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What began as a simple idea earlier last week blossomed into a sight to see Sunday afternoon at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel. A small group of servers at The Western Door: A Seneca Steakhouse learned about "Goin' Bald for Bucks" - a fundraising program through Roswell Park Cancer Institute - and decided to take part.
Cancer particularly "hit home" for them, as a former manager and a co-worker's 1-year-old daughter are affected. As word spread, so did the participants and the donations.
Altogether, 15 Seneca team members from throughout the casino - including six women - took part in Sunday's event, which was held at The Spa & Salon. Donations began coming in just a few days ago, but were already past a total of $5,000 as of Sunday afternoon.
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Tonight's game with the Dodgers has been rained out and will be made up tomorrow as part of a single-admission double header, starting at 4 p.m. Johan Santana goes in the first game and Oliver Perez in the second.
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When we think of style, a handful of surfers immediately come to mind. Even on tiny days like this one, Erin Ashley makes it look effortless as she quickly cross-steps to the nose for a ten. For those of you who are wondering what all the black specks are flashing across the screen, I was literally sitting in a freeway of flies. While Worm was out cruising, I was being attacked by insects. Single Wave Thursday. One ride, no music, just surfing.
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Giants' relievers battered in loss to Nats
WASHINGTON -- The Giants' bullpen has remained extremely reliable. That's not the same as being perfect.
Because San Francisco's relievers are human and fallible, a collapse such as Sunday's was bound to occur sooner or later. It also was certain to be inconvenient, as the Washington Nationals demonstrated by roaring past the Giants, 14-6.View Full Game Coverage
WASHINGTON -- The Giants' bullpen has remained extremely reliable. That's not the same as being perfect.
Because San Francisco's relievers are human and fallible, a collapse such as Sunday's was bound to occur sooner or later. It also was certain to be inconvenient, as the Washington Nationals demonstrated by roaring past the Giants, 14-6.View Full Game Coverage
The Giants absorbed their largest margin of defeat this season. And none of them could anticipate this. They led, 6-2, before the Nationals scored 12 runs in their final three at-bats. A six-run sixth inning, featuring five consecutive hits off top setup reliever Jeremy Affeldt, began Washington's rally.
"I take full responsibility for that game," said Affeldt, explaining that his fastball lacked its usual movement. "My sinker didn't sink. I wasn't throwing it the way I was supposed to throw it. Ground balls found holes. Fly balls dropped. That's going to happen when you don't hit your spots."
Until then, the Giants appeared bound for a stirring victory. Their lively offense forced Stephen Strasburg, Washington's talented right-hander, to depart after four innings. The Giants appeared destined to secure their first series conquest against an above-.500 team since they won three of four games May 29-June 1 at St. Louis.
Though Giants manager Bruce Bochy felt compelled to remove starter Ryan Vogelsong with one out in the sixth, he wasn't worried. According to Bochy's plan, Affeldt, who hadn't pitched since Thursday, would be able to last two innings. Depending on matchups, Sergio Romo, Javier Lopez or both would work the eighth, followed by closer Santiago Casilla in the ninth.
With a bullpen sporting a Major League-best 1.89 ERA since the All-Star break, the Giants had every reason to feel confident. But this was one of those occasions where anticipation clashed with reality.
What might have been the most critical moment of that sixth inning had nothing to do with Affeldt, who allowed hits to all five batters he faced, or right-hander Jean Machi, who entered the game with the score tied, 6-6, before yielding back-to-back, two-out RBI singles to Jayson Werth and Adam LaRoche.
A portion of the postgame focus fell on Bochy's removal of Vogelsong, who ceded the mound to Affeldt after Ian Desmond homered with one out for the inning's first run. Bochy reasoned that Vogelsong, who had thrown 95 pitches, was almost spent, contrasting with the fresh Affeldt, who had a history of success against several of the Nats' hitters.
"I'll take those matchups every time," Bochy said. "They just didn't work out today."
Vogelsong clearly wanted to stay in the game. But he stopped short of questioning Bochy's decision.
"That's his job," Vogelsong said. "Did I feel physically good enough to keep pitching? Yeah. But that's his call."
When it was suggested to Vogelsong that he might try informing Bochy of his desire to work deeper into games, the right-hander replied, "We've been around long enough now that he knows what I'm about and he knows I don't want to come out."
Misfortune ensued once Vogelsong vanished. Left fielder Michael Morse broke hesitantly for Bryce Harper's line drive, which fell for a double. Shortstop Brandon Crawford temporarily saved a run by diving to smother Asdrubal Cabrera's grounder up the middle, but that left runners at the corners. Harper scored on a wild pitch and Cabrera came home on Jose Lobaton's single, trimming San Francisco's edge to 6-5.
Up came pinch-hitter Scott Hairston, a longtime Giants nemesis who has more home runs (14) against San Francisco than any other club. This time he settled for a double, chasing in Lobaton with the tying run.
Denard Span's infield single finished Affeldt. The Giants received a break when Machi picked off Span at first base, but Anthony Rendon walked to prolong the inning for the big hits by Werth and LaRoche.
Washington added a seventh-inning run off Javier Lopez on consecutive two-out singles by Lobaton, pinch-hitter Danny Espinosa and Span. Juan Gutierrez gave up five runs in the eighth, including two-run homers by Harper and Espinosa.
All that wiped out San Francisco's encouraging effort against Strasburg, who gave up five runs -- matching the total he allowed the Giants in 25 innings spanning four previous starts.
Replacing stiff-legged center fielder Angel Pagan, Gregor Blanco homered to begin the game before tripling and scoring in the sixth. Travis Ishikawa homered in the second inning and added a sacrifice fly during a three-run third. Every Giants position player hit safely by the end of the fifth inning.
"I feel for them," Bochy said, "because we played so well early."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.


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Diageo to pay $2 billion for stake in Indian distiller
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Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker Scotch, will buy a 53.4 percent stake in India's United Spirits for 111.7 billion rupees ($2.04 billion) to gain leadership in the world's largest whiskey-consuming nation.
