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Man dies in West Cumbria after car crash
Published at 10:27, Monday, 26 March 2012
A 20-year-old man has died from head injuries after he was hit by a car in Allonby.
The accident happened at 7.46pm on the B5300 – the main road through the village – last night.
It involved a Suzuki Swift driven by a 20-year-old man from Allonby and a pedestrian, also 20, and also from Allonby.
A police spokesman said the pedestrian had suffered head injuries which later proved fatal.
He died in hospital shortly afterwards.
Police have interviewed a 20-year-old man and are making further inquiries.
Nobody has been arrested in connection with the accident.
A force spokesman said ambulance crews took the pedestrian to West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven.
An Allonby woman, who did not wish to be identified, said that the community was "devastated".
The road was closed in both directions between the Wigton Road junction and the Moss Lane junction while emergency services attended the scene and reopened at 11.55pm.
Police are appealing to any witnesses or anybody with information to contact PC John Powell in the roads policing unit at Workington on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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A network biology approach evaluating the anticancer effects of bortezomib identifies SPARC as a therapeutic target in adult T-cell leukemia cells
Authors Junko H Ohyashiki, Ryoko Hamamura, Chiaki Kobayashi, Yu Zhang, Kazuma Ohyashiki
Published Date October 2008 Volume 2008:1 Pages 85—98
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AABC.S4133
Published 30 October 2008
Junko H Ohyashiki1, Ryoko Hamamura2, Chiaki Kobayashi2, Yu Zhang2, Kazuma Ohyashiki2
1Intractable Immune System Disease Research Center, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; 2First Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract: There is a need to identify the regulatory gene interaction of anticancer drugs on target cancer cells. Whole genome expression profiling offers promise in this regard, but can be complicated by the challenge of identifying the genes affected by hundreds to thousands of genes that induce changes in expression. A proteasome inhibitor, bortezomib, could be a potential therapeutic agent in treating adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) patients, however, the underlying mechanism by which bortezomib induces cell death in ATL cells via gene regulatory network has not been fully elucidated. Here we show that a Bayesian statistical framework by VoyaGene® identified a secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) gene, a tumor-invasiveness related gene, as a possible modulator of bortezomib-induced cell death in ATL cells. Functional analysis using RNAi experiments revealed that inhibition of the expression SPARC by siRNA enhanced the apoptotic effect of bortezomib on ATL cells in accordance with an increase of cleaved caspase 3. Targeting SPARC may help to treat ATL patients in combination with bortezomib. This work shows that a network biology approach can be used advantageously to identify the genetic interaction related to anticancer effects.
Keywords: network biology, adult T cell leukemia, bortezomib, SPARC
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Downregulated microRNA-148b in circulating PBMCs in chronic myeloid leukemia patients with undetectable minimal residual disease: a possible biomarker to discontinue imatinib safely
Ohyashiki JH, Ohtsuki K, Mizoguchi I, Yoshimoto T, Katagiri S, Umezu T, Ohyashiki K
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Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, and absolutely riveting inquest into the 1988 case of Paul Ingram, a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington, and his family's accusations of sexual abuse against him—accusations which eventually revealed Ingram's participation in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department. The case eventually destroys the family and engulfs a small town while captivating an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once, a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.
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The Dr. Loosen estate has been in the same family for over 200 years. When Ernst Loosen (pronounced loh-zen) assumed ownership in 1988, he realized that with ungrafted vines averaging 60 years old in some of Germany's best-rated vineyards, he had the raw materials to create stunningly intense, world-class wines.
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Eiswein ("ice wine") is another of nature's rare and wonderful gifts in our area. We hold aside certain plots of vines, hoping for a deep enough freeze (minimum –8° C, or 17° F) to harvest frozen grapes. These grapes are picked in the wee hours of the morning and pressed while they are still frozen, to slowly squeeze out a few drops of precious nectar, leaving the water behind as ice. The result is a vibrant, racydessert wine that is strikingly different from the rounder, more honeyed style of the wines concentrated by botrytis.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.comments2014-11-25T15:01:12.200-08:00Sky City: Southern and Mid-Atlantic Retail HistoryJ.T.http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-32297525671949321602014-11-17T11:11:16.619-08:002014-11-17T11:11:16.619-08:00http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazin...http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/March-2014/End-of-Eastland/ There's a great essay here about the end of Eastland Mall. So sad to know it's no longer firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-32512651287955828842014-11-13T16:11:27.924-08:002014-11-13T16:11:27.924-08:00The original White's in Aiken was located down...The original White's in Aiken was located downtown on a side street. I can't remember the name of the street, however, I was a little girl in the early 1950's and remember my Mother shopping at this store. We would visit my Aunt was a sales clerk in the make-up department. Sometime in the 1960's the store moved to the Mitchell Shopping Center and remained there until it moved to the Heritage Square.Zowiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-28056735781521090262014-11-12T13:47:43.076-08:002014-11-12T13:47:43.076-08:00Tysons benefits from having what is probably the l...Tysons benefits from having what is probably the largest concentration of employment in the region, along with increasing amounts of housing and hotels that trail the employment. The area is expected to become more "urban" in the future with more mixes of uses and even more people living and working there with the new Metro line. Tysons has a surprising amount of unbuilt or underutilized land (small 1970s buildings, ancillary strip malls past their prime) that will enable this growth to occur. Having nearby workers, visitors to the area, and increasing numbers of people living nearby, along with Metro access insure that Tysons will survive changes in retail. Tysons also has many exclusive locations for retailer (either exclusive in the DC area or in the Virginia suburbs). Springfield's renewal remains to be seen but it happened because the mall is near a lot of federal and federal contractor jobs, with increases in employment happening in recent years and more projected for the future. OTOH, renewal of dying malls in the DC area has had limited success--Prince Georges Plaza and Wheaton Plaza both lost many of their traditional mall tenants. Wheaton still generates a lot of traffic but has had trouble filling some of its space that became less desirable when Hechts closed their store in the wake of the May-Federated merger. Prince George's Plaza has done less well, overall, but there is a commitment to make the area work better as a mixed use complex. Both of those malls have Metro access. Both seems like candidates for demalling at some point and returning to their ironic roots and well designed open malls.

