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Jeep Wrangler YJ Driveshaft Replacement - Off-Highway Why-JPosted in Project Vehicles on July 1, 2009
Last month we covered the installation of a Rubicon Express 2.5-inch uspension system on our '89 YJ. We actually got over 4 inches of lift in the front and over 3 inches in the rear thanks to the Jeep's light weight and the longer 5-inch Rubicon Express shackles (stock is 4 inches).
Along with the additional 1/2-inch of lift, the longer shackles did a few things for us. The rear boomerang shackles raised the pinion angle and allow the longer springs to grow upon compression without binding. The front shackles prevent shackle inversion when the suspension drops out, but raised the pinion angle and reduced caster, slightly increasing on-road wander. The cure is to install some 2.5-degree shims to get the caster back, but most shims we've come across are aluminum. We'll hold out until we can get some true bolt-on steel units.
We ran the Jeep with the stock rear driveshaft for a couple hundred miles before upgrading the T-case to a JB Conversions Super Short Slip Yoke Eliminator and Tom Wood's Custom Drive Shafts 1310 rear CV shaft. The Jeep was drivable with the stock rear shaft and no T-case drop, but the rear pinion would bind at full droop and the Jeep had muy horrible vibration upon deceleration or coasting. Along with the Tom Wood's shaft, we installed a set of Rubicon Express 8-degree steel shims on the rear spring packs to angle the pinion more in line with the driveshaft. The 8-degree shims almost did the trick, but we still experience slight vibrations upon deceleration. We're going to leave it alone for a while to see if the rear suspension settles any more, which would lower the driveshaft angle in line with the pinion.
As for the steering, we ordered a Rubicon Express dropped pitman arm, but haven't installed it yet because our Jeep has a manual steering box and Rubicon Express arm is for a power box. The two aren't interchangeable. We've been running the stock pitman arm, drag link, and track bar. Although the steering wheel isn't centered, we didn't experience any bump steer with the track bar hooked up, but we did note some loss of front flex and a bit of harshness, so we removed the track bar. With it gone, the Jeep now has slight bumpsteer, but it's nothing too severe and we can live with it until we swap to a power steering box with the dropped pitman arm.
Off-road, we can tell the springs are still breaking in. With so little weight, it's tough to work them loose, but we notice flex improving with each off-road foray. Although the springs have a noticeable arch to them, the ride is moderately soft. We'll call it firm, yet forgiving. The gas-pressurized Rubicon Express monotube shocks aren't harsh in the small stuff, but really soak up the big hits when the going gets fast and rough. The couple times we've gotten the tires slightly off the ground we've been pleased with the softness and controlled nature of the landing. All in all, we're very happy with our suspension. We'll keep working away at breaking in the springs and beating the Jeep mercilessly off-road every chance we get.


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Friday, September 30, 2005
Salesforce.com looks to hook Siebel staff
John Paczkowski at the San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Salesforce.com is offering Siebel employees a $5,000 signing bonus if they jump ship to Salesforce.com before the end of the year."Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle, many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects. We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wrote in a company memo leaked to the tech media. "We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success."At the time Oracle announced the Siebel deal, it indicated that Siebel's product offerings would form the core of its future CRM roadmap. If enough of the best Siebel people accept Benioff's offer, it won't be good news for Oracle.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Oracle claiming ultra-fast installs in SMB market
Several months ago I got an informal briefing on Oracle's special bundle for small and mid-sized businesses, dubbed "E-Business Suite Special Edition." Although the pricing on the applications and database looked great, what really interested me was Oracle's claim to be able to do ultra-fast implementations based on some system configuration tools ("Oracle Accelerators") that Oracle is making available to its resellers. I was waiting to see whether Oracle's approach would work.
Now it looks like some results are in, and they do look good. I'm hearing of a local install here in Southern California that was accomplished in a few weeks. This is consistent with an Oracle press release that has business partners claiming installs in seven weeks. It's not clear whether these installs are for the full suite or just financials, but other discussions indicate that a three month implementation for the full E-Business Suite is a reasonable expectation for projects taking this approach.
The Accelerators
The key to the rapid implementation is Oracle's Accelerator tool. The tool presents a series of 100+ questions to the client (e.g. how many future periods do you want to see in the GL?). The tool uses the answers to these questions to configure the application specifically for the client's business and explode the test scripts that the client will use to test the system. This approach essentially automates the design phase of the implementation, which formerly could take several weeks.
With design and configuration out of the way, the implementation effort then becomes largely a training exercise--to train the client's personnel in using the system exactly as it is configured for the client's business. Traditional ERP training is often done on a demo version of the system that may not look similar to the system that they ultimately use. So, user project team members become frustrated by seeing one version of the system in training, and another version when they begin testing. Oracle's approach solves this problem by configuring the system before training, making the training more effective.
R&D for Implementation
Oracle clearly seems to recognize that ERP implementations take too long and cost too much. The problem with most ERP vendors today, including Oracle, is not that their systems lack functionality--it's that they're too hard to implement. Most customers only implement a fraction of the functionality available to them. So why do vendors spend so much time and effort adding more functionality?
I've long felt that vendors should spend more of their software engineering budget on making their systems easier to implement. Prior to being acquired by Oracle, PeopleSoft had been working hard on improving what it called the "total ownership experience," and it was making good progress. Now it looks like Oracle is doing the same thing.
Of course, the next question is, if it works for small and mid-sized businesses, why not apply the same approach in larger companies? My guess is that Oracle is already working on that.
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Reorg highlights troubles at Microsoft Business Solutions
If you haven't heard, Microsoft had a major reorganization last week, creating three major divisions out of what were formerly six business units. The new organizational structure once again calls into question Microsoft's efforts to increase its share of the enterprise system market.
The reorganization
First, let's look at the three new Microsoft divisions:
The reorganization puts Doug Burgum, head of MBS, reporting to Jeff Raikes, the new President of the Business Division. Interestingly, Doug Burgum used to report to Raikes until last year, when Microsoft moved him to report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer. It's hard to view the latest move for Burgum as anything but a demotion.
- The Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division, which will include the existing Windows Client, Server and Tools division along with the MSN division.
- The Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, which will head up Microsoft's development of entertainment and digital devices, such as IP television, Xbox, and other consumer devices.
- The Microsoft Business Division, comprising the existing Microsoft Information Worker group, including Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), the unit that manages Microsoft's ERP, CRM, and other business applications.
Furthermore, one has to question Raikes' experience in developing and selling enterprise systems. Basically, he doesn't have any. Raikes is a long-time Microsoft executive, coming up through the ranks from the MS Office line of products. But developing and selling major business applications is not at all like selling shrink wrapped software, which is Raikes' frame of reference.
