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Climate Change:
Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades are Potentially Significant
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Weather-related events in the United States have caused tens of billions of dollars in damages annually over the past decade. A major portion of these losses is borne by private insurers and by two federal insurance programs-- the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which insures properties against flooding, and the Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), which insures crops against drought or other weather disasters. In this testimony, GAO (1) describes how climate change may affect future weather-related losses, (2) provides information on past insured weather-related losses, and (3) determines what major private insurers and federal insurers are doing to prepare for potential increases in such losses. This testimony is based on a report entitled Climate Change: Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades are Potentially Significant (GAO-07-285) being released today.
Key scientific assessments report that the effects of climate change on weather-related events and, subsequently, insured and uninsured losses, could be significant. The global average surface temperature has increased over the past century and climate models predict even more substantial, perhaps accelerating, increases in temperature in the future. Assessments by key governmental bodies generally found that rising temperatures are expected to increase the frequency and severity of damaging weather-related events, such as flooding or drought, although the timing and magnitude are as yet undetermined. Additional research on the effect of increasing temperatures on weather events is expected in the near future. Taken together, private and federal insurers paid more than $320 billion in claims on weather-related losses from 1980 to 2005. Claims varied significantly from year to year--largely due to the effects of catastrophic weather events such as hurricanes and droughts--but have generally increased during this period. The growth in population in hazard-prone areas and resulting real estate development have generally increased liabilities for insurers, and have helped to explain the increase in losses. Due to these and other factors, federal insurers' exposure has grown substantially. Since 1980, NFIP's exposure nearly quadrupled to nearly $1 trillion in 2005, and program expansion increased FCIC's exposure 26-fold to $44 billion. Major private and federal insurers are both exposed to the effects of climate change over coming decades, but are responding differently. Many large private insurers are incorporating climate change into their annual risk management practices, and some are addressing it strategically by assessing its potential long-term industry-wide impacts. In contrast, federal insurers have not developed and disseminated comparable information on long-term financial impacts. GAO acknowledges that the federal insurance programs are not profit-oriented, like private insurers. Nonetheless, a strategic analysis of the potential implications of climate change for the major federal insurance programs would help the Congress manage an emerging high-risk area with significant implications for the nation's growing long-term fiscal imbalance.
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Rethinking Recycling – Auckland's 'Lovenotes' – by Jess O'Connor
Amanda Judd, creator & founder of Lovenotes, is taking paper recycling to a whole new level. Have you ever wondered what happens to paper after it hits the recycle bin? Where does it go? What does it get turned into? Who uses it in the future? Is the process cost effective? Is it really contributing to a more sustainable environment?
Lovenotes is a social enterprise that is asking these questions, and providing some of the answers. Their mission is simple: to create brilliant stationery for you, from your own waste paper. With their service Refresh, Amanda and her team collect one-sided paper from your office and return it to you in the form of stunning stationery.
However Lovenotes is more than just a service. The real significance of their work lies in their philosophy. They envisage "a generative world where all life thrives abundantly." Amanda is interested in creating a positive work environment where the team, clients, services and products all thrive without compromising the world around them.
"The focus is on the collective impact, not just the individual return."
The team at Lovenotes have all noticed how important it is to be provided the space and time to be creative, be themselves, be part of decision making, and to do what they love while also trying new things in a supportive environment. As a creative response to this, Lovenotes has recently welcomed a new emphasis on expression of creativity through Seasonal Collections – designing new covers, backing boards, products and accessories, that change on a regular basis. You still get the same reliable Refresh service, but new and fresh designs and colours make your Lovenotes products even more exciting.
Amanda brings a fresh perspective to the table, not only in relation to the recycling industry, but to business as well. She is challenging and changing the way we conventionally 'work' and make money. She believes that we need to reflect on what we achieve in the workplace. Are we contributing positively to the world? Are we generating positive results? Are we happy and fulfilled in everyday life?
Lovenotes is an opportunity for her to raise awareness about our level of involvement in the way the world works. She encourages people to become active in their understanding of day-to-day processes such as recycling, rather than passive observers.
"With the traditional concept of recycling becoming increasingly automated, people have become detached from the process," says Amanda. With Lovenotes there is an opportunity to participate – you can use and appreciate the stationery that is produced from your own paper. Lovenotes has created a cycle that has positive returns – for both the paper and the user. On a business level, it can also save your company a lot of money in the stationery budget.
