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In a Data First World, IT must Empower Business Change!
You probably know this already, but I'm going to say it anyway: It's time you changed your infrastructure. I say this because most companies are still running infrastructure optimized for ERP, CRM and other transactional systems. That's all well and good for running IT-intensive, back-office tasks. Unfortunately, this sort of infrastructure isn't great for today's business imperatives of mobility, cloud computing and Big Data analytics.
Virtually all of these imperatives are fueled by information gleaned from potentially dozens of sources to reveal our users' and customers' activities, relationships and likes. Forward-thinking companies are using such data to find new customers, retain existing ones and increase their market share. The trick lies in translating all this disparate data into useful meaning. And to do that, IT needs to move beyond focusing solely on transactions, and instead shine a light on the interactions that matter to their customers, their products and their business processes.
They need what we at Informatica call a "Data First" perspective. You can check out my first blog first about being Data First here.
A Data First POV changes everything from product development, to business processes, to how IT organizes itself and —most especially — the impact IT has on your company's business. That's because cloud computing, Big Data and mobile app development shift IT's responsibilities away from running and administering equipment, onto aggregating, organizing and improving myriad data types pulled in from internal and external databases, online posts and public sources. And that shift makes IT a more-empowering force for business change. Think about it: The ability to connect and relate the dots across data from multiple sources finally gives you real power to improve entire business processes, departments and organizations.
I like to say that the role of IT is now "big I, little t," with that lowercase "t" representing both technology and transactions. But that role requires a new set of priorities. They are:
- Think about information infrastructure first and application infrastructure second.
- Create great data by design. Architect for connectivity, cleanliness and security. Check out the eBook Data Integration for Dummies.
- Optimize for speed and ease of use – SaaS and mobile applications change often. Click here to try Informatica Cloud for free for 30 days.
- Make data a team sport. Get tools into your users' hands so they can prepare and interact with it.
I never said this would be easy, and there's no blueprint for how to go about doing it. Still, I recognize that a little guidance will be helpful. In a few weeks, Informatica's CIO Eric Johnson and I will talk about how we at Informatica practice what we preach.
Malcolm Gladwell, Big Data and What's to be Done About Too Much Information
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article in The New Yorker magazine in January, 2007 entitled "Open Secrets." In the article, he pointed out that a national-security expert had famously made a distinction between puzzles and mysteries.
Osama bin Laden's whereabouts were, for many years, a puzzle. We couldn't find him because we didn't have enough information. The key to the puzzle, it was assumed, would eventually come from someone close to bin Laden, and until we could find that source, bin Laden would remain at large. In fact, that's precisely what happened. Al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, gave authorities the nicknames of one of bin Laden's couriers, who then became the linchpin to the CIA's efforts to locate Bin Laden.
By contrast, the problem of what would happen in Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein was a mystery. It wasn't a question that had a simple, factual answer. Mysteries require judgments and the assessment of uncertainty, and the hard part is not that we have too little information but that we have too much.
This was written before "Big Data" was a household word and it begs the very interesting question of whether organizations and corporations that are, by anyone's standards, totally deluged with data, are facing puzzles or mysteries. Consider the amount of data that a company like Western Union deals with.
Western Union is a 160-year old company. Having built scale in the money transfer business, the company is in the process of evolving its business model by enabling the expansion of digital products, growth of web and mobile channels, and a more personalized online customer experience. Sounds good – but get this: the company processes more than 29 transactions per seconds on average. That's 242 million consumer-to-consumer transactions and 459 million business payments in a year. Nearly a billion transactions – a billion! As my six-year-old might say, that number is big enough "to go to the moon and back." Layer on top of that the fact that the company operates in 200+ countries and territories, and conducts business in 120+ currencies. Senior Director and Head of Engineering Abhishek Banerjee has said, "The data is speaking to us. We just need to react to it." That implies a puzzle, not a mystery – but only if data scientists are able to conduct statistical modeling and predictive analysis, systematically noting trends in sending and receiving behaviors. Check out what Banerjee and Western Union CTO Sanjay Saraf have to say about it here.
Or consider General Electric's aggressive and pioneering move into what's dubbed as the industrial internet. In a white paper entitled "The Case for an Industrial Big Data Platform: Laying the Groundwork for the New Industrial Age," GE reveals some of the staggering statistics related to the industrial equipment that it manufactures and supports (services comprise 75% of GE's bottom line):
- A modern wind turbine contains approximately 50 sensors and control loops which collect data every 40 milliseconds.
- A farm controller then receives more than 30 signals from each turbine at 160-millisecond intervals.
- At every one-second interval, the farm monitoring software processes 200 raw sensor data points with various associated properties with each turbine.
Phew! I'm no electricity operations expert, and you probably aren't either. And most of us will get no further than simply wrapping our heads around the simple fact that GE turbines are collecting a LOT of data. But what the paper goes on to say should grab your attention in a big way: "The key to success for this wind farm lies in the ability to collect and deliver the right data, at the right velocity, and in the right quantities to a wide set of well-orchestrated analytics." And the paper goes on to recommend that anyone involved in the Industrial Internet revolution strongly consider its talent requirements, with the suggestion that Chief Data officers and/or Data Scientists may be the next critical hires.
Which brings us back to Malcolm Gladwell. In the aforementioned article, Gladwell goes on to pull apart the Enron debacle, and argues that it was a prime example of the perils of too much information. "If you sat through the trial of (former CEO) Jeffrey Skilling, you'd think that the Enron scandal was a puzzle. The company, the prosecution said, conducted shady side deals that no one quite understood. Senior executives withheld critical information from investors…We were not told enough—the classic puzzle premise—was the central assumption of the Enron prosecution." But in fact, that was not true. Enron employed complicated – but perfectly legal–accounting techniques used by companies that engage in complicated financial trading. Many journalists and professors have gone back and looked at the firm's regulatory filings, and have come to the conclusion that, while complex and difficult to identify, all of the company's shenanigans were right there in plain view. Enron cannot be blamed for covering up the existence of its side deals. It didn't; it disclosed them. As Gladwell summarizes:
"Puzzles are 'transmitter-dependent'; they turn on what we are told. Mysteries are 'receiver dependent'; they turn on the skills of the listener."
