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Whitman Forensics Newsletter
Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 2000
Natalie, Valbona, and Jessica have contributed to the team's NFC first place finish this year
Whitman wins the NFC
After a particularly strong start in the first semester, Whitman forensics pushed ahead to capture the Northwestern Forensics Conference title.
The team was led by impressive individual events performances by first year students Denice Kelley and Mario Cava, sophomore Gabe McGuire, and junior Brian Danielson. Not to be outdone, Scott Daniel, Brian Simmonds, and Brant Olson brought home awards in extemp LD.
The team's conference win was topped off by excellent debating by the policy and parli squads who both brought home top awards at the last two NFC tournaments at Western Washington University and Whitman College.
Whitman finished the year with 255 points, well ahead of second place Pacific Lutheran University and their 214 points.
With Whitman's strong depth, incoming recruits, and the loss of only one competing senior, the team is well poised to repeat as champions again next season.
Public address gets a boost
Public speaking appears to be a skill that interests more than just debaters. Whitman College was recently awarded a Rockefeller grant to increase skills in public address on campus. Some of the grant money went into purchasing two brand new computers and an assortment of audio/visual equipment for a public address room in the Hunter building. Money was also provided to hire an intern to assist student, faculty and staff with their public address needs.
This semester's intern was assistant director of forensics, Geof Brodak. Team member Brian Simmonds also helped. Together they assisted many students with their undergraduate conference presentations. Geof and Brian were also available to help seniors prepare for their oral examinations and thesis defenses. So far, the program has been an incredible success; and in combination with the IM debate program and the Dovell-Gose contest, the Rockefeller grant has promoted public address on the Whitman campus.
Geof Brodak has been hard at work coaching team members and helping students throughout the campus with their speaking skills.
The team at Bob's house for the end-of-the-year party.
End of the Year Bash
This year the team was lucky to have its end of the year party at former director Bob Withycombe's house. He was even gracious enough to let the team picture be taken on his stairs.
In typical team style, the event started casually late; but once everyone arrived, they made sure that this would be an end of the year party to remember. Prawns, scallops, fresh bread, bean dip, and other goodies were made by Jim, Bob, and Abby.
The highlight of the event was the traditional fun awards that the coaching staff gave to the students. Every year the coaching staff brainstorms for hours to find the perfect award that summarizes each person's contribution to the team that year. Among the most memorable were Scott Daniel's "I debated with Nikki and lived to tell the tale" and Thad Blank's "Quote Man" awards (we won't repeat these quotations here!).
All the awards were given in good fun and there were laughs all around as the team reminisced about the year's events. Even Jim's contributions were recognized—the rest of the staff gave him two brand new shirts. There was, however, one caveat: he had to dispose of two older shirts that had long since seen their better days.
JP Lacy smiles as he readies himself for a fourth year as assistant.
The 1999-2000 Staff
Director of Forensics, James Hanson; Assistant Director of Forensics, J.P. Lacy; Assistant Director of Forensics, Geof Brodak; Assistant, Policy Debate, Adam Symonds; Assistant, Interpretation Events, Kevin Loomer; Student Assistant and Intramural Debate Coordinator, Abby St. Lawrence; Chair, Department of Rhetoric and Public Address, Robert M. Withycombe; President, Whitman College, Thomas E. Cronin
Jim Hanson is pleased with the team's successes.
33 Competitors
Jim noted: "We had 33 participate on the team this year. That's big but what was really stunning was the number of people who traveled to most tournaments. We had 9 teams at the nationals tournaments and they all did well."
Competitors, Whitman Forensics, Spring 2000; Brant Olson, Brian Danielson, Brian Simmonds, Brian Ward, Charles Olney, Denice Kelley, Emily Cordo, Erin Brey, Gabe McGuire, Gary VanDenBerg, Heather Fife, Jessica Clarke, Keola Whittaker, Lauren Ritter, Mario Cava, Mark Lanning, Natalie Havlina, Nicholas Thomas, Nolan Brewer, Paul Charlton, Scott Daniel, Thad Blank, Todd Borden, Valbona Sherifi.
Coaching staff, continuity and change
Jim remains to begin his ninth year as Director, almost as long as it took him to get his Ph.D. Jim is looking forward to the coming season and to teaching Political Campaign Rhetoric in the fall, a course analyzing the ads, speeches, and strategies of the 2000 campaign.
JP Lacy will be continuing for a fourth year as assistant director for CEDA/NDT debate and as a mastermind in the newly released Quake III! His keen insights and remarkable strategies have been a critical advantage and we're very glad to have him back.
Geof Brodak (assistant director for Parliamentary Debate and Individual Events) on the other hand will be leaving us to be with his self-described "sexy girlfriend," Sandy Stoneman, back in Colorado. We will miss Geof's aggressive style and sense of humor.
Abby St. Lawrence (student assistant and intramural debate director) will be graduating. Abby received a very generous package from Lewis and Clark College where she will attend law school. She'll be missed especially by Jim who has depended on her so much. Julie Miller, '02, will be stepping in to serve in Abby's position.
Whitman hosts some of the nation's best
Whitman hosted two college forensics tournaments during the February 25-27 weekend. The Dean McSloy tournament occurred on Friday at Whitman but is managed by Brent Northup, '68, and the Carroll College team. The Northwest Forensic Conference's final designated tournament is managed by Jim and NFC coaches. The NFC results are critical in determining the yearlong sweepstakes award.
With this knowledge in hand, the team stepped up and did what was necessary to bring the NFC title home. Seven Whitman competitors earned top awards in individual events; and the parli team of Gabe McGuire and Todd Borden took second place. However, the policy squad saved the day. They closed out the senior division in the semi-finals! This stupendous effort of four of our policy teams catapulted Whitman into the NFC lead over PLU.
This past fall, for the second year in a row, the Whitman High School tournament was a semis qualifier for the Tournament of Champions in policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate. This places it among the twenty best tournaments in the nation. Over sixty high schools attended from five states in the west.
