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Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. have engaged in Oil Refinery Equipment and Microwave Equipment since1997 in China,with 20 years` experience and 80 engineers,, scientific research, manufacturing, installation, commissioning.We can provide customers with design and services of 1-2000 tons oil equipment.factory occupied area is over 100,000 square meters,more than 3200 customers all around the world, we greatly hope to have the opportunity to serve you.
Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. has finished hundreds of successful projects over the years: peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, animal oil,grape seed oil, acer truncatum oil, peony seed oil, walnut oil, hemp seed oil, pine oil, tea seed oil, papaya oil, milk thistle seed, and other special type oil.We have independent import and export department. Our equipment has been successfully exported to more than 100 countries: Russia, Australia, India, Afghanistan, Cameroon,and so on.
Cooking oil refinery plant
1.Cooking oil refinery plant flow:
2. Crude oil refining process for cooking oil refinery plant:
⥠Acid reaction process
Oil temperature can be adjusted by screw plate heat exchanger. When the temperature is heated to about 80â, mixing about 85% food grade phosphoric acid into acid reaction tank for reacting.
⥠Neutralization process
In neutralization section, adding alkali liquor with appropriate concentration into the degummed oil which have proper temperature, then degummed oil enters into the centrifugal mixer for mixing.
⥠Washing process
Neutralized oil come from neutralization separator, still contains about 500 ppm soap. During the washing, hot water will absorb the soap and other impurities in oil, then soap and impurities are separated in washing separator.
⥠Vacuum drying section
The neutralization and washing oil come from the washing separator still contains some water which is adverse to the oil stability.
⥠Bleaching process
The main purpose of this process is to remove the pigments in crude oil and the residual soap in the neutralization oil.
⥠Filteration
Miscella mixed by oil and clay from bleaching tower is pumped into decolorizing filter, then enters into fine filter, in which clay and fixed impurities are blocked.
⥠Deodorization process
Deodorization process aims to remove the FFA and low molecular compounds in bleached oil. Entering into the deodorization process, the flow of bleached oil is controlled by a flow controller, and the oil is heated to250-260â through a series of heat exchanger, then the temperature can reach to the condition of deodorizing.
⥠Dewaxing process
Bleached sunflowerseed oil enter into crystallizing tank through heat exchanger and begin the cooling crystallization proces,this process is controlled by the computer through the parameters preestablished,the computer controls temperature of circulating water in the frozen coil to comand cooling speed of the oil,thereby receive the crystal result.
3. Consumption for cooking oil refinery plant :
|Steam consumption
450KG/T oil
Electric consumption
28Kwh/T oil
Phosphoric acid
2~3 kg/T oil
Circulating water cooling water yield
Bleaching earth consumption
5~50Kg/T oil
Waste bleaching earth oil content
Deodorization loss consumption
4.Installation site for cooking oil refinery plant:
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Brief Instructions of latest technology 10Ton cooking oil refinery plant:
latest technology 10ton cooking oil refinery plant is made of stainless steel, after research and development of technical personnel to improve successful general multi-functional food machinery, the roasting machine is designed according to the market need , model fashion luxury, integrating all kinds of nuts type mechanical performance advantages, stable mechanical properties, adopting closed belt transmission, use liquid gas heating type, energy saving, high efficiency, safety, hygiene.
latest technology 10ton cooking oil refinery plant adopts horizontal cylinder, 360 - degree circular mixing roll, automatic cycle stirring, heating and stirring evenly, relative seal, braised fire effect is very good, convenient operating in pan, funnel replenish roasting materials, save time and effort. With functions of automatically be out of the pot, automatic sand and chestnut separation function, operation simple and convenient, quick, and easy to understand, and many other advantages. Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. also offer special formula and technology of making better food color and taste.
If you have any demand about microwave drying equipment and edible oil refining equipment, pls feel free contact us any time.
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Editors' note (May 14, 2012): The Eee Pad Transformer is now upgradable to Android 4.0; however, those interested in this product should also check out the new step-up version, the Asus Transformer Pad TF300.
Tablets are still a hard sell to most, but one of the most important factors is price. The lower the price (without being too low to raise suspicions of quality), the more likely consumers are willing to part with their money.
At $400, the 16GB, Wi-Fi-only version of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is the cheapest Honeycomb tablet on the market and undercuts the lowest price iPad 2 by $100. But, what sacrifices did Asus make to get it that low?
Design and features
Before even powering up the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, we were struck by its wider-than-normal left and right bezel, each measuring about 1.1 inches. That's a lot wider than the Motorola Xoom's 0.5-inch bezel. We also noticed that the Transformer is the longest of the new generation of tablets, measuring a full 10.7 inches in width compared with the Xoom's 9.8 inches. Make no mistake, this is a large tablet; it's the largest Honeycomb tablet we've seen, in fact.
I thought of writing a superlong paragraph detailing dimension differences between the latest tablets, but that's what charts are for. Here's a handy chart to illustrate the size differences between the Transformer and other recent tablets.
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|Side bezel width (in landscape)
Complementing the Transformer's wide-screen aspect ratio is a 10.1-inch 1,280x800-pixel capacitive touch display. As a result, we felt more comfortable holding it in landscape orientation. Unfortunately, the corners and edges of the tablet aren't rounded and smoothed off like they are on the G-Slate or Xoom, for example, and while holding the tablet, we felt the corners slowly cutting into our palms. Not nearly enough to draw blood or anything, but enough to convince us we'd rather hold a less aggressive tablet.
At first glance, the build quality of the Transformer seems solid enough; however, pushing in on its backside with even just a medium level of pressure yielded a bit too much give, making it feel a lot less substantial than the G-Slate or Xoom. The Transformer's textured, almost snakeskin backside provides an added level of grip compared with silky smooth tablets like the iPad 2, which are prone to slippage at times.
Speakers are located on the left and right sides. The requisite two cameras are here as well; there's a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing one. Both are located near the top center of the device.
On the right side are the microSD card slot, a Mini-HDMI port, a microphone pinhole, and a headphone jack. On the left are the power/lock button and volume rocker. The bottom houses the 40-pin connector for charging the battery or connecting to a PC for data transfer, but unfortunately, no USB port is included. This is may be an intentional oversight that may incentivize the purchase of the keyboard/dock accessory.
Once attached, the Transformer's $150 keyboard/docking station option transforms the tablet into what could be considered a Honeycomb Netbook. The keyboard includes a full array of keys and a multitouch touch pad. It also includes two USB ports, an SD card reader port, and its own battery. The keys feel soft, snappy, and are wide enough and spaced far enough apart to provide comfortable use by someone with larger-than-average hands. Like on a MacBook, two fingers are used to scroll up and down on Web pages via the touch pad.