Fair Oaks is in a relatively upscale area but one that has a lower density than most of the hinterlands for malls in the DC area. There are miles and miles of retail in all directions with lots of big box retail. This, combined with increasing amounts of internet shopping, probably make it difficult for Fair Oaks to real maintain dominance even in its own area.The northern Virginia suburbs, to a greater degree than those in Maryland seem to go on forever with repeating cycles of retail.If you have to drive miles and miles in this mind numbing sameness, a trip to Tysons provides some novelty. The big concentrations of truly well-off people in the DC area follow the Potomac River with more scattered pockets elsewhere and in northwest DC--these are Tysons' local base. Fair Oaks is not well positioned to compete for these shoppers or even more middle class shoppers, especially in the absence of the intensive employment development that helps Tysons or the added benefit of tourist and business traveler trade that's important to Tysons (and even more so, Georgetown in DC). Fair Oaks seems to be a less advantaged version of Montgomery Mall. Montgomery also is in Tysons' shadow and has lost some of its luster and volume, but it is near a major concentration of federal and private sector workplaces and is a "local mall" for Bethesda, upper NW DC, and Potomac with stores that aren't represented along Rockville Pike in downtown Bethesda or Friendship email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-48999999113482743742014-11-12T07:18:08.729-08:002014-11-12T07:18:08.729-08:00This post is amazing. I can't believe they to...This post is amazing. I can't believe they took out those fountains and some of the sculptures there. Also, agree with you that it is pointless to have two Macy's stores. One should definitely become a firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-79882826901677004712014-11-11T10:31:01.977-08:002014-11-11T10:31:01.977-08:00OMG. I do remember Fun Town and that bowling ally ...OMG. I do remember Fun Town and that bowling ally with the skating ring. Those huge dinosaurs where the put-put gulf was. The Movie theater was call Stewart Lakewood Rocking chair theater. Does anyone remember "Zayre" the department store down the hill from the Movie theater. grew up on Shadydale email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-20371316151359735832014-11-06T10:05:13.224-08:002014-11-06T10:05:13.224-08:00This is awesome information. It will help me when ...This is awesome information. It will help me when I write posts for the other malls and shopping centers in the area.J.T.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-87800379216653796662014-11-06T06:20:04.190-08:002014-11-06T06:20:04.190-08:00The outside store (near back Sears Entrance) was a...The outside store (near back Sears Entrance) was a Shoe Repair/Cobbler and before that Fox Photo. There was a Sears, Peoples Drug (with a lunch counter), Garys Music, Jay Aldon's, A&N, Major's Barber, a Beauty Shop, Thom McCann, Butlers, Shevel's, Thalhimers, B Dalton's Bookstore, Morton's Jewelrys, Hofheimer's, Stride Rite, Galeski Optical, Shoney's, Mayberry's Ice Cream, GC Murphy's (with a lunch counter) La Vogue, Huband's and I believe one more men's store...I remember going as a kid on the Saturday AFTER Thanksgiving waiting outside in front of the mall for Santa to arrive. The large building off the Thalhimer's entrance was a grocery store with a liquor store on the end. The Thrift Store was Sears Tire Place and Bonanza and Burger Chef (precursor to Fuddrucker's) were across the street along with McDonald's and Arby's and Pearle Vision email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-50672717383144247812014-11-02T13:02:48.781-08:002014-11-02T13:02:48.781-08:00A great overview of a quirky mall but a few things...A great overview of a quirky mall but a few things need to be pointed out as background:

Bethesda is an inner ring suburb that abuts DC, not an edge city. White Flint's location has always been odd--to its East is a light industrial corridor along railroad & Metro tracks, with middle income neighborhoods on the other side of the tracks. The Mall anchors several miles of middle to somewhat upper middle brow retail strips along Rt 355. Those strips go back to the early 60s and predated the mall. The Rt 355 corridor is much disliked but is probably the most successful non-mall retail area in the region and particularly known for home furnishings-related businesses. Montgomery Mall has always been a pretty mid-range place--it was built by May (owner of Hecht's) and Woodward & Lothrop was never a serious competitor to anything at White Flint. It was a dowdy upper middle tier store that might have done well under the old Federated. Instead, the more downmarket Hechts (a promotional store in the May mode which May owned for many years) was the one old DC store that succeeded in meeting changing tastes. White Flint is not far from the Beltway but not visible from it. Montgomery Mall is better situated in relation to the Beltway and I-270, although it, too, is not the draw it once was. Downtown Bethesda which includes destination stores like Apple, as well as Friendship Heights are the serious nearby competition