Jim revised the schedule and set new entry limits and the tournament has never run smoother. Even so, rooms all over campus were used. Even the Sherwood small gym and the large gym balcony were partitioned off to make additional "rooms." The squad also invested in walkie-talkies to help communicate between Hunter and the ballot table in Cordiner.
The tournament is an excellent recruiting tool for the college. Jim keeps in contact with many of the top students at the tournament in an effort to get them to join our team. His efforts appear to be paying off as the team's recent success and growth have shown.
Senior-staff dinner
In another end of the year tradition (started last year), Jim took people out to eat for the senior staff dinner. This year's dinner was at Paisano's; and just happened to be on the same night as Walla Walla High School's senior prom. Needless to say, everyone felt just a little underdressed at the Whitman table.
After dinner, Jim took time to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of the team's two graduating seniors—Jessica Clarke and Abby St. Lawrence. Both are off to their respective law schools next year. Moreover, Jim was surely correct to say that they both will do very well and will be missed.
Scott, Emily, Todd and JP enjoy good times
Jessica and Charles dominated the circuit, earning a first round bid to the NDT.
Whitman Struts Its Stuff
Second semester is a very busy time in competitive debate with three national championship tournaments to attend.
The post season started in early March with the National Parliamentary Debate Association's championship tournament at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Whitman sent five teams, advancing two to elimination rounds (Keola Whittaker and Brant Olson and Brian Danielson and Denice Kelley). Whitman placed 10th at the tournament and 20th for the entire year.
Next on the docket was the Cross Examination Debate Association's national tournament at Johnson County College in Kansas City. All of our policy teams were at least one win away from breaking (Scott Daniel and Nicholas Thomas and Brian Simmonds and Brian Ward went 4-4). Thad Blank and Emily Cordo had a great tournament going 7-1 in prelims and taking out a first round (a "top 16") team along the way. Thad and Emily finished 17th place overall. But it was Jessica Clarke and Charles Olney who led the way into the quarter final round where they lost a close 2-1 decision.
Other awards that the team won at CEDA nationals were a 10th place finish overall for the year and 3rd as a squad at the Nationals tournament. And Jess came home as the 6th place speaker.
That was not the end of Whitman's successes. After a move to the other side of the city to the University of Missouri Kansas City, the team attended the National Debate Tournament.
For the second year in a row, Whitman had the distinguished honor of receiving a first round bid (Clarke/Olney) and had a district bid as well (Blank/Cordo). At the tournament, Jess and Charles finished in 17th place.
IM Debate Championship
Whitman students took the intramural debates as an opportunity to engage in argument about whether Elian Gonzalez should return to Cuba and whether Whitman's student government should support free speech even when it may be offensive.
In the experienced division, Ziad Abu-Rish and Sean Collins fought it out for the championship. In the end Ziad triumphed in a very close race. The inexperienced division was also tough this year. Piper Foster triumphed over Diane Mount in the final round. Close behind were Rachel Dryden and Erin Bray who tied for third place.
The team at CEDA Nationals 2000 including Geof, Adam, Jim, Brian, Emily; and in the front row, Charles, Jessica, and Thad.
Huge Thank You
The Salzman-Medica Fund has donated $250,000 to the team's Salzman-Medica Forensics Scholarship fund. Jim Hanson noted that "This fund helps us recruit outstanding, talented students. It is just exciting to have this kind of support for our program and students." Serious forensics students are often unable to do work-study and some struggle financially in their college years. This additional money will make it possible to extend financial support to these students. Thank you very much Megan Salzman Medica and John Medica.
Dovell-Gose draws a large field
In one of the largest fields in the contest's recent history, eight women and 12 men competed for the coveted Dovell-Gose oratory championship.
The women's field was especially competitive and the critics (Jim Hanson, Bob Withycombe, and Geof Brodak) had a difficult time selecting a winner. However, it was first year Denice Kelley with her speech on trans-racial adoption that took the cake. Finishing second was senior Jessica Clarke with her critique of an "ex-gay" speaker who recently visited campus; and close behind was sophomore Emily Cordo with her speech entitled "New national Feminism."
In the men's division, the championship went to a very strong presentation by sophomore Nicholas Thomas on feminist appropriations. First year Thad Blank's topic on terrorism discourse earned him second place and his former debate partner Brian Simmonds took third place with his constitutional examination of the Child On-line Protection Act.
Denice Kelley won the Dovell-Gose contest.
Whitman Forensics Newsletter
Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2000
Withycombe-Walker Fund Contributions
Thanks for your contributions to these speech and funds! Generous donors since December 7, 1999 include: the AT&T Foundation, Sean Harris ('98), Hexcel Foundation, Loan Lam ('96), Jared Phillips ('95), Jennifer Becker ('94), Andy Backlund ('96), R. Paul Beveridge ('83), Lysle Wilhelmi ('84), Robert Withycombe, Lloyd Danielson, and Susan Danielson.
Contributions to the Walker Fund or the Withycombe Fund should be sent to:
Annual Fund Office
Whitman College
Walla Walla WA 99362
Checks should be made out to Whitman College with a note that says to place the contribution into the Walker or Withycombe Fund.
History of the team gets posted!