Attempting to properly connect the keyboard to the tablet can be a highly frustrating experience. There are no markers to assist you in lining up the two pieces, and you essentially have to slide the tablet around until you feel it connect. Also, in order to get the tablet to lock into the dock, we had to push down fairly hard on it.
The usual suspects of tablet features are available with the Transformer, including Bluetooth 2.1 for audio and peripheral support. The Wi-Fi antenna supports bands up to 802.11n. Embedded sensors for screen brightness, accelerometer, and gyroscope are all included.
With no cellular option, the Transformer is a Wi-Fi-only tablet. A 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core mobile processor and 16GB of storage round out the specs.
Up until the Xoom, every Android tablet we'd reviewed suffered from behaving too much like a smartphone. Google's mobile operating system, its apps, and its developer tools were all geared for the small screen, and it showed.
With the introduction of Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb), Google is showing its commitment to tablets. With the exception of legacy support for existing Android apps, Honeycomb is a dramatic departure from the Android of smartphones.
Even experienced Android users will need some time to get accustomed to Honeycomb's navigation. Gone is the familiar four-button navigation across the bottom of the screen. Contextual menus and options are accessed through the top of the screen, notifications pop out from the lower right, and the trusty old back arrow will occasionally morph into a down arrow when the keyboard is engaged, allowing you to conceal or reveal the keyboard.

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October 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Fundraising for NaNoWriMo
I've never actually talked much about the financing aspect of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I donate every year (even though I work for them, too), but I've never made an appeal on my blogs for others to donate.
For those of you not familiar with it, NaNoWriMo challenges ordinary mortals to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. No experience necessary! Tens of thousands of writers have not only participated since 1999 but dozens have also been published. The goal isn't necessarily to get a book out in front of the public, but to start by getting it out of your head. 2007 marks my seventh year participating and will be my seventh novel.
Why do I do it? It's a great writing exercise. I'm always surprised at what I can come up with when an absurd deadline is put in front of me. I enjoy the socializing on the forums (which I moderate) and I love the thrill of watching other writers find out what they had inside them. I've also met some of my best friends through the website. Yes, those crazy internet people ended up being really nice in person!
Here it is ... my appeal:
Please support me in my goal to raise $500 for National Novel Writing Month by November 17th ... that's the night of our first write-a-thon, called The Night of Writing Dangerously.
You can donate by going to my fundraising page at FirstGiving, which operates as an intermediary to track donations made in my name. The money goes towards the program which is not only the website for adults to tackle that novel they've always wanted to write but also the Young Writers Project which creates in-school programs for students to tackle free-writing as part of their curriculum.
For every $5 you donate via my FirstGiving page, I'll enter you in my Limited Edition Candy Drawing! Just leave a comment here and I'll hook it up with that drawing.
During November it's all about me writing a novel. Sometimes it's about whalewatching. You know, and then there's other stuff.


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Altan Performs Modern Take on Traditional Irish Music in Zankel Hall, 3/8
Acclaimed Irish folk music ensemble Altan-known for its dynamic live performances that range from traditional Irish songs to hard hitting reels and jigs-makes its Zankel Hall debut on Friday, March 8 at 8:30 p.m. The group-which features Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciarán Tourish, Dermot Byrne, Dáithi Sproule, and Ciarán Curran-was built on a foundation of commitment to bringing the beauty of traditional music (particularly that of the Donegal fiddlers and singers) to contemporary audiences in a way that excludes none of its distinctive characteristics. Throughout the group's more than 25-year performance history, which includes countless international performances and celebrated recordings, Altan has become an important ambassador of the music and culture of Ireland. Altan's performance is presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with World Music Institute.
Dublin's Sunday Tribune notes that "The appeal of Altan centers on the fact that they see no differences or divisions in music. As such, they have managed to cross the all-important cultural barriers between folk and world and rock music." The ensemble has been invited to perform for presidents and heads of state the world over, and in prestigious venues ranging from the Sydney Opera House and The Hollywood Bowl to Royal Albert Hall and Alte Oper Frankfurt, among others. In recent years, Altan has introduced orchestral arrangements of its most popular pieces in performances and recordings. The arrangements, scored by renowned arranger Fiachra Trench, have been performed with the Ulster Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish Opera Orchestra. In 2010, Altan released a new record in celebration of its 25th anniversary which includes a mix of songs recorded over the previous 25 years, accompanied by Ireland's RTÉ Concert Orchestra.


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By Claudia Assis
America's love affair with driving might be back on track thanks to lower gasoline prices.
Fewer U.S. residents have taken to the roads in recent years, with experts divided over the reasons. Either because gasoline prices and the costs of owning a car, or both, were too high, or — particularly for the younger generation — a more fundamental shift away from the automobile is under way.
As prices at the pump slid recently, however, U.S. gasoline demand got a boost, CNBC said in an article Thursday. Consumption in the second half of the year is on the rise after five years of declines.
In last month's short-term fuels report, the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration said retail gasoline would average $3.24 a gallon in the fourth quarter, 10 cents less than what it had predicted a month earlier.
Gasoline was seen averaging $3.50 a gallon this year and the EIA predicted an average of $3.39 a gallon in 2014, compared with $3.63 a gallon last year.
The falling price has spurred more demand and, of course, more driving, CNBC said. Demand on the East Coast is still in a slump, but not for the rest of the country.
Gasoline prices, meanwhile, have dipped to an average of $3.25 per gallon of regular unleaded on Thursday, compared with $3.38 a gallon a year ago, according to travel and leisure group AAA. Gas prices this past Thanksgiving were the lowest in three years.
On a related note, earlier this week automakers reported some of their best sales numbers in years — a jump of 8% on month in November and well ahead of expectations.
Americans also seemed to be returning to the domestic brands: sales for the Big Three — General Motors Co. /quotes/zigman/1466682/delayed /quotes/nls/gm GM , Ford Motor Co. /quotes/zigman/264304/delayed /quotes/nls/f F , and Chrysler Group LLC — were the best since July 2006, thanks in no small part to trucks and SUVs.
At Ford, the F-150 pickup truck, as well as its Fusion sedan, led demand, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday. Demand for the Dodge Durango and Jeep Cherokee were the most in-demand at Chrysler, and GM saw a sharp increase in sales of its Malibu midsize sedan and large gains at its Cadillac and Buick divisions.
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Gartner Upbeat on IT SpendingBy Tom Steinert-Threlkeld | Posted 2002-10-07 Print
Online exclusive: The research and consulting firm said that while information technology spending actually fell in 2001, the growth rate could double in 2003.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.The growth rate in worldwide spending on information technology will double next year, research and consulting firm Gartner Inc. said Monday morning. Maybe.