The British distiller will acquire a 27.4 percent stake at 1,440 rupees per share and will make a tender offer for 26 percent of United Spirits, the companies said Friday. They first disclosed that they were in discussions in September.
United Spirits Chairman Vijay Mallya and others are selling a 19.3 percent stake in the maker of McDowell's No. 1 whiskey as his Kingfisher Airlines struggles with a cash shortage. The Indian distiller has a leading 43 percent share of the country's whiskey market, which Euromonitor International estimates will grow by about 50 percent to $31.1 billion in the five years through 2016.
Diageo, which already sells its Johnnie Walker whiskey and Smirnoff vodka brands in India, will benefit from United Spirits' distribution network and the company's experience with negotiating complex rules that govern India's liquor business, according to P. Phani Sekhar, a fund manager with Angel Broking.
"The liquor business is a very high entry-barrier business because of the state-level regulations," he said. "This business has been cracked by Mr. Mallya over a period of time."
Diageo, which has its North America headquarters in Wilton, is paying about 20 times United Spirits earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the period ended March 31, 2012, it said. That compares with a median of about 17 times for comparable transactions in the last 10 years.
"If you look at emerging-market transactions in the consumer space, this multiple is not out of line," Diageo Chief Financial Officer Deirdre Mahlan said on a conference call Friday. "There is no doubt that India is one of the most exciting, if not the most exciting market in Asia. So the multiple reflects the value we can deliver."
The price is "high, but it's not outrageous," said Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
Diageo is seeking growth in markets outside Europe, as part of its plan to get half of its net sales from developing markets by 2015. The distiller is keen to make acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region, Gilbert Ghostine, president for the region, said in an Oct. 1 interview. The company gets about 14 percent of sales from Asia-Pacific and is "on-track" to raise emerging-markets revenue to 50 percent from 40 percent, he said then.
"This business has already got very good brands, and its got very good routes to market," said Diageo Chief Executive Officer Paul Walsh in a Bloomberg TV interview. "But I do believe we can step up our expertise in marketing, in innovation and at the right time we can leverage those routes to markets for our global brands."
Diageo had only 0.1 percent of the Indian whiskey market in 2011, behind Pernod Ricard's 15 percent, Euromonitor said.
The British company has no plan to take its ownership of United Spirits to 100 percent or to integrate the businesses, Mahlan said on the call. "Given that we are acquiring a distinct and separate business, there is not a significant amount of cost synergies," she said.
Prior to this agreement, Diageo had announced 12 deals valued at $2.87 billion over the last three years, including Turkey's Mey Icki raki brand for about $2.1 billion last year. Walsh said Friday he would still like to gain control of tequila brand Jose Cuervo.
"In the last couple years this company has become much more acquisitive and people will have to say that that is a good thing," said Chris Wickham, an analyst at Oriel Securities.


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If you were walking in the countryside would you throw your rubbish on the floor or wait for a bin?
This short film gives you an insight into the huge operation that takes place to keep the Glastonbury site clean during the Festival. Every can or plastic bottle that goes into the recycling bins gets sorted by hand, by our dedicated recycling team in the green barn close to the farm.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Junior Mints Deluxe
I'm keen on the combination of dark chocolate and mint. I'd say that there's nothing better, but then avid readers will probably find instances where I've said the same about the combination of chocolate and peanut butter and probably orange and chocolate and probably pretzels and chocolate.
There have been a few new versions of Junior Mints, including the Inside Out, Junior Mints Pastels and Heart Shaped Junior Mints over the past few years. They didn't mess with the peppermint flavor or the proportions of the elements. Instead they messed with the chocolate element.
The new Junior Mints Deluxe are jumbo sized. They're the same size as Cella's Chocolate Covered Cherries, which are also made by Tootsie. At the top of the chocolate shell are the initials JM.
They're two bites big (about a half an ounce each) and the soft fondant center flows quickly if you don't tip it up quickly after biting it open. The chocolate shell is thick and dark but is pretty sweet. It doesn't have that waxy shellac that Junior Mints usually have.
I really liked the flavor of the huge reservoir of the fondant center. It was intensely minty, so much that it cut through what would ordinarily be very sweet. The large two bite version can be messy and I haven't quite gotten the hang of it. I suspect popping the whole thing in the mouth at once is the way to go, but I can't resist looking at the innards.
Again, there is the issue of proportions here, I think this is a little off for my tastes with the gooey center, but if you're a fan of the gooey center, this may be your new favorite. They should be available in stores after Halloween. This box comes with 12 in it and weighs 6 ounces. There are no dairy or egg products in this (though may be processed on equipment that comes in contact with milk) so it may be suitable for liberal vegans.
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Three months after unauthorized comments to media about Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering forced him to step down as a Citigroup analyst, Mark Mahaney is back.
Mahaney, one of the better-known analysts covering the Internet industry, has been named a managing director at RBC Capital Markets in charge of the broker's Internet coverage.
"His long history of unparalleled buyside relationships and insightful analysis of the Internet sector is second to none," Marc Harris, RBC Capital's co-head of global research said Monday in a statement.
Mahaney was one of two Citigroup analysts who lost their jobs for disclosing non-public information related to the Facebook IPO in May 2012.
Citigroup also was fined $2 million by the Massachusetts Securities Division for having "failed to prevent to detect the written disclosure of material, nonpublic research information in a restricted period before the Facebook IPO," according to a consent order.
Citigroup was one of the underwriters of the Facebook IPO. But on May 2, two weeks before the company went public, a junior analyst emailed an employee at the tech-media site TechCrunch to share apparently nonpublic information, according to the consent order.
"I am ramping up coverage on FB and thought you guys might like to see how the street is thinking about it (and our estimates)," the email read. The analyst added, "This, of course, is confidential."
The Facebook IPO became controversial after the stock plummeted after the company went public. The stock has recovered, but is still down more than 20% from its initial price of $38. The stock was last trading up 1.8% at $29.27.