Jim's been hard at work, posting the history of the team! He's adding about one year per day. Each year includes pictures, Whitman and World news, Team awards, Speech courses, and more. Check it out here:
Team Picture for the Yearbook, 1985-1986
Back row: (Reagan and Bonzo the chimp on the wall), John Lange, Drummond Kahn; Second row: David Johnson, Todd Brown, David Bansmer, Erik Highberg, David Hackett, Nate Johnson; Front Row: Bob Withycombe (Director), Lanora Walker, Glenn Simshaw, Leola Weimer, Cara Elston
Policy Awards
Overall 1st, Western Scrimmage; 2nd, Lewis and Clark; 1st, U. Oregon; 1st, U. So. Cal; 1st, Baylor; 1st, WWU; 1st, NFC-Whitman; 1st, NW CEDA Champs; 3rd, CEDA Nationals
Jessica Clarke and Charles Olney: 1st, Western Scrimmage; 2nd, Lewis & Clark; 1st, U. Oregon; 17th, Wake Forest; 9th, Univ. So. Cal.; 5th, Long Beach; 5th, West Georgia, 9th, Baylor; 9th, Northwestern; 1st, NFC-Whitman; 3rd, NW CEDA Champs; 5th, CEDA Nationals; 17th, NDT
Courtney Gardner and Emily Cordo: 5th, Lewis and Clark; 5th, U. Oregon
Thad Blank and Emily Cordo: 5th, Long Beach; 17th, Baylor; 1st, WWU; 1st, NFC-Whitman; 3rd, NW CEDA Champs; 17th, CEDA Nationals; NDT Qualifiers
Brian Simmonds and Thad Blank: 5th, Western Scrimmage, 5th, U. Oregon
Brian Simmonds and BrianWard: 3rd, WWU; 1st, NFC-Whitman; 5th, CEDA Champs
Keola Whittaker and Brian Ward: 5th, Lewis and Clark; 1st, U Oregon; 1st, USC; 2nd, Baylor
Nicholas Thomas and Scott Daniel: 1st, U. Oregon; 1st, USC; 5th, Baylor; 1st, NFC-Whitman
Lauren Ritter and Mario Cava: 3rd, NFC-Whitman
Parli Awards
Overall 2nd, Lewis & Clark; 3rd, NFC-Whitman; 10th, NPDA Nationals
Brant Olson and Jenni Burgess: 9th, Lewis & Clark; 9th, U. Oregon
Brant Olson and Keola Whittaker: 1st, PLU; 33rd, Parli Nationals
Gary VanDenBerg and Brian Danielson: 9th, U. Oregon
Brian Danielson and Denice Kelly: 9th, NW Parli Champs; 33rd, NPDA Nationals
Todd Borden and Gabe McGuire: 2nd, Lewis and Clark; 17th, Pt. Loma; 2nd, NFC-Whitman
Denice Kelley and Mark Lanning: 1st, U. Oregon
Denice Kelley and Natalie Havlina: 5th, WWU
Brant Olson and Maggie Malone: 9th, Air Force
Individual Events Awards
Brian Danielson: Junior Impromptu: Finalist, Lewis and Clark, 2nd, U. Oregon; Junior Extemp: Finalist, PLU; Finalist, NFC-Whitman;
Brian Simmonds: NFA LD, 2nd, Air Force; Extemp-LD, 2nd, NFC-Whitman
Brant Olson: NFA LD, 5th, Air Force; Extemp-LD, 3rd, NFC-Whitman
Courtney Gardner: Novice Extemp, 2nd, Lewis and Clark
Gabe McGuire: Junior Extemp, 3rd, Lewis and Clark; Finalist, NFC-Whitman; Junior Impromptu: 1st, Lewis and Clark
Gary VanDenBerg: Junior Extemp: 1st, Lewis & Clark; Finalist, U. Oregon
Ian Danforth: Junior Impromptu, 3rd, U. Oregon
Jenni Burgess: Senior Impromptu, 1st, U. Oregon and Lewis and Clark, and Senior Extemp, Finalist, Lewis and Clark; 1st, U. Oregon
Mark Lanning: Novice Impromptu, 1st, Lewis and Clark; 3rd, U. Oregon
Meredith Johnson: Novice Extemp, 1st, Lewis and Clark
Natalie Havlina: Novice Extemp, Finalist, U. Oregon
Denice Kelly: Junior Impromptu, Finalist, PLU; 1st, NFC-Whitman; Junior Persuasion, 2nd, WWU; Junior Extemp, 2nd, WWU; Senior Persuasion, 3rd, NFC-Whitman;
Mario Cava: Junior Extemp, 2nd, NFC-Whitman
Brian Ward: Junior Extemp-LD, 1st, NFC-Whitman
Scott Daniel: Junior Extemp-LD, 1st, NFC-Whitman


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I'm kinda happy but kind of upset. After December's recital for hiphop (since its a half class) I tried signing up for it again because I really enjoyed it, with it being my 2nd time doing it and all, but apparently I was too late (cause i was sick the 1st time we signed up) and all the spaces were filled. So I chose modern dance. I mean I am excited for it but at the same time, a little bit upset because i was really getting into hip hop. Oh ya and for ballet one of my pointe classes (i'm in two now) is a half class and I just decided to take nothing in its place so as of jan, I will be taking: 1 pointe class, 1 ballet, 1 jazz, 1 tap and 1 modern(half class). But its cool I guess. I'm so glad though that this year my parents let me take 6 dance classes, cause last year they only let me take 3 full and one half, but cause I'm a senior and I had a rocky last couple of years, they did it to make me happy....hmmm go figure.
Anyway I have a lot of stuff to do in school tomorrow that I do not want to do at all. Like tons of projects and quizzes and tests and all that shit. Well whatever, I'm gonna go, the OC is on soon. Later!
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In December 2008, the world learned about Bernard Madoff's unprecedented fraud, a Ponzi scheme that spanned decades and defrauded customers of approximately $20 billion.
On the day the news broke, I received a call from the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ("SIPC") and was asked to serve as SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS).
Two Approaches, Shared Goals
Recently, the Special Master of the Department of Justice's Madoff Victim Fund (MVF), Richard C. Breeden, announced his approach to the distribution of forfeited monies to certain victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The MVF currently holds approximately $2.35 billion of forfeitures that have been obtained by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in cases related to the Ponzi scheme operated through Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS).
As of November 20, 2014:
Additional unresolved matters remain that require determination, including "time-based damages," or payments based on the time elapsed while customer funds were deposited with BLMIS. All of these matters will be heard and determined by the courts and, until resolved, require reserves. In addition, 145 claims have been "deemed determined pending litigation" and the SIPA Trustee must establish sufficient reserves to ensure that he would be able to make all pro rata distributions to date to all potentially eligible claimants, whether or not their claims are allowed at the time of distribution.