How MBS got here
Clearly, Microsoft needs to do something with its ERP and CRM business, which has not done well since Microsoft created it out of its acquisitions of Great Plains and Navision several years ago. Burgum was CEO of Great Plains when it was acquired by Microsoft, and he has stayed on to lead MBS since its inception.
When Microsoft got into enterprise systems, many observers predicted that Microsoft would quickly dominate the market, especially the small and mid-tier. I recall many comments to the effect of, "Microsoft dominates any market that it chooses to enter. Look what happened to Novell and Netscape." There were even predictions that Microsoft posed a major threat to SAP.
None of those predictions have even remotely come to pass. SAP is going gangbusters, while MBS has languished. The unit has not shown a profit since inception. Its vision for a unified product, Project Green, has faltered, with Microsoft eventually redefining it as an evolution of its existing offerings (i.e. Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, Solomon, and Microsoft CRM). Earlier this month it renamed those offerings as Microsoft Dynamics--nothing more than a branding exercise.
MBS's problems are not limited to its own organization. Its reseller channel is still inadequate. Great Plains has had a decent channel program for many years, as long as a prospect is interested primarily in its financial modules. But it's hard to find very many implementation consultants that can work with the full range of Great Plains functionality outside of accounting. The problem is even worse for Axapta, which is Microsoft's higher end ERP offering. With roots in Europe, Axapta still has few trained implementers in North America, and with few new sales here it is unlikely that the population will grow quickly.
Grumbling in the ranks
None of these problems are hidden from employees working within MBS, and complaints are starting to pop up on message boards and blogs. It's easy to write off such complaints as coming from disgruntled employees. But the tone of many of the comments that I've read don't sound like sour grapes.
For example, this one:Some have opinioned that fixing the problems in MBS/Dynamics is as simple as reducing the offerings from 4 to 1. That won't work. These products are not like Office but more like Windows. Each of the 4 products has a large eco-system of ISVs building on the respective platforms. To simply pull the rug from the ISVs and the customers all at once will do nothing but disrupt existing customers and prospects even more. People buy ERP systems for the long run. The mindset of most buyers in this market is "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Once they have an ERP system in place that they have spent upwards of 1 million dollars implementing, they will NOT simply switch. And anything less than a clear direction for moving forward will only push prospects to competitors.I would like to see MBS succeed. The systems that MBS acquired are good products. Small and mid-sized businesses need a strong provider that can offer cost-effective, easy to implement solutions backed up by a strong, stable network of VARs and resellers.
Fortunately, Microsoft has pretty deep products, and it's unlikely that it would give up on the enterprise systems market. But I don't see anything in the latest reorganization that points toward a turnaround for MBS.
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Saturday, September 24, 2005
Using Economic Value Added (EVA) to justify IT investments
We've posted a new article posted on the Computer Economics website on the use of Economic Value Added (EVA) as a tool for justifying IT investments.Investments in information technology often involve major investments in capital. In fact, in some industries, IT accounts for over half of all capital expenditures. Therefore, if information systems executives want new systems to be approved, they need to understand how executive management expects large capital expenditures to be justified.Read the whole article on the Computer Economics website.
Historically, many IS organizations have not used formal ROI calculations to justify technology investments. There are two main reasons for this. First, in the past, business executives often did not ask for formal justification. It was often good enough for a CIO to quote one or two case histories, or to make general statements about industry best practices. During the run-up to Y2K in the late 1990s and the dot-com boom that followed shortly thereafter, many IT projects were approved with little financial justification at all.
The second reason is that, for many IT investments, the exact correlation between an IT investment and its benefits is not always explicit....
In spite of the difficulties in quantifying the benefits of IT investments, senior executives are now asking IS leaders much tougher questions about how a proposed technology investment will improve key business and financial metrics.
In order to answer such questions, CIOs must be able to "think like the CEO." To that end, this article is intended to familiarize the reader with the way in which many large companies think about business performance and to show how it can be used to justify IT investments.by Frank Scavo, 9/24/2005 11:25:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Ellison comments on acquisition plans
Some interesting news coming out of Oracle's OpenWorld conference this week in San Francisco. The San Jose Mercury News is reporting on comments made there by Larry Ellison to reporters after his keynote address.
Interestingly, Ellison noted that he is an investor in both NetSuite and Salesforce.com, but he would like to see his investment go to zero.
- Most of Siebel's workforce will not be laid off. Ellison says that Siebel has already cut enough staff. This is consistent with Oracle's previous indications that Siebel's products will be the basis for CRM in Project Fusion. However, I wouldn't take that to mean there will be no layoffs as a result of the Siebel takeover. I wouldn't want to be an Oracle CRM developer right now.
- Oracle has no plans for any more big acquisitions, for at least the next year. Specifically, BEA is not on Oracle's radar screen, having fallen from the number two spot for application servers to number three.
- Ellison does not see less competition in the applications marketplace as a result of vendor consolidation. He pointed specifically to Microsoft and software on-demand vendors such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite as growing competitors.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Oracle mulls support for competitor databases
Prior to Oracle's acquisition binge, one key aspect of its strategy was to use sales of its business applications to pull through sales of its database and tools, which represent 80% of Oracle's revenue. Oracle spoke convincingly of the benefits of owning the entire technology stack from applications down to development tools and database management systems.
But now Oracle is facing a major conflict between its acquisition strategy and its technology stack strategy. In buying PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, Oracle acquired a large customer base running IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server databases. Its acquisition of Siebel adds a significant number of customers running IBM and Microsoft's databases.
Charles Phillips, an Oracle tri-President, acknowledged the problem at Oracle's OpenWorld user conference this week. He indicated that Oracle will decide March of next year whether its Project Fusion--its product roadmap for combining its many acquisitions--will include support for rival databases.
Since the PeopleSoft acquisition, I've been wondering what Oracle would do with this problem. Oracle is really caught in a no-win situation. On the one hand, supporting a single database will alienate a significant percentage of customers that don't see any benefit from migrating from their current database. On the other hand, supporting multiple databases will leave money on the table and allow IBM and Microsoft to maintain market share of their database sales.
Phillips did announce that Oracle will offer "lifetime support" to customers that want to stay on their existing systems, such as PeopleSoft, JDE, or Siebel, and not move to Project Fusion. That should help with customer retention, but not for those customers that want more than bug fixes and help desk support. Lifetime support for what will eventually be legacy systems seems to me to be a weak compromise, not a solution.
As I've said in the past, Oracle is aggressive, but its not stupid. I'm eager to see how it will resolve this conflict.
CNET has more.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Software vendor consolidation and buyer concerns
Oracle's aggressive acquisition strategy is just the latest evidence of a consolidation trend underway in the software industry. In the enterprise applications space, players such as SSA Global have also been primary consolidators.
