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WSJ Bartley fellow Harry Graver on the rare example of a baseball team that's not looking for taxpayer handouts. Photo: Getty Images
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With last year's 6-0 loss to Real Salt Lake still fresh on their minds, the Revs head to Rio Tinto Stadium looking for redemption | GameDay >> | Live updates on MatchCenter >>
SANDY, Utah – Most professional athletes will tell you the most appropriate way to deal with a difficult loss is to forget it ever happened. Take the lessons which can be learned, move on and tackle your next challenge. In order to deal with the inevitable setbacks which will occur throughout a long career, a short memory is a necessity.
But on rare occasions, a loss can sting so badly that the memory conjures emotions so powerful they can drive you to an improved performance in the future, even years down the road. In one word: redemption.
That's precisely what the New England Revolution (3-8-2, 11 pts.) will be searching for on Friday night at Rio Tinto Stadium when the club visits 2009 MLS Cup champion Real Salt Lake (7-3-3, 24 pts.). It will mark the Revolution's first visit to Salt Lake City since suffering the worst regular-season loss in club history, 6-0, on April 25 of last year.
Six different players scored for RSL that evening, all in a remarkable second-half outburst. Ever since they caught their return flight home to Boston the following day, Revolution players have been eagerly awaiting their chance to return to Rio Tinto Stadium and the opportunity to erase that memory.
"It'll definitely be in the back of my mind," said Chris Tierney, who was on the field for the full 90 minutes of that 6-0 loss. "If anything, I think it'll drive us on to get a result there. That was one of the days in my pro career I'd like to forget, and I'll be going out with a little extra bite if I get a chance to play. I'll be looking to put it right."
Head coach Steve Nicol hasn't forgotten about last year's result either, and noted he'll likely mention that bit of history in his pregame speech as he aims to provide some extra motivation ahead of a critical match.
"It's not something you should forget if you're a player," Nicol said. "Certainly we don't forget it as coaches, so I think we might remind them about it."
As much as the Revs might prefer to make Friday night's meeting all about redemption, they must take into account a variety of other factors as they look to snap a skid which has seen them win just once in their last 10 league matches.
Priority number one will likely be to remain solid defensively against a Salt Lake side which has averaged more than two goals per game at home this season (15 goals in seven matches). With U.S. National Team forward Robbie Findley back from representing his country at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, RSL may well present a speed factor. Even though it's unknown whether Findley will be able to take part on Friday night after only recently returning from South Africa, Salt Lake has plenty of other attacking options, such as leading scorers Alvaro Saborio and Javier Morales.
"The game-plan is to just work hard," said captain Shalrie Joseph. "We've been doing that the last couple of games and the results haven't gone our way, but I think we need to just keep pushing and pushing.
"We know they're a great team at home," he continued, referring to RSL's stellar form at Rio Tinto Stadium. "They won MLS Cup last year and that just shows the kind of dominant team they can be. For us, we've just got to be ready for whatever they bring."
While a potent attack is one of the main reasons RSL has gone unbeaten (5-0-2) at home this season, it's been steady performances on the backline which have been the trademark of the defending champions. Having conceded just five goals in seven home games, Real Salt Lake enters Friday night carrying a 318-minute shutout streak, just 37 minutes shy of the club record. RSL hasn't allowed a goal since late May, in a 4-1 win over the Kansas City Wizards.
Meanwhile, the Revs have been shut out in five of their last six league matches and haven't scored since striking three times in a 3-2 win over the New York Red Bulls on May 29. New England generated 22 shots in last Sunday night's 1-0 loss to the Chicago Fire, but only six of those attempts were on frame. If the Revs hope to crack RSL's resolute defense on Friday night, they'll have to take their chances when they come.
"We just have to create a lot of chances (again)," said Joseph. "Get Sainey (Nyassi) on the ball, get Chris (Tierney) to whip in some balls and get Zack (Schilawski) chances. I think once we start creating more chances for Zack, he's going to score. He's capable of scoring."
In addition to their opponents, the Revs will also be dealing with the ever-present altitude factor on Friday night. Many experts believe that RSL's dominance at home is partly a result of the thin air in Utah – while Salt Lake's players have acclimated to the conditions, visiting players become tired more quickly.
However, according to Tierney, the altitude "excuse" is more mental than physical, so the key is to forget you're evening playing above sea level.
"What you have to do is not think about it," he said. "If you talk about playing at altitude and how thin the air is, then it gets in your head and it becomes an external factor that you don't need as a distraction. You go out there and you play soccer. The matter of the fact is, you're going to get tired a little more quickly, but so are the other guys. It's a soccer game, and we're not going to think about factors like that."
Taking everything into account as the Revs prepare to visit Rio Tinto Stadium for the second time, an improved performance in all areas will be required if they hope to snap RSL's current eight-game unbeaten run in league play and 17-game undefeated streak at home.
"We're just looking for more quality in the right areas," said Nicol. "I haven't changed my mind about the (Chicago) game. As far as attitude and commitment and all that stuff, it was great – that's not a problem. We just have to be better all around. We need to try and up our quality, whatever it may be."


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Located in a small valley close to Seoul, Korea the 'Villa Topoject' by AND Architects is set at the side of a mountain. The house opens up toward the south view and a small creek on the side.
"Gradually lifted landscape of the mountainous topography becomes a floating mass over a little stream. Villa Topoject rejects the dichotomy of object building versus landscape building. It is a mutant born as a hybrid of the two kinds, and it focuses on the transformation process between the two typologies. The boundary of the site is pulled in as the topography becomes an object, creating semi private outdoor spaces. The private living spaces are formed inside. The continuous exterior spaces meet the interior spaces at all levels adding compact, yet rich spatial qualities. The boundary between exterior and interior, land and building, subject and object becomes ambiguous."
