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Quotes and wise sayings from successful entrepreneurs have become a source of inspiration and motivation to young and upcoming Entrepreneurs as well as those who are deeply business inclined.
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Aliko Dangote
"Endeavor to work hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day
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M.K.O. Abiola
"No one can give you the power to succeed, It's yours. Take it".
Abasiama Idaresit
"I consider myself an expert and a leader in the field of technology,
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Henry Fajemirokun
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Hakeem Belo Osagie
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Folorunsho Alakija
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Charles Igwe
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Jason Njoku
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that you can start a business in Africa if you don't immerse yourself
in the market 100%".
Cletus Ibeto
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Ola Orekurin
"True success is about a passion to create a better world, live a life
you can look back on and be really proud of".
Uche Pedro
"Keep it simple. Don't try to do everything. Pick your lane and be the best at it".
SEE ALSO: Top 25 quotes for Business In 2017
Jim Ovia
"I will continue to empower the youths. That's my passion. The youths are leaders of tomorrow. We must continue to support them".
Wole Soyinka
"Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself".
Damilola Solesi
"I might fail in business but I don't consider myself a failure until
I have given up. Failure is given up on your goals and dreams ".
Bakrie Delano
"We all make mistakes; the even bigger error is not learning from them".
Chinua Achebe
"One of truest test of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised".
Fella Durotoye
"Failure is the test of true commitment. If you back out and quit
after a failed attempt, then you're not yet committed to the dream".
David Oyedepo
"How far you can see determines how far you can go".
Okechukwu Ofili
"You got to have the bad years so that you can love the good years".
Oluwaseun Osewa
"Our Preferred holding period is forever".
SEE ALSO: 12 Bible Verses for Business Owners
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Published on June 4th,2010 at 3:39 PM
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Editor's note: This market commentary is provided by the Dairy Division at FCStone/Downes-O'Neill in Chicago, Ill.
Continued pressure on the spot markets yesterday was the big story as the block dropped 4.25 cents on seven trades. The weekly total of 17 has already matched last week's volume, which we have noted was the largest since the final week of April. Though buying continues to enter the market, the aggressiveness of the selling was enough to push futures lower yesterday as prices closed steady to 10 lower throughout the complex. Volume was fairly light as we traded just 759 times yesterday as the market dipped. It seems of late you could walk away from the market after 11:30 and come back later and little to nothing would be changed.
USDA FAS reported exports yesterday at 289 million pounds in total for the month of May — on par with the April export volume, while cheese was at 43.0 million pounds, up 2% from the April release. Cooperatives Working Together also accepted bids for 648k lbs. of cheese last week.
In the grain markets, it was a relatively bullish USDA report yesterday morning as new crop carryout was 130 million bushels below the trade estimates, thanks largely to increased usage from exports, ethanol and feed/seed residual. We note that this was the first time in history the USDA posted ethanol usage above that of feed usage for corn.
At the end of the day, corn was up 25.25 cents in December — also in part due to the fear of very high temperatures coming to the Corn Belt over the next two to three weeks. Settlement on December corn was 658, and technically while we wouldn't refer to the situation as healthy some major resistance levels were broken on the rally. Beans followed corn after a ho-hum report, closing up 11.25 cents at 1358.25.
Reports out of South America estimate their soy acreage will be up ~3% this coming year, but they expect a lower total production number as yield seems unlikely to repeat after a near-perfect weather pattern last season.
We look for corn to open mixed and soybeans to open 3 to 5 cents higher.
Daily CME spot market prices:
Block cheese: $2.055 (down 4.25 cents)
Barrel cheese: $2.1025 (unchanged)
Butter: $2.03 (unchanged)
Grade A NFDM: $1.625 (unchanged)
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Pietermaritzburg - Two men accused of impersonating police officers were arrested in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.
The men, aged 36 and 40, were arrested on Sunday, Captain Thulani Zwane said.
They went to a house in Boom Street allegedly dressed as policemen and questioned two friends about a person they were looking for. They allegedly demanded money from the friends.
