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It is merely a couple of sleeps until kick off between Notre Dame and Navy in the college football game in Dublin this coming weekend. All around Ireland and indeed Europe the anticipation is building. Naturally, as we say here in Ireland, 'There's always one!' meaning, there is always someone who is unhappy with the situation, despite everyone else looking forward to, in this case, the big game. Step forward Mr Rick Blaine, a writer for Yahoo, who penned this angry article proclaiming that the game is only going ahead as a 'merchandising' exercise.
To further anger the Notre Dame faithful, Blaine has also suggested the Fighting Irish could be in for an upset against Navy
Naturally, it goes without saying that Mr Blaine is entirely entitled to his own opinion, and if he doesn't think the game should be played anywhere but the USA, well, good for him. Unfortunately, he uses a completely erroneous statement as the main basis of his assault on the decision to play the game here in Ireland. Blaine says, and we quote;
''Europe has shown little interest in American football, no matter how hard the NFL tried to force it on them.''
Woah, woah, woah. Hang on a second there. With all due respect to Mr Blaine, this is an incredibly stupid comment. I say that with authority. Stupid. There is an enormous fan base for Football American style in Ireland and the rest of Europe. It has been growing steadily since the 1980s and the NFL in particular is one of the most popular sports in Europe not called 'soccer'.
Let's delve a little deeper than Rick chose to.
First of all, and on a most basic level, the game on Saturday is sold out, and has been for the best part of a year. If Lennon and Harrison came back to life and the Beatles reformed, the tickets for their first gig would only be marginally harder to get than for this game. People in Ireland have been trying for months to get them, and there is absolutely none left. The game is being played at a shiny new Aviva Stadium, however it could easily have been played at the much bigger Croke Park, they could have sold the home of the GAA out twice, without any great difficulty.
That fact in itself should be some indicator as to the public excitement about the game here in Ireland.
Furthermore, football is all over Irish, English and European television. It has become one of the most popular sports to gamble on, a fact that illustrates in dollar figures how popular the sport has become over here. Everywhere you go there are NFL and college jerseys worn by fans all over Ireland, the UK and Europe. Sky Sports, the biggest sports station in Ireland and the UK, has several live games weekly. Last season Chanel 4 showed the Monday night games, and there are countless football related programs on ESPN and ESPN America. College football basically takes over the ESPN America schedule on weekends.
Everywhere you go in Ireland and mainland Europe, football is front and center in terms of popularity amongst sports fans.
Further to this, football is being played by tens of thousands across Ireland, the UK and Europe.
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HAYWARD -- Blank walls that used to be an open invitation to taggers now support the creativity of muralists and their view of the city, its history and residents.
Motorists driving south on Foothill Boulevard enter downtown and are welcomed by a bucolic view of the Hayward shoreline before the area was settled. Murals depict a 1930s vintage Hayward postcard and a salute to the shoreline community once known as Russell City and its blues music. Other walls portray a view of downtown through a magnifying glass, an homage to the city's Latin heritage and vignettes of notable buildings and locales.
The city's murals are featured in an exhibit, "Mural Hayward," which runs through Feb. 23 at the Foothill Arts of the Bay Gallery. The display includes photos, tools, sketches and information about the work of seven muralists: Jean Bidwell, Suzanne Gayle, Ben Goulart, Andrew Kong Knight, Linda Longinotti, Christine Pacheco and Josh Powell.
The anti-graffiti mural project was begun in 2008 by Greg Jones, then Hayward city manager.
"When I got here and realized what a large art community we had, plus the graffiti problem, it seemed a logical fit," said Jones, now a city councilman. "We were spending thousands of dollars painting over graffiti; why not spend some of that money on artwork?"
He said he was inspired by art-based anti-graffiti programs in Concord and Chico, where he had previously worked. And he also knew about the success of a project in Emeryville that covered utility boxes with artwork to fight tagging.
While the Hayward project's planning began in early 2008, it really took off with the hiring of neighborhood partnership manager Stacey Bristow, whose duties include graffiti abatement, Jones said. The two decided to focus first on utility boxes, a popular graffiti target.
"The city manager said let's try a dozen utility boxes downtown and see if it works as a deterrent and what the community thinks," Bristow said. "It turned out to be successful; it was a great deterrent, and the community responded positively."
Funded mostly with redevelopment money, the project was expanded to include more utility boxes and then, working with business owners, blank walls around town.
"We use local artists only, ones that had some significant tie to Hayward. That was a council directive," Bristow said. "We didn't want someone from L.A. coming and painting murals in Hayward when we had all this local talent."
The mural project now covers 12 walls throughout downtown, a sound wall near the BART tracks close to City Hall, a retaining wall on Jackson Street and book drop boxes at the main library. Almost 50 utility boxes are also covered in artwork, Bristow said. And more are planned as financing becomes available, which has been a challenge since redevelopment agencies were dissolved, Bristow said.
The latest project, at Hayward's animal shelter on Barnes Court, is being painted by Powell and Wythe Bowart. The animal-themed mural should be finished in March, said Powell, who has painted four others for the city.
Taggers for the most part have left his murals alone, Powell said. The exception is the mural at the Harder Road underpass -- depicting a geometric design inspired by Ohlone Indian decorative patterns -- which occasionally is hit, he said. "That was the most difficult one I've done to begin with. It had a lot of graffiti," he said. "It's a 100 percent improvement over what it was, but there's still a little bit of a problem."
Despite that, Powell said the murals are a deterrent.
"Most graffiti is usually just little kids tagging," he said. "Once they see artwork on top of the graffiti, they respect the art and take their graffiti somewhere else. Or they get inspired to learn to create real art."
Powell said he's seen some anti-graffiti art projects in other East Bay cities, but not any as large. "The scale of this project in Hayward is amazing," he said.
Hayward's mural program was given an award by the League of California Cities in 2011. The Helen Putnam Award for Excellence recognized the city's program for its "beautiful works of art, reduction in graffiti and noticeable cost savings."
Most of the murals, especially the early ones, are visible to motorists driving through the city.
"We wanted something people would remember and associate with Hayward, something they would see as they drove through town," Jones said. "We wanted to give people a reason to stop here. And I think it looks better driving through Hayward than it did five years ago."
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473 or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1.
Exhibit featuring work of seven muralists
Where: Foothill Arts of the Bay Gallery, 22394 Foothill Blvd., Hayward
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
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STANFORD -- Stanford's NFL draft prospects experienced the highs and lows of Pro Timing Day on Thursday, with dozens of scouts watching their every move and, in some cases, non-moves.
The highest high, literally, came courtesy of defensive end Ben Gardner. The 262-pounder wowed more than 50 scouts -- every team except Kansas City, Tampa Bay and St. Louis was represented -- with a 39.5-inch vertical jump, the best of the day by any player.
"I've secretly taken offense to all the articles that said I wasn't athletic but played with a lot of effort," Gardner said with a smile. "I've always been able to jump."
At the other end of the Pro Day spectrum was linebacker Shayne Skov, who was unable to participate in the timing drills because of a hamstring injury.
Skov did not run the 40-yard dash at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis last month because he wanted the extra time to train -- everything was geared to the event at Stanford.
But Skov strained his hamstring during a workout Monday, limiting him to the bench press (28 repetitions) and nothing else.
"It's incredibly frustrating because I've been dieting and training for this for three months," he said, "and now I have to wait."
Skov will run for scouts April 21 on campus, according to his agent, Steve Baker.
"Multiple teams have told me they'll be here," Baker said. "It's major in that it happened this week, but it's minor in that it's a two-to-four week recovery."