"The global economic situation is quite fluid and given the rising uncertainty surrounding the strength of the global economic recovery, there are still significant downside risks to the industry," said George Shiffler, principal analyst for Gartner Dataquest's computing platforms and economics research, in comments accompanying release of its forecast for 2003. The forecast placed 2003 spending at $2.5 trillion, up 7.0 percent from 2002.
That growth rate is more than double the rate Gartner is currently forecasting for this year. As of the start of October, the company is forecasting that 2002 spending will finish at $2.3 trillion, up 3.4 percent from 2001.
Gartner unveiled the findings at its annual Symposium/ITxpo here this week.
Information technology spending actually fell last year, according to Gartner. Crushed by uncertainty following the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, corporate spending on information technology fell 0.4 percent in 2001, finishing at $2.2 trillion.
The new forecast is partly based on an expectation that the hard-hit telecommunications industry will lead the road to recovery. Corporate spending on telecommunications will increase 7.5 percent to $1.4 trillion, the company said. In 2002, spending on communications increased 4.8 percent, to $1.3 trillion, with spending on wireless systems a large component.
"The telecommunications segment is being driven by the fixed and mobile telecom services market," said Dean Eyers, group vice president and worldwide director for Gartner Dataquest's telecommunications group. "Absent them, total IT spending would actually decline by 0.5 percent."
This latest Gartner forecast shows a slightly sunnier outlook than a survey it conducted with Soundview Technology Group in November 2001, after the attacks. At that time, Gartner said spending on information technology in the United States would grow 1.5 percent in 2002.
That was a big drop, however. Gartner and Soundview, for instance, had forecast 8 percent growth in information technology spending for 2001before the attacks. And, as reported today, spending actually went down.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Microsoft beefs up business intelligence with bid for Proclarity
I missed this one earlier this month. Microsoft is building out its offerings for business intelligence tools with an acquisition of niche BI vendor Proclarity.
The move makes a lot of sense. Business intelligence continues to be a hot market, as companies of all sizes are putting more and more information into databases but are finding that its not as easy to pull it out and make sense of it. Secondly, the market for business intelligence software is highly fragmented, with many small players, such as ProClarity. Although there has been some vendor consolidation already (e.g. Business Objects acquisition of Crystal Decisions, and Hyperion's merger with Brio, both in 2003), there is much room for more. Although Proclarity only has about 150 employees, it is a well-respected name and Microsoft is smart to snap it up now before someone else tries.
From a technology perspective, the deal also makes sense. ProClarity's offerings already interoperate well with Microsoft's Excel, SQL Server, and SharePoint. Microsoft says that it plans to integrate ProClarity into its Server Platform business, which means buyers of Microsoft SQL Server will be less likely to third-party solutions to fill their business intelligence and reporting needs.
Builder AU has more on the deal, including other steps that Microsoft is taking to strengthen its position in business intelligence.by Frank Scavo, 4/28/2006 07:48:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Manugistics to be acquired by JDA
Earlier this week, Manugistics agreed to be acquired by JDA, one of the leading software vendors in the retail industry, ending years of speculation about Manugistics' future.
Manugistics, one of the leading supply chain management vendors, had been struggling Manugistics has had a rough for the past few years. Revenue was at a peak of $310 million in 2002, but dropped to $272M in 2003, $243M in 2004, and $193m in 2005.
JDA is one of the leading enterprise system vendors in the retail industry, the other being Oracle with its recent acquisition of Retek, and SAP, which is building its own solutions largely from scratch.
JDA has been around since the 1970s, and has been acquiring a number of smaller firms in the retail space over the past seven years, including Timera (workforce management), Engage and Zapotec (advertising, marketing, and promotions), Vista (collaborative commerce), J-Commerce (point-of-sale), E3 (inventory optimization), Neovista (data mining), Intactix (retail space management), and Arthur Retail (advanced planning and allocation).
JDA's bid for Manugistics gives it an even wider portfolio of products to offer its retail clients. The deal also gives JDA access to Manugistics' enviable list of top retail clients, such as Hershey Foods, Federated Stores, Kraft, ConAgra, Unilever, Campbell Soup, Avon, Limited Brands, Staples, Sears, Black and Decker, and Goodyear Tire.
However, one must question what JDA intends to do with those Manugistics products that are not related to retail, such as Manugistics extensive offerings in aerospace and defense, which it acquired from WDS a few years ago. Will JDA continue to support those products, or will be there be a series of divestitures from JDA to buyers interested in Manugistics' cats and dogs, as so to speak?
Supply Chain Digest has more on the JDA/Manugistics deal.
A Spectator reader also points out that Manugistics' competitor, i2, has wasted no time jumping on the PR horse, offering Manugistics' clients a program to "upgrade" to i2's products.
Update, Apr. 28. The word to me from inside Manugistics is that most employees are feeling good about the deal. The rumors and speculation about Manugistics' future were getting tiring and this deal resolves questions about its financial viability. My source, who has been through several acquisitions, says you can tell alot about a company by how its executives present themselves, and the folks from JDA have been particularly upbeat and appear to "have it together." Manugistics has lost some good leadership in the past few years and will benefit from the management depth that JDA brings to the deal.
My source points to the strong combination of consumer-packaged goods (Manugistics core strength) with retail (JDA core strength). He is less concerned about the future of other products in Manugistics' portfolio: those targeting government, travel, transportation, and hospitality sectors. Even though these comprise a small part of Manugistics' business, they are profitable and they often lead to innovations that can be introduced into Manugistics other products.
Bottom line? The deal looks good from all angles.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Oracle upgrades Siebel's CRM software-as-a-service
Oracle last week released a new version of the CRM on-demand product that it picked up with its acquisition of Siebel. The new version (release 10), has been rebranded as Oracle CRM On Demand, and it includes improved customization capability, new features for sales and service, and enhancements for the life sciences and financial services industries.
What's most interesting to me, though, is what this says about Oracle's commitment to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Oracle has picked up many new products in the past two years, including a huge portfolio of applications from Siebel. But one of Oracle's first moves is to upgrade and rebrand this on-demand product from Siebel.
Oracle offers its own E-Business Suite as a hosted service, including its own front-office products which used to compete with Siebel's. But Oracle's offerings are all built under a single-tenant architecture: a separate installation for each client. If you visit Oracle's on-demand data center in Austin, what you'll see is racks and racks of Dell servers running Linux, each one supporting a different client.
In contrast, Siebel's offering--which it originally acquired from Upshot to compete with Salesforce.com--is a multi-tenant architecture. In other words, it can host multiple clients on the same system instance--a far more efficient and scalable approach than the single tenant architecture. At least that's the theory: Salesforce.com, the poster-child for the multi-tenant approach has suffered service outages that highlight the potential for a single failure to impact many customers.
