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3D printing prepares to grow beyond rapid prototyping
Three-dimensional printers aren't exactly a new technology. "It's 30 years old," said Pete Basiliere, a Gartner analyst who's covered the 3D printing market for years.
The most widespread and time-tested use of 3D printing technology is by manufacturers and product designers for rapid prototyping. "Any company producing a product that designs something physical will most likely have 3D printers. It cuts down the design cycles significantly," said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and director of research at Consumer Technology Association, a standards and trade organization for the consumer electronics industry in the US. The iterative process enables companies to tweak designs quickly — and cheaply, directly benefiting the business. "It lowers not only the cost, but the time involved in designing and bringing products to market," he said.
But here's where things get tricky: 3D printing technology has been around for three decades, but it's also acting like a newborn, according to Basiliere. While rapid prototyping is a familiar and well-established use case for the technology, new 3D printing use cases are beginning to emerge. One that's receiving its fair share of media attention is customization, which is giving rise to handful of small, niche players in certain markets.
Hearing aid manufacturers are using the technology to scan a patient's ear, create a model and then print a hearing aid shell specifically for a patient — in no time. Invisalign, manufactured by Align Technology, uses 3D printing technology to use a similar process for non-metallic braces, constructing 150,000 dental aligners a day, according to Basiliere. Or consider Sols, a startup that's combining mobile technology and 3D printing to produce custom shoe inserts. The Sols tagline? "Three photos, ten minutes, two happy feet."
Study: Interest in location intelligence technology nascent but rising
Interest is growing in location intelligence, but the technology isn't a priority for most businesses, according to the third annual Location Intelligence Market Study published last month by Dresner Advisory Services LLC. Location intelligence refers to a business intelligence tool that relates geographic information from a variety of data sources, including GIS and aerial maps, to business data.
Respondents to the survey, which included 403 industry representatives from technology to health care to financial services, ranked location intelligence/analytics 12th out of 25 technologies. Respondents pointed to dashboards, data discovery, data mining and integration with operational processes as bigger priorities than location intelligence; they ranked topics such as in-memory analysis, big data, text analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) as lesser priorities than location intelligence.
The findings don't surprise Howard Dresner, founder and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. Interest in location intelligence is dependent on the industry. "If you're doing things like sales operational planning, you have to use location intelligence to do that. Otherwise, you're not going to understand how to allocate resources appropriately," he said.
Indeed, when broken down by industry, the survey reveals that retail has the highest interest in location intelligence with 65% of those representing the industry indicating that location intelligence is either critically important or very important to their company. Only 40% of survey takers from health care and 35% of survey takers from education said the same.
Yet Dresner predicts location intelligence will rise in importance across all industries eventually. One driver is Internet of Things (IoT), he said, pointing to the growing network of Wi-Fi enabled physical objects such as Fitbits and connected vehicles. "IoT is about where stuff is, first and foremost," he said. As the IoT stack continues to mature and as more businesses build IoT pilots, Dresner believes location intelligence will ratchet up the priority list.
While location intelligence might be "kind of a sleeper," right now, Dresner advised CIOs and senior IT leaders to seize the moment and get in front of the wave of interest. In some cases, businesses will need geocoding skills, converting, say, a street address into spatial data, to attain the level of granularity they're after — skills that will most likely be housed in a company's analytics department. In other cases, location intelligence features are baked into the business intelligence software, making it easy for a marketing or sales department to serve themselves.
Regardless, the IT department will have a hand in installing the technology, loading in the data, providing the technology support and training users, Dresner said. "[IT] has a role, unless you buy something that's a SaaS offering, which makes it more of a managed service," he said.
Two CEO-CIO partnerships on display at CIO conference
How important is it that CIOs report to the CEO? I recently sat in on a CEO-CIO panel discussion that shed light on the benefits and demands that come with this reporting relationship.
The CEO-CIO pairs were presenting at the SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit. They hail from two very different types of companies. CEO and co-founder Andy Youniss and CIO Jay Leader are from Rocket Software of Waltham, Mass., a 25-year-old global company that builds enterprise software. CEO Martin Borg and James Bowen, CIO/COO, are from Measured Progress Inc., a not-for profit headquartered in Dover, N.H., that sells K-12 educational assessment products and services to clients nationwide.
As noted in my story this week, "The CEO-CIO business partnership in action," these CEO-CIO teams — despite their different businesses and business models — share certain attributes, including first and foremost a CEO who sees IT as more than just a cost center, and a CIO who can think strategically about the business. The two CIOs work closely with their CEOs. Both make presentations to their boards of directors. Additionally, both CIOs have gradually taken on a more outward-facing role at their companies; each now is being sent out to meet with customers in order to help their respective companies better understand customer needs.
You might be interested in hearing some of what they said during the panel. Here are a handful of observations made by Youniss, Leader, Borg and Bowen about their CEO-CIO relationships, and what the future holds for CIOs. (Quotes have been edited and condensed.)
Business sees IT in different light
CEO Andy Youniss of Rocket: When we first got a CIO we made a decision that the role would report to me; IT was not ever designed to be a cost center; it was designed to be an organization that would create value within the company. …We are a tech company, and we sell our products to CIOs. A decade ago, or a couple decades ago, when I visited CIOs it was more likely than not that I was walking into an organization that was a cost center, and I remember the conversations we were having: "If only the CEO understood what we're talking about; if only the CEO understood the value of these investments we're making, but they're just asking me to cut costs." Today, when I talk to a CIO, more often than not they actually have a seat at the table, because technology is driving everything.
A couple of decades ago, the technology we were selling was very much supporting systems of record, more transactional things. Now with all the data that those transactions have created, and the new business users, new business models and new systems of engagement coming online, the CIO is able to bring more business value around mobile apps, around systems of engagement and analytics — so we've seen the conversation shift as we have talked to our customers, and this is not locally but happening all over the world.
Seat at the table equals CIO success
CIO Jay Leader of Rocket: Part of the reason it is important to be sitting at the table and hearing the conversation is because the words often come out wrong. Andy has heard me say this to him before. I don't think my job is to do what Andy tells me; I think my job is to do what Andy wants. And because sometimes the words do come out wrong, I try to listen to the message. …
My job is to try to really understand what we're trying to accomplish. Andy and I have this conversation where we start at, "We should go do this! And then we realize that, well, our objective is really this, so let's go about it another way." Sitting at the table allows you to hear the conversation so that if the words are wrong, you can say, That's not what I heard. I heard that the problem is this, and if the problem is this, then doing that is not going to solve it.