"I was a lot faster than people thought," Gaffney said. "I'm considered a big back. I want to show that I'm fluid, not just a downhill runner."
He participated in the weight room drills Thursday and did 25 repetitions of 225 pounds.
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SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) has been appointed Vice-Chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee for the 2013-2014 legislative session. Grove will also continue to serve on the Assembly Budget Committee, where she has been an outspoken advocate for fiscal responsibility and restraint.
"Going into my second term, I vow to continue to defend the interests of Kern County," said Assemblywoman Shannon Grove. "Legislation presented in the Natural Resources Committee will seriously impact our local economy, and my role as Vice Chair will give me an opportunity to continue fighting for policies that allow the private sector to create good jobs and put people back to work."
The Assembly Natural Resources Committee is responsible for evaluating legislation relating to air and water quality, climate change, energy, forestry and land management. Significant issues expected to come before the Committee this session include California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reform and legislation to regulate the oil and natural gas industry's "fracking" extraction methods.
"The people of Kern County feed, clothe, fuel and protect not just the state but the entire country. What we think and do here in Kern County does matter, because if our key industries – agriculture, energy production, and defense – are under attack from the state legislature, it hurts not just on the local level, but statewide and nationally," Grove said. "As Vice Chair of Natural Resources, I'll work to ensure that these vital industries are protected so they can continue to thrive."
Assemblywoman Grove represents the Kern County communities of Bakersfield, Ridgecrest, Tehachapi, Taft and Frazier Park/Lebec.
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Bold wide stripes of red, white and blue for the new official away jersey for the USA. This is the jersey Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley will wear in Brazil.
A return to the bright, blue team crest, a departure from the centennial crest.
Star pennant to represent the original 13 colonies.
Made from recycled plastic bottles (96%).
This on-field version uses a combination of Nike Dri-FIT technology, mesh panels and laser-cut ventilation holes to put cooling air flow exactly where players need it most.
Nike used three-dimensional body scans of elite players to design the jersey's fit to improve comfort.
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NOTE: Tight fit, which means any jersey classified as Authentic will run small. The authentic is the actual piece that is worn on field. The authentic uses a performance cut for a snug fit. It has a bonded crest. The authentic also features upgraded materials. The upgraded, technologically advanced materials on the authentic jersey will result in a lighter weight.
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LETTERS: Teach children that homosexuality is sin
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 4:44 p.m.
Dear Editor: We now have a president that supports same-sex marriages. When he ran before, he was against it. He needed their votes.
Same-sex marriages, gays, lesbians, no matter what you call them, all are homosexuals. Mr. Webster says a homosexual is any person that desires sex with the same sex.
A kiss-in at Chick-fil-A, what a joke. Why not stand up and tell everyone how you have sex with your same-sex partner. It is nasty, disgusting, unhealthy, and a sin against God.
As a Christian you can not support this in any way. Homosexuals hurt a lot of people, especially kids. Look what happened at Penn State. Mom and Dad, teach your children and stand firm in your faith.
When you get to the pearly gates, Saint Peter will say, "Homosexuals, I don't support that." He will say, "I know how you voted. I am sorry but you are at the wrong gate. You must go downstairs." Wake up before it's too late. Hell is a real place.
We must have the courage to stand firm in believing God's truth, even when no one else does.
I pray that God will be with you, and that you will go and sin no more.
John Price
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Motorists traveling on area roads are asked to slow down and watch for bicyclists participating in a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser for families in Manitoba, Canada.
Cycle of Hope volunteers left Louisville, Kentucky on June 28 for a two-week journey to celebrate the 20th Annual Cycle of Hope's 1,000 Miles Home Challenge.
Bicyclists will travel into the area on Wednesday, July 10 as they travel from New Ulm to Willmar on local city streets, as well as county and state highways. On Thursday, July 11 they will depart Willmar and bike through Garfield, Minnesota on their return trip to Manitoba.
Since 1993, the Cycle of Hope riders journey 1,000 miles and raise enough money to enable Habitat for Humanity Manitoba to build a new affordable home for a family in need. The Cycle of Hope has raised over $2.5 million for Habitat for Humanity Manitoba since its inception and looks forward to the annual challenge each year with new and returning cyclists.
For more information, please contact Elaine Smith at 204-235-2181.
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ALAMEDA -- Got a camera? That's the question the Girl Scouts in California — including close to 430 in Alameda — are meant to answer in the affirmative over the next few weeks.
The statewide Girl Scouts organization is hosting a contest for the best photo and caption to help the group celebrate the 15th anniversary of its successful "Got Milk?" campaign. It is hosting this contest with the California Milk Processor Board, which created the first ad campaign, through Dec. 17.
"It seemed like a fun idea to refresh the campaign after 15 years," said Marina Park, executive officer of the Girl Scouts of Northern California, which has an office near the Oakland International Airport. "We have had a whole other generation of Girl Scouts (grow up) since that campaign took place. It's a great opportunity to connect Girl Scouts, Girl Scouting and 'Got Milk?' "
To enter the contest, Girl Scouts in grades K—12 must submit a photo and a caption of eight words or less stating how Girl Scouts and milk have helped them become "strong, healthy and confident." The photo must include the Girl Scout who wrote the caption and dairy milk. (See www.girscoutsnorcal.org.)
"None of us know what we will see" submitted from the contestants, Park said. "We do know that there are always lots of creative ideas coming from the girls. That's the key to success -- the content. It's about creativity and fun."
Three grand prize winners will each receive a $500 U.S. Savings Bond and will be featured on a billboard for a month. Twenty-four finalists will receive $350 in camp or travel scholarship funds. Plus, the first 1,000 Girl Scouts to submit entries win a "Got Milk?" fun patch.
The print ads of 1997 featured Northern California-born Megan Weber with her Girl Scouts uniform and an armful of delicious cookies. Weber, now 25 and living in Sweden, has been encouraging as many of the state's 200,000 Girl Scouts to enter the contest.
"I remember missing my school Halloween party to participate in the photo shoot," said Weber, a Girl Scout for 13 years," in a statement. —I just couldn't pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to star in a 'Got Milk?' billboard and to also represent the Girl Scouts across California. It is an organization that taught me how to become independent and hard working."
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts organization.
"It's a time when we are celebrating and connecting will all of our communities around Girl Scouts, Girl Scouting and what it means to build girls of courage, confidence and character," Park said.


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Data warehouse appliances
Analysis of data warehouse appliances – i.e., of hardware/software bundles optimized for fast query and analysis of large volumes of (usually) relational data. Related subjects include:
- Data warehousing
- Parallelization
- Netezza
- DATAllegro
- Teradata
- Kickfire
- (in The Monash Report) Computing appliances in multiple domains
Data models
7-10 years ago, I repeatedly argued the viewpoints:
- Relational DBMS were the right choice in most cases.
- Multiple kinds of relational DBMS were needed, optimized for different kinds of use case.
- There were a variety of specialized use cases in which non-relational data models were best.
Since then, however:
- Hadoop has flourished.
- NoSQL has flourished.
- Graph DBMS have matured somewhat.
- Much of the action has shifted to machine-generated data, of which there are many kinds.
So it's probably best to revisit all that in a somewhat organized way.
Greenplum is being open sourced
While I don't find the Open Data Platform thing very significant, an associated piece of news seems cooler — Pivotal is open sourcing a bunch of software, with Greenplum as the crown jewel. Notes on that start:
- Greenplum has been an on-again/off-again low-cost player since before its acquisition by EMC, but open source is basically a commitment to having low license cost be permanently on.