Oracle CRM On-Demand is a tiny part of its business today, but it gives Oracle's engineers and support professionals valuable experience in the multi-tenant approach. It will be interesting to see how Oracle positions its new CRM On-Demand relative to its other CRM offerings, and whether it can avoid some of the missteps of Salesforce.com in maintaining service levels.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Oracle to extend support for JDE on IBM iSeries
At its Collaborate 2006 user conference in Nashville this week, Oracle announced that it will continue support for existing J.D. Edwards Enterprise-One and World products beyond 2013, the date to which it had previously committed support for IBM's iSeries hardware (formerly AS/400).
Oracle's decision basically means it will continue to provide support for applications running over IBM's DB2 database product, which competes with Oracle's flagship database.
As far as I can tell, this week's decision does not say anything about how or whether Oracle will support IBM's DB2 as part of its Fusion strategy to merge Oracle's various applications into a single code base.
I've speculated in the past whether Oracle would try to move existing IBM database users to Oracle and when support ends whether it would try to sell off the remaining users to someone like SSA Global, which makes a business out of supporting IBM-based applications. This week's decision probably says that the answer is, for the second half of that speculation, no. Oracle probably is finding that the maintenance business for these users is profitable and better kept than sold.
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Friday, April 21, 2006
Wal-Mart sticks to RFID plans despite CIO switch
Just two weeks after I wrote a long post about Wal-Mart's IT systems under CIO Linda Dillman, Wal-Mart switches CIOs.
Dillman is still with Walmart, however. She is moving to head of risk management and benefits administration. The new CIO, Rollin Ford, comes from a position as head of the retailers supply chain and logistics function.
Dillman was the driving force behind Wal-Mart's push to RFID. For Walmart suppliers hoping that the CIO switch will mean a slow-down in Wal-Mart's RFID program, forget it. According to Line56,One of the first actions taken by incoming CIO Rollin Ford was to publicly reaffirm Wal-Mart's RFID project. "There will be no slowing down," Ford stated.It's not that Ford will need much of a learning curve. In his previous position, he was a member of the Wal-Mart RFID executive steering committee for the past three years. long learning curve.
Ford added that Walmart will be retiring the RFID EPC standard Gen 1, replacing it with Gen 2, effective June 30.
Computerworld has more on Wal-Mart's CIO switch and implications for its RFID program.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
New action in the engineer-to-order ERP space
Following the acquisition of Encompix by Made2Manage, another deal in the engineer-to-order ERP market is taking place. Now Intuitive, a small manufacturing systems provider, is buying out Relevant, a long-standing provider of project-based manufacturing systems.
Intuitive has been quiet for many years, but since being bought in November 2005 by Marlin Equity Partners, a private equity firm, it has started an acquisition program, first picking up SupplyWorks, a supply chain management provider, in March, and now acquiring Relevant.
Relevant is best known for its use at the legendary Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where its project-orientation is particularly well-suited.
However, there is an indication that Intuitive may not be interested so much in Relevant's product but rather is buying its customer base and expertise in the ETO sector. The press release says, "Intuitive's long-term product plan is to adapt Relevant's project-driven processes and functionality to the Intuitive ERP product. Intuitive will offer continued support to Relevant's customers and deliver several enhancements under development."
There's more on the Relevant deal in a press release on the Intuitive website.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Making money in software with a niche-industry strategy
Tom Milay, Vice President of Industry Solutions at Made2Manage, contacted me concerning my article last week on his firm's recent acquisition of Encompix. Generally, he felt that what I wrote was accurate, but he noted my questioning of how the firm could make money by running each of its acquisition as a separate business unit. So, I took him up on his offer to do a phone interview, which now forms the basis for this post.
Back in 2003, Made2Manage was a small publicly-held Tier III ERP focused on small industrial manufacturers. I had evaluated the vendor's products once or twice and was impressed with its "small footprint" and web-based training that seemed to be appropriate for the small-company market that it was going after.
Shortly thereafter, Made2Manage was taken private by Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm, for $30 million. The word I heard from inside and outside the company was that the new management team was scaling back on product development in order to focus on selling into the installed base: sort of a "back to basics" strategy.
Since then, I noticed that Made2Manage was quietly accumulating several niche vendors in the small business ERP space, several of which I had evaluated in the past. Its acquisitions included DTR Software (ERP for plastics manufacturers), ADS (a former M2M reseller and developer of M2M extensions), Cimnet Systems (ERP for PCB manufacturers), and AXIS (ERP for manufacturers of "rolled products," such as cable and sheet metal). Then, last month Made2Manage acquired Encompix, a tiny vendor focused on the engineer-to-order segment.
So, what's behind this series of acquisitions and how does Made2Manage rationalize them? If the targets were struggling prior to being acquired, what does Made2Manage plan to do differently? Milay came to Made2Manage with the Battery Ventures deal, so he was in a position to clarify the firm's strategy.
The benefits of an industry focus
I would sum up the strategy as one of intense focus on very narrow manufacturing niches. This would be in contrast to the major Tier I vendors such as SAP and Oracle, which build systems that apply horizontally across a broad range of industries--manufacturing and non-manufacturing--with industry-specific functionality that can be switched on or off according to the client's needs.
Made2Manage is taking the opposite approach. Instead of configuring a general-purpose package to serve a specific industry, M2M offers a package that simply serves that industry, or sub-industry, and nothing more. If SAP is a Swiss army knife, M2M's portfolio of packages is a draw of knives, each for a specific use: one might be a meat cleaver knife, another a filleting knife, and another a paring knife. So, with this approach, M2M does not want to rewrite its acquired systems to a common code-base. In other words, it does not want to turn them into a single Swiss army knife. It wants to keep them as separate knives.
"The fit of a product to a specific manufacturing sector requires separate products," Milay told me. "The market is shifting away from generalized applications, such as SAP, which requires extensive configuration, to packages that fit the customer's industry sector out of the box."
A little side note, here, to say that I'm partial toward industry-specific solutions. I've seen the advantage of a niche approach in many sales demonstrations that I've viewed in the past 15 years. A tiny vendor such as DTR (plastics) or Encompix (engineer-to-order) can beat SAP or Oracle in a sales demonstration simply by bringing in presales personnel that speak the language of the prospect.
For example, an Oracle or SAP rep might be assigned to the process manufacturing sector. But even that might not be enough of a focus. The rep might be selling to a pharmaceutical manufacturer on Monday, and a winery on Tuesday. Wednesday he makes a sales call at an injection-molding plant. What does he know about injection-molding? Not much. He knows a lot about Oracle's Fusion middleware and its vision for next-generation web services but not much about finite scheduling, which is critical to an injection molding company.