I would argue that this extremely complex, fast moving and seismic shift that we call Big Data will favor those who have developed the ability to attune, to listen and make sense of the data. Winners in this new world will recognize what looks like an overwhelming and intractable mystery, and break that mystery down into small and manageable chunks and demystify the landscape, to uncover the important nuggets of truth and significance.
Is Big Data Destined To Become Small And Vertical?
Several years ago, I got to participate in one of the first neural net conferences. At the time, I thought it was amazing just to be there. There were chip and software vendors galore. Many even claimed to be the next Intel or the next Microsoft. Years later I joined a complex event processing vendor. Again, I felt the same sense of excitement. In both cases, the market participants moved from large horizontal market plays to smaller and more vertical solutions.
Now to be clear, it is not my goal today to pop anyone's big data balloon. But as I have gotten more excited about big data, I have gotten more and more an eerie sense of deja vu. The fact is the more that I dig into big data and hear customer's stories about what they are trying to do with big data; the more I have concern about the similarities between big data and neural nets and complex event processing.
Clearly, big data does offer some interesting new features. And big data does take advantage of other market trends including virtualization and cloud. By doing so, big data achieves new orders of scalability than traditional business intelligence processing and storage. At the same time, big data offers the potential for lowering cost but I should take a moment to stress the word potential. The reason I do this is that while a myriad of processing approaches have been developed, no standard has yet emerged. And early adopters complain about having a difficulty in hiring big data map reduce programmers. And just like neural nets, the programing that needs to be done is turning out to be application specific.
With this said, it should be clear that big data does offer the potential to test datasets and to discover new and sometimes unexpected data relationship. This is a real positive thing. However, like its predecessors, this work is application specific and the data that is being related is truly of differing quality and detail. This means that the best that big data can do as a technology movement is discover potential data relationship. Once this is done, meaning can only be created by establishing detailed data relationships and dealing with the varying quality of data sets within the big data cluster.
Big Data will become small for management analysis
This means that big data must become small in order to really solve customer problems. Judith Hurwitz puts it this way, "big data analysis is really about small data. Small data, therefore, is the product of big data analysis. Big data will become small so that it is easier to comprehend". What is "more necessary than ever is the capability to analyze the right data in a timely enough fashion to make decisions and take actions". Judith says that in the end what is needed is quality data that is consistent, accurate, reliable, complete, timely, reasonable, and valid. The critical point is whether you use map reduce processing or traditional BI means, you shouldn't throw out your data integration and quality tools. As big data becomes smaller, these will in reality become increasingly important.
So how does Judith see big data evolving? Judith sees big data propelling a lot of new small data. Judith believes that, "getting the right perspective on data quality can be very challenging in the world of big data. With a majority of big data sources, you need to assume that you are working with data that is not clean". Judith says that we need to accept the fact that a lot of noise will exist in data. It is by searching and pattern matching that you will be able to find some sparks of truth in the midst of some very dirty data". Judith suggests, therefore, a two phase approach—1) look for patterns in big data without concern for data quality; and 2) after you locate your patterns, applying the same data quality standards that have been applied to traditional data sources.
For this reason, I believe that history will to a degree repeat itself. Clearly, the big data emperor does have his clothes on, but big data will become smaller and more vertical. Big data will become about relationship discovery and small data will become about quality analysis of data sources. In sum, this means that small data analysis is focused and provides the data for business decision making and big data analysis is broad and is about discovering what data potentially relates to what data. I know this is a bit of different from the hype but it is realistic and makes sense. Remember, in the end, you will still need what business intelligence has refined.
Big Data Why?
Business leaders share with Fortune Magazine their view of Big Data
Fortune Magazine recently asked a number of business leaders about what Big Data means to them. These leaders provide three great stories for the meaning of Big Data. Phil McAveety at Starwood Hotels talked about their oldest hotel having a tunnel between the general manager's office and the front desk. This way the general manager could see and hear new arrivals and greet each like an old friend. Phil sees Big Data as a 21st century version of this tunnel. It enables us to know our guests and send them offers that matter to them. Jamie Miller at GE says Big Data is being about transforming how they service their customers while simplifying the way they run their company. Finally, Ellen Richey at VISA says that big data holds the promise of making new connections between disperse bits of information creating value.
Everyone is doing it but nobody really knows why?
I find all of these definitions interesting, but they are all very different and application specific. This isn't encouraging. The message from Gartner is even less so. They find that "everyone is doing it but nobody really knows why". According to Matt Asay, "the gravitational pull of Big Data is now so strong that even people who haven't a clue as to what it's all about report that they are running Big Data projects". Gartner found in their research that 64% of enterprises surveyed say they're deploying or planning to deploy Big Data projects. The problem is that 56% of those surveyed are struggling trying to determine how to get value out of big data, and 23% of those surveyed are struggling at how to define Big Data. Hopefully, none of the latter are being counted in the 64%. . Regardless, Gartner believes that the number of companies with Big Data projects is only going to increase. The question is how many of projects are just a recast of an existing BI project in order to secure funding or approval. No one will ever know.
Managing the hype phase of Big Data
One CIO that we talked to worries about this hype phase of Big Data. He says the opportunity is to inform analytics and guiding and finding business value. However, worries whether past IT mistakes will repeat themselves. This CIO believes that IT has gone through three waves. IT has grown from homegrown systems to ERP to Business Intelligence/Big Data. ERP was supposed to solve all the problems of the homegrown solutions but it did not provide anything more than information on transactions. You could not understand what is going on out there with ERP. BI and Big Data is trying to go after this. However, this CIO worries that CEOs/CFOs will soon start complaining that the information garnered does not make the business more money. He worries that CEOs and CFOs will start effectively singing the Who song, "We won't get fooled again."