Lovenotes also meets a need. Despite the age of electronics, paper is still incredibly widely used, and "not everyone can plant a tree for all the paper they consume," emphasises Amanda. However, everyone can recycle and regenerate. With Lovenotes, you can directly enjoy and experience the return of your regenerating.
Want to get involved? Whether it is the service that interests you, or you simply want a chat, make sure you get in touch.
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One Lovenotes Refresh package for an Auckland based company, which includes:
Refreshing of 1 x Collection Box, full of your own one-sided, non-confidential paper.
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The option to Tailor your Refresh with branded covers etc. at discounted rates.This package is valued at $100. Your company will help save around 20,000 litres of water, plus one quarter of a tree, simply by using your own waste paper for stationery as an alternative to new.
All you've gotta do is SIGN UP to the Lovenotes newsletter and LIKE the Lovenotes facebook page. The (Auckland based winner) will be announced 30th April 2012.
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James Boyle, an advocate for the public domain, writes in his first chapter, the importance of intellectual property and how it is supposed to not only create incentives for innovation but also to create feedback that, "dictates the contours of information and innovation production". Boyle recognizes that copyright law is intended to allow an artist to make a living if their works are able to be protected by copyright, however, the extent of the copyright is what he critiques. He writes, "the rights that were supposed to be limited in time and scope to the minimum monopoly necessary to ensure production become instead a kind of perpetual corporate welfare- restraining the next generation of creators instead of encouraging them". Boyle believes that the extension of copyright is in the favor of large corporations who wish to seek profit rather than seek creation, which is the basis for the copyright law. He continues to write that he believes that the goal of the system (protection laws as a whole) should be monopolized only as long enough to provide incentives and then should be released into the public domain so that the public can benefit as well. He also points out that for most owners make all the money they will receive within five or ten years and that the remaining years are of little use. Another point Boyle also makes is that there are many works that have unidentified copyright owners or owners that just cannot be found which can be difficult for libraries who need permission to reproduce that material and therefore cannot if they cannot find the owner. This he believes is harmful to the public and does not allow them access to something that one may have permission to use but simply cannot get that permission due to the lack of information about the owner. Boyle argues that the extension of copyright law was lengthened without any evidence that it would encourage innovation.
James Boyle's argument for the protection of the public domain is convincing and it is convincing as my opposing argument for my paper. He provides an argument unlike other arguments that I have found because he not only discusses the corporate perspective but also the length of time that an owner actually receives payment for his work under copyright law. His argument is important to my paper because it provides a counter-argument that is strong and concise.
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--- Quote from: Kindred on May 07, 2012, 10:03:53 PM ---Unapprove is a good idea and is available as a mod already.
the other... I can not see it being a core feature.... I honestly can not see any admin on a forum with more than a few member sever using it. I have 40,000 members... Making edits frequently...
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So basically what i need is to be able to see posts edited/modified by poster(or even by moderator) in one place most likely in Moderation Center to be able to screen the content effectively.So it is nothing got to do with admin/moderator edits...
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Well, there's a mod to view post editing history but I believe it may be a touch buggy.
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That's why we say it should be adjustable for each board. Because not all of the boards are very content-sensitive.
@Elmacik If you need it "now" of course the fastest way is of course the mod. Once a mod exists it's also easier to evaluate how important and needed the feature is to the majority of the forums.
I think you have already found at least one person interested in writing such mod, isn't it Dr.Deejay? :P
I don't deadly need it for myself now; I just support the idea that it should be a core feature for the future versions of SMF. It could be disabled by default and adjustable for each board. It could even handle the typo corrections; so little changes won't require an auto-unapprove but more changes would.
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Utica man arrested for animal abuse after leading police on chase
Utica Police located and arrested a wanted Utica man who led police on a chase nearly two weeks ago.
Police say 22-year-old Henry Lumpkin was wanted for fleeing police and leading them on a chase after they stopped him for speeding on State Route 12 in Utica.
During the chase, police say he lost control of his car, flipping it over, and injuring his two passengers. Then, Lumpkin ran off on foot.
Police located Lumpkin on Monday. He was charged with reckless endangerment, two counts of assault, and unlawfully fleeing a police officer.
At the time of his arrest, Lumpkin was also charged with animal abuse.
Police say they responded to a reported argument at a residence on Springate Street in Utica on April 20.
Concerned citizens told police that a male and female were arguing and began to play "tug of war" with a pit bull puppy. The man reportedly wrestled the dog away from the woman and carried it down the street by one leg. It was also reported that he threw the dog down onto the driveway.