One might think, therefore, that the software marketplace will ultimately consolidate around a handful of large vendors, which will enjoy economies of scale and offer long-term stability and one-stop shopping.
But M.R. Rangaswami of the Sand Hill Group argues that the enterprise software market is still open for other players.The perception that customers want to buy everything from a single vendor--however warranted--is idealistic. Once a single software vendor manages everything, the customer is beholden to that vendor. Smart CIOs know this--and are hedging their bets. They are balancing the right amount of business they give one vendor with the need to keep that vendor honest and serving them well. This fact ensures that small and mid-sized best-of-breed vendors will always have a place in the enterprise technology lineup.Rangaswami is touching a point that I feel strongly about: the balance of power between sellers and buyers of commercial software. (I'll let the reader guess where my sympathies lie).
Vendor power over the customer is especially troublesome in the enterprise software market, where customers are making a decision that will tie them to the vendor for many, many years. Once a customer implements an enterprise system, it is extremely difficult to undo that decision. Vendors know this, and some of them act like they own the customer, treating them like a captive audience. This explains, in part, the overall low level of customer satisfaction in the applications software industry. In most other industries, satisfaction levels like this would put a supplier out of business.
Yes, CIOs want fewer vendors to manage, and they want the stability and continuity of service that a larger vendor can offer. But they don't want to give up too much power in the relationship. As much as possible, they want to control their own destiny and preserve their freedom to choose.
In my opinion, the need to maintain freedom is driving several trends in the enterprise software industry that seemingly have nothing to do with one another. It is behind the popularity of Linux and open source. It is behind the trend toward open standards and service-oriented architecture, which should allow buyers to mix and match software components from different vendors. It is behind the rise of third-party maintenance organizations that provide an alternative to the vendor's own support services. One could even argue it is one factor behind software on-demand (or, software as a service), where the buyer does not need to make a huge up-front commitment to the vendor.
The vendor consolidation trend will no doubt continue, and it needs to continue. There are still too many weak performers. But that doesn't mean that the door is closed to new entrants, especially those that offer new and innovative solutions to real problems and commit themselves to customer service.
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Monday, September 19, 2005
Oracle faces threat to Siebel maintenance fees
The Oracle/Siebel deal hasn't even closed yet, and a third party is already eyeing the lucrative Siebel maintenance revenue stream.
The company, Rimini Street, is so new that the its website hasn't even been spotted yet by Google. But it was the subject of a Wall Street Journal article this morning, which will no doubt give it a huge publicity boost.
Third party support organizations are not unusual. But this one is interesting because it is headed by Seth Ravin, who was already a thorn in Oracle's side when he was running TomorrowNow, a third-party PeopleSoft support organization. Ravin left TomorrowNow in March when it was purchased by SAP, prompting a veiled threat from Larry Ellison. Prior to starting TomorrowNow, Ravin was an executive at PeopleSoft.
It's a pretty good bet that SAP's buyout terms included a non-compete clause for Ravin, to prohibit him from setting up another PeopleSoft support organization. But that wouldn't stop him from taking SAP's money and setting up a third-party maintenance group for Siebel customers. Who knows, maybe he'll build up Rimini Street to the point where he can do another deal with SAP.
Ravin says he will offer support at 50% of the cost of Siebel's current fees, which is similar to what he did for PeopleSoft. Finding engineers to provide Siebel customer support shouldn't be difficult. Oracle is expected to quickly cut staff as part of the deal to integrate Siebel. That should put a number of skilled Siebel resources on the street. In addition, there may be a certain number of Siebel engineers that would prefer to work for someone like Rimini Street than become part of Oracle.
In terms of absolute dollars, it's doubtful that Ravin will take a large amount of business away from Oracle. To illustrate, TomorrowNow only reached a total of 30 people before Ravine sold out to SAP. Furthermore, most customers are not going to want to give up the rights to Oracle's product roadmap, code-named Fusion. Rimini Street will appeal primarily to customers that have heavily modified Siebel's program code and don't particularly need or want access to future releases.
But the mere availability of maintenance support from Ramini Street will be a check on Oracle's ability to dictate terms to Siebel customers. Maintenance fees accounted for $469M in revenue to Siebel last year, over one third of its revenue. With competition for new license sales extremely competitive these days, software vendors increasingly count on maintenance fees to stay profitable. In the case of Siebel, which has a particularly tough time on the revenue front, those maintenance fees certainly count for a lot in Oracle's arithmetic.
My prediction? Oracle will downplay the existence of Rimini Street for now. But if Ravin's new firm starts to get traction, it wouldn't surprise me if Oracle threatens legal action.
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Big eyes, big stomach: Oracle buying Siebel
Oracle and Siebel announced the deal this morning, ending months of speculation on the future of Siebel and whether it was next on Oracle's target list. Oracle is paying a net of $3.61B (excluding Siebel's cash on hand), making the deal about a third of what Oracle paid for PeopleSoft last year.
In a conference call this morning, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison indicated that assimilation of Siebel should prove much less daunting than the takeover of PeopleSoft. One reason is that Siebel is welcoming the deal, another is that PeopleSoft had just acquired J.D. Edwards, making the integration more complex. It doesn't hurt either, that Siebel's technology platform is closer to Oracle's.
Interestingly, during the conference call, Ellison gave quite a bit of weight to Siebel's on-demand offering as justification for the deal, even though it represents a fraction of Siebel's business today. He even said that he expects to see all of Siebel's functionality to ultimately be included in the on-demand offerings.
As I've indicated in the past, Oracle's own on-demand offerings are simply a hosted deployment of its licensed software. Each customer still requires its own license and its own installation in Oracle's data center. Siebel's on-demand offering, however, is the so-called "multi-tenant model," which allows a single instance of the system to host multiple customers--a much more cost-effective architecture. Ellison's embrace of Siebel's on-demand offering most likely indicates that Oracle realizes its need to move to the multi-tenant model for its hosted offerings.
The Oracle/Siebel deal ups the ante once again in the battle between Oracle and SAP. The combination of Oracle and Siebel vaults Oracle ahead of SAP in terms of worldwide CRM position and closer to SAP in terms of total application revenue.
"In a single step, Oracle becomes the number one CRM applications company in the world," said CEO Larry Ellison. "Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally."
The announcement is on the Oracle website. Computerworld has more.
