFE.N) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) scrapped further studies of an experimental drug for Alzheimer's disease after the drug failed in a second trial. U.S.-traded shares of their partner, Elan Corp ELN.N, dropped 0.9 percent to $11.15. Pfizer fell 2.1 percent to $23.74 and J&J edged 0.8 percent lower to $68.29.
A group of investors rescued Knight Capital Group KCG.N in a $400 million deal that kept the market maker in business, but existing shareholders were nearly wiped out. Knight closed 0.3 percent lower at $3.06, erasing gains of more than 3 percent from earlier in the session.
About 62 percent of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange closed higher while 61 percent of Nasdaq-listed stocks finished up.
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The Rutherford Institute Partners with Barnes & Noble to Launch Speaker Series Featuring Political & Cultural Gadflies
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Rutherford Institute is pleased to partner with Barnes & Noble to launch a speaker series featuring a broad array of political and cultural gadflies from a cross-section of cultural, philosophical and legal backgrounds who will address issues ranging from civil liberties post-9/11 and criminal justice reform to the dissolution of the print media, religious freedom in America, TSA scanners and threats to the Fourth Amendment, and what Americans can do to guard against attacks on the Constitution. The first of the series, scheduled for Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 6 pm EST in Charlottesville, Va., will feature Jim B. Tucker, M.D., a board-certified child psychiatrist who directs research into children's reports of past-life memories at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies, speaking about his new book, Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives. A book signing will follow the event, which is free and open to the public.
"In Return to Life, Jim Tucker painstakingly and meticulously documents the recycling of memories from beyond the barrier of physical death," stated author Deepak Chopra. "He then rigorously offers a scientific theory to explain how our consciousness transcends space/time and is, hence, eternal. This book is an important milestone of an emerging scientific paradigm that suggests that consciousness conceives governs constructs and becomes the universe or perhaps multiple universes."
Jim B. Tucker, M.D., worked with Dr. Ian Stevenson, the founder of research into children's reports of past-life memories at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies, for several years before taking it over upon Dr. Stevenson's retirement in 2002. Dr. Tucker was born and raised in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in psychology in 1982, followed by a Medical Degree four years later. He then received training in general psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. After he completed his training, he stayed in Charlottesville and began a successful private practice in psychiatry. After being in practice for five years, he was reading one of Dr. Stevenson's books when he saw in a local newspaper that the Division of Perceptual Studies was starting a new study of near-death experiences. He contacted the division to see if help was needed in interviewing patients for the study and thus began spending very limited time at the division on a volunteer basis. Dr. Tucker, who was raised Southern Baptist, had never seriously considered the idea of reincarnation before reading Dr. Stevenson's book, but he became intrigued both by the children's reports of past-life memories and by the prospect of studying them using an objective, scientific approach. In 1999, he began working half-time at the division, focusing on the children's cases, and a year later, gave up his private practice completely to work at the university. Dr. Tucker is the Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. His first book, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, has been translated into ten languages.
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Central Valley Community Bancorp trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol CVCY. Central Valley Community Bank, headquartered in Fresno, California, was founded in 1979 and is the sole subsidiary of Central Valley Community Bancorp. Central Valley Community Bank currently operates 21 full-service offices in Clovis, Exeter, Fresno, Kerman, Lodi, Madera, Merced, Modesto, Oakhurst, Prather, Sacramento, Stockton, Tracy and Visalia, California. Additionally, the Bank operates Commercial Real Estate Lending, SBA Lending and Agribusiness Lending Departments. Investment services are provided by Investment Centers of America and insurance services are offered through Central Valley Community Insurance Services, LLC.
Members of Central Valley Community Bancorp's and the Bank's Board of Directors are: Daniel N. Cunningham (Chairman), Sidney B. Cox, Edwin S. Darden, Jr., Daniel J. Doyle, F.T. "Tommy" Elliott, IV, James M. Ford, Steven D. McDonald, Louis McMurray, William S. Smittcamp, and Joseph B. Weirick. Wanda L. Rogers is Director Emeritus.