CEO Marty Borg of Measured Progress: It is the CEO's job, as well as the rest of executive team, to set business direction. I think the CIO's job is to come in, listen to what that is and then amplify it. By the nature of their position, they are translating business need into possible solutions. And the possible solutions are very deep inside of their discipline. I don't want to be deciding what kind of array to have in our servers, but I do need to be able to say, "Here's where we are, here's where are students are, and here is where our differentiators are." James is in the room when the direction is set, and that is important, because if you set a direction that is not coordinated with your infrastructure and skill set it is going to be really tough sledding.
CIO of the future
CEO Youniss of Rocket: This is not just because Jay's sitting next to me, but when we recruited for a CIO we were obviously looking for someone who would be good technically in that role, but mostly we were looking for somebody who would be a good general business person. What I always say to my executive team is "Leave your functional hat at the door when you come in the room;' when you're around the executive team table, we are all executive peers and I need everybody's input and opinion coming from your different perspectives.
So I think the CIO of the future is a really good business mind. That is one of the things I wanted to communicate to you, and the other thing is to be a good change agent, good at change management. As you know it is constantly changing and someone has to be advocating for that change and managing it and quite frankly pushing that change and communicating well around it.
CIO Leader of Rocket: I think my role has evolved a lot over the last 10 years from being master of craft and expert of silo, to a connector and an influencer. We have unique capability in IT in that we have a reason and a contribution to make in most facets of our business from time to time. There are times when we have to spend time in finance and HR or to support manufacturing or testing services. You have to have some flavor of and familiarity with all facets of the company; similarly we don't have line authority for anything, so I can't make anyone do anything at Rocket except the people who are in my vertical organization. So for me to be effective I have to be an influencer, and to be an influencer, I have to understand what is important to you and how can I get you to the place that you want to be — by the way that I want to go there.
I have gone from spending maybe 50% of my time looking at internal operation of IT, to spending about 90% of my time looking at internal and now external operations of Rocket. And that's because that is really what I am paid to do.
CIO/COO James Bowen of Measured Progress: As far as my journey goes, I spent the first year as chief technology officer sorting out all the technology ; my second year as CIO I spent understanding and learning the business and influencing and gaining that trust; and then my third year as COO, is about really helping to grow that business.
Driverless cars not a 'solved problem,' says MIT professorArtificial intelligence, Driver-less cars, Robotics
The autonomous-car guys at Google have got to love the 2015 cult comedy sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Not because they thought it was a good film — I think they're probably too smart for that — but because in the sequel, the future is a bright one for driverless cars. In director Steve Pink's 2025 — the year most of the cast from Hot Tub Time Machine get transported to — cars take directions from people and cart them about, expertly ride through highway curves and stop on a dime. (They also try to run down humans who are rude to them, which may scare people who yell at their laptops.)
As for the real 2025, a lot can happen in nine years — and a lot will have to happen before cars can motor their way out of human control, according to MIT's John Leonard.
The mechanical engineering professor and artificial intelligence researcher told an audience at the recent Brain + Machines symposium at Harvard University that Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk's declaration of self-driving cars as "a solved problem" was more than a little optimistic.
"Just very respectfully, I disagree," Leonard said. "And I think that driving exposes fundamental issues in intelligence, fundamental issues in how the brain works. And we might be a very long way away."
Though he thinks Google Car is "an amazing project that might one day transform mobility," the technology today is overhyped and misunderstood.
Bumpy road ahead
Leonard studies simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, a technique for building maps that vehicles use to direct themselves. He led the team behind MIT's autonomous car in the 2007 DARPA Challenge, a competition for driverless cars held at a former Air Force base in California.
A video taken at the event of a collision between cars from MIT and Cornell University illustrates his point. MIT's car tried to pass Cornell's and hit it instead. The problem, Leonard said, was one of spatial reasoning. The computers running the cars, aided by algorithms, were missing the "semantic understanding of the world" that people have.
Leonard discussed other unsolved challenges facing autonomous driving. One involves the human interaction that often enables car travel. He showed a video taken by a camera fixed to his car's dashboard as he drove in his hometown of Newton, Mass., a Boston suburb. At a busy intersection with no traffic light, making a left turn would have been nearly impossible without waving at an oncoming car to signal his intention.
In another video, a police officer is standing in the street waving people through a red light at an intersection.
"So if anyone here is a programmer, how do you write the code that says, 'Always stop at red lights, unless there's a man on the side of the road waving at you'?" Leonard said.
Unexpected changes to things like road surfaces can also throw off automated cars. Google cars, for example, use precise maps that tell them where they are at any given point on a journey. But if Mother Nature drops a foot of snow, or if a road gets repaved, a driverless car may easily get confused, Leonard said.
Then there's what's called the "handoff problem." When a car can't figure out what to do on the road, how does it get a human to suddenly pay attention and take the wheel?
"Humans are actually pretty bad at that," Leonard said.
Until cars can be 100% autonomous — which Google is pursuing — Leonard advocates what he calls a "guardian angel system." In it, a human has to pay attention the entire trip; auto-driving kicks in only when he makes a mistake or when an accident looks likely.
Thinking about thinking
Leonard is looking at neuroscience to help solve the problems driverless cars face — specifically at how the brain of a person or an animal gathers information and creates an inner vision, or "representation," of where it is in physical space. He is experimenting with visualized maps that can help a robot negotiate its way through a room or the MIT campus — without crashing into a chair or colliding with a moving object, like a car.
"My dream is to achieve persistent autonomy of lifelong map learning. Say, a robot car that, as it drove around Boston, it would get better and better," Leonard said. "It would learn about the world."
Pet insurer integrates online and call center data
The problem: Petplan Insurance Agency LLC, a 140-employee company founded in 2003, wanted to offer its customers a more personal and more relevant shopping experience. The pet insurance company, which recently ranked #59 on the Forbes list of America's Most Promising Companies, was looking to integrate online and offline points of contact with customers for marketing campaigns.
"We have this treasure chest of data, we just really need to find the key and open it up," said Petplan's chief digital officer Gerry McGoldrick, who was hired in May to lead digital and mobile initiatives. McGoldrick reports to Natasha Ashton, Petplan co-founder and CMO.