Required reserve for deemed determined claims: Approximately $2.865 billion
Required 3 percent reserve ordered by Bankruptcy Court for issue of time-based damages: Approximately $1.445 billion
Other reserves, including reserve for deferred payments and unallocated funds: Approximately $685.7 million
As of November 20, 2014:
Fourth pro rata interim distribution of 3.180%: $352.2M
Third pro rata interim distribution of 4.721%: $524M
Second pro rata interim distribution of 33.556%: $3.753B
First pro rata interim distribution of 4.602%: $517.2M
Amount of SIPC advances reimbursed to SIPC on fully satisfied accounts: $114.1M
In the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) liquidation, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) has made cash advances – up to a maximum of $500,000 – available to the court-appointed Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) Trustee to distribute to customers with allowed claims, as a way to expedite financial relief to these customers. As of November 20, 2014, SIPC has committed approximately $816.2 million to the BLMIS liquidation for this purpose. SIPC-committed advances will continue to increase as claims that are currently in litigation are allowed as a result of settlements or the conclusion of litigation.
According to the provisions of SIPA, SIPC is reimbursed for its advances to customers once each respective customer claim is fully satisfied. As of the fourth pro rata interim distribution in the BLMIS liquidation proceeding, SIPC received $114.1 million in reimbursement from the Customer Fund for advances paid on fully satisfied accounts.
*In this instance, the term "subrogation" refers to the reimbursement to SIPC of cash advances made to BLMIS customers, once the respective allowed customer claim has been fully satisfied.
All amounts approximate
- Information Regarding Special Master & the Madoff Victim Fund
- Oral Argument Before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Regarding Time-Based Damages on Tuesday, October 14, 2014


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Emulation, transparency, portability
Analysis of products that support the emulation of market-leading database management systems. Related subjects include:
Dataupia is officially for sale
Dataupia marketing VP Samantha Stone — who by the way has been one heck of a trooper through Dataupia's troubles — is joining the exodus from the company. General graciousness aside, the heart of Samantha's farewell email reads:
Unfortunately, we have had to reduce our burn rate as we seek an acquirer for our technology.
We have a group of loyal employees remaining on staff focused on current production customers and the acquisition efforts.
As part of the most recent staff reductions I will be leaving Dataupia.
Two years ago I wrote:
[Dataupia would] make a great acquisition for a BI company or DBMS vendor who could then say "Oh, no, this isn't a DBMS appliance – it's merely a data warehouse accelerator." When you look at it that way, their chances of prospering look distinctly higher.
But at this point I think there probably would be more appealing ways for those vendors to meet the same needs.
|Categories: Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Dataupia, Emulation, transparency, portability
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Two lessons from Dataupia's troubles
I've been beating my head against the wall trying to convince startups of two well-established truisms:
- Experience consistently shows that the demand for transparency/emulation features isn't as great as entrepreneurs hope.
- If a startup's competitors sell directly to enterprises, an indirect sales strategy rarely succeeds.
Maybe one or the other will learn from Dataupia's example.
Dataupia's troubles are now confirmed
Todd Fin pointed me yesterday to an article by Wade Roush that confirmed in detail layoffs and other troubles at Dataupia. The article quotes Dataupia marketing VP Samantha Stone as saying Dataupia is down to 23 employees, and that some of the layoffs were in engineering. This is consistent with what I'd been hearing for a while, namely that other analytic DBMS vendors were seeing a flood of Dataupia resumes, especially technical ones.
The article goes on to discuss difficulties Dataupia has had in raising another round of financing. During Dataupia's very long CEO search — which I kept hearing about from people who'd been approached for the job — it was obvious money wouldn't come in until a CEO was found. But it seems that even with a new CEO, existing investors are reluctant to re-up without a new investor as well, and that new investment is slow in happening.
On the plus side, the article quotes Samantha as saying founder Foster Hinshaw is recovering well from his heart surgery.
|Categories: Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Dataupia, Emulation, transparency, portability
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Teradata Developer Exchange (DevX) begins to emerge
Every vendor needs developer-facing web resources, and Teradata turns out to have been working on a new umbrella site for its. It's called Teradata Developer Exchange — DevX for short. Teradata DevX seems to be in a low-volume beta now, with a press release/bigger roll-out coming next week or so. Major elements are about what one would expect:
- Articles
- Blogs
- Downloads
- Surprisingly, so far as I can tell, no forums
If you're a Teradata user, you absolutely should check out Teradata DevX. If you just research Teradata — my situation — there are some aspects that might be of interest anyway. In particular, I found Teradata's downloads instructive, most particularly those in the area of extensibility. Mainly, these are UDFs (User-Defined Functions), in areas such as:
- Compression
- Geospatial data
- Imitating Oracle or DB2 UDFs (as migration aids)
Also of potential interest is a custom-portlet framework for Teradata's management tool Viewpoint. A straightforward use would be to plunk some Viewpoint data into a more general system management dashboard. A yet cooler use — and I couldn't get a clear sense of whether anybody's ever done this yet — would be to offer end users some insight as to how long their queries are apt to run.
|Categories: Database compression, Emulation, transparency, portability, GIS and geospatial, Teradata
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IBM's Oracle emulation strategy reconsidered
I've now had a chance to talk with IBM about its recently-announced Oracle emulation strategy for DB2. (This is for DB2 9.7, which I gather has been quasi-announced in April, will be re-announced in May, and will be re-re-announced as being in general availability in June.)
Key points include:
- This really is more like Oracle emulation than it is transparency, a term I carelessly used before.
- IBM's Oracle emulation effort is focused on two technological goals:
- Making it easy for an Oracle application to be ported to DB2.
- Making it easy for an Oracle developer to develop for DB2.
- The initial target market for DB2's Oracle emulation is ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) much more than it is enterprises. IBM suggested there were a couple hundred early adopters, and those are primarily in the ISV area.
Because of Oracle's market share, many ISVs focus on Oracle as the underlying database management system for their applications, whether or not they actually resell it along with their own software. IBM proposed three reasons why such ISVs might want to support DB2: Read more
|Categories: Data types, Emulation, transparency, portability, EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus, GIS and geospatial, IBM and DB2, Market share and customer counts, Oracle, Pricing, Structured documents, Text
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DBMS transparency layers never seem to sell well
A DBMS transparency layer, roughly speaking, is software that makes things that are written for one brand of database management system run unaltered on another.* These never seem to sell well. ANTs has failed in a couple of product strategies. EnterpriseDB's Oracle compatibility only seems to have netted it a few sales, and only a small fraction of its total business. ParAccel's and Dataupia's transparency strategies have produced even less.