One of the friends contacted the police and the two were arrested. Police recovered R300 they had taken from the friends and a police badge. - Sapa


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Deal alert! Amazon's 32GB Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is on sale for $299, down from $429
0. phoneArena posted on 05 Aug 2014, 08:14
If you are in the USA, and have been aching for one of those Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 tablets for some time, today is your day! Amazon is selling the 32GB Wi-Fi model for a cool $299, down from the $439 it usually asks for...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. meanestgenius (Posts: 16618; Member since: 28 May 2014)
It will expire on July 6, and there's nothing that suggests a limited supply.
July 6th? That would mean that this deal ENDED almost a month ago. Don't you mean, AUGUST 6th, @Luis D?
All in all, it's a good deal for a great device.
2. promise7 (Posts: 891; Member since: 03 Jul 2013)
July 6, 2015?
3. meanestgenius (Posts: 16618; Member since: 28 May 2014)
Lol, I doubt it. Probably just a typo.
4. luis.d (Posts: 354; Member since: 04 Dec 2013)
Yeah, I get a little slow in the heat... just like the Snapdragon 801 :p
5. meanestgenius (Posts: 16618; Member since: 28 May 2014)
6. Troysyx (Posts: 181; Member since: 30 Jul 2012)
For that "special" price, get the Nvidia Shield. 1,000 times better than an amazon tablet.
7. 0xFFFF (Posts: 3806; Member since: 16 Apr 2014)
The price it shows me is $319. Of course, I'd never buy one of these spyware infested POS devices anyway. They don't even work well to watch Amazon sourced video content (read the reviews).
Rather than flush $319 down the drain, I would spend a bit extra and get a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S. That's a nice tablet with a great screen for viewing video content and reading using inverse text mode.


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cz question.
I need an answer from somebody who can clearly explain this to me in detail. I've carried my cz 75b for some time now. I understand the b model is firing pin block, so its " drop proof". So one in the chamber hammer down, or full cocked and locked? I guess I just don't understand how this block works. I know I sound confusing, but somebody straighten me out.
The block normally stops the firing pin from hitting the primer unless the trigger is pulled intentionally.
The trigger moves a couple parts that clear the way for the firing pin.
That's what I thought. I couldn't find anything online that was clear on the operation of it. Some even made it sound like they were considering the manual safety as the fp block. But I clearly see that's wrong.
I understand basic fp block function, I just really wanted to understand mine a little more in depth. I've got people that try to argue that I shouldn't carry a cz 75 condition one because there is no block. But there is. I just like to know evey detail before I debate with folks.
Back when I had used a CZ in IPSC, Condition 1 was the only acceptable way to have it in the holster when told to make ready.
There was not a safe way to put the CZ in Cond 2 (according to the RO's there).
But that was with the original CZ-75.
I have not looked at a CZ since. The only reference I can think of is the owners manual.
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Gassy breastfed baby
My baby is 5 months old. He is terribly gassy and has always had a fussy time with breastfeeding. I had (have) lots of milk. He pulls off the breast and it is streaming out on its own. Early on, I went to one sided feedings and it seemed to help a bit. I was also told that my baby`s GI tract would become sophisticated and that he would also become better at breastfeeding and coping with my let down. Now, at 5 months he is still very gassy. Feedings are not comforting. He is on and off the breast a million times. I can never tell when he is finished. He seems to suck desperately, but pops off. I stop and burp him. This helps a bit, but he still has a hard time settling down. He doesn`t seem very is content after a nursing. Can be fussy if its awake time, or needs a pacifier if he wants to fall asleep. He usually nurses for about 5 minutes before getting really worked up. Sometimes I just don`t know if he is ever satisfied. He has very little quiet alert time unless I sling him. He IS gaining weight just fine though, so I can`t get my pediatrician to take me seriously. Birth weight was 6lbs, 4oz. and he is now 16lbs., 8 oz. at 5 months. His stools are only once a day and sometimes he goes 2 days without one and seems uncomfortable from gas. They are always dark green and mucousy. I have been off dairy and off soy, with no marked difference. We`ve tried Mylicon drops and Gripe Water but he hates taking either. Gripe water seems maybe to help get up some burps. Also, he spits up. I don`t know if its anymore than the average baby. Any ideas? Thank you.....
It takes 3 to 5 weeks for all cow milk protein to be out of your milk.
If it has not been this long, then more time is needed to be sure this is not a cow milk intolerance. The dark green mucousy stools are a sign of bowel irritation. There could be some other allergens in your milk, but the dairy is the most common offender.