Update, 10:30 a.m.: Several Wall Street analysts, such as Prudential's Brent Thill, are questioning the deal, based on "Siebel's deteriorating fundamentals." I disagree. As I've pointed out in the past, Siebel's main problem is that it is stuck in the middle. At the high end, it faces competition from Oracle and SAP, which offer CRM functionality integrated with their ERP suites. At the low end, it faces competition from on-demand vendors, such as Salesforce.com and Rightnow, which offer easy-to-implement CRM functionality at a much lower price point. Siebel's own on-demand offering is as good a solution, but it only represents a fraction of Siebel's revenue. So the Oracle deal, in my opinion, represents the best approach for addressing Siebel's "deteriorating fundamentals," by pairing Siebel's best-of-breed CRM functionality with one of the two leading enterprise suite vendors.
Update, 12:05 p.m.: ComputerWorld's editor-in-chief, Don Tennant, is quite negative on the deal, questioning whether the deal is really customer-driven, as Oracle's tri-President Charles Phillips claims it is. Tennant writes,Certainly, Oracle will trot out reference customers who will toe the company line (typically reference customers get some sort of break from vendors when they do that). But I wonder how pervasive that sentiment really is. In the course of our reporting this week we may find that it is, indeed, what those joint customers are saying. But I'd be very surprised.Stay tuned.
Update, 12:50 p.m.: Well, here's some bad news for current Oracle customers. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, after the deal closes, Oracle will promote Siebel's CRM system rather than the current CRM offerings of Oracle or PeopleSoft. The language on the Oracle "Welcome Siebel" page says, "we plan to make the features of [Siebel's CRM] products the centerpiece of our Project Fusion CRM products." I interpret that to mean that it's the Oracle and PeopleSoft CRM users that will be the ones facing the greater migration as Oracle executes its Fusion strategy going forward.
Has anyone at Oracle thought about what this means for Oracle CRM deals currently in the pipeline? Not good news for Oracle sales in the short run.
Update 2:50 p.m.: Here's another problem for Oracle: to get Siebel where it wants in terms of profitability, it's going to have to cut very deep. Quoted in the WSJ, Needham analyst Richard Davis says,Oracle stated on this morning's conference call that it plans to run Siebel at a 40% operating margin. We estimate that Oracle will have to cut 100% of Siebel's G&A [general and administrative] and 80% of Siebel's sales force to get there.If Davis's arithmetic is right, I wouldn't want to be a member of the Oracle CRM sales staff right now, because if Oracle plans to focus its CRM offerings around Siebel's offerings its more likely to keep the Siebel guys and take it out of the Oracle and PeopleSoft presales staff.
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Sunday, September 11, 2005
On a personal note...
I'll be participating on a panel discussion hosted by the Software Council of Southern California, on the subject of "Publicity on a Budget." I am being featured as an example of a "successful software industry blogger."
Nice to know.
The event is on Tuesday, September 20, at 6:00 p.m. If you're in driving distance of Encino, CA, come on over to the Encino Glen Golf Course.
Details on the program are on the SCSC Web site.by Frank Scavo, 9/11/2005 07:59:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Microsoft rebranding its business applications
Microsoft is introducing new names for a number of the software applications offered by Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS). The new brand is "Dynamics," is one of the names that the Great Plains product used to go by. It is now an umbrella name for several of the MBS products. Specifically:
What does this mean for customers and prospects? As far as I can tell, not much. In an interview on the Microsoft website, VP Tami Reller tries to connect the rebranding with Project Green, which is already suffering from a fuzzy definition.
- Microsoft CRM is now Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Great Plains is now Microsoft Dynamics GP.
- Axapta is now Microsoft Dynamics AX.
- Navision is now Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
- Solomon is now Microsoft Dynamics SL.
The new names seem to be more form than substance.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Would your company survive a Hurricane Katrina?
We've put up a new quickpoll up on the Computer Economics website:Hop over to the Computer Economics home page (right column) and take the poll now. It will take about five seconds.
Is your company prepared to recover critical systems and data and temporarily relocate essential work groups in the event of a disaster the size of Hurricane Katrina?by Frank Scavo, 9/07/2005 11:27:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Our rapid expansion plan has seen us launch approximately 20 new branches this year with a further 30 planned by the end of next year.
We use mass marketing leaflets to attract new Property Owners and Landlords to advertise their property to sell or rent with us
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Confidentially speaking, chat rooms are over rated. I don't do chat tombs, your locked into a public display of tet a tets, and verbal jujitsu if your nasty. I've got my Versace hand bag and shoes and its always feels like a meeting in the ladies room. I generally use my own computer, but its been temporarily out of commission for a long time now. I've been travelling and its giving me a head ache. My wonderful parents have been gracious enough to let me stay at their flat during this difficult time. I also use their webtv.com address however, I don't receive many visitors but its located at a very cool female loves interloping near kalifornia. I generally live vicariously through other peoples' lives and I am insecure about the connection and other forms of communication otherwise kept for intimate friends. Oh, yeah, hospital food is over rated. Can you help me? I can't handle the double vision, and smoking cessation is a lot easier said than done. Do you have a Ju - Jue I can use? Maybe if we lean...

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I hate hospital food!
Usually they give you jello, it reminds me of what worms would taste like, ich  Sometimes you get so cold you need a blanket and you can't get up from your bed cause your too sick. when you ask for a heated blanket it feels ohhhh so warm
Sometimes the food is not enough or too much of the stuff you hate.
I've been in the hospital soooo many times. Some good memories some not so. I think sometimes about the kid that was strung up like a hip of beef who had two arms and two legs broken, I was about 10 at the time and I think he was about 4. The janitor came in and TOLD US NOT TO MAKE A MESS, we all were afraid of the janitor, and as if we would make a mess, most of us were really sick and what about the strung up kid?? ya right! some people are so nuts.
Ya, I guess it would be difficult to quit smoking, my dad did it, but my mom continued.
I think one needs a mentor to quit any kind of habit.
Keep truckin California!

bland, very bland
Much to my chagrin, over-rated and under cared for is the understated placebo affect of consistant and tender role the nurse can play in the treatment of a unsmoker. The desired affect is that of point restraints and sideburns. Its easier said than done. What was that statement?

I am constantly besieged...
by the irony of my counterpoint. What a miserable Twinkie. If I could put on some sandals and dream with a penguin, maybe then this neuralgia would wane as the light filtered through my toes.

Possible cure:Bongos and sunshine
 Perhaps Bongos, beach walking and sunshine would assist the neuralgia. Good weather I hear is comin.
I wonder what penquins dream about?
I like the sandal idea, we used to call them thongs, but no more.
One usually wear sandals at the pool, when I was a lifeguard I told my boss I forgot my thongs (flip flops or sandals) He gave me the weirdest look , I had to explain,  "Not that kind of thong!" In the old days, sandals were thongs, not anymore.

Can't figure that one out, Purple??
Watermelon is good
Beach and barefoot, sounds really good.
I wish I could, I'm too far away from shore
right now.