AND Architects are a 3 people office in Korea's capital city Seoul. Villa Topoject is their first prestigious project so far and it has been featured quite a lot around the globe already. We really like their style and hope to write about more great projects by AND Architects soon.
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For would-be Los Angeles Mayor Jan Perry, it was a bittersweet ground breaking last week for a residential high-rise a block from her apartment near Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Dignitaries hailed Perry as a leading force behind downtown's revival. "She has unbelievable tenacity," Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina told invited guests gathered at the vacant building site for a ceremonial shoveling of dirt.
But there was a poignant, unspoken subtext to the praise. Perry no longer represents the area, or even her own building. Last year, fellow City Council members carved most of downtown out of her district, in the aftermath of a public feud with council President Herb Wesson. Her new district covers a larger expanse of the most impoverished stretches of South L.A.
For Perry, it was a humiliating break with years of linking her political identity to the downtown development boom. The new apartment tower site, like her Bunker Hill home, is now part of Councilman Jose Huizar's domain.


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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for December to Deanna Nathan of the Lincoln Police Department (LPD). The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Nathan has been a Public Services Specialist at the LPD Service Desk for almost ten years. She was nominated in the category of valor by Cheri Marti, Service Desk Manager, for her actions in dealing with a phone call November 16. The caller said a friend had left a voice mail about 30 minutes earlier saying she had taken pills to end her life. The caller knew only that the friend lived in the area of 25th and "R" streets. A quick computer check on the name showed only a home residence in Iowa. The caller thought the friend had recently been at a local hospital. Nathan contacted the specific ward, but was unable to get a current address because of hospital policy. Nathan then called the UNL Police Department, which did have the woman listed as a student.
As Nathan quickly entered a call for service to the address, she also dialed the woman's number and made contact with her. The woman seemed to be falling in and out of consciousness and admitted she had taken some over-the-counter sleeping pills. Nathan kept the conversation going until Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded, and when she heard responders banging on the door, she encouraged the woman to let them in. The woman was hesitant, but Nathan reassured her that they were there to help. At that point, the woman indicated the door was unlocked. Once crews entered, Nathan encouraged the woman to call out so she could be located. She was found and taken to the hospital. Officer Ray Kansier witnessed Nathan's response and immediately documented her outstanding work, which may have saved the woman's life. Marti said Nathan has a reputation for common sense and for being calm and efficient during crises. As a footnote, Marti said LPD and the hospital were able to come up with a more effective way to deal with such emergencies.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are customer relations, safety, loss prevention and productivity. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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Valley Green Bank will receive $5 million from the U.S. Department of the Treasury through its Small Business Lending Fund.
The SBLF helps small businesses meet the challenges that have come up in the aftermath of the recession by providing capital to community banks that hold under $10 billion in assets.
Valley Green Bank is one of four banks statewide to receive a total of $43 million from the fund. To date, including the most recent four banks to receive funding, nine Pennsylvania community banks have now received a total of $84.5 million in SBLF funds.
Jay Goldstein, president and CEO of Valley Green Bank, said the bank was "pleased to be selected to participate in this U.S. Treasury program."
"This recognition," he added, "furthers our commitment to lending to the small business community."
The SBLF is part of the Obama Administration's agenda to help small businesses access the capital they need to invest and hire.
The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), which is also a key part of the Small Business Jobs Act, allocates $1.5 billion to new and existing state programs that will leverage private financing to spur $15 billion in new lending to small businesses and manufacturers.


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Pickle Pizza?!? Dhorst Goes There!
Slice mail answered.
I love the email I just received from official pizza obsessive Diana Horst (aka dhorst). Witness ...
How It All Started
Today I crossed over to the dark side and made a pickle-topped pizza. I was inspired to do so after some comments regarding pickles on pizza popped up on Girl Slice's post about pineapple on pizza. I happen to love garlicky dill pickles for breakfast with cottage cheese and I also love deep-fried pickles when I can get them.
The pizza consisted of dough brushed with garlic-infused olive oil, mozzarella, Claussen dill pickle slices on half and wedges on the other half and a sprinkle of Parm.
I am not a fan of ranch dressing except with deep-fried pickles, and a dunk into ranch improved the pickle slice.
The verdict: Not bad if one is craving a deep-fried pickle. But it's really not pizza and, unfortunately for me, it's the gift that's going to keep on giving today.
I've attached some photos for your pickle pizza madness viewing pleasure.
------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you, Diana! This is a hoot.
Hasta la pizza, Adam
(More pics after the jump.)
The pickle-slice half, up close and personal.
And the spears, starin' you down.
Miss Ellie is not a picky eater. (Or is she making a face? I can't tell. Dhorst?)
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Cook revels in Chinese traditions, setting the mood when entertaining
Feb. 10 ushered in the 4711th Chinese New Year and kicked off a monthlong celebration of family reunions, symbolic rebirth and delicious food for the Eng family and other Chinese-Americans.
"Despite the fact that we're very Americanized, the Chinese New Year is my favorite holiday!' says Dr. Karen Eng, a third ("or fourth?") generation Chinese American who was born in Chicago's Chinatown and now lives in Barrington, with her husband and daughter.
"We still try to keep the traditions," Karen says. "We clean the house very well and make sure everything is filled. The idea is to know you have enough food to get through the year."
To celebrate, Karen's family met in Chinatown and enjoyed a wonderful meal.
"It was so good! Tradition says that you are supposed to have one of everything, so we had fish, chicken, pork, beef, vegetables, rice and noodles for longevity."
Karen learned to cook at a young age from her mother and two grandmothers.
"My mom and my grandmothers are the most awesome cooks," says Karen. "They are chefs who cook by taste and feel. My mom can taste something and know what it needs. I like the fundamentals of using a recipe first, and then when I get a feel for what I'm doing, I embellish it."
Karen's first love was for baking however.
"My background is in science. I was a biochemistry major. I think that is why I've always liked baking." Today, she favors cooking Asian cuisine, but her results are definitely not the traditional fare.