*The looseness in that definition highlights a key reason these technologies don't sell well — it's hard to be sure that what you're buying will do a good job of running your particular apps.
This subject comes to mind for two reasons. One is that IBM seems to have licensed EnterpriseDB's Oracle transparency layer for DB2. The other is that a natural upgrade path from MySQL to Oracle might be a MySQL transparency layer on top of an Oracle base.
|Categories: ANTs Software, Dataupia, Emulation, transparency, portability, EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus, IBM and DB2, Market share and customer counts, MySQL, Oracle, ParAccel
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EnterpriseDB's itemized claims of Oracle compatibility
Obviously, I'm poking around EnterpriseDB's site this morning (in connection with their status as my client, actually). Anyhow, we all know that one of EnterpriseDB's core claims is great Oracle-compatibility — but what exactly do they mean by that? I found a fairly clearly laid-out answer, as of last year, in this white paper and and — even more simply — in this blog post summarizing the white paper.
Oracle's hefty price increases
Jeff Jones of IBM wrote in to point out that Oracle is slathering on the price increases. I quote: Read more
|Categories: Dataupia, Emulation, transparency, portability, EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus, Oracle
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ANTs bails out of the DBMS market
ANTs Data Server — i.e., the ANTs DBMS — has been sold off to a company called 4Js. It is now to be called Genero DB. Actually, 4Js has been selling or working on a version of the product called Genero DB since 2006, specifically an Informix-compatible one.
I'm not totally clear on why an Informix-compatible DBMS is needed in a world that already has Informix SE, but maybe IBM is overcharging for maintenance even on the low-end version of the product.
Meanwhile, ANTs, which had originally tried to get enterprises to migrate away from Oracle, is now focused on middleware called the ANTs Compatibility Server to help them migrate to Oracle, specifically/initially from Sybase.
|Categories: ANTs Software, Emulation, transparency, portability, IBM and DB2, Oracle, Sybase
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Database blades are not what they used to be
In which we bring you another instantiation of Monash's First Law of Commercial Semantics: Bad jargon drives out good.
When Enterprise DB announced a partnership with Truviso for a "blade," I naturally assumed they were using the term in a more-or-less standard way, and hence believed that it was more than a "Barney" press release.* Silly me. Rather than referring to something closely akin to "datablade," EnterpriseDB's "blade" program turns out to just to be a catchall set of partnerships.
*A "Barney" announcement is one whose entire content boils down to "I love you; you love me."
According to EnterpriseDB CTO Bob Zurek, the main features of the "blade" program include: Read more
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After 'big data': IT leaders ask, 'What's in it for me?'
Autonomy's chief architect says CIOs are more inclined to focus on the solutions they need, rather than the bigger buzz around a rising tide of data.
For many, 2012 was the year of "big data." It has been one of the most publicized topics in enterprise computing for the last year or two, and many senior IT executives began grappling with the challenges of storing, understanding, and drawing intelligence from ever-growing pools of data.
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"If you're a major bank dealing with broadcast information—100 or 300 channels of video data all day that might contain information relevant to your business or key trading—you may not care whether I call that 'big data,'" Lucini says. "But if I talk to you about a way to consume massive amounts of video, understand it well, and store it cheaply, you might want to have a piece of that."
Q: Has the enterprise come to grips with the information explosion yet?
Fernando Lucini: I talk to very knowledgeable CIOs on this topic, and there's a great divide between the ones who completely understand and those who don't. They're asking, "What does this big data thing mean to me?" and if they get it, they can take action. If they don't, then they'll continue to wait, see what happens, see what their peers are doing, and when they understand, then they can take action.
Any large enterprise, you have most of your knowledge in email, and that's a monstrous repository of data that's constantly in motion. You've got people dumping stuff in there—you don't even know where to start. You've got audio and video coming out your ears, and now there's BYOD, which means dealing with information in transit.
At Autonomy, we deal with information and these issues every day: that's our currency. So it's rare that you see a customer of ours say, "We have small information." But they have to put it into the perspective that there is an element of this data that they're not exploiting, and that they should exploit.
Q: So the wow factor of petabyte statistics is giving way to individual applications?
FL: Well, the next question with "big data" is: What's in it? What can I exploit? One of our customers, a very large bank, told us, "We have these very large systems, and they're making us less efficient, not more." So the question becomes: "How do we take the noise and extract the things that are important, useful, that I need, so I can spend my time productively?"
Another customer, a telecom, had a challenge with signaling data, trying to give users a better experience. They're a provider of information services, so they think of information in terms of giving customers better service at the layer of information, which lets the customer buy more from them. It's a level we see in a lot of our interaction with customers.
Q: How does a CIO or a VP of information management find those opportunities and innovations?
FL: It's not easy. If you ask a CIO, "How much opportunity to innovate are you losing because you don't have the data?"—They'll look at you like, "Of course I can't answer that. Why are you here?" What you can do is have a method to bring more information to the surface.
You need to be prepared to arrive at this meeting with some fundamental problems that are clearly shared by the entire world, and a solution which is equally ubiquitous and fundamental. Information is universal. So providing value across all knowledge is clearly something desirable; if we can start with this simple building block, we're then giving the CIO a framework or tool to innovate around information. This leads to very fruitful discovery conversations, where the capabilities of a core tool drive the thoughts around innovation or streamlining of processes, etc.
Q: So the value of mastering all that data is in finding new opportunities?
FL: There's also efficiency. You know that the moment you have more than two groups of, say, five people, you will duplicate effort. Any CIO—anybody in their right mind at any creative entity—will know this. If we have two or three groups working on similar themes, they don't tend to talk to each other, and information is lost.