It also sounds as if he has GE reflux. This often leads to heart burn-like discomfort after feeding rapidly and can be helped by slowing down the feeding, but may need to be treated with anti-reflux medications such as acid reducers.
Breastfeeding in a sitting-up position also helps by allowing the milk to stay in the stomach during the feeding. Upright positioning for at least 20 minutes after feedings helps as well, as does elevating the head of the baby's bed slightly.
Sometimes it takes a combination of all of the above interventions to get to a more comfortable state for the baby.
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The Hobbit's first television commercial was released today on the film's official Facebook page.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," the spot begins. The commercial features a few new clips including interaction between Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), and the always entertaining Gollum (voiced by Andy Serkis). Warner Bros. is primarily touting the fact that this film will show you how The Lord of the Rings story started.
The advertisement goes on to confirm that tickets go on sale November 7. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters December 14. Part two, The Desolation of Smaug, will be released December 13, 2013. There and Back Again, part three, will be released July 18, 2014. All three are directed by Peter Jackson. Watch the latest An Unexpected Journey trailer!
Over the weekend we learned that the host of The Colbert Report and full-time Tolkien fanboy Stephen Colbert will have a small cameo in one of the three Hobbit films. See five of the newest Hobbit photos in this report, and go here to catch up on all the latest news pertaining to Middle Earth.
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Anyone who's seen the visual to Timbaland's hypnotic "Say Something," featuring Drake, has witnessed the beauty of Keyshia Dior. The Jamaica native and Miami representative is tough to miss, owning a unique look balanced by soft, feminine features (lips as delicious as her C cups) and a fierce mohawk, with the sides of her head shaved. The 25-year-old beauty's fresh aesthetic recently helped land her placement in three major videos in just three months: "Say Something," Birdman's Lil-Wayne-and-Drake-assisted "4 My Town (Play Ball)" and Young Money's "Bedrock." Becoming her Mr. Flintstone requires similar distinction.
You began video modeling only last fall. Why the late start?
I didn't wanna do videos at first, 'cause I hate the way video girls were stereotyped. I didn't want my image messed up, but then I told myself, Who cares what people think.
Your character in the "Say Something" clip is a spoiled brat. Can you relate?
I am spoiled, but I wouldn't call it being a brat—I'd call it being confident. I don't sit there, like, Oh, I want this guy to take care of me. I always try to do my best in whatever I do. At the same time, I'm not gonna pick up a guy that can't do for me.
What type of guys do you like?
I like guys that are flashy, who make sure their clothes are on point. I'm about looking good, so I don't want a guy next to me that's not.
If you consider all the guys that you've done videos with—Drake, Wayne, Timbaland and Baby—which is the closest to your ideal man?
I don't think any of them is the total package. Timbaland has a great personality, Birdman's dress code is off the chain, Wayne has a mean swag, and Drake is real cool. If I could put all of that into one man, that would be my perfect guy. —Bonsu Thompson
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I already feel uncomfortable and self-conscious as my pregnancy progresses, but now my ankles are the size of my knees! Why does this happen and what can I do about it?
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Those swollen ankles are a normal, though frustrating, woe for many expectant women. During pregnancy, the extra fluid in the body and the pressure from the growing uterus can cause swelling (or "edema") in the ankles and feet. The swelling tends to get worse as the due date nears, particularly near the end of the day and during hotter weather.
Although sudden swelling in the face or hands may be a sign of a condition known as preeclampsia, mild swelling of the ankles and feet is usually no cause for concern.
To help reduce and/or prevent those annoying swollen ankles, try these simple steps:
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Two responses so far to our editorial Wednesday and to my op-ed column on how we'll continue to use the Redskins name in our news coverage. One was fairly predictable (if absurd), one wasn't:
What do you think about the name "Fighting Norskies"?
Regarding your editorial of September 3rd and the corresponding "Our view", as an enrolled member of the Lakota Rosebud reservation I found the "Our view" quite offensive, to my knowledge there is no such word in Lakota that corresponds to the "R" word, and you seem to imply it was an innocuous term that morphed in a slur. "Some scholars arguing Native Americans called themselves the R word" - are you kidding? Of course you don't list any names - I think this was fabricated. My understanding is the R word referred to the red bloodied corpses after they were scalped for a bounty (of course you left this out). Maybe it's just to much for the readers to hear in the context of the brutal recent ISIS genocide that mirrors the historical brutality against -" R word". I suspect your paper would still continue to report on a sports team named after the N word if it was profitable. Hopefully you'll see me someday protesting outside your office with the other 0.3% of Olmsted county. I will bring my concerns as citizen to The destination medical center meetings as well.
