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EMPLOYEES: 215

Evan Kaplan

President & CEO

Co-founded Aventail in 1996. Previously, he was director of business development and product line manager at WRQ, a mainframe-access software company that merged with Attachmate in 2005.

Chris Hopen

CTO

Before starting the company with Kaplan, he was director of network technology for CompuServe's Internet unit and once worked for Boeing.

PRODUCTS

EX-750 appliance provides SSL-encrypted access to files and applications …

Police: Grenade attack kills 1 in Pakistan

A police official in Pakistan says a grenade attack targeting security forces has killed a bystander and wounded five others in the country's southwest.

Ghulam Ali Lashari said Sunday that two motorcyclists lobbed a hand grenade at a police patrol in Baluchistan province but narrowly missed. The grenade exploded among a group of nearby bystanders.

No one has …

Strike facts

The threatened Chicago & North Western railroad strike at a glance: Commuters affected: 41,000

Strike date: Thursday, 12:01 a.m. Issues: C&NW Corp. wants to reduce the number of crew members on itsfreight trains from four to two. That would cut nearly 1,200 …

Nervous Gulf stresses unity amid Iran tensions

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It was a remark designed to send chills through Washington and its allies: an influential member of the Saudi royal family suggesting the kingdom could someday consider making its own atomic weapons if stuck between nuclear arsenals in Iran and Israel.

The comment at a Gulf security forum in Riyadh by Prince Turki al-Faisal — who has served as intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States — simply echoed Western fears about a runway arms race in the Middle East if Iran ever moves toward a nuclear warhead.

But it also reflects the hardening views among the Gulf Arab states that they must rely on themselves — and not just Western …

French Soccer Results

Results from the 33rd round of the French soccer league (home teams listed first):

Saturday's Games

Lyon 1, Rennes 1

Le Mans 3, Auxerre 0

Lille 2, Nancy 1

Lorient 1, Lens 0

Metz 1, Marseille 2

Monaco 0, Toulouse 2

Sochaux 1, Saint-Etienne 1

Valenciennes 2, Strasbourg 0

Sunday's Games

Bordeaux 2, …

Corona Light Wide Open Regulars roll toward final

Two teams whose players are regulars on the AVP beach-volleyball tour each rolled through three opponents Saturday at North Avenue Beach to advance to the winner's bracket final of Karch Kiraly's Corona Light Wide Open.

Casey Patterson and Ty Loomis surrendered five points in their three matches to 15 points using ''old school'' sideout scoring.

Despite a tougher draw, fellow AVP performers Kevin Wong and Matt Olson moved into a match at noon today against Patterson-Loomis that will determine one of the …

Enjoy the holidays

Editorial

This time of year, many Americans are taking a break from the drudgery of work and enjoying the holidays.

Of course, "holiday" is defined "as a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done." We all aspire to that, and between family, fun gifts, food and football bowl games, not a lot of work will be done.

But it is a holiday, meaning it is only a break, and before anyone extends their holiday, or even their holiday mood, we hope part of die time off, however short, will be spent getting ready to go back to work.

Oh, we're not worried about you going back to your j-o-b. You'll do that and do your best because you have a tremendous work ethic …