If I'm working at a large engineering firm on a certain product description, I'm liable to reengineer the wheel over and over. If I can be looking through the engineering bibles and texts, and the firm's own history and data, for something that fits the criteria of what I'm working on, I can avoid wasted duplication. If nothing fits my criteria, I know I can then continue on the design.
Otherwise, you recreate that process X number of times. The creation, the selling, the processes of going to market—you've had a lot of waste for lack of information. Can you fix it? Maybe not 100 percent, but you can certainly help it. You can give someone the ability to see whether it's been done before.
Q: In 2013, the CIO is going to have a lot of fires to put out, and a lot of trends being heralded in the marketplace. Why should information management top the list?
FL: All these things are moving. One thing that's constant is that your information is always just sitting there. That's a risk and an opportunity. You have to decide where that data is going to sit.
Think of your information management as an operating system for information, in the broadest sense of "operating system" as something that gives you a service on top of something. If you have this information operating system in place, it can be there when you're dealing with risk, with governance, with the value of information you're delivering to the customer. It's there when you're dealing with "tearing down silos," or dealing with mobile or BYOD. If you deal with the information at the beginning instead of at the end, it's easier to work with all these other issues.
All of us will have to deal with information risk eventually. You can either wait until the problem comes to you, and then enable all these resources to try to deal with it, or you can put it in place first, and have a system that tells you which rules to apply in which new situations.
If you're taking this to your CIO or CEO, it can be hard to say, "Do my bit first." But we're saying that if you figure out the operating system for information, mobility will be easier, risk management will be immediately easier. Innovation will be a little easier to obtain, information dissemination will be easier.
Q: So what are you looking for, when you solve that fundamental question?
FL: Well, with that earlier example, one function is helping you figure out whether the new whizno you're designing is redundant, or where you've got duplicative processes. Your system has to be intelligent enough to understand concepts and themes, not just keywords, because different workers might apply different keywords—you need to be able to go deeper than that. So you can go on doing all the other things that are important to you, but this kind of system will help you get them done.
And I'm also hearing an interest in big data management as a SaaS function. People are saying, "I get this—now can I buy the value rather than the infrastructure?" I'm hearing this quite a lot, so that's another direction the market is going.
Q: How are the best IT leaders tackling the issue?
FL: Rather than seeking whether they "have big data," CIOs are saying, "What aspects of big data technologies can solve my problem?" One area we're working with a lot is email systems, files, sharepoints—CIOs are becoming more cognizant that these systems hold key information for their users, and they're big and moving quick.
Except for certain industries, they're not looking toward that more exotic aspect where big data is represented by sensors at the bottom of the sea. It's the data in these common systems, but lots of it of undetermined value. What's happening to your brand in social media, for instance, is something that should be part of your daily life. The way people are interacting with data in your organization, how you use your information, deal with information gaps, and all that.
It's no longer a question of whether the big data label applies to your enterprise. CIOs are looking at the solutions and saying, "Are they creating technology that can help me? I don't care if I have big data—will this help my business?"
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Pachadi series: Gongura pachadi (Red sorrel leaves chutney)
Posted by Madhavi on November 7, 2008
mango pickle and gongura chutney
Andhra pradesh, my home state is very popular for eating hot and spicy food. Coming to pickles, the most populous one's are aavakaaya (mango pickle) and gongura pachadi (red sorrel leaves chutney). In Andhra, we make lot of instant pickles which are supposed to be consumed in two to three days. These types of pachadi's can be made either with vegetables, greens or dal's.
Today i want to share with you Gongura pachadi, one of the most famous pachadi's of all times. My mom makes this pachadi in three different ways. One with green chille, one with dry chille and urad dal and the other with dry chille and peanuts. The one i am posting today is with the peanuts.
This beautiful picture was taken in one of our dear friend's house. They have planted this gongura plant, which has grown beautifully in their backyard. I was lucky enough to pick the fresh leaves and make the pachadi.
- Gongura leaves- about 4 cups
- a handfull of peanuts
- dry red chilles- 5
- tamarind juice – 1tsp (adjust depending upon how tangy the gongura is)
- onion- 1/4th
Tempering/ Talimpu:
- oil- 1tsp
- mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- chanadal, urad dal, cumin seeds- 1/4th tsp each
- few curry leaves
- dry red chille-1
- pinch of hing
In a pan put the oil, once hot add the mustard. Once the mustard starts to dance, add the other ingredients and fry till light brown.
In a pan put a teaspoon of oil and fry the peanuts till light brown. Remove and keep it on the side. In the same pan add the dry chille and fry. Remove, now add two teaspoons of oil and the gongura leaves with little bit of salt. cook in low heat till gongura becomes soft. Let cool.
In a mixer grind the peanuts and red chille coarsely. Now add the gongura, some salt, tamarind juice and very little water. Grind till its smooth. Now add some chopped onion and grind it just one more time. You should still be able to see some chunks of onion.
Finally add the tempering and enjoy the pachadi with hot rice and some ghee.
Check out my other blog – http://madhusindianrecipes.blogspot.com/. for new updated recipes.
19 Responses to "Pachadi series: Gongura pachadi (Red sorrel leaves chutney)"
November 7, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Madhu, Nice variation, never knew u could add peanuts to Gongura. will give it a try next time
November 8, 2008 at 8:39 pm
hi madhu,
i want to know what is red sorrel leaves/Gongura leaves known in hindi.b'coz i loved the pachadi & want to try.
I am not sure what they call in hindi.
November 9, 2008 at 10:03 am
hi madhu,
meeru gongura akkada penchukunnaru chusi chaala santosham anipinchindi.
me vantalu chala bavuntunnai
November 10, 2008 at 1:10 am
Hi Madhoo,
Gongura pickle looks yummy. Nice pictures.
I will try this next time when I find Gongura here.
November 30, 2008 at 8:05 pm
My My!! My eyes are on those Gongura plant in your friends's backyard. Does it survive in summer? I can hardly find gongura in the market. bookmarking ur recipe.
December 4, 2008 at 1:33 pm
both look delecious , andrities cannot live with out those
December 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm
hi madhu,
nice to c u back with ur mouth watering recipes.keep posting more.
how is ur little one doing?
