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Lawmakers Press SBA Administrator on Mismanagement, IT Security
Chabot: "What we have here is a failure of confidence in the SBA"
Agency Only Implemented 7 of 69 GAO Recommendations
You can view today's hearing with SBA Administrator Contreras-Sweet here.
Today, members of the House Committee on Small Business pressed Maria Contreras-Sweet, the Administrator of United States Small Business Administration (SBA), on a recent GAO report detailing widespread mismanagement at the agency.
"The ongoing problems at SBA, as GAO identified, span the entire breadth of your Agency," said Full Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH). "From information technology and security to staff management issues, from disaster response to fraud in your lending and contracting programs, it's a safe bet that the small businesses in our districts are paying the price for the Agency's failures."
Highlights from today's hearing:
"If I were you, I'd start with these IT and cybersecurity deficiencies. That's what worries me the most, and I'll tell you why," Chairman Chabot suggested, noting that SBA had failed to implement 30 GAO recommendations related to IT security. "We've seen the IRS hit, the State Department, OPM, and even the White House hacked. Small businesses trust the SBA with information they don't want a rival business, their neighbors, or the Chinese Government to have access to. Yesterday, GAO told us this information isn't adequately secured. That cannot continue."
"When you say you're doing this according to all these protocols and you have a GAO study that says you're way behind in getting these things done with regards to their assessment, when you have Standard Operating Procedures that are being called into question, I'm not sure that citizens can have great faith in what you're saying. It certainly concerns me but I do appreciate your willingness to work on it,' observed Small Business Committee Vice Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO).
"One of the complaints we here most frequently about government is that it's dysfunctional, incompetent and unaccountable," said Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL). "One of the things that struck me the most is that the GAO perceives a breakdown of communications at the SBA that employees don't have forums in which they can't express their frustration, perhaps their views on how things can be done differently."
"From my very first days in office, I have prioritized the need to modernize SBA's operations, enterprise-wide, to respond to the technological, demographic and globalization changes that are transforming our small business economy," said Administrator Contreras-Sweet. "To that end, I agree with many of the GAO's recommendations and appreciate this opportunity to update you on our efforts to bring SBA fully into the 21st century."
In her testimony, Administrator Contreras-Sweet committed to providing the Committee with monthly updates on the progress the SBA is making to address the problems identified by the GAO report, including IT security.


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Yes, it was today. In the middle of the SharePoint Best Practices Conference I had an opportunity to present about the mistery of the OBAs to my audience. First of all, let me say thank you to Mindsharp because of this huge opportunity!
Well, what is this conference like? Interesting. Colorful. Full with a lot of talented experts and presenters. I feel… how to say? I feel if I would at home in this community. I have friends around me. Although my native language is not the English, we speak the same language, we understand each other – because we're all the members of the SharePoint Community. And that's a really-rellay great thing!
So, you can ask: what about my presentation? I have to say the truth: I was a little nervous, because that was my very first presentation in English. Khhhmmmm… Yes… Everybody has to begin sometimes… The second thing, we have to be faced with a trouble last night: we've had a problem with the SSDS service, and we were able to fix it just a few hours before my session. But finally everything was working! Huhhhh!… (As you know, SSDS is private beta right now.)
After these difficulties I was talking about a lot of things: what is OBA? how you can play with several components? what is SSDS and how can be integrated to an OBA environment? what is OBA Composition Toolkit? how does it help your everyday work if you are a developer / architect / business analyst? what are the best practices to build your complex OBAs?
Oh, yes. Best practices. You should know, what I mean talking about best practices. What the organizers or the other SharePoint folks think about it.
Well, I think you should read Mark Schneider's post in which he explains his and the organizers' opinion.
Well, my OBA Best Practices are going to be published here soon: my slides, demos, codes, etc. Keep tuned!…

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Eyelid Asymmetries
Don't get hung up on facial asymmetries that neither you or anybody else noticed before. The truth is that facial asymmetries are the norm and are unnoticed by the average observer. Only mannequins have perfect facial symmetry -- and that's one reason that they don't look natural. Human faces have numerous asymmetries, if you bother to look for them. People can focus on and therefore get too caught up in relatively minor facial asymmetries. Yours are minor. For instance, differences in the level of the boney eye socket (and therefore the level of the eye and surrounding structures) are common. Also, the tilt of your head when the photograph is taken can create a slant. I doubt if many or any of the surgeon's in this forum will see anything worth trying to "fix".
My Right Eye is Smaller and Differently Shaped Than my Left Eye, and my Eyebrow is Also Differently Shaped? (photo)
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