- In most regards, "free like beer" is what's important here, not "free like speech". I doubt non-Pivotal employees are going to do much hacking on the long-closed Greenplum code base.
- That said, Greenplum forked PostgreSQL a long time ago, and the general PostgreSQL community might gain ideas from some of the work Greenplum has done.
- The only other bit of newly open-sourced stuff I find interesting is HAWQ. Redis was already open source, and I've never been persuaded to care about GemFire.
Greenplum, let us recall, is a pretty decent MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) analytic RDBMS. Various aspects of it were oversold at various times, and I've never heard that they actually licked concurrency. But Greenplum has long had good SQL coverage and petabyte-scale deployments and a columnar option and some in-database analytics and so on; i.e., it's legit. When somebody asks me about open source analytic RDBMS to consider, I expect Greenplum to consistently be on the short list.
Further, the low-cost alternatives for analytic RDBMS are adding up. Read more
|Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Citus Data, Data warehouse appliances, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, EMC, Greenplum, Hadoop, Infobright, MonetDB, Open source, Pricing
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Notes from a visit to Teradata
I spent a day with Teradata in Rancho Bernardo last week. Most of what we discussed is confidential, but I think the non-confidential parts and my general impressions add up to enough for a post.
First, let's catch up with some personnel gossip. So far as I can tell:
- Scott Gnau runs most of Teradata's development, product management, and product marketing, the big exception being that …
- … Darryl McDonald run the apps part (Aprimo and so on), and no longer is head of marketing.
- Oliver Ratzesberger runs Teradata's software development.
- Jeff Carter has returned to his roots and runs the hardware part, in place of Carson Schmidt.
- Aster founders Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros have left Teradata (perhaps some earn-out period ended).
- Carson is temporarily running Aster development (in place of Mayank), and has some sort of evangelism role waiting after that.
- With the acquisition of Hadapt, Teradata gets some attention from Dan Abadi. Also, they're retaining Justin Borgman.
The biggest change in my general impressions about Teradata is that they're having smart thoughts about the cloud. At least, Oliver is. All details are confidential, and I wouldn't necessarily expect them to become clear even in October (which once again is the month for Teradata's user conference). My main concern about all that is whether Teradata's engineering team can successfully execute on Oliver's directives. I'm optimistic, but I don't have a lot of detail to support my good feelings.
In some quick-and-dirty positioning and sales qualification notes, which crystallize what we already knew before:
- The Teradata 1xxx series is focused on cost-per-bit.
- The Teradata 2xxx series is focused on cost-per-query. It is commonly Teradata's "lead" product, at least for new customers.
- The Teradata 6xxx series is supposed to be able to do "everything".
- The Teradata Aster "Discovery Analytics" platform is sold mainly to customers who have a specific high-value problem to solve. (Randy Lea gave me a nice round dollar number, but I won't share it.) I like that approach, as it obviates much of the concern about "Wait — is this strategic for us long-term, given that we also have both Teradata database and Hadoop clusters?"
Also: Read more
|Categories: Aster Data, Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Hadapt, Hadoop, MapReduce, Solid-state memory, Teradata
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21st Century DBMS success and failure
As part of my series on the keys to and likelihood of success, I outlined some examples from the DBMS industry. The list turned out too long for a single post, so I split it up by millennia. The part on 20th Century DBMS success and failure went up Friday; in this one I'll cover more recent events, organized in line with the original overview post. Categories addressed will include analytic RDBMS (including data warehouse appliances), NoSQL/non-SQL short-request DBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NewSQL and Hadoop.
DBMS rarely have trouble with the criterion "Is there an identifiable buying process?" If an enterprise is doing application development projects, a DBMS is generally chosen for each one. And so the organization will generally have a process in place for buying DBMS, or accepting them for free. Central IT, departments, and — at least in the case of free open source stuff — developers all commonly have the capacity for DBMS acquisition.
In particular, at many enterprises either departments have the ability to buy their own analytic technology, or else IT will willingly buy and administer things for a single department. This dynamic fueled much of the early rise of analytic RDBMS.
Buyer inertia is a greater concern.
- A significant minority of enterprises are highly committed to their enterprise DBMS standards.
- Another significant minority aren't quite as committed, but set pretty high bars for new DBMS products to cross nonetheless.
- FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about new DBMS is often justifiable, about stability and consistent performance alike.
A particularly complex version of this dynamic has played out in the market for analytic RDBMS/appliances.
- First the newer products (from Netezza onwards) were sold to organizations who knew they wanted great performance or price/performance.
- Then it became more about selling "business value" to organizations who needed more convincing about the benefits of great price/performance.
- Then the behemoth vendors became more competitive, as Teradata introduced lower-price models, Oracle introduced Exadata, Sybase got more aggressive with Sybase IQ, IBM bought Netezza, EMC bought Greenplum, HP bought Vertica and so on. It is now hard for a non-behemoth analytic RDBMS vendor to make headway at large enterprise accounts.
- Meanwhile, Hadoop has emerged as serious competitor for at least some analytic data management, especially but not only at internet companies.
Otherwise I'd say: Read more
Notes and comments, March 17, 2014
I have ever more business-advice posts up on Strategic Messaging. Recent subjects include pricing and stealth-mode marketing. Other stuff I've been up to includes:
The Spark buzz keeps increasing; almost everybody I talk with expects Spark to win big, probably across several use cases.
Disclosure: I'll soon be in a substantial client relationship with Databricks, hoping to improve their stealth-mode marketing.
The "real-time analytics" gold rush I called out last year continues. A large fraction of the vendors I talk with have some variant of "real-time analytics" as a central message.
Basho had a major change in leadership. A Twitter exchange ensued. Joab Jackson offered a more sober — figuratively and literally — take.
Hadapt laid off its sales and marketing folks, and perhaps some engineers as well. In a nutshell, Hadapt's approach to SQL-on-Hadoop wasn't selling vs. the many alternatives, and Hadapt is doubling down on poly-structured data*/schema-on-need.
*While Hadapt doesn't to my knowledge use the term "poly-structured data", some other vendors do. And so I may start using it more myself, at least when the poly-structured/multi-structured distinction actually seems significant.
WibiData is partnering with DataStax, WibiData is of course pleased to get access to Cassandra's user base, which gave me the opportunity to ask why they thought Cassandra had beaten HBase in those accounts. The answer was performance and availability, while Cassandra's traditional lead in geo-distribution wasn't mentioned at all.
Disclosure: My fingerprints are all over that deal.
In other news, WibiData has had some executive departures as well, but seems to be staying the course on its strategy. I continue to think that WibiData has a really interesting vision about how to do large-data-volume interactive computing, and anybody in that space would do well to talk with them or at least look into the open source projects WibiData sponsors.
I encountered another apparently-popular machine-learning term — bandit model. It seems to be glorified A/B testing, and it seems to be popular. I think the point is that it tries to optimize for just how much you invest in testing unproven (for good or bad) alternatives.
I had an awkward set of interactions with Gooddata, including my longest conversations with them since 2009. Gooddata is in the early days of trying to offer an all-things-to-all-people analytic stack via SaaS (Software as a Service). I gather that Hadoop, Vertica, PostgreSQL (a cheaper Vertica alternative), Spark, Shark (as a faster version of Hive) and Cassandra (under the covers) are all in the mix — but please don't hold me to those details.
I continue to think that computing is moving to a combination of appliances, clusters, and clouds. That said, I recently bought a new gaming-class computer, and spent many hours gaming on it just yesterday.* I.e., there's room for general-purpose workstations as well. But otherwise, I'm not hearing anything that contradicts my core point.
*The last beta weekend for The Elder Scrolls Online; I loved Morrowind.