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Good news for Dark Skies in Wales, UK
17 July 2009
The Welsh Assembly has voiced its support for dark skies. They have officially stated that the Assembly:
Supports the British Astronomical Association's Campaign for Dark Skies;
Regrets the cost of poor artificial lighting to the environment and ecosystem;
Acknowledges that the quality of many people's lives is seriously degraded by poor-quality exterior lighting;
Calls for a nationwide campaign to discourage floodlighting, over-bright and poorly directed light;
Calls on Visit Wales to promote the aesthetic and scientific value of dark sky in Wales.
For more information, please see: http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-guide-docs-pub/bus-business-documents/bus-business-documents-state-opinion.htm?act=dis&id=137490&ds=7/2009
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Funny, those gozleme stands are everywhere you look. As much as I love poffertjes I'm questioning why they made an appearance at a Portuguese event.
The food looks great and I'm sure it smelt good as well!
err, lessee, both the Dutch and the Portugeuse were great colonising countries in the 18th century and Macau (now part of China) was once a Portugeuse colony - that takes care of the Chinese poffertjes, I'm still working out how we can get the Turks in there so we can campaign for a gozleme stall next year, hehe!
mmmm....poffertjes!!! except having them at a portuguese event does seem kind of random hehe :P
and yeh! paella stalls do seem to be everywhere now :O which i guess is a good thing because we love paella!!
Yummy - I so need to go next time, I love Portuguese food!! And I've been wanting to try the Portuguese tarts over at Sweet Belem for ever...
All that delicious food-how wonderful! :D
Hi Simon.Love the post about the Portuguese Food & Wine Fair.I have a blog that's fairly new,started it because I caught glandular fever & haven't been able to leave the house for a while.Saw your blog on Not quite Nigella & saw the post. Do you mind if I post your blog site to my site so my readers read you post on the fair,as this year I couldn't make it,maybe next year,when I'm better.
hi john, i'm still scratching my head about this one. they seem to have had a big war many years ago so perhaps it's got something to do with this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch–Portuguese_War
hi yaya, thanks for the insight. i'm sure you'll be able to work out how the turkish can be part of the festival next year hehe
hi nonnomnibblies, paella is the new turkish gozleme :-)
hi myriam, you'll have to do a taste test of sweet belem and la patisserie around the corner and let me know which one you like best :-)
hi lorraine, nothing beats the smell of a good portuguese BBQ cookup :-)
hi Portuguese kitchen, thanks for reading my blog. hopefully you'll be better for next year. please feel free to share my blog with your readers. i hope many of them managed to get there on Sunday. :-)
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I saw this in the newsletter that the council sends out to all the households, however, due to already stuffing myself silly at Madeira Grill Friday night and then all that food at Taste of Sydney, I think my body would not have forgiven me if I had gone and eaten some more! I mentioned it to the boyfriend and got a one word answer "No". I'm thankful I listened, perhaps next year!
hi angielivestoeat, sounds like you had a great weekend of eating! thanks for checking out my blog too! :-)


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Marlins release utility infielder Figgins
JUPITER, Fla. -- On a youthful Marlins' squad, Chone Figgins was viewed as a candidate to bring the team a veteran presence.
The 35-year-old super utility player is widely respected for his work ethic and ability to play pretty much any position on the field.
But at a time when the team is making tough decisions, Figgins had his hopes of becoming a Marlin end on Wednesday afternoon.
After the Marlins' 7-5 loss to the Nationals on Wednesday, the team released Figgins, reducing its number of players in camp to 42.
Figgins signed as a non-roster invitee on Feb. 8. A switch-hitter, Figgins has been competing for a backup spot.
In Grapefruit League play, Figgins batted .308 (8-for-26).
Releasing Figgins enhances Nick Green's chances of making the team as the primary middle infielder. Green also is a non-roster invitee. The fact that Green plays a solid defensive shortstop is working to his advantage.
Other middle infield candidates are Chris Valaika and Matt Downs, both non-roster invitees.
Figgins broke in with the Angels in 2002, and he's a .277 career hitter.
In 2007, he batted .330.