for White Flint--both are much older areas. The Lord & Taylor at Friendship goes back to the 50s. Both are much more convenient to Metro--the White Flint Metro station is an awkward walk from the mall. Two of the anchors for Friendship are literally on top of the Metro and downtown Bethesda is mostly a short walk from its Metro stop. Both of those areas, btw, include interesting mixes mix--Friendship has Tiffany and TJ Maxx. Bethesda has discount mattress stores and Trader Joe's. Georgetown Square's JC Penney must not have lasted long--the long-term anchor was Conran's which is now a DSW. Anyway, the location never made sense--it was not really central to wealthy areas of Montgomery County like Chevy Chase, Bethesda & Potomac and it was not far from some of the most modest areas of the County.

The redevelopment of White Flint is part of a larger effort to redevelop the entire
area within a half mile radius of the White Flint Metro stop. Nearby Mid-Pike Plaza, which was long anchored by ToysRUs, has been redone as a 1 million sf mixed use complex that will soon open. Several highrise condo and apartment complexes have opened, including one with ground floor retail opposite White Flint.

The mall does deserve credit for finding creative ways of filling space, although the whole thing ceased to work as a coherent shopping place years ago. It probably was one of the first places to successfully replace retail with restaurants (a pattern also used by the unsuccessful little mall at Friendship Heights). It also was an early example of Borders (and later Barnes & Noble) successfully going into a mall as a junior anchor. H&M and Dave and Busters are two examples of tenants that often do well in past their prime malls and they seem to have done ok here. The Bloomie's probably was destined to go or be downsized--it's about twice the size of the one at Friendship and has never been superbusy. White Flint cruised along with a funny mix of stores that seemed to survive--chains with few local locations like Rockport, big destination-ish non-anchors that probably got a break on rent like Pottery Barn. But there ceased to be any reason to really "shop the mall" and the restaurants seemed to drive almost no traffic to mall firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-41507236896088564412014-11-01T12:57:16.268-07:002014-11-01T12:57:16.268-07:00I almost forgot...Woolworth's was never in thi...I almost forgot...Woolworth's was never in this mall. It was always firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-77703006979922274212014-11-01T12:56:03.262-07:002014-11-01T12:56:03.262-07:00I worked at that Montgomery Ward in the late '...I worked at that Montgomery Ward in the late '90s, after it had been cut off from the mall by Office Depot. Even so, I remember going to that mall regularly as a kid in the '80s. Houser Shoes was in there for years. At some point, near the end of the mall's life, there was a country bar in there too. Other than those two things, and the movie theater, my memory is pretty blank other than the anchor stores. Thanks for the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-29637953088523525262014-10-31T17:39:40.567-07:002014-10-31T17:39:40.567-07:00I just went by the old Houston Mall tonight and it...I just went by the old Houston Mall tonight and it's under full renovation so it certainly isn't going to remain dead for long. I don't know what's going up but they aren't doing a massive amount of work without firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-30273465718581751582014-10-28T22:09:11.354-07:002014-10-28T22:09:11.354-07:00Late 70's/Early 80's: I remember the arcad...Late 70's/Early 80's: I remember the arcade downstairs, and some concession stand named "Sailboats" with some old lady running it. I do remember that Chinese joint upstairs and the theaters. Saw "Empire Strikes Back" there.LordSomberhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-70926859151441365032014-10-28T22:01:35.756-07:002014-10-28T22:01:35.756-07:00I've alway been curious about the Rain Boutiqu...I've alway been curious about the Rain Boutique too. Been searching for years about info. Wasn't there also another location near the Buckhead triangle?LordSomberhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-30070037113797535232014-10-28T10:49:52.909-07:002014-10-28T10:49:52.909-07:00http://www.ajc.com/news/business/film-studio-to-co...http://www.ajc.com/news/business/film-studio-to-come-to-former-shannon-mall/nhsPb/

This mall will be demolished and a film studio built in its firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-71496142851192532532014-10-27T21:24:20.016-07:002014-10-27T21:24:20.016-07:00I actually recently came across photos of that tor...I actually recently came across photos of that tornado's damage - with one that shows the Sky City sign in tact. Jeremyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-83469144144617232022014-10-27T21:23:28.743-07:002014-10-27T21:23:28.743-07:00Another update. The mall is now in foreclosure, bu...Another update. The mall is now in foreclosure, but still fully operational. There are still many vacant storefronts. We've been assured the mall will remain open and that ownership will transfer. Hopefully that's a good thing.