The strategy: McGoldrick set his sights on integrating call center data and online data. "The theory is that anyone who calls probably dealt with us through a digital experience at some point," he said. Before purchasing a policy, Petplan customers may visit the website as many as four times, often seeking a quote for comparative shopping. With each visit, customers leave behind digital breadcrumbs and, in some cases, valuable data such as the breed and age of the dog or cat they're looking to insure. To connect the online and offline dots, McGoldrick invested in BlueConic, a marketing platform, with the director of IT's blessing.
The results: The BlueConic platform enables Petplan to take online data and build customer profiles, which are then served up to call center agents who can use them to tailor conversations. "Someone coming in through search will act differently than someone coming in through an email campaign," McGoldrick said. And the more personal the conversation can be right off the bat, the better. He described the technology investment as "dipping our toe in the water" of personalization and hopes the platform will eventually incorporate data from its internal CRM and CMS for marketing use cases and beyond.
Fight threats to information security: Inform your peopleCybercrime, Information security, Ransomware
High-profile cyberextortions like the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack in 2014, the one last year on infidelity dating site Ashley Madison and even a lesser-known hack on InvestBank in the United Arab Emirates must have spooked a lot of people.
According to a study released in January by Cloud Security Alliance and security software vendor Skyhigh Networks, 25% of organizations said they'd be willing to pay a ransom to hackers to stop the release of sensitive information, and 14% would pay more than $1 million.
"To me that is disheartening, and it does tell us that both we're not doing a good enough job in the industry protecting information," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Security Alliance, "and also that our use of technology is so vast that there are so many threats out there."
And they keep happening. The Boston Globe reported just this week that the town of Medfield, Mass., paid a ransom after "ransomware" — a virus that locks a computer or device and demands the user pay a cash sum — shut down its computer network for about a week.
I wrote last week about the "culture of security" at Equinix, a Silicon Valley provider of data center space. CIO Brian Lillie described it as a companywide awareness about threats to information security – achieved through relationship building and support from top execs down — combined with an array of technological tools and a CISO to make sure all departments check out.
Now is the time for more companies to take Equinix's lead. Traditional security practices like doing backups and tools such as intrusion detection software and antimalware are all compulsory to maintaining a strong security posture, but the fact that organizations are willing to give in to hackers' cash demands — and in practice do — is testament that more is needed.
The human element in information security often gets short shrift. For example, many still believe that training programs don't work and aren't worth spending time and money on. But the best security defenses in the world won't be successful if even one employee doesn't know a phishing email when he sees one. And today, it's easy for business departments to order a cloud service or download an app to a corporate smartphone. People who don't know what's kosher and what isn't are practically courting disaster.
Everyone — from chief executives to business departments to the newest of hires — needs to be keenly aware of the threats out there, how to prevent them and how to counter them if they do occur. The more an organization can instill its people with a security mind-set, the more it can bolster its defenses against an increasingly bold and innovative underground.
Defining the CIO position: Don't box yourself in
It's easy to resort to labels when talking about the CIO position: strategic CIOs versus operational CIOs, the digital visionaries versus the keep-the-lights-on types, team players versus the so-called rock stars. A recent survey from Deloitte's CIO Program adds to the litany. Based on the responses of 1,271 CIOs and senior tech leaders from 43 countries, Deloitte uncovered three categories of CIOs:
- Trusted operator
- Change instigator
- Business co-creator
Unlike other expert commentary that suggests one type of CIO position is better than another, however, the Deloitte study doesn't choose sides. Instead, it makes the welcome observation that the CIO role will and should vary from business to business — and even in the same business, change over time.
"There is no judgment around one versus the other. The best category is the one that is matched to what your organization needs in the moment," Karen Mazer, U.S. CIO program lead at Deloitte Consulting LLP, said in a webinar reviewing the survey findings.
If the business is in cost-containment or reduction mode, it likely needs a trusted operator in the CIO position. A business trying to set a vision for the future and leverage cutting edge technologies to do that, needs a change instigator. A rapidly expanding company deciding on the long-term tech investments required to accommodate growth, probably needs a CIO who is a business co-creator.
Rather than fret about which category they fit in, Mazer suggested CIOs first answer these questions:
- What CIO pattern do you identify with and are you aligned with the business needs of today?
- What does the business need to be doing? Should it be looking more to the future, and how are you preparing yourself for where the business needs to go? Do you have the skills and confidence to drive the organization forward?
While Deloitte does not pass judgment on the roles that define the CIO position, survey respondents had definite ideas about which type of CIO they aspired to be.
Over half the survey takers who identified as trusted operators or change instigators said they would like to be business co-creators. Mazer said it is important for those types of IT leaders to identify the reason their CIO positions are not aligned with their personal aspirations. Is it because they're not where their organization is, or is it because they lack the CIO skills required to be in that category?
"The best CIOs can adapt to the needs of the environment they operate in and change with the times," Mazer said.
For detailed descriptions of the three CIO categories, go to part two of this post, "CIO report: Three CIO archetypes and how each delivers IT value."
CIO report: Three CIO archetypes and how each delivers IT value
Based on the responses of 1,271 CIOs and senior tech leaders in its recent global survey, Deloitte identified three CIO personas: the trusted operator, the change instigator and the business co-creator.
The first part of this two-part post, "Defining the CIO position: Don't box yourself in," explained that Deloitte's study doesn't claim that one persona is better than another. Rather it argues that the mode of delivering IT value should ideally match the business' needs at the moment. Misalignment — whether because IT fails to operate at the level the business needs, or because the business is simply not prepared to follow IT's vision — is not good.
"CIOs who can adapt and adapt quickly to changing business needs are the ones we think are going to are going to go a long way in driving very significant value for their organizations," said Khalid Kark, director at Deloitte Consulting LLP and a principal author of the CIO report.
This post provides a rundown of the three CIO archetypes Deloitte derived from the survey responses, as well as the top business priorities, leadership traits, relationships, and technology investments associated with each.
Trusted operators
Trusted operators deliver IT excellence by focusing on cost, operational efficiency and performance reliability. They provide enabling technologies, they support business transformation efforts and align IT strategy to business strategy. This category comprises the largest percentage of survey takers: 42%.
Business priorities: Of the five business priorities cited by all the CIOs taking the survey — performance, cost, customers, innovation and growth — survey respondents identified as trusted operators singled out cost and performance as their top two.
Leadership: CIOs in this category rarely lead business innovation, nor do they spearhead growth efforts. "Technology operations," "execution" and "communication" as their top leadership talents.
Relationships and influence: Trusted operators typically report to the CFO and they actively engage with their IT workforce.
Tech investments: Digital technology will have the most impact on their businesses in the next two years, followed by analytics and cloud.