On Thursday, the DTR sales guy calls on the same injection-molding plant. He's never been in a drug plant or a winery. All week he has been talking to other plastics manufacturers.
Who connects better with the prospect?
Now, DTR may not win the deal. The prospect might be more comfortable going with a name-brand, such as Oracle or SAP. But in most cases, the prospect will be far more comfortable with the DTR sales guy. I have seen scenario many times, not just with DTR but with other niche vendors as well.
Four strategic elements
With that background, here are key points of M2M's strategy, according to Milay.
- First, shift from a software focus to a solution focus. The firm's deep industry expertise allows it to make money by providing post-implementation assessments and general business consulting, beyond the initial sale and installation of the software. This deepens the relationship with the client and brings additional revenue from the client base.
- Second, automate customer service and support. One of the first things that M2M does when integrating a new acquisition is to document the most frequently encountered customer service problems and post them on its Web portal for customer support. It also deploys Web-based training for customers, if it does not already exist. As a result, 55% of customer incidents can be resolved by the customer using the Web, requiring little if any intervention by a customer support representative. According to Milay, automation of the support function is key to making the operating units profitable.
- Third, centralize some corporate functions. M2M does operate each software package in its portfolio as a separate operating unit, but it is centralizing corporate functions such as marketing, administration, finance, and senior management. Although this does not cut as much cost as combining the software development organizations, it does provide some economies of scale.
I have my doubts about that last point. Over the past ten years, I've short-listed some of the products that are now in the M2M portfolio, and I've had to explain to clients why the vendor was flying in sales people from the other side of the country. It's not a plus, and it's even more of a problem when the client realizes that if he buys the software he'll be paying major travel expenses for the implementation consultants. Furthermore, I would be concerned that if M2M is successful in ramping up sales of its software products, it will find it difficult to scale up implementation services to assist those new customers. Milay agrees that there are some shortcomings with this model, but feels that the benefits outweigh the costs.
- Fourth, deliver all sales and service activities directly. M2M employs a separate direct sales force and services group for each software package in its portfolio. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom that says the best way to serve the small business market is through resellers and value-added resellers. M2M, in contrast, maintains a small selling team for new sales of each software product, plus a single salesperson to maintain contact with the installed base. On the service side, there is a small team of consultants for each software product.
Concerning the need to maintain four separate software organizations, Milay said that over time, they do expect to realize some economies of scale in software development, by transitioning all their products to a service-oriented architecture, using Microsoft's .NET framework. Even though the packages will remain separate, there may be opportunities to share software components, especially where they provide functionality outside of the core niche manufacturing processes that make each package unique.
Milay realizes that continuing to operate each acquisition as a separate business unit may appear to be the most cost-effective approach. But it's important to see the whole picture. "We believe that our industry focus leads to greater market share in each industry niche, which leads to overall revenue for the company," he said. "This more than offsets the less-than-optimal organizational structure of operating each software package as a separate business unit."
Whether Made2Manage will be successful in the long run with its strategy is an open question. It is sticking to a traditional software license model at a time when only a few vendors are able to make money with it. Most of the buzz these days is around offering software as a service and leveraging open source. But, conventional wisdom is often wrong,
If early results are any indication, Made2Manage may have found a different path to success. The firm does not reveal financial results, but Milay assured me that ever since the company started on this road, it has been highly profitable.
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Open source consolidation: Red Hat bids for JBoss
The software vendor consolidation trend is spreading to the open source sector, with Linux distribution and services provider Red Hat announcing its intent to acquire the popular open source application server vendor JBoss for at least $350 million. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close by the end of May.
The deal allows Red Hat, which sits squarely at the OS-level of the technology stack, the opportunity to move up into the middleware layer. It also gives Red Hat expertise and offerings for customers that are want to deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
On JBoss's side, the deal gives the company access to Red Hat's worldwide distribution network. JBoss so far has been primarily selling into North America and European markets.
There are some interesting complications, however, in what the deal means for Microsoft. Although both providers are squarely in the open source market, it hasn't prevented JBoss from cooperating with Microsoft in allowing its middleware to run on top of Microsoft's Windows Server operating system. Combine this with Microsoft's recent announcement that it will support Linux running as a guest operating system under its Virtual Server product, which Microsoft is now offering as a free download.
The bedfellows keep getting stranger.
What does this mean for enterprise system buyers? It means more choices and options for deploying service oriented architectures over a low cost platform. SAP, Oracle, Lawson, and other major vendors are in the midst of a technology change to transition their systems to SOA, which allows easier mixing and matching of software components and the ability to build composite applications using pieces of existing applications. The Red Hat/JBoss combination provides a low cost OS and middleware platform that most if not all of these application vendors will want to support.
Computerworld has more on the Red Hat/JBoss deal.
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Enterprise software: four horsemen and four fortresses
At Forrester's IT Forum 2006 last week, Forrester executives Andy Bartels and John Rymer gave a joint keynote on "The Future of Enterprise Software." The presentation was an excellent overview of the competing forces that are changing and will change the enterprise software market in the coming years and what that means for buyers and vendors.
Bartels and Rymer said that overall the market will not return to the double-digit growth of the late 1990s--not because there is a lack of demand from customers for new functionality but because the large company market is saturated. The primary opportunity for new sales is in the small and mid-size businesses, which have a lower price point but sometimes cost more to sell to and service. Forrester research also points to increasing frustration on the part of customers to high software maintenance fees, further throttling vendor ability to milk revenues from the installed base.
Factors that drive vendor cost and revenue
The enterprise software market today is under siege by what the speakers call "the four horsemen of commoditization:"
These four forces are driving tremendous change in enterprise software--for both buyers and sellers.
- Open source software
- Service oriented architecture (SOA)
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Offshore outsourcing
In the case of open source, the impact so far is primarily in server operating systems and Java middleware, and each major software vendor (IBM, Microsoft, Sun, SAP, Oracle, etc.) has a different approach to incorporation or resistance to open source. Many buyers, however, are already using open source or very interested in doing so.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has broad strategic acceptance among vendors, and it represents a platform change not unlike the transition from client-server to Web-based architectures that started a decade ago. Forrester predicts that SOA upgrades will drive software vendor revenues higher for the next four years, but after that the ability for buyers to mix and match software components using open SOA standards will lead to increased competition that will drive software prices lower. In other words, by adopting SOA, vendors are building the seeds of their own destruction. If you are a software buyer, however, this is good news.
Software-as-a-service (Saas), or software on-demand, is being used by companies of all sizes--it is not primarily a small company market, as many observers first thought. The major vendors are all adopting SaaS in some fashion, often for limited purposes. Buyers are using it selectively.
