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If you could take training classes on any topic, what would they be?
by Saeed Khan
As Product Leaders, there's so much that we need to know in order to do our jobs well. These topics run the gamut from business, strategy, finance, technology, design, research, communication, marketing and more. I'm sure I've missed a lot of topics.
So here's how you can help me help you. 🙂
Fill in the form below and let me know the top 3 topics you'd like to learn more about. I've left the answers open-ended, but please be specific if you can. I'll stop talking now. 🙂
I'm looking forward to your responses.
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How much does self-interest play in your decision making process?
By Saeed Khan
Back in 2008, I wrote a post entitled "Self interest always wins out…".
I was reminded of it again recently during a conversation with a PM friend of mine. Believe it or not, we were talking about how releases were planned at our companies. She said that she keeps a spreadsheet with each planned feature that also has several columns with weighted values for categories such as Strategic Fit, Customer Satisfaction, Competitive etc.
i.e. this gives a semblance of an analytic approach to her decision making and she can always open the spreadsheet in a meeting if anyone wants to debate prioritizing one thing over another.
I've seen this kind of spreadsheet many times in my years, but what reminded me of my old post was that she said she always wanted to add a hidden column in the spreadsheet that factored in a "pain in my butt" value for a given feature.
e.g. how much personal pain she had to endure with customers, salespeople etc. because of he missing capability.
I'm sure we can all empathize with her. I thought I'd written a post on the topic years ago, but had to search to find it. So here is an updated version of that article for your reading pleasure.
But don't just read the article, please comment on whether self-interest (at any level) plays a role in the product decisions you've been involved in. Be honest. 🙂
Deep down, every single one of us is driven by self-interest. From acquiring the most basic necessities of life, to how we deal with others, to the multitude of decisions we make each and everyday, self-interest plays a strong role. Self-interest is not a bad thing and I'm not demonizing it at all. I'm simply stating an obvious fact. We do what will help us achieve OUR personal goals first and foremost.
And as much as we would like to think that's not true; that we can look beyond ourselves and do what is in the common good, the fact is, more times than not, we will do what will benefit ourselves. Or at minimum, leverage the decisions we make to benefit our self interest.
When deciding what should and shouldn't go into a product release, we try to look at the market needs, at the competition, at the strategic direction of the company etc. etc. But when push comes to shove, and we have to make a hard call on including something or not, our subconscious will have a significant impact.
In a conversation about prioritizing some requirements, I had to make a choice between two important items of roughly equal effort. When another PM asked me why I chose one instead of the other, I said that if we implemented the one I selected, it would get a lot of people off my butt. And that I was tired of hearing people complain about the issue. The other one wasn't causing the same stink to be raised, but was clearly needed and valuable.
As I said it, it surprised me somewhat. I told the other PM, "I'm being honest here."
I like to think that I focus on what will help drive revenue, better position us against competitors, help strengthen relationships with key strategic partners and all that good stuff. But seriously, when a hard decision needed to be made, my reasons were none of those.
It's not as if that functionality wasn't needed or that it wasn't something we should add to the product. Don't get me wrong. People were complaining about it because it was a gap in the product and customers needed it. But, the primary reason for my choice was driven by immediate self-interest.
So let me ask you a question. Have you ever been in that situation and made a decision for similar reasons? In retrospect, any thoughts on whether that was the right decision?
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Saeed Khan is a founder and Managing Editor of On Product Management, and has worked for the last 20 years in high-technology companies building and managing market leading products. He also speaks regularly at events on the topic of product management and product leadership. You can contact him via Twitter @saeedwkhan or via the Contact Us page on this blog.
Cloud and the Changing Role of Product Management
by Felicia Anderson
Increasingly, customers want and need cloud-based products. The drivers behind this trend are varied, including the desire to lower costs, conserve capital, reduce the burden on in-house IT resources, and increase agility.
Delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products changes the product manager's role by redefining what it means to launch a product. As Figure 1 shows, for on-premises products, the product manager is responsible for leading the product team from the time the product or release is defined until it is built and fully tested.
In a SaaS model, however, the product manager must continue to lead the product-related activities until that product is deployed in the production environment and available for customer use.
Figure 1. Product Management Responsibility Expands for SaaS Products (click to enlarge)
If you are preparing your products for deployment in a SaaS delivery model or developing new SaaS applications, there's much more to SaaS-ready products than architecting the solutions to be multi-tenant. Here are 3 things you'll want to consider to increase the success of your SaaS solutions:
1. Before you start development, understand the effects of deploying and operating the product.
Now that your company will operate the product on behalf of your customers, it's more important than ever that your product be easy and cost effective to deploy and operate.
If it is difficult or expensive to operate, either your price will be too high or your margins will suffer. After a detailed review with the operations team, you may find that you need to switch out higher-cost components in your tech stack for lower-cost alternatives or make other product changes to enable automation of operations activities.
You'll want to perform this analysis before you start development so you can include these requirements in the release planning process.
One product manager had a successful on-premise product that had gained significant market traction over several years. Now, he wanted to extend that product to also offer it in a SaaS model. Market demand was robust for both deployment models, and it was technically feasible to extend the product architecture to support multi-tenancy, increased self-service capabilities, and other cloud-enabling features.
As he began to examine the costs of operating it in the cloud, however, he was dismayed to discover the operating costs would drive the price of the SaaS solution to be twice that of competing SaaS offers—basically ruining the SaaS business case. With further analysis of the key cost drivers, the product team determined that by modifying the product to run on Linux with a PostgreSQL database instead of the higher-cost OS and database originally used, they could reduce their operating costs significantly and could, therefore, bring the SaaS offer to market at a competitive price.
2. Get cross-functional awareness, buy-in, and active participation from all functions
Starting at the beginning of the project. Cross-functional dependencies increase significantly with SaaS deployments because more functional areas are involved in and affected by the product launch. If you don't already have a formal process to communicate your plans, solicit inputs, and gain approval from the senior leaders in all the pertinent functions, put a process in place as you begin to "SaaS-ify" your products.
You probably already involve product development, QA, documentation, and marketing in the planning of on-premise products. For SaaS products, however, IT operations, customer support, and professional services take center stage in advancing the release into the production environment and in onboarding customers. To ensure a successful launch, you'll want to secure input from, commitment to, and ownership of their pieces of the project from these critical stakeholders as well.