Police say that when they interviewed the man, he was uncooperative. He then threw himself onto the ground and could not or would not walk.
Police say he sustained a knife wound during the argument. No charges were filed because the man said the wound was self-inflicted.
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Isn't Clem working on a new installer?
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Isn't Clem working on a new installer?
Husse wrote:Isn't Clem working on a new installer?
Yes and no - only for the Debian version as far as I know
Locrian wrote:I was wondering if it will be possible to upgrade from flux felicia to flux helena without a fresh install sense, ive had quite a bit of time to make felica look and work well like the back of my hand (its truly beautiful i tell you!!!) or if helena will still use stuff like mint-fm2 and i can just copy paste some of my text files and such and have it be back to the same with little effort.
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Husse wrote:Any chance that you can use testdisk to recover at least parts of the crashed harddrive?
It's in the repos and I've used it with success
Of course the disk needs to spin at least
Basically that hard drive might be good as a paperweight, or perhaps as a crude projectile to throw in the general direction of some offending party, but not much else.
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The Volvo Group will record costs of approximately SEK 600 M in the fourth quarter of 2012 related to the previously announced reorganization of the European sales organization for trucks.
The Volvo Group has decided to consolidate its industrial operation in Japan in order to improve the overall efficiency.
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be awarding the scholarship for 2012 to Professor Ingemar Denbratt at Chalmers University of Technology. Ingemar Denbratt will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for his successes in combustion-engine research, as well as his national and international cooperation with industry within the Combustion Engine Research Center (CERC) and various EU projects.


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Photography a business for local 14-year-old
What started out as a hobby for Austin Bear, a Hanover 14-year-old, has turned into a business venture.
"I got a small point-and-shoot camera for Christmas two years ago," said Austin.
The gift sparked an interest in photography, and he began taking photos of many subjects. An early one was a dead leaf encrusted in ice, lying in a drainage ditch.
It wasn't long before he began eyeing his father's more advanced camera.
"I saw how much more stuff my dad's DSLR (digital single lens reflex) could do; better color, control of light and quality of pictures," he said.
His dad, Andrew Bear, who has been taking pictures since before he was Austin's age, was happy to teach him.
"By showing Austin, it reinforced my learning. He took right to it," said Andrew.
Together, father and son decided that if they sold some prints, they could earn enough money to buy new equipment.
Austin's new camera, a Nikon D3000, isn't cheap.
"We started 'A & A Bear Photography' about a year and a half ago," said Austin.
They now specialize in photographing family events, reunions and weddings.
They recently completed a senior high school photo shoot at Screw Auger Falls. The pair offer to travel to photograph clients and/or pets in their natural surroundings. "Austin and I have a unique approach," said Andrew. "We team up and do a double shoot. One of us takes the picture while the subject is looking at the other camera."
They've had a favorable response to this type of shoot. After the photos are taken, they process them on a computer.
A slide show is then created and set to music, of the client's choosing. The client chooses photos for printing.
"We just want to make enough [money] to support our experiences and have some father-and-son time," said Andrew.
Although they specialize in events, the Bears still shoot other subjects as well.
They sometimes go out for the weekend to see what they can find.
"We always have a camera with us wherever we go," said Austin.
They are always on the lookout for moose or loons at Howard Pond. After a bad storm, they were able to get shots of some of the destruction.
Some shoots are more challenging and eventful than others.
"We were taking pictures of a waterfall at Dunn's Falls and we heard a big bang. We looked up to see rocks falling down from a cliff nearby." said Austin. "Big rocks," added Andrew.
Austin also shoots a lot of closeup photos of flowers, mushrooms and other subjects that are easily accessible for him.
Austin shoots in manual, controlling the light and exposure.
"There's little done to the post process files," said Andrew.
Last fall Austin won an online photo contest with a photo entitled "Fall Canopy." His was chosen by "peer" photographers from among several hundred entries (To see the photo, go to www.bethelcitizen.com under this story).
Austin, who has been home schooled until this year, is a freshman at Telstar High School.
He is taking honors classes and is adjusting to public school. He is making friends and has joined the yearbook committee, where he will put his talent to use photographing glimpses of school life.
For more information on the Bears, visit their website at www.aandabearphotography.com.


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You can catch "MAME" at Peoria Players Theatre beginning on February 1st!
There will be 7:30 performances February 1st and 2nd and the 6th through 9th.
