Rangers Looking for Home-Grown Pitchers
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- Rangers Looking for Home-Grown Pitchers
- Consider a Hosted CRM Solution
- Road to the Super Bowl Takes Pennsylvania Avenue
- Liverpool punished by Traore howler
- SRC starts tests on products as it eyes market for nutraceuticals
Rangers Looking for Home-Grown Pitchers
highbeam.com – Jan 18, 2005
All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Associated Press. (Hide copyright information)STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports WriterAP Online01-18-2005Dateline: ARLINGTON, TexasPersuading free agent pitchers to come to Texas has always been a difficult task. So the Rangers have switched the emphasis to drafting and developing their own throwers. Thomas Diamond and John Danks, the team’s last two No. 1 draft picks, were among six pitchers who took part in the team’s first-ever pitching minicamp that ended Tuesday. “There is definitely no better place to be right now as a young pitcher,” said Danks, a 19-year-old left-hander who was the ninth overall pick in 2003.
Consider a Hosted CRM Solution
Destination CRM – Jan 18, 2005
The enterprise software business model depends on fighting constant feature wars, building complicated applications, and selling heavy customization services, to stay on top of buzzwords and make their numbers. Most software companies–enterprise application vendors in particular–focus on technology and trends instead of consolidating customer requirements into useful and usable applications. Home-grown applications and heavily customized enterprise software can deliver on the specifications of each individual customer, but at a high price and without letting multiple customers benefit from each other’s ideas. For vendor-supplied software to beat home-grown applications, it must be cheaper, easy to use, accessible from anywhere, and be useful out of the box. I came to Silicon Valley in 1994 after 10 years of building custom applications for dozens of companies–from small startup law firms and service businesses to large supermarket chains and a top consumer software company. When I joined one of the big-three customer-service application vendors, I was shocked by the lack of application functionality in the product. The company had a reputation for technology, but the application side was just a toolkit for customization, with five screens in the whole out-of-box application…
Most software companies–enterprise application vendors in particular–focus on technology and trends instead of consolidating customer requirements into useful and usable applications. Home-grown applications and heavily customized enterprise software can deliver on the specifications of each individual customer, but at a high price and without letting multiple customers benefit from each other’s ideas. For vendor-supplied software to beat home-grown applications, it must be cheaper, easy to use, accessible from anywhere, and be useful out of the box. I came to Silicon Valley in 1994 after 10 years of building custom applications for dozens of companies–from small startup law firms and service businesses to large supermarket chains and a top consumer software company. When I joined one of the big-three customer-service application vendors, I was shocked by the lack of application functionality in the product. The company had a reputation for technology, but the application side was just a toolkit for customization, with five screens in the whole out-of-box application. I assumed the problem was just us, but after studying many enterprise applications, I realized they were the same: limited functionality, poor UI, difficult to learn, and unusable as delivered.
Road to the Super Bowl Takes Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington Post – Jan 18, 2005
” Yet Pennsylvania is on the brink of something that has happened only twice in Super Bowl history. With victories at home Sunday in their respective conference championship games, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles would advance to the Super Bowl on Feb. 6 in Jacksonville, Fla. , to decide not only the NFL championship but, in an unexpected development, Keystone State bragging rights.
Liverpool punished by Traore howler
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 18, 2005
Despite the biting cold, Burnley fans were showing similar enthusiasm for upsetting Liverpool and their goalkeeper, who was greeted with chants of “Rooney, Rooney”, a reminder of his nemesis on Saturday. Gradually, though, Liverpool began to piece some passing moves together. Only Sami Hyypia would make their first team, and the five home-grown youngsters were taking time to settle in a 4-2-3-1 formation spearheaded by Florent Sinama-Pongolle. Moments of promise did arise, such as when Stephen Warnock flighted in a corner that Igor Biscan headed wastefully downwards and into a wall of claret. The half did finish encouragingly for Liverpool, not least when Sinama-Pongolle robbed Lee Roche, raced 50 yards but was then pressurised into a weak shot by Roche, who had recovered well. Brian Jensen clutched the loose ball gratefully. Stirred by Cotterill at the break, Burnley went for Liverpool again, breaking through after 52 minutes.
SRC starts tests on products as it eyes market for nutraceuticals
Jamaica Observer – Jan 18, 2005
Roselyn Fisher, general manager of Market Tech Limited, the marketing and business development arm of the SRC, told JIS News that the council has been researching various home-grown plant materials such as ginger, fever grass and rosemary to examine their active ingredients, and to explore ways of extracting these ingredients for medicinal or health purposes. The extraction of ingredients from plants, she said, was the very essence of the nutraceutical market. Nutraceuticals, sometimes referred to as phytochemicals or functional foods, are defined as natural, bioactive chemical compounds that have health-promoting, disease-preventing or medicinal properties. “What we have done is look at different plant materials and see how good they are as nutraceuticals,” Fisher said. “We have done research which has shown us that fever grass and rosemary are Jamaican plants which have high levels of antioxidants, and as such, they are really high as nutraceutical products,” she added.