http://www.annistonstar.com/news/article_fa505bbc-4a49-11e4-b08f-0f193daebed8.htmlJeremyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-69708999706053934352014-10-27T21:17:16.611-07:002014-10-27T21:17:16.611-07:00This mall was demolished today to make way for a n...This mall was demolished today to make way for a new movie studio. I'm sure people from the area will appreciate your detailed post and photos to remind them of what once was.

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 The Litchfield Theater was *the* spot, lots of people used to hangout there all hours of the night. Bobbe Edmondshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-20490016379820396042014-10-20T08:27:11.004-07:002014-10-20T08:27:11.004-07:00The Sears was still there in the early part of 200...The Sears was still there in the early part of 2003 because I used to work there during that time. The mall was in the process of undergoing a huge change...it was kind of the like the calm before the storm...firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-65378133154199724312014-10-20T07:56:55.618-07:002014-10-20T07:56:55.618-07:00That building beside Peebles did indeed become (wa...That building beside Peebles did indeed become (way later) a bingo hall. My mom used to take me there with her and I hated it! This was in the early-mid firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-51567759877089156412014-10-14T15:52:44.148-07:002014-10-14T15:52:44.148-07:00The Piccadilly space is now a culinary arts school...The Piccadilly space is now a culinary arts firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2047095566316955789.post-35965373423506142712014-10-14T15:49:46.626-07:002014-10-14T15:49:46.626-07:00In the 80's when Sperry Univac and Raytheon we...In the 80's when Sperry Univac and Raytheon were running and employed hundreds with good paying jobs, the mall was full of shops and people. Since the local governments have chosen to not court industry for the "locals" to have good jobs, the locals cannot afford to shop at high end stores.
With three major shopping centers opening along I-81, the mall cannot survive without a major overhaul of the building and management.
As for Proffits never being at the mall, it was actually located in the current men's side of Belk. They were only there for a few years, but they were there.
The theater was the only Bristol theater around before Tinseltown at exit seven, but was so run down that people started going to Blountville, Abingdon and Johnson City.
It is truly sad to see it withering on the vine, but without some major changes it will soon be vagrant email@example.com


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How Microsoft takes stock of your online experience
At the Web Experience Forum in Boston yesterday, Mark Hydar, principal group manager for global quality of service (QoS) initiatives for Microsoft, discussed "Microsoft Live: Reinventing the MS online experience from the organization up."
Hydar said that one of the challenges, as an IT leader, is that you sometimes don't know what problems exist until they've grown into larger problems that users notice — which is why having matrices is so important for higher-level executives like CIOs.
Prior to coming to Microsoft, Hydar was at eBay for more than five years. He said he never would have imagined himself working at Microsoft, specifically because of the usability issues he was brought in to address. Once there, he created a virtual team, or "V-team," including people from across the business, to accomplish his objectives.
Microsoft measures according to five "pillars" of QoS excellence with regard to its users' experience with its Web services and products:
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The first four pillars drive revenues, Hydar said, but it's customer satisfaction that will drive company growth. When a site is easy to navigate, friends tell friends, and news of the improvements goes viral from there.
Hydar also listed several QoS best practices that Microsoft employs in assessing its online experience:
- Move away from anecdotal data and solicit informational data.
- Create cross-functional teams driving QoS.
- Have each team create a scorecard defining QoS, with segments for customer/client marketing, support, data center/edge (service) and team-specific metrics.
- Provide standard scorecards with some common metrics across teams.
- Use the scorecards to adjust your activities and improve quality.
- Implement a scorecard-driven review cycle.
I think that Hydar's recommendations include just the right mixture of uniformity across different organizational units – so that you can compare and contrast business performance – and team-specific criteria. And his second-to-last best practice is a good one: all too often, organizations undertake internal studies, only to let the results sit on a bookshelf (virtual or otherwise) and gather dust. When you've taken stock of your QoS needs, appoint one or several point people to put them into action. Your users will thank you!
Gartner: IT budgets in 2009 are like a 'ham and cheese sandwich'
From the Swan and Dolphin resort hotels in manicured (hot as blazes) Lake Buena Vista, Fla., a quick dispatch before the day's fun begins. I am here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008. I actually arrived a day early this year to get a bead on what's in store for CIOs in 2009.
Gartner did something a little different this year, offering three sessions called Jump Start 2009 — one on strategy and planning, another on financial management and the third on managing people. The sessions came with a little activity workbook, with, yes, exercises and self-assessment quizzes to do in class, or in this case, in session, and pointers on how to get a grip on what your business is really all about and how IT can help. I'm going to include details from the two sessions I attended under "Homework You Need to Finish Before 2009" but wanted to give you the gist here on what is shaping up as a big theme at the conference. And I'll give you the preview of where IT budgets will be next year according to Gartner's Mark McDonald (channeling Hardball's Chris Matthews! … more on that later, too.) from the 2009 CIO Agenda session that closed out the day.