Also on this issue, the New York Daily News announced Wednesday that it won't use the Redskins name or logo in its coverage. Above is the logo they designed for the team.


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iPhone 5 battery life fix – simple system tweaks to apply.
The constraint with regard to iPhone 5 battery life deprives the device to gain full marks although your apple iPhone may be at the top in the popularity chart. The iPhone 5 battery life is not as good as that of BlackBerry, the old business favorite. The trouble is that unlike the old BlackBerry or Nokia 3310, the batteries of our smart-phones don't seem to last as long as they used to. While the iPhone is not a horrible power hog, particularly in terms of standby time, there still are situations where your iPhone battery can drain too fast. So, is there anything you can do for your iPhone 5 battery life fix so as to lessen your phone's battery anxiety? Fortunately, you can prolong battery life of apple iPhone noticeably by implementing a few simple system tweaks mentioned in this article.
New iOS 7 adds a number of built-in functions which may increase strain on your iPhone battery. While some of these features such as AirDrop could prove useful, others, such as dynamic wallpapers or even automatic app updates are not essential and when disabled can save energy significantly and hence battery life.
Here are few simple and proven techniques to help you to extend your iPhone 5 battery life, including tips for new iOS 7.
• Turn off AirDrop when not needed (iOS 7)
AirDrop is a feature available for iPhone 5 series running iOS 7 which allows you to share photos and files with your friends and relatives over the air when they are close to each other. But when not in use this feature should be turned off or else it drains battery faster than you can expect, particularly when it is in "discoverable" mode.
To switch off this, simply swipe up from your Home screen to bring up the Control Centre and then tap AirDrop. Select 'Off' when you're not using it.
•Avoid using 'dynamic' wallpapers (iOS 7)
iOS 7 now comes with animated wallpapers that move underneath your apps icons according to your hand movements. For example, the movements of the bubbles on the wallpaper that float around the screen depend on the direction you are holding your iPhone. These dynamic backgrounds offer a cool interface display, but consume more battery power than normal static wallpapers. You should, therefore, go for static wallpapers to extend your apple iPhone 5 battery life.
To select a static wallpaper, Go to Settings > Wallpapers & Backgrounds> Choose Wallpaper> Select a wallpaper from still category.
• Disable Auto Update Apps (iOS 7)
iOS 7 now updates your apps automatically in the background when new versions are released. Though this feature is convenient and keeps your apps always up to date but it consumes considerable battery power. You can, therefore, manage your battery better if you keep it restricted to manual update only at your convenience. To disable this,
Go to Settings >iTunes & App Store>Updates> Move slider to off/white.
• Use location based system services selectively
Perhaps the biggest single drain on your iPhone battery is the location-based services. One of the coolest features in your iPhone is its built-in GPS which allows your phone to know your exact location and gives you driving directions and information that help you find your destination like addresses, restaurant and more. While apps like Google Maps are very useful, like any service that sends data over a network, it needs considerable battery power to work. Ads are also displayed based on your current location, while at the same time iPhone is constantly pinging to check your time zone and location. All of these things are needless and reduce battery life. You should, therefore, turn off location services for the apps that you actually don't need which is very effective for apple iPhone 5 battery life fix. To do this,
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. When On, scroll down to System Services, then un-check all of those items that you don't really need.
• Disable Push e-mail feature
Push email feature is very helpful when you are in hurry. By keeping this feature 'on' your iPhone on it's own downloads the new e-mails for you instantly from the server as soon as they arrive, rather than waiting for you to launch Mail app and do the pull-to-refresh gesture to check yourself. But if you can wait that long, you can reduce the download cycle so that your iPhone is not required to check constantly for new emails. Instead, it will run a schedule every few minutes which helps in conserving your iPhone 5's battery life significantly.
To change from 'Push' To 'Fetch' Email,
Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Fetch New Data> Set Push to Off.