Still thinking about the Bongos
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Power In Numbers 3 Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Power In Numbers 3" gallerynucleusjunior memberMember #Joined: 04 Mar 2006Posts: 18Location: 30 west main st. alhambra, ca 91801 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:38 pm http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/141 Power In Numbers 3 April 12, 2008 - April 28, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday April 12 2008, 7:00PM - 11:00PM Please join us in a celebration of art and the creative spirit as we gather talent for our 3rd annual benefit art show, Power in Numbers 3! Our biggest event of the year, Power in Numbers features artists creating 5" x 7" postcard-size artwork in any desired medium and themes of their choice. All works will be priced at $100.00 and 20% of all artwork sales will go towards a benefit of choice. This years benefit of choice is the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Greater Los Angeles. This show will also mark our official homecoming party into our new space so join us opening night for the festivities! Buying Instructions for the Opening Night of POWER IN NUMBERS are as follows: 1. Attendees will be given a ticket with a number at the door starting at 6pm. The first 50 will be allowed into the gallery at 7pm. Afterward we will be allowing one person in for each person leaving. Those waiting to get in the gallery can wait in the store until your number is called in sequence. 2. After entering the gallery, browse until you have decided on your purchases, take a pen and write your ticket number underneath the piece on the label: "sold to____". Each person can mark up to 5 pieces. Mark only the pieces you will buy and pay for the artwork immediately after you mark your label. 3. You may pay for your artwork in cash or credit. We will record your name, and contact info, and the piece you purchased on a list for record keeping purposes. 4. Buyers may pick up their purchases when the show ends (April 2. We will also call buyers for pickup after the work is taken down. No artwork will be released without full payment. If you want to purchase a piece come early to reserve your number. We start handing out numbers in the store at 6pm the gallery opens at 7pm. Artists Aaron Kraten, Adrian Johnson, Alan Beadle, Albert Chow, Alex Fuentes, Alex Kirwan, Allan Deas, Amy Ortiz, Andrea Innocent, Andrea Offerman, Andrew Bell, Anna Chambers, Anna Woltz, Autumn Turkel, Blinky, Brian Holderman, Brian Yam, Brianne Drouhard, Candy Bird, CARO, Catherine Kim, Chet Zar, Chris Appelhans, Chris Rafferty, Chris Ryniak , Christian Rex Van Minnen, Clio Chiang, Craig Mackay, Cristina Paulos, Dan Krall, Dan Santat, Daniel Lim, Danni Shinya Luo, Daphne Yap, Debbie Huey, DELI, Denise Chavez, Dice Tsutsumi, Edel Rodriguez, Edwin Ushiro, Emma Goo, Eric Mitzel, Greg Storey, Heather Chavez, Heiko Windisch, idrewhim, lsrael Sanchez, Jason Limon, Jay Horinouchi, Jeff Turley, Jon Klassen, Josh Taylor, Joshua Witten, Julie Nishioka, Justin Ridge, Karyn Raz, Kristian Olson, Lesley Reppeteaux, Luke Feldman, Margueritte Sauvage, Mari Inukai, Mari-chan, Maria Go, Martin Hsu, Mary J. Hoffman, Matt Spangler, May Ann Licudine, Mette Glyholt, Michael Slack, MISO, Nate Wragg, Neil Babra, Neil Doshi, Nicolette Davenport, Owlo, Patrick Hammerlein, Peter Vattanatham & Fiel Valdez, Pietari Posti, Plasticgod, Richard Pose, Scott Morse, Skye Hwang, Stefanie Choi, Susie Ghahremani, T&A, Tanya Philpott, Thomas Han, Valerie Fletcher, Veronica Hebard, Wilson Hsu Gallery Nucleus http://www.gallerynucleus.com 210 E Main St. Alhambra, CA 91801 Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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http://www.elitelaserandskinspa.com (launching soon)
We are looking for a high-end, classy, and neat logo for a laser center and skin spa.
My firm is a marketing consulting firm that does a significant amount of brand identity and web development/design. We are always looking for talented designers. I can promise that if you are awarded the design, we will work with you again in the future.
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By Russ Britt
The carnage continued for biotechnology stocks Friday as four major exchange-traded funds were down 20% or more from their February peaks, and one of two critical indexes went past that mark while the other edged up to it.
All but a few biotech stocks were in the red again, and virtually all of them were either flirting with or falling below their 200-day moving average, as were the indexes and ETFs.
Unless there is a swift and decisive upturn in the sector on Monday and into next week, it seems the bears will have set up camp. It's just a question of whether it's a weekend getaway or long-term stay. Many experts contend that a 20% drop from 52-week highs is a sign of a bear market.
Either way, the sector's drop seems to have puzzled analysts, who struggled to figure out why the selling in the sector continued, and why it seems more intense than the rest of a retreating market. Further, some analysts were concerned that investors were discounting growth prospects and the contents of the companies' pipelines.
Analyst Michael Yee of RBC Capital Markets said in a note to clients that in this market the mood is such that the "baby is thrown out with the bathwater."
"While we acknowledge that biotech stocks can always get cheaper as the overall market conditions are challenging, our point is that as investors sell growth we think 'not all growth is created equal', especially when we look at not only [price-to-earnings] and earnings but also cash flow generation," Yee wrote. "Maybe it will be [first-quarter] earnings when investors begin to see this a bit, but it's probably when we roll into mid or [the second half of 2014] as investors start valuing on 2015 and seeing that they trade as cheap as pharma."
The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index /quotes/zigman/12633939/realtime NBI and the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB that tracks it were both down more than 21% and fell below their 200-day moving average.
Two other ETFs, the SPDR S&P Biotech /quotes/zigman/477927/delayed /quotes/nls/xbi XBI and the Market Vectors Biotech ETF crashed through the 200-day and now seem firmly in bear territory. The SPDR lost another 4% Friday and is now nearly 28% off its February peaks. The Market Vectors is down more than 22% from the February highs.
The NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index /quotes/zigman/6017893/realtime BTK edged up to the 20% mark as it's now 19.9% off its highs. The related ETF, the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index /quotes/zigman/1497293/delayed /quotes/nls/fbt FBT came just about as close to the 20% mark as possible without crossing it. It's down 19.997% from its peak. Neither the index nor the fund have crashed below the 200-day, but they're getting close.
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Jason Garrett New Dallas Cowboys Coach
Jason Garrett, who went 5-3 as interim coach, has been named the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Calvin Watkins and Todd Archer for ESPN:
The expected has happened. Jason Garrett has been named the Dallas Cowboys' head coach, sources said Thursday.
The team has scheduled a press conference for 1:30 p.m. CT to make an official announcement.
Terms of the deal were not available, but Garrett had one year remaining on his contract as the assistant head coach that paid him $3.5 million annually.