Some stuff I'm thinking about (early 2014)
From time to time I like to do "what I'm working on" posts. From my recent blogging, you probably already know that includes:
- Hadoop (always, and please see below).
- Analytic RDBMS (ditto).
- NoSQL and NewSQL.
- Specifically, SQL-on-Hadoop
- Schema-on-need.
- Spark and other memory-centric technology, including streaming.
- Public policy, mainly but not only in the area of surveillance/privacy.
- General strategic advice for all sizes of tech company.
Other stuff on my mind includes but is not limited to:
1. Certain categories of buying organizations are inherently leading-edge.
- Internet companies have adopted Hadoop, NoSQL, NewSQL and all that en masse. Often, they won't even look at things that are conventional or expensive.
- US telecom companies have been buying 1 each of every DBMS on the market since pre-relational days.
- Financial services firms — specifically algorithmic traders and broker-dealers — have been in their own technical world for decades …
- … as have national-security agencies …
- … as have pharmaceutical research departments.
Fine. But what really intrigues me is when more ordinary enterprises also put leading-edge technologies into production. I pester everybody for examples of that.
SaaS appliances, SaaS data centers, and customer-premises SaaS
I think that most sufficiently large enterprise SaaS vendors should offer an appliance option, as an alternative to the core multi-tenant service. In particular:
- SaaS appliances address customer fears about security, privacy, compliance, performance isolation, and lock-in.
- Some of these benefits occur even if the appliance runs in the same data centers that host the vendor's standard multi-tenant SaaS. Most of the rest occur if the customer can choose a co-location facility in which to place the appliance.
- Whether many customers should or will use the SaaS appliance option is somewhat secondary; it's a check-mark item. I.e., many customers and prospects will be pleased that the option at least exists.
How I reached them
Core reasons for selling or using SaaS (Software as a Service) as opposed to licensed software start:
- The SaaS vendor handles all software upgrades, and makes them promptly. In principle, this benefit could also be achieved on a dedicated system on customer premises (or at the customer's choice of co-location facility).
- In addition, the SaaS vendor handles all the platform and operational stuff — hardware, operating system, computer room, etc. This benefit is antithetical to direct customer control.
- The SaaS vendor only has to develop for and operate on a tightly restricted platform stack that it knows very well. This benefit is also enjoyed in the case of customer-premises appliances.
Conceptually, then, customer-premises SaaS is not impossible, even though one of the standard Big Three SaaS benefits is lost. Indeed:
- Microsoft Windows and many other client software packages already offer to let their updates be automagically handled by the vendor.
- In that vein, consumer devices such as game consoles already are a kind of SaaS appliance.
- Complex devices of any kind, including computers, will see ever more in the way of "phone-home" features or optional services, often including routine maintenance and upgrades.
But from an enterprise standpoint, that's all (relatively) simple stuff. So we're left with a more challenging question — does customer-premises SaaS make sense in the case of enterprise applications or other server software?
|Categories: Data warehouse appliances, HP and Neoview, salesforce.com, Software as a Service (SaaS), Surveillance and privacy
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Thoughts on SaaS
Generalizing about SaaS (Software as a Service) is hard. To prune some of the confusion, let's start by noting:
- SaaS has been around for over half a century, and at times has been the dominant mode of application delivery.
- The term multi-tenancy is being used in several different ways.
- Multi-tenancy, in the purest sense, is inessential to SaaS. It's simply an implementation choice that has certain benefits for the SaaS provider. And by the way, …
- … salesforce.com, the chief proponent of the theory that true multi-tenancy is the hallmark of true SaaS, abandoned that position this week.
- Internet-based services are commonly, if you squint a little, SaaS. Examples include but are hardly limited to Google, Twitter, Dropbox, Intuit, Amazon Web Services, and the company that hosts this blog (KnownHost).
- Some of the core arguments for SaaS' rise, namely the various efficiencies of data center outsourcing and scale, apply equally to the public cloud, to SaaS, and to AEaaS (Anything Else as a Service).
- These benefits are particularly strong for inherently networked use cases. For example, you really don't want to be hosting your website yourself. And salesforce.com got its start supporting salespeople who worked out of remote offices.
- In theory and occasionally in practice, certain SaaS benefits, namely the outsourcing of software maintenance and updates, could be enjoyed on-premises as well. Whether I think that could be a bigger deal going forward will be explored in future posts.
For smaller enterprises, the core outsourcing argument is compelling. How small? Well:
- What's the minimum level of IT operations headcount needed for mission-critical systems? Let's just say "several".
- What does that cost? Fully burdened, somewhere in the six figures.
- What fraction of the IT budget should such headcount be? As low a double digit percentage as possible.
- What fraction of revenues should be spent on IT? Some single-digit percentage.
So except for special cases, an enterprise with less than $100 million or so in revenue may have trouble affording on-site data processing, at least at a mission-critical level of robustness. It may well be better to use NetSuite or something like that, assuming needed features are available in SaaS form.*
|Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Buying processes, Cloud computing, Data mart outsourcing, Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Infobright, Netezza, Pricing, salesforce.com, Software as a Service (SaaS), Workday
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RDBMS and their bundle-mates
Relational DBMS used to be fairly straightforward product suites, which boiled down to:
- A big SQL interpreter.
- A bunch of administrative and operational tools.
- Some very optional add-ons, often including an application development tool.
Now, however, most RDBMS are sold as part of something bigger.
- Oracle has hugely thickened its stack, as part of an Innovator's Solution strategy — hardware, middleware, applications, business intelligence, and more.
- IBM has moved aggressively to a bundled "appliance" strategy. Even before that, IBM DB2 long sold much better to committed IBM accounts than as a software-only offering.
- Microsoft SQL Server is part of a stack, starting with the Windows operating system.
- Sybase was an exception to this rule, with thin(ner) stacks for both Adaptive Server Enterprise and Sybase IQ. But Sybase is now owned by SAP, and increasingly integrated as a business with …
- … SAP HANA, which is closely associated with SAP's applications.
- Teradata has always been a hardware/software vendor. The most successful of its analytic DBMS rivals, in some order, are:
- Netezza, a pure appliance vendor, now part of IBM.
- Greenplum, an appliance-mainly vendor for most (not all) of its existence, and in particular now as a part of EMC Pivotal.
- Vertica, more of a software-only vendor than the others, but now owned by and increasingly mainstreamed into hardware vendor HP.
- MySQL's glory years were as part of the "LAMP" stack.
- Various thin-stack RDBMS that once were or could have been important market players … aren't. Examples include Progress OpenEdge, IBM Informix, and the various strays adopted by Actian.
Things I keep needing to say
Some subjects just keep coming up. And so I keep saying things like:
Most generalizations about "Big Data" are false. "Big Data" is a horrific catch-all term, with many different meanings.
Most generalizations about Hadoop are false. Reasons include:
- Hadoop is a collection of disparate things, most particularly data storage and application execution systems.
- The transition from Hadoop 1 to Hadoop 2 will be drastic.
- For key aspects of Hadoop — especially file format and execution engine — there are or will be widely varied options.
Hadoop won't soon replace relational data warehouses, if indeed it ever does. SQL-on-Hadoop is still very immature. And you can't replace data warehouses unless you have the power of SQL.
Note: SQL isn't the only way to provide "the power of SQL", but alternative approaches are just as immature.
Most generalizations about NoSQL are false. Different NoSQL products are … different. It's not even accurate to say that all NoSQL systems lack SQL interfaces. (For example, SQL-on-Hadoop often includes SQL-on-HBase.)


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Courtesy of Marvel Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #1. The flagship X-Men title begins a bold new direction February 13.