3. Develop an investment plan
Many SaaS applications require significant capital and operational expenditures for the equipment and network capacity to get the SaaS solution up and running or to expand to support customer growth. Since most companies follow an annual budgeting process, be sure to determine your investment needs far enough in advance for funds to be allocated as part of the fiscal budgeting process in your company.
The move to a cloud deployment model provides a great opportunity to reach new customers and deliver more customer value. Because the SaaS provider assumes the responsibility of deploying and operating the application for the customer, the definition of product launch expands. So too do the responsibilities, scope, and influence of product managers.
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Felicia Anderson is Director of Program Management, Cloud Services at OpenText. She helps product teams improve product investment decisions and increase launch success of cloud-based products.
Are Your Users Seeing What You Think They Are Seeing?
by Saeed Khan
A couple of days ago, my daughters, who are also my reference point for Internet memes, showed me the picture in this link — a shrunken version is to the right — and asked me to describe the colours of the stripes in the dress.
I looked at the picture and then gave my answer.
My younger daughter, nodding in agreement, look at her older sister somewhat gleefully and said "See, I told you so."
My older daughter, appearing both disappointed and flustered, looked at me and said "No. You're wrong."
At this point, I was rather confused. "What do you mean I'm wrong?" I asked.
They explained the issue to me. My older daughter said, "You should blog about this."
So what is the issue?
You may have already read about this dress and it's colours. It started with this post and it has spread across the web at lightning speed. Regardless, look at the dress carefully, and answer the question below.
Without giving away the surprise, there are at least 2, and possibly 3 correct answers to the question.
NOTE: If you want to know more about the answers, it's easy to find more on the web, but finish reading this post first. 🙂
But trust me when I say that 2 people can look at this dress and see COMPLETELY different colours. In fact, ever since my daughters showed me the dress, asked the question and revealed the answer, I've been a bit obsessed with the issue.
So…I ran an experiment (spoilers ahead)
On Friday, I opened up this page in my browser and left the browser tab open during the day. Periodically, I would look at the image to see what colour the stripes were.
For most of the day, the stripes were white and gold. But towards the end of the day, I looked at it, and they were now black and blue.
Yes, they had changed colour. And not a subtle change I might say.
I double checked to make sure I hadn't opened a different window by accident. I hadn't. The dress HAD changed colour.
My daughter was home from school by that time, and I told her what had happened. She laughed and said she was surprised I had seen both sets of colours.
I then left the house, to pick up my son from school. When I came home, about 20-25 minutes later, I went back into my office and looked at the browser.
The dress was white and gold again. I started laughing out of amazement. I didn't know what to think.
How could I look at the SAME image within such a short time span and see such different things?
It's not an optical illusion; not in any traditional sense.
And then I remembered my daughter's suggestion to blog about this. So I did some research to understand what was happening.
The answer is context
I'll let you delve into the mysteries of the colour-changing dress, but it has to do with how your eyes and brain perceive dominant colours. i.e. what your eyes and brain focus on and what is deemed is important. The same principle is at play in any application interface that you create.
The context is the job at hand. When a user looks at an interface, they are interpreting it with the context of the actions they need to perform, the goals of those actions and what they know or understand about the interface. i.e. assumed user interface conventions, actions etc.
The interpretations by different user may not be as stark as seeing the same dress in completely different colours, but nonetheless, don't underestimate the ways people interpret what they see. What are they focusing on? What are they thinking about? How do they approach the task at hand? These are all questions you need to understand, interpret and embed in the user interface.
And, unlike the women with the dress, your users won't post on Tumblr or Pinterest or Instagram or elsewhere if they don't understand how to use your product. In most cases, after a few frustrating minutes — particularly if they're using a free trial — they'll move on to one of your competitors, and you've lost them for good.
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Saeed Khan is a founder and Managing Editor of On Product Management, and has worked for the last 20 years in high-technology companies building and managing market leading products. He also speaks regularly at events on the topic of product management and product leadership. You can contact him via Twitter @saeedwkhan or via the Contact Us page on this blog.
The Top 5 Benefits of Hosting a Customer Advisory Board
By Rob Jensen
As a Product Management professional, are you confident the products or services you have planned (or already under development) will be accepted – i.e. purchased – by your market?
If so, how did you obtain this confidence? Hopefully, formally engaging with – and soliciting feedback from – your existing customers to vet your product roadmap is the answer to this question. If not, read on.
For Product Managers, customer advisory boards (CABs) can be an efficient, effective method to gather customer insight and feedback to your current and planned offerings.
For the uninitiated, customer advisory boards (also known as a customer advisory councils) are forums to review industry trends, address mutual challenges or opportunities, and offer unvarnished insights and guidance.
For vendors, these councils are ideal for validating corporate strategies, gathering input on product development, and deepening relationships with key customers. In turn, there is just as much to be gained by the participating customers. (CIO Insight recently ranked the top 10 here)
A customer advisory board is perhaps most often associated with providing feedback and desired direction on the host company's offerings. Indeed, in querying customer advisory board practitioners, our own survey shows that product direction is the top benefit host companies derive from customer advisory boards. But this benefit is only one of many.
Other research points to the ROI of such executive customer engagements. According to a recent Gallup poll:
"A typical B2B company has an optimal relationship with fewer than one in seven of its customers… and only 13% of B2B customers are fully engaged."
However, such "fully engaged customers deliver a 23% premium over average customers in share of wallet, profitability, revenue, and relationship growth."
Top 5 Benefits of CABs
Here then are the top 5 benefits product managers can get from a well-run customer advisory board program.
1. Feedback to the Product Roadmap
A customer advisory board is ideal for providing feedback and desired direction on the host company's offerings. Your advisory council can offer an insider's view of what your target buyer needs and wants from your products and/or services. A council also serves as a great platform for securing beta testers of your new offerings, helping you introduce your solutions and providing immediate validation – before you go to market.
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Jim Hamer Offers Customers a Variety of High-Quality Woods
Published: Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 9:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 9:59 p.m.
LAKELAND | Jim Hamer loves wood.
When customers walk into the building that houses Hardwood Lumber and Millwork in a small industrial park off U.S. 98, they will see rows of domestic and imported hardwood boards stacked on shelves.
There's cherry, maple, mahogany, zebrawood and more.