December 18, 2008 at 9:24 am
Look at those beautiful fresh sour greens. Its been a long time I had Amabada ki bhaji (we call Gongura in Urdu as Ambada, and perheps in hindi too, i'm not v sure). Actually it is not even available here in my place in the markets, oh I miss it sooo much!
January 29, 2009 at 2:51 am
hi madhu
nice gongura pachadi…v like gongura pachadi like these. i tried my home.it comes very nice..
April 27, 2009 at 10:35 pm
hai i like gongura pachadi it looks like my mothers recepie
August 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Gongura pachhadi made me salivate which my wife noticed….but could not help as she cannot find gongura available anywhere near our home at Bangalore.
August 25, 2009 at 4:17 am
hi madu u r recepies are very dalicious. i try dondakaaya patchadi. taste is amazing. i hope u will post most recepies
February 3, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Hello Madhavi,
Great article. Thanks for posting it. I want to bring to your attention a small typo. In the sentence "Coming to pickles, the most populous one's are aavakaaya", it is "popular one", not "populous one's".
August 25, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Hi Madhavi,
I had saved your blog link and finally found it today. So many recipes that I can use. We too have plenty of gongura growing in our garden this year. Do you have any recipes without peanuts? Rahul has peanut and coconut allergy?
Loved your postings. Shanthi
March 4, 2012 at 7:43 am
dear madu, i really love your recipies . could you please let me know wheare can i get these serving dishes that were showed on the pictures? [brass] i appeciate it. thank you. my email address ; firstname.lastname@example.com.
May 6, 2012 at 3:16 pm
http://kmshomemadefood.blogspot.in/ gud recipes ..:)
September 7, 2012 at 11:01 am
I am going to try this tomorrow since I have lot of Gongura growing in the yard.
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On 15 September 2010 Beck supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the effort to federalize the European Union (EU). For over 60 years, the Union of European Federalists (UEF) and its youth organisation Young European Federalists (JEF) with a "belief that only a European Federation, based on the idea of unity in diversity, could overcome the division of the European continent"have been actively working to promote the idea of European federalism. There are a total of 35 members, including some prominent supporters such as: Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff and Elmar Brok.
The 'risk society' concept[edit]
Risk society is a term coined by Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens during the 1980s. According to Beck and Giddens, the traditional industrial class structure of modern society is breaking apart. Globalization creates risks that concerns people from all different classes; for example, radioactivity, pollution, and even unemployment. He points out that risks are also socially constructed and some risks are perceived as more dangerous because they are discussed in mass media more frequently, such as terrorism. Risk society leads to analysis of risks, causing prejudgment.[3]
For 25 years, Beck has been delivering new diagnoses to the following question: How can social and political thought and action in the face of radical global change (environmental destruction, financial crisis, global warming, the crisis of democracy and the nation-state institutions) be intertwined for the new modernity?[4] The radicalized modernity cuts down its own foundations. Based institutions such as the nation-state and the family are globalized from the inside. According to Beck, all contemporary political thinking comes from the methodological nationalism of political thought and sociology (and other social sciences).[5]
Beck is the editor of the sociological journal, Soziale Welt (in German, since 1980), the author of some 150 articles, and the author or editor of many books.
- Main works
- Beck, Ulrich (1986) Risikogesellschaft - Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (Risk Society)
- Beck, Ulrich (1988) Gegengifte : die organisierte Unverantwortlichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
- Beck, Ulrich (1992) Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage
- Beck, Ulrich & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim: Riskante Freiheiten - Gesellschaftliche Individualisierungsprozesse in der Moderne (1994)
- Beck, Ulrich & Giddens, Anthony & Lash Scott (1994) Reflexive Modernization.Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Vossenkuhl, Ziegler, photographs by T. Rautert Eigenes Leben - Ausflüge in die unbekannte Gesellschaft, in der wir leben (1995)
- Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth & Beck, Ulrich (1995) The Normal Chaos of Love. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1995) Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1996) The Reinvention of Politics.Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Was ist Globalisierung? (1997)
- Beck, Ulrich (1998) Democracy without Enemies. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1998) World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (1999) What Is Globalization?. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2000) The Brave New World of Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Adam, Barbara & Beck, Ulrich & Van Loon, Joost (2000) The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory. London: Sage.
- Beck, Ulrich & Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth (2002) Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences. London: Sage.
- Beck, Ulrich & Willms, Johannes (2003) Conversations with Ulrich Beck. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2005) Power in the Global Age. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich (2006) Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, U., & Grande, E. (2007). Cosmopolitan Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich. (2009). World at Risk. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Beck, Ulrich & Grande, Edgar (2010) "Varieties of second modernity: extra-European and European experiences and perspectives" British Journal of Sociology, Vol 61, Issue 3, pages 406–638.
- Beck, Ulrich (2013) German Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Das deutsche Europa, Berlin 2012)
Ulrich Beck is one of the most famous German sociologist of present day, being one of the most cited social scientists in the world.[6] His works have been and are being translated into more than 35 languages. In 1999 Beck was awarded with the CICERO speakers prize, in 1996 with the Cultural Prize of Honour City of Munich, 1999 with the German-British Forum Award for outstanding contributions to German-British relations (along with Anthony Giddens).[7] Furthermore, Beck has received a prize from the DGS (German Sociological Association) for outstanding achievements in the field of public activity in sociology in 2004 and in the following year the Schader Prize, the highest prize award for social scientists in Germany. So far he has been awarded six honorary doctorates - University of Jyväskylä / Finland 1996, University of Macerata / Italy 2006, Madrid University (UNED) / Spain, 2007, University of Lausanne / Switzerland, 2011, Free University of Varna / Bulgaria, 2011.
In 2013 he received the ERC advanced grant to carry out the Cosmo-Climate Research Project (Methodological Cosmopolitanism: In the Laboratory of Climate Change), with David Tyfield and Anders Blok amongst others.