Figgins was with the Mariners from 2010-12, and he's struggled the past two years, batting .181 in 166 at-bats a year ago.


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8 Home Inspectors in fayette County, TN
Eddie Oliver
Premier Inspections, LLC
Bartlett, TN
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Fred Payne
3 Ratings
Payne's Professional Home Inspections
Atoka , TN
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Daniel Phillips
Advanced Home Inspections LLC
Olive Branch, MS
Existing, New home Inspections & Thermal Imaging. Licensed in TN & MS
Providing quality home inspection in the midsouth area.
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Lloyd Allen
73 Ratings
Allen Professional Services
Bartlett, TN
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Licensed in Tennessee and Mississippi ICC Certified: Residential Combination Inspector Certified Energy Auditor
Over 20 years of construction experience 15 years as a Municipal Government Inspector: City of Memphis, Housing Inspector MFD, Fire Prevention Inspector Shelby County, Building Inspector Shelby County, Weatherization Site Inspector
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Matt Beickert
AmeriSpec MidSouth
Memphis, TN
Licensed in TN and Mississippi. Certified Chimney Inspector
We are professional, trusted and highly trained Inspectors, trained at our International Training Academy and tested by years of experience in the field. Money back guarantee if not completely satisfied!
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Bill Burross
98 Ratings
Burross & Associates, Inc.
Lakeland, TN
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ASHI Certified Inspector TN License No. 1217 MS License No. 0642 ASHI No. 256874 (CRT) - No. 2018012018127
Bill offers home and commercial inspection services for existing buildings and pay request/site inspections and punchlists for new construction to his clients. Bill has over 41 years experience building relationships with clients.
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Steve Campbell
164 Ratings
Memphis Inspections Service
Memphis, TN
TN149, MS 0384, ASHI, INTERNACHI, FREA, HUD, FHA, FEMA Disaster Certified. Certified Thermographer & Energy auditor.
15+yrs of Superior Service! Thorough, unbiased home & commercial building inspections - thermal infrared inspections available! Licensed, bonded. Testing available for mold, air quality, water, radon, lead paint, asbestos, termites.
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Greg Lawson
27 Ratings
B inspected Home Inspections, LLC
Germantown, TN
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A new set of templates has been released by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) to assist gaming venues in meeting their accounting and auditing requirements.
From 1 August 2015, new legislative amendments will change who is exempt from Responsible Service of Gaming (RSG) training.
Supplementary information and resources for licensees that wish to apply for a licence to serve liquor post 1am in the local government areas of Melbourne (including Docklands), Stonnington, Yarra and Port Phillip are now available.
The Victorian Government has released electronic logos for the final phase of implementing the updated Player Information Standards, also known as YourPlay.
Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) inspectors visited many of Ballarat's popular licensed venues this New Year's Eve and found liquor licensees were compliant with their licence conditions.
Australia Day is a day of celebration for many Australians. It's a great day to relax and enjoy summer. However, public holidays, and Australia Day in particular, are a day of risk for many in our communities.
Several bottle shops in the City of Greater Geelong have signed a new liquor accord to reduce antisocial behaviour and theft in the local area.
The prescribed cost of entry for trade promotion lotteries has increased from $0.70 to $1 effective from Tuesday 9 February 2016.
Each year Victorian liquor licensees are required to pay renewal fees and are issued a new licence to display in their venues. The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) has begun to mail out 2016 liquor licences to licensees who have paid their renewal fee.
Liquor licensees are responsible for the safety of their venues — for their patrons, their employees and the community. Licensees must meet their liquor licence conditions and ensure that alcohol is served safely and responsibly.


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Documents for the Homer Tanner Family that we wish to get to a family representative [these were being thrown away, but saved].
Besides the 4 photos in this blog, Don Count's daughter, Amy, found some unlabeled family pictures in trash in Mt. Vernon, Indiana. It is Don & Amy's wish that these items can be given to someone in the family that might want them.
The first 2 photos are the front & back of a 1942 postcard sent to Private Robert Tanner based at Camp Dalfrone, La. from a friend, William Stadler of 1627 West Florida Street, Evansville, IN.