Scroll down and set the 'Fetch' schedule to every 15 minutes
If you can afford to wait to manually check your emails, go the manual route for the biggest impact on power saving. For this,
Go to Fetch>Choose Manually
• Disable Wi-Fi &Bluetooth when not in use
Wi-Fi and other wireless networks should be disabled if they are not being used as they consume considerable battery power even when not in use as the radios inside the phone still remain on and continuously search for networks and devices to connect to. Therefore, if you are not using Bluetooth or near a Wi-Fi hotspot where you want to connect, these should be switched off to conserve power. To do this,
Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > set to Off; Go to Settings > Bluetooth > set to Off;
Also turn off the "Ask to Join Network" option, this also drains battery.
• Disable unnecessary notifications
Most of the Apps use notifications to inform about updates and various alerts such as, arrival of new email, text messages, who are liking your posts on Facebook etc. But every time your phone receives a notification it will vibrate, play a sound and the screen will light up for a few seconds, eating a little bit of power each time. To prolong your apple iPhone 5 battery life you can customize notifications settings by going to,
Settings > Notification Centre> Make necessary changes.
You should also hold back audible and vibration notifications, as well as those that turn on the backlit displays as far as possible.
• Disable 4G (and LTE) connectivity
Although 4G connectivity is faster than 3G, it uses a lot more battery power. Long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity often drains the battery even quicker. When not using streaming videos or high-bandwidth applications you should, therefore, disable 4G and LTE connectivity to extend your battery life. Though download speed will be slower but it will be an effective measure for your iPhone 5 battery life fix. To implement this,
Go to Settings > General > Cellular > Set Enable 4G (or Enable LTE) to Off.
• Reduce auto-lock period
You can set your iPhone to automatically go to sleep, a feature known as Auto-Lock after a certain amount of time. The sooner it sleeps, the less power is used to run the screen or other services. Reducing back-lit display time for your iPhone helps increase battery life. Try setting Auto-Lock to 1 or 2 minutes. To do this,
Go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock > Tap your preference.
• Regularly close dormant background apps
There are many iPhone apps which do not absolutely close after their use but continue to remain dormant in the background when no longer being used. Some of these apps which use cellular or location data and are battery intensive, continue to churn up power in the background. It is, therefore, suggested that you close down completely an app when you no longer need to use it.
To close an app properly, double-press the Home button and your iPhone will show you currently running apps. In iOS7 simply swipe up on the screenshot of any open app to close it fully. If you haven't upgraded to iOS7 yet, press and hold on the app's icon and a small red circle will appear on the icon – press this to stop the app. To return to the normal Home screen you simply press the Home button again.
• Turn off auto-brightness
It is believed that "auto-brightness" feature in iPhone is provided to help conserve battery life by automatically and dynamically adjusting the brightness of the screen based on intensity of surrounding light. Yet many argue that this can actually cause battery drainage and reduce iPhone battery life as iPhone background resources always keep reading your iPhone screen and changing screen display which consumes battery power.
The best practice should, therefore, be to disable auto-brightness feature. Make the setting as below:
Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper > reduce the brightness to 25-30 percent, or whatever feels comfortable.
Your iPhone 5 battery life fix does not always depend on the software settings only. Sometimes, users need to take proper care of his iPhone's battery. This includes charging the battery when it is almost or fully drained and making sure that it is properly connected while charging, as well as not overcharging it.
If you don't want to sacrifice any features of your iPhone or you need so much battery life that none of these tips help you enough, an extended battery life juice pack is your best bet. With one, you'll get days more standby time and many hours more use. The battery packs like Mophie Juice-pack and Kensington battery-pack can double your new apple iPhone 5 battery life and save you in a pinch.


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Matthew Prince on how he founded CloudFlare – challenges, controversies, and his take on the startup scene
An in-depth interview with Matthew Prince, the founder of CloudFlare in which he shares the story behind his startup, the challenges that he's faced - and also his take on how to build a successful startup - including how when it comes to founding a startup, the 'big ideas are easier than small ones'.