Results, results, results
Basically, in what sounded like a bit of a fresh twist on the old business and IT alignment meme, the big message we'll hear this week is that CIOs have to focus on IT's impact on business results — assessing, measuring, promoting what IT does for the business. So Dave Aron, in his Jump Start session on strategic planning, made a distinction between doing things right (a given) and doing the right things for the business (what CIOs should be focusing on). IT organizations that fall into the bottom 25% of all IT organizations are distinguished by bad delivery, so it is never good to screw up on the fundamentals. But Gartner research shows that top performers are not distinguished by good delivery but by good strategy. CIOs need to figure out what makes customers choose their company or their organization over the competition and then focus on how IT can push that strategy.
In the Jump Start session on financial management, Barbara Gomolski said CIOs have got to come up with a new template for presenting the IT budget that reveals what IT does for the business. One insight: try presenting your IT budget in business terms, as the CIO of a Florida county did this year. It's tricky, judging by the (unreadable) flow chart used in the Florida example. And there is apparently a big danger of duplication of IT spend. But the idea is to map IT spend to business programs. Another suggestion? Start by showing what percentage of IT spending goes to running the business, growing the business and transforming the business, and map the IT projects to business initiatives in each of those categories.
Let's play Hardball
How should you think about next year's budget, given the financial ruin of the past few weeks? Try a ham and cheese sandwich, says McDonald. Back in July, when he started to think about IT in 2009, it was shaping up as a roast beef dinner, "not the fanciest of meals, but satisfying.
"Unfortunately, the rest of 2008 came and everyone is living on a diet," he said.
Instead, 2009 is looking more like a ham and cheese sandwich — appealing or lousy, depending on the quality of the meat and cheese, but with room for little flourishes like hot mustard and a pickle on the side. The good news? It isn't bread and water.
Now, for the money part. According to MacDonald, based on the Gartner polling so far, IT budgets could be anywhere from UP 3.3% next year, compared with 3.18% growth in 2008, to DOWN 2.5%. Most likely? Flat to up 2.3%.
Here's the big hunk of salt: Gartner's budget polling started Sept. 15 and won't close out until mid-December, McDonald said, so anything could happen to that forecast. Another way to look at it is that, again — so far, anyway: For every one CIO who is cutting the IT budget, 2.8 CIOs say their budgets will go up next year
A postscript on just how much presidential politics is on the brain: I've heard McDonald talk many times. He's an animated speaker. Entertaining. He likes to do impressions — the deep-throated, self-important, clueless CIO who doesn't listen to Gartner and pays dearly is a favorite. He likes to poke fun at his girth. Maybe I've been watching too much cable news, but at yesterday's session he sounded exactly, I mean exactly, like Hardball's Chris Matthews — the cadence, a lot of "et cetra, et cetras," the talking through a grin … I'll post an audio clip and let you be the judge. Off to Day 1.
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- BPM Platform as a Service turns IT shops into SaaS providers – A business process management (BPM) project a minute? Pegasystems offers a twist on BPM, turning corporate IT shops into SaaS providers with a BPM Platform as a Service.
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In economic meltdown, CFO is a CIO's BFF
As if you didn't already know, your buddy with the middle initial F is back. And I do mean buddy. A memo out this morning from consultancy Gartner Inc. reminds that in economic crises, CIOs need to "build a powerful alliance" with their CFOs to improve business value.
That would seem to be a wise step in light of the dark news today that stocks plunged more than 600 points, and that according to the latest Wall Street Journal (WSJ) survey, a majority of economists believe gross domestic product (GDP — the total value of goods and services produced) will shrink in the third and fourth quarters, as well as the first quarter 2009. If true, the WSJ piece says this would mark the first time U.S. GDP has shrunk for three consecutive quarters in more than 50 years.
Ugh. Back to you and the Gartner memo.
It seems that despite years of being told you need to "demonstrate the business value of IT," doing so has proved a Sisyphean labor for CIOs "because of misaligned mind-sets between the CIO and CFO," writes Dave Aron, a Gartner VP and research director. The path to reconciliation?
"The CIO and CFO have to devote time to aligning the economic architecture and the enterprise architecture of the business. In order for CFOs and CIOs to ally closely, they must come to a shared view of value. The most powerful tools for achieving this alignment are portfolio management and enterprise architecture."
In 2008, 23% of CIOs report to the CFO, while 38% report to the CEO, but the trend is listing toward CIO to CFO.
Ugh again. CIOs with their IT shops in order and looking to have a bigger impact on business value have a harder time busting loose when they report to the CFO, Aron said.
