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St. Regis Monarch Beach: Luxury Resort on the West Coast
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Whether you are looking to get away for a weekend, or are planning an exciting family vacation, the
St Regis Resort, Monarch Beach
in Southern California does what a St. Regis does best: offer you and your family the best of all worlds. Not only are their amenities top-tier, but so is the service, the dining, and all the facilities you'll have access to during your stay.
The Tuscan Style resort is devoted to relaxation and rejuvenation, and its ideal location along the pristine beaches of Southern California provides its lucky guests the opportunity to escape the everyday and enjoy the sand and surf of Laguna Beach.
Like all St. Regis hotels and resorts, Monarch Beach has worked hard to bring to you all the same comforting accommodations you would find at home in their rooms and suites: lavish goose-down comforters for a restful night's sleep, oversized soaking tubs and dual vanities in the all-marble bathroom, and sitting areas furnished with comfortable leather chairs and custom-made carpets.
There is no denying that the suites at the St. Regis Monarch Beach are equipped with all you need to feel at home, even if you are thousands of miles from the real thing. Enjoy the sunset over the Pacific from your private balcony or relax in the Jacuzzi tub to soothe your skin after a day in the sun.
But what makes the resort exceptional are the things you will do in addition to enjoying the comfort of your room or suite, whether you are tempted by the indoors or the outdoors.
Three swimming pools await you during the day: the family-oriented Lagoon Pool, the main pool, and the 3-lane lap pool at the Spa Gaucin fitness center. Those seeking a daytime retreat without having to return to the indoors can indulge in the lavish pool cabanas, that offer everything you'll need to enjoy the sun on your own terms: a private patio, flat screen televisions, DVD video systems, ceilings fans, cordless phones and internet access including Wi-Fi.
The expert therapists and aestheticians at Spa Gaucin are ready to transport guests from the stress of everyday life to the peaceful setting of one of their 25 treatment rooms, or one of the four romantic couples' suites, where you are immersed in tranquility and tempted with a long menu of signature, customized treatments. Along with the spa, St. Regis Monarch Beach also offers the renowned Vogue Salon for luxurious manicures, pedicures and salon treatments for both men and women.
In the evening, after you have indulged your senses either on the beach and in the ocean or at the spa in a treatment room, you will be eager for a satisfying and rewarding meal. This is where the one-of-a-kind dining experience, Stonehill Tavern, awaits you.
With celebrated Chef Michael Mina at the helm and world-renowned designer Tony Chi behind the design, the ambiance and cuisine work hand-in-hand to bring you a meal you won't forget. The modern American menu features Mina's signature small plate trios, allowing you to taste your favorite menu items in three distinct preparations.
The fireside dining room is well suited for larger gatherings as well as private business gatherings or intimate celebrations. Tony Chi's contemporary design lends itself perfectly to Mina's unique and artful culinary interpretations, creating a sophisticated atmosphere that is augmented by the pristine views of the Pacific Ocean.
There is something to be said for California living: it is easy to adapt to and hard to leave. After your first stay at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, you will find yourself looking to return year after year to enjoy some of the SoCal sunshine with your entire family, or a much-needed solitary getaway
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The last time James Cameron made a feature film, its theme tune topped charts across the world and became the year's bestselling song. Britain's Leona Lewis therefore has plenty to live up to after it was announced she will be employing her vocal talents on I See You (Theme from Avatar). The song will be released on 15 December, ahead of the Oscar-winning film-maker's 3D space opera.
- Avatar
- Production year: 2009
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 161 mins
- Directors: James Cameron
- Cast: CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana
The new song is written and produced by composer James Horner and producer Simon Franglen, both of whom worked on Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On from 1997's Titanic.
I See You will play over the closing credits of Avatar, which arrives in UK cinemas on 17 December. The film has been hyped as the game-changer that may usher in a new era in which 3D technology will dominate big-screen releases.
The film tells the tale of an alien race defending their land against human invasion and stars Australian actor Sam Worthington as a paralysed former soldier given the chance to walk again via an extraterrestrial "avatar" which he can control with his mind. Alien's Sigourney Weaver, Star Trek's Zoe Saldana and Lost's Michelle Rodriguez co-star.
It is Cameron's first feature film since Titanic, which remains the biggest grossing movie of all time at the global box office, having taken $1.8bn worldwide 12 years ago.

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Definición de sellout en inglés:
selloutSilabificación: sell·out
Pronunciación: /ˈselˌout /
1The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event.
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Every week, he pined for a sellout, selling the virtues of a good crowd like a high-school coach, hoping that filled stands would raise the stakes in the 50-50 raffle.
- It was an enormous success and right from the start tickets were a sellout.
- System overloads, ticket sellouts and irate cricket fans yesterday marked the start of the ticket sales for the 2003 Cricket World Cup to be played in February and March next year.
1.1An event for which all tickets are sold: the game is sure to be a sellout
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- So if you missed out on tickets for the sell-out Edinburgh event, make your way to the Globe Arena on September 10 and 11.
- The event was a sell-out success and the organisers are now almost certain to bring the event back to the town in May 2005.
- It was a sell-out night with 400 tickets sold, many to students at the school.
2A sale of a business or company.
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- Two years of home sellouts and the increased concession sales alone could be worth as much as $15 million.
- 'The sellout of Aer Lingus is a shameful decision,' Mr Rabbitte told delegates in his opening address at the Brandon Hotel.