We caught up with Matthew Prince, CEO and Founder of CloudFlare, at London Web Summit a couple of weeks back. In this in-depth interview, he tells us about CloudFlare, and how it came about – including his hopes that he can build a service that will make things like denial of service attacks a thing of the past that we'll study in history books. He also went in to some detail about how he started, sharing some of his experiences on how more startups should be going for the big ideas – he told us how '…assembling resources for a small project may seem easier at first but in the end – that project ends up being harder to attract developers for, to really scale it to attract customers for…' '…and so focusing on big ideas paradoxically becomes easier than focusing on small ones'.
He also told us about some challenges which he faced, as well as some of the interesting trends he's witnessed at CloudFlare – including the '…whole bunch of surrogate mother sites come under attack by what appeared to be an organisation in China that was opposing surrogate motherhood'. 'The day before Valentine's Day, February 13th, we saw a number of small-business flower shops come under attack: a purely financially-motivated essentially extortion scheme that said pay us a thousand dollars or we'll knock your site offline on the busiest day'.
The audio is available in the player below, and the interview is transcribed in it's entirety below.
Two hundred and fifty million websites out there really never had a very good security solution
How did the idea for CloudFlare come about? What led to its inception?
There were three of us who started CloudFlare: myself, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway. It was started with the idea that the top ten thousand websites that are online have a lot of solutions to make sure that their site is fast and make sure that their site is safe, but the other two hundred and fifty million websites that are out there really never had a very good solution. We wanted to build something that made the internet faster and protected websites from bad guys, and we wanted to make it easy and affordable for literally anyone with a website. That was the original mission of CloudFlare, and we're proud that that mission has resonated and we've grown as much as we have over the last two years.
How does CloudFlare work?
CloudFlare makes the internet faster and protects websites from attackers and bad guys. Previous solutions had required you to install hardware or software, or change code on your site. What we did that's a little bit different is exist inside the network itself. So you can think about it that if the network is a series of tubes that are all connecting various websites together, we make sure that the traffic that flows through those tubes flows through our network. We run data centres in fourteen different locations all around the world and traffic passes through those facilities, and when it does we can make sure that any of that traffic isn't some sort of an attacker or threat, and then we can also compress the traffic and do a lot of things in order to make it significantly faster. On average we'll stop a wide range of attacks ranging from simple things like spam all the way up to real threats like denial of service attacks, and we'll also make sure that an average website is twice as fast anywhere someone's visiting it, around the world.
How much does CloudFlare speed up websites?
We do a lot of different things in order to speed up sites. On average we'll make a site twice as fast for it to load. It's fast enough that you can feel the difference.
There are four major things that we do:
- The first – which is probably the easiest to understand – is that we'll take parts of the website which are static, that don't change. So imagine the logo on a web page or maybe an image which doesn't get updated very often, and we'll detect that that's a static part of the site and we'll move that content closer to the person actually visiting the site. The speed of light is very, very fast but it still takes almost half a second for a photon of light to travel from Europe to San Francisco.
- If we can make sure that your images are actually closer to your actual visitors then that increases the performance of the loading of the site, and makes sure that there's less load on the actual web server.
- We also do things like significant compression and if you can make a file half as big it's as good as making the line twice as fast. We decrease the overall load on a web server.
- The last thing we do is we'll actually do in-page tuning for whatever device is behind it. So you can imagine if somebody comes to your site and they're on an iPhone, we deliver a slightly different version of the page optimised to render for that device. So it won't change the look and feel of the page but it'll actually make it significantly faster.
All of these things add up to, on average, doubling the performance of any website that's behind our network.
If you mess with one bean, you mess with the whole burrito
From a security perspective, how much stronger does CloudFlare get on a weekly or even daily basis?
One of the key things that was a mission of CloudFlare was to make sure that every time one part of the site was attacked or one customer of ours was attacked, that the knowledge about that attack would spread to all of the other sites. One of our customers wrote in the other day and he said that the tagline for CloudFlare should be 'If you mess with one bean, you mess with the whole burrito' and I kinda liked that, I thought that was funny. But the system is constantly learning, so literally every second at each data centre new rules are being propagated based on the traffic that is coming through that. CloudFlare sees a ton of traffic, we see more traffic through our network than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zinga, AOL, Bing and Apple combined, and what we can do with all of that information is make intelligent choices about whether someone coming to a site is a threat or whether they're a good guy. If they're a good guy we want to make sure they get there as fast as possible, and if they're a threat we want to stop them. So every single day the system gets significantly smarter and is learning about new attacks, and that's why it's powerful that the system has so many different sites that are currently using it.