Considered the favorite all along, Garrett is the eighth coach in franchise history and owner/general manager Jerry Jones did not feel the need for an exhaustive search. He interviewed wide receivers coach Ray Sherman to comply with the NFL's Rooney Rule, which states a team must talk with at least one minority coach during the process.
He also interviewed Miami Dolphins assistant Todd Bowles, a former Dallas assistant.
Jones wanted to finalize the deal quickly because he didn't want other teams with vacancies getting their hands on Garrett.
For Garrett, 44, this seems like the culmination of a process that started when he joined the Cowboys before Jones even named Phillips the coach in 2007. He was viewed as the coach-in-waiting ever since but interviewed with Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, Detroit and St. Louis. After Garrett turned down the Ravens, Jones made him the highest-paid assistant in the NFL with a $3.5 million salary.
Garrett was the obvious choice for the job and frankly should have been hired two years ago when it was obvious Wade Phillips didn't have what it takes to lead a team to a championship. (Okay, so it was obvious before he was hired to everyone not named Jerry Jones. As I put it in a post four years ago, when his hiring was rumored, "Wade Freakin' Phillips?!")
In a separate piece, Archer notes that Garrett will be the 7th active head coach who played in the League.
Tennessee's Jeff Fisher was a defensive back for Chicago and just finished his 17th year with the Titans/Oilers. Owner and GM Jerry Jones would like that kind of stability.
Jacksonville's Jack Del Rio had an 11-year career as a linebacker, including a stint with the Cowboys from 1989-91, and just completed his eighth year as the Jaguars' coach. Gary Kubiak spent nine years as John Elway's backup in Denver and just finished his fifth year as Houston's coach.
Ken Whisenhunt was a tight end for Atlanta, Washington and the New York Jets and is heading into his fifth year as Arizona's coach. Leslie Frazier spent five years as a cornerback in Chicago and, like Garrett, turned an interim job in 2010 into a permanent post with Minnesota.
New Orleans coach Sean Payton's playing career lasted three games with Chicago during the 1987 strike-seaso. One former player-turned-coach, Mike Singletary, was fired in San Francisco with a game to go.
And there could be other former players added to the mix this off-season: Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, who played for Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore and San Diego, and Atlanta offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey, who played for Minnesota and Pittsburgh, have had interviews recently. And don't forget Bill Cowher could also come back this year.
While I don't expect 29 years and five trips to the Super Bowl from Garrett, it's noteworthy that the Cowboys' first and longest serving coach, the legendary Tom Landry, was also a former player.
Other reactions:
Clarence Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
It was akin to the prodigal son being summoned home to one day take his rightful place as heir to the throne, considering he was a highly-respected backup quarterback on two Super Bowl title teams in the 1990s and the son of former longtime scout Jim Garrett.
The feeling grew stronger in the coming years when Garrett shunned head coaching opportunities in Atlanta and Baltimore, among others, to remain with the Cowboys, setting the stage for the inevitable. And then when Garrett was tabbed as the interim coach to replace the fired Wade Phillips following a 1-7 start and led them to a 5-3 finish in 2010, it was only a matter of time and paperwork.
The time is now and a new day finally dawns on the Cowboys franchise when Jones officially promotes Garrett to head coach at a news conference at 1:30 p.m. today at Cowboys Stadium.
Jones made the move after interviewing receivers coach Ray Sherman on Tuesday and Miami Dolphins assistant head coach Todd Bowles on Wednesday to adhere to the league-mandated Rooney Rule. Garrett is the eighth coach in Cowboys history.
Jones has always felt the Princeton-schooled Garrett had a bright offensive mind and would one day make a future head coach. Those feelings were cemented over the past eight weeks of the season when he proved he could also be the firm leader and effective motivator.
On his tenure as interim coach:
What Garrett did best was being a leader and changing the lackadaisical culture of the locker room. He stressed hard work, preparation and accountability. All three were absent in the final days of the Wade Philips era.
"I think we're going to be a lot better with him in charge," Pro Bowl tight end Jason Witten said. "I think he has a clear message. He has a plan and he does a great job of making that plan is clear and giving us the best chance to be at our best, coaches and players, on Sunday. I believe in him. I believe that he can make us winners in a timely fashion. All his messages, his mentality, all of that is so we're at our best, and those distractions are eliminated and you focus on being the best football player you can be."
The belief that the Cowboys can quickly get back to their winning ways under Garrett is one reason why Jones worked fast to make the promotion happen just three days after the season final victory against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Jones said he will work with Garrett to overhaul the roster and usher in dramatic personnel changes. Despite the disappointment of predicting a dream Super Bowl season in 2010 and only to finish 6-10 and tied for last in the NFC East, Jones is back to talking big.
He believes the Cowboys have the talent base to again make a playoff and possible Super Bowl run in 2011 under Garrett.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Tubby Smith has good reason to believe
Kentucky wants him to return next season.
"Tubby's our basketball coach," athletic director Mitch
Barnhart told The Associated Press on Monday. "He's done a great
job of representing the platform of Kentucky basketball. We'll
always look to make adjustments to the things we've got to do to
get better. Tubby and I will do that collectively."
Amid weeks of speculation that Smith was on his way out,
Barnhart stopped short of saying the coach would remain in charge
of the Wildcats. The AD acknowledged, however, that fans had
misinterpreted a statement by him as meaning a coaching change was
"They were reading way too much into that," Barnhart said,
referring to the statement that urged fans to wait until the
postseason before making judgments on the state of the team.
The Wildcats (21-11) are a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament for
the second straight year. Kentucky plays Villanova in the first
round on Friday.
Kentucky is the winningest team in college basketball team
history and boasts seven national championships -- the latest in
1998 in Smith's first year on the job. The team hasn't been back to
the Final Four since and has amassed double-digit losses two
straight years and five times under Smith. Some fans critical of
Smith have nicknamed him "Ten-loss Tubby."
Barnhart said he and Smith would sit down after the season to
discuss changes. He declined to say whether any assistants might be
"His winning percentage is .700-plus," Barnhart said. "Since
I've been here, we've won a couple conference championships, been
to two Elite Eights, we've been the number one seed twice. We've
had a couple years here that have been a little un-Kentuckylike,
but I don't think that's a reason to panic or put ourselves in a
position where we're not making objective calls in terms of the
things we need to do to be better."
Barnhart said that high school recruits looking at Kentucky
should have no reason to believe Smith won't be their coach.
Recruiting stability was part of the reason he extended football
coach Rich Brooks' contract after last season, when the Wildcats
won the Music City Bowl.
Even after Barnhart released his statement last month when the
Wildcats were in the midst of losing four out of five games, Smith
said he felt he had the administration's support.