This CIO believes that to make more money, Big Data needs to connect the dots between transactional systems, BI, and planning systems. It needs to convert data into business value. This means Big Data is not just another silo of data, but needs to be connected and correlated to the rest of your data landscape to make it actionable. To do this, he says it needs to be proactive and cut the time to execution. It needs to enable the enterprise to generate value different than competitors. This, he believes mean that it needs to orchestrate activities so they maximize profit or increase customer satisfaction. You need to get to the point where it is sense and response. Transactional systems, BI, and planning systems need to provide intelligence to allow managers to optimize business processes execution. According to Judith Hurwitz, optimization is about establishing the correlation between streams of information and matching the resulting pattern with defined behaviors such as mitigating a threat or seizing an opportunity."
Don't leave your CEO and CFO with a sense of deja vu
In sum, Big Data needs to go further in generating enough value to not leave your CEO and CFO with a sense of deja vu. The question is do you agree? Do you personally have a good handle on what Big Data is? And lastly, do you fear a day when the value generated needs to be attested to?
Is Big Data Good or Evil? Maybe Neither?
I just finished reading a great article from one of my former colleagues, Bill Franks. He makes a strong argument that Big Data is not inherently good or evil anymore than money is. What makes Big Data (or any data as I see it) take on a characteristic of good or evil is how it is used. Same as money, right? Here's the rest of Bill's article.
Bill framed his thoughts within the context of a discussion with a group of government legislators who I would characterize based on his commentary as a bit skittish of government collecting Big Data. Given many recent headlines, I sincerely do not blame them for being concerned. In fact, I applaud them for being cautious.
At the same time, while Big Data seems to be the "type" of data everyone wants to speak about, the scope of the potential problem extends to ALL data. Just because a particular dataset is highly structured into a 20 year old schema that does not exclude it from misuse. I believe structured data has been around for so long people are comfortable with (or have forgotten about) the associated risks.
Any data can be used for good or ill. Clearly, it does not make sense to take the position that "we" should not collect, store and leverage data based on the notion someone could do something bad.
I suggest the real conversation should revolve around access to data. Bill touches on this as well. Far too often, data, whether Big Data or "traditional", is openly accessible to some people who truly have no need based on job function.
Consider this example – a contracted application developer in a government IT shop is working on the latest version of an existing application for agency case managers. To test the application and get it successfully through a rigorous quality assurance process the IT developer needs a representative dataset. And where does this data come from? It is usually copied from live systems, with personally identifiable information still intact. Not good.
Another example – Creating a 360 degree view of the citizens in a jurisdiction to be shared cross-agency can certainly be an advantageous situation for citizens and government alike. For instance, citizens can be better served, getting more of what they need, while agencies can better protect from fraud, waste and abuse. Practically any agency serving the public could leverage the data to better serve and protect. However, this is a recognized sticky situation. How much data does a case worker from the Department of Human Services need versus that of a law enforcement officer or an emergency services worker need? The way this has been addressed for years is to create silos of data, carrying with it, its own host of challenges. However, as technology evolves, so too should process and approach.
Stepping back and looking at the problem from a different perspective, both examples above, different as they are, can be addressed by incorporating a layer of data security directly into the architecture of the enterprise. Rather than rely on a hodgepodge of data security mechanisms built into point applications and silo'd systems, create a layer through which all data, Big or otherwise, is accessed.
Through such a layer, data can be persistently and/or dynamically masked based on the needs and role of the user. In the first example of the developer, this person would not want access to a live system to do their work. However, the ability to replicate the working environment of the live system is crucial. So, in this case, live data could be masked or altered in a permanent fashion as it is moved from production to development. Personally identifiable information could be scrambled or replaced with XXXXs. Now developers can do their work and the enterprise can rest assured that no harm can come from anyone seeing this data.
Further, through this data security layer, data can be dynamically masked based on a user's role, leaving the original data unaltered for those who do require it. There are plenty of examples of how this looks in practice, think credit card numbers being displayed as xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-3153. However, this is usually implemented at the application layer and considered to be a "best practice" rather than governed from a consistent layer in the enterprise.
The time to re-think the enterprise approach to data security is here. Properly implemented and deployed, many of the arguments against collecting, integrating and analyzing data from anywhere are addressed. No doubt, having an active discussion on the merits and risks of data is prudent and useful. Yet, perhaps it should not be a conversation to save or not save data, it should be a conversation about access
How Informatica Tackles the Top 5 Big Data Challenges
- It's difficult to find and retain resource skills to staff big data projects
- It takes too long to deploy Big Data projects from 'proof-of-concept' to production
- Big data technologies are evolving too quickly to adapt
- Big Data projects fail to deliver the expected value
- It's difficult to make Big Data fit-for-purpose, assess trust, and ensure security
Informatica has extended its leadership in data integration and data quality to Hadoop with our Big Data Edition to address all of these Big Data challenges.
The biggest challenge companies' face is finding and retaining Big Data resource skills to staff their Big Data projects. One large global bank started their first Big Data project with 5 Java developers but as their Big Data initiative gained momentum they needed to hire 25 more Java developers that year. They quickly realized that while they had scaled their infrastructure to store and process massive volumes of data they could not scale the necessary resource skills to implement their Big Data projects. The research mentioned earlier indicates that 80% of the work in a Big Data project relates to data integration and data quality. With Informatica you can staff Big Data projects with readily available Informatica developers instead of an army of developers hand-coding in Java and other Hadoop programming languages. In addition, we've proven to our customers that Informatica developers are up to 5 times more productive on Hadoop than hand-coding and they don't need to know how to program on Hadoop. A large Fortune 100 global manufacturer needed to hire 40 data scientists for their Big Data initiative. Do you really want these hard-to-find and expensive resources spending 80% of their time integrating and preparing data?
Another key challenge is that it takes too long to deploy Big Data projects to production. One of our Big Data Media and Entertainment customers told me prior to purchasing the Informatica Big Data Edition that most of his Big Data projects had failed. Naturally, I asked him why they had failed. His response was, "We have these hot-shot Java developers with a good idea which they prove out in our sandbox environment. But then when it comes time to deploy it to production they have to re-work a lot of code to make it perform and scale, make it highly available 24×7, have robust error-handling, and integrate with the rest of our production infrastructure. In addition, it is very difficult to maintain as things change. This results in project delays and cost overruns." With Informatica, you can automate the entire data integration and data quality pipeline; everything you build in the development sandbox environment can be immediately and automatically deployed and scheduled for production as enterprise ready. Performance, scalability, and reliability are simply handled through configuration parameters without having to re-build or re-work any development which is typical with hand-coding. And Informatica makes it easier to reuse existing work and maintain Big Data projects as things change. The Big Data Editions is built on Vibe our virtual data machine and provides near universal connectivity so that you can quickly onboard new types of data of any volume and at any speed.