The next photo is a newspaper obituary for Homer Tanner who died at age 65 at his home (617 S. Rotherwood Ave. in Evansville. Surviving is the widow, Nettie; daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Sieffert [Seifert]; sons, Ashford & Robert H., all of Evansville. Also, a brother, sister & 3 grandchildren.
The last photo is a very nice Memory Card for Lucy E. Tanner born 04 Oct 1840 - died 01 Dec 1917 [No other identifying info included]. The card was copyrighted in 1908 by F.H. Wendell, Leipsic, O.
Before posting this blog, I decided to spend part of the last 2 days doing some casual research via some great resources online. The Browning Online Database revealed a transcription of Homer Tanner's obituary that included his date of death... 18 Sep 1934. I found Homer's wife Nettie from this source, as well, listing her late husband as Homer Tanner, foreman at Graham-Paige, died 1934. She was living at 9 Mary St. as was her daughter "Miss Betty Tanner" - son Robert of Evansville also survived her. She died 14 Jan 1963 buried at Oak Hill Cemetery arranged by Johann Funeral Home. Checking the Oak Hill Cemetery Database, I found Nettie & Homer buried in Section E, Lot 63, Graves 4 & 5. Ashford H. Tanner's obit is in the Browning Database with death 10 Jun 1954 (age 57) address R. 1, Newburgh, IN; funeral home was Johann and he was buried in Boonville's Maple Grove Cemetery. He was a Representative of Howell Scales Co., St. Louis, Mo. He was the "former owner Independent Scales Works, here American Legion" Wife: Thelma Tanner, Teacher, Henry Reis, Evlle; sis: Mrs. Betty Seifert, Eville; foster son: Chas Christmas, home; mother: Mrs. Nettie Tanner; br: Robt Tanner, all of Evlle.
After finding this info, I went to Find-A-Grave and found Ashford & Thelma in Maple Grove Cemetery in Boonville, IN. He was b. 1896- d. 1954 World War I Veteran. She was b. 1906 d. 13 Oct 2002 Evansville Teacher. Her obit from Browning Database listed her as 96 years old, High School Teacher, retiring in 1972. Taught at North & Henry Reis High Schools, recreation dept. as supervisor of archery, St. Mary's Guild, Worthy High Priestess of White Shrine, Daughters of Nile, Eastern Star, archery champ 4 years, preceded in death by husband Ashford H. Tanner in 1954. Charles Christmas of Newburgh was her nephew.
From Ancestry.com, I found Ashford's WWI Draft Registration Card of Jun 1918. He was 21 living with father at 611 Green, Evansville. Ashford was born 13 Aug 1896 in McClean Co., KY same as his father.
In just a few hours, I had collected a lot of information to help us locate a family member. In Ancestry.com, I found a very good family tree with lots of sources that matched what I had found. Lucy E. Tanner's maiden name was Woodward and was listed as Homer's mother! I sent a message to the owner of this family tree, a few hours ago that we had some papers & photos, the family might want. We are hoping there are others that might have an interest in this material. Contact me [John G. West] at firstname.lastname@example.com


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We Are AFSCME
AFSCME is the nation's largest and fastest growing public services employees union. AFSCME's 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. We are nurses, corrections officers, child care providers, EMTs, sanitation workers and more. With working members in hundreds of different occupations and retirees across the country, AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families.
AFSCME is a union comprised of a diverse group of people who share a common commitment to public service. For us, serving the public is not just a job, it's a calling. An important part of our mission is to advocate for the vital services that keep our families safe and make our communities strong. We also advocate for prosperity and opportunity for all of America's working families. We not only stand for fairness at the bargaining table — we fight for fairness in our communities and in the halls of government.
How AFSCME Works
AFSCME has approximately 3,400 local unions and 58 councils and affiliates in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Every local writes its own constitution, designs its own structure, elects its own officers and sets its own dues.