"The only reason it's considered Chinese food is because I'm cooking it and I'm Chinese, and because the ingredients are Chinese!" she laughs.
"My favorite dish in the whole world however is Mongolian Beef. It was what I always asked my mother to make for me on my birthday and I still think hers is better than mine." Karen shares the recipe with us today, along with a fun dessert-style egg roll.
Karen and her family love to entertain. Her large collection of cookbooks has volumes that are marked up with specific notes and sprinkled with grease. Karen keeps a special journal for entertaining, noting the appetizers, salads, main dishes and the wines served.
"This way I don't have to worry if I am serving something over and over again and it's fun to flip through it and see the evolution of our recipes."
Karen pays careful attention to detail, including the way the table is set: "I think it sets the mood; my husband worries because I don't buy clothes, but I love a kitchen store. I have Mexican fiesta ware, bento boxes, Chinese chopsticks ... he thinks I'm nuts, but he's good about it," she laughs.
The next entertainment on the calendar is her daughter's birthday celebration -- a sleepover they have planned together. There will be a popcorn bar, a pasta bar and an ice cream sundae bar … sounds like a perfect finale to the Chinese New Year celebration!
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Responding to Scott's column on Palin, Rod concludes his post with this:
I caught some of her speech today live on CNN at a McCain-Palin rally in Colorado Springs, and she was droning on about John McCain in the Hanoi Hilton, using the exact same lines we've heard from the convention. She's got to do better than that. How about talking less about who y'all are — which is impressive, and legitimately part of your pitch — and more about what y'all are going to do?
Well, yes, but what would they say after the first five minutes were up? With the exception of a few nods to job retraining and school choice, and, of course, drilling and solidarity with Georgia, McCain's own speech was blessedly free of talking about anything remotely resembling an agenda. When she wasn't making a fool of herself warning against the Great Venezuelan Embargo, Palin was, perhaps more understandably, similarly bereft of policy ideas in her speech. Oh, but I believe she was in favor of drilling. I did get that impression. When the theme of the convention seems to have been, "Drill, baby, drill," which is an energy policy in exactly the same way that, "Tax, baby, tax" is a fiscal policy (i.e., it isn't), slogans are obviously all that the party has left. Even if you think that increasing oil exploration and supply through more offshore drilling makes sense, you cannot really take these people seriously. After months of mocking Obamaphiles for their ridiculous catchphrases and cultish chants, the Republicans have finally found the chants they can believe in. The real trouble is that the people on the ticket are not saying much more than the chanting crowds.
However, that's been the m.o. of the McCain campaign since last year: biography politics together with sloganeering and rote talking points instead of policy substance. This was more or less how McCain's primary campaign went: "Surge! Victory! Surge, Earmarks Are Bad, Surge, I Was a POW, Victory, Tax Cuts, Surge, Cause Greater Than Oneself, Surge!" Since securing the nomination, he has not given many major policy addresses. One of the few that he did give involved laying out his mad confrontational foreign policy vision, which has now boiled down to vilifying Russia and sabre-rattling against Iran. A candidacy built almost entirely on the appeal of biography and character is not going to turn into a campaign that lays out a serious policy agenda. As I have noted before, the danger is that the less wonkish, less policy-oriented candidate is unfortunately the person who wins presidential elections. It is frustrating for the journalists, pundits and bloggers who follow the campaigns, but the reason why the McCain campaign's focus is inordinately on biography is that the candidate who sells himself on his biography will usually prevail over the wonk. It worked for Obama against Clinton, and it has already worked for McCain once this year. However, in a race against Obama I'm not sure that the McCain/Palin combination of biographies will be enough.
When McCain doesn't know much about policy, and the VP nominee has to be brought up to speed to be on McCain's level of policy ignorance, their speechwriters aren't going to burden them with a lot of specific details, since these might prompt questions and require the candidates to understand what they just said. When McCain does not understand that his own preferred policy of cap-and-trade involves mandatory restrictions on emissions, can't keep straight which forces Iran is supposed to be backing inside Iraq and admits that he knows little about economics, first among the many other subjects about which he knows little, what is he going to talk about? He will talk about being held captive and he will talk about reform–beautiful, nebulous, undefined reform. Not to mention drilling.


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Photo: Left and bottom, left left; Romanian, Neolithic zoomorphic head compared with artist representations of lambeosaurine dinosaurs (hadrosaurids). Click to enlarge.
Science tells us that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago and that they reigned on earth for a period beginning 230 million year ago. Science believes that dinosaurs eventually evolved into birds.
The Word of God on the other hand claims that God created the universe including earth, its flora and fauna and man- in six days. Using the Bible's history as a guide it has been calculated that the earth is less than 10,000 years old?
Which dinosaur view is correct? Dinosaur bones and fossils have been found together with other terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates and vast fossil bone yards around the globe. A number of dinosaurs have been found with recoverable red blood cells, protein and or blood vessels which only the foolish would believe could have survived more than 65 million years.
Photo: Neolithic, "zoomorphic" ceramic vase from Romania. 5,000 B.C. Uploaded by Londonconstant-Flickr. Click to Enlarge.
Many dinosaur fossils have been found with their heads thrown, their mouths wide open and their tails curled toward their heads as if in agony and as if –they had drowned (Noah's flood come to mind?).
Here at s8int.com, we thought that if the Biblical view was correct, that we should be able to find examples of these creatures that we now call dinosaurs in the art of ancient peoples. This is in fact what we have found. In the section of the site entitled Dinosaurs in Literature, History and Art, we catalog hundreds of examples.