Big Data technologies are emerging and evolving extremely fast. This in turn becomes a barrier to innovation since these technologies evolve much too quickly for most organizations to adopt before the next big thing comes along. What if you place the wrong technology bet and find that it is obsolete before you barely get started? Hadoop is gaining tremendous adoption but it has evolved along with other big data technologies where there are literally hundreds of open source projects and commercial vendors in the Big Data landscape. Informatica is built on the Vibe virtual data machine which means that everything you built yesterday and build today can be deployed on the major big data technologies of tomorrow. Today it is five flavors of Hadoop but tomorrow it could be Hadoop and other technology platforms. One of our Big Data Edition customers, stated after purchasing the product that Informatica Big Data Edition with Vibe is our insurance policy to insulate our Big Data projects from changing technologies. In fact, existing Informatica customers can take PowerCenter mappings they built years ago, import them into the Big Data Edition and can run on Hadoop in many cases with minimal changes and effort.
Another complaint of business is that Big Data projects fail to deliver the expected value. In a recent survey (1), 86% Marketers say they could generate more revenue if they had a more complete picture of customers. We all know that the cost of us selling a product to an existing customer is only about 10 percent of selling the same product to a new customer. But, it's not easy to cross-sell and up-sell to existing customers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) initiatives help to address these challenges but they too often fail to deliver the expected business value. The impact is low marketing ROI, poor customer experience, customer churn, and missed sales opportunities. By using Informatica's Big Data Edition with Master Data Management (MDM) to enrich customer master data with Big Data insights you can create a single, complete, view of customers that yields tremendous results. We call this real-time customer analytics and Informatica's solution improves total customer experience by turning Big Data into actionable information so you can proactively engage with customers in real-time. For example, this solution enables customer service to know which customers are likely to churn in the next two weeks so they can take the next best action or in the case of sales and marketing determine next best offers based on customer online behavior to increase cross-sell and up-sell conversions.
Chief Data Officers and their analytics team find it difficult to make Big Data fit-for-purpose, assess trust, and ensure security. According to the business consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, "At some organizations, analysts may spend as much as 80 percent of their time preparing the data, leaving just 20 percent for conducting actual analysis" (2). This is not an efficient or effective way to use highly skilled and expensive data science and data management resource skills. They should be spending most of their time analyzing data and discovering valuable insights. The result of all this is project delays, cost overruns, and missed opportunities. The Informatica Intelligent Data platform supports a managed data lake as a single place to manage the supply and demand of data and converts raw big data into fit-for-purpose, trusted, and secure information. Think of this as a Big Data supply chain to collect, refine, govern, deliver, and manage your data assets so your analytics team can easily find, access, integrate and trust your data in a secure and automated fashion.
If you are embarking on a Big Data journey I encourage you to contact Informatica for a Big Data readiness assessment to ensure your success and avoid the pitfalls of the top 5 Big Data challenges.
- Gleanster Survey of 100 senior level marketers. The title of this survey is, Lifecycle Engagement: Imperatives for Midsize and Large Companies. Sponsored by YesMail.
- "The Data Lake: Take Big Data Beyond the Cloud", Booz Allen Hamilton, 2013
4 Steps to Bring Big Data to the Business
By now, the business benefits of effectively leveraging big data have become well known. Enhanced analytical capabilities, greater understanding of customers, and ability to predict trends before they happen are just some of the advantages. But big data doesn't just appear and present itself. It needs to be made tangible to the business. All too often, executives are intimidated by the concept of big data, thinking the only way to work with it is to have an advanced degree in statistics.
There are ways to make big data more than an abstract concept that can only be loved by data scientists. Four of these ways were recently covered in a report by David Stodder, director of business intelligence research for TDWI, as part of TDWI's special report on What Works in Big Data.
Go real-time
The time is ripe for experimentation with real-time, interactive analytics technologies, Stodder says. The next major step in the movement toward big data is enabling real-time or near-real-time delivery of information. Real-time data has been a challenge with BI data for years, with limited success, Stodder says. The good news is that Hadoop framework, originally built for batch processing, now includes interactive querying and streaming applications, he reports. This opens the way for real-time processing of big data.
Design for self-service
Interest in self-service access to analytical data continues to grow. "Increasing users' self-reliance and reducing their dependence on IT are broadly shared goals," Stodder says. "Nontechnical users—those not well versed in writing queries or navigating data schemas—are requesting to do more on their own." There is an impressive array of self-service tools and platforms now appearing on the market. "Many tools automate steps for underlying data access and integration, enabling users to do more source selection and transformation on their own, including for data from Hadoop files," he says. "In addition, new tools are hitting the market that put greater emphasis on exploratory analytics over traditional BI reporting; these are aimed at the needs of users who want to access raw big data files, perform ad-hoc requests routinely, and invoke transformations after data extraction and loading (that is, ELT) rather than before."
Encourage visualization
Nothing gets a point across faster than having data points visually displayed – decision-makers can draw inferences within seconds. "Data visualization has been an important component of BI and analytics for a long time, but it takes on added significance in the era of big data," Stodder says. "As expressions of meaning, visualizations are becoming a critical way for users to collaborate on data; users can share visualizations linked to text annotations as well as other types of content, such as pictures, audio files, and maps to put together comprehensive, shared views."
Unify views of data
Users are working with many different data types these days, and are looking to bring this information into a single view – "rather than having to move from one interface to another to view data in disparate silos," says Stodder. Unstructured data – graphics and video files – can also provide a fuller context to reports, he adds.
Takeaways from the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit (2014)
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. At this event, Gartner analysts and security industry experts meet to discuss the latest trends, advances, best practices and research in the space. At the event, I had the privilege of connecting with customers, peers and partners. I was also excited to learn about changes that are shaping the data security landscape.