In another part of the 15,000-square-foot steel building sits equipment for cutting and shaping wood.
There are no projects under construction now, but Jim and Lin Hamer are eager to flip through a photo album showing spiral staircases, custom bases for expensive glassware, custom doors and mouldings for renovation projects in historic homes all over Florida.
In addition to wood, he also sells wood finishes.
"We started in 1998," Hamer said. "I got frustrated trying to find hardwood lumber."
Hardwood is used to describe wood that comes from any broadleaf tree that sheds its leaves.
Other types of trees, such as pine, cedar or cypress, that have needles and cones are called softwoods.
The terms are misleading, though, Hamer said.
"It has nothing to do with the density of the wood," he said, explaining balsa, a relatively light wood, is a hardwood and some pines can be very hard.
Hamer takes pride in having high-quality lumber in stock, explaining that means less waste for woodworkers.
"I have the best selection of hardwoods in the state," he said.
Although he's only been in business in Polk County since 1998, his experience with lumber and woodworking is more extensive.
He has a degree in industrial arts, woodworking and drafting and once taught shop classes in White Settlement, Texas.
He later worked for Weyerhauser, a major wood products company.
"I wanted to have my own business," he said.
He ended up in Florida while trying his hand working as a stockbroker. Hamer later worked as a homebuilder before starting Hardwood Lumber and Millwork.
Hamer said he started small with a 1,500-square-foot building in a small business park off South Florida Avenue, gradually expanding to 4,500 square feet.
"I decided to get a big building," he said, explaining he needed the space not only for the lumber, but also for the equipment he wanted, such as a Wenig moulder, which is used to make wood mouldings.
He has been at his current location since 2002.
Like many other businesses, Hamer's business was affected by the recession.
"We had five employees six or seven years ago," he said, explaining how he and his wife do most of the work with the help of a part-time employee.
He said business is improving.
Hamer said he has customers all over the state, as far away as Jacksonville and Miami, who need custom woodworking projects.
Many of his customers are from the area, though.
Ray Anderson, an Auburndale woodworker, said he checked out Hamer's business because he was looking for more variety than the lumber available at chain building supply stores.
He doesn't regret it.
Anderson said Hamer is a master craftsman and an extremely nice person to deal with.
"I am thankful I met him," Anderson said, noting that Hamer is generous in offering advice on woodworking projects.
Noel Rosa, a Lakeland musician, turned to Hamer for help in building parts to a new, lightweight acoustic guitar he sells through his business New Sound Acoustics.
"I originally was having them built in Hendersonville, Tenn.," Rosa said. Every time there were problems, however, he had to travel all the way to Tennessee to deal with them.
He decided to find a local company.
"I looked Jim up, and we hit it off," he said.
The guitars are built of mahogany with an ebony overlay on the neck.
"Jim's very knowledgeable; he's just a genius at this stuff," Rosa said.
One thing that may be striking in walking through the work area in Hamer's shop is that it doesn't look like an active work area.
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Hamer said that's because of the largest machine in his shop: a sawdust collection system.
The sawdust is sucked through a system of large ducts into a small building behind the shop.
It's then recycled. Hamer said someone buys it all to use as horse bedding material.
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Save your money for another game, any other game, and remember never buy another Monolith product again.
Do buy this game.
Don't listen to people that can't be bothered working around the problems.
Yes, there has been many, many problems, and the current one is a pain, but there are multiple workarounds to the current one, and by the sounds of it, OP has only tried one of them.
This is an amazing game when it does work, the pvp and satisfaction of winning is greater than any of your CoDs and Halos, because you build up your Guardian how you want to play him and then are rewarded when it all goes well by the satisfaction of the fact that it is you that made the character build that way.
If you do buy it at the current state it is in, to completely avoid the DLC problems at first, don't get any DLC until it is fixed.
If you do buy it and you would also like to buy DLC - which, by the way, is worth it, the DLC characters are pretty fun - the best workaround I have found is this: (this is also what I use)
Install this game onto a memory stick, along with all compatibility packs and DLC guardians.
When you load up the game, select HARD DRIVE for your initial storage device, skip the tutorials, adjust the screen, then go to settings>select storage device
This reloads the game
Now select MEMORY STICK at the storage device option and the game will work, you have my honest word on that.
This gets around the DLC problem without requiring to remove dlc characters and reinstalling them every time you play, and I use it every time and it has worked 100% of the time for me.
Wo ai ni!! ^.^
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I am passing large blood clots from prostate. Any ideas on how to stop this?READ MORE
I would make sure that you are not on any anticoagluants. Also make sure that any over the counter preparations that you are taking do not contain any anticoagulation properties. It seems that we are assuming that the blood is coming from the prostate however the remaining portion of the urinary tract including the bladder, the ureters and the kidneys also need to be evaluated.
Persistent prostate bleeding can at times be difficult to eradicate. 5 alpha reductase drugs may be of some benefit.
Given that you had a laser prostatectomy and since your prostate was very large the likelihood is that there is residual prostate tissue which may be the source of the bleeding. A repeat laser may be a good solution, but despite what you have read on the web, a definitive TURP will also be a solution to the problem.
Passing large quantities of clots in the urine is not normal. If this is coming from your prostate, it is most likely due to blood vessels on the surface of the prostate. Originally your prostate was extremley large, and it is possible that you have additional prostatic tissue. An additional green light prostatectomy may possibly help solve the problem. A "good" TURP is also likely to help resolve the problem. Following up with your urologist is extremely important. Whatever the problem is, passing blood is something you want to have seen immediately.
Here are some articles that you might find useful in the meantime:
Treatment for Enlarge Prostate
10 Best Foods for Prostate Health
5 Sexual Side Effects of Enlarged Prostate
yes my name is mary-jo
my bro -n- law
just got cleaned out
yesterday had big
clots in him
he hurt,had pressure
down there
but much better now
ty tons
consernd sis-n-lawREAD MORE
Find me a urologist who is: Honest, Caring n Competent.
After 30 yrs of deterioration thanks to the non-caring uros: one TURP, One PVP and another TURP to patch up the previous two.
The PVP left me with Involuntary leakage n RetroGrade.
Another uro suggested I have another TURP
Upon my asking of the side effects he replied:
Your Involuntary n Retro will get worse.
Then why do it?