- She optimistically spoke about the better language in the contract and began to hear rumors of the sell-out of the union negotiating team.
2.1A betrayal of one's principles for reasons of expedience: one of the biggest political sellouts in decades
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- There was no doubt that many in the folk music scene regarded the transition to electric guitar as a betrayal and a sell-out of everything they believed in.
- It is a sell-out - an utter betrayal of the working people of this country, and of every patriotic New Zealander.
- A shameful catalogue of abandonment, betrayal, sell-out, dishonesty and total breach of trust.
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An official for Megadata told AIN that the company installs antennas around airports with receivers to read transmissions from aircraft transponders. Data on tail numbers or airline flight numbers currently comes from FAA-issued aircraft situation display (ASD) software, but the official said that data is included on mode-S transponder transmissions that can be read by the company's receivers. Tail numbers can be blocked on aircraft data that comes from ASD, but mode-S transponders would have to be modified to eliminate that information about a particular aircraft or airline flight.
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FRONT ROYAL -- High Rollers Internet Cafe is back in business.
Owner Lawson "Bubba" Mangum said Wednesday that the business at 115 Water St. has been reopened since March 9. However, Mangum said he did not wish to provide any information for a newspaper interview when questioned further.
The business first opened on Nov. 19, but its license was revoked by the town on Nov. 30 after an inspection of the premises revealed that it was not operating as a restaurant, which had been indicated by the language of "Internet Cafe" on Mangum's first application for a business license.
Mangum closed the business Dec. 1, and appealed the town's revocation of his license to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
However, on Feb. 22, the BZA denied Mangum's appeal.
That same month, legislation sponsored by Del. Clifford L. "Clay" Athey Jr. to clarify a ban on Internet casino gaming passed both chambers of the General Assembly.
Richard Kurzenknabe, code enforcement officer for the Planning and Zoning Department, says in his Nov. 19 report of visiting High Rollers that it was explained to him "that for a certain amount, you were entitled to computer time and/or the ability to make a set number of 'rolls,' which he [presumed employee] likened to a slot machine, while playing one of the available on-line games. Successful players could accumulate 'sweepstakes credits' and could win a share of the pot, which I believe, he stated could be $11,000."
Mangum reapplied for a business license March 4, stating that he was selling Internet time, as well as business and office supplies and providing copying, faxing and shipping services.
Bruce Drummond, director of planning and zoning for the town of Front Royal, said Wednesday that he is unsure how Athey's legislation will affect Mangum and High Rollers Internet Cafe.
"That's not my call," Drummond said. "That's strictly depending on what he's doing. On what he applied for on his business license are permitted uses in the ... zoning district. You have to base it on the information provided to me in the application. Despite the fact that the name is still High Rollers Internet Cafe, he says he's selling office products and renting computer time, which is created in the technology services in the ... district."
During Monday night's Town Council meeting, Councilman Thomas H. Sayre said he recently got a call from a constituent concerned about the activity at High Rollers.
"It is my understanding that the new law goes into effect on July 1st, clarifying the meaning of the gambling statute, in effect giving circuit court judges the ability to interpret gambling laws more clearly," Sayre said Wednesday, reiterating his remarks at the meeting.
Athey said there are jurisdictions around the state that are currently prosecuting Internet casino operations.
"Even though it is true that our law does not become law until then, until July 1st, I certainly think that in reading the statute that you could glean from that that it was the intent of the General Assembly that the laws that exist today, that anybody who's operating an Internet casino enterprise would be in violation of that law," Athey said.
"Once again, it doesn't say that you can't operate a business where you have computers there or you're selling Internet time or things of that nature. It's more centered in on the game itself. Is it a gambling game? Is it a game where at the end of the day you can win money? And secondly, if you're utilizing that computer to put on these kinds of casino sorts of games, then that computer itself is a gambling device, which it's illegal to own and operate a gambling device.
"I've never seen the games that they play, but I would certainly say that I think on some levels if the law that currently exists, even between now and July 1st, would permit an investigation and a prosecution under the existing law because the law that goes into effect in July merely clarifies that the existing law would have made it illegal as well."


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How often do you use "fuck you" or hear someone else say "fuck you"? I'm guilty of it, I do it quite often. I'm always spewing out "fuck that!" or "fuck hate!" or "fuck (insert unpleasant concept/thing/person here)" But only lately have I begun to analyze my use of that language. "Fuck" represents the act or acts of having sex, intercourse, oral, WHATEVER. Sex. When we apply that to things like "fuck you," and especially when we say "fuck you" because we don't like something/someone, we are implying that through fucking someone we can ruin it/get rid of it. We are implying that we are going to do something that will be unpleasant, undesirable, and harmful to someone else in the hopes that it will make them upset or make them disappear. If my nose is working correctly, I think I smell a pot of rape culture brewing up. This is what rape culture is: perpetuating and implementing violence through sex. We are going to hurt people through sex, whether it being physically, mentally, or emotionally. And you can say, "hey it's just a word" but it's not. We must treat this like we'd treat any other racist, sexist, heterosexist, anti-trans, xenophobic, etc slur out there. By saying things like "fuck prop 8" or "fuck racism" we are using a tool that rape culture apologists use; we are negatively sexualizing unpleasant things with the mentality that we are combating inequality, hatred, and overall bad things. But we are simply using violence. We are implying that it is okay to apply violence through sex to get rid of something or someone. It is not okay. Saying "fuck you" is not okay.