Here are some of the things I learned at the event:
- Security continues to be a top CIO priority in 2014. Security is well-aligned with other trends such as big data, IoT, mobile, cloud, and collaboration. According to Gartner, the top CIO priority area is BI/analytics. Given our growing appetite for all things data and our increasing ability to mine data to increase top-line growth, this top billing makes perfect sense. The challenge is to protect the data assets that drive value for the company and ensure appropriate privacy controls.
- Mobile and data security are the top focus for 2014 spending in North America according to Gartner's pre-conference survey. Cloud rounds out the list when considering worldwide spending results.
- Rise of the DRO (Digital Risk Officer). Fortunately, those same market trends are leading to an evolution of the CISO role to a Digital Security Officer and, longer term, a Digital Risk Officer. The DRO role will include determination of the risks and security of digital connectivity. Digital/Information Security risk is increasingly being reported as a business impact to the board.
- Information management and information security are blending. Gartner assumes that 40% of global enterprises will have aligned governance of the two programs by 2017. This is not surprising given the overlap of common objectives such as inventories, classification, usage policies, and accountability/protection.
- Security methodology is moving from a reactive approach to compliance-driven and proactive (risk-based) methodologies. There is simply too much data and too many events for analysts to monitor. Organizations need to understand their assets and their criticality. Big data analytics and context-aware security is then needed to reduce the noise and false positive rates to a manageable level. According to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, "By 2018, of all breaches that are detected within an enterprise, 70% will be found because they used context-aware security, up from 10% today."
I want to close by sharing the identified Top Digital Security Trends for 2014
- Software-defined security
- Big data security analytics
- Intelligent/Context-aware security controls
- Application isolation
- Endpoint threat detection and response
- Website protection
- Adaptive access
- Securing the Internet of Things
6 Steps to Petabyte-Scale Cloud Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift and Informatica Cloud
Getting started with Cloud Data Warehousing using Amazon Redshift is now easier than ever, thanks to the Informatica Cloud's 60-day trial for Amazon Redshift. Now, anyone can easily and quickly move data from any on-premise, cloud, Big Data, or relational data sources into Amazon Redshift without writing a single line of code and without being a data integration expert. You can use Informatica Cloud's six-step wizard to quickly replicate your data or use the productivity-enhancing cloud integration designer to tackle more advanced use cases, such as combining multiple data sources into one Amazon Redshift table. Existing Informatica PowerCenter users can use Informatica Cloud and Amazon Redshift to extend an existing data warehouse with through an affordable and scalable approach. If you are currently exploring self-service business intelligence solutions such as Birst, Tableau, or Microstrategy, the combination of Redshift and Informatica Cloud makes it incredibly easy to prepare the data for analytics by any BI solution.
To get started, execute the following steps:
- Go to http://informaticacloud.com/cloud-trial-for-redshift and click on the 'Sign Up Now' link
- You'll be taken to the Informatica Marketplace listing for the Amazon Redshift trial. Sign up for a Marketplace account if you don't already have one, and then click on the 'Start Free Trial Now' button
- You'll then be prompted to login with your Informatica Cloud account. If you do not have an Informatica Cloud username and password, register one by clicking the appropriate link and fill in the required details
- Once you finish registration and obtain your login details, download the Vibe ™ Secure Agent to your Amazon EC2 virtual machine (or to a local Windows or Linux instance), and ensure that it can access your Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon Redshift cluster.
- Ensure that your S3 bucket, and Redshift cluster are both in the same availability zone
- To start using the Informatica Cloud connector for Amazon Redshift, create a connection to your Amazon Redshift nodes by providing your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, specifying your cluster details, and obtaining your JDBC URL string.
You are now ready to begin moving data to and from Amazon Redshift by creating your first Data Synchronization task (available under Applications). Pick a source, pick your Redshift target, map the fields, and you're done!
The value of using Informatica Cloud to load data into Amazon Redshift is the ability of the application to move massive amounts of data in parallel. The Informatica engine optimizes by moving processing close to where the data is using push-down technology. Unlike other data integration solutions for Redshift that perform batch processing using an XML engine which is inherently slow when processing large data volumes and don't have multitenant architectures that scale well, Informatica Cloud processes over 2 billion transactions every day.
Amazon Redshift has brought agility, scalability, and affordability to petabyte-scale data warehousing, and Informatica Cloud has made it easy to transfer all your structured and unstructured data into Redshift so you can focus on getting data insights today, not weeks from now.
The Power and Security of Exponential Data
The other comparison is that data is like solar power. Like solar power, data is abundant. In addition, it's getting cheaper and more efficient to harness. The juxtaposition of these images captures the current sentiment around data's potential to improve our lives in many ways. For this to happen, however, corporations and data custodians must effectively balance the power of data with security and privacy concerns.
Many people have a preconception of security as an obstacle to productivity. Actually, good security practitioners understand that the purpose of security is to support the goals of the company by allowing the business to innovate and operate more quickly and effectively. Think back to the early days of online transactions; many people were not comfortable banking online or making web purchases for fear of fraud and theft. Similar fears slowed early adoption of mobile phone banking and purchasing applications. But security ecosystems evolved, concerns were addressed, and now Gartner estimates that worldwide mobile payment transaction values surpass $235B in 2013. An astute security executive once pointed out why cars have brakes: not to slow us down, but to allow us to drive faster, safely.
The pace of digital change and the current proliferation of data is not a simple linear function – it's growing exponentially – and it's not going to slow down. I believe this is generally a good thing. Our ability to harness data is how we will better understand our world. It's how we will address challenges with critical resources such as energy and water. And it's how we will innovate in research areas such as medicine and healthcare. And so, as a relatively new Informatica employee coming from a security background, I'm now at a crossroads of sorts. While Informatica's goal of "Putting potential to work" resonates with my views and helps customers deliver on the promise of this data growth, I know we need to have proper controls in place. I'm proud to be part of a team building a new intelligent, context-aware approach to data security (Secure@SourceTM).
We recently announced Secure@SourceTM during InformaticaWorld 2014. One thing that impressed me was how quickly attendees (many of whom have little security background) understood how they could leverage data context to improve security controls, privacy, and data governance for their organizations. You can find a great introduction summary of Secure@SourceTM here.