"I'm not going to defend my record or anything else," Smith
said at the time. "But I guess Mitch felt like he needed to make a
comment, from what I understand. I'm sure he gets calls just like
everybody else."
Barnhart explained Monday he released the statement as an answer
to media requests and didn't intend to suggest Smith's job was in
danger if the Wildcats didn't finish strong.
"I just globally wanted people to understand, look, we're
paying attention," Barnhart said. "We'll make the adjustments at
the end of the year we need to make and we'll get on with it. By
not saying something, everybody, I think, would have thought we
didn't care or we weren't paying attention to the things that were
going on in our program."
Barnhart said he understands fan criticism, but is disturbed it
often gets personal.
"What bothers me most is people can be very disrespectful to
people as human beings," he said. "I feel bad for coaches when
they're not treated as human beings. ... I hope that Tubby knows
there's a large number of people out there that love him, that
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FDA Approves Cangene Corporation's Treatment for Botulism
Cangene developed BAT as part of a $427 million contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Under the terms of the contract signed in 2006 between Cangene and BARDA, Cangene will deliver 200,000 doses of BAT to the US Strategic National Stockpile, which was established to provide medicines to the American public in the event of a public health emergency. Cangene began supplying doses of BAT to BARDA under this contract in 2007, and will deliver the remaining doses contracted by 2018. With BAT's licensure by the FDA, the Company will receive a holdback payment from BARDA under the contract of approximately $18.5 million and remaining product deliveries will be paid at full contract price.
John A. Sedor, President and CEO of Cangene, said: "The licensure of BAT is a significant milestone for Cangene as well as the US Government as we work together to ensure preparedness against the threat of botulism. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and BARDA have been excellent development partners, and we are very proud to have received FDA approval for this important countermeasure to naturally occurring botulism and a significant potential bioterrorism threat. We look forward to delivering the remaining BAT doses to BARDA over the coming years and to continuing our successful relationship."
About Botulism Antitoxin (Equine), Heptavalent (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)
Botulism Antitoxin (Equine), Heptavalent (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) is a product that is a purified mixture of polyclonal equine immune globulins (antibodies) with specificity for seven neurotoxin serotypes that can cause botulism. Botulinum toxin is a nerve toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes a serious paralytic illness known as botulism. Naturally occurring cases are mainly seen in infants or in adults who have consumed improperly processed foods or have been colonized through exposure to the bacteria. Due to the extreme potency and potential lethality of Botulinum toxin, it has been identified in the U.S. as one of the highest priority bioterrorism threats. Cangene's BAT has been administered to treat over 200 cases of naturally-occurring, non-infant botulism in the United States since 2009 through the Centre for Disease Control expanded access program.
About Cangene Corporation
Cangene Corporation (CNJ.TO), headquartered in Winnipeg , Canada , is one of the nation's oldest and largest biopharmaceutical companies. It is focused on the development and commercialization of specialty therapeutics. Cangene's products are sold worldwide and include products that have been accepted into the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile. Cangene has offices in three locations across North America . It operates manufacturing facilities in Winnipeg , Manitoba and Baltimore , Maryland (through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cangene bioPharma, Inc.) where it produces its own products and undertakes contract manufacturing for a number of customers. Cangene also operates a plasma-collection facility in Winnipeg , Manitoba under the name Cangene Plasma Resources. Its U.S. sales and marketing office is located in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. For more information about Cangene, visit the Company's website at www.cangene.com.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Embattled New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez asked a federal judge on Monday to throw out an arbitrator's decision suspending him for the 2014 baseball season for doping, escalating a battle with Major League Baseball that shows no signs of abating.
The lawsuit, filed by Rodriguez's attorneys at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said arbitrator Fredric Horowitz exhibited "blatant partiality" toward MLB.
MLB was named as a defendant along with Commissioner Bud Selig's office and the players' union. Rodriguez, baseball's highest-paid player, asserted that the union failed in its duty to provide him adequate representation during the investigation.
The suit included a copy of Horowitz's decision, which had not previously been made public, giving the first glimpse of a proceeding that took place behind closed doors.
Horowitz concluded that Anthony Bosch, who ran a Florida anti-aging clinic called Biogenesis, supplied Rodriguez with testosterone, insulin growth factor and human growth hormone from 2010 to 2012, and that Rodriguez attempted to obstruct MLB's investigation.
The suspension of Rodriguez has pushed baseball news into the U.S. sports headlines at a time when other major sports usually predominate coverage. On Sunday night, Bosch described injecting Rodriguez with performance-enhancing drugs on the CBS television news program "60 Minutes." Selig and other MLB officials also appeared on the program, which Rodriguez's lawsuit slammed as part of a "carefully orchestrated smear campaign."
Neither MLB nor the players' union offered any immediate comment on the lawsuit, which was assigned to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
Horowitz ruled on Saturday that Rodriguez would miss all 162 regular season games this year as well as the playoffs.
The ban, which was reduced from 211 games, is the longest ever in baseball for the use of performance-enhancing drugs and will cost Rodriguez $25 million in salary.
Horowitz wrote that a review of the evidence and arguments "clearly and convincingly establishes that Rodriguez committed multiple violations...warranting a substantial disciplinary policy."
The 38-year-old third baseman, popularly known as A-Rod, is currently fifth on baseball's all-time home run list with 654 and was once widely expected to challenge Barry Bonds' record of 762 home runs. Bonds was also repeatedly linked to doping.
Rodriguez's complaint may represent a long-shot bid. MLB and the players' union agreed on the arbitration process, and federal judges typically afford independent arbitrators great deference under such circumstances.
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig handed down suspensions last August to Rodriguez and other players who were implicated in an investigation into Biogenesis, a now-defunct clinic that had been accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.
Rodriguez claimed in the lawsuit that the testimony of Bosch, who ran Biogenesis, was unreliable, in part because MLB sued him in an apparent attempt to obtain his cooperation.
But in his decision, Horowitz wrote that Bosch's testimony was "direct, credible and squarely corroborated" by his personal notebooks.
Those notebooks were stolen from Bosch's office and leaked to a weekly newspaper in Miami, which first published stories about Rodriguez's alleged connection to the clinic. According to the decision, MLB bought copies of the notebooks and other documents for $125,000.
Rodriguez seized on that payment as evidence that MLB had committed misconduct, but Horowitz said Rodriguez's associates were themselves guilty of offering money for documents. He also dismissed an "indiscreet sexual liaison" between an MLB investigator and a former Biogenesis employee, saying it yielded no relevant information for the case.