He walked out of the room, labeling me an unwilling patient.
I take no drugs n will not.READ MORE
I passed large clots in my urine two weeks following green light laser surgery for enlarged prostate. However, mine followed blood "thining" (anti-coagulation) drugs prescribed to deal with an embolism that developed 10 days post surgery. Human blood clotting/dissolving chemistry is very complex, with many different substanced at work. I have an excess of one of these, "Lupus anticoagulant" (not related to the disease Lupus). As a result, my blood has an excessive tendency to clot, and the bleeding, with subsequent clotting following the prostate surgery triggered the embolism.
I am not sure if I then developed the larege clots in my urine because of poor anti-coagulent management (Coumadin, Heperin) or if it was just an unavoidable complication. In any event, soon my clots became difficult to pass, then impossible to pass. I went to the emergency room and my urethral blockage was opened using an irrigation catheter (very painful).
My suggestion to you is that if you have not yet seen a hemotologist, that you do so as soon as possible. Your blood chemistry my be biased towards the clotting side (as mine is). An embolism is possible, which is potenetially life-threatening.
I am now four and a half months post procedure, and my prostate symptoms have improved but have not disappeared. I seldom urinate more than 5 oz., however my urologist tells me that it could take several more months to experience greater benefits. Fortunately no problems with ejaculation or continence.
Good luck with your clotting problem.READ MORE
Hi Jerry. Thanks for your input but I don't have any special clotting problems. In the past, when I was trying to pass what felt like a large blood clot, I would take a Flomax capsule & start drinking large quantities of water. For whatever reason, this always worked within 1/2 an hour. I would also do deep breathing to relax while waiting. Passing a blood clot the size of my thumb (not an exaggeration) was not actually painful but rather shocking. You wonder when you see a clot that size how it could possibly pass thru your urethra.
On another note, and this may be helpful to you and to others with problems passing urine or blood clots before or after BPH surgery. After 2-1/2 years with this bleeding problem, it suddenly stopped about 3 months ago. It stopped 4 days after I started taking a supplement called SagaPro made by Saga Medica, an Icelandic company. I can't say for certain that this is what stopped the bleeding but if not, it certainly was a extraordinary coincidence. Also, my PSA had been increasing for the past 10 years. Six months ago it was 27. Three days ago I had my semi-annual check-up & my PSA was 3.8! The email address for Saga Medica is www.sagamedica.com. You might give it a try. maybe it will work for you as well.READ MORE
Hi JackFlash:
I've read your posts and am writing because as we speak I'm having a bleeding episode as I write this. Had Green Light Laser back in November after having 2 episodes of a blocked urethra; wound up in the ER etc. Since the surgery around March and April of this year I've had two more episodes; but since then nothing, until tonight. I've been taking SAGAPRO for a few weeks and was hoping it would do the same for me that you thought it might be doing for you.
One question? Are you taking FLOMAX along with the SAGAPRO? Just trying to find my way out of this.
ElshaREAD MORE
I am 56 year old male. When I was 53 I had a Biopsy done due to High PSA's. Results were negative. Aproximately four months post-biopsy I developed heavy bleeding with numerous clots. This continued off and on for almost one year. Clots became so heavy I went to the ER twice due to being completely blocked. I finally had Holmium Laser enucleation done. Bleeding stopped after about 2 months and I have not had bleeding again for almost 9 months. Bleeding has now started up again. When bleeding I MUST frink at least 3 liters of water everyday or huge clots will develope. Bleeding is usally triggers because I sit too long, as in a long trip in a car or sitting in a desk chair for more than 8 hours a day. I think the vessels in my prostate get inflamed and burst causing the bleeding. The inflamation comes from direct pressure of sitting for long periods of time. I also take Plavix, fish oil and baby aspirin due to getting two caridac stents about 6 years ago. While these meds may make the bleeding last a little longer the trigger, in my opinion , is the pressure placed on the prostate during long drives and/or sitting in chairs.READ MORE
I had a large bladder stone removed a couple of years ago. I noticed that when I exercise and in particular play a round of golf and run in the same day, I find gross hematoria in my urine. The other day I urinated a long stringy like soft substance. Could this be a blood clot urinated out or a stone. I think that a stone would feel much harder. I actually retrieved the piece and felt it so it seems rather soft for a stone.READ MORE
Sorry i don't have an answer but my husband shares your same questions. He has been to the doctors since he was a boy in high school. Now they say it is due to his stress and drinking as a grown man . He told me this morning that his bleeding has slowed down and wonders if it has anything to do with strees and drinking. Since he has had little of both lately. We had gone back to the doctors last year because the clots were getting pretty big. The size of a quarter or sometimes larger. We have noticed it happens more than usual after sex, that he bleeds a lot and passes clots. Dose scare us because there is so much. So the doctor's are relating it to Strees and Alchole????? Wish i had an answer for all of us. Still looking myself.....
concerned wife: michelleREAD MORE
I have had similar symtoms and two green light surgeries. The last one took place two years ago and after a regular check up last March and had a rectal exam, the discharges were frequent but my doctor prescribed Proscar. Now I have not experienced these discharges. I wonder if others have taken this medication and I wonder if I am on the right track. I hope this helps you.