Offshoring is a mixed trend. Contrary to popular opinion, most IT shops are not doing a lot of offshore outsourcing, although many software vendors are using it to lower their own costs of development and maintenance. Although software vendors based offshore (e.g. India) are having a hard time breaking into the major markets in North America and Europe, they could become a factor to contend with after 2012, especially those that deliver high quality software at a low cost.
What's interesting, though, is that each major software vendor is incorporating or fighting these four horsemen differently. For example, Sun is moving to 100% open source for its products, while Microsoft for the most part is fighting it. Microsoft and Salesforce.com (of course) are jumping on the bandwagon for SaaS, which Oracle and SAP appear to be forced into adopting it.
Fortresses against change
Standing up against these four horsemen, according to Rymer and Bartels, are four factors they call "fortresses of stability." These are the factors that serve to constrain the changes from open source, SOA, SaaS, and offshoring. The four fortresses are:
According to Forrester, although these four factors will mitigate the forces of change in the intermediate term, over the long run they cannot maintain revenue and profit levels for the major vendors today.
- Market Concentration: the dominance of a few major vendors, such as Microsoft, especially at the operating system level.
- Intellectual Property Rights: the vigorous enforcement of patents and other IP rights, especially to counter the threat to vendors from open source
- Installed Bases: the tremendous effort required for a software buyer to migrate from an incumbent vendor, especially at the applications level.
- Brand Loyalty: the comfort factor that accrues to vendors that are well-established in the software marketplace
For new and emerging software vendors, these trends are good news. Contrary to conventional wisdom that software market share will eventually consolidate around a few players, the large vendors today only have one third of the software market, and they are NOT growing that much faster than the market as a whole. This means there are still opportunities for new vendors to ride to success on one or more of the four horses.
For software buyers, most of this is good news. Prices for software over the long term have to fall, in line with other elements of IT spending. Buyers will be best served by standardizing on one of the "ecosystems" (i.e. SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft) as a basis for choosing new software components, while at the same time making use of open source, SOA, and SaaS to drive productive change.
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Friday, April 07, 2006
An inside peek at Wal-Mart's IT systems
Wal-Mart's CIO, Linda Dillman, gave a keynote in Las Vegas at the Forrester IT Forum 2006 earlier this week, and I found it to be one of the highlights of the conference. Dillman wasn't the typical keynote speaker, talking about "my vision for the future of IT." Rather, she presented practical insights into the IT function for one of the world's largest and most successful businesses.
IT strategy
Dillman outlined three principles for IT at Walmart. These reflect Wal-Mart's strategic "IT maxims" (although she didn't use that term), which guide development and deployment of all IT systems and capabilities.
- Merchants first. IT personnel at Wal-Mart should be merchants first, and technologists second. IT talks to customers (users) not in terms of technology but in terms of the business. "Our users don't know much about our technology platforms or tools. They shouldn't care whether we are running mainframes or UNIX," she said.
- Run common systems and common platforms. Wal-Mart runs a single system with a single set of code worldwide. "The first thing we do when beginning operations in a new country is to migrate store operations to our code," she said. "The cost advantages are huge: Our IT budget is well less than one-half a percent of sales. We can do this because we do not have to invest in multiple systems."
In addition to the cost benefits, the single-system approach allows Wal-Mart to leverage best practices, which are embedded in the system, across regions. When up-and-coming executives transfer to a different part of the world, they have the same system and processes that they have been used to in their old job. This supports Wal-Mart's leveraging of human resources worldwide.
Regarding best practices, Wal-Mart takes a middle ground. On the one hand, it does not force all regions worldwide to do things exactly the same way. Nor does it let each region do its own thing. The middle ground is to define the best practices specifically for each region.
- Centralized information systems. Wal-Mart runs all worldwide information systems out of its headquarters in Arkansas, with a second data center providing backup and failover. "A point-of-sale transaction entered in China comes back to Arkansas for credit card authorization and then returns to China to complete the sale," she said. "The whole process takes place in less than half a second."
One benefit of this approach is that most of Wal-Mart's developers are in one place, allowing them to more easily collaborate. The second benefit is that the developers are located in the heart of the business, eating lunch with buyers and talking about issues in retailing. This keeps the developers tuned in with the real concerns and needs of the business.
Wal-Mart believes that some core functions apply to all regions. For example, "every day low price" can and should be applied in all markets, regardless of what the local managers think from their past experience. They do not need to do special price promotions. "When local managers change over to every day low pricing, they find that it does work and they never look back," she said. "This is non-negotiable."
Other practices can vary by market, and when Wal-Mart finds a new best practice in a local market, the developers program it into the core system. "Localization is handled by turning things on or off. In some cases, we turn off large blocks of functionality for small markets, because it would just hurt their productivity," she said.
Wal-Mart's supplier network
Dillman spoke about the growth of Walmart's digital network, now known as RetailLink, which was initiated in 1991 as a data warehouse providing daily sales data. According to Dillman, at the time, if they had done an ROI analysis on this initiative, they would have never approved it. "We just did it on gut instinct," she said.
The development of Retail Link, by which suppliers today have access to sales, shipment, orders, returns and other data on their products in Wal-Mart stores, flies in the face of retail mentality. Traditionally, because knowledge is power, retailers and suppliers do not share information. But Retail Link has shown the value to both parties of making information available.
Wal-Mart's RFID initiative has also shown the benefits of information sharing. Gillette, for example was able to tell from RFID data which stores did not get product out to the selling floor in time for a new product launch date and was able to discount such stores from their sales analysis. A smaller supplier that provides Christmas seasonal merchandise was able to track pallets through Wal-Mart's distribution chain. They saw that a group of pallets went into a DC but were not moving out to stores. They alerted the DC to the problem, which was able to expedite delivery to stores in time for the holiday season, saving the supplier from having to suffer lost sales and mark-downs.
Wal-Mart's development practices
Dillman was asked about Wal-Mart's view of buying versus building its applications and whether it was making use of service-oriented architectures (SOA) in development. She indicated that Wal-Mart does use some packaged applications for some functions, but for the "core" system, it is all in-house developed code.
Regarding SOA, she took a pragmatic view. She indicated that SOA as a technology will not by itself lead to faster and more flexible software development. She attributed Wal-Mart's success in developing and extending its core systems to the fact that they write all their own code and do so in a highly modular approach. In recent years, as Wal-Mart's IT group has gotten much larger, it has had to formalize its best practices so that they can be promoted among all staff members. This, in her view, is more important than the technology of SOA.
Dillman's presentation gave me a different perspective on Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has long been known as a company that pushes its suppliers to do business electronically, and much of what is written about Wal-Mart in the technology press is from the perspective of the supplier that has to comply with Wal-Mart's mandates. But Dillman's presentation provides a different perspective--from inside Wal-Mart--and it shows how one very large organization uses IT to a competitive advantage, while spending much less on IT than most of its competitors.