Change instigators
Change instigators lead transformation efforts and act as the change agent within the organization, according to Deloitte's CIO report. This category represented the smallest number of CIOs taking the survey.
Business priorities: Customers and innovation are the top business priorities for change instigators. These CIOs are often brought in to change the status quo and look outside the enterprise for ideas.
Leadership: Change instigators see "communication" and "understanding" as their top two leadership strengths.
Relationships and influence: Change instigators are data-driven, using data from external and internal sources to help the business make decisions. They typically report to the CEO.
Tech investments: Change instigators see analytics as the technology that will have the biggest impact on their organizations over the next two years.
Business co-creators
The primary aim of business co-creators is to support and drive business strategy. This group accounted for about one-third of the survey respondents.
Business priorities: Business co-creators rank all five business priorities almost equally, striving to balance performance and cost goals with customer, innovation and growth goals.
Leadership: They see "communication" and the "ability to influence internal stakeholders" as their top two leadership skills.
Relationships and influence: More than other CIOs, they are involved in business strategy and mergers and acquisitions. They engage with internal stakeholders across the enterprise.
Tech investments: They are interested in how new technology can drive revenue or change how the business delivers value to customers.
A CIO's advice for cloud security in the cloud ageCloud Computing, Cloud Security, cyberdefense
Brian Lillie, CIO at data center builder Equinix, a company where security is "embedded in everything we do," said that doling out general advice for bolstering IT security in the cloud computing era is difficult because all organizations are different. But there are guidelines they can follow to take advantage of the lower costs, faster setup and better user experience cloud systems offer — and maintain solid cyberdefense. Here are his three tips for better cloud security:
- Have a cloud-first strategy. To Lillie, cloud today means cloud-first. "If you can solve a business problem in the cloud, do it," he said. "Because that is where all of the investment is going. It's where most of the [vendor] innovation is happening and more and more and more, their solutions are going to be in the cloud."
- Accept the reality of hybrid IT. Most companies won't be 100% in the cloud, Lillie said. Some applications, for example, will have to purpose-built, and those will most likely have to stay on premises — so will highly sensitive applications and ones that are "too core to IT." So hybrid IT — or an integrated mix of on-premises and cloud systems — should be the aim.
- Wrap it all in security. Organizations can't stop at defending their data centers. As they look more to cloud applications, they need security policies, processes and tools to safeguard those as well. "You've got to make sure your data is safe in transit," Lillie said. "You've got to make sure that your integration strategy between your on-premises and your cloud is not only secure but high-performing." And no one technology does everything, he said. His team has around 25 security tools to keep Equinix's cloud applications safe, including gatekeeper software called a cloud access security broker, federated identity management for ensuring users are who they say they are, and a Web application security scanner to detect weaknesses in applications. "I actually think that a set of tools layered is the best defense," Lillie said.
IT job skills, digital mind-set in short supply
Figuring out who to hire and what to pay for IT job skills has never been a cut-and-dried affair. Even when IT salaries are relatively stagnant, as they have been in recent years, demand for certain IT job skills — and therefore the premiums paid for those skills — can change in a matter of a mere three months, a phenomenon David Foote understands well. Foote Partners LLC advisory and research firm, founded in 1997, tracks pay for 835 IT skills every 90 days.
"The truth is that there are so many skills that employers find worthy of extra pay, and for these skills either certifications don't exist or the ones that do are perceived as too easy to attain," Foote said in the firm's latest release on IT job skills pay from Oct. 1, 2015 to Jan. 1, 2016. "Besides, employers have always had their own ways to evaluate and accredit skills expertise. They are comfortable using their own methods to qualify the strength and value of skills and how they factor into their workers' capabilities on the job."
In rapidly changing business climates — as is the case in today's massive shift to digital business — premium pay for IT jobs skills is particularly volatile, Foote explained in a phone call following up on the report. A good example is what has happened to compensation for big data skills over the past two years. For all the media buzz about the importance of advanced analytics in gaining a foothold in the digital marketplace, pay premiums for 58 big data-related skills and certifications declined an average 4.7% in the last nine months of 2014.
"Companies started going into big data, hiring people out of Google, out of big tech firms — and then found nothing was happening. 'We're putting money into this,' they told us, 'and we're not getting any results,'" Foote said.
Big data pay on rebound
Doing big data is about data sharing and transparency and breaking down business silos, Foote said, something many hierarchal companies find difficult to do. Another reason for the pullback in big data pay? An institutional reluctance to embrace data-driven decision management. "These companies want to build a new business model to compete in a digital era — and then find that their culture just completely gets in the way of doing it," he said.
But as companies have found their "sweet spots" in big data, discovering what they can and can't do, compensation for big data skills has rallied, rising nearly 6% in market value overall in 2015 and predicted to increase over the next 12 to 24 months.
"Big data capabilities are just too critical for staying competitive. They've expanded in popularity from a few industries to nearly every industry and market," he said. The growth of Internet of Things (with predicted compound annual growth rate of 30 % over the next five years) — and the pressure to turn IoT data into actionable business intelligence — will further spur pay for big data related skills, he said.
Here are some other findings on IT job skills from Foote Partners' latest research:
DevOps gets "serious traction:" Acceptance of DevOps methodology is growing. The latest premium pay data for 2,745 employers tracked by Foote Partners shows a 7.12% gain in average market value for DevOps skills in the past six months.
Cloud skills demand strong, but pay eroding: Talent supply for cloud skills is catching up with demand, resulting in a modest 1% gain in average value in 2015 for 73 cloud-related certified and noncertified skills.
Security skills gap deepens: Market values for the 76 information security certifications tracked by Foote Partners have increased an average 9.7% over the past two years. The report states: "The bad news is that while cybercriminals and hacktivists are increasing in numbers and deepening their skill sets, the 'good guys' are struggling to keep pace. … CISOs will have to become more aggressive about getting the skill sets the organization needs, plus [they] will need to build sustainable recruiting practices and develop and retain existing talent to improve their organizations' cyber resilience."
Read more about Foote Partners' latest findings in, "Digital business disruption roils the manufacturing sector."


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Director Miles Doleac is gearing up to serve us a fresh platter of spookiness with his new film Demons, and we have your first look right here! Dig it!
From the Press Release:
Featuring a superlative ensemble, many of whom are known for their work in the horror and sci-fi field, including writer/director/star Miles Doleac ("American Horror Story"), Wishmaster's Andrew Divoff, and "Smallville" alum John Schneider, Demons tells of a celebrated fiction writer and former priest who, along with his wife, is tormented by the ghost of her late sister, as the details of her grisly death are slowly uncovered.