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This afghan is stunning and the colors & pattern are absolutely beautiful. I have made this blanket a few times upon request.
The pattern is easy to follow as well.
(Posted on 1/8/14)
- Rave reviews from moms and dads Review by Shelly
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I gave one of these to a co-worker for his second child. Comparing his reaction to the one from the more traditional blanket I made for his first baby, this one really knocked his socks off. He said his daughter was already trying to steal it from baby brother. I have made several others since then, and have always been pleased with the results. The shape of this blanket, as well as the way the colors blend so gently together really makes it stand out, and it works great for boys or girls. The pattern is easy and fun, and can readily be adapted to other colors and yarns, and used to make handsome blankets for all occasions and decors.
(Posted on 12/16/13)
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I have made this 3 times for gifts. It comes out beautifully! It is easy to make and feels as it goes fast as you are changing colors often
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This is a beautiful afghan nonetheless. Was a little bit short on the blue color although followed directions. Just added more green.
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Category Archives: Data Privacy
Time to Change Passwords…Again
The information security industry is reporting that more than 1.5 billion (yes, that's with a "B") emails and passwords have been hacked. It's hard to tell from the article, but this could be the big one. (And just when we thought that James Bond had taken care of the Russian mafia.) From both large and small companies, nobody is safe. According to the experts the sites ranged from small e-commerce sites to Fortune 500 companies. At this time the experts aren't telling us who the big targets were. We could be very unpleasantly surprised.
Most security experts admit that the bulk of the post-breach activity will be email spamming. Insidious to be sure. But imagine if the hackers were to get a little more intelligent about what they have. How many individuals reuse passwords? Experts say over 90% of consumers reuse passwords between popular sites. And since email addresses are the most universally used "user name" on those sites, the chance of that 1.5 billion identities translating into millions of pirated activities is fairly high.
According to the recent published Ponemon study; 24% of respondents don't know where their sensitive data is stored. That is a staggering amount. Further complicating the issue, the same study notes that 65% of the respondents have no comprehensive data forensics capability. That means that consumers are more than likely to never hear from their provider that their data had been breached. Until it is too late.
So now I guess we all get to go change our passwords again. And we don't know why, we just have to. This is annoying. But it's not a permanent fix to have consumers constantly looking over their virtual shoulders. Let's talk about the enterprise sized firms first. Ponemon indicates that 57% of respondents would like more trained data security personnel to protect data. And the enterprise firm should have the resources to task IT personnel to protect data. They also have the ability to license best in class technology to protect data. There is no excuse not to implement an enterprise data masking technology. This should be used hand in hand with network intrusion defenses to protect from end to end.
Smaller enterprises have similar options. The same data masking technology can be leveraged on smaller scale by a smaller IT organization including the personnel to optimize the infrastructure. Additionally, most small enterprises leverage Cloud based systems that should have the same defenses in place. The small enterprise should bias their buying criteria in data systems for those that implement data masking technology.
Let me add a little fuel to the fire and talk about a different kind of cost. Insurers cover Cyber Risk either as part of a Commercial General Liability policy or as a separate policy. In 2013, insurers paid an average approaching $3.5M for each cyber breach claim. The average per record cost of claims was over $6,000. Now, imagine your enterprise's slice of those 1.5 billion records. Obviously these are claims, not premiums. Premiums can range up to $40,000 per year for each $1M in coverage. Insurers will typically give discounts for those companies that have demonstrated security practices and infrastructure. I won't belabor the point, it's pure math at this point.
There is plenty of risk and cost to go around, to be sure. But there is a way to stay protected with Informatica. And now, let's all take a few minutes to go change our passwords. I'll wait right here. There, do you feel better?
For more information on Informatica's data masking technology click here, where you can drill into dynamic and persistent data masking technology, leading in the industry. So you should still change your passwords…but check out the industry's leading data security technology after you do.
Scary Times For Data Security
How are they accomplishing this? A new generation of hackers has learned to reverse engineer popular software programs (e.g. Windows, Outlook Java, etc.) in order to find so called "holes". Once those holes are exploited, the hackers develop "bugs" that infiltrate computer systems, search for sensitive data and return it to the bad guys. These bugs are then sold in the black market to the highest bidder. When successful, these hackers can wreak havoc across the globe.
I recently read a Time Magazine article titled "World War Zero: How Hackers Fight to Steal Your Secrets." The article discussed a new generation of software companies made up of former hackers. These firms help other software companies by identifying potential security holes, before they can be used in malicious exploits.
This constant battle between good (data and software security firms) and bad (smart, young, programmers looking to make a quick/big buck) is happening every day. Unfortunately, the average consumer (you and I) are the innocent victims of this crazy and costly war. As a consumer in today's digital and data-centric age, I worry when I see these headlines of ongoing data breaches from the Targets of the world to my local bank down the street. I wonder not "if" but "when" I will become the next victim. According to the Ponemon institute, the average cost to a company was $3.5 million in US dollars and 15 percent more than what it cost last year.