The arbitrator's ruling said Bosch and Rodriguez exchanged more than 500 text messages in 2012 and met numerous times, including once in a Starbucks bathroom in Miami. Horowitz wrote that in October, 2012, Rodriguez summoned Bosch to Detroit for a new supply during the playoffs, when the 14-time All Star was struggling at the plate.
Thirteen other players were suspended for their alleged ties to Biogenesis, with 12 agreeing to 50-game suspensions, and Milwaukee Brewers' slugger Ryan Braun, a former National League most valuable player, accepting a 65-game ban.
Baseball's rules call for a 50-game ban for first-time offenders, but MLB lengthened Rodriguez's suspension for allegedly using drugs over several years and interfering with the investigation.
Horowitz found that even if Rodriguez was only subject to a 50-game suspension for each use, he would face at least a 150-game ban, without considering steps Rodriguez took to impede MLB's investigators.
In appealing the suspension, Rodriguez said he did not use any illicit drugs supplied by Biogenesis and claimed he had been made a scapegoat.
He also filed a lawsuit against MLB in October, asserting that its investigators had acted unethically in the Biogenesis probe, including intimidating witnesses and buying evidence. That case is separate from the petition filed on Monday.
The Yankees said in a statement on Saturday that they accepted Horowitz's decision. Under Rodriguez's contract, the team will still owe him $61 million for three more seasons after this year as well as potential bonus payments when he reaches certain home run milestones.
Rodriguez has previously acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs more than a decade ago when he was a member of the Texas Rangers, but has denied doing so since then.
Long considered one of baseball's top players, Rodriguez has seen his production diminish in recent seasons after a series of injuries sapped his effectiveness.
The case is Rodriguez v. Major League Baseball et al., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 14-244.
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It may take the patience of Gandhi, but it can be done.
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Nine Bulldogs Receive Highest Honor in College Sailing
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Following the three national championships that took place on May 27-June 6, Yale was awarded the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for the second year in a row. Nine Bulldogs were also named to the All-American Team, more sailors than any other collegiate team this year.
The Fowle Trophy is awarded to the best all-around team in college sailing and is determined by each team's results at the ICSA Women's Singlehanded, Men's Singlehanded, Match Racing, Coed Semi-Finals, Women's, Team Racing, and Coed National Championships. The team with the best compiled results wins the Trophy.
This year proved extremely successful for the Bulldogs from beginning to end. In the fall, freshman Mitchell Kiss placed fourth at the Men's Singlehanded National Championship. Seniors Max Nickbarg and Chris Segerblom, junior coed captain Graham Landy and sophomore Marly Isler finished fourth at the Match Racing National Championship. Shortly after the spring season, the Bulldogs earned a second place finish at the Women's National Championship and a first place finish at the Team Racing, Coed Semi-Final and Coed National Championships. These results secured the Fowle Trophy for the Bulldogs for the second year in a row.
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Landy was named College Sailor of the Year as well as appointed to the Coed All-American Team. Segerblom and freshman Ian Barrows were also recognized as Coed All-Americans. Barrows was the only freshman named to the team, an impressive achievement.
Senior Marlena Fauer and junior Morgan Kiss were named to the ICSA Women's All-American Team.
Seniors Eugenia Custo Greig and Amanda Salvesen, junior women's team captain Katherine Gaumond and sophomore Charlotte Belling were named to the ICSA Crew All-American Team.
While this historic year has finally come to an end for the coed and women's teams and six seniors have reached the end of their college sailing careers, many of the Bulldogs that sailed at these national championships will be returning in the fall more excited than ever to begin another great season.
Watch the online ICSA All-American Awards Show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJC7g7lBBz8&feature=youtu.be.
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The 2014 Toyota Sequoia adds three versions of the Entune system to allow full integration of mobile apps to the car's infotainment system.
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The Sequoia is one of Toyota's full-size SUVs, slotting above the Highlander and 4Runner, and below the luxury-oriented Land Cruiser. It is sold in SR5, Limited, and Platinum grades with four-wheel drive available as an option.
Toyota has kept the Sequoia largely unchanged since the current generation debuted for the 2008 model year. It is powered by a 5.7-liter V-8 generating 381 hp and 401 lb-ft of torque paired to a six-speed automatic, with rear- or four-wheel drive. An adjustable suspension is available on the Platinum trim, allowing drivers to choose between Comfort, Normal, and Sport modes. Fuel economy, as with most full-size SUVs, is unimpressive in the Sequoia with the EPA rating it at 13/17 mpg city/highway for rear- and four-wheel drive models.
The 2014 Sequoia's interior is well-appointed particularly Platinum models, which include perforated leather, 12-way power driver's seat with memory, navigation, rear-seat DVD entertainment system, and heated captain's chairs in the second row. While the design of the dashboard may not be to everyone's tastes, for the most part the controls remain user-friendly and within the driver's reach. The Sequoia offers generous space for up to eight passengers and is an ideal vehicle for long drives, offering levels of comfort that rival luxury cars.
The 2014 Sequoia has a four-star rating on the rollover test from the NHTSA (out of a possible five stars) but has not been evaluated by the IIHS.
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"A father trying to be resourceful and act in desperation."
That's what motivated Mike Massé, a 1988 graduate of Boulder's Fairview High School, to post a video of himself performing the Beatles' "Let It Be" on YouTube. Massé's video has gone viral since he posted it one week ago Friday, garnering coverage from The Huffington Post and the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
July 20 also happened to be Massé's son Noah's first birthday. The timing was intentional.
Noah recently was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and Massé is hoping that, through this video, he can raise money for Noah's medical treatments.
"It was the record company's idea. It would be a charity song," Massé said. "I'd been listening to 'Let It Be' and the Beatles -- my all-time favorites. When you're in a dark place, you gravitate to the most concrete things. 'Let It Be' really resonated with me."
When Massé and his wife found out about Noah's diagnosis on July 6, he canceled all of his gigs, including a 19-year-long standing performance slot at The Pie Pizzeria, Massé's local pizza shop in Salt Lake City, where he now lives. Massé works as an area attorney when not performing, while his wife is a self-employed therapist.
Massé explained that his video was for his YouTube subscribers and friends on Facebook who were devoted fans of his music. He wanted to explain to them why he would be going on a performing hiatus and "wanted them to feel like they'd be getting something (a new cover song) in return."
So far, Noah has undergone four brain surgeries and been housed in an area hospital's intensive care unit twice, Massé said.
"I was trying to support my family when I did this. I didn't want to have to make decisions about his care based on finances," Massé said. "I wanted to give Noah the best care we could get, regardless of finances."
On Thursday, "Let It Be (A Fundraiser for Noah)" went to No. 1 on Holland's iTunes chart.
Massé said that if he and his wife end up not needing all of the money raised for Noah's treatments, they will consider donating the money raised by the song sales to cancer research.
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