Scripted by Doleac, whose previous film, the small-town murder mystery The Hollow, was released in theaters late last year, Demons is described as a "psychological thriller that marries elements of The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Big Chill."
Says writer/director/star Miles Doleac, "Initially, my decision to write a horror script was predicated on necessity: I had a synopsis for an 'exorcism' script that Lindsay (my wife) and I had worked up together. A major distributor had expressed interest. Said distributor wanted to see a script 'ASAP.' I didn't have one. So, I pounded out a pretty serviceable draft within a week and sent it on. The distributor in question had kind words for the script, but passed, saying it was 'too dark' for their catalogue. I took that as something of a compliment. It's an old saw in the film universe by now that horror films are the surest bets to make money, certainly on the independent side of things. I refined the script a bit and passed it along to Keith Leopard at Uncork'd, the company that distributed my last film, The Hollow. Keith and I discussed and decided it was worth making at a lower budget, with Uncork'd distributing."
Doleac continues, "I was off and running to pull together a budget that would allow us to make a quality film. I'm very glad indeed that I wound up making Demons on my own terms (as Keith and Uncork'd are extremely supportive of their directors' creative freedom). For one, the script became more personal to me than I thought it would be at first. It explores a number of issues that I've looked at in my previous films (The Historian and The Hollow). I was able to plumb deeper into a question that's always fascinated me: the impact of religion, especially when narrowly-focused, on families and relationships. Add to that the very question of faith, which means such different things to different people. For the Colin character, faith demands constant questioning, even if—maybe especially when—the answers don't come. But what happens when you do get answers and they aren't what you expect? What happens if they drive you away from the seeming core of your belief system? What happens then? Who do you become?"
"The film is also my most female-forward one to date I'm proud to say," concludes Doleac. "I came to care a great deal, especially about the women in the script: Kayleigh, Lara, and Jewel. Two characters (Kayleigh and Jewel) have suffered profound physical and intellectual abuse, each dealing with the repercussions of that abuse in different ways, one (Lara) defies typical expectations of female power and sexuality; all three are swirling around one another exploding into the great forces of nature each is capable of becoming. Being able to cast exactly who I wanted in those roles was huge for me. Every one of those actresses delivered brilliantly. Then adding Steven Brand, Andrew Divoff, and John Schneider into the mix, each one playing a character that's not quite what he seems on the surface … each so keenly able to peel away the layers of the onion and reveal the truth beneath those charismatic facades… After three features, I continue to be amazed and humbled by the caliber of performers I've had on my sets."
Demons, starring Miles Doleac, Lindsay Anne Williams, Steven Brand, Kristina Emerson, and Gary Grubbs with Andrew Divoff and John Schneider, hits theaters in October via Uncork'd Entertainment.
Eight years ago, Father Colin Hampstead oversaw an aborted exorcism that resulted in the gruesome death of seventeen-year-old Jewel Grant in rural Louisiana. The deceased girl's older sister, Kayleigh, grew immediately attached to Hampstead and sought him out, at first for grief counseling and then for much more.
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I have an ongoing love affair with bread. It doesn't really matter what kind, sweet dark rye, fluffy white, filled with moist fruit, enriched with eggs and butter or peppered with grains and seeds.
In New Zealand we have a brand of bread called Vogels
Bread which almost falls into the category of a luxury bread. You can buy it in every supermarket but still it's one of those things that most people think of as a bit of a treat. It's dense moist and practically bursting at the seams with seeds and grains. Not only is it very good for you, but has a wonderful flavour.
This is a homemade version of this which comes pretty close to the original even if I do say so myself. If you like Vogels bread you will love this.
This recipe came from the talented Jacqueline onFoodlovers who made a modified version of
Jim Lahey's no knead bread and then adjusted it according to her needs and tastes. It's really a very flexible recipe and you can add in all kinds of grains and seeds. This one is packed with kibbled rye, kibbled wheat, sesame seeds, oats, linseed, pumpkin seeds and quinoa. There are many more possibilities - spelt, millet, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, barley and on the list goes. It's moist, dense and so flavourful. You can pick and choose the grains and seeds that you would like to include.
This wonderful bread is easily made vegan by just omitting the skim milk powder or substituting soy milk powder. I've made vegan and non vegan versions and there is really very little difference between the two that I can pick
Toast it and use it as the base for fabulous crostini or smother it in thick spreads and jams. One of my favourite ways to eat this type of bread is toasted with a slathering of marmalade. It makes a substantial sandwich too, imagine two lovely thick slices of it packed with salami's and cheese with crisp, fresh salad vegetables. It's going to cope with a mountain of fillings and make a real meal.
I am singing the praises of this bread so you'll try it. If dense, grain packed bread is your thing, you'll love it as much as I do.
Jacqueline's Slow Rise Wholegrain Bread
- cup kibbled wheat
- cup kibbled rye
- 2 Tbsp Quinoa (optional)
- 3 Tbsp flax seed
- 1 cup water
Microwave all on high for 4 minutes or heat together gently in a saucepan until almost at a simmer and leave till cool, then refrigerate until you are ready to mix up the bread dough.
Jacqueline tells me she no longer soaks the grains but I did with this loaf, so I can't really comment on any difference it may or may not make.
Place the following dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well
- 4 cups high grade bread flour
- 1 cup whole meal flour
- 2 Tblspn's gluten (I made it without this, but using it will give a different texture)
- cup rolled oats
- cup sunflower seeds (optional)
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds (optional)
- 3 Tbsp sesame seeds (optional)
- 2 Tbsp skim milk powder (optional if you want to make it vegan)
- 1/3 teaspoon instant yeast
- 2 3/4 teaspoons salt
- 2 1/2 cups fridge cold water
- 1 tsp wine vinegar
Add the cold water and vinegar to the soaked kibbled grain mixture and then pour into the mixed dry ingredients.
Mix well until a shaggy dough forms.
Cover bowl and dough with a plastic bag and leave in fridge for 3 - 12 hours.
Remove from the fridge and leave at room temperature for 12 -18 hours. Leave for longer if cold weather, it needs to have bubbles forming on the top of the dough when ready.
When dough is bubbly on top, stir and fold dough over on itself once or twice, using a silicone spatula.
Your dough is going to look something like this. You can see it's a very sloppy wet dough.
Cover and let rest about 15 minutes.