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Microsoft to support Linux, virtually
I'm at the Forrester IT Forum 2006 in Las Vegas this week, blogging the conference. The first keynote this afternoon was by Andy Lees, a Microsoft VP in charge of server and tools marketing. Speaking at an incredibly fast pace, Lees is talking about what Microsoft is doing to increase IT productivity. One of his main points is to reduce the complexity of IT, which is of course a noble objective.
But there was one an interesting announcement that he made: Microsoft is going to start giving away its server virtualization technology (its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product), which allows one physical computer to run multiple instances of a "guest" operating system. The real kicker, though, is that Microsoft will not limit guest operating systems to its own products. It is also offering, at no-charge, virtual machine "add-ins" to run select Linux distributions, along with technical support to help customers consolidate Linux-based applications under Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2.
Microsoft made this announcement here at Forrester's conference and, more significantly, at LinuxWorld in Boston today.
Some Linux fans will want to attribute some nefarious motive to Microsoft's support for Linux. But I think it's rather a sign that Linux is a fact of life in many data centers and that Microsoft is better off being part of the solution to Linux support rather than pretend it doesn't exist. Whether system administrators will want to let Linux run on top of Microsoft's Virtual Server is another issue, of course.
There are more details in a Q&A document on the Microsoft website.
Coincidentally, I'm currently running a Computer Economics Quick Poll on the virtues of Linux and Microsoft server operating systems. If you'd like to participate and receive a free copy of the analysis resulting from this survey, you can take the survey now.by Frank Scavo, 4/03/2006 05:43:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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If you scored a 490 or above on your Math SAT (ACT equivalent: 21 or above), then you automatically qualify to be placed in any one of the following general education courses: MA122 (Mathematical Ideas), MA124I (College Algebra Intensive), MA200 (Statistics), and MA210 (Principles of Mathematics). If you scored below a 490 on your SAT, then you will be required to take a test (during your registration period) to ensure proper placement in the right math class for you. For some, depending on your placement score, this may necessitate you take one of our developmental math classes prior to the class(es) you will need in your program of study. All Mathematics and Natural Science majors are required to take the math placement exam.
A word of caution: Even if you automatically qualify for one of the regular classes above, if you know you struggle in math, you may consider taking the placement exam anyway to see where exactly you should be placed. The choice is yours.
Challenge Exam Option: If you have scored above a 490 on the Math SAT, and you feel that you can qualify for a higher math class than what is listed above (MA211—Math for Early Childhood, MA124—Regular College Algebra, MA125—Trigonometry, or MA175—Pre-Calculus), you may take the same placement test (during your registration period) as a challenge exam to place in one of those classes.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Does anyone face the same problem like me??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Does anyone face the same problem like me??? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message lightlight1221Joined: 14 Dec 2005Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:08 am Post subject: Does anyone face the same problem like me??? I really love dogs, but my mother didn't allow me to have the pet!! I feel unhappy!! Could someone can give me some advices??? _________________Be Myself...^^ Back to top renee90430231Joined: 14 Dec 2005Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject: Oh..it's too bad Maybe you can have a little pet, just like micky mouse~_________________Goodmorning~ Back to top jimmyunec2005Joined: 14 Dec 2005Posts: 14Location: Wuxi,China Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: my opinion In my family, my father like to keep a dog, but my mother don'ot like dogs, because she think dogs are very dirty and mke much noise, she can't bear there is a dog in our home, even a small one which can't make noise. So I think the important reason is she think they are very dirty, but my father and I didn't agree with her. I like dogs, because they are very clever, when I feel lonely ,I can play with them. And I like walking with a dog on grassland. In fact, I like most animals, but fly and spier. Some one think spier is the most beautiful animal in the world, but I think I never think it like them all of my life. But in my opinion, all kinds of animals are humans friends. _________________ Can you feel my world? Jimmy's world. Back to top liJoined: 21 Dec 2005Posts: 27 Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:36 am Post subject: that's sad!! hi, i'm li.sorry to hear that,but you can always persuade your mum.give her all the list of good things about having a pet. tell her that pets too can help you to relaxs and even help to look after you-in their own way.ask her to give you a chance and tell her that you'll be responssible to your pet.i don't know the outcomes,but as long that you're sincere about having a pet and able to be responssible to it,maybe she'll allow it... Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel 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 Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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UH selects Honolulu group to design permanent home for College of Pharmacy
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Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawaiʻi named WCIT Architecture of Honolulu to design the building that will become the permanent home of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Pharmacy. WCIT is working with the science and technology branch of SmithGroup to plan the structure that is intended to anchor the UH Hilo University Park of Science and Technology.
The building will be located at the corner of Komohana and Nowelo Streets, in close proximity to CoP's temporary headquarters on South `Aohoku Place. The site will bring together teaching, research, study, administrative and faculty office spaces that are currently distributed across seven different sites on the UH Hilo campus and the Hilo community.
"This building will be the visual cornerstone of one entrance to UH Hilo so it needs to reflect our place and pay respect to our location on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi," said Gerald DeMello, UH Hilo director of university relations. "We have every confidence in this team of architects to be able to honor the traditions of our host culture. We expect nothing less than the kind of building that will serve the island 'ohana as well as provide a base to build a one-of-a-kind, top-rated pharmacy school."
In October, Governor Linda Lingle released $5.5 million for the planning and design of a permanent building, and the state legislature approved the funding earlier last year. UH Hilo is in the process of finding funding for construction of the building, which has an anticipated cost of $66 million. If all goes as planned, the building will be complete in three and a half years.
"By the time this year's new pharmacy students graduate in 2014, we could be planning new research and developing classes in a new building for the next generation of pharmacists," said Dr. John M. Pezzuto, dean of the College of Pharmacy. "With input from our faculty and administrators, advisors and supporters, we're putting together a plan that will help us meet our goal to be a Top-25 ranked College of Pharmacy. We're very grateful to the legislature for approving the funding for this portion of the design and planning. We know there's a lot of hard work ahead, but this is a very exciting time in our history."
Debra Fitzsimons, vice chancellor for administrative affairs, said she is delighted to witness the tremendous growth and progress of the College of Pharmacy.
"The College of Pharmacy has demonstrated the true potential of our campus in Hilo," Fitzsimons said. "In addition to serving the health care needs of our citizens, it serves as an economic engine for the community and State. Construction of this facility will allow them to achieve their mission. We are all very proud."
Vice Chancellor Philip Castille said, "In the new College of Pharmacy building, UH Hilo students will have access to high level technology in the classroom like never before. This type of education and research experience can only serve to offer the best preparation for the job
market, and we're excited to be on the forefront of creating one of the best health sciences facilities in the nation."