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VPGMarketResearch.com's new report is a five-country strategic analysis of the major business opportunities emerging in the automated microbiology market during the next five years. The report examines key trends in major European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK); reviews current and emerging assays; analyzes potential applications of innovative diagnostic technologies; forecasts volume and sales for molecular diagnostic, microbial identification, antibiotic susceptibility, blood culture, urine screening and immunodiagnostic procedures, as well as over 100 infectious disease tests by assay, application, market segment, and country; profiles leading players and potential market entrants; and suggests alternative business expansion strategies for suppliers.
The level of automation in the microbiology laboratory has been lagging behind that of other major clinical laboratory segments, such as chemistry and hematology. The slow acceptance of the technology is in part due to the complexity of developing automation suitable for microbiology tests.
The introduction of automated microbiology instrumentation has been delayed by a number of intrinsic and technical problems. The diffusion of automated microbiology systems, once the technology was developed, has not matched that of other automated laboratory technologies. The acquisition of automation in microbiology has been slowed by forces less easily identifiable than the effects of various reimbursement plans. Some laboratorians still believe that current instrumentation is not the ultimate technology and expect better automation on the horizon.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Lunch on the deck yesterday
Nothing spectacular this week (we're trying to get our garden in and do some hardcore cleaning and organizing in the house!). I'm working on some interesting stuff for future blogs, though! It was a beautiful day yesterday (unlike today!), so we ate out on the back deck, shaded by our wild plum tree. The menu was simple-- a salad and Ryvita crackers with Tofu Eggless Salad.
For some reason I was craving "Egg" Salad-- not always my favorite food as an omni. I have a recipe from one of my first books, but I improved on it a few years ago, and I had a further idea to improve it yesterday. Below is the result, and I was quite happy with it. We had it on rye crackers, but it's delicious in raw bell pepper "cups", on celery sticks or cucumber rounds, on firm, dark pumpernickel bread squares (see my homemade dark Dutch pumpernickel recipe), or in sandwiches (firm white bread with the crusts cut off?).
Our salad was a version of one I found on the internet, using up some veggies that needed using-- asparagus, broccoli, and radishes. It's supposed to serve 3 people, but the 2 of us ate the whole thing!
I decided to use extra-firm silken tofu instead of medium-firm regular tofu, but instead of mashing all of the tofu, kept back 3/4 cup (1/2 a box) of it and cut it into tiny cubes to give the texture of hard-cooked egg whites.
Printable Recipe
Yield: 3 cups
This is delicious not only on sandwiches, but on crackers and celery sticks. It is also good in stuffed small tomatoes or wide strips of raw bell pepper.
18.45 oz. (1 1/2 boxes) extra-firm silken tofu
2/3 cup vegan mayonnaise (I use my Low-fat Eggless Mayonnaise, but you can use Reduced-Fat Veganaise or Spectrum Naturals Eggless, Vegan Light Canola Mayonnaise instead)
1 green onion, finely-minced
1 stalk celery, finely-minced
1 1/2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
1/2 tablespoon cider vinegar
1/2 tablespoon turmeric
3/4 teaspoon salt (or Indian "black salt" for a more "egg-y" flavor)
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon garlic granules
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 cup hand-chopped red bell pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried dillweed OR 1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh dillweed
OR whatever herbs and seasonings take your fancy!
Open and drain the tofu. Crumble 1 box of tofu (12.3 ounces) into a bowl and mash coarsely with a fork. Cut the remaining tofu into 1/4" cubes and set aside.
Add the remaining ingredients (EXCEPT for the tofu cubes) to the mashed tofu and fold until well-combined. Fold in the tofu cubes and mix gently. Cover and refrigerate. The mixture firms up when chilled.
Nutrition Facts (using my homemade Low-fat Eggless Mayonnaise):
Nutrition (per 1/4 cup): 52.5 calories; 43% calories from fat; 2.6g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 233.9mg sodium; 128.8mg potassium; 3.5g carbohydrates; 0.6g fiber; 1.1g sugar; 2.8g net carbs; 4.2g protein; 1.1 points.
Nutrition Facts Using Reduced-Fat Vegenaise:
Nutrition (per 1/4 cup): 73.0 calories; 63% calories from fat; 5.5g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 231.3mg sodium; 118.4mg potassium; 3.2g carbohydrates; 0.5g fiber; 1.1g sugar; 2.7g net carbs; 3.9g protein; 1.8 points.
Nutrition Facts using Spectrum Naturals Eggless, Vegan Light Canola Mayo:
Nutrition (per 1/4 cup): 63.8 calories; 57% calories from fat; 4.1g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 203.8mg sodium; 118.4mg potassium; 3.2g carbohydrates; 0.5g fiber; 1.1g sugar; 2.7g net carbs; 3.9g protein; 1.5 points.
I veganized this recipe and cut the oil down from 3 tablespoons to 1 tablespoon. I had no shallots, so I used green onions and garlic instead, and no pine nuts, so I used toasted hazelnuts (and I used 1/2 cup instead of 1/4 cup). Very tasty!
Printable Recipe
Servings: 3
Adapted from a recipe from http://www.101cookbooks.com/
12 spears thick asparagus, sliced diagonally about 3/8" thick
5-6 broccoli florets, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces
1 Tbs olive oil
1 1/2 Tbs fresh lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 green onions, chopped
3 Tbs aquafaba or oil substitute for salad dressing
1/2 cup hazelnuts, toasted, and coarsely chopped
5-6 medium radishes, washed trimmed and very thinly sliced
zest of one lemon
OPTIONAL: Parmesan sub (Go Veggie!Vegan or Parma! or Parma Zaan Sprinkles or my homemade okara/nut/miso version)
Wash the asparagus and broccoli well and set aside. Make the dressing by whisking together the lemon juice, salt, garlic and oil sub. Set aside.
To cook the asparagus, place the olive oil in a large skillet or wok over high heat. When the pan is hot add the asparagus and broccolini. Toss well , adding a sprinkle of salt. Stir-cook add a squirt of water now and then to keep from drying out (I use a squirt-type water bottle for this). You don't want to overcook the vegetables here, they should be bright and with a bit of bite to them.