Using a spatula, gently shape dough into a rough ball, folding it over itself, no kneading necessary.
Dust flour over the bottom of the bowl and place the dough seam side down back into the bowl. Cover and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size.
Half an hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 230 deg C and place the cast iron dutch oven and lid in to heat also.
Tip dough gently into hot dutch oven container, seam side up. Sprinkle quickly with water (or dust with flour) and put lid on pot and place back in oven. (I use a silicone spatula to ease the dough from the sides of the bowl cleanly as I tip it into the bowl. I try to prevent any strands of dough from breaking)
Bake 35 minutes then remove lid and bake a further 15 minutes to brown the top. Remove from oven, tip bread onto a rack and leave to cool. Cover with a cloth if you like a soft crust, if you like a firm crust leave the bread exposed to the air.
Do not slice until cool, this is quite important since it is a very dense moist bread. If you try to cut it while it's hot it will be like trying to slice oatmeal and you will ruin the structure of the bread.
Although this all sounds very involved the actual hands on time is
really minimal, it's really just a matter of mixing it all up and then leaving it to rise with a couple of stirs. My family absolutely adores this bread and the ingredients for it are now a constant in our pantry.
I am hoping to find a little time to experiment with a fruit version of this bread.
Thanks Jacqueline for the wonderful recipe! If you would like to check out the very lengthy discussion on this bread you can find it on the foodlovers forums.
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Teen arrested in Kent shooting
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A 17-year-old boy from Kent was arrested in connection with the shooting death of another boy Monday morning.
Kent Police Department spokesman Paul Petersen said the suspect is at the King County Juvenile Detention Center in Seattle on suspicion of possession of a stolen handgun and other weapons-related charges.
A 16-year-old boy died Monday of a gunshot wound to the head. He was dead by the time medics arrived at the Hampton East condominiums in Kent. Petersen said the victim was from Pierce County.
"Initial investigation indicates this is indeed a suspicious death, which Kent detectives will investigate thoroughly," Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan said. "Regardless of the outcome, this is a tragedy for both families involved."
Police have determined that the 17-year-old, who lived in the condominium with his mother, is responsible for the shooting. The ongoing investigation is to determine whether the shooting was accidental, negligent or criminal. Neither of the young men was enrolled in school.
According to police reports, the older teen immediately called 911 after the shooting.
Kent police expect to have the case information to the King County Juvenile Prosecutor's Office by Thursday morning and charges could be filed that afternoon. Limited information is available in this case because of the ages of the suspect and victim.


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Could is the past simple of can. It expresses ability and probability in the past. We can also use it to ask for permission in a very polite manner. It is more polite than using can.
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IEA Energy Papers
- 2079-2581 (en ligne)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/20792581
The International Energy Agency (IEA) advises its 28 member countries on sound energy policy, which seeks to balance energy security, economic growth and environmental concerns. The IEA Energy Papers offer in-depth investigation of energy topics, and explore emerging issues and challenges in the energy sector. These papers will be of much interest to energy experts, policy makers, industry and the general public.
Advantage Energy
Emerging Economies, Developing Countries and the Private-Public Sector Interface
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- 01 sep 2011
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5kg51nfc1321-en
Increased focus has been placed on the issues of energy access and energy poverty over the last number of years, most notably indicated by the United Nations (UN) declaring 2012 as the "International Year of Sustainable Energy for All". Although attention in these topics has increased, incorrect assumptions and misunderstandings still arise in both the literature and dialogues. Access to energy does not only include electricity, does not only include cook stoves, but must include access to all types of energy that form the overall energy system. This paper chooses to examine this energy system using a typology that breaks it into 3 primary energy subsystems: heat energy, electricity and transportation. Describing the global energy system using these three subsystems provides a way to articulate the differences and similarities for each system's required investments needs by the private and public sectors.


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South Australia safari camp: Pitch perfect
Camping for cheats it may be. But glamping - in the form of luxury eco-tents with nearly every conceivable comfort - has certainly staked its place in remote Australian tourism in recent years.
The latest entrant to pitch a tent is Ikara Safari Camp, located at Wilpena Pound in the underrated Flinders Range in outback South Australia.
The new accommodation is part of the venerable Wilpena Pound Resort, one of Australia's first such outback tourism ventures, about 400 kilometres north of Adelaide.
It's run by the same group as Wildman Wilderness Lodge, located just outside Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, offering the option of similar safari tent accommodation.
Ikara's 15 en suite premium tents are situated in a secluded location away from the main resort, which was bought in 2012 by Indigenous Business Australia and the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands. Set amid river red gums and native pines, there are spectacular views of the walls of Wilpena Pound from the shaded timber decks outside each of the "rooms".
Each tent at Ikara (the Aboriginal name for Wilpena Pound), is well-spaced from its neighbour, maximising privacy. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in a large communal tent, beside an open fire pit, at the camp's centre.
Guests can also access Wilpena Pound Resort's general store, restaurant and bar, swimming pool and internet.
Inside the tents, if it weren't for the flexible walls, you could be in a decent four-star-plus hotel room, except for the welcome absence of a TV. A fully tiled bathroom comes with a powerful hot shower, there's reverse-cycle airconditioning, plunger coffee and even a mini-bar-style fridge.
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Do not make the mistake of buying the¬Ýcheapest honey in¬Ýsupermarket just to save a dollar. The universal truth holds true in this case because you get what you pay for you¬Ýmay be surprised¬Ýto know you'Äôre not buying¬Ýpure honey in some cases. This is false/misleading advertising.
In order to lower the price, the chemical make-up of honey is often subjected to numerous alterations.
A public research study conducted by the Food Safety News provided a rather alarming find concerning honey. They have discovered that upto 76% of all types of honey available in supermarkets have been subjected to a process called ultra filtration.
manufacturers say that this process is needed in order to prevent "crystallizing and to prolong the shelf life of the product." Little do the consumers know that pollen is extremely important and beneficial to our bodies.
According to these researchers, the main reason to avoid honey thats been teated by this process is the inability to determine the geographical origin of the honey, as in cases of pollen contamination, the origin needs to be analyzed and traced.
Chinese honey is one such example. It is often contaminated with illegal antibiotics and some metals, since producers process honey in this way ¬Ýin order to import it, and its origin is unknown.
Therefore, we can suggest a few brands and places where you can purchase honey which lacks pollen:
- Honey types sold at Walgreen's and CVS Pharmacy do not contain pollen.
- Certain packages of KFC and McDonald honey do not contain pollen.