"There are two clear pieces of evidence for this. First, only 45 percent of CFO-reporting CIOs have leadership roles outside of IT, compared with 63 percent of CEO-reporting CIOs. Second, CFO-reporting CIOs spend one day less per month with the board and senior executives than do CEO-reporting CIOs."
Not to despair.
"The message here is not that CFO-reporting CIOs are doomed to failure," Aron said. "Rather, it is that these CIOs need a focused plan to break out of the box, which should include influencing the CFO to be more IT-savvy and to understand the CIO's full capabilities as a contributor."
The memo, sent out in advance of the big Gartner show in Orlando next week — with promises, naturally, of more helpful advice to come — can be read in entirety on Gartner's website.
The CIO, Obama and electronic health records
SearchCIO.com senior news writer Linda Tucci wrote an excellent, layered story yesterday on electronic health records. "Privacy issues, interoperability issues, liability and physician reimbursement for all that extra virtual attention are potential deal breakers as the medical practice goes electronic," she writes. "But most important, people have to understand why e-health is good for them."
Electronic health records are certainly a hot topic in the presidential campaign. Those of you who watched Tuesday's town hall-style debate between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain heard Obama say that he would cut health care insurance premiums by as much as $2,500 a year by investing in prevention and improving electronic health records.
There are several news sources taking aim at Obama's assumptions. The Washington Post explains that his campaign is relying on a 2005 study by nonprofit think tank Rand Corp., which estimated that the nationwide adoption of paperless health records would result in $77 billion in savings.
But the same study estimates that the shift wouldn't be completed until 2019, after Obama (should he be elected) would be out of office. Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has put out its own paper, "Evidence on the costs and benefits of health information technology," which argues that a 90% adoption rate over the next decade is unlikely, as moving to a fully computerized system of medical records would be prohibitively expensive for small and medium-sized medical practices. In his blog, CBO Director Peter Orszag wrote that the RAND study "suffers from significant flaws."
So Obama's claim is a reach, at best. As we head into these final weeks leading up to the election, just stick to the facts, please.
Do any of you have experience implementing electronic health records and, if so, what is your view of the timeline and obstacles to a reliable, secure and widespread system?
Three cheers for Web 3.0
Yesterday on SearchCIO.com, we ran a story I wrote about the burgeoning mashup of Web 2.0 technologies into something that's being called Web 3.0. It's based on the assumption that the next generation of the Web will require less searching on the part of users as advancing Web 2.0 innovations such as blogs, wikis and social networking forums push desired information straight to them. Check out this definition of Web 3.0 that was overheard in the tech blogosphere.
A friend sent me this article from The New York Times yesterday on a Google e-commerce effort that would allow YouTube users to buy digital goods from Apple's iTunes store or Amazon.com, which I think is a move toward this Web 3.0 concept.
Remember how exciting it was to search a movie time on the Internet, rather than via the newspaper or a dial-up phone number? Within the next decade, it's likely you'll be able do the same search and receive not only movie times but also the locations closest to you, what your friends are seeing, what others in your social network thought of the film and where everybody is going to have dinner afterwards.
One of the speakers at MIT's EmTech conference referred to Web 3.0 as "frothy," and compared the "rush of innovation" to that which characterized what I guess we'd now call Web 1.0. It still amazes me what we're able to find on the Web … it really has changed both my everyday life and the way in which I complete my work.
I'll give you an example. As I was typing this post, my cell phone rang, and the out-of-area caller ID was a number I didn't recognize. Before the phone had even stopped ringing, I had already searched the phone number in Google and come across this website that tracks suspicious phone numbers. Within seconds, I could see that several other Boston-area individuals had received calls from this number in the past hour, so I'd like to think I wisely ignored it.
For those interested in some related content, check out the definition of the Semantic Web, which ties into this Web 3.0 philosophy, as well as microformats, an open source data format.
Are you as excited about Web 3.0 as I am? Are these concepts that you are looking to implement into your company's Web strategy?
CIO weekly wrap-up
Happy Monday! For those who missed it, here's what we produced on SearchCIO.com last week:
- Microsoft: Spatial computing the future — Microsoft's Craig Mundie says the next era of computing will ride on multi-core processing and spatial computing, but it will be defined — as previous computing eras — by killer apps.
- Information lifecycle needs data realignment fast — Unstructured data and classification woes prevent companies from lining up business processes efficiently.
- Mergers and acquisitions can catapult CIOs to new career heights — CIOs in the middle of a corporate merger and acquisition should use the opportunity to build expertise in finance and other areas across the enterprise.
Bailout for economy, a boon for R&D?
If you're looking for another reason to pay attention to whether the $700 billion bailout bill gets passed by the House today, you might want to look at this call for action from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).
The bailout bill aimed at steadying the financial markets would also reinstate the Research and Development Tax Credit, which was allowed to lapse last December. According to the ITAA, the lapsed credit has already cost more than $14 billion in lost revenue and 10,000 jobs.
The ITAA has estimated R&D credit would have created and sustained a total of 141,753 jobs in 2008, not far from the number of jobs cut last month, according to the federal jobs report out today. The majority of the new R&D jobs projected for 2008 would have been required by law to be based in the United States.