The Line it is Drawn returns for the New Year with a collection of lesser-known Marvel NOW! first issues like Batroc, Beta Ray Bill, Squadron Supreme, Planet Terry and more!
Following rumors that Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man of 2099, would be the star of "Superior Spider-Man," series writer Dan Slott confirms the character will appear in the newly-launched Marvel NOW! book.
In "Morbius: The Living Vampire" #1, the fugitive vampire took refuge in a crime plagued Brooklyn neighborhood. CBR spoke with writer Joe Keatinge about the issue's fallout and his plans for the series.
Incoming "Uncanny X-Force" writer Sam Humphries makes his X-POSITION debut, answering your questions about his new mutant ninja noir squad premiering later this month.
Ryan K. Lindsay gives Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman's "Superior Spider-Man" #1 4 stars, calling the Marvel NOW! debut issue of Spidey's new status quo "intriguing, well thought out, exciting and downright fun."
Skottie Young's variant cover for Brian Bendis and Chris Bachalo's "Uncanny X-Men" #1 has surfaced online, bringing Young's take on Cyclops' new outfit and the future of the "Uncanny" team.
Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Will Sliney discusses his plans for upcoming Marvel NOW! series "Fearless Defenders," the direction of the series, the expansion of the cast and teased the series' mysterious villain.
In "Avengers Arena," two teen heroes have lost their lives at the hands of the villainous Arcade and writer Dennis Hopeless, who spoke with CBR about the series and its direction for the future with exclusive art!
For his first column of the new year, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso looks forward to see how Cosmic titles will tie the Marvel U together, the 50th anniversary of the X-Men and some of the major goals for 2013.
With the first volume of "Uncanny X-Force" concluded, CBR spoke with incoming writer Sam Humphries about how Rick Remender's run will impact his run this January as part of Marvel NOW!
Kelly Thompson gives "All-New X-Men" #5 by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen 4.5 stars, saying Bendis "writes with a confidence that announces he knows exactly where he wants the series to go."
Robot 6 contributors Carla Hoffman and Tom Bondurant continue their annual look back at the year in Marvel and DC, tackling the "Man of Steel" trailer, Gail SImone, ethnic diversity, Deadpool and much more.
Robot 6 contributors Carla Hoffman and Tom Bondurant settle in for their annual look back at the year in Marvel and DC, covering superhero movies, digital comics and, of course, Marvel NOW! and the New 52.
Marvel has given Robot 6 an exclusive preview of "Avengers Arena" #4, by Dennis Hopeless and Allesandro Vitti, which pits the Runaways against Avengers Academy. The issue arrives Feb. 13.
Our conversation on the year that was 2012 for Marvel Comics wraps as Axel Alonso says farewell to long runs by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis and more while reviewing what made "Daredevil" and "Hawkeye" hits.
Marvel Comics has released a first look at John Cassaday's pages for "Uncanny Avengers" #3, written by Rick Remender. The Uncanny Avengers face off against the Red Skull's S-Men January 16.
Marvel Comics has released a first look at Greg Land's pages for "Iron Man" #6 written by Kieron Gillen. The first issue in Gillen's new "The God-Killer" arc begins February 6.
In "Amazing Spider-Man" #700 one era of Spidey's life came to an end and another began. CBR spoke with Editor Steve Wacker, Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort about the issue.
The new status quo for Dan Slott's "Superior Spider-Man" and the man behind the Spidey mask has been revealed. In our latest poll, CBR wants to know how long you think it's going to last!
With Dan Slott's series-concluding issue of "Amazing Spider-Man" finally on comic stands, CBR wants to know if you had the end of the series spoiled for you due to an online leak.
As "Amazing Spider-Man" #700 draws the series to a close, the identity of the new Spidey in Dan Slott's Marvel NOW! series "Superior Spider-Man" has been revealed.
Doug Zawisza gives Kathryn Immonen and Valerio Schiti's "Journey Into Mystery" #647 4.5 stars, calling it "one of the best Marvel NOW! has to offer" and praising Sif's characterization.
In the first of a two-part A-i-C exploring the year that was, Axel Alonso recalls the moments from "Avengers Vs. X-Men" that surprised even him and unpacks big debuts for Ant-Man, Nova and Nick Fury, Jr.
Ryan K. Lindsay gives "Thor: God of Thunder" #3 by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic 4 stars, saying, "Everything in this book works toward pushing its boundaries and amazing the reader."
Greg McElhatton gives "FF" #2 4 stars, saying the second Marvel NOW! issue by Matt Fraction and Mike Allred "has a spring in its step that makes you eager to see what happens next."
Doug Zawisza gives "Avengers" #2 4 stars, calling the issue by writer Jonathan Hickman and interior artist Jerome Opena "a story worthy of the 'Avengers' brand."
Doug Zawisza gives "All-New X-Men" #4 by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen 4 stars, saying Immonen is "at the top of his game … and brings out the best in his visual collaborators."
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, CBR has an exclusive first look to Mike Del Mundo's cover for "X-Men Legacy" #5 written by Si Spurrier with art by Tan Eng Huat. Legion's misadventures continue January 23.
After a winning week for sales on the Marvel NOW! relaunch, Axel Alonso tells how strong performances for the likes of "Deadpool" impacts the line, digs into the "Ultimate Wolverine" launch and takes questions on "Young Avengers" & more.
Writer Jeph Loeb explains the long journey to he and Ed McGuinness' "Nova" ongoing from his crash landing in "AvX" to his role in "Ultimate Spider-Man." UPDATED with more art!
In the GABRIEL NOW! column for Diamond retailers, Marvel SVP of sales David Gabriel discussed the rationale behind ending deep runs of its most popular series and debuted a first look at a lot of new art.
The Red Hulk, General Ross, assembled a super powered strike team for a secret agenda in "Thunderbolts" #1 and CBR spoke with writer Daniel Way about the team and his long term plans.
John Mayo returns with his analysis of November's Marvel NOW! sales numbers, plus a look at DC Comics' New 52 performance from its 2011 launch through the latter portion of 2012.
Marvel Comics has released its solicitations for comics on sale in March, 2013, including the latest Marvel NOW! releases, the debut of "Age of Ultron," "Wolverine" #1 and much more!
Brian Michael Bendis discusses his next contribution to the Marvel NOW! X-Men mythology with a relaunch of "Uncanny X-Men" with art by Chris Bachalo following Cyclops' new mutant team.
In a strong month for direct market comic sales driven in part by Marvel NOW!, DC execs Bob Wayne and John Cunningham discuss how New 52 as book sales stay strong and the criticism over early digital releases.
November was a very good month for Marvel as the publisher's Marvel NOW! initiative had 8 of the top ten best-selling titles leading to overall sales domination while IDW's "My Little Pony" debuted at #15.
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PUEBLO, Colo. - Vandals are endangering the lives of motorcyclists and ATV riders in the Pike National Forest by burying spikes along trails used by off-highway vehicles and others, the American Motorcyclist Association reports.
The spiked strips, which resemble heavy barbed wire, can cause flat tires on motorized vehicles, which could cause loss of control and result in a crash. The booby traps also threaten the safety of hikers and horseback riders.
One strip was found on a single-track trail in the Pike National Forest May 5. The matter came to the attention of the AMA through AMA Life Member Jerry Abboud and the Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition.
The U.S. Forest Service issued a warning, stating that "the device posed a significant public safety concern, and U.S. Forest Service officials are asking for assistance from the public to provide any information they may have."
"Such acts are deplorable," said Wayne Allard, AMA vice president of government relations. "No matter what is motivating the people behind this, endangering the safety of innocent individuals is unacceptable."