The photo at the top of this post is of a "zoomorphic" ceramic from the Neolithic period, from Romania, Gumelni-Karanovo culture. It is estimated to have been fired in the 5th millennium B.C. or 5,000 years before Christ. "
"The Gumelni–Karanovo culture is a chalcholithic (5th millennium) culture, extending along the Black Sea coast to central Bulgaria and into Thrace. The aggregate "Gumelnita-Karanovo VI-Kodjadermen" evolves out of the earlier Boian, Marita and Karanovo V cultures. It is supplanted by Cernavod? I in the early 4th millennium." Wikipedia
These types of representations most likely would be identified by archeologists as a bird, a duck or as a "zoomorphic" (animal like) or perhaps as a mythical creature.
We note however that it bears a striking resemblance to the duck-billed dinosaurs which were among the creatures that science claims died out 65 million years ago. A number of dinosaurs have been found in Europe and in Romania including hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs. Here we compare the ancient ceramic depiction with a number of duck-billed dinosaurs.
"Hadrosaurids or duck-billed dinosaurs are members of the family Hadrosauridae, and include ornithopods such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. They were common herbivores in the Upper Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia, Europe and North America. They are descendants of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaurs and had similar body layout. They were ornithischians.
Hadrosaurids are divided into two subfamilies. The lambeosaurines (Lambeosaurinae) had hollow cranial crests or tubes, and were generally less bulky. The hadrosaurines (Hadrosaurinae) lacked hollow cranial crests (solid crests were present in some forms) and were generally larger.
The hadrosaurs are known as the duck-billed dinosaurs due to the similarity of their head to that of modern ducks. In some genera, most notably Anatotitan, the whole front of the skull was flat and broadened out to form a beak, ideal for clipping leaves and twigs from the forests of Asia, Europe and North America". ..Wikepedia
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By January, 1919, when Edward Wirt wrote this letter the First World War was over. In the summer of 1918, Wirt had been reassigned to the 18th Machine Gun Battalion of the 6th Division. The 6th became known as the "Sight Seeing Sixth" because it spent most of the war marching from position to position. Fortunately, it saw little action, losing only 227 men out of the total 20,000. Successful offensives pushed Germany out of much of France from July to November, 1918. In early November, elements of the German military mutinied and the government was forced to ask for a cease-fire. On November, 8th, 1918, the warring parties signed an Armistice that ended shooting on November 11th (at 11am). On the 9th of November the German Kaiser (Emperor) abdicated (although it was not official until November 28) and a republic was proclaimed. In all the Allied countries exuberant celebrations ensued, including the "wild manifestations of joy" in the town Wirt's fiancée lived, Greenfield, Massachusetts (as noted in the local newspaper). Despite the end of hostilities much of the U.S. army remained in France awaiting a peace treaty.
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Logs were floated down the Connecticut River to the paper mills of Holyoke beginning in the 1890s. By then Berkshire County had nearly been stripped of its pulp wood. Trees were first cut in the fall or early winter and then stripped of their limbs near where they had fallen. They were dragged by horses over the snow to frozen lakes and streams. When the thaw came the logs were floated along specially built sluices to tributaries of the Connecticut. By the time they reached the river they were heavy and sodden, having been in the water for months. The ungainly logs often jammed together into seemingly unbreakable jams. Rivermen used dynamite to break the logs free. To keep other river traffic flowing, they made booms of logs to limit them to one side of the river.
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In his new syndicated column headlined "The New Blacklist," Pat Buchanan announces that he is departing from MSNBC. He devotes much of the column to lashing out against organizations that have called for him to be held accountable for his bigoted rhetoric:
A group called Color of Change, whose mission statement says that it "exists to strengthen Black America's political voice," claimed that my book espouses a "white supremacist ideology." Color of Change took particular umbrage at the title of Chapter 4, "The End of White America."
Media Matters parroted the party line: He has blasphemed!
A Human Rights Campaign that bills itself as America's leading voice for lesbians, bisexuals, gays and transgendered people said that Buchanan's "extremist ideas are incredibly harmful to millions of LBGT people around the world."
The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and anti-Semites any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in which they seek to confine debate.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Unpackaging ERP
A business associate asked me this week whether ERP systems have simply become too big and too bloated to implement.
My answer--the easy one--is that it depends on the customer's needs. Some customers need the wide breadth of functionality that the Tier I vendors, such as SAP and Oracle, offer. But now well-known analyst Judith Hurwitz comes along and questions the whole idea of packaged ERP software. Her premise? It just doesn't exist anymore.
Hurwitz tells the story of the CIO of a large corporation that decided to replace a number of legacy applications with a major ERP system (she doesn't mention which one):The idea was correct – the company needed a system that would implement business process and best practices to support the business in a uniform and efficient manner. The problem, in my mind was two fold – first the cost. To purchase and then implement this software cost the company $500 million dollars. Obviously, a considerable part of this expense was for professional services. And maybe that is the point. The idea that a company can purchase a packaged ERP system that is really packaged software is a misnomer. In reality, packaged software is not really packaged. It is a set of tools, a set of templates and processes that are linked together based on marketing and promise. The CIO I was speaking with provided some insight into the complexity of this implementation. It required a lot more customization than anyone had anticipated. The promise of out of the box implementation was a myth. Once the customization was applied to this package, the concept of a packaged environment was gone. Therefore, it should not have come as a shock when the next time the base platform of processes and tools had to be upgraded; it cost the company an additional $50 million.Her solution? She has five recommendations, but they basically come down to this: business software should be based on software components (services) that can be can be linked together to support individual processes, configured specifically to the organization's business.
Service-Oriented Architecture
What Hurwitz describes, quite well, is the essence of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it is at the heart of SAP and Oracle's current development efforts. SAP's Netweaver is simply an SOA platform, allowing functionality to be more easily deployed and composite applications to be built on the fly. And Oracle's Fusion middleware uses SOA to integrate its newly acquired products, and SOA is the foundation of its next-generation Fusion applications.