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Friday the 21st of Octover, over 50 innovative startups, entrepreneurs and capital-riskers, from France and elsewhere in Europe, were at the Ministry for the Economy to take part in "Rencontres de l'innovation 2.0", organised in conjunction with Le Camping by Silicon Sentier and Microsoft Bizpark. It's Mesagraph's turn to take to the stage!
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Story | Nov 17, 2010 | 4:32 AMSentinel columnist Scott Maxwell wanted to do a little sleuthing into who was financing the lawsuit against the Amendment 6 congressional redistricting amendment filed by U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Corrine Brown. From Maxwell: Voters deserve... -
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Story | Dec 16, 2010 | 4:33 PMWASHINGTON — Christmas came early for incoming congressman Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden, who learned today that he would get a seat on the transportation committee, alongside veteran Republican U.S. Rep. John Mica of Winter Park, who chairs the... -
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Story | Dec 22, 2010 | 4:32 PMAs expected, the 2010 census has awarded Florida another two seats in the U.S. House. Orlando and Tampa grew faster than other parts of the state, so those areas would have to be the favorites to wind up with the new seats. Legislators will b... -
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Story | Jan 17, 2011 | 4:33 PMIf there's power in numbers Hispanics in Central Florida have amassed quite a bit in the last decade. Their numbers have grown by 70 percent and now they top 900,000 in the I-4 corridor. The question now is how to turn that into political muscle. The... -
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Story | May 12, 2011 | 4:33 PMThe Roll Call website has put together a list of the 10 congressmen the publication believe carry the most influence on redistricting in their home states. Florida's designee: U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, the ex-legislator who is currently... -
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Thursday, Dec 127:17 AMOracle stung by two downgrades
- Oracle (ORCL) is off 2.3% premarket after being removed from Buy lists at Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital, with the RBC note mentioning valuation, cloud computing pressure, alternative data management solutions, and Chinese spending concerns.
Thursday, Dec 127:17 AM| 1 Comment -
Friday, Dec 66:41 PMServer sales drop again in Q3, H-P takes share from IBM
- IDC estimates server sales fell 3.7% Y/Y in Q3. That's a modest improvement from Q2's estimated 6.2% drop, but hardly a figure that will bring cheer to industry players. Gartner estimates revenue fell 2.1% in Q3 vs. 3.8% in Q2.
- The embrace by Web/cloud giants of home-grown servers produced by Asian contract manufacturers (ODMs) continues to upend the industry. IDC thinks sales of such servers rose 45% Y/Y, and now make up 6.5% of industry revenue. It estimates nearly 4/5 of these sales came from the U.S., largely from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Rackspace.
- #1 H-P (HPQ), which recently reported encouraing enterprise hardware numbers, is assigned a 28.1% share (+150 bps Y/Y) by IDC. #2 IBM, whose total Q3 hardware sales fell 17% Y/Y, is given a 23.4% share (-430 bps).
- Newly-private Dell had a 16.2% share (-40 bps, a reversal from recent gains), Cisco (CSCO - still seeing strong UCS server demand) a 5% share (+170 bps), and Oracle (ORCL - hurt by SPARC/UNIX server weakness) a 4.1% share (-60 bps).
- In a positive for Intel (INTC), x86 servers took share once again, with sales rising 2.8% and making up 79% of industry revenue. Red Hat (RHT) is likely pleased to see Linux servers now make up 28% of industry revenue. Windows (MSFT) servers made up 50%, and UNIX servers just 11%.
- H-P is the leader in the x86 server market (32.3% share), as well as in the growing blade server (43.6%) and density-optimized server (30.7%) markets. There's a decent amount of overlap between the x86 and blade/density-optimized markets.
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Monday, Nov 185:37 PMOracle buys mobile app management software firm
- Oracle (ORCL) has acquired Bitzer Mobile, a developer of software tools that enable secure access to corporate apps/files on mobile devices by creating "lockers" within the devices that are shut off from other apps/files. Terms are undisclosed.
- Oracle asserts Bitzer's software will help it address the burgeoning bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. Rival VMware offers something similar through its Horizon Mobile Secure Workspace, and Samsung is looking to add secure app/file silos within its devices through its KNOX platform.
- Oracle's purchase comes shortly after IBM bought Fiberlink, a provider of mobile device management, app management, and security software.