Here's ITAA's president and CEO Phil Bond making the case:
"Congress' inaction has left our most innovative companies in limbo, is undermining tens of thousands of R&D-related jobs, and placing billions of dollars at risk. How many more jobs must be threatened before Washington will act?" Bond said.
Three men arraigned in alleged IT kickback scheme
Three Boston-area men have been arraigned in connection with allegedly setting up kickbacks from a vendor in exchange for securing computer software and service contracts for Partners Healthcare.
According to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, investigators discovered that between July 2003 and October 2007, Brian Colpak, owner of enterprise technology reseller Future Technologies, allegedly paid two men thousands of dollars for their help in obtaining contracts to provide IT systems and service for Partners and its entities, which include the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Before vendors can do business with Partners, they must complete a vendor application, and the winning bid is selected and must be approved by the department's supervisor. The guidelines stipulate that the vendor cannot provide any members of Partners with rewards, gratuities or gifts.
Co-defendant John Dimille was a group leader in the production division of the information systems department at Partners, and had a great deal of control as to who was awarded the contract for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of these particular systems. As master engineer in Dimille's division, co-defendent John Cleary played a major role in reviewing the contracts for these systems.
Authorities allege that Dimille and Cleary often would not solicit competing bids for contracts, or failed to engage other interested parties, before awarding Colpak the winning bid.
Colpak pleaded innocent in Suffolk Superior Court to four counts of commercial bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit commercial bribery. Dimille pleaded innocent to commercial bribery and conspiracy to commit commercial bribery. Cleary was charged with two counts of commercial bribery.
According to Future Technologies' website, the company helped move Dana Farber to a large-scale data center based on two large Sun servers. The company claimed the cancer center saved $1 million a year.
Also, interesting to note: try Googling "John Dimille" and then click on the Future Technologies "Testimonials" page (for me, it's the fifth result). Compare the cached version with the current version of the page — notice anybody missing?
Thanks to Universal Hub for the heads up.
Women as CIOs and branding in the workplace
My colleague Linda Tucci's story this past week on how women in IT should brand themselves (and, by the way, most of the advice applies to our male readers, too) really struck a chord with me. As I embarked into the working world several years ago, a friend bought me a copy of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, and I took many of its tips to heart – among them, that I probably shouldn't decorate my cube like my living room, let people waste my time because I feel bad interrupting or apologize for having a strong opinion. I've had varying success sticking to these tenets over time, especially when some of them conflict with my natural tendencies.
But I'm a journalist, not a CIO, and I recognize that female CIOs trying to make headway in a business that has traditionally been dominated by male managers is probably a much tougher proposition than I've faced.
Atefeh Riazi, CIO at New York-based ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Inc., touched on these points in her presentation at last week's EmTech 2008 conference at MIT. She noted that she now says, "I believe," rather than "I feel" after a boss admonished her for it. She doesn't communicate when she's upset because she is "perceived the wrong way." And she's learned not to apologize for being bold, wearing red lipstick or requesting more money or staff.
Already, we've received feedback from readers who saw some of their own experiences in Riazi's talk. I'd love to get a dialogue going on that. If you're a female IT manager, have you faced the sort of challenges in the workplace that Riazi discusses and, if so, what are your strategies for overcoming them?


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Bulgaria's nationalist party Ataka will stage a protest outside the US Embassy in Sofia, Friday, to honor the victims of the Allied bombing raid which occurred on January 10, 1944.
The protest is planned to begin at 12 pm, Bulgarian Focus news informed.
Ataka will demand the removal of the controversial monument of the American pilots who died in the bombings of Sofia during World War II.
"The monument is humiliating for Bulgaria," the ultranationalists claimed.
The protest comes only a few days after Volen SIderov, leader of Ataka, verbally assaulted a French cultural attaché during a Sofia-Varna flight and later attacked a passenger and a police officer in a Varna airport shuttle bus.
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Amber Alert Issued For Maryland Girl
An Amber Alert has been issued for 11-year-old Caitlyn Virts of Dundalk, MD, and West Virginia State Police are passing along the word to be on the lookout. Police in Maryland think she's with her biological father, Timothy Virts, and they may be driving a 1999 black Dodge Durango with Maryland tags: 5AJ4458. The father has ties to McDowell County in southern West Virginia, as well as Preston County in northern West Virginia, according to West Virginia state police. Officers found the girl's mother dead in the family home around 9 a.m. Thursday morning.
Daughter's Case Goes to Grand Jury in the Death of Mother
The case against Jessica Woods is headed to a grand jury. Woods is accused of killing her mother, Eva Woods of St. Albans, and her body was discovered in an outbuilding on her property. Jessica was arrested at a hotel in the Kanawha City area after being interviewed by deputies. There was a preliminary hearing Thursday, and with probable cause, the case moves on to the grand jury.