When the vegetables are cooked, remove them from the heat and stir in the hazelnuts, green onions, radishes and lemon zest. Taste; add a bit of salt if needed. Toss with the dressing.
Turn everything out onto a platter and finish with some parm sub.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per serving): 191.9 calories; 72% calories from fat; 16.3g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 170.0mg sodium; 410.1mg potassium; 9.9g carbohydrates; 4.0g fiber; 2.9g sugar; 5.9g net carbs; 5.5g protein; 4.4 points.
7 comments:
- Wizardess said...
Gonna try that egg salad.
- Sat Jun 11, 07:17:00 PM PDT
I agree B., non-vegan egg salad, BLECCH! Same goes for deviled eggs (the white anyways). When I was a kid I used to dread anyone making those for special occasions and you'd be expected to eat them without gagging. Also I wish the pine nut crops would recover and prices would go back to being somewhat reasonable. Lunch on the deck - me too please!
- Sun Jun 12, 04:19:00 PM PDT
- Vegan Georgia said...
I'm glad to see someone else mixes up mashed tofu and tiny-cubed tofu for their eggless egg salad. It mimics the texture of actual egg salad so much better than just mashed.
- Mon Jun 13, 12:23:00 PM PDT
- Becky said...
Made your eggless salad today, and it was great! Thanks for the recipe!!
- Sun Jun 19, 07:01:00 PM PDT
- Noelle said...
lovely recipe!! So flavorful too!
- Wed Feb 01, 01:11:00 PM PST
Can you please tell me in which blog or book, if any, your seitan ham recipe is published. I saw the picture of it in a blog about Thanks Giving with a pineapple glaze. It looked so mouth watering but I can not find the recipe any where. Sue (U.K)
- Sun Jul 29, 05:02:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Sue, it's not in any of my books or online. It is destined to be in a seitan book I am planning. If you would like to be a tester, contact me via this page: http://www.bryannaclarkgrogan.com/page/page/2643700.htm
- Sun Jul 29, 09:40:00 AM PDT


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Friday, May 27, 2005
Click Commerce buys Xelus, continuing acquisition strategy
A reader tipped me off today on the acquisition of Xelus by Click Commerce.
First, some background on the buyer and the seller. Click Commerce started out as one of several up-and-coming supply chain vendors focused on coordinating and optimizing supply chain processes across multiple suppliers, customers, and partners. Its technology is leading-edge, based on open Internet standards and a component-based architecture. Then over the past couple years, it rapidly expanded its product offerings by picking up several niche providers:
So what did Click Commerce see in Xelus? According to the press release, Click Commerce will broaden its footprint with the service parts planning and reverse logistics expertise of Xelus. But, more importantly, Xelus has developed some analytics capabilities that leverage RFID data. RFID, which is being rolled out by Wal-mart and other leading players in various supply chains, are producing a flood of data, most of which is not being fully exploited. Analytic applications, such as those developed by Xelus, are critical in making sense out of all the data being generated by RFID.
- Optum, a leading warehouse management vendor, in February, 2005
- bTrade, a specialist in connectivity and Internet-based EDI (AS2), in 2004
- Webridge, a provider of secure extranet portal solutions, in 2004
- Allegis Corp., a data center and hosting provider, in 2003
My tipster, who has had contact with both companies, provided some insights into both of them. Xelus, as indicated above, is not a young company. They have been in business for over 25 years, but they have never been able to capitalize on their strengths. Their products are good, but they are based on older technology. Therefore, they have been losing market share to companies such as MCA Solutions, which provides solutions for service parts management that may not be as mature but based on newer technology.
Click Commerce is a different story. The management team is young and aggressive. The company has an outstanding list of customers, such as Microsoft, Delphi, Honda, Citibank, FedEx, Carrier, Samsung, Hitachi, and Ryder. The product suite is broad, and getting broader, as Click Commerce continues to pick up weaker vendors, such as Xelus.
My source also indicated that layoffs were announced today at Xelus and that the top management team is for the most part gone or demoted.
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
SAP set to launch CRM on-demand
Apparently, SAP has been watching with alarm as Salesforce.com has been gaining ground in large organizations that SAP considers its turf. In response, SAP is said to be ready to launch its own CRM on-demand offering. The announcement looks to be coming in the next few weeks.
According to CRN,Many industry observers say SAP is becoming increasingly concerned as Salesforce.com gains traction among large enterprises. Last week, for example, the San Francisco-based CRM vendor revealed that Merrill Lynch has signed on for 5,000 seats of its hosted software. Other big customers include ADP, Kaiser Permanente and Nextel.SAP's strength as an on-demand provider will be its ability to offer integration with its own back-office applications, a challenge for standalone providers such as Salesforce.com. On the other hand, SAP is a big company that's used to selling software as a license. Can SAP do what it takes to sell software as a service? As I indicated yesterday regarding Siebel, it's not easy to do both.
On the other hand, some early customers of Salesforce.com are said to be looking at other alternatives. For those that are already SAP customers, maybe SAP can capture them.
CRN has the scoop.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Siebel shaken by new shareholders
According to the Wall Street Journal, Siebel's status is growing more uncertain as shareholder activists such as Carl Icahn and others are increasing their stake in Siebel, determined to force the company to pay out some of its $2.2 billion cash hoard to buy back shares, or sell out to the highest bidder. At the same time, Fidelity Investments, which often takes a pro-management position, is selling shares. Siebel's stock price has climbed 12% in the past seven weeks as speculation grows.
For its part, Siebel management is not making welcoming noises to the dissidents.Siebel's new chief executive, George Shaheen, and Chief Financial Officer Ken Goldman so far have rebuffed calls to distribute Siebel's cash through a stock buyback or dividend. The company this month said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that "potential opportunities have recently been presented to us," but provided no details, and said none of the offers had been considered by Siebel's full board of directors. Representatives of Oracle Corp. and Siebel, which has a market value of about $5 billion, recently discussed a potential acquisition, but talks aren't active, according to a person familiar with the matter.As I've said in the past, Siebel's problem is that it is stuck in the middle. At the high end, SAP and Oracle have credible offerings that keep their customers largely out of reach of Siebel these days. At the low end, on-demand vendors such as Rightnow and Salesforce.com offer a less expensive and much less painful alternative. Siebel responded in 2003 by acquiring on-demand CRM vendor Upshot, renaming the offering Siebel CRM On-Demand. But its hard to do two things well at the same time.