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Thursday, Nov 1410:13 AMCisco takes out more enterprise/telecom tech names
- The list of enterprise hardware/software, telecom equipment, and component/chip suppliers selling off (previous) due to Cisco's poor guidance and order data now includes Oracle (ORCL -2.4%), EZchip (EZCH -6.1%), Riverbed (RVBD -6%, shot higher yesterday on M&A hopes), NeoPhotonics (NPTN -6.6%), Ixia (XXIA -4.7%), Oclaro (OCLR -4%), Procera (PKT -2.3%), and Alliance Fiber (AFOP -3.8%).
- Cisco's weak service provider (-13% Y/Y) and emerging markets (-12%) orders are worrying investors in peers/suppliers, particularly given some peers (I, II) have also reported of soft carrier and/or EM demand. John Chambers' admission the NSA spying scandal has affected sales in China (orders -18%) also isn't going over well.
- However, many on the sell-side argue a big portion of Cisco's problems are tied to company-specific product issues.
- H-P (HPQ -5.6%), which has plenty of Chinese exposure, has added considerably to yesterday's AH losses, and so have Ciena (CIEN -5.3%) and Finisar (FNSR -10%). H-P's FQ4 report is due on Nov. 26, and Ciena's FQ4 report arrives on Dec. 12.
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Thursday, Oct 312:04 PMOracle shareholders vote against exec. compensation
- In a non-binding vote, Oracle (ORCL +0.5%) shareholders voted against proposed exec. compensation at the software giant's annual meeting. 2B+ votes were cast in opposition, and 1B+ were cast in favor.
- Complaints about Oracle's executive pay have been growing; advisory firm ISS recently recommended shareholders vote against 8 of the company's 11 directors, citing poor oversight with regards to compensation and other matters. Larry Ellison's pay (above $60M each of the last six fiscal year) has especially drawn a lot of heat.
- Nonetheless, a majority of votes were cast in support of Oracle's directors, including those on the compensation committee, in a separate non-binding vote.
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Thursday, Oct 2410:55 AMOracle may have paid $400M-$500M for BigMachines
- A source close to Oracle (ORCL) tells BI the company paid "hundreds of millions" for cloud sales configure price quote (CPQ) software vendor BigMachines at a valuation of ~5x sales. With BigMachines reportedly set to produce 2013 sales of $100M (up from 2012's $58M), the price tag could be in the $400M-$500M range.
- BI observes half of BigMachines' customers are also customers of Oracle CRM software archrival Salesforce (CRM +1.9%), and that the startup's client base include major enterprises such as GE and H-P. Oracle already offers an on-premise CPQ solution, but (as with other CRM markets) demand is shifting towards cloud-based offerings.
- Salesforce invested in BigMachines last year, and more recently took a stake in rival cloud CPQ vendor Apttus. Much as it responded to Oracle-Eloqua by acquiring ExactTarget, Salesforce could turn its sights on buying Apttus or another BigMachines rival.
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Wednesday, Oct 2312:09 PMOracle buys cloud CRM startup, looking to compete better against Salesforce
- Oracle (ORCL -1.3%) has acquired BigMachines, a developer of cloud-based software that automates the creation of complex price quotes for sales teams. Terms are undisclosed. (PR)
- BigMachines' software complements Oracle's existing cloud CRM software offerings, and represents an attempt to better compete against Salesforce (CRM -1.7%), whose mainstay Sales Cloud sales force automation platform has been rapidly taking share from Oracle (and SAP's) on-premise CRM apps.
- The purchase comes shortly after Oracle bought cloud content marketing software vendor Compendium. The purchase was the latest in a string of cloud marketing-related acquisitions by Oracle, which is competing in this space with Salesforce's Marketing Cloud, as well as offerings from SAP, Adobe, and IBM.
- Previous: Salesforce rises, Oracle falls in enterprise app survey
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Tuesday, Oct 224:29 AMAmid Microsoft speculation, Hurd says "not planning" to leave Oracle
- Oracle (ORCL) President Mark Hurd, a rumored candidate for the CEO position at Microsoft (MSFT), has told CNBC that he is "not planning" to leave his current job.
- Hurd said he is "very happy" at Oracle, although he didn't deny that Microsoft had contacted him about possibly replacing Steve Ballmer.
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Thursday, Oct 1712:57 PMOracle buys cloud content marketing firm, will integrate with Eloqua
- Oracle (ORCL -0.2%) has acquired Compendium, a developer of cloud-based tools for targeting, publishing, promoting, and monitoring marketing-themed content (blog posts, Facebook/Twitter updates, videos, etc.) for online/mobile platforms. Terms are undisclosed. (PR)
- Compendium's products, which leverage customer data/profiles to target content, will be integrated with recently-acquired Eloqua's cloud-based marketing automation platform for online campaigns.