My experience is identical to yours, enormous prostate, laser ablation (blasting) to open up the urethra tube 6-7 years ago, two biopsies last year (one with 28 snips and the other with 18 snips). Now I have bouts with passing blood clots. I am a avid bike rider and attend spinning classes and also work out with weight machines all of which probably increases my clotting. Note that I had a PSA of 11 in may of last year, then I stopped all exercise and sex for 2 weeks and had a retest of my PSA and it had dropped to 5. Also, I have had more than 5 biopsies in the last 10 years and the first 3 were negative and the last two showed something suspicious but the Mayo pathologist would not pronounce it as cancerous. I generally try to avoid the blood clots by wearing highly padded shorts during biking/spinning and I now try to take several liters of water a day. This seems to help. I am terrified of my passing of clots since they are also quite large and when I am encountering an episode of clots it seems to feed on itself. Note that I periodically go for weeks or months without clots but eventually they rear their ugly head. Note also that any bleeding tends to be at the start of urination and clears up as I develop a steady stream which leads me to believe that it is prostate related and not bladder or kidney related. I can only imagine that my prostate is in a highly damaged condition after all the biopsies and after the laser blasting. Nevertheless at 69 years old I can still exercise and have an active sex life. I am just concerned that the bloody clots could get worse.READ MORE
A few years ago I had some very high PSA's. After getting a biopsy done I was negative for Cancer. ROughly 9 weeks after the biopsy I started moderate bleeding that would last 3 to5 days then subside for a few weeks and begin the bleeding cycle again. It was determined by my urologist that I had a prostate the size of a grapefruit. Very very large. My Urologist recommended a procedure called Holmium Lazer procedure BUT only a few Doctors were experts at it. I searched around and found Dr Das at Jefferson Hospital in Phila. This was in Sept of 2010. Your should read up on the Holmium Laser. It is less invasive that TURP and trims and seals the blood vessels of the prostate while reducing it's size. The procedure was a complete success. However, every 4 month's I have urinary bleeding after lifting heavy objects or excerising as in very fast walking...etc. I also take Plavix, baby aspirin and fish oil for a Heart Stent I had placed in 2009. I am 56 years old and think the vessels on my prostate might have Prostate Varices (weak veins that can tear) AND the blood thinning meds supports bleeding. If I have an episode without stopping the Blood thinning meds I can bleed heavy clots for up to 10 days. Thumb size clots are just average and in one urination I could produce 10 to 15 clots during heavy bleeding. YOU MUST drink at least 2 liters of water EVERYDAY even when your not bleeding because urine disolves clots! Also if your on aspirin or fish oil if you start to bleed stop thaking them for about 3 or 4 days. You will see the bleeding slow down. Dehydration is ur enemy. You will bleed more for some reason...AT least I do. I would suggest you see Dr Das in Philadelphia at Jefferson Hospital if your nearby.READ MORE
i had a biopsy which was negative and i did have a TURP 10 years ago. My prostate was a little enlarged and my PSA was 9 but spiked from 5 in 1 year so hence the biopsy. I started bleeding sometime after small clots and at the start of urination and then blood for a while heavy at times. It clears up in 3-4 days and the last time stopped for 6-7 months then starts again. My doctor says he has many patients who have the same problems after a TuRP of biopsy. I take Flomax daily and sexual intercourse after is fine. I do need Ciales. The more I read of how many people have this problem the better I feel about it. I was very worried at the start but my doctor has told me not to worry.READ MORE
Does your urologist attribute the bleeding to the biopsies or the PVP. The PVP was five years ago and both biopsies (annual) were within the past two years. How many needles are used in the biopsies? More needles means more bleeding.READ MORE
Good news, probably, regarding what I think is the latest TURP istrument.
Holmium laser was helplful for a long time. My very competent urologist performed green light surgery almost three years ago resulting in hugely helpful prostate reduction. His laudable approach was to use the most minimally invasive procedure possible to remedy the problem. Over time, urination very gradually became slightly more difficult with occasional bleeding which inevitably receded completely until just recently. On the morning four days ago this week, though, blood seemed the only liquid voided and urination was not possible. A painful 25-minute drive to the doctor resulted in grateful relief via several flushings with saline solution which effectively removed a blood clot "about the size of a golf ball."
What is the next step before drastic solution of prostatectomy? I invite corrections if wrong, but I believe the latest TURP instrument implements a bipolar wire (?) hoop with a completely contained electric current which is less likely to result in typical post-operative complications. One post-op problem with the holmium laser is that a thin layer of necrotic tissue can be left on the inside (of course) of the prostate. Such layer seemed to promote the formation of tiny stones in the prostate interior which irritated the organ into bleeding.
The LD (Laudable Doc) said that perhaps it's time for me, and maybe you, Jack, to consider that operation.
Best luck to both of us.
Hi Jack
I also have numerous number of blood clots together with profuse bleeding.Drinking a lot of water is essential as it does flush out the blood clots. I also had green light laser five years back and this spontaneous bleeding result in two hospital stay of four days each because of acute retention. The ultra sound show no kidney stones, psa. was low and decreasing cystoscope show up nothing significant. The prostate is very enlarge and the urologist prescribe Duodart which is a 5 alpha reductase drug as well as a smooth muscle relaxant ,the latter allow the clots to pass through. Bleeding still occurs and the Duodart take a minmum of 12 weeks to take effect, some may take up to 6 months.I take a mixture of papaya fruit apple and beet root which can reduce the amount of bleeding. Walking or excercise seems to activate the bleeding. Good luck if you want to try it. No harm TomREAD MORE
Another uro sugested same n I asked: What r the side effects of another TURP?
(Have had one TURP n one PVP three yrs apart by different uros)
Answer: Your involuntatry leakage n retrograde will get worse.
Then why do it?
He walked out of the room labeling me as an unwilling patient.
I've yet to find a urologist who is Caring, Competent n Honest.


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Forums → Newcomers Forum → URL tricks for new members
Hey guys I have decided to create something that some people may not know about.AG(Armor Games) has a few tricks to the site.When you put in the right url into your address bar you can access certain parts or options of the site,that you usually wouldn't be able to without doing so.I will post and try to explain some of these url tricks.If anyone else has any tricks that I did not cover then go ahead and post them here as well.
First on is the URL that allows you to add yourself to your own friends list.This is actualy one of the most complicated ones,because its different for each person.
As you can see that URL says to put in a number.Well that number is the number assigned to you when you become a member to identify you(or something like that)point is there is a special way to get your own number easily.In order to do this you need to have enough comments on your profile page to gain access the "View All Comments" button under your comments.If you are new and can not gain access to this button then the best thing I can suggest is that you post on your profile until you get it,but I emphasize this greatly.If you choose to do that then be sure to delete all of those comments immediately after you are done,because they are considered spamful.Anyways once you have gotten the button,click on it,and look at the url on your address bar currently for that page.It should have a special number at the end of the URL which you must copy and add to the end of the first URL.Once this is done you will just have to press enter with URL (best if you do it while your own your profile)and your name and armatar will show up on your friends list.