Some analysts, such as Peter Coleman at ThinkEquity Partners, are speculating that Siebel's best path might be for management to do a leveraged buyout, take the company private, and radically restructure its business model, say, to focus more strongly on the on-demand business. Such a move, however, would no doubt bring forth competing bidders, with deeper pockets, that would put Siebel in the hands of someone with different ideas.
It doesn't look like the situation with Siebel will be resolved quickly, and that's not good for Siebel or its customers. The protracted Oracle/PeopleSoft battle showed that there's a limit to what managers can do to influence the outcome. As one PeopleSoft executive told me right after Oracle took control, "I used to think that if you built a good product and took care of your customers, everything would work out in the end. But I forgot about the arbitragers."
It's too soon to tell what the outcome will be for Siebel, but it appears that staying the course is not an option.
Update, May 27. Siebel has just disclosed that it is putting in place additional severence pay and health benefits for employees in the event that the company is taken over. Analysts are divided over whether the motive is defensive--to make Siebel more expensive to a hostile acquirer, or whether it is intended to ensure that key resources stay on board--in other words, to facilitate the transition to a new owner. Either way, what's interesting to me in this that Siebel is worried about losing key employees. This is consistent with our recent findings at Computer Economics that the IT labor market is tightening. Siebel has some of the best people in the CRM marketplace, and I'm sure Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce.com would love to scoop up some of them.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Oracle aiding Mozilla to compete with Microsoft's Outlook?
Something is going on behind the scenes at Oracle that may involve creating an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Outlook. Apparently, Oracle has hired three people to work on an open source project, known as Mozilla Lightning, that will integrate the open source Mozilla's calendar with its e-mail application.
The only confirmation of this comes from Mozilla itself, which has refused to comment further. And Oracle is remaining tight-lipped on its intentions. However, it's not hard to see what Oracle may be up to. Oracle has made a heavy investment in porting its database and applications to Linux, giving it a low-cost platform as an alternative to Microsoft's server operating systems. But when it comes to messaging and collaboration applications, Oracle doesn't have much of an alternative to Microsoft's Outlook and Exchange. Oracle has been trying to crack into the collaboration market with its own Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS), but frankly, until this morning, I didn't even know Oracle had such a product. IBM's Notes/Domino is an alternative, but Oracle's not about to promote an IBM product.
Therefore, Oracle's best shot is to promote an open source alternative. Mozilla, which also forms the basis for the popular open source Firefox web browser, is a good choice. Although Oracle risks taking potential market share away from its own collaboration suite, the success of Mozilla's Lightning project is of more strategic value to Oracle for three reasons:
- Lightning is likely to gain market acceptance more quickly, as Firefox already has done.
- Lightning gives Linux users a messaging and collaboration capability, the lack of which is a barrier to organizations that want to go completely with Linux.
- Mozilla's products are a potential threat to Microsoft's hold on business users, which Oracle wants to break.
Lightning is targeting a general user release in mid-2005. CNET has more on the story. For a fuller description of Lightning itself, check out the Lightning section in Mozilla's wiki.
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Eastern Europe rising as destination for IT outsourcing
When offshore outsourcing of IT is mentioned, certain countries such as India and the Philippines come to mind. But a number of other locales are building such capabilities, specifically eastern Europe. I've mentioned Romania in the past, after reading Tony Radford's blog, which unfortunately seems to have gone dark since January.
Then in March, a Romanian blogger, Adrian Pintilie, contacted me about the growing offshore outsourcing services market in Romania. At the time, he didn't have much of a story to tell. But since then, he has conducted a survey and has collected some detailed metrics on Romanian service providers and hourly rates.
The firms that Adrian surveyed seem quite small, all of them being under 100 employees, but I suspect that's because those are the firms that he got to respond to his survey. On the other hand, according to this article in the International Herald Tribune, the Romanian outsourcing sector is in fact dominated by small firms. Romania does not have the huge universities, as found in India, pumping out thousands of IT grads each year. So, Romania will probably be a better choice for small, focused development projects rather than massive business process outsourcing operations.
Still, as Adrian points out on his blog, there have been a number of Romanian outsourcing firms acquired recently by multinationals, such as Siemens. Obviously they must know a good thing when they see it. And labor rates are still attractive. According to the Tribune article, programming costs in Romania are actually less than in China. If so, then they're certainly less than India's.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
IBM: friend or foe to SAP?
Joshua Greenbaum drills down into the details of IBM's relationship with enterprise software vendors, such as SAP. On the one hand, in order to drive sales of its infrastructure products such as WebSphere and development services from its Global Services unit, IBM promotes custom software development--a position that puts it at odds with major software vendors, such as SAP.
On the other hand, IBM's relationship with major enterprise application vendors pulls through huge revenue at IBM for its database, hardware, and services offerings--pushing IBM closer to vendors such as SAP.
These conflicting motivations came to the surface at a recent press conference. Josh writes,When asked what guarantees Global Services was willing to give that it was going to remain neutral in the selection of a platform -- bearing in mind that its big applications partners are also selling infrastructure to compete with WebSphere -- you could hear the waffling noises loud and clear. First they said that WebSphere was the preferred platform, but then they clarified that by saying they were technologically agnostic, and that technology wasn't really a major part of the initial SOA [service-oriented architecture] engagements Global Services was working on. Then they said...Well, it doesn't really matter.Josh concludes that IBM's relationship with SAP is worth far more to IBM than any increased WebSphere revenue it realizes from promoting custom software development.
The basic problem is that one part of IBM wants to be friend number one to its enterprise software partners, while another part is increasingly packaged software enemy number one.
Read Josh's analysis on Datamation.