The International Union, based in Washington, DC, coordinates the union's actions on major national issues such as privatization, fair taxes and health care. The International also provides resources to councils and local unions for organizing, bargaining, political action and education, and administers members-only benefits. Every two years, delegates to AFSCME's International Convention decide on the union's basic policies. Every four years they elect the International Union's President, Secretary-Treasurer and 35 regional vice presidents.
AFSCME: The Union That Never Quits
What is AFSCME all about? How does this union operate? How does it fight for public service workers everywhere? Read on to find out the answers to those questions and more.


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CA World 2013: Big Technologies, Big Ideas, Big Dreams
After spending four days at CA World in Las Vegas, The Techster is walking away thinking big: Big concepts, big ideas, big opportunities ahead and, perhaps best of all, big dreams. There is also the prospect of big sequester-inspired airport delays, but we'll leave that subject for another time.
So what are some of the big ideas, concepts, opportunities and dreams that inspired The Techster and thousands of others here this week at CA World where the theme was, naturally, Go Big? We divide them into three categories: technologies, IT attributes and personal characteristics. Here's what we mean.
Big Technologies
DevOps: All of the CA Technologies executives wanted to talk about DevOps at every opportunity. This is a big technology because, as we noted at the beginning of the conference, IT consumerization is bringing new challenges and expectations to the delivery of applications: Faster, better, more elegant and far more intuitive.
Mobility: The proliferation of devices is one aspect and it touches a lot of IT issues: Security, data protection, device management, BYOD. But that's only part of the story. If you're developing apps today, you have to recognize that if the application has a customer touch point, then it must support mobile devices.
Social Media: We think people in technology are finally starting to "get" social media and why it is included as a major pillar of the next-generation computing platform. There is a whole generation of people who live in this world and, if you are in IT, they are your customers and employees and co-workers and, eventually, they will be your bosses.
Big Data: After spending four days here, we've concluded that big data is what we thought it was: A potentially groundbreaking technology platform that is still at the beginning of delivering its full potential. Now is the time to start figuring out how to harness it and what you will want to do with it.
Big IT Attributes
Speed: Everything has to be faster. Technologies such as storage, servers, networks and databases, and processes such as provisioning, deploying, scaling, managing and, as noted above, application development and DevOps.
Agility: Do you really need us to explain this one to you?
Availability: Or this one?
Security: Or this one?
Big Personal Characteristics
Vision: The Richard Branson keynote was entertaining and enlightening. It was impressive how he has been able to consistently follow a vision and alter that vision while taking what he repeatedly described as "calculated" risks.
Commitment: We took this from Branson as well. If you have a vision, stick with it. Be prepared to change and adapt, but keep your commitment until it is proven to be wrong, which, hopefully, will never be the case.
Trust: In this case, we believe that IT decision-makers have to trust that the changes we are witnessing – the big technologies and the big IT attributes cited above – are not only here forever, they are presenting us with a defining moment in the history of IT. Trust it and be part of it.
Courage: It always takes courage to push through change and adapt to a changing environment. But, really, what choice do you have? As CA Technologies CEO Mike Gregoire said right at the outset: You can be a driver of change or you can be driven by change. As far as The Techster is concerned, tighten up your seat belt and drive!
This is our final blog from CA World 2013. We hope you have enjoyed it and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
More Big Themes: Mobility, DevOps & Cloud
We've been focused on big themes during our several days here at CA World 2013 in Las Vegas, which, we suppose, is quite appropriate for a conference where the overall theme is Go Big. Today we will focus on the themes of mobility, DeVops and cloud, as addressed by CA Technologies executive vice-president Peter Griffiths in his keynote address on Monday morning. Each of these areas – mobility, DevOps and cloud – raises the bar to unprecedented levels for IT professionals, requiring new ways of thinking, new tools and new partnership models.
"All interactions within organizations today – customers, employees, partners – are essentially IT interactions," said Griffiths, who added that as these and other interactions become more commonplace, they also add to complexity for organizations – and especially for IT teams. Griffiths had an eye-opening statistic for the audience to consider: Nearly 70 percent of all patents being issued today are in some way related to mobility. "It changes everything we do," he said. "BYOD may be the most significant shift in our industry since PCs took over from typewriters."