As a 20 year software industry veteran, I've worked with many firms across global financial services industry. As a result, my concerned about data security exceed those of the average consumer. Here are the reasons for this:
- Everything is Digital: I remember the days when ATM machines were introduced, eliminating the need to wait in long teller lines. Nowadays, most of what we do with our financial institutions is digital and online whether on our mobile devices to desktop browsers. As such every interaction and transaction is creating sensitive data that gets disbursed across tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of databases and systems in these firms.
- The Big Data Phenomenon: I'm not talking about sexy next generation analytic applications that promise to provide the best answer to run your business. What I am talking about is the volume of data that is being generated and collected from the countless number of computer systems (on-premise and in the cloud) that run today's global financial services industry.
- Increase use of Off-Shore and On-Shore Development: Outsourcing technology projects to offshore development firms has be leverage off shore development partners to offset their operational and technology costs. With new technology initiatives.
Now here is the hard part. Given these trends and heightened threats, do the companies I do business with know where the data resides that they need to protect? How do they actually protect sensitive data when using it to support new IT projects both in-house or by off-shore development partners? You'd be amazed what the truth is.
According to the recent Ponemon Institute study "State of Data Centric Security" that surveyed 1,587 Global IT and IT security practitioners in 16 countries:
- Only 16 percent of the respondents believe they know where all sensitive structured data is located and a very small percentage (7 percent) know where unstructured data resides.
- Fifty-seven percent of respondents say not knowing where the organization's sensitive or confidential data is located keeps them up at night.
- Only 19 percent say their organizations use centralized access control management and entitlements and 14 percent use file system and access audits.
Even worse, those surveyed said that not knowing where sensitive and confidential information resides is a serious threat and the percentage of respondents who believe it is a high priority in their organizations. Seventy-nine percent of respondents agree it is a significant security risk facing their organizations. But a much smaller percentage (51 percent) believes that securing and/or protecting data is a high priority in their organizations.
I don't know about you but this is alarming and worrisome to me. I think I am ready to reach out to my banker and my local retailer and let him know about my concerns and make sure they ask and communicate my concerns to the top of their organization. In today's globally and socially connected world, news travels fast and given how hard it is to build trustful customer relationships, one would think every business from the local mall to Wall St should be asking if they are doing what they need to identify and protect their number one digital asset – Their data.
Takeaways from the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit (2014)
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. At this event, Gartner analysts and security industry experts meet to discuss the latest trends, advances, best practices and research in the space. At the event, I had the privilege of connecting with customers, peers and partners. I was also excited to learn about changes that are shaping the data security landscape.
Here are some of the things I learned at the event:
- Security continues to be a top CIO priority in 2014. Security is well-aligned with other trends such as big data, IoT, mobile, cloud, and collaboration. According to Gartner, the top CIO priority area is BI/analytics. Given our growing appetite for all things data and our increasing ability to mine data to increase top-line growth, this top billing makes perfect sense. The challenge is to protect the data assets that drive value for the company and ensure appropriate privacy controls.
- Mobile and data security are the top focus for 2014 spending in North America according to Gartner's pre-conference survey. Cloud rounds out the list when considering worldwide spending results.
- Rise of the DRO (Digital Risk Officer). Fortunately, those same market trends are leading to an evolution of the CISO role to a Digital Security Officer and, longer term, a Digital Risk Officer. The DRO role will include determination of the risks and security of digital connectivity. Digital/Information Security risk is increasingly being reported as a business impact to the board.
- Information management and information security are blending. Gartner assumes that 40% of global enterprises will have aligned governance of the two programs by 2017. This is not surprising given the overlap of common objectives such as inventories, classification, usage policies, and accountability/protection.
- Security methodology is moving from a reactive approach to compliance-driven and proactive (risk-based) methodologies. There is simply too much data and too many events for analysts to monitor. Organizations need to understand their assets and their criticality. Big data analytics and context-aware security is then needed to reduce the noise and false positive rates to a manageable level. According to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, "By 2018, of all breaches that are detected within an enterprise, 70% will be found because they used context-aware security, up from 10% today."
I want to close by sharing the identified Top Digital Security Trends for 2014
- Software-defined security
- Big data security analytics
- Intelligent/Context-aware security controls
- Application isolation
- Endpoint threat detection and response
- Website protection
- Adaptive access
- Securing the Internet of Things
Data Obfuscation and Data Value – Can They Coexist?
In response to the growth, organizations seek new ways to unlock the value of their data. Traditionally, data has been analyzed for a few key reasons. First, data was analyzed in order to identify ways to improve operational efficiency. Secondly, data was analyzed to identify opportunities to increase revenue.
As data expands, companies have found new uses for these growing data sets. Of late, organizations have started providing data to partners, who then sell the 'intelligence' they glean from within the data. Consider a coffee shop owner whose store doesn't open until 8 AM. This owner would be interested in learning how many target customers (Perhaps people aged 25 to 45) walk past the closed shop between 6 AM and 8 AM. If this number is high enough, it may make sense to open the store earlier.
As much as organizations prioritize the value of data, customers prioritize the privacy of data. If an organization loses a customer's data, it results in a several costs to the organization. These costs include:
- Damage to the company's reputation
- A reduction of customer trust
- Financial costs associated with the investigation of the loss
- Possible governmental fines
- Possible restitution costs
To guard against these risks, data that organizations provide to their partners must be obfuscated. This protects customer privacy. However, data that has been obfuscated is often of a lower value to the partner. For example, if the date of birth of those passing the coffee shop has been obfuscated, the store owner may not be able to determine if those passing by are potential customers. When data is obfuscated without consideration of the analysis that needs to be done, analysis results may not be correct.