My take? Customers need to understand the relationships and motivations of their various IT providers, and IBM is a major influence in many IT organizations. Therefore, customers should understand that IBM's reliance on SAP is growing. This is especially true now that Oracle has come out on top in its acquisition of PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, which effectively removes a large number of enterprise customers from IBM's direct sphere of influence. This makes IBM's relationship with SAP even more important to IBM, and customers should not be surprised that when they are making major enterprise system decisions, they may see IBM coming down more and more on the side of SAP.
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Update on Lawson's pitch to JDE customers
As I wrote in January, Lawson has been aggressively courting existing customers of JDE, who are now by no choice of their own, customers of Oracle. I took the opportunity this afternoon at Lawson's user conference to check with a Lawson representative about the success of their efforts.
It appears that Lawson is in discussions with about 30 JDE customers, mostly those on the older World software, although a few are running JDE One World (now EnterpriseOne). Although none of these deals have closed, Lawson hopes to have some wins within the next two or three months.
I pointed out that installed base customers, by nature, are a conservative group, and I wondered what would motivate them to consider switching to Lawson. Lawson indicated that most of these JDE customers are concerned about the long term commitment of Oracle to support them on the IBM iSeries platform and a fear that they will be forced to migrate to Project Fusion. Lawson also feels that they have a strong story to tell regarding total cost of ownership, although to me the low cost solution is to not undertake a new system implementation.
There are several aspects to Lawson's offer. First, Lawson is giving JDE customers a discount of up to 50% on Lawson software license fees, along with a prebuilt tool to assist in file conversions from JDE to Lawson. If additional IBM iSeries hardware is needed, IBM's standard discount to ISVs will apply. Finally, through its relationship with Ciber, a third party systems integrator, Lawson will even provide maintenance and support of the customer's JDE system during the transition to Lawson.
Update May 17. Revised the final paragraph, based on additional clarification provided by Lawson.
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Blogging from the Lawson user conference
I'm in San Diego today, attending the Lawson "CUE" user conference as a member of the press. I'll be updating this post through the day with observations. There is an announcement about to be made concerning a major change in the technology platform for Lawson, code-named "Landmark," and we're supposed to learn more in the keynote session that starts in a few minutes. In the meantime, read the press release on Lawson's website.
Lawson's Landmark business application platform
Dean Hager presented an overview of Landmark, and Richard Patton, Lawson's Chief Architect, provided more details in a press conference. Afterwards, for more answers, I interviewed Patton along with founder Richard Lawson and Pramod Mathur on the Landmark team. The rest of this section is going to be a bit more technical than I normally write, so be forewarned.
Landmark is Lawson's new technology platform that will, over time, replace the current Lawson "environment" that allows Lawson applications to run across multiple databases and operating systems. Landmark allows Lawson's business domain experts to specify applications in a high level domain-specific language (DSL) which then generates JAVA program code. Lawson's approach is based on "pattern language technology," including the work of architect Christopher Alexander in The Timeless Way of Building. Patterns have been a hot topic for a long time in the software engineering community, especially among practitioners of object oriented design and development, but I have not seen it discussed at all in the realm of enterprise application software.
When I read the press release, at first I was concerned that Lawson was heading down the path of developing a proprietary CASE tool or 4GL, a strategy that has failed most other vendors. But Lawson is not taking such an approach. Landmark is essentially a plug in for the open source Eclipse application development framework. The program code that it generates runs on any J2EE-compliant application server, such as the open source Tomcat or JBOSS, or proprietary servers such as IBM's, BEA's, or Oracle's. Software objects created by Landmark will be enabled for web services, allowing them to interoperate in a service oriented architecture.
Lawson believes that its approach allows it to focus on its domain expertise and what it calls its "signature features," such as "drill around," audit trails, and effective dating. Software quality should increase greatly as Landmark's code generation approach allows orders-of-magnitude reduction in the number of lines of program code. Patton quotes a 17x reduction in lines of code for Lawson's Vendor module, and a 41x reduction in Lawson's Employee module.
In terms of customer rollout, Lawson is emphasizing a co-existence approach: new Lawson modules will be written from this point forward under Landmark and will coexist and interoperate with existing Lawson modules. Existing modules will be "re-factored" in Landmark. Installed base clients can move incrementally to Landmark written versions.
Lawson's leadership is genuinely excited about the introduction of Landmark. Richard Lawson himself largely disappeared from public view for the last three years as he led a team of technology architects in crafting this vision and developing the basic framework of Landmark. What appeals to me most about Lawson's approach is that it may be leading edge, but it's not something created by Lawson in a vacuum. Domain specific languages (DSL) are commonly used by software developers in other domains. When I pressed for examples, Lawson pointed specifically to discussions they have had with Bell Labs and with another software developer that it was not free to name.
At this point, to Lawson's customers, Landmark just is a vision--although after three years in the lab, Landmark is much more than a statement of direction. The first Landmark application should be introduced within the next year and at that point we should have a good indication whether Lawson is able to deliver.
Offshore delivery of professional services
Lawson announced today that it has put together a "blended professional services" offering in partnership with Indian offshore services provider Xansa. Lawson was already using Xansa internally to provide some maintenance programming for existing Lawson products, leveraging the lower cost of labor offshore. Now Lawson will offer Xansa offshore resources to Lawson clients, to be managed by Lawson personnel onshore, to deliver customer projects such as integration and interface programming, data conversion, and development of custom forms and reports.
Lawson customers will appreciate the lower cost of delivery, as long as Lawson continues to step up to the role of being the "one throat to choke."
Update, May 11. Lawson and IBM have now announced that Landmark will be based on IBM's Websphere technology. I guessed this on Monday when I interviewed Lawson executives about Landmark, but they wouldn't confirm it at the time. I don't know why they had to hold back this piece of the puzzle for two days after the Landmark announcement, except that I suppose it gives them one more thing to announce during their user conference. Basing Landmark largely on IBM technology is a good thing. Application software vendors are notoriously poor at building proprietary development toolsets, and the more Lawson can incorporate publicly available components in its development platform, the better. IBM, which doesn't compete with ISVs, is a great choice.