The second one is alot easier to use and that is the URL to access all of the games in order.You can use it for whatever reason you want.(Mainly if you want to see all of the games)Now all you have to do is take the URL below and enter it into your address bar,and it will take you to the page and you will be done.Here it is:
The third one takes very little work to use,but can be useful for people with very long about sections.It is the one that takes you to the bottom of the page of your profile,and to my knowledge was discovered by plokkey.All you have to do is put it up at the top of your about,and if you want to change the text of what it says like "Go to the bottom of my page" then check out my BB code guide to find out how to do that.Here.Now then I should give you the URL.Here it is:
Now the last one was a bit more of a interesting find,instead of a useful link,but I will show you it anyways.This is something Klaushouse posted on the forums awhile back.In the shop there was four test pages,but the last one was a bit different from the others.It had a fake AG hat that was photoshopped in,and can actually still be added to your shopping cart for $15.Here it is:
I hope you guys like all of these interesting URL tricks I compiled together,and that it is helpful in some way.
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OOh ooh am I allowed to add to this? Because I have a great one!
I noticed that the game searching is REALLY REALLY broad. Well dont search using that. Use tags.
Just type armorgames.com/tag/"your search here"
you cant actually search names of the games, but you can search for like for things like, ball games, which would be = armorgames.com/tag/ball or colors and stuff that would be tags like that.
Actually I have found out most of those lol. Me and maybe other people are looking for more.
There has got to be more.
well plokkey this guide isn't made for you now is it?It is made for people who are new and may not know about them.Also if you know of any,then like I said go ahead and post them here like that other guy.
cool! i didnt know that
very nice guide thank you
You can also use this and go straght to ur comments instead of the messenger.
yeah, thx for that
I just remembered one for finding a users profile without ever even seeing them on a persons comments or in the forums.I think just about every user who has been here for awhile should know it,but here it goes:
It's really just that simple.Just be sure to replace 'PersonsUserName"with of course the persons username.That is quite obviosu though.Anyways thats another one that should be useful for finding people on the sight,for whatever reason.
thats very helpful for the newcomers, I already knew them though.
hey, I got a question (I'm not a n00b)
if you want to have a link to the messenger for example and you want it to say 'Bottom Of Page' and not 'http://armorgames.com/user/Pazx/#messenger' how do you make it 'Bottom of Page'?
oh sorry never mind I saw Crimzon's guide. my bad :P
There is also:
Write anything you want at the ***** - It just comes up with a blank page..!
Type [ url=http://armorgames.com/user/Pazx/#messenger ]Bottom of Page[ /url ] without the spaces in the coding.
Here's one. It will take you to the bottom of the community where the user list it.
you knwo what I think I will just address to you as "line" from now on.Anyways "line"(If you dont like it then come up with something else I can quickly address to you as)that last one could actually be quite useful.I noticed though that you know the urls to many of the images in AG.Could you make one for how to find those.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness Race Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #16
"I had no idea of the conditions, he [the harlequin] said: these heads were the heads of rebels. I shocked him excessively by laughing. Rebels! What would be the next definition I was to hear? There had been enemies, criminals, workers—and these were rebels. Those rebellious heads looked very subdued to me on their sticks." (3.6)
Add "language" to the list of things that don't quite hold up to close inspection. The white men have called the Africans "enemies, criminals, workers" and now "rebels"—which is especially ridiculous, because the Africans haven't been allowed nearly enough power or freedom of choice to be called such things. (But it sure does make sticking their heads on sticks a lot more justifiable.)
Quote #17
"'He [the harlequin] suspected there was an active ill-will towards him on the part of these white men that—.' 'You are right,' I said, remembering a certain conversation I had overheard. 'The manager thinks you ought to be hanged.'" (3.21)
The manager's racism extends towards Russians as well. He wants to kill the harlequin simply because he's different from the others. That, or maybe he just doesn't like the guy's silly clothes.
Quote #18
[When leaving the Inner Station with Kurtz]: "In front of the first rank, along the river, three men, plastered with bright red earth from head to foot, strutted to and fro restlessly. When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendant tail—something that looked like a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany." (3.30)
White men view the native Africans as "savages" in their paint and armed with their strange weapons. Their language is so alien that it sounds like a "satanic litany." Which, unless it says "here's to my sweet Satan" when played backwards, sounds like a stretch to us.


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ITC Global ups holding in Guinee SARL
GUINEA| Aug. 21, 2012, 8:36 a.m.
ITC Global, an international provider of enterprise grade satellite communications to mining, energy and maritime businesses, has acquired the remaining 10% interest in ITC Guinee SARL.
As a result of this transaction, ITC Global will own 100% of ITC Guinee SARL. Through ITC Guinee SARL, ITC Global will continue to provide networking solutions on a global basis, focusing on Africa-based client sites.
"Increasing ownership in one of our key markets is a core strategic objective for ITC Global. We have invested in Africa for many years, and will continue to serve our clients in Africa and globally with the outstanding service that ITC Global is known for," said Joseph Spytek, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ITC Global. "We will continue to increase our investment in Africa in the near term. This transaction solidifies our strong position in the attractive African market."
ITC Global's Guinea office has been fully operational since 2005 through an agency agreement and this location is fully staffed with a highly technical team that will continue to deliver ITC Global's customized solutions. ITC Global has recently been awarded industry standard HS&E certification for the Pilbara region, and the Company continues to operate under these standards throughout the world.
This location will continue to provide VSAT services and support, and will remain a critical location in the Company's geographic footprint. ITC Global will continue to offer a full range of services locally, including mobile VSAT trailer sales and rentals, Inmarsat satellite phone sales and rentals, VSAT installation, and Local Area Network infrastructure design and installation, among others.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is. — A. S. Byatt
A lot of people will ask what day it is today, but few will ask what color.
Ed Walker put up a great post late last evening, one that deserves more oxygen. Do check it out.
Hospital held hostage for millions by ransomware
Hey Hollywood! A hospital in your backyard has been "infected" with ransomware, their enterprise system tied up until administration coughs up $3.6 million.* Didn't see that coming, huh? Law enforcement is involved, though if they haven't managed to resolve other smaller ransomware attacks, they won't solve this before it critically affects patients' care.
This is a pretty good (if unfortunate) example of business continuity crisis. Remember Y2K and all the hullaballoo about drills and testing for enterprise failure? We still need that kind of effort on a regular basis; how do you run your biz if all electronics go dark, for any reason?
(* US articles say $3.6M; CAN article linked says $5M. Currency difference, or an increase in the demand?)