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Bunny And The Bull is released on dvd and blu-ray today in the UK.
The film, directed by Mighty Boosh director Paul King, stars Edward Hogg & Simon Farnaby as two flatmates, Stephen & Bunny. Stephen (Hogg) is a profoundly neurotic young man suffering from a recent bout of agoraphobia, recalling a disastrous vacation in Europe with his friend Bunny (Farnaby).
Bunny And The Bull also features cameo appearances from Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade, plus a soundtrack from The Ralfe Band.
While none of the online retailers seem to list the extras for the dvd or blu-ray, we can confirm the following additional features.
* Audio commentary by Paul King & members of the cast.
* Paul King's guide to the film.
* Interviews with the cast & crew.
* Behind the scenes featurette.
* Bloopers reel.
You can buy both from all good retailers now, but if you can't wait to go to the shops, you can order them via Amazon.co.uk & The Velvet Onion Store below.
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The day has finally come! Everyone is now ordered to order the smashing Bunny And The Bull as it is now on sale on DVD and Blu-ray!
If anyone was unfortunate enough to have not seen it whilst it was out in a handful of Independent cinemas, Bunny And The Bull takes you on a most spectacular journey, as Stephen (Edward Hogg) thinks back to his adventure across Europe with his best friend Bunny (Simon Farnaby) whilst he slowing but surely attempts to leave the comfort of his own flat, which he has failed to do for the past year.
When you watch BatB it really is difficult not to be in complete awe of its magnificent plot, or the delicious backdrop that all the characters are taken through. I speak as an aspiring Director when I say that Paul King's pure imagination goes beyond anything that I could even consider producing from essentially a blank piece of paper.
What stands out from everything else is the sets in the film, with heavy use of back projection. It's an interesting style, as the characters are constantly enveloped in a look straight out of Paddington Bear or Mr Ben. One of the screenings that I attended, at the Curzon, included a Q&A afterwards with King himself. Obviously I was beaming with excitement, and my laryngitis that day still didn't stop me from asking just one of the many, many questions that I had for him: Exactly when did he have the imagery for the film planned? Was it thought of because of budget constraints or was it planned in parallel to him writing?
The look of the film is obviously very important to him, as it reflects and reminds you that what you are seeing is simply Stephen's nostalgia; that everything he is remembering is somewhat emphasised or taken way beyond reality because Stephen is only human. All human beings will say they saw a spider the size of their fist when it was really no bigger than your big toe. So if, for example, they came across a homeless man and his dog on their travels, that will turn into a crazy 7 foot yeti man with 10 dogs, one of which is his wife!
Paul's answer to my question (after his sweet and very unnecessary apology for 'rambling') was smiple: "Very early. The script." And that answer was enough to convince me that he truly put his heart and soul into this film.
Bunny And The Bull proves that if you have a gripping script, a Director with a clear vision and the dedication of ten men then you can achieve something beautiful!
The fact that when the budget had been reached, King was given the choice of raising more but having to wait longer, and he chose to just go for it, instinctively suggests a man at the top of his creative game, creating something that no Spielberg with a multi million dollar budget could achieve. The end result wasn't only a joy to look at – Paul is now currently in development for the live action Paddington Bear film on the back of his debut!
So if you haven't ordered Bunny & the Bull yet… go out and get it, and see magic in solid form!

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Jack White Goes to a Tigers Game
From what I saw on social media tonight, Jack White was at the Detroit Tigers game. Here is poses with the TV broadcast team.
Here he is throwing out the first pitch. Ball one. Insert joke about Jack White as a pitcher is a heck of a guitar player.
And here is Jack in a selfie taken by the Tigers mascot. OK, that's a little weird.
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Here he is throwing out the first pitch. Ball one. Insert joke about Jack White as a pitcher is a heck of a guitar player.
And here is Jack in a selfie taken by the Tigers mascot. OK, that's a little weird.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Knowing Your Business
Nothing says, "I work in weather" like planning your vacation around hurricane season.
Time now for some vacay before the heart of hurricane season!— Stephanie Abrams (@StephanieAbrams) July 18, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Lightning Scares Locals
Yesterday I caught lightning with a camera for the third time. It's not spectacular but there it is. Maybe someday I'll photograph a tornado. Or a ghost. Or a ghost tornado piloted by Elvis.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Valle Crucis Dandelions
Back in May e were in the mountains for a graduation. We stopped by Valley Crucis Communty Park on the day we left. It was a beautiful day in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. There were dandelions.
A field of dandelions
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Best Joke about Germany's Blowout of Brazil
The secret to a good Nazi joke is not to say the word "Nazi."
Ricky Gervais sent out this one. Nice.
The Germans are dominating so much, Austria is now beating
Brazil 2-0. #worldcup— The Sklar Brothers (@SklarBrothers) July 8, 2014
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This won't be the first time that thousands of Germans will have to lie low in Brazil for a while for their own safety.— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 8, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Flying Motorcycles
Another sight I saw at Darlington during race weekend was dirt bikes jumping high in the air. The Monster Energy drink company had a truck set up with a ramp at each end. Daredevils on motorcycles were jumping the bikes up and over the truck. they must have been getting a good thirty feet in the air. As they soared over the truck they did tricks. The usual tricks you see during X-Games types of competition. What impressed me was how casually these riders were going about their business. There were probably about five of them and each rider would rev his cycle up, pop up the steep ramp, do a quick trick and land smoothly on the opposite ramp. Over and over for about 20 minutes. No one wiped out, not even close. They made something amazing look ordinary and easy. It was initially thrilling and then ordinary and then even more thrilling when you thought about it.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Warrior Cops
I saw this monstrosity on display while at the Southern 500 at Darlington in April. The militarization of our police is getting out of hand.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Mountain Panorama
Coming back from celebrating a graduation with Melanie's family we got stuck in a construction delay for a few minutes. It gave me time to take this panorama. This is just at the beginning of the down slope outside of Blowing Rock, NC. There is some serious widening going on here. It needs it. This spot can be tricky with the old two lane road. This is a continuation of major work done on 321 over the last several years.