Lawson says that during the first half of 2006, it will releases upgrades to its financials, SCM, HR, performance management, and procurement modules, with embedded core components of IBM's WebSphere, DB2, Rational, and Tivoli technology.
For more, check out Lawson's press release.by Frank Scavo, 5/09/2005 08:35:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, May 08, 2005
The end of corporate computing
Nicholas Carr is back at it again. In 2004 he wrote an article in Harvard Business Review entitled, "Does IT Matter?" that IT professionals are still arguing about. Now he's authored an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, entitled, "The End of Corporate Computing," where he makes that case that utility computing will one day make corporate data centers as anachronistic as the private power plants in factories of the early 1900s.
Utility computing is the delivery of computing power as a service, instead of a fixed asset that is maintained internally by organizations. Carr puts together a powerful argument that, because of the economics, utility computing will one day become the dominant model for corporate information systems. He ticks off a list of corporate IT assets that are tremendously underutilized: servers average 10-35 percent of their capacity, storage, 50-60 percent; and desktops, 5 percent. In addition, 60% of corporate IT personnel time is spent on routine support and maintenance--like the teams of highly skilled engineers that maintained electrical generators in factories of the early 1900s. This overcapacity, combined with technology advances that allow centralization of IT resources, are creating a powerful incentive for the utility model.
Furthermore, three advances in information systems are now coming together to make utility computing possible. He writes,Virtualization erases the differences between proprietary computing platforms, enabling applications designed to run on one operating system to be deployed elsewhere. Grid computing allows large numbers of hardware components, such as servers or disk drives, to effectively act as a single device, pooling their capacity and allocating it automatically to different jobs. Web services standardize the interfaces between applications, turning them into modules that can be assembled and disassembled easily.The economics of utility computing are inexorable. It essentially turns information systems from a underutilized fixed asset to a variable low cost expense.
If Carr is correct, and I think he is, we are going to see changes in corporate computing in the coming ten to twenty years that will make personal computing and the Internet seem like incremental improvements. Carr thinks that the IT vendors most threatened are those that sell pieces of IT solutions directly to organizations: Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, and SAP--a list of seemingly invincible players today. He admits that the shift will take time, and the major players may be able to adjust their business models--to me Oracle comes to mind as one that is embracing utility computing. But the transition will not be easy for any of them.
Carr's article is available on the MIT Sloan Management Review web site for the incredibly low price of $6.50. Buy it and read it. It's destined to become a seminal essay on the subject of utility computing.
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Saturday, May 07, 2005
Key advantage of open source is NOT cost savings
Last month, at Computer Economics, we conducted a survey regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source software, and the results are surprising.
The survey shows that, contrary to common perceptions, the appeal of open source software is not primarily its low cost. By a two to one margin, respondents ranked "reduced dependence on software vendors" as the most important advantage that open source delivers.
The results are shown below.
Jump over to Computer Economics and read this article on what this means for buyers and sellers of enterprise systems.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Quick poll: offshore outsourcing intentions
A new monthly quick poll is up on the Computer Economics website, regarding trends in offshore outsourcing.
Jump over to the Computer Economics website and take the poll now--it's in the rightmost column. It will take you about five seconds. Assuming we get a decent sample, I'll publish the results at the beginning of next month.
Stay tuned for some interesting results from last month's survey, regarding the key advantage of open source software. I should have an article on this ready in a day or two.by Frank Scavo, 5/04/2005 02:25:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Siebel swept up in takeover rumors regarding Oracle
[Note: The September 12th post on Oracle's takeover of Siebel is here.]
CRM vendor Siebel has been rocked by rumors since last Friday, when TheDeal.com reported that Oracle and Siebel were in takeover discussions. The number $5 billion has been mentioned, which would make it somewhat less than half of Oracle's purchase price for PeopleSoft, but still a major acquisition.
Siebel has long been the subject of takeover speculation for years, as it has had a more difficult time than other major vendors coming out of the technology recession of the early part of this decade. Such speculation got a boost last month, when CEO Michael Lawrie was abruptly replaced by board member George Sheehan, fueling the idea that the board would soon move to position the company to be sold. In addition, a group of dissident shareholders has been meeting and demanding that Siebel do something to boost its share price.
If Oracle buys Siebel, it will give Oracle the dominant position over SAP in the worldwide CRM marketplace, at least on paper. However, you have to wonder whether Oracle will be able to digest such an acquisition while PeopleSoft and Retek buyouts are still on its plate.
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Sunday, May 01, 2005
About the Enterprise System Spectator
I am co-founder and President of Strativa, a business consulting firm in Southern California that focuses on business strategy, IT strategy, process improvement, and IT decision-making. I am also the President of Computer Economics, an IT research and advisory firm, founded in 1979. You can read my bio on Strativa's management page: Frank Scavo.
I launched this blog in May, 2002 as one of the first tech blogs. I started it to provide a forum for my observations on enterprise systems, the vendors that provide them, and the experiences of companies that implement them. This blog represents my views alone, and receives no sponsorship from vendors.
What is an enterprise system? I define it broadly as a software application or suite of applications that are implemented across multiple business functions. Enterprise systems include applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise asset management (EAM), as well as other emerging applications. Essentially, an enterprise system is a business application that serves users across multiple groups, departments, or business units.
I am particularly interested in how companies achieve benefits from information technology. Over the past decade, companies have made enormous investments in IT, often with limited results. What are the lessons learned, and what can business leaders do to improve their chances of success?
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After CalTech pranksters adorned MIT with a runaway TARDIS a while back, it was only inevitable the Daleks would show up. And appear they did last week, atop MIT's Stata Center — a lightning rod for pranks — which houses the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Check out the below photos to see just how darn inconvenient it was to lug the Dalek up there. It was probably yapping "exterminate this" and "exterminate that" the entire way.
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Dead Man's Bones bandmates Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields play the FYF Fest in Los Angeles on Saturday (September 4).