Allard called for harsh punishment for the perpetrators when they are identified.
"The safety of the public and our employees is our highest concern," said Laura Mark, Forest Service special agent in charge for the Rocky Mountain Region. "Anyone who has information about this is encouraged to contact the Forest Service law enforcement officials."
Mark advised people who find spike strips or any other booby trap to:
- Document the location, with latitude and longitude, if available;
- While at the site, try to report the device to the nearest Forest Service office, listed here: https://hrm.gdcii.com/directory/;
- Follow the Forest Service instructions;
- If the Forest Service cannot be contacted, conspicuously mark the site to warn other trail users, or carefully remove the device.
The AMA also requests that information be emailed to email@example.com. Include the location of the device, a description of the device, the date of discovery and any other information deemed important or appropriate.
Individuals with information about the found booby traps are asked by the Forest Service to leave a message on the Forest Service Law Enforcement Tip Line at 303-275-5266. A reward is being offered.
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Stoudemire the Sub Starts Slowly
If you can, try to think back to the great free agent bonanza of 2010 in which every aspiring high level NBA team lost its mind trying to get its hands on a superstar. The New York Knicks, then desperate for relevance following a decade of Isiahs and Stephons, shelled out a massive, massively uninsured contract to Amar'e Stoudemire, despite knowing his history of knee trouble. Now, the Knicks may be in a position where they can't so easily ignore the realities of how his injuries have created a situation in which his production no longer justifies the amount of money he's making. He made his season debut Tuesday against Portland to a standing ovation after missing the first couple of months while rehabbing from knee surgery, and didn't quite tear the roof down. In 17 minutes, he scored six points on three-of-eight shooting from the floor, while grabbing just one rebound and looking generally lost on the defensive end. Despite 45 points from Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks couldn't narrow the gap before time ran out.
Of course, the game was the first time in more than six months that Stoudemire stepped on a basketball court, which means it isn't quite the end of the world–just not the rim-shattering comeback Knicks fans might have hoped for. "Rust aside, he offered glimpses of an intriguing pick-and-roll pairing with [Pablo] Prigioni on the second unit and, at times, with Anthony in potential starting/closing lineups — if nothing else, he draws more defensive attention than nominal starting power forward Kurt Thomas — while resembling the unaware defensive liability NBA fans have come to know over the past decade," writes Yahoo's Dan Devine. "All that said: The Knicks didn't lose to Portland because Stoudemire was rusty or because he couldn't play alongside Anthony and Tyson Chandler, but rather because the Knicks continue to have difficulty stopping anybody from scoring for any considerable period of time." As Devine points out, the Knicks are allowing over 105 points per 100 possessions over the last month, the NBA's eighth-worst mark over that stretch. Considering Stoudemire's history of defensive negligence, and the way coach Mike Woodson hopes to use him while he gets back up to speed–as a potentially game-changing offensive force off the bench, rather than as a traditional starting power forward–his return may not bring the recommitment to point-prevention as, say, the impending debut of Iman Shumpert.
Which could be a bad omen given the time left on Stoudemire's contract—two years after this one—and the way he's meshed, or hasn't, with Anthony on the court. (While he's been out, Anthony has blossomed by switching to power forward, potentially creating a positional logjam.) One defensive stopper in the form of Tyson Chandler might not be enough as opponents learn to adjust to the Knicks's newly emerged strengths. "New York is still shooting three's at a blistering clip (28.9 per game) but teams' aggressive pursuit at the three-point line has caused the Knicks' percentage (39.3) to slip," writes Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix. "On Tuesday, Stoudemire entered the game to a standing ovation, the cheers of 19,033 fans nearly bringing tears to his eyes. He is back. Now, for the Knicks to win this season, he has to be better." New York waits with bated breath.
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Call it Revenge of the Nerds, if you will, since this Fixer/alum won't do anything to dispel the notion that Northwestern University is essentially a school of well-meaning dorks. Dorks they may be, but they can be proud of breaking a 64-year bowl drought after defeating Mississippi State 34-20 in the traditionally named Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl on Tuesday. Coach Pat Fitzgerald, who became the winningest coach in team history with the victory, snapped a personal losing streak of four bowl losses in four years. (As a student, he also played on two teams that lost bowl games, including the 1996 Rose Bowl.) "By the end, Northwestern had the bowl win it coveted. It finishes the season 10-3 with three losses in games it led in the fourth quarter. As historic as this season was for Northwestern, this team was probably even better than its 10-3 record," writes Yahoo's Frank Schwab. "The way Fitzgerald has built up the Northwestern program, the next bowl win shouldn't take too long to get."
As the Journal's Rachel Bachman points out, Northwestern's win was about the only unembarrassing result for the Big Ten following a year in which two of its flagship teams served postseason bans while expanding to include non-powers like Maryland and Rutgers. "It was a year to forget—and then the Big Ten went 1 for 5 in Tuesday's bowl games," she writes. In another win for national nerdery, Barry Alvarez's return to coaching was spoiled as Stanford defeated Wisconsin 20-14 in the Rose Bowl. The loss made it three times the last three years that the Badgers tanked in the Rose Bowl. "With an 8-6 final record, Wisconsin players had to listen to one obnoxious fan shout 'O-H-I-O' and remind them that Ohio State had the better team this year as they trudged into the tunnel to their locker room," writes ESPN's Brian Bennett. "But those are just plot details. The ending remains unchanged." It wasn't a bad day for kids with perfect SAT scores, though, and you'd better believe those admissions departments were quickly scrambling to adjust their recruitment packages for prospective students.
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"Bless his weird, stoic, confused heart, and off with his head," writes Slate's Tom Scocca. "There will be plenty of people lining up to tell you that [Andy] Reid was the worst fourth-quarter tactician in the league, a big-game choker, a bullheaded misuser of talent, a nincompoop, a slowly sinking barge to nowhere. Most of that is true. He was also —a better coach than most franchises—and certainly the eternally scattershot and dysfunctional Eagles usually see." All things considered, that isn't exactly the most winning validation of any prospective head coach. But this logic may be weirdly enough to get the recently fired Andy Reid an interview or two with the Arizona Cardinals, with whom he's already sealed the deal or waiting to, depending on which reports you believe. The move to Arizona would reunite him with Kevin Kolb, who recently seemed like he might be a franchise-worthy quarterback while playing under Reid in that undigested midpoint between Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick. Which is enough for media locals smarting over Reid's tenure in Philadelphia to break out the pitchforks and try to ward the Cardinals away from making a mistake that could last 14 seasons, should Reid's characteristic mix of bummer competence and uninspiring success congeal into something to take the Cardinals out of their perpetual sub-.500 funk. Still, even that might be enough to put a smile on Larry Fitzgerald's face.
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*Editor's Note: This opinion is in response to a Lake view titled "Concerned about speed in Laurie" by Janet Wilson published in the Thursday, Oct. 17 Lake Sun.
In regards to a view about lowering the speed limit on Highway 5 and 135 in the Laurie area, I disagree. MoDOT, and the city council, have everything in running order. Lowering the speed limit 10 mph would cause heavy congestion.
I believe one driver not driving the speed limit already backs up a baker's dozen of cars, making the same for the opposite. It gets tiring trying to enter or leave a business as it is. Potential accidents are people driving while on their cell phone, texting, or adjusting the car radio. I always learned not to fix what's not broken.
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TCS: 4" 94-98 Chevy Tahoe/Yukon 1500 Tuff Country Lift Kit!!