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Actor Steve Guttenberg, trained at New York's High School of the Performing Arts, Julliard and the Actors Studio, was already a professional as a teenager, making his off-Broadway debut in a revival of The Lion in Winter. In 1976 he was first seen before the cameras in the made-for-TV Something for Joey. The following year, he made his big-screen bow in The Chicken Chronicles, and within three years was starring in his own weekly TV series, Billy (he was subsequently top-billed in the bizarre 1982 summer-replacement weekly No Soap, Radio. After a flurry of excellent film roles--the foredoomed Barry Kohler in Boys from Brazil (1978), football-obsessed groom-to-be Eddie in Diner (1982), etc.--Guttenberg settled into workaday parts. He seemed to have a propensity for getting involved in film series: he was seen as Michael Kellan in both 3 Men and a Baby and 3 Men and a Little Lady, Jack Bonner in the two Cocoon films, and Mahoney in the first four Police Academy entries. In 1991, Steve Guttenberg made his belated Broadway debut in Prelude to a Kiss. In the decades to follow, Guttenberg would appear in films like Home Team, Domino One, Fatal Rescue, and A Novel Romance, as well as a memorable arc on the cult hit series Veronica Mars. He would also appear on Dancing with the Stars. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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This route has a low crux negotiating an undercling/smeary traverse. It is fun and easy to protect with small cams and nuts. Turn the roof on the right and follow a crack system with good gear up to more bulges. At this point a couple of traverses to the left are possible but the climbing eases and you can choose the best looking line. Finish on the ledge where Finger Zinger anchors are located and rap with two ropes.
Just right of the Finger Zinger face and before the normal approach for the Nose there is a low but obvious arching roof. Start in the right facing corner and undercling through the "arch" of the roof.
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PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- The Pascagoula metro area gained 2,100 construction jobs from January 2013 to this January, making it number one in the nation in percentage growth, according to a new study by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Pascagoula's construction jobs grew 46 percent in that period, the data show, followed by 39 percent growth in El Centro, Calif. (700 jobs) and 38 percent growth in Steubenville-Weirton, Ohio-W.V. (600 jobs).
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. added the largest number of total construction jobs during the year with 8,100 jobs. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas added 7,900 jobs while Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, Calif. added 7,800.
Overall, construction employment expanded in 195 metro areas, declined in 90 and was stagnant in 54. Despite the gains, however, construction employment remains below peak levels in all but 21 metro areas.
"It is a sign of the continued strengthening of the construction industry that nearly 60 percent of metros added construction jobs from a year earlier despite the severe winter conditions in much of the country this January," said Ken Simonson, the association's chief economist.
"Nevertheless, the industry's recovery has a long way to go with only a smattering of metro areas exceeding their previous peak January level of employment," he said.
Association officials said the latest figures were a sign that construction employment is rebounding in many parts of the country, but most places still have a long way to go before returning to prior employment levels.


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Whether a concert hall or an outdoor jazz festival, there is no easing you in, they are coming at you full force from start to finish. Their energy on stage, rich sound and musical precision leave audiences mesmerized until the last note is played. With an unwavering respect for the musics rich history, thirteen world-class musicians and vocalists come together to create an unparalleled musical experience.
Now in its fourteenth year, SHO, as they are known to fans, is dedicated to the sounds of the barrio. Their music is characterized by the raw, organic and vintage sound defined by the genre. They are on a mission to keep the musical legacy of salsa dura "hard salsa" alive and expand its audience to those who love great music, not just Latin music. Grounded in the past, while focused on the future, they strive to keep the music relevant, while creating a unique and fresh approach.
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We had a perfect 20th anniversary weekend at the Paradice Motel. I chose that hotel based on it's trip advisor rating. The room was a bit small, but adequate. Beautifully decorated. We had a little trouble with the cable tv, but the owners replaced our tv immediately. When we told them we were celebrating our anniversary, the next time we came back to our room, they had decorated it with a banner and gave us imported champagne! Very comfortable beds, fan in the room. We had fruit, candy, gift bags, and even water for the drive home! Location was fantastic. We rented bikes and kiyaks and they made us reservations for the casino show. I have never had this kind of service in my life. Bravo to the new young owners!
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Noting the great reviews in Trip Advisor, we contacted the Paradice Motel by phone. The owner booked us for one night on August 19,2007. When we checked in, we had the opportunity of meeting the owners, Jason and Perrine. They are a very young couple that have devoted all their time and energy to refurbishing and updating this motel. The colors, furniture and bedding all worked so well. Very clean and soothing. The clean fresh air of Lake Tahoe along with the positive energy of our room, made this a memorable experience. We have advised all of our family and friends to stay here when visiting Lake Tahoe.
Loved it!
What an adorable motel. From the outside it doesn't look like anything special (not bad, just typical), but once you get inside the rooms it was fantastic. I love boutique hotels and this one doesn't disappoint. From the relaxing decor to the fruit plate to the turn down service, Paradice was a great experience. The front desk staff was also extremely friendly and helpful. We'll definitely be staying there next time we are in Lake Tahoe.
A great find!
We found Paradice when looking for a reasonably priced room to stay on a Saturday night to go to a concert at the Harrah's ampitheater. The location was awesome, walking distance to the casinos, shopping & restaurants. The room was clean and nicely decorated in a cool & comfortable way, (no cheesy polyester bedspread). The hospitality of the owners was above & beyond what you would expect and it was very impressive. I would give it a 5 but our room didn't have a/c and it was just a little on the small side, but overall a great place to stay!
Wow! Lots of special touches.
My husband and I decided to go to Tahoe on a whim. We are so glad that we chose the Paradice Motel. Our room was very clean, well decorated (think Ikea) and very spacious! I was also pleasantly surprised that we had a microwave and a mini fridge.
The owners also had put a fruit plate in our room with a nice welcome message on the chalk board. Every morning there are pastries and delicious coffee in the office.
It is about a ten minute walk to the beach (which you get a free admission from the hotel), and ten to fifteen minutes to the casinos (depending on the lights).
We ate at the Edgewood based on the owner's recommendation (great restaurant).