- Honey Winnie the Pooh which can be bought at Walmart does not have pollen.
- 77% of the honey sold at Costco, Target and Sam's Club do not have pollen.
Moreover, there are also honey types which have been combined with glucose, as well as others which are high in poor-quality mead. Adulterated honey is honey that is not in its purest possible form.
How to Recognize Fake Honey:
- If your honey does not "crystallize" over time, there is a good chance it may be adulterated, since the pure one will crystallize when kept in the fridge.
- Always read the labels: Always read the label on the honey, and if it contains commercial glucose or high fructose corn syrup, avoid it.
- Add a few iodine drops into a glass of water and add in some honey afterwards. If your honey turns a blue colour it has been combined with corn starch.
- Add a couple of drops of vinegar into a mixture of water with honey. If you see foam, your honey has been adulterated with plaster.
- Burn the honey with phosphorus or a match, and if it ignites, it is pure honey.
- Place a spoon of honey into a glass of water. In case the honey does not dissolve, it is pure.¬ÝFake honey or poor-quality honey dissolves in water.
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As a small boutique building and design team, we have a keen interest in creating very special living spaces. We hold both unlimited domestic and commercial builder registrations and have been building for over 30 years.
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Shared living is something we're really excited about. Multiple rental incomes from a single dwelling means investors can positively gear and receive a significant income stream from their investment.
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P52 : 2010 : Week 45
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I did some scouting out of locations this week and took you with me to this one. You weren't too interested in "posing" for me - LOL! There was a grove of trees here and you LOVED going in there and looking for Bigfoot (or alternately played Werewolf), all courtesy of Nickelodeon (iCarly & Victorious). But the locations were super cool and you were super cute anyway!


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Read the Gospel of Mark. Many times the crowds were amazed at what Jesus was doing. When he healed the blind man, they were amazed. When he cast out a demon, they were amazed. When he taught with authority, they were amazed.
When we saw the Mel Gibson movie, The Passion of the Christ, we were amazed. Some, as in Mark's account, were offended. There is a great turning point in Mark 8 where Jesus turns toward Jerusalem and says, "Anyone who would follow me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." Amazement turns into decision. Peter pushes Jesus aside and says, "NO, LORD!" and Jesus does something that amazes Peter. He says, "Get behind me, Satan!" Wouldn't want to be called Satan by Jesus. Perhaps in that moment Jesus was so resolute that anything standing in his way would have been Satanic.
The question for us anytime we are faced with the amazement of Jesus and the offense of the cross, the way of the cross, is Will we go with him? The way we answer that is in our faith, our walking that road of carrying the cross. It takes a lifetime, I believe, to figure out what that means. Carrying crosses is a mystery to me. I don't claim to fully understand it, and certainly religious folks have confused it with self-punishment and guilt. Yet there is something in the heart of Jesus' message and story that leads me to believe somehow the mystery will be revealed to us while we are carrying the cross of Christ, not simply while we are amazed.


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AUTHOR'S NOTES: If you don't watch 'Fragile Balance' and read 'The Difference Between Men and Boys' first, this story is going to make zero sense.
Some things never change.
"I didn't do all that well in Chemistry last time I was taking exams," Jack complained. "So I think having to go through it a second time is unfair." He was going through his notes for chem finals tomorrow. "I'll only fail again."
"Life didn't come with a 'fair' sticker on the package, sir,"came the response from the girl lying on his bed. "And you won't fail."
He glanced at her and frowned at her use of his old mode of address. She was lying on her back, staring up at the ceiling, with her legs resting up against the wall and her feet on his poster of the X-305 no less – a 'birthday' present from 'Uncle' George.
"Get your feet off the poster, Carter!" The pointed use of her surname got her attention, as he'd intended it to do. She stared at him in surprise for a moment, before she lifted her feet from the poster and flopped them down on the mattress.
"Did I call you 'sir' again?"
"Damn." She propped her head up on her elbow, her gaze internally focused for a few seconds as she replayed the conversation in her head. Then she looked up at him, in all seriousness. "This could be a problem."
"This could be a problem?" Jack snorted. Smart as she was, she could occasionally be incredibly dense about some things. He put down his pen and pushed his chair back, stretching his legs out under the table. He'd been at the equations for nearly an hour now. It was time to take a study break. And address this issue before it got them both into trouble. "Sam, you've been calling me by name for the last two years – why are you suddenly starting to revert now?"
In the early days, they'd found it easier to think of each other in terms that they'd been careful to avoid the six years before that. These days Jack thought of Lieutenant Colonel Sam Carter as 'Carter', and his schoolmate Sam Carter as 'Sam'. He'd thought she was doing the same, so the relapse was worrying.
She traced patterns on the bedspread, chewing on her lower lip, and he waited for her to respond.
"You look more like him, now. Sound more like him."
"Which means...?" He knew he had an ugly note in his voice – the old fear of being inferior to 'that' Jack O'Neill. The older one. The original. He heard it in his voice and he saw it in her eyes as she looked up at him, startled.
"It's just instinct," she responded, now defensive. "Old habits coming out."
"So the last two years have been, what? Chopped liver?"
Sam glared at him. "No. But sometimes when I'm not looking at you, I forget. It's just habit."
"It's been two years!"
"And it was six years before that!" Her voice crackled with annoyance. "It was one mistake, Jack. And a completely unconscious one at that!"
"You'd better be careful, that you don't 'unconsciously' call me 'sir' in public, then," he rapped out, harsher than he intended.
Her mouth drew together, "I'll be sure to do that."
They stared at each other for a long moment before she got up, brushing non-existant dust specks off her t-shirt. "I think I'll go to bed," she said at last.
"You mean you'll read that journal in bed for the next two hours?" He said sarcastically.
"I mean I won't sit here, and take this kind of crap from you, Jack!" She headed for the door, but he was faster and got between her and the exit. "If you're not going to be civil, I'm not going to talk to you," she told him, with the calm detachment he hated seeing in her. It reminded him too vividly of 'Major Sam Carter', watching every word, look, and touch between them, lest some hint of impropriety be reported back to their superiors.
Huh. Maybe they did have too much history to make a future of it.
But Jack had never been one to take the system lying down like a good little subordinate – and he knew only too well the streak of recklessness in Sam Carter.
"I'll be civil if you stop calling me by a title that isn't mine anymore."
She threw her hands up, "For crying out loud, Jack, it was once. Count it on your fingers – permission to use your toes if necessary! Once. Completely unconscious and totally unsuspecting at that! Why are you getting so uptight about it?"