SOA is also the core strategy of other vendors, such as Lawson, Microsoft, IFS, and many others. For example, long before SAP and Oracle announced their SOA strategies, IFS had already built its applications on a component-based architecture--beginning in the late 1990's. When you drill down into IFS Applications, what you find at the bottom is not modules and programs but processes. These processes are then linked together to support specific business processes within the application. They can also be linked by the customer into other or different processes--exactly what Hurwitz is calling for.
Lawson, another Tier II vendor, is also transitioning its application portfolio to SOA, using its Landmark development environment, featuring domain-specific specific languages. The vendor has already released some functionality built on Landmark, including some HR and strategic sourcing applications, and it is working on others.
Microsoft is also incorporating SOA in its Dynamics line of ERP systems, and even Infor is claiming use of SOA as part of its strategy to link the many products in its portfolio.
An evolution in ERP
In years past, the winning vendor was the one that could check the most boxes on the customer's RFP. Today, many vendors can check most if not all of the boxes (though "how" vendors meet requirements often differs). The result is software that has enormous functionality but requires thousands of decisions to implement, especially in large companies. Today, customers have heard all the war stories, and they do not have an appetite for large, complex, risky, implementations--especially in today's economic climate. Speed, simplicity, and flexibility are the attributes that appeal to buyers today. Of course, the key requirements still need to be met. But the question to the buyer often comes down to, which system can we implement quickly and more easily?
The short-term approach of most vendors has been to simplify implementation through preconfiguring their systems for specific industries and so-called best business practices. SAP's approach is its "All-in-One" offerings. Oracle's is through use of "implementation accelerators." Both vendors have good references to demonstrate the success of their approaches, especially with small and midsize firms. These efforts are commendable.
But ultimately, the real answer is to transition completely to service-orientation--both by vendors and by customers. The good news is that most ERP vendors are already in this transition to, in effect, unpackage ERP. The transition will not be rapid, but it is taking place.
Update, Oct. 31. Floyd Teter gives his take on Judith's analysis. Floyd thinks there is a risk inherent with SOA--organizational stovepipes--and suggests social networking as a solution.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Oracle layoffs, October 2008?
[Please see the more recent post on Oracle layoffs in November.]
Over the past two days, there are a significant number of search engine hits against the Spectator, searching phrases such as "Oracle layoffs," including some from within Oracle's own domain. Which generally makes me think that there may be a reduction in force (RIF) in process.
The number of such searches have increased today.
If you have any insights or experience, please email me, or leave a comment on this post.
Update, Oct. 24. The search engine referrals continue, including words such as layoff, firings, and pay cuts. It could be just rumors or gossip.
Update, Nov. 17. Search engine referrals increased sharply last week and continue. I am convinced that there were reductions in headcounts last week. The one comment on this post, dated 11/17 is consistent with this view.by Frank Scavo, 10/21/2008 04:35:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Monday, October 20, 2008
SAP maintenance fees: where is the value?
Vinnie Mirchandani continues to hammer away on his theme that software vendor maintenance fees represent "empty calories" in the IT budget. In a post today, he revisits SAP's recent hike in maintenance fees to 22% of the software license cost.
His basic argument is two-fold. First, SAP's contention--that customers will save on testing costs by using SAP's Solution Manager to apply new enhancements--is bogus. He writes:For a vendor which has made a ton of money selling Governance, Risk and Compliance the last few years, it is a naive statement at best. SAP is not the arbiter of what gets tested, in what regression sequence etc. There are plenty of auditors, quality assurance employees and outside experts who make that decision. And even if Leo is correct, it will take 3-4 years for early adopters to test the premise, share results before it is propagated across the customer base and there is material impact on TCO.Second, SAP should be lowering maintenance fees, not raising them.Then there is SAP's own cost base. They have offshored some of the support. There is more automation - more customers get self-service support answers through knowledge bases. Their community is handling many routine support questions (and customers are funding that community, not SAP). In the spirit of rollbacks, SAP support costs should have been declining for the last several years.Read Vinnie's entire post for more.
SAP knows that only too well. SAP offered Oracle customers cut-rate maintenance through its TomorrowNow unit, but steadfastly told its own customers they did not deserve a similar, low-touch offering.
Dennis Howlett also has an excellent analysis of co-CEO Leo Apotheker's TechEd keynote, which included defense of SAP's price hike. Needless to say, Dennis is not convinced.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
SAP denies it is cutting spending on IT
SAP is trying to counter blogger reports earlier this week that it is cutting back on its own internal spending on IT.
On Tuesday, Ben Worthen at the Wall Street Journal posted portions of an internal SAP email in which co-CEOs Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker appeared to be ordering SAP employees to cut back on IT spending. I followed up with a quick blog entry calling attention to Worthen's post. A number of other tech bloggers did the same.
The excerpt from SAP's internal email seemed clear enough:We will review all planned investments in IT equipment, hardware, software, facilities, and company cars, as well as internal IT projects....Do not order any new equipment at this time.But today SAP wrote Worthen, to deny that it is cutting IT spending. Worthen today reports:On Thursday, Herbert Heitmann, the head of SAP's global communications, wrote us to let us know that our post "suggests an inaccurate portrait of our management decisions about cost savings while maintaining strategic investments into our own IT." SAP is not halting its own tech spending, he wrote. Instead, the company "continues to make strategic investments in IT projects that directly impact our ability to grow our business globally and that assure we can provide world-class services to our customers," Heitmann wrote. Furthermore, "we expect our customers and prospects to continue strategic IT spending over the next months, while somewhat narrowing their focus more to IT projects that deliver quick returns."So which is it? If this were not a tech company, the answer wouldn't be a big deal. But the last thing SAP wants to do is, by its own actions, encourage the idea that IT spending should be cut.
Cutting costs in non-customer facing areas, he wrote "is what management is expected to do in times of uncertainty. Our call on employees to stop ordering "new equipment" for standard IT infrastructure like cell phones, photo copies, printers, laptops, etc. as well as an appropriate review of all planned investments and projects is a prudent and necessary step.