- The Compendium and Eloqua acquisitions have followed the purchase of three social media marketing startups - Involver, Collective Intellect, and Vitrue. Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, and IBM have all been using M&A to help create end-to-end marketing software platforms aimed at CMOs, who are accounting for a growing share of IT spend.
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Tuesday, Oct 155:05 PMISS opposes re-election of most Oracle directors, citing exec. pay
- Proxy advisory firm ISS recommends Oracle (ORCL -1.6%) investors vote against 8 of the company's 11 board members at its Oct. 31 annual meeting, arguing the board has failed to "provide effective oversight of management on behalf of shareholders" with regards to executive compensation and other matters.
- Larry Ellison ($41B estimated net worth) has already been drawing heat from shareholders over his steep pay. Ellison's compensation totaled $76.9M in FY13, and has steadily been above $60M over the last six fiscal years (it topped $80M in three of those years). Major shareholders Vanguard and CtW Investment are among the disgruntled parties.
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Friday, Oct 47:34 PMOracle reportedly held buyout talks with Avaya
- Reuters reports Avaya, a top provider of telecom hardware/software for enterprises and contact centers, held buyout talks with Oracle (ORCL) earlier this year. However, the talks are said to have "fizzled" in recent months.
- Avaya was taken private by P-E firms TPG and Silver Lake for $8.4B in '07. The company has been struggling to deal with market saturation, competition from the likes of Cisco and Microsoft, and an industry shift towards hosted/cloud-based telecom services (RingCentral's IPO drives home the strength of that trend).
- Avaya's sales fell 7% Y/Y to $5.17B in FY12, and 8% to $1.15B in its most recent quarter. Thanks to its P-E owners, Avaya had $6.1B in debt at the end of March '13, and just $303M in cash. The company filed for an IPO back in 2011, but its plans have been on hold ever since.
- Buying Avaya would dramatically expand Oracle's enterprise hardware ops, which are contending with revenue declines of their own.
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Friday, Oct 44:31 AMEllison to give up $500M payment from Oracle's Pillar acquisition
- Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison will forgo a potential payout of $500M in order to settle accusations of conflicts of interest in the company's 2011 purchase of Pillar Data Systems, a data-storage firm that Ellison controlled.
- Oracle originally agreed to pay for the acquisition based on Pillar's performance through 2014 but none up front. Ellison was to receive the first $562M of any payment connected to the deal, but he will now return 95% of any money he gets back to Oracle.
- The settlement comes after lawsuits from two shareholders, and amid criticism over Ellison's large salary.
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Monday, Sep 2311:17 AMLarry Ellison promises new in-memory database with "ungodly speeds"
- Back from the America's Cup, Larry Ellison (ORCL -0.6%) was his usual self during an Oracle OpenWorld speech, trash-talking rivals and promising upcoming Oracle products will blow away existing offerings.
- Grabbing the most headlines: Ellison's boast that an expected in-memory version of Oracle's flagship 12c database will improve analytics query speeds by 100x, and transaction-processing rates by 2x, over a standard relational database. Ellison also stated customers will have to "just flip a switch" to turn a regular 12c database into an in-memory database.
- The product is aimed squarely at archrival SAP (SAP -0.2%), whose market-leading Hana in-memory database is expected to post 2013 sales of €650M-€700M (that's up from 2012's €392M, but some think the figures are inflated). Though not applicable to all traditional database deployments, Hana is viewed as a long-term threat to Oracle's database cash-cow.
- SAP has been busy expanding Hana's reach this year, adding support for its core Business Suite apps, expanding 3rd-party app support, and launching a Hana managed cloud service for migrating on-premise SAP apps.
- Ellison also promised Oracle will launch a new high-end server, known as the M6-32 Big Memory Machine, for in-memory deployments; the server will support up to 32TB of RAM, and cost a hefty $3M. Oracle's hardware product sales fell 14% Y/Y in the Aug. quarter, easily missing guidance.
- Also on tap: a database backup appliance and a related cloud backup/recovery service. By constantly receiving database logs and supporting restores to any log points, Ellison asserts the appliance is a better solution for databases than standard backup systems.