There is away to provide data privacy for the customer while simultaneously monetizing enterprise data. To do so, organizations must allow trusted partners to define masking generalizations. With sufficient data masking governance, it is indeed possible for data obfuscation and data value to coexist.
Currently, there is a great deal of research around ensuring that obfuscated data is both protected and useful. Techniques and algorithms like 'k-Anonymity' and 'l-Diversity' ensure that sensitive data is safe and secure. However, these techniques have have not yet become mainstream. Once they do, the value of big data will be unlocked.
The Power and Security of Exponential Data
The other comparison is that data is like solar power. Like solar power, data is abundant. In addition, it's getting cheaper and more efficient to harness. The juxtaposition of these images captures the current sentiment around data's potential to improve our lives in many ways. For this to happen, however, corporations and data custodians must effectively balance the power of data with security and privacy concerns.
Many people have a preconception of security as an obstacle to productivity. Actually, good security practitioners understand that the purpose of security is to support the goals of the company by allowing the business to innovate and operate more quickly and effectively. Think back to the early days of online transactions; many people were not comfortable banking online or making web purchases for fear of fraud and theft. Similar fears slowed early adoption of mobile phone banking and purchasing applications. But security ecosystems evolved, concerns were addressed, and now Gartner estimates that worldwide mobile payment transaction values surpass $235B in 2013. An astute security executive once pointed out why cars have brakes: not to slow us down, but to allow us to drive faster, safely.
The pace of digital change and the current proliferation of data is not a simple linear function – it's growing exponentially – and it's not going to slow down. I believe this is generally a good thing. Our ability to harness data is how we will better understand our world. It's how we will address challenges with critical resources such as energy and water. And it's how we will innovate in research areas such as medicine and healthcare. And so, as a relatively new Informatica employee coming from a security background, I'm now at a crossroads of sorts. While Informatica's goal of "Putting potential to work" resonates with my views and helps customers deliver on the promise of this data growth, I know we need to have proper controls in place. I'm proud to be part of a team building a new intelligent, context-aware approach to data security (Secure@SourceTM).
We recently announced Secure@SourceTM during InformaticaWorld 2014. One thing that impressed me was how quickly attendees (many of whom have little security background) understood how they could leverage data context to improve security controls, privacy, and data governance for their organizations. You can find a great introduction summary of Secure@SourceTM here.
I will be sharing more on Secure@SourceTM and data security in general, and would love to get your feedback. If you are an Informatica customer and would like to help shape the product direction, we are recruiting a select group of charter customers to drive and provide feedback for the first release. Customers who are interested in being a charter customer should register and send email to email@example.com.
Telecommunications and Data: What If Your Fiancée Flunked Finance?
About 15 or so years ago, some friends of mine called me to share great news. Their dating relationship had become serious and they were headed toward marriage. After a romantic proposal and a beautiful ring, it was time to plan the wedding and invite the guests.
This exciting time was confounded by a significant challenge. Though they were very much in love, one of them had an incredibly tough time making wise financial choices. During the wedding planning process, the financially astute fiancée grew concerned about the problems the challenged partner could bring. Even though the financially illiterate fiancée had every other admirable quality, the finance issue nearly created enough doubt to end the engagement. Fortunately, my friends moved forward with the ceremony, were married and immediately went to work on learning new healthy financial habits as a couple.
Let's segue into how this relates to telecommunications and data, specifically to your average communications operator. Just like a concerned fiancée, you'd think twice about making a commitment to an organization that didn't have a strong foundation.
Like the financially challenged fiancée, the average operator has a number of excellent qualities: functioning business model, great branding, international roaming, creative ads, long-term prospects, smart people at the helm and all the data and IT assets you can imagine. Unfortunately, despite the externally visible bells and whistles, over time they tend to lose operational soundness around the basics. Specifically, their lack of data quality causes them to forfeit an ever increasing amount of billing revenue. Their poor data costs them millions each year.
A recent set of engagements highlighted this phenomenon. The small carrier (3-6 million subscribers) who implements a more consistent, unique way to manage core subscriber profile and product data could recover underbilling of $6.9 million annually. A larger carrier (10-20 million subscribers) could recover $28.1 million every year from fixing billing errors. (This doesn't even cover the large Indian and Chinese carriers who have over 100 million customers!)
Typically, a billing error starts with an incorrect set up of a service line item base price and related 30+ discount line variances. Next, the wrong service discount item is applied at contract start. If that did not happen (or on top of those), it will occur when the customer calls in during or right before the end of the first contract period (12-24 months) to complain about the service quality, bill shock, etc. Here, the call center rep will break an existing triple play bundle by deleting an item and setting up a separate non-bundle service line item at a lower price (higher discount). The head of billing actually told us, "our reps just give a residential subscriber a discount of $2 for calling us". It's even higher for commercial clients.
To make matters worse, this change will trigger misaligned (incorrect) activation dates or even bill duplication, all of which will have to be fixed later by multiple staff on the BSS and OSS side or may even trigger an investigation project by the revenue assurance department. Worst case, the deletion of the item from the bundle (especially for B2B clients) will not terminate the wholesale cost the carrier still owes a national carrier for a broadband line, which often is 1/3 of the retail price for a business customer.