"We've even asked our CIO to identify strategic IT projects that would help us to optimize SAP's business processes."
Unfortunately, that's what seems to be happening. Our survey now running at Computer Economics shows a significant percentage of IT organizations deferring the start of new projects in light of current economic conditions.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
SAP in expense-cutting mode
SAP is joining Oracle, Epicor, Sage, Infor and other enterprise systems vendors in cutting back expenses in light of current economic conditions. SAP's action also follows its announcement of disappointing Q3 earnings.
Ben Worthen at the Wall Street Journal got hold of an internal email to SAP staff from co-CEOs Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker, and it outlines a number of immediate actions that SAP is taking to cut costs. Worthen quotes portions from the email:There is a complete headcount and hiring freeze, and all existing job vacancies will be canceled. This includes any temporary workers, interns, and students. There will be no replacements for employees leaving SAP. No internal transfers may take place. Only those written offers sent to a candidate and/or internal transfers agreed to on or before October 7, 2008, will go forward.Worthen finds it ironic that--in spite of the public position of many in the technology industry that organizations will continue to spend on IT to become more efficient in the current economic client--SAP is cutting IT spending:
Since we are not hiring, all engagement with external recruiters must cease immediately. We will discontinue engagement with management consultants and evaluate the impact this has on ongoing projects. Until further notice, all external training is to be canceled. Internal meetings must be held within SAP buildings, and you cannot rent external conference facilities for this purpose.
Cease ALL internal non-customer-facing travel in October…Any non-customer-facing travel already booked should be canceled immediately, even if this incurs penalties.We will review all planned investments in IT equipment, hardware, software, facilities, and company cars, as well as internal IT projects....Do not order any new equipment at this time.Over at Computer Economics, we're running a short survey to evaluate the impact of current economic conditions on the outlook for IT spending and staffing. If you'd like to participate in the survey and get a free copy of the results you can take the survey now.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
ERP support costs: the offshore model
Vinnie Mirchandani has a good post on ERP total cost of ownership (TCO), referencing our Computer Economics study on ERP support staffing ratios. Vinnie and I have been corresponding on this subject.
He also points out the role of offshore service providers in ERP support. Although they have been able to demonstrate their ability to deliver some ERP support functions in an offshore model, the cost advantage of offshore resources has been mitigated due to cost escalation.One way to manage that cost in the last few years had been to use offshore firms. In the run-up to Y2K they showed themselves adept at transitioning knowledge on a number of relatively steady, legacy custom developed apps. They have since extended that capability to ERP support, particularly around SAP and Oracle applications. But with the currency and wage inflation most Indian firms have experienced in the last couple of years, that support cost is re-emerging as an area that deserves significant CIO attention - and, of course analyst and blogger scrutiny.If the cost-advantage of offshore providers is lessening (and Vinnie is in a position to know), it makes support optimization all the more important.
Our original study on ERP support staffing ratios examined and quantified the primary drivers of support costs--multiple ERP systems, instances, and versions, along with extent of modification and other factors. Simply minimizing salaries or hourly rates will not have as great an effect on support costs as optimizing these drivers. It's a tougher job, but worth doing.by Frank Scavo, 10/13/2008 08:23:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Impact of current economic conditions on IT spending and staffing
Over at Computer Economics, we've just launched a new survey concerning the impact of current economic conditions on the outlook for IT spending and staffing. The data collected in this survey will be analyzed and published by Computer Economics in a research update in November 2008.
If you are qualified to answer the questions in this survey, and you fully complete the survey, we will send you a FREE copy of the final report, which will otherwise only be available to our subscribers or on a pay-per-view basis ($95).
Note to Consultants and Vendors: This survey is intended only for IT departments in companies with at least U.S. $50 million in annual revenue. If you are a consultant or technology vendor, please do not answer on behalf of your own organization, but refer this survey to an IT executive in one of your client organizations.by Frank Scavo, 10/11/2008 11:25:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Speaking at APICS Orange County: ERP Support Staffing Ratios
On a personal note, I'll be speaking at the APICS Orange County professional development meeting Wednesday night, October 15, 2008, on the subject of Optimizing ERP Support Staffing Ratios.
From the presentation abstract:The cost of supporting an ERP system goes far beyond the vendor's maintenance fees. The largest part of ERP total cost of ownership (TCO) is the cost of internal resources, such as applications programmers, DBAs, business analysts, administrative personnel, help desk support, and other technical support staff. This presentation provides typical staffing ratios for key ERP support positions, based on number of users and other factors, such as extent of modifications. Recommendations for improving ERP staff productivity will also be provided.If you are in the Southern California area, come on by!
More information is on the APICS Orange County website.
This is a presentation of a study we completed earlier this year at Computer Economics, with the help of many Spectator readers. If you can't make the presentation, you can purchase the study, ERP Support Staffing Ratios, on the Computer Economics website. There's also a free executive summary there.by Frank Scavo, 10/10/2008 02:36:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Oracle acquires leader in project management systems
Oracle's acquisition program continued this week with its acquisition of Primavera, one of the leading providers of software for project management and project portfolio management. Primavera claims 5000 customers worldwide.
Primavera is fairly well known. Its project management offerings are often viewed as a higher end alternative to Microsoft Project. Though they certainly can be used in this way, as a standalone tool for managing individual projects or groups of projects sharing common resources, the value to Oracle goes far beyond this limited use.
Although Oracle does have some good project-based functionality in its E-Business Suite, addition of Primavera really bolsters its offerings. However, the value will not be fully realized until Oracle integrates Primavera with its core ERP products. Oracle's announcements on the deal clearly show that this is the goal.