We've had to face challenges like 'how do you get a server through German customs?'
You're coined as the fastest-growing start-up in history, using certain metrics. How did you manage to scale so efficiently and what were the biggest challenge?
We had a marketing plan and we had ideas of having sales forces and things; the challenge has been that fifteen hundred new websites sign up for CloudFlare every single day, and so building out ahead of that growth has been difficult. We have a great team of engineers that have worked extremely hard in order to make sure that we've got the resources necessary in order to build that out and we've had to learn a lot from very technical systems and how you scale those, all the way to challenges like 'how do you get a server through German customs'. All of that is going back into the product and allowing us to stay ahead of the growth, but it's definitely a challenge to do that.
Is using a shared pool of resources a bad thing?
Some commentators say that you're effectively sharing all of your resources with all of the other sites that you're acting as a proxy for. It's a shared pool of resources. What do you make of this criticism?
Philosophically, one of the challenges that we've always had with the security industry is that information tends to get siloed within an organisation. If you imagine if Google is attacked and Yahoo calls up and says 'hey, can you share some information about that attack so that we can protect ourselves?', that information doesn't get shared from one organisation to another. So when we started CloudFlare what we said was 'let's find a way that we can actually share information across a bunch of sites'. So we'll never disclose this particular site was under attack, but we will use the information about that in order to protect other sites. That obviously is a real threat to some of the security industry, which has traditionally found that selling their services at an extremely high price to a small number of clients is a good business. We've turned that on our head and said 'let's try and make this available to anyone online', because we don't believe you should have to have a lot of money in order to have a fast and safe internet site
We've architected the system in order to avoid a single point of failure
Clearly centralisation in security is a good thing. On a technical basis, what happens, for instance, if your DNS systems fail? Is there a single point of failure? Do you think your customers have to have a high level of trust in your service? What kind of assurances can you make to customers who have these concerns?
In terms of a single point of failure, we've actually architected the system in order to avoid that to the extent possible. We currently have fourteen data centres around the world and we're continuously adding more, and we've designed the system so that if any server in any one of those data centres has a problem, or even if the entire data centre itself goes offline, the traffic just automatically flows to the next closest data centre. We know that we're not perfect, no service is, but we've tried to make sure that in the architecture of the system it's designed to expect that there are going to be problems and then be resilient around those issues. In the entire time since we've been public – for the last eighteen months – we've only had one significant period of outage and that was for about a five minute time period, and our team corrected it very quickly and got everyone back online.
We work hard to build the trust of our customers and you need to trust any vendor that you're working with. One thing that is helpful in policing that trust is that it only takes five minutes to sign up for CloudFlare, but if you're ever unhappy it's only two minutes to switch back off the system. We track that rate and we know when we're doing well when our churn rates of people leaving fall. We have lower churn rates than mobile phone companies that have to lock you in with contacts, we never have contracts or anything like that, so we're pretty happy about that.
Another criticism is the issue of false positives and blocking users from sites. How confident are you that legitimate traffic is not blocked? Could blocking potential customers and scaring them with quite an intimidating page be detrimental to some online businesses?
We believe that this is one of the most important things for any security company, is to make sure that you're letting the good guys in and not letting the bad guys in. The challenge is that the bad guys are often using the resources of the good guys, so the business model of a virus writer is to write a virus to infect a lot of computers and then use those infected computers that are part of what's called 'the bot net' in order to launch attacks against other sites. Unfortunately it's sometimes hard to tell what's a virus that's launching the attack versus when it's a legitimate human just coming in, and so what we've done is we've allowed site owners, the publishers that use our network, in order to choose the level of security that they want so if they're highly concerned with security they can turn the security level up.
The trade off is that you're more likely to have false positives
The trade off then is that you're more likely to have false positives, and if you're less concerned about security then you can turn that security level down in which case there are almost zero false positives through that. So we believe that the right thing to do is to allow that choice to be the publishers, to allow them to make a choice about what level of security they want and then help inform them about the trade-offs in either of those cases. Whenever we do challenge someone when they're trying to come to the site we try to give them an opportunity first, to see what the reason it was that they were challenged. Like, 'your computer's infected with a virus' or something like that. Give them the tools that they need to protect themselves and then give them the opportunity to prove that they are actually a good guy, a human being – by filling in the squiggly letters in a box, what's known as a Captcha, or doing something like that. That information all gets fed back into the system and so every time one of those Captchas is passed it increases the reputation, it makes the reputation more good for that particular visitor. This ensures that they're never going to see that type of a challenge again, but that's something that we've spent a lot of time trying to refine. Again, what we believe is important is that publishers should be able to set their security level based on what their tolerance is for risk, and their tolerance for false positives.