Product Classification:
Suspension Lifts
Tuff Country
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This product fits the following vehicle(s):
1994-1998|Chevrolet|1500 Tahoe 1994-1998|Chevrolet|1500 Yukon
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This is a new Tuff Country 4" suspension lift kit for the 94-98 Chevy Tahoe/Yukon 1500 (2 door WITHOUT Auto Track) 4x4 . It is being offered by Top Gun Customz .
Tuff Country EZ-Ride suspension lift kits are more than your average lift kit. All systems are engineered to give the highest quality & best value on the market. Compare components of a Tuff Country system to that of other manufactures and you will be convince that nothing beats a Tuff Country suspension lift kit. Many others cut corners with inferior components or lack of many important pieces. Tuff Country does not cut those corners and provides a quality complete system engineered to give the best ride quality and durability money can buy. All Tuff Country lift kits & leveling kits are backed by a limited lifetime warranty.
Tuff Country EZ-Ride Suspension's GM "Knuckle/Sub-Frame" systems make installation easier than ever. By using the combination new extended steering knuckles and a one-piece sub-frame the amount of brackets and pieces required has been more than cut in half. A one-piece sub-frame will also help to eliminate annoying squeaks and rattles.
View a review of a Tuff Country GM IFS kit:
"The newer designs available are a HUGE improvement......it makes it for an easier installation and a MUCH better lift kit " - Off-Road.com
Tuff Country EZ-Ride Lift Kit's are the "Official Suspension" of Peterson's 4Wheel & Off-Road Magazine's "Ultimate Adventure" and Four Wheeler Magazine's "Top Truck Challenge".
System Benefits:
Simple bolt-on installation
New steering knuckles eliminate the need to drop upper control arms
One piece sub-frame gives increased strength and helps to eliminate squeaks and rattles
Allows use of 33" x 12.5" tires
Requires new rims with 4.5" backspacing
Average Install Time: 10-12 hours
This System Includes... Quantity
One piece Sub-frame 1
Steering Knuckles 2
Differential Drop Bracket 2
Torsion Bar Drop Bracket 2
Axle Spacers 2
U-bolts 4
4" Cast Iron Blocks 2
Sway Bar Endlinks (rear) 2
Brakeline Relocating Kit 1
Hardware bag 1
Fits following years:
94, 95, 96, 97, 98
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Fits following models:
Chevy/GMC Tahoe K1500 4x4 (2-door only)
Special Notes...
Factory length shocks must be replaced with new extended rear shocks to install this lift kit properly. Please read below for shock & boot options if you have not already purchased extended shocks
Requires new rims sizes with 4.5" backspacing or less
Will not fit with ABS brakes
Top Gun Customz - Standard Shipping Policy
- All standard shipping guaranteed with-in 10 business days. Upon recieving full payment. (Continental 48 states only)*
- We do not ship to P.O. Boxes.
- Additional shipping fees do apply to Alaska, Hawaii, and ALL other Countries within our shipping range. You MUST contact us prior to ordering, for an exact shipping quote or method to any destination outside the continental U.S. without a previously written shipping quote or method.
- Prior to beginning your install, please verify that you have received all items ordered.
- There is a 15% restocking fee on all uninstalled returns.
- No returns after 30 days.
- Top Gun Customz will not accept checks in any amount over $2,500.00. Any order totals that exceed this amount will have to be paid for by Money Order, Credit Card, Certified Bank Check, PayPal, or Cash at our business location.
- As Check Collect (Disclaimer): RETURNED CHECKS will be processed Electronically for check amount plus State allowed fees.
- Order cancellations before shipment will result in a minimum fee of 5% of total invoice to offset all processing fees. Other fees that may affect your cancellation are any eBay or Paypal fees associated with your purchase..
- **All drop-shipped items are subject to the policies and procedures set forth by the corresponding manufacturer of said products. (ie. If Rough Country drop-shipped the item that you purchased from us, and you decide to return it, it will need to be returned to Rough Country, and you will then incur all additional fees associated that are above and beyond our standard policies.)
*(Our guarantee is based on our ability to process orders in time for our couriers to ship items standard ground within the stated guarantee. Average processing time is within 10 business days from payment received to item received.) This is the time frame that we feel is acceptable for all deliveries within the continental U.S. Individual situations that extend delivery time past this guarantee may be reviewed with a member of our management.


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Berger on the Brink: Hawaii Lax Game Day
He's back, and he's hitting up Hawaii.
"Berger on the Brink," a video blog by professional lacrosse player and US Lacrosse Men's Division associate Stephen Berger, returns with an eight-part series chronicling his trip to Hawaii for the 20th-annual Hawaii Lacrosse Invitational as a member of tournament champion Wimmer Solutions.
In Part Five below, check out how Wimmer rolls on game day, its first in Hawaii.
Part I: Berger's Basement; SB at USL, Early Bird at "The
Part II: LAX to HNL; In-Flight Entertainment; Smitty's First Splash
Part III: Shooters on Scooters; "Unreal;" Trick or Treat?
Part IV: Jaywalking Blue Jay; Berger's Home for the Weekend
Part V: Game Day Gathering; Wimmer Solutions: The Squad>>
Part VI: Smitty's Second Splash; Wimmer Warm-Up
Part VII: Rise and Shine; Seibald Scores; Sunset Drive
Part VIII: Smitty's Last Splash; Sideline Chatter; Hawaii Final
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Guiding Principle
The development of this procedure has been guided by the belief that the university is a community and as such is normally open during periods of ordinary seasonal inclement weather. The procedure equally values the safety and lives of all students, faculty, and staff, while recognizing that we must maintain the effective operation of the university.
Faculty, staff, and students must assume responsibility for their own health and safety, as well as for their class or work responsibilities. While this frequently requires a delicate balance, each individual must be the ultimate arbiter of whether to travel to Wright State under varying conditions.
An emergency closing of Wright State University will be implemented only under severe and extreme circumstances. All employees are expected to report to work unless they specifically hear otherwise. Every effort will be made to maintain classes. However, when weather conditions and/or a declared state of emergency due to other factors warrants, the university may delay the opening of the university or implement an emergency closing of the university.
The decision to close for a full day or to delay the opening of the university, excluding the Ervin J. Nutter Center unless specifically mentioned, should be made by 5:00 a.m. If the need to close is identified during the day, the decision will be communicated throughout the campus and through the designated media. (See Media Notification Listing). If the decision is made to close the campus, all employees and students will be notified by university officials.
Should the university be closed, the College of Nursing and Health, the School of Professional Psychology, and university libraries will also be closed. The Boonshoft School of Medicine, the Frederick A. White Center, and the Nutter Center have developed internal procedures for emergency closing. The staffs of these areas will determine their status after consultation with the appropriate university officials and event promoters (which may include WSU Athletic Department).
Consideration of Conditions
More than 16,000 students, 2,000 employees, and hundreds of auxiliary personnel must travel to Wright State from throughout the region. While 80 percent of those individuals live within 10 miles of the university, an appreciable number must travel from longer distances and on fewer well-maintained roadways. Facilities and services including Physical Plant, residence halls, and other "essential" operations must be maintained at the direction of the appropriate divisional vice president and department director. Employees of university contractors will be advised by their supervisors as to their starting time and/or reporting status.
If the weather conditions are such or are anticipated to be such, to merit consideration for altering the operations of the university, the following procedure will be followed:
1) In the event of a severe winter snow storm or ice storm, or tornado that could affect student access to the university, the provost or designee will have the final authority to make the decision to cancel classes or close the university.
2) Decisions will be based on information gathered on weather conditions from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the local police agencies surrounding the main campus (Fairborn, Beavercreek, Dayton, and Huber Heights), and local transportation agencies (RTA), from official weather reports and forecasts, and from WSU physical facilities and university police offices.