To come full circle to my initial "accounting challenged" example; would you marry (invest in) this organization? Do you think this can or should be solved in a big bang approach or incrementally? Where would you start: product management, the service center, residential or commercial customers?
Observations and illustrations contained in this post are estimates only and are based entirely upon information provided by the prospective customer and on our observations and benchmarks. While we believe our recommendations and estimates to be sound, the degree of success achieved by the prospective customer is dependent upon a variety of factors, many of which are not under Informatica's control and nothing in this post shall be relied upon as representative of the degree of success that may, in fact, be realized and no warranty or representation of success, either express or implied, is made.
White House Big Data Report Has Cautionary Words About Privacy
"What really matters about big data is what it does. Aside from how we define big data as a technological phenomenon, the wide variety of potential uses for big data analytics raises crucial questions about whether our legal, ethical, and social norms are sufficient to protect privacy and other values in a big data world."
These crucial questions, raised in a recent White House report on the implications of big data, frame a growing debate taking place across both society and the business world on how far organizations can push the limits with data collection and analysis. The report, issued by a presidential commission tasked with assessing big data's privacy implications, explains how big data is a double-edged sword. While big data analytics pave the way to unexpected discoveries, innovations, and advancements in our quality of life, it also has the potential for abuse as well. As the report puts it, big data's capabilities, "most of which are not visible or available to the average consumer, also create an asymmetry of power between those who hold the data and those who intentionally or inadvertently supply it."
The report's authors acknowledge that big data analytics is an engine of economic growth and a competitive tool for companies across all industries, as well as a tool for quality of life. "Used well, big data analysis can boost economic productivity, drive improved consumer and government services, thwart terrorists, and save lives," the report states. In addition, there will likely be a profound impact as data analytics gets applied to the Internet of Things, which "have made it possible to merge the industrial and information economies." In another example, healthcare providers and payers can employ predictive analytics to detect fraud and abuse in real time.
The report's main thrust is personal privacy implications, and many these issues will inevitably shape the practices and policies of enterprises as they expand their businesses into the big data realm. The managers and professionals charged with identifying, collecting and analyzing information assets will increasingly be under pressure – as their organizations feel pressure – to understand the boundaries between insight, targeted engagement, and overreach.
For example, a still relatively unexplored area of big data is its ownership. Does data belong to those who collect it, or those who contribute to it? "Big data may be viewed as property, as a public resource, or as an expression of individual identity," the report states.
Another challenge is the fact that many organizations will opt to assemble massive databases as they move forward with big data analysis. "Big data technologies can derive value from large data sets in ways that were previously impossible — indeed, big data can generate insights that researchers didn't even think to seek." For example, new tools and technologies provide for analysis across entire data sets, versus extracting a small representative subset of the data and extrapolating any results against a larger universe. However, with so much data, analysis may potentially be erroneous as well. "Correlation still doesn't equal causation," the report's authors state. "Finding a correlation with big data techniques may not be an appropriate basis for predicting out-comes or behavior, or rendering judgments on individuals. In big data, as with all data, interpretation is always important."
Another issue is the permanence of data – which also is a privacy issue. At the same time, this may also create headaches for corporate data managers as well. "In the past, retaining physical control over one's personal information was often sufficient to ensure privacy," the report states. "Documents could be destroyed, conversations forgotten, and records expunged. But in the digital world, information can be captured, copied, shared, and transferred at high fidelity and retained indefinitely. Volumes of data that were once unthinkably expensive to preserve are now easy and affordable to store on a chip the size of a grain of rice. As a consequence, data, once created, is in many cases effectively permanent. Furthermore, digital data often concerns multiple people, making personal control impractical."
The report's authors state that organizations need to take steps to address privacy issues, and suggest de-identification and encryption as technical solutions that are available at this time. However, in the long run, de-identification is still a weak approach to the problem. "Many technologists are of the view that de-identification of data as a means of protecting individual privacy is, at best, a limited proposition. In practice, data collected and de-identified is protected in this form by companies' commitments to not re-identify the data and by security measures put in place to ensure those protections."
Ultimately, the best methods to ensure the ethical use of data need to come through inspired and forward-thinking management. It takes judicious management, a commitment to training and education, and a focus on what nuggets of information matter the most to the business. Big data opens up many new vistas for enterprises, and those that take the high road will reap its rewards.
How Can CEOs Protect Customer Data And Their Own Jobs?
- A loss of customer trust
- Revenue shortfalls
- A plummeting stock price
- C-level executives losing their jobs
As a result, Data security and privacy has become a key topic of discussion, not just in IT meetings, but in the media and the boardroom.
Preventing access to sensitive data has become more complex than ever before. There are new potential entry points that IT never previously considered. These new options go beyond typical BYOD user devices like smartphones and tablets. Today's entry points can be much smaller: Things like HVAC controllers, office polycoms and temperature control systems.
So what can organizations do to combat this increasing complexity? Traditional data security practices focus on securing both the perimeter and the endpoints. However, these practices are clearly no longer working and no longer manageable. Not only is the number and type of devices expanding, but the perimeter itself is no longer present. As companies increasingly outsource, off-shore and move operations to the cloud, it is no longer possible fence the perimeters and to keep intruders out. Because 3rd parties often require some form of access, even trusted user credentials may fall into the hands of malicious intruders.