Car Tour Heads to Charleston This Summer
An event that's expected to attract car enthusiasts is on its way to Charleston, and it could generate nearly a million dollars for the city. Hot Rod Magazine will bring its Power Tour to Charleston this summer, and auto collectors and fans will be able to explore custom cars and trucks. Charleston isn't the only stop...the tour will actual set up its exhibits in seven cities in seven days and Charleston is the third stop on the tour. The cars will be on display along the Kanawha Boulevard on June 9 from noon until 7 p.m.
Utility Customers May Be Paying More
Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power are seeking $68 million more from customers to make up for past and ongoing fuel costs. The companies filed their request with the Public Service Commission this week and said the additional money would plug a gap between the amount currently being collected and projected expenditures through the next annual filing period. The monthly bill for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month would increase from $94 to just over $98, an increase of 4.4 percent.
Settlement Reached With Alpha Natural Resources
One of the nation's largest coal producers will pay a $27.5 million fine and is set to spend $200 million to reduce illegal toxic discharges into waterways across five Appalachian states. The proposed settlement is the largest ever of its kind. The Associated Press obtained details before the settlement involving Alpha Natural Resources Inc. was filed in court in West Virginia. The government says the company and its subsidiaries violated water pollution limits in state-issued permits more than 6,000 times between 2006 and 2013. The government says they discharged heavy metals harmful to fish and other wildlife directly into rivers and streams. The companies agreed to take measures to reduce discharges from 79 active coal mines and 25 processing plants in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Water Safeguard Bill Passes the House
After weeks of debate and rewrites, West Virginia House delegates passed new chemical spill safeguards for storage tanks and water supplies. The proposal that the House cleared 95-0 on Wednesday reacts to the Freedom Industries leak on Jan. 9. Lawmakers say the bill reforms a regulatory gray area by adding inspections and registrations at many above-ground storage tanks. About 150 water systems would need protection plans. Delegates added a health monitoring program Wednesday. The bill requires the water company in the spill to install early detection technology for contaminants or explain why it can't. The House and Senate need to work out a compromised bill by Saturday's end to the legislative session.
Vote Could Come Today on Water Safety Bill
A bill strengthening chemical spill safeguards for storage facilities and public water companies is headed to the House of Delegates floor. Under the bill, most above ground tanks holding more than 1,320 gallons would face yearly inspections. About 150 public water systems would have to spell out protection plans. The committee also stripped a requirement that West Virginia American Water implement an early warning monitoring system. The company said it could have cost millions of dollars. The bill also no longer requires a long-term health monitoring program. The proposal will get a vote today on the House Floor, and then the Senate and House would need to compromise on the final bill.
Hospitals Work Together to Share Knowledge
Princeton Community Hospital is affiliating with Charleston Area Medical Center to expand and improve its services. A clinical affiliation agreement recently approved by the Princeton hospital's Board of Directors follows three years of strategic planning. Princeton Community Hospital chief operating officer Jeffrey E. Lilley tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that the affiliation will allow both hospitals to share knowledge and expertise. He says the affiliation is focusing on cardiology and cancer treatment. A future goal is to develop rural residency rotations at the Princeton hospital.
Man Arrested After Domestic Disturbance
A man is facing charges after getting into a fight over Chinese food Pollce say 26-year old Zachary Dawson is charged with domestic battery, child neglect creating risk of injury and obstructing an officer. A woman called police Tuesday morning to report the suspect at her house in the 2200 block of Oak Ridge Drive, and two young children were there. The suspect was eventually tracked to a house Hess Drive and arrested. The victim told officers she and Dawson began arguing over Chinese food and things escalated.
House Committee Makes Changes to Meth Bill
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill passed the meth bill out of committee last night, but made some changes first. The Senate had passed a measure requiring prescriptions for products containing pseudoephedrine, and the House Judiciary changed the bill so that those who have been convicted of a drug related felony would have to get a prescription for those cold medicines, the rest of the public would not. An amendment was also passed that would lower the overall amount of pseudoephedrine you can buy each year. The bill now goes back to the Senate.


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(CNN) -- A group of 81 migrants held captive in a house in the border city of Reynosa were rescued by Mexican authorities.
A tip led state and federal agents to the two-story home where the migrants were held Wednesday. They had been held hostage there for several days, the Tamaulipas state public ministry said.
All but one of those rescued are Central Americans, the public ministry said. Men and women were among the captives, 39 from Honduras, 38 from Guatemala, three from El Salvador and one Mexican, the ministry said.
The migrants told authorities that they were attempting to enter the United States illegally.
The unidentified kidnappers escaped, the public ministry said.
Mass kidnappings of this sort are not unheard of. It is one of the many risks that Central American migrants face as they traverse Mexico.
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It took four weeks, but there was finally baseball in Taylor Stadium last weekend. Mizzou played its first series of the season, a three-game set against the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles. A familiar opponent, the Tigers beat USM 4-2 in the season opener in a neutral site contest. Mizzou got the better of Southern Miss again in Columbia, winning the first two games of the weekend series and taking the season series three games to one.
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