Upon checking out, we were given a gift of a snack and bottled water for our drive home. Very thoughtful.
We will be back!
Loved It!
I will definitely choose it again when I visit Tahoe!
This motel was much better choice then the expensive hotels around. It is a motel and may not have a swimming pool, but it is much better and personal than the average standard hotel rooms.
It is very close to state line, the village and beach. The rooms have lots of Ikea look and feel - stylish and contemporary - lots of attention to details.
Bathroom is very nice (loved the scrub-soap).
The young owners Jason and Perrine (hope I spelled her name correctly) are very friendly. They welcome you with fruit plate in the room, and in the evening they prepare your bed for sleeping and leave chocolates and Perrier including a good night note in your room. They make you feel very welcome and comfortable.
Also we just got a friendly thank you post card from them!
I hope they don't raise their prices too high :)), since we are coming back!
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Wow! Great place!
We stayed here because it was one of the only places close to the casinos that was available, and what a nice surprise we had. The room was very clean, well furnished, and decorated with lots of nice upgrades. We especially appreciated the high quality sheets! What really sets this place apart is the attention to detail and SERVICE that the owners put in to it. Our one and only complaint was that we happened to be in Tahoe on a very hot night, and our room had no A/C. (Hence the 4 stars) Although it's not common to be that warm at night in Tahoe, if you're going in the summer, I'd recommend that you request A/C in the room. Again, the couple who owns the place was really fantastic. I take my hat off to them!
Fantastic spot!!
Just came back from a wedding in Tahoe and had a fantastic time! Much in part to the fantastic service and hospitality of the Paradice Motel. The couple running the motel were very friendly and helped with directions/suggestions on what and where to go. The rooms were very clean and comfortable and the turndown service was a wonderful surprise! I will be returning to the motel the next time I'm in Tahoe without a doubt. Thanks for the great hospitality, keep up the good work!!
Modest yet a cut above - a pleasant surprise.
We learned that this motel is owned and run by a young couple who took a rather average property and put some love and care into it. They are very friendly and accommodating. The interiors are clean and nicely decorated and the beds are pillow-topped mattresses that were a welcome relief to our travel weary backs. Every night we received chocolates and Perrier.
The location was good. We were within easy walking distance to South Lake Tahoe shopping and dining as well as the lake. Speaking of the lake, we got a free pass to the beach park just down the street.
The price was very reasonable for the area. The Paradice Motel exceeded our expectations.
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Just back from Tahoe, this was my 8th trip. My stay at the Paradice Motel was my best motel expreince ever! Dont get me wrong this is no Four Seasons but I think someone forgot to tell the staff. This place is a little pricier than most of the motels in tahoe but worth every cent (maybe even more) (dont tell them!) The rooms are all remodeled and i felt like i was staying in someones home (really nice home) The staff all think they work at the Ritz and will bend over backwards to make sure your happy. THey clean the room twice a day and even leave a chocolate on your pillow. This is the only place i will ever stay in Tahoe in the future. This little gem of a "motel" I highly recommend it and then some.


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Over 100 people were arrested in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, police said, as student protests over a fee increase descended into running battles with riot police.
The demonstrations were largely peaceful in the morning but quickly turned violent as the huge crowd of students from various universities disrupted traffic and robbed several motorists.
Protestors then poured into Nairobi's central business district, forcing traders to shut up shop for fear of being looted.
"We have arrested over a hundred of them but some have been released," Nairobi police official Paul Wanjama said.
Police responded by storming the University of Nairobi's main campus, lobbing tear gas and breaking down classroom doors as they fought a cat and mouse game with the demonstrators. Similar protests were reported in various public universities across the country.
Speaking to Capital FM, Nairobi police chief Benson Kibue defended the crackdown.
"In any demonstration, you must do it in such a way as not to interrupt or interfere with the activities of other Kenyans. When you cause an obstruction or instil fear among bystanders, then that ceases to be a peaceful demonstration," he said.
Students have been angered by widespread speculation of an imminent increase in tuition fees, although university officials and Kenya's education minister have publicly denied such a plan. (AFP)


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About me and my passion for cars
i love cars expecially the older ones, these new ones don't have the beauty of a classic car.
My first car
1998 Ford Explorer sport
My dream car
my dream car would have to be a boss 429 mustang that is in like new condition. I already own my dream truck which is a bronco it's just a matter of putting it together.
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none at the moment
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Victoria Police say they have accounted for all of the guns which fell from a police van in Geelong this morning.
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Police have charged two people after searching a house near Geelong, where a shooting took place on Monday.
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Victoria police are asking for public help to piece together the circumstances leading to a man being shot in the leg yesterday at Corio, near Geelong.
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A search is underway for a four-wheel drive Victorian police believe was involved in a hit-and-run at Geelong on Tuesday afternoon.
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Victoria Police are searching for a man who confronted a woman in a house at Corio, west of Melbourne last night, armed with a home-made pipe gun.
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Two men have been charged with the murder of a teenager in Corio, a suburb of Geelong, west of Melbourne.
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Police are questioning two men over the suspicious death of an 18-year-old man in Geelong overnight.
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Homicide detectives have cordoned off a Geelong street where the body of an 18-year-old man was found overnight.
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Victoria police have expressed dismay at what has been the worse weekend on state's road in 18 months.
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Victoria's school holidays have ended with a horror weekend with ten people killed on the state's roads.
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Police have described the rape of a teenager at Corio, near Geelong, last night, as vicious and cowardly.
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Police are investigating the rape of a 15 year-old girl in Corio, near Geelong, last night.
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The State Emergency Service in Victoria says a storm last night, which damaged about 40 houses at Corio in Geelong's north, was like a mini tornado.
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Winds of up to 110 kilometres an hour have brought down trees and powerlines across Victoria.
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Authorities are outraged at the brutal killing of a female dolphin in Corio Bay near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.
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"I don't live by a set diet. It's not about pounds. It's really about how I feel." ~ KA
i'm sorry. i hope they add one near you that has an entire panel of people you want to see.
i'm hoping that if they do one in my city, they send Kristian, Greg, & i don't really care who the 3rd is. lol. (and no, Greg will not be able to wear a hat. ;) )
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