See also[edit]
- ^ Collaborative Reflexive Modetnization Research Centre 536
- ^ Ulrich Beck and Wolfgang Bonß (ed.): The modernization of modernity. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001; Ulrich Beck and Christoph Lau (ed.): Delimitation and Decision. Frankfurt 2004 special issue of the journal Social World: theory and empirical reflexive modernization, 2005
- ^ See also: Joachim Möller, Achim Schmillen: Hohe Konzentration auf wenige – steigendes Risiko für alle (IAB-Kurzbericht 24/2008)
- ^ Ulrich Beck: World Risk Society. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2007
- ^ Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande: Beyond methodological nationalism: Non-European and European variations of the second modernity, in: Social World 2010
- ^ PDF at www.manuelcastells.info
- ^ German-British Forum Awards
External links[edit]
- Professor Ulrich Beck - his staff page at the LSE
- Homepage of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck (German)
- Unofficial Ulrich Beck trading card at theorycards.org
- Ideas radio show, discusses Ulrich's concepts of risk in science and society
- New media artwork inspired by Ulrich Beck's work, created by eco-art collaborative EcoArtTech
- Interview with Ulrich Beck: "Nationalism does not leave much room for the recognition of others", Barcelona Metropolis, 2009.
- Europe's Times and Unknown Waters, Cluj-Napoca, Marga, Andrei (April 2009). "The society of risk? Ulrich Beck, Risikogesellshaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne"
- Interview with Ulrich Beck: "Germany has created an accidental empire", London School of Economics, 2013.
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A Six-Pack of Security Breaches
I love it when others make my job easier, as the fine folks at Ars Technica have with this piece under the headline, "Breaches galore as Cryptome hacked to infect visitors with malware." (And no, that's not the gem referenced above; that comes later.)
A breach that caused Cryptome.org to infect visitors with virulent malware was one of at least six attacks reported to hit high-profile sites or services in the past few days. Others affected included Ticketmaster, websites for Mexico and the state of Alabama, Dutch ISP KPN, and the Microsoft store in India.
Cryptome, a repository of leaked documents and other information concerning free speech, privacy and cryptography, was attacked by hackers who left code on its servers that attempted to infect visitors using Windows PCs with a trojan spawned by the Blackhole Toolkit, the website reported on Sunday…
Word of the compromise came as at least five other high-profile sites and services were also reported to have had their security breached. They include government websites for Mexico and the state of Alabama, the Dutch ISP KPN, the UK arm of Ticketmaster, and the Microsoft store in India. Members of the loosely organized hacker collective Anonymous reportedly took credit for a denial-of-service attack that took out US government's CIA website and then backed away from the claim.
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Lots of people, we understand, visit…ahem…sites of the adult variety. But we'd also venture to guess that 99% of them would rather nobody know about it. So subscribers to one particular site were probably more than a little unnerved when they saw this headline from Gawker: YouPorn Security Breach Exposes Millions of Horny Users' Emails and Passwords. (Yes, that's the one.)
The Gawker story is amusing but we'll let the folks at Digital Journal tell the story:
A security breach has exposed the emails and passwords of thousands of users of the chat service of the popular pornographic site YouPorn.com, an incident that might have caused embarrassment to some users of the site.
YouPorn in a statement has blamed a third-party chat service for "failing to secure the data." International Business Times reports that Manwin Holding SARL, YouPorn's parent company, said it has disabled the third-party chat service called "YP Chat." Kate Miller, a spokesperson of Manwin, said the security breach was entirely the fault of the chat service provider and that YouPorn itself was not at fault. Miller attempted to reassure millions of its users, after the fact of leakage of their email addresses, saying, "YouPorn continues to ensure that all appropriate measures and tools are in place to maintain the security of its infrastructure, and to safeguard the privacy of its users."
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A brief look into the leaked logins did not reveal anyone stupid enough to register with a ".gov" email address, but it does reveal a lot of very stupid passwords—including fifteen that included the word "password."
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Apple was also in the news this month when word got out that it's possible for certain apps to copy photos from its devices – like, all of them. As The News Tribune reports:
The private photos on your phone may not be as private as you think.
Developers of applications for Apple's mobile devices, along with Apple itself, came under scrutiny this month after reports that some apps were taking people's address book information without their knowledge.
As it turns out, address books are not the only things up for grabs. Photos are also vulnerable. After a user allows an application on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to have access to location information, the app can copy the user's entire photo library without any further notification or warning, according to app developers.
It is unclear whether any apps in Apple's App Store are illicitly copying user photos. Although Apple's rules do not specifically forbid photo copying, Apple says it screens all apps submitted to the store, a process that should catch nefarious behavior on the part of developers.
University Exposes Thousands of Social Security Numbers
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A security breach in a computer at Central Connecticut State University has exposed Social Security numbers of students and of current and former employees to potential risk and misuse.
A computer in the business office became infected by a "Z-Bot" virus, which exposed 18,275 Social Security numbers, said James Estrada, the university's chief information officer.
The university said it was matching numbers with names and addresses Thursday, and will contact each person who was exposed.
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Amp up your corporate event by adding a photo booth!
Does your corporate event or party need an element of fun that gives each employee a fun way to remember the special occaision? A photo booth is the perfect solution!
Because we provide so many fun props, your guests will be encouranged to use the booth over and over again. We have provided photo booths for all different types of corporate events including grand openings, product launches, awards ceremonies, summer picnics and of course holiday parties. Make your next event stand out from the rest by adding a photo booth to entertain your guests. Send us a note and check booth availability for your event and we will bring the fun to you!
The below corporate clients have enjoyed Fun Frames Photo Booth entertainment.


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The Sponsored Programs Administrator is responsible for post-award administration of all Research Foundation accounts. Fiscal records and reports are maintained by the Research Accounting staff.


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Department 56 North Pole
Countdown To Christmas
A part of the North Pole Collection, designed by Department 56 - inspired by magic and charming legends, bringing Christmas dreams to life for the young and the young-at-heart.
Christmas dreams to life for the young and the young-at-heart. Countdown To Christmas, hand-crafted and hand-painted porcelain figurine accessory.
4.5in H x 2in W x 5in L
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