In the area of DevOps – the unification of development and operations designed to space applications development, testing and production deployment – Griffiths pointed out that CA Technologies was putting more emphasis than ever on tools and partnerships to help customers get their software up and running faster and more efficiently. For instance, not only did he point out that the company was bringing out a new release of its CA LISA application delivery solution, but it was also making two significant acquisitions – Nolio for application service automation, and Layer 7 for enterprise API management.
Finally, Griffiths stressed CA Technologies' work on cloud solutions, using the example of how the company partnered over the past several years with a major customer, Shell Oil, to aid in the development of a long-term technology roadmap for what eventually would become CA CloudMinder.
Using technology to its fullest may require great tools and superior processes, but in the end the single most important ingredient for success, according to Griffiths, may be the willingness of IT leaders to challenge themselves – and partners such as CA Technologies – to not reject out of hand what may seem like unproven ideas and solutions. After all, a lot of CIOs may have freaked out when they started seeing a rash of credit card receipts for public cloud services such as Amazon Cloud Services, and it wouldn't been unusual for IT leaders to try to quash that movement like a bug. But those business end users clearly were on to something, and tomorrow's IT innovation must survive natural, initial reactions of fear over the loss of control.
What do you think? How are the big issues of mobility, DevOps and cloud impacting you? Are you ready to innovate?
Of Luminaries, Social Media and Major IT Transformation
One of the cool events at CA World 2013 is a series they are calling Luminaries Live! It is a series of 5-minute presentations packed back-to-back in a condensed session, with each presentation delivered by an individual with both a vision and a point of view on a subject that is in some way related to technology and some of the themes of the conference. The first one was yesterday at the CA World 2013 Broadcast Center in the exhibit hall, and the second and final one will be at 12:30 p.m. today also at the Broadcast Center. Try to get there early because yesterday all of the seats were filled.
The presentations yesterday were all thought provoking and, fitting with the format, tightly structured and entertaining. One of the topics that struck closely with The Techster was focused on the culture around social media and why it is critical that IT leaders and decision-makers embrace social media as potentially game-changing aspect of our culture and, consequently, as a potential driver of huge revenue opportunities. This viewpoint fits in very closely with The Techster's own view and, really, with the dynamics that are transforming the computing paradigm. Wherever you look these days, pundits are describing another major generational shift in computing platforms, as we move from a distributed model to a model defined by the combination of social media, cloud computing, mobility and big data.
Jacob Lamm, executive vice president of strategy and corporate development at CA Technologies, made that case that there is a generation/community/nation of what he called "social media natives" who are at least as comfortable in the digital world as they are in the physical world. There is tendency, he said, for many people who are not social media natives to dismiss and perhaps diminish the digital interactions of these individuals as something that is inferior to the physical interactions that defined our interactions prior to the advent of social media. This tendency, Lamm argued quite persuasively, is a mistake and a potentially dangerous mistake if it is the attitude taken by our IT leaders.
The reality, Lamm said, is that for social media natives, digital interactions are in many ways more natural and common and, this is important, more trustworthy, than physical interactions. The trustworthy aspect is critical, because trust can be the foundation in building technologies and services to capture these social media natives in their native habitat. As Lamm pointed out, for companies to succeed in the future, they must be able to communicate with social media natives " in their native tongue and set up shop in their digital neighborhood."
What do you think? Do you agree that the role of social media will play a transformative role in the transition to our next major compute platform? Please feel free to comment. And, if you are here live at CA World 2013, as we are, try to stop by at the Broadcast Center in a couple of hours for today's edition of Luminaries Live. You may even get a glimpse of The Techster himself.
The Growing Role Of IT Consumerization In Application Development
Technology is at a pivot point as we move from a distributed model to a cloud model. IT leaders and decision-makers are at a pivot point as well. The role of the CIO is changing so that CIOs are becoming brokers of technology rather than managers of data centers. That was one of the key messages in Mike Gregoire's keynote speech at CA World '13 yesterday evening and we would like to elaborate, if you don't mind.