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Sunday, Sep 223:24 PMSalesforce benefits from growing CMO power, deals pressure SAP
- Gartner estimates that by 2017, the largest portion of corporate IT spend will be controlled by chief marketing officers (CMOs) rather than CIOs. CLSA's Ed Maguire views cloud CRM software kingpin Salesforce (CRM) as a major beneficiary of this trend, particularly following its $2.5B deal to acquire ExactTarget. Salesforce is adding ExactTarget's marketing automation software to its growing Marketing Cloud platform.
- Other ad software/tech names that benefit from a spending shift to CMOs include Adobe (ADBE), Responsys (MKTG), Marketo (MKTO), Constant Contact (CTCT), and Marin Software (MRIN). Adobe's own Marketing Cloud saw 28% Y/Y sales growth in the August quarter, and was recently bolstered by the $600M purchase of ad campaign software vendor Neolane.
- Like Salesforce, SAP is trying to create an end-to-end CRM platform aimed at CMOs. It recently bought top e-commerce software firm hybris for a reported $1.2B-$1.5B.
- Maguire also states Salesforce's data integration deal with Workday (WDAY), together with a prior deal with Oracle (ORCL), "reinforce [Salesforce's] prominence as a de facto CRM standard." He reports hearing of "at least one competitive engagement where a customer chose Oracle over Workday" because the latter's Salesforce integration wasn't good enough.
- Nomura feels likewise about Salesforce, and thinks its deals help negate the historical edge SAP has had in app integration (courtesy of its own apps, rather than partnerships). With two key ERP/HR software rivals striking deals with Salesforce, SAP is on the spot to strike one of its own.
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Wednesday, Sep 185:22 PMOracle guidance light, shares -2.8% AH
- Oracle (ORCL) guides on its FQ1 CC (webcast) for FQ2 revenue growth of -1% to +2% Y/Y and EPS of $0.64-$0.69. That's largely below a consensus of 3.2% and $0.69.
- FQ2 software license/cloud subscription revenue growth is expected to be in a range of -6% to +4% Y/Y, and hardware product growth in a range of -11% to -1%. Those ranges compare with FQ1 growth of +4% and -14%, respectively.
- CFO Safra Catz claims Oracle is optimistic about deal opportunities and the impact of new products, but adds sales leaders are being "very careful" about their forecasts in light of macro/business conditions.
- Oracle has already posted disappointing license growth more than once this year. That, in turn, has stoked fears of share losses to cloud software firms.
- Larry Ellison has skipped the CC to take part in the America's Cup.
- FQ1 results, details
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Wednesday, Sep 184:28 PMOracle license growth hits guidance, hardware sales miss
- Oracle's (ORCL) software license/cloud subscription revenue rose 4% Y/Y in FQ1 to $1.66B. The growth rate is better than FQ4's disappointing 1%, and hit a guidance range of -1% to +7%. But hardware product sales fell 14% Y/Y to $669M, missing a guidance range of -6% to +2%. 60% engineered system sales growth apparently failed to offset plunging SPARC/UNIX server sales.
- Software license update/product support revenue (flows from existing license deals) rose 7% Y/Y to $4.43B, up from 6% in FQ4.
- $3B was spent on buybacks, up from FQ4's $2.8B and allowing EPS to beat estimates in spite of a revenue miss.
- Americas sales rose 4% Y/Y to $4.52B, aided by 14% growth in software licenses/cloud subscriptions. EMEA +2% to $2.44B, but with a 4% license/subscription drop. Thanks in large part to forex, Asia-Pac revenue -4% to $1.42B, licenses/subscriptions -5%.
- Opex +4% Y/Y, outpacing rev. growth of 2%. An 11% increase in sales/marketing spend to $1.71B offset lower G&A and hardware-related expenses.
- ORCL +0.8% AH. CC at 5PM ET, guidance should be provided.
- FQ1 results, PR
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They got just a few hours left to file your taxes and now this tac -- special.
Earmark ban that congress is all hot and bothered about -- pick it worked well think again think this -- against -- ways issuing its annual pig book.
And now with the most flagrant examples Tom.
Thank you it's one of those days where we think something's gonna be done in congress but unfortunately they find ways around their own rules put a big surprise.
They added five million dolls for abstinence education instead of abstaining from earmarks altogether.
It's a program that the Department of Education didn't even ask for.
You steer market in the tens of billions of dollars a lot of one to the state of Pennsylvania.
Big waste of money.
There's also five million dollars in the defense department for a star -- youth program science technology engineering and math.
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Similar programs throughout the federal government if they eliminated this one they'd still have 208.