"Because I'm not him!" He snapped back, incensed that she had to ask at all. "I'm not him – pushing fifty and wanting a woman who might as well be as distant as the moon for all the interest she shows in me!"
She gaped at him, her jaw dropping in amazement. "You...him...?"
"Come on, Sam!" Jack said, shortly, aware that he'd betrayed not only his own secrets, but the secrets of his other self – the man who had taken Jack's life. "You had to be aware..."
The flush would have been cute under different circumstances. "Well, yes, but not...not like that..." And what she didn't say was that the intensity he'd always felt but never shown made all the difference. As long as 'Colonel Jack O'Neill' kept his distance and was charming, friendly, and lightly flirtatious, 'Major Sam Carter' had never had to deal with 'Jack' – only with 'the Colonel'. The parameters were known and accounted for – no unknown variables in the equation.
And jeeze, he'd been hanging around Sam way too long if he was starting to think in mathematical and scientific terms now. This whole education thing was so not good.
"So as long as you could ignore me, it was okay, huh? As long as I kept everything nice and neat and orderly – for your sake – you were okay with feeling feelings?"
"No," she said, but her tone of voice had the quality of someone trying to hold onto a slippery belief.
"Fuck," he said with pithy frustration. He'd always known that Carter didn't let herself see him as a man. Not really. This just proved it.
The grimace which crossed her expressive face would have been comical under any other circumstances. "Look, it's been two years. We're not who we were – you know that as well as I do. We don't look at each other the same."
His frankly admiring gaze over her figure earned him a glare. "What?"
"I meant...oh, you know what I meant."
"So it's not...things aren't the same...you can't cast her behaviour in my face anymore!"
"It was your behaviour, too."
"And what kind of choice did I have?" Sam demanded. "What kind of options were we ever given? They put us in a situation where we had very little choice but to care and then wouldn't give us any way out of it!"
He stared her down. "We have options now."
"We have options," she reminded him. "They don't."
"We aren't them. And the thing about options is that you take them."
She stared at him. "Is that what this is about? You're sulking..."
"I do not sulk!"
"You do sulk," she retorted. "You did then and you do now!" She calmed herself, exerting visible effort to do so. Once again, the trinium of her self-control imposed the limits of her behaviour – and Jack scowled. "Look, it's not that..." Sam paused and flushed. "It's not that..."
"It's not what...?"
"It'snotthatyou'renotattractive," she said very quickly and all at once, as if it would make it easier to slur it all together. "It's just..." Sam bit her lip. "Old habits."
He wasn't going to take that. "You've already used that excuse once, you can't use it a second time."
She glared at him and, abruptly in a better frame of mind, he grinned. There was something about knowing you hadn't lost 'it' that made a man feel distinctly better about himself. "Tell you what, Sam," he said, cockily. "You go with me to the prom – and don't think I don't know you've already gotten a dozen invites – and I'll forgive you for calling me by a title that isn't mine anymore."
It wasn't blackmail – not quite. Who else was she going to go with anyway? One of the adolescent guys who was looking for a pretty girl to fuck and had no idea that this woman could take them out in hand-to-hand without ever reaching for a gun?
"We're going to the prom?"
"Cute, Sam. I take it that's a yes?"
"Jack..." Her shoulders slumped a little, but her expression was one of anger, not despair.
"It's just one word. A single syllable. Easy for a Doctor of Astrophysics to pronounce."
"Okay! Yes, I'll go to the prom."
"With me," he prompted, just for good measure.
She rolled her eyes. "With you."
"And you won't call me 'sir', again."
She glared. "And you won't lose your temper again if I do."
Jack grimaced. It had just been so unexpected – and like going back two years to the standoff they'd been in for years before that. "I'll try not to lose my temper if you do."
"Then I'll try not to make you lose your temper," she said, putting the inflection where he did.
"So," he paused, theatrically. "Does this mean we're dating?"
He didn't need an interpreter to know what that look meant. Call me your 'girlfriend' and you're dead. Jack just grinned as she moved around him, pushing him out of the way.
Jack refused to be pushed. Not by this woman.
"No goodnight kiss?"
He thought she'd shove him away, offended.
Sometimes, she still surprised him.
Her hand closed about the back of his head, and the next thing he knew, he was kissing Sam.
Dear Holy God and all his angels in Heaven above... He was kissing Sam Carter!
Jack still remembered his first, first kiss. Tess McAllister had been blonde and sweet, literally the girl next-door. The kiss was brief and sugary from the donut she'd been eating. There'd been innocence and curiosity, and a lingering uncertainty about the kiss.
This was like that first kiss, and yet nothing like it.
Sam kissed with certainty. She wasn't a seven-year old, and she wasn't a seventeen year old, either. Her mouth and body knew exactly what she wanted from him, and she took it without apologies. She kissed like sunshine and youth and the smell of Krispy Kreme donuts, like laughter and desire and summer storms. As if there was nothing else she'd rather be doing and no-one else she'd rather be with.
This woman knew exactly what she wanted, and he was definitely pleased to find out it was him.
Oh, you're getting old and sentimental, Jack.
He didn't care.
He kissed her back, intending to steal her breath from her. In all of eight years, he'd never been willingly given a kiss – a real kiss – from Sam Carter.
He was kissing her now.
It might have been hours later when she pulled back. It might have been years. Jack wasn't exactly up to calculating the details.
But she looked him in the eye, a smirk written clear across her face – the satisfied expression of a woman who knew her exact effect on the man before her. He opened his mouth, and she laid a finger on it and said, "Good night, Jack."
Then she nudged him out of the way and opened the door.
Jack stuck his arm across the opening. Sam looked up at him, eyebrows raised in query. "I guess this changes things?"
She smirked. "I guess it does."
He grinned slightly and brushed his thumb across her bottom lip. "No home base tonight?" He twinkled at her in mischief and she met his gaze coolly.
"You're pushing your luck."
He shrugged, still grinning. "Hey, it's elastic. It'll hold okay."
Blue eyes rolled in exasperation and she slipped out the door with a, "Goodnight, Jack."
An hour later, his chem study finished, Jack went to bed with a smile.
Some things never change.
Some things do.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES 2: Several people have asked about their living situation. At present, I have them living in the same household, but in separate rooms. Are they boarding with a family? Living alone? Under the care and guidance of the Air Force? I'm afraid I don't know beyond the parameters of this story! Sorry.


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