Google found critical vulnerability in GNU C Library
"CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow" Huh? What? If you read Google's blog post about this yesterday, you were probably scratching your head. Some Googlers struggle with writing in plain English. Here's what tech news outlets interpreted from that google-degook:
Ars Technica: "Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of software and devices vulnerable"
BBC: "Glibc: Mega bug may hit thousands of devices"
Threatpost: "Critical glibc Vulnerability Puts All Linux Machines at Risk"
In a nutshell, if you're running Linux, patch your systems, stat.
Petroleum's still a problem
TBTF is still too TBTF
Neel Kashkari, Minneapolis Fed Reserve president, called for the breakup of Too-Big-to-Fail banks yesterday, as they are still a risk to the economy. Didn't see that coming from a fed president, especially Kashkari.
Biggest tech story today: Judge ordered Apple to help hack San Bernadino gunman's phone
Apple's been fighting government pressure on backdoors to its products. The fight intensified after federal judge Sheri Pym ordered Apple to cooperate with the FBI to unlock encryption on a county-owned phone used by San Bernadino gunman Syed Farook. Begs the question why any government agency — local, state, or federal — would ever issue a phone with encryption the government could not crack in the first place. Seems like one answer is a government- and/or business-specific encryption patch to iOS: [IF phone = government-issued, THEN unlock with government-issued key]. Same for business-issued phones. Your own personal phone, not issued by a government agency or business? No key, period.
Phew. That's enough for a Wednesday. Hope we can coast downhill from here.
I'm still drafting this, too much stuff to weed through this morning. I'll update as I write. Snag a cup of joe and a pączki while you wait. Make mine raspberry filled, please!
Economic indicators say "Maybe, Try Again"
Asian and European stock markets were a mess this morning. There's no sign of an agreement between OPEC nations on production and pricing, which may lead to yet more floundering in the stock market. Yet one indicator — truck tonnage on the roads — doesn't show signs of a recession in the U.S.
UK court cases topsy-turvy: LIBOR Six and a secret trial
Warning: this article omits information that the Guardian and other news organisations are currently prohibited from publishing.
The case, R v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, continues to look like a star chamber, with very little information available to the public about the case. The accused have been charged and served time, but the media has been unable to freely access information about the case, and their appeal has now been denied. A very ugly precedent for a so-called free country.
Facebook: French trouble, and no free internet in India
Boy kicked out of school because of his DNA
This is a really sad story not resolved by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The boy has cystic fibrosis; his parents informed the school on his paperwork, as they should in such cases. But because of the risks to the boy or his siblings with similar genes, the boy was asked to leave. GINA, unfortunately, does not protect against discrimination in education, only in healthcare and employment. This is a problem Congress should take up with an amendment to GINA. No child should be discriminated against in education because of their genes over which they have no control, any more than a child should be discriminated against because of their race, gender identity, or sexuality.
All right, get your party on, scarf down the last of your excess sweets, for tomorrow is sackcloth and ashes. I can hardly wait for the sugar hangover to come.
Remember when it was outrageous that the Iranians had (allegedly) hacked Aramco? In addition to wiping hard drives (though in ways that left the computers recoverable), they also took and threatened to release documents.
In news that I earlier predicted, NSA and GCHQ have hacked OPEC, including Saudi Arabia's OPEC Minister (though NSA managed to detask him when he came to the US).
Spiegel doesn't provide much detail of what they've gotten — just a tantalizing overview, particularly given the likelihood that the speculation claim pertains to the skyrocketing prices in 2008, which (among other things) the Saudis used to get us into a new security cooperation agreement.
None of this is surprising. But as we try to fearmonger new wars based on one party hacking another, it's probably safe to assume we got there first.
It stated that OPEC officials were trying to cast the blame for high oil prices on speculators. A look at files in the OPEC legal department revealed how the organization was preparing itself for an antitrust suit in the United States. And a review of the section reserved for the OPEC secretary general documented that the Saudis were using underhanded tactics, even within the organization. According to the NSA analysts, Riyadh had tried to keep an increase in oil production a secret for as long as possible.
Our TCA with Saudi Arabia (and the fact that we (Booz, in fact!) are now providing it with cybersecurity) may well be one reason it is no longer a top NSA target.
OPEC appears in the "National Intelligence Priorities Framework," which the White House issues to the US intelligence community. Although the organization is still listed as an intelligence target in the April 2013 list, it is no longer a high-priority target.
Who needs to hack when you're in charge of cybersecurity?
And guess which company has a lot of that business? Edward Snowden's former employer, Booz.
The War Powers Resolution 6-Month Report has gotten unusual attention because it officially announces we're at war in Yemen and Somalia (though I suspect the Administration has only finally officially announced we're at war against al Qaeda in Yemen precisely because we're not, just).
While everyone's looking, let's look more closely at this bit:
The United States completed its responsible withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in December 2011, in accordance with the 2008 Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq on the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq.
Jeebus pete. Can't we avoid propaganda like "responsible withdrawal" in even these bureaucratic communications? (Or "working closely with the Yemeni government to operationally dismantle … AQAP"?)
Nevertheless, even dripping with propagandistic language as it is, this passage seems to be official notice to Congress that the war in Iraq is over, done, kaput.
So now can we repeal the Iraq AUMF?
As you'll recall, over six months ago, Rand Paul proposed an amendment to repeal the still-active Iraq AUMF. It failed miserably, 30-67. During the debate on it, a bunch of reasonable Democrats (and all the usual suspect unreasonable ones) stood up and blathered on about why we need an AUMF for a war that is over. If you asked now they'd probably point to the bad crowd Iraq is hanging out with in OPEC circles.
Iran and Iraq are forming a strengthening alliance inside Opec, raising concerns among moderate Arab Gulf producers like Saudi Arabia and increasing the potential for discord in the oil producers' group.
A particular bone of contention was a proposal by Venezuela – backed by other Opec hardliners like Iran, Iraq and Algeria – that the group should protest against the EU sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme. The move was rebuffed by Saudi Arabia and other moderates including Nigeria, Libya and Kuwait, who argued that such protests were the preserve of foreign ministers, not oil ministers.
(Yes, you read that right: Saudi Arabia is considered a "moderate" state in this context.)
Or they'd point to the series of bombings al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed credit for recently.