Data security requires a new approach. It must use policies to follow the data and to protect it, regardless of where it is located and where it moves. Informatica is responding to this need. We are leveraging our market leadership and domain expertise in data management and security. We are defining a new data security offering and category. This week, we unveiled our entry into the Data Security market at our Informatica World conference. Our new security offering, Secure@Source™ will allow enterprises to discover, detect and protect sensitive data.
The first step towards protecting sensitive data is to locate and identify them. So Secure@Source™ first allows you discover where all the sensitive data are located in the enterprise and classify them. As part of the discovery, Secure@source also analyzes where sensitive data is being proliferated, who has access to the data, who are actually accessing them and whether the data is protected or unprotected when accessed. Secure@Source™ leverages Informatica's PowerCenter repository and lineage technology to perform a first pass, quick discovery with a more in depth analysis and profiling over time. The solution allows you to determine the privacy risk index of your enterprise and slice and dice the analysis based on region, departments, organization hierarchy, as well as data classifications.
The longer term vision of Secure@Source™ will allow you to detect suspicious usage patterns and orchestrate the appropriate data protection method, such as: alerting, blocking, archiving and purging, dynamically masking, persistently masking, encrypting, and/or tokenizing the data. The data protection method will depend on whether the data store is a production or non-production system, and whether you would like to de-identify sensitive data across all users or only for some users. All can be deployed based on policies. Secure@Source™ is intended to be an open framework for aggregating data security analytics and will integrate with key partners to provide a comprehensive visibility and assessment of an enterprise data privacy risk.
Secure@Source™ is targeted for beta at the end of 2014 and general availability in early 2015. Informatica is recruiting a select group of charter customers to drive and provide feedback for the first release. Customers who are interested in being a charter customer should register and send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
ILM Day: Test management, Data archives and Data security discussions and more…
At the Informatica World 2014 pre-conference, the "ILM Day" sessions were packed, with over 100 people in attendance. This attendance reflects the strong interest in data archive, test data management and data security. Customers were the focus of the panel sessions today, taking center stage to share their experiences, best practices and lessons learned from successful deployments.
Both the test management and data archive panels had strong audience interest and interaction. For Test Data Management, the panel topic was "Agile Development by Streamlining Test Data Management"; for data archive, the session tackled "Managing Data Growth in the Era of Application Consolidation and Modernization". The panels provided practical tactics and strategies to address the challenges and issues in managing data growth, and how to efficiently and safely provision test data. Thank you to the customers, partners and analysts who served on the panels; participating was EMC, Visteon, Comcast, Lowes, Tata Consultancy Services and Neuralytix.
The day concluded with a most excellent presentation from the ILM General Manager, Amit Walia and the CTO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Jeff Northrop. Amit provided an executive summary pre-view of Tuesday's Secure@Source(TM) announcement, while Jeff Northrop provided a thought provoking market backdrop on the issues and challenges for data privacy and security, and how the focus on information security needs to shift to a 'data-centric' approach.
A very successful event for all involved!
Data Security and Privacy: What's Next?
Data security breaches continue to escalate. Privacy legislation and enforcement is tightening and analysts have begun making dire predictions in regards to cyber security's effectiveness. But there is more – Trusted insiders continue to be the major threat. In addition, most executives cannot identify the information they are trying to protect.
Data security is a senior management concern, not exclusive to IT. With this in mind, what is the next step CxOs must take to counter these breaches?
A new approach to Data Security
It is clear that a new approach is needed. This should focus on answering fundamental, but difficult and precise questions in regards to your data:
- What data should I be concerned about?
- Can I create re-usable rules for identifying and locating sensitive data in my organization?
- Can I do so both logically and physically?
- What is the source of the sensitive data and where is it consumed?
- What are the sensitive data relationships and proliferation?
- How is it protected? How should it be protected?
- How can I integrate data protection with my existing cyber security infrastructure?
The answers to these questions will help guide precise data security measures in order to protect the most valuable data. The answers need to be presented in an intuitive fashion, leveraging simple, yet revealing graphics and visualizations of your sensitive data risks and vulnerabilities.
At Informatica World 2014, Informatica will unveil its vision to help organizations address these concerns. This vision will assist in the development of precise security measures designed to counter the growing sophistication and frequency of cyber-attacks, and the ever present danger of rogue insiders.
Stay tuned, more to come from Informatica World 2014.


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I'm just not sure about the treatment. For me, it's a little harsh, & emphises the lines in his face too much, making him look like an old man.
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During the February 26 ceremonies, attended by Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and various government and industry dignitaries, Ilyushin Finance Co. signed a deal to lease 10 VASO-built An-148s to Russia's Polyet Airlines next year. Plans to integrate Russia's aerospace industry under the United Aircraft banner include a goal to assemble 78 An-148s at the VASO plant over the next six years. Aviant plans to build 34 by 2010.
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Since originally buying the car in 2006 and the subsequent JBA treatment, Lance and his family have been driving the snot out the car every chance they get, which in the pleasant weather of Southern California, means every weekend. "The neat thing about it is it just puts a smile on people's face. People just love it. The women love the color, and guys respect it because of the massive horsepower. I've had friends with Ferraris and Lamborghinis, and they say they get flipped off when they drive their cars. They're great cars, but people sometimes don't take a liking to them. But the pink car just has its own personality." In fact, Lance likes the pink car so much he has decided to share it with the world via a website, www.ThePinkCar.com. "It's a real crowd pleaser, and you can't leave it by itself. They kind of nicknamed it Pamela Anderson, because it really does stick out and put a smile on people's faces." With a nickname like that, this Pistol Grip in Pink is nothing short of a head-turning, jaw-dropping, smile-making fun machine.