For organizations that are project-based, such as engineering and construction, public sector, aerospace and defense, and engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturers, there is a great need to integrate project management with ERP. For example, for a true ETO manufacturer, the project schedule is (or should be) the master production schedule. Requirements for material, labor, outside services, and other resources are directly tied to the work breakdown structure. ERP systems based on a traditional MRP approach simply do not work.
Project-based organizations are relatively under-served by enterprise system vendors today, so Oracle no doubt sees a market opportunity. SAP has a strong presence in certain of these industries, such as energy and public utilities. IFS does a very good job in this sector as well, though its presence in Europe is greater than in the U.S. Baan used to be strong in this sector, though since its acquisition by SSA, and now Infor (renamed ERP LN), it is not being well represented. Other players, such as Glovia and Encompix (now owned by Consona), have the functionality but lack the scale.
So, the question is, how quickly will Oracle be able to fully integrate Primavera to work "seamlessly" with E-Business Suite? As noted recently, many vendor attempts to integrate disparate products wind up with a lot of seams. Oracle has the resources to do it right, and hopefully it will. But don't expect it to happen overnight.
There's more information on Oracle's vision for Primavera on Oracle's website.
Vinnie Mirchandani likes the deal.
Brian Sommer has a good post on the PM software space, what the deal might mean for Oracle, and for Primavera customers.
Update, Oct. 19. Brian Sommer has an another excellent analysis of Oracle's acquisition of Primavera, the competitive landscape, and recommendations for organizations looking at a project portfolio management system these days.
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Layoffs in Oracle Consulting unit
A friend of mine reports layoffs on September 5 in Oracle's North America consulting unit. The reduction in force included 140 implementers specializing in Siebel, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and Hyperion products.
I can't seem to find any announcements or news reports on this small number of firings, but I have no doubt about the accuracy of this report.
He says that principal consultants appear to be hit the hardest, including some with high utilization rates.
Oracle's layoffs are baffling. Senior consultants with Oracle experience are reportedly in short supply. If Oracle's sales are as robust as Oracle says they are, they should be hiring such people, not firing them. Perhaps this is an early warning that Oracle sees softness in its new sales pipeline, and without cutting headcount it knows that consultant utilization will fall. In professional services, utilization is the key to profitability.
If you have direct knowledge or insight on this situation, please leave a comment or drop me an email.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
SAP under the spotlight for "broken promises"
Ray Wang, a Forrester analyst, is speaking out on what he calls SAP's broken promises to customers. Ray is conducting a webinar this Thursday on the subject, and Dennis Howlett got Ray's permission to use his blog to comment on some of Ray's slides.
Ray (and Dennis) really lowers the boom on SAP, summing up a number of complaints from SAP customers concerning unilateral hikes in maintenance fees, lack of integration, constant pressure to buy more software, and aggressive sales tactics. His analysis is backed up by a Forrester survey of over 200 SAP customers.
Dennis comments:Ray sets the backdrop by describing the partnership vision SAP customers have bought into. That includes:I won't reproduce all of Ray's and Dennis's points here, because I won't do them justice. Read Dennis's summary for yourself. If you want the entire story, you'll need to register for Ray's webinar this Thursday.
He then goes on to show how most of those promises have been broken...
- SAP would deliver an integrated suite of solutions
- Maintenance and support fees would be reinvested to fill out the gaps on the product roadmap
- SAP would not 'rape and pillage' the customer like other ERP vendors of the day
Update 1:27 p.m. Vinnie Mirchandani is blowing the same horn. He also points out that in many respects Oracle is no better than SAP.
Update, Oct 11: Forrester is allowing free download of Ray's entire slide deck. Good move, Forrester! Visit this Forrester page and click the link on the upper right to download Ray's slides.
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Monday, October 06, 2008
IT spending pull-back: SAP warns on Q3 earnings
In what may be an early sign of cuts in IT spending, SAP is warning that its Q3 results will be below the firm's previous forecast. In the announcement, Henning Kagerman, SAP's co-CEO said:The market developments of the past several weeks have been dramatic and worrying to many businesses. These concerns triggered a very sudden and unexpected drop in business activity at the end of the quarter. Throughout the third quarter we felt quite positive about our ability to meet our expectations. Unfortunately, SAP was not immune from the economic and financial crisis that has enveloped the markets in the second half of September, causing us to report numbers below our expectations.Keep in mind, however, that SAP's revenue is not actually shrinking--just not growing as much as it previously forecast. SAP said that it expects non-GAAP revenue to increase of 16% - 17% compared to the third quarter of 2007.
Dennis Howlett quotes Kagermann during an analyst conference call accompanying the announcement:Many customers felt the need to focus on shorter term concerns and put planned IT investments on hold for now. There was some hesitation on software purchases where financing was an issue. No company including SAP is immune from a sudden and serious economic downturn....We are not cutting out or downsizing, that would be too extreme at this time but we are in preparedeness mode....We remain in the middle of the range of our guidance for software and software related revenues.SAP's warning will likely be followed by similar announcements from other enterprise system vendors. The easiest thing for buyers to do during times of economic crisis is to defer major spending decisions. ERP, CRM, and other enterprise system acquisitions are big ticket items. So far as other types of IT spending--hardware, services, infrastructure software--is pulled through by application software sales, IT spending overall is likely to decline.
Our analysis at Computer Economics earlier this year showed more organizations increasing IT spending in 2008 than decreasing. However, in light of the current situation, all bets are off. We hope to have a new projection in the next few weeks, and my guess is that it will show a severe drop off in IT spending intentions.
Update, Oct. 7. A Spectator reader wrote me this morning on a key point that I missed. He points out that SAP's announcement does not indicate how much of its Q3 revenue is from Business Objects, which was not part of SAP in 2007 Q3. So, SAP's revenue growth is certainly not 16-17%. Frankly, I think it is a little misleading on SAP's part to warn on quarterly results on not give the entire picture.