3) The provost will be advised of this information in consultation with the vice president for business and fiscal affairs and the vice president for student affairs and enrollment services. The provost, followed by the vice president for business and fiscal affairs, followed by the vice president for student affairs and enrollment services, followed by the vice president for university advancement will assume leadership responsibility for determining whether or not the campus will be closed, classes delayed, etc. If the provost and vice presidents are away from campus, the provost will appoint a university official to make the final decisions regarding campus operations.
4) Decisions concerning canceling classes or closing the Lake Campus in Celina-St. Marys will be made by the dean of that campus who will follow the same closing/cancellation and communication procedure as the main campus. Also, decisions concerning the Boonshoft School of Medicine, the Center for Performance Excellence, the Cox Institute, the Frederick A. White Center, the Ellis Institute, the Research Park offices, and the Yellow Springs Family Practice Center will be made individually by the administrative offices of each facility, after consultation with the provost.
5) The provost, or designee, retains the sole prerogative for altering the operations of the university due to inclement weather.
In the event of inclement weather, refer to the university Web site or listen to the following stations for information. Individuals also may call the Information Booth Line, (937) 775-5740, or the general university number, (937) 775-3500, for further information. PLEASE NOTE: Employees and students are requested not to call Wright State Police Department - their lines must be kept open for emergency use.
When the provost or designee has closed or delayed the opening of the university, the following individuals will be notified by the provost or designee. These individuals will be responsible for notifying the staff and faculty who report to them in the following order and within 30 minutes of the decision:
1) provost and vice presidents of all divisions
2) Director of Physical Plant
3) Chief of University Police
4) Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communications
The associate vice president of marketing and communications, or designee, will be responsible for communicating the decision to the local media and will be responsible for establishing effective communication messages with the media. The associate vice president of marketing and communications will contact university police and the Office of Student Life to issue the message concerning the status of campus operations. The associate vice president of marketing and communications will publish, at least once annually, the call letters of all broadcast media that will be contacted.
In addition, the university's telephone message systems will be coordinated with identical information so that individuals may call the university to determine the status of the operations of the university. These telephone numbers will be widely publicized in the fall and winter quarters of each year. Messages will be recorded by the offices responsible for those telephone numbers.
Telephone chains within each division are strongly recommended to make certain that all faculty and staff are aware of the status of operations during inclement weather. These procedures should be developed and reviewed no later than November 1 of each academic year.
Emergency Closing During Inclement Weather
In the event of inclement weather, refer to the university Web site or listen to the following stations for information. Individuals also may call the Information Booth Line, (937) 775-5740, or the general university number, (937) 775-3333, for further information. PLEASE NOTE: Employees and students are requested not to call the Wright State Police Department -- their lines must be kept open for emergency use.
Main Campus
|WDTN Channel 2
|WHIO Channel 7
|WKEF Channel 22
|WGRT Channel 45
Lake Campus
Announcements will be very specific regarding the Lake Campus to eliminate any public confusion.
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|WPTA Channel 21
|WHIO Channel 7
|WISE Channel 33
- The winter quarter class schedules and the winter editions of the university's internal publication will contain a synopsis of the Emergency Closing Procedures and a list of the call letters of media that will be notified of university information.
- Supervisors are responsible for assuring that full-time, part-time, temporary, and student employees are aware of and understand the general university procedure and internal, departmental procedure for emergency closing.
- Departments with operations involving external groups ( e.g., contractors, food service, etc.) will communicate with these groups the action the university is taking. Academic deans will be responsible for off-campus activities, (e.g., Center for Performance Excellence, Ellis Institute, Cox Heart Institute, clinicals, etc.) and will develop and implement effective procedures for operating, decision making, and communicating with all individuals concerning opening and closing these facilities.
- As a general rule, when the university is closed, such activities as music and theatre performances, intramural activities, club meetings, student cinema, etc. are cancelled. Intercollegiate athletics and events booked at the Nutter Center are the responsibility of the athletic director and the Nutter Center general manager, respectively.
- More than 12,000 people may patronize an event at the Nutter Center, and many of these individuals may be traveling from other states. Also, many of these events are held in the evenings or on weekends. Therefore, the Nutter Center administration must evaluate circumstances other than those which may cause the closing of the university. As needed, the Nutter Center's events that need to be either canceled or delayed will be announced via the media.
- "Essential personnel" are defined by each department in consultation with divisional vice presidents.
- Bearing in mind that safety of all Wright State University students and employees is the most critical determinant, students and employees will be responsible for assessing their own risk and evaluating the weather conditions in making the decision to travel to the university and/or its affiliated locations. Vacation time will be used by these employees who are unable to travel to the university.
Inclement Weather Messages
The following messages will be used in communicating to the media concerning the status of the university during weather emergencies. These messages also will be used for the Information Booth Line and the general university telephone line.
1) University Closed:
Wright State University is closed today __________ (date), due to inclement weather. All classes are canceled, and all university offices and libraries are closed. Faculty and staff should not report to work.
2) Late Classes/Late Offices:
Wright State University will be closed until __________ (time) today __________ (date). Classes scheduled to begin before __________ (time) are canceled. Faculty and staff should report to work at __________ (time).
3) Cancellation of Evening and Weekend Classes and Activities:
Wright State university classes and activities scheduled to begin at or after _______ (time) are canceled for today _______ (date). university libraries also will be closed.
4) Cancellation of Nutter Center Events:
The __________ scheduled for Wright State University's Ervin J. Nutter Center at (time) has been canceled. Listen for an announcement of rescheduling of this event.
Operational Definitions
- University Closed - This normally results from area policing agencies declaring travel emergencies and advising people to remain at home. If this level seems likely, WSU should be prepared to anticipate such police actions and close in time to allow people safe travel home or in time to prevent them from leaving home for the university.
- Delay of university Opening - This approach should be used when weather conditions are very treacherous during morning hours due to ice, snow, fog, etc., but are expected to improve considerably, or the ability of road crews to improve travel conditions will improve considerably.
Note: Specific units that provide services for residential students, or services essential for ongoing operations and protection of the university must advise their employees of required responses during university closings.
- Faculty, unclassified and classified employees will receive regular pay for time associated with an emergency closing. Unclassified employees who do work during a general closing will receive no additional compensation.
- Classified employees, excluding student employees, who are not required to work during a closing, will receive regular pay for regular shift hours associated with the closing.
- Designated emergency personnel are only those employees necessary to protect resident students and to maintain operations at the Physical Plant. Designated employees include appointed maintenance, custodial, grounds, and HVAC personnel; telephone services personnel; animal laboratory technicians; police officers; and residence halls' offices and services. These employees are considered essential to the operation of the university and will be notified in advance that they are expected to come to work in the event of a general closing.
- Employees who are on leave when a general closing is designated will not have that leave time reinstated.
- If the university area must be evacuated due to critical or a disastrous situation, all buildings and the entire campus area are off limits to everyone EXCEPT designated emergency personnel. No other personnel or students will be permitted to remain on campus.
Revised and approved by the President's Cabinet
Guidelines for Weather-Related Delays or Closings
If one or more of the following conditions exist, the provost or designee will consider delaying the opening of the university or closing the university:
- If Greene county is under a level two or a level three snow emergency, students and employees should assume that there is a delay in opening and possibly a closing of the university. Students and employees should refer to local media or the university Web site for specific instructions.
- Other local colleges and universities are closed (Sinclair Community College, University of Dayton, Wilberforce University, Central State University, Clark State Community College).
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is closed or on a delay.