But the Department of Defense has no business being involved in this type of program.
Our timing noted that this is good news that the earmarks are down to -- a 152 is your -- -- Hasn't it always so there is big appropriations bills that have really indicate way to a lot of spending right to where they act like Christmas trees that hasn't stopped is that right time.
Well we heard last week congressman Mike Rogers of Alabama saying that earmarks should be returned so that spending bills can be passed like that.
New highway bill they're having some trouble with -- Is not an issue of earmarks is an issue of being too expensive for a lot of -- New house freshmen.
He was -- for her as I should say for -- -- month for April and there's a big list of members on both sides.
The capital on both sides of the aisle saying we need to restore earmarks so.
The Dan is temporary.
Senator Pat Toomey -- tried to get the senate to approve a permanent -- -- he only got forty votes would not bad but not enough.
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We may be living in a software-centric world, but my observation at least within the broadcast industry, and quite likely outside our industry too, is that the quality of software has not kept pace with the rise in the quantity of software. In fact -- dare I say it -- I believe the quality of software development has, on average, deteriorated.
It was during the past six months that I stumbled onto the reason for the deterioration. I was called upon to provide an independent critique of two different reports from two different software vendors associated with a long-term software project for a major broadcaster. The project has been a big source of frustration for the client, due to ongoing delays and disappointments. By delays, I mean two years and even longer. By disappointments, I mean things that just don't work as they should, and still don't work some two or more years after the first observation that they weren't working.
To cut a long story short, I'll just mention my conclusion, which is that the reports from both of the vendors that I studied showed a complete absence of system design know-how. It seems that those vendors have plenty of programmers on staff, but no good system designer to guide them.
Moreover, the fact that the client didn't recognize the fact that the system designs were so sadly lacking is evidence that the client – the broadcaster – also doesn't have a good system designer on staff. They have plenty of good broadcast engineers, but no good system designers.
It came as a shock to me when I realized that this was the fact. It's like having lots of builders and construction workers, but no architect.
Imagine if you assembled a large team of builders and construction workers, and asked them to build you a stadium and all of the required facilities for it. Yet there was no architect on the job to design the stadium and to apply expert knowledge to the way the stadium and all of its facilities should come together as a unified whole: That would be the same situation we have today with a lot of the software projects I have seen in recent years in the broadcast industry.
The lack of good system designers isn't the only problem. The other big omission is project management skill. The system designer is not necessarily the project manager as well.
In my past career I often wore both hats: I was the project manager and the system designer. And perhaps that's why I enjoyed some success in my role, because the project manager and the system designer were totally in sync at all times, because they were the same person.
Project management and system design are two quite different but very complementary skill sets. A good project manager will recognize that there isn't a real system designer on the job, and will then do something about it. Similarly, a good system designer will recognize when there's no good project manager on the job and then insist that one be appointed.
Three years ago, I was called in to consult for another broadcaster in a different country. That project was in very deep trouble. Six months late and counting: The same project was well over budget and facing a mutinous user base. After some intense and urgent analysis, I found that there were many, many system design deficiencies, but the over-arching problem was the incompetence of the vendor's project manager. If the project manager is the wrong person for the job, the system designers don't have any chance of success.
Here's the rub: To design a system well, there has to be full and accurate knowledge of the user's requirements. But the system designer can only get that information via a good project manager who takes responsibility for finding out and clearly communicating those requirements.
As well, the project manager must genuinely care about the ultimate satisfaction of the users' hopes and dreams for the project. It's the determination to make the users completely satisfied, within the constraints of budgets and schedules, that drives all the activities of a good project manager.
How do you know when a project manager has failed? You'll know whenever the customer has a big complaint and the project manager say s something like, "It isn't in the contract."
The fact that the answer to the customer 's complaint isn't in the contract is an immediate admission of failure on the part of the project manager. Why didn't he know that the customer wanted that thing? Why isn't it in the contract? Only the project manager can be to blame for that, and a good project manager will accept full responsibility for it.
In conclusion, there are three skill sets that I wish to declare as 'endangered species', if not already 'lost'. These are system design know-how, project management know-how, and the willingness and ability to accept full responsibility for the degree of their presence or absence.
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I, myself picked 8-8, believing I may have been too optimistic, which it turns out I was, by one game.
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That, alone had fans worried, though if you look at the fact that no other teams picked up the former "OchoCinco", Miami head coach Joe Philbin looks a bit smarter for making that move. Obviously Chad has lost a considerable amount of his talent.
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