One of the important terms we often hear these days is IT consumerization. A lot of people get caught up in thinking about this as the proliferation of consumer devices and, indeed, this is a major component. Gregoire mentioned in his talk that there will be something on the order of 50 billion devices connected to our networks in 2020 – just seven years away. That's six devices for every person on the planet. Scary.
But Gregoire also alluded to what we think of as the "mindset" that is IT consumerization and that is this: Everyone is a consumer of today's technology. That means our workers and managers and executives as well as our customers. All of these various constituencies bring their consumer mindset to every aspect of IT these days and it plays out in a wide variety of ways.
Take applications development as a perfect example, and an example that Gregoire discussed last night and which will be discussed often this week. The traditional model for applications development just doesn't fit anymore with the expectations of today's consumers/workers. Technology is moving so rapidly that waiting 18 months or two years for an application, and then not even being sure if it will deliver on its original promise, is becoming an anachronistic model.
In this era, IT consumers, in this case our workers and customers, expect much more accelerated delivery of applications because that's what they are accustomed to seeing in the consumer world. They also want their applications to be far more elegant in design and much more intuitive right out of the gate.
IT leaders have to recognize that they are no longer in control of these expectations. That no matter what IT does or says, our customers are bringing these expectations – this mindset – with them from the consumer world. As Gregoire noted, IT can either drive this change or be driven by it.
Getting control over applications development with solutions such as service virtualization and continuous application delivery gives IT leaders the ability to be drivers of IT consumerization, rather than bystanders. This is an important topic and one we will be getting back to again this week as we blog live from CA World '13. See you again soon.
Speed, Mobility, Big Data: Just a Few Things to Watch Out For This Week at CA World '13
The Techster has arrived in Las Vegas for CA World '13, where the theme is "Go Big. IT with Impact." As for us, we are going to try to go in moderation, it being Las Vegas and The Techster having gone big way too many times in the past, to the great chagrin of Mrs. Techster and the Techster bank account.
Nevertheless we are excited for a big week here of blogging and tweeting and talking to IT leaders, vendors and channel partners. There are a few key issues on our mind as we enter the festivities, and these are, in no particular order:
- Speed: For the past few years agility has been the key watchword in IT as we have begun to see the impact that virtualization has had on enabling new levels of business agility and in setting the stage for next-generation cloud computing. What we are learning as we talk to IT leaders in all areas is that speed is starting to become the new agility. What do we mean by that? We are seeing a much greater need for speed across the IT sphere – from the development of applications, to the availability of new business services, to the demands we are making of our infrastructures in areas such as storage and database, to the response time our customers and employees are expecting from IT in its ability to do everything. IT consumerization has changed the way all of us think about delivering applications and accelerating time to value, and the whole idea of faster innovation and faster delivery of business services is a concept that seems to be gathering tremendous momentum. So that is one of the trends we will be tracking this week.
- Mobility: This is related to speed in the sense that it is also being driven from the consumer world. The thing to watch in mobility is how organizations are incorporating mobility as they build new applications and, perhaps more importantly, how they are upgrading, expanding and modernizing legacy applications. Workers are insisting on mobility, just as they are insisting on an accelerated development cycle for new applications. It's an area where workers and customers are driving IT and pushing for innovation, and we will be on the lookout this week to see how organizations are responding.
- Big Data: With a theme of Go Big. IT With Impact it would be hard to ignore the potential of big data as a driver of next-generation business agility. What we see eventually in big data is the ability for organizations to harness social networking and other unstructured data – but mostly social networking – into creating transformative business services that use real-time information to address real-time business opportunities. We believe that we are several years away from seeing the real impact, but we also believe that that this is prime time for building the foundation for creating those types of transformative services – perhaps akin to where the cloud was three or four years ago. So we are anxious to see who is doing what with big data and how leading vendors such as CA Technologies are working with companies to address potential big data opportunities.
There's plenty more, of course. We are watching trends around cloud and desktop virtualization and service assurance and security and so many of the other issues that are taking place in this very exciting and transformative era in IT. And it all begins later today with the keynote by Michael Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies. We'll be there and we'll be reporting on all of the major trends and events for you this week. See you again soon.