Update, Oct. 7. An article in Datamation points out that there could be an uptick in some IT spending as a result of the many mergers and acquisitions currently taking place in the financial sector. It postulates that consultants and systems integrators serving this sector may see increased demand for services as organizations are unlikely to have sufficient headcount for the integration effort. But I'm not buying it. The combined firms will likely have excess IT headcount that they would otherwise terminate. Any increase in integration projects just means that fewer of them will be laid off.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Epicor facing unfriendly takeover bid
Elliott Associates and Elliott International LP, which together own over 10% of Epicor's outstanding shares, are making an unsolicted bid for Epicor. The $9.50-per-share bid is over 20% higher than Epicor's price prior to the news and values Epicor at about $566 million.
Who are the Elliotts? They are hedge funds--private investment groups that put money to work in any number of investment types, such as equity shares, debt instruments, precious metals, real estate -- even art collections. (The name "hedge fund" comes from the fact that these groups often use short-selling and other means to hedge downside risks in their investments).
Here's an interesting description of the Elliotts' business:Elliott means action: Hedge fund firm Elliott Management takes an activist approach to investing, frequently amassing significant but minority stakes in distressed or underperforming companies and attempting to foment change. It manages hedge funds Elliott Associates and Elliott International, which together manage some $10 billion of capital for large institutional investors and wealthy individuals and families. Elliott Associates invests in corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt, with investments in North America, Asia, and Europe. Founded by Paul Singer in 1977, Elliott Associates is one of the oldest hedge funds under continuous management.In other words, these guys are financial players, not a software company. They have a history of buying into technology companies with the intention of selling them to someone else:
- Earlier this year, the Elliotts bought 5.5% of MSC Software, which develops engineering and simulation systems--based in Santa Ana, CA, just down the highway from Epicor's headquarters in Irvine (which is around the corner from my office, by the way). Elliott promptly told MSC that it should consider "strategic alternatives," including a sale.
You get the picture.
- In March, the Elliotts also bought a stake in Packeteer, a developer of telecom equipment and WAN optimization products. It then offered to buy the whole thing, but failed in its takeover attempt.
The pattern is similar with Epicor. The Elliots recently bought 10% of Epicor and, true to form, were talking about forcing a sale. But it is doubtful that the most likely buyers (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft) would be interested in Epicor. SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft generally buy software companies that have specific products filling niche functions or serving specific industries. Epicor does not fit that description--it is a diverse collection of products that itself has acquired over the past decade. Sort of a mini-Infor.
So now the Elliotts are offering to buy all of Epicor, and Epicor is resisting. But what would the Elliotts do with Epicor, assuming they get it? They could sell it to Infor, except that if Infor wanted Epicor, it could have made an offer a long time ago. Or, the Elliotts could use Epicor as a "platform" to roll up other smaller vendors. Except that's what Epicor has been doing for the past decade--so how would the Elliott's strategy be different?
Regardless, Epicor's investors must be happy right now. Epicor's share price rose 13% on the news of Elliott's offer. Not bad in this market.
No word on how Epicor's customers are reacting to the news. If you are an Epicor client, let me know or leave a comment on this post.
Ned Lilly gives his analysis of the deal.
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Layoffs at Infor and Sage
Update: news on Infor layoff on Dec. 9-10, 2008
Update: news on Sage layoff on Dec. 2, 2008.
The enterprise software market, which has so far held up surprisingly well in the current economy, may finally be taking some hits. There are two back-to-back emails in my inbox this morning tipping me off on layoffs at Infor as well as Sage in the UK.
The first source, regarding Infor, reports that Bob Aldworth, SVP of Finance (Revenue) is now gone. Infor reportedly also laid off one-third of the distribution sales team and 12% of the CRM development team. He indicates that it is not clear "whether this is just business contraction or due to balance sheet issues from a delayed public offering."
The second source says that Sage in the UK recently "laid off a significant number of staff in their mid-market business (formerly Tetra.)" He claims that Sage is performing poorly among companies in the £1M-$100M space and is losing deals in this space to SAP, Microsoft, and others.
I do not have confirmation of these two items, although the first source is known to me and has connections within Infor.
These reports follow news of layoffs at Epicor in August. No word on reductions at SAP and Oracle, which appear to be holding up well so far. If you have news on other vendors, please let me know.
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Maybe the soccer part isn't for everyone but for Lipscomb's Ethan Summers and Omar Djabi, the summer months have been filled with soccer at the highest levels.
Summers is playing in the Premier Development League (PDL) for the Ogden Outlaws, while Djabi has been in Alabama with the Rocket City United of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL). The summer leagues, which run from late April into mid-July in some cases, take select players from various colleges around the country and put them together in a professionally-structured environment that aids players who want to play professionally after college.
For Summers, this was his fifth stint playing PDL ball. After being held out of action the entire 2011 college soccer season, Summers used his summer ball experience to get back into top form as he gears up for his senior season.
"It was good to get back in the flow and play every week," Summers said. "Getting back on that schedule and playing consistently will be huge for me as we head into the fall."
Summers was a captain and elder statesman for the Outlaws. On the flip side, Djabi was the youngest player on his team. The 18-year old from Franklin often went up against players that were 25- or 26-years old, yet still showed enough poise and promise to make eight appearances and six starts.
"Being the youngest was hard to get used to," Djabi said. "I had to work harder to prove to the team and coaches that I had what it took to be on the field. With everyone fighting for a spot, the level of competition was really high."
Competition was fierce, with players constantly vying for the 18 roster spots for each game.
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Djabi, who was a freshman last season, agrees.
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Andy took GM?!?!?I'm still in shock over here.
Quote from: HurricaneHowieWood on September 18, 2013, 09:17:58 PM Andy took GM?!?!?I'm still in shock over here. Me too I hope Andy just cost himself a halfmillion dollarsfrom your lips to the higher power's ears!!!
They should have made GM wear her helmet. She could fall off that scale and get hurt.
Give GM the money so she can get therapy!
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