But the real reason they won't repeal an AUMF for a war that has officially ended is because that AUMF expands the authority to fight terrorism beyond simply al Qaeda to whatever "terrorist" groups the President claims is in armed conflict with and poses a threat to the US. Indeed, in Mark Udall's effort to "fix" the NDAA, he even suggested the Iraq War AUMF pertained to "covered persons" who could be detained indefinitely under that law.
I know it sounds funny, having to insist on ending a war the Administration just informed Congress is over. But it's not over.
Saudi Arabia's efforts to get OPEC to raise production has foundered on opposition, mostly from those on the other side of the fight for hegemony of the Middle East and the world, starting with Iran. The vote came down to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE against Iran, Iraq (!), Libya, Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
But as that breakout makes clear, this is as much about making things difficult for the US as anything else.
Analysts said that while there were opposing views on whether markets required more crude, the backdrop to the disagreement revolved around political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa and differences over how to respond to consumer demands.
"One factor is a diverging market view. Another is politics," said analyst Samuel Ciszuk at IHS. "At times of heated politics/ideological debate, Saudi struggled to dominate as much as it could have given its size vis-a-vis others in OPEC.
Gulf Arab producer Qatar has given support to Libyan rebels fighting the government of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. And Saudi Arabia has angered Shi'ite Iran by using force to support the Sunni Bahraini government in suppressing a Shi'ite rebellion.
Easily OPEC's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia normally gets its way.
But this time those in OPEC politically opposed to the United States — led by Iran and Venezuela — found enough support to block Riyadh.
"Saudi is the cartel member most interested in earning political points' with consuming countries, and maintaining its image as a reliable supplier of last resort," said Katherine Spector at CIBC World Markets.
"Venezuela and Iran likely feel they have less to gain politically by increasing quotas as a symbolic gesture."
The IEA responded by begging Saudi Arabia to increase supply anyway.
"Of course what really matters is actual supply, which should move in line with seasonally rising demand, and we urge key producers to respond accordingly," the IEA said.
It also once again made oblique reference to the only real tool it has at its disposal to battle high prices — the 1.5 billion barrels of government held oil inventories that it coordinates on behalf of its 28 members, a reserve meant to be used only in the event of an emergency outage.
"The IEA stands ready to work with its member governments and others to help ensure that markets are well supplied," the agency said in an email.
And Ed Markey was the first member of what will surely be many members of Congress advocating to tap the Strategic Reserve.
"OPEC, led by Iran and Venezuela, has snubbed its nose at the United States and the rest of the Western nations addicted to OPEC oil," said Markey, the top member of the minority party on the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives, said in a release.
"This is a clear sign that America must engage in a long-term plan to break our ties to this OPEC-controlled market, and prepare to deploy America's oil reserves now to head off an economic collapse from continued high gas(oline) prices."
Well, if there was any doubts Congress would find the Libyan war legal yesterday, those doubts will be dispersed today. And fracking? Expect more of it in your local drinking water.
Is it any surprise that Iran chose this moment to ditch the dollar?
Iran, the second-biggest producer of crude oil in the Middle East, has "completely halted" all oil transactions in dollars, the state-run ISNA news agency said, citing Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari.
No, I don't think so. After all, the release of the NIE this week will make it very difficult for the US to respond with full-scale war–as some believe the US did when Iraq moved away from the dollar. The Administration has been telling us for weeks now that Iraq is all peachy keen, which will make it hard to claim that Iran is destabilizing Iraq. And now the Administration has just said Iran has no active program to develop nukes–the other convenient excuse to start a war. Moreover, by pushing Europe to strong-arm Iran, all the while hoarding the information that Iran didn't have the nuke program we claimed they did, has really pissed off our European allies.
And, at the same time, Iran has picked a moment that may have maximum effect on OPEC as a whole.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has set up a team to study pricing oil in another currency, the INSA cited Nozari as saying. The measure is designed to prevent further losses in revenue to oil exporters, ISNA reported.
The group's findings will be announced at the next OPEC meeting, Nozari said, according to ISNA.
IANAE, but it seems that each time an oil producer moves away from the dollar, it's going to be more and more tempting for others to follow. So by moving while the issue is under consideration, it may pressure those on OPEC (our Saudi bankers) who want to help the US out.
Two weeks ago, the Annapolis Conference looked like an opportunity for the US, the Saudis, and the Israelis to forge some kind of agreement that might counter Iranian power. But things haven't gone so well for them in the interim two weeks.


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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Islamic Republic of Iran
On 4 September 1980 the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran declared that henceforth it wishes to use the red crescent as the distinctive emblem and sign instead of the red lion and sun.
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SOURCE: SCHINDLER/TOMAN, The Laws of Armed Conflicts, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1988, p.576.
The Swiss Federal Council received in Bern 12 September 2000 the following communication dated 23 July 2000 in Farsi:
No.: 640/4329
Date: July 23, 2000
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran presents its compliments to the Embassy of Switzerland in Tehran and with reference to Note No. 904/73/4840/18, dated September 3, 1980 has the honor to state:
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced via the aforementioned note that in a bid to prevent multiplicity of Distinctive International Emblems for aid and charity related affairs and in order to contribute to the unification of these Distinctive Emblems, it would not practice its right of using the "Red Lion and Sun" as one of the three official emblems of the International Union of the Red Cross and will rather use the "Red Crescent" emblem for this purpose. The measure was adopted with the understanding that all government would oblige themselves to accepting one of the two Red Cross or Red Crescent emblems and once an open violation of this is observed, the right will remain for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to use its distinctive emblem at national and international levels again.
In view of the prevailing developments in line with increasing the number of emblems, it is emphasized that in the case of approval and increase of new distinctive emblems, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will according to Article 38 of the 1949 Geneva Convention on improving the situation of those wounded in the armed forces during military expedition in which, mention has been made of the three emblems of Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Lion and Sun, maintain its right of using the Red Lion and Sun emblem once again.
In view of the fact that the Government of that Embassy is the depository of the four August 12, 1949 Geneva Conventions on supporting war victims, it would be appreciated if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland is informed of the contents of this Note, reiterating the maintenance of the right of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to use the "Red Lion and Sun" emblem once again so that consequently, the 1949 Geneva Conventions' member states are officially informed.
Availing itself of this opportunity to renew the assurances of its highest consideration.
Wishing the victory of the oppressed over the oppressor.
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