Before they performed "My Body's a Zombie For You" with a children's choir, a Vaudevillian opened the show. He cut out the words "Dead Man's Bones" into a blank folded piece of paper with a scissor. Neat!
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We recently celebrated the 75th Anniversary in 2012 where we honored 75 amazing years in the life of the College of Fine Arts. The Arts Alumni Advisory Board helped plan what we hoped would be a memorable reunion of people who share a passion for the arts. Reconnecting with all of you – dancers, painters, musicians, photographers, ceramists, art historians, filmmakers, directors, performers, designers, innovators, and community leaders – has been the most rewarding aspect of this outreach!
And now that you have made the effort to come back and honor the professors who helped us discover our unique talents, we want you to stay engaged with the current generation of talented teachers and students. Ohio University has a variety of alumni engagement opportunities, such as:
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It is indeed interesting to note that in 1936, at the height of the great depression, the Ohio University leadership had the wisdom to establish a College of Fine Arts to help inspire the students through cultural engagement. That inspiration is alive at Ohio University and doing well but we have a great need for involvement by our alumni. The time is now to get involved and be an advocate for the ARTS. We hope this weekend has rekindled your interest in helping the next generation of fine arts graduates make a difference in our world.
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President Woodrow Wilson sought a means to end all war in Europe, and at the peace conference at Versailles after World War I he was able to convince the parties to create a League of Nations. The League charter required that all powers unite against an aggressor nation. Many Americans wanted the United States to never have to enter another war overseas. The League worried them. It also worried Edward Wirt, who says (page 6) that if it goes through the U.S. would "always be in a stew over here." Wirt's unit was still in France when he wrote this, although he writes that they may have to go to Germany for garrison duty. On the same page, he refers to labor troubles in the United States. Out of patriotic fervor, unions had suspended strike activity during the war but with the armistice they began to demand that industry share some of the huge wartime profits it had made. An unprecedented wave of strikes ensued.
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November 16, 2007
While many students will be heading home for Thanksgiving Break, many will stay behind for a big weekend of athletics. Many more will stay behind to cheer on their classmates. The unbeaten Little Giant swimmers host the Patrick Woehnker Invitational, the basketball team tips off its season and the football squad opens NCAA Div. III playoffs.
The weekend kicks off Friday night with the Wabash Tipoff Classic. The invitational will feature teams from Indiana, Kentucky, and Canada. Action starts with a 6 p.m. Friday tipoff between Humber College (12-2-1) and Indiana Wesleyan (3-3). The Little Giants will face Kentucky Christian (4-2) at 8 p.m. Wabash will return to the court at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon to face Wesleyan. Read more about the Little Giant team and the tourney by clicking the link in the Related Stories box above.
The 5-0 Little Giant swimmers host their annual invitational. The meet has been renamed the Patrick Woehnker Invitational in memory of the freshman who died earlier this fall. Wabash will host teams from Rose-Hulman, University of Indianapolis, Olivet, Transylvania, Asbury College, Centre College, DePauw, and Western Illinois.
Swimming begins at 7 p.m. Friday night with men's and women's 800-yard relays and 1,600 freestyle. Diving on the 1- and 3-meter boards will get underway tonight as well. The meet resumes at 10:30 a.m. Saturday with all other events.
The Wabash football team (9-1) opens Div. III playoff action at noon hosting Mt. St. Joseph (9-1) from Cincinnati. The winner faces the Case-Western and Widener winner next weekend. See links above for more on the football team's first-round opponent.


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In the land of corn—Des Moines, Iowa—lives Mario McPherson Sr. and his 1991 LX coupe. Mario has owned the car over 10 years now and mostly enjoys the local car show scene. However, with a Trick Flow intake, a cold-air intake, exhaust enhancements, 3.55 gears, and many other bolt-ons, we trust he also enjoys getting out on the open roads to let the horses eat.
Yager Shot
A regular to take a shot at the Christmas Tree, Brent Yager and his 2011 GT/CS routinely participate in NMRA, Fun Ford, and Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge events. Brent was born and raised in the Motor City, but he now calls Dallas home and has been drag racing at the track since he was a teenager. "I have had six Mustangs now and bleed Ford blue," Brent says. He spends nearly every weekend at the track fine-tuning his GT/CS to extract the most out of it—and simply to have fun. "Racing is my passion, and I try to keep it fun while seriously competing," he adds. His GT/CS features a 6R80 automatic with a stock converter, but he equipped the car with a Boss 302 intake, a BBK Performance 85mm throttle body, GT500 mufflers, a UPR Products off-road X-shape crossover pipe, a C&L Performance cold-air intake, 4.10 gears, and an SCT tuner with a custom AED tune. To plant the power, Brent's GT/CS boasts a Roush Performance upper control arm and mount, GT500 lower control arms, GT front springs, V-6 rear springs, Strange Engineering adjustable dampers, BMR lower control-arm relocation brackets, Shelby swaybars, an SPC adjustable Panhard bar, JPC Racing rear swaybar-relocation brackets, and a Stifflers driveshaft loop. The image you see here is the car's street trim. When Brent's GT/CS hits the track, it wears Racestar Dragstars with Mickey Thompson 275/60/15 ET Street Drag Radials out back. All this adds up to a best of 11.63 at 118 mph for Brent and his GT/CS.
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Robert Castillo's version of a silver bullet is this 1998 S281. The Saleen features a stroked MMR short-block, Trick Flow heads, Anderson Ford Motorsport F-42 blower cams, an Accufab intake, and an eight-rib conversion. Of course, he needs the conversion because Robert's Saleen also sports a Vortech V2 supercharger, a Tial blow-off valve, and an air-to-air intercooler. All told, the combo is responsible for pounding out 520 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque at the feet at 14 pounds of boost. To help slow down the beast, the Saleen has Cobra brakes up front, while KYB adjustable struts keeps the car sure-footed.


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Hi Stefan,
I was searching for a manual for the Laguna Research eCCR~UDC unit and not having much luck. I noticed in one of your posts that you mentioned reading the for one.
Do you still have a copy and is there any chance I might be able to get of copy of it ?
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