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Clashes between the security forces and Iran's armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, near the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, left an unspecified number of the group's members dead, local radio reported.
Quoting the security forces in Fars province, it said "a group of Mujahedeen terrorists crossed into the country with the aim of planting bombs" in the country.
The clash happened in the village of Abadeh, the radio said, but it gave no details on the number of those killed, nor where the Mujahedeen were going to place the bombs.
"During the clashes, numerous weapons and ammunition were captured, the terrorist attempt was blocked and the terrorists were killed," the radio added.
(In a statement faxed to AFP in Nicosia the Mujahedeen confirmed there had been fighting in the Shiraz area, saying that two of its members were killed in three separate rounds of clashes between the villages of Abadeh and Safa-Shahr to the north of Shiraz, the provincial capital of Fars.)
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Really tasty, but quick & inexpensive near the ArchLight Theater in Hollywood
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We want to grab a quick bite before a movie, something along the lines of incredibly good tacos, juicy-mouthwatering fried chicken (Love Roscoe's but no time to wait)...really any sort of tasty, quick and yet inexpensive food anywhere between Studio City and Hollywood.
I'd appreciate any suggestions...I'm open to any type of food.
Have you considered Thai Town, the high concentration of Thai restaurants on Hollywood Blvd. between Western and Normandie? It should be pretty quick if you don't order anything too unusual. If you get a pad thai, papaya salad, etc it should all be made pretty quick. I would suggest Ruen Pair, but there are other Thai restaurants that others prefer. Check it out. Also, I would definetly go for some ice cream at Mashti Malone's ice cream after you watch your movie. It's close to the corner of La Brea and Sunset.
Magnolia and the Bowery on Sunset just east of Vine are always options where you also do not need to move the car. Off Vine, not a favorite of mine but popular with many others, nonetheless, on Leland Way near Vine, and the Hungry Cat, while hardly inexpensive, is in the Borders thing across the street, and if you get there early and eat at the bar, you can have fun, eat well, and not need take out a loan.
Thank you, both - Young chower and Carter,
Great suggestions! The Bowery sounds just right for our group.
Thanks so much!
Los Balcones Del Peru is great and just around the corner. It has become my "go to" chow-choice when I go to the ArcLight.
tere's mexican on melrose and cahuenga is also good, cheap and fast. parking usually isn't a problem either.
I second Tere's. It's excellent Mexican food, and very reasonable. One of my favorite places. It's located in a strip mall on the southeast corner of Melrose and Cahuenga.
The Bowery is IT - love it there immensely. Have the Spinach Salad, the Sweet Potato Fries, and if they have it, the Seafood Salad.
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I think ST has been closed...for YEARS!!!
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Ahhh, that's the problem, I'm not usually around there those times during the week and weekend days it just looks dark.
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Don't get saltado or tallarin at Balcones, they do other stuff way better, like the fried fish, which is simple and clean and delicious, or the cau cau de mariscos, with a slightly spicy mint sauce that is really tasty.
Mario's is great but I feel like a giant onion when i'm done. Balcones is the polar opposite: clean and fresh.
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Agree about the fish entrees, they are indeed great.
Also, the pescado ceviche is a MUST and the Peruvian (Giant Kernel) Corn w/ Peruvian Cheese is picture-Peruvian-perfect.
Not yet had the Shrimp Chowder, which I really like at Mario's.
I ain't ever going back to Mario's again (unless I become impoverished or Los Balcones closes down). LBDP has better food, better ambience, no wait and BOOZE: its a no-brainer.
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Agree w most of your post, except the never going back to Mario's part. Mario's chupe de camarones is perfect, papas a la huincainos & saltados are superior to Los Balcones.
But your take on the rest of Los Balcones menu is spot on. The ceviches, esp a la piedra, the cau caus, & all the fish dishes are simply wonderful. Their nice SA wines wine list is the tiebreaker for Los Grubos. If only the reds were cooler.
The owner of Los Balcones is planning a thorough remodel. Hope it doesn't take too long. With fairly convenient parking in the ArcLight structure. Los Balcones has become a solid & welcome addition to the Hwood dining scene.
I've said this a couple of time but personally I find the food at Bowery abysmal. Cold fries. Small lame burger. Tired salads. Maybe I should give it another try but I have twice been very disappointed. Go to Hungry Cat and get a burger or Los Balcones. Both walking distance from the arclight parking lot.
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LOVE zankou...but the mere thought alone of sitting through a movie after eating it made me feel disguting. And I would make sure it's an empty theater cuz i would feel horrible for any person within smelling range of your breath!
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haha :)
i think zankou was the reason i became addicted to altoids and listerine strips but it's SO good.
If you want walking distance from the Arclight there's always Huston's at Cahuenga and Selma for some cheap, cheap, cheap BBQ. Not the best, but not bad and it's a fast $5 dinner!


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1/4 Photos of No Cook Peanut Butter Butterscotch Squares
Prep Time:
Cook Time:
15 mins
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Throw in some chopped nuts also if desired
Units: US | Metric
Serving Size: 1 (35 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 25
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