Space needs call for a 60,000 gross square feet building that will include two 120-seat lecture halls, 14 study rooms, a compounding/dispensing laboratory, a laboratory for simulation mannequins with an additional six beds to create a mini-patient ward, a working dispensing pharmacy to service student pharmacy needs on campus and to serve as an experiential practice site for Pharmacy students, an Institutional Pharmacy with sterile preparations laboratory, fully equipped research laboratories, a vivarium, and office space for the administration, 47 faculty, postgraduate students, residents and post-doctoral associates.
"We know architecture, we know Hawaiʻi," said Rob Iopa, lead architect on the project and president of WCIT Architecture, an international architecture firm specializing in luxury resort, residential, and mixed-use design and development. "Our partners at SmithGroup draw on more than five decades of laboratory planning and design. We will be looking at trends in health sciences while remaining respectful to the community-at-large. Our group has perfect balance and all of the expertise required to bring this project to fruition."
SmithGroup has designed space for many of the country's leading research institutions, including General Electric, Eli Lilly, and the new Science & Technology Facility at the National Renewable Research Laboratory in Colorado. Some of WCIT's projects include Starwood Vacation Ownership's Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort, Sheraton Keauhou Resort and Spa, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel & Resort, The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, The Ritz-Carlton Club & Residences at Kapalua Bay, Kauai Lagoons Resort, Honua Kai, The Villas at Royal Lahaina and a newly completed renovation at the Sheraton Waikiki hotel.
The College of Pharmacy has admitted students for the last four academic years, sharing classrooms and laboratories with other departments at UH Hilo, and more recently populating modular facilities. There are now 351 students and 68 faculty and staff. In planning for the permanent facility, it is projected more than 650 persons will be affiliated with the College.
Disclaimer: The University of Hawaii at Hilo is not responsible for the contents, links and/or materials presented in any web site listed above that are not of the "hilo.hawaii.edu" or ".uhh.hawaii.edu" domains. All comments, complaints and grievances should be filed with the author, host and/or owner of said site.


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Samsung will be able to look at the settlement between Apple and HTC. Samsung will reportedly use the content of the settlement to determine if they need to halt sales of any of their products after their billion-dollar loss to Apple in a US court in August. Apple had previously sought to keep the specific dollar amount of its settlement with HTC private while providing the rest of the settlement terms for Samsung to view, though Samsung didn't find this sufficient. Bryan Bishop of The Verge reports:
Apple's attorneys had previously agreed to share a version of the agreement that redacted the financial terms of the settlement; in a hearing today Samsung argued that the fees HTC is paying Apple indicate how much consumer demand there is for those features covered by the patents. While Judge Grewal did write that he was "more than a little skeptical" of Samsung's argument, he nevertheless ordered Apple to turn over the document.
Samsung feels that if Apple is licensing patents to HTC, then Apple is fine with someone using the intellectual property covered by those patents as long as they are paid for its use. Since Apple will be recieving a settlement from Samsung based on August's verdict, Samsung believes that an injunction is unjustified. Whether this will be enough to satisfy the court is up for debate, because licensing agreements typically involve a contract to use intellectual property, and while Samsung will indeed pay Apple a large sum of money, they still used the intellectual property without permission in the eyes of the law, having made no contract with Apple on the use of their intellectual property. The hearing for a possible injunction against Samsung's products will being on December 6th.
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While NeoOffice 2013 and higher - also known as NeoOffice Secure Edition - cannot use JDBC drivers, NeoOffice Secure Edition can connect to MySQL servers using ODBC.
Please note that you must use the steps listed below to use MySQL's ODBC driver in NeoOffice Secure Edition. These special steps are necesary because NeoOffice Secure Edition is sold in Apple's Mac App Store and applications in Apple's Mac App Store must implement several security requirements. Unfortunately, Apple's security requirements make MySQL's default ODBC driver installation inaccessible to NeoOffice Secure Edition.
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- Double-click on the downloaded .tar.gz file to unpack it. That should create a folder with name starting with "mysql-connector-odbc". Move that folder to your ~/Library/Containers/org.neooffice.NeoOfficeSecureEdition/Data folder (note: "~" means your Home folder).
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I have a '73 Ford Bronco that I'd like to paint flat green with spray paint. Can you guys do an article on doing that so I can see what steps to take? Or at least give me some dos and don'ts. Thanks and keep up with the great mag.
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David, we can give you a few simple steps to make sure your rattle can paintjob comes out clean:
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16 comments:
- kj said...
ah so true! my last move now six years ago was the first time in my life i let go of some of my books. i looked at every one, chrisy, and kept only the ones i wanted to read again, look at again.
imagine having a library this large. mine is tiny and i'm so content with my books
- September 23, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Kunklebaby said...
YES!!! I love the first image. Wish I had that kinda space for my books. :D
- September 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Melanie Gray Augustin said...
Oh yes, I'm with you there! How I dream of one day having a floor to ceiling, wall to wall library with a ladder!
- September 23, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Hot Fudge said...
Bliss - and I love the idea of colour coded books as in the first image.
- September 23, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Katrina Jackson said...
I dream of having a whole room dedicated to books! Oh how I love them...and completely relate to that poem at the end. That first photo is just stunning! Not sure I could stand to not have my books in alphabetical order though! :)
- September 23, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- Couture Carrie said...
Beautiful spaces!
And that dog is adorable!
- September 24, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
Love the color coordinated spines.
- September 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM
I need some bookcases like them. We are trying the colour coding instead of by subject- its fun.
- September 25, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- peggy gatto said...
I just loved looking around your blog!!!
thank you for your comment and I fixed the link to the challenge thanks to you!!!!
- September 26, 2011 at 1:51 AM
- Chrisy said...
Yes...pretty inspiring aren't they...of course my books look nothing like this...they are stacked up against walls...and the one that I want will be right on the bottom requiring much lifting and muttering...one day...yes one day...a friend will say 'i've got this big old bookcase that i don't need...want me to bring it round for you?'...well a girl has to dream doesn't she...
- September 26, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- Tina´s PicStory said...
I think you see all over books :) Great collection!
- September 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- wobblinbetty said...
I really love reading and I wish I had more time to dedicate to it...
awesome images, top one is my fav! xx
- September 27, 2011 at 12:28 AM
- Imogen said...
love these pictures and the inspiring uses of the spaces. My favourite is the first picture because of all the colour.
- October 4, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Sam said...
The fourth one down! Swoon-o-rama! I would be a very happy lady if I had that to sit in every day!
- October 7, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- Grand Purl Baa said...
Lerve Lerve Lerve this booky post.
Sending my book friend over here.
- October 7, 2011 at 2:22 PM
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