It sounds ridiculous, but our goal is to build a service that literally powers the internet
CloudFlare sounds like a complete no-brainer. Is there any situation that you would recommend not using it, or is there any website or service online that shouldn't use it? And if there isn't, could you potentially scale to every website in the world?
It sounds ridiculous, but our goal is to build a service that literally powers the internet and we're on track toward that goal. We're adding more than fifteen hundred new websites a day and that rate of growth is only accelerating. The sites that don't make sense for CloudFlare are usually sites that are doing something particular that don't work very nicely with our system. So, a site that is streaming content directly from the site itself, so if you're doing video streaming or something like that then our system isn't set up to do that. That's actually much more of a job for a traditional CDN or content delivery network, and so we often will refer customers to Akamai or Limelight or some of the traditional CDN players if they're doing that. But the number of sites that are actually streaming videos is relatively small, so if you have a site and you embed a YouTube video or you embed another service in it CloudFlare will continue to work just fine.
YouTube, on the other hand, would not be a particularly good customer for us today, but there aren't many focused that way. But our goal is to continue to learn and get smarter with each new site which joins the network, and as a result of that we hope that we can build a service that will make things like denial of service attacks a thing of the past that we'll study in history books. Because together we can pool resources in order to make sure that every site online is fast and safe.
"Big ideas are easier than small ones"
"Big ideas are easier than small ones", and it's easier to inspire people to work around you if you have a big idea. What do you think stops people having these big bold ideas? Is it the fear or is it something else?
There's a guy named Paul Graham who started an organisation called Y Combinator who recently wrote an essay about really big ideas that VCs would be excited to fund, but just reading them will scare away entrepreneurs. If you think about it, some of the big revolutionary technology ideas that have happened there's no way that when the founders started it they could have all the resources or know everything that they needed to in order to actually build what they thought.
When we started CloudFlare we honestly had no idea what we were getting into, and had we really known it probably would've scared us quite a bit because we've had to learn about everything, from the way IP addresses are calculated in Latin America to how to deal with law enforcement agencies when they contact you. There's a lot of stuff that you had to do in order to do this and we've learnt that at every step along the way.
Often times when entrepreneurs think about starting businesses they look around and they see what resources they have immediately at hand and think of that as the finish line
Often times when entrepreneurs think about starting businesses they look around and they see what resources they have immediately at hand and think of that as the finish line, as opposed to thinking of that as the starting point from which they can jump off and continue to assemble resources to build to a much bigger point. Assembling resources for a small project may seem easier at first but in the end that project ends up being harder to attract developers for, to really scale it to attract customers for. Focusing on big ideas paradoxically becomes easier than focusing on small ones.
When hiring, even if there is a gap in experience between two hires, you have a hire that comes to you who really wants the job – like you were saying, there's people sleeping in the corridor waiting to work for you – and they may not have as much experience as someone you're going out of your way to recruit, which one is the better hire?
There's a time and a place for both, but we definitely prefer the former to the latter.
Most of our employees at CloudFlare were customers before they were employees. One of the great things about having a service which is easy for anyone with a website to afford and use means that we have a lot of users that become passionate about the product, and then approach us and explain why they would be then good employees for us. We look all over the place for employees and we've had some employees that we've actively recruited, we've recruited people from Google and Yahoo and Facebook and a number of places, that have come to CloudFlare in order to work and in some cases it's been people who've come directly to us.
I think that's why a lot of very talented, very, very interesting engineers are joining our team.
What we think about recruiting more than anything is that we look for people who are good at working on teams, and who we want to spend a lot of time with. So we're much more focused on the personality of the candidate than necessarily a particular skill set. 'Cause if you're a nice guy or gal who's curious and likes to learn and wants to solve hard challenges, then that's going to be a much more successful hire over time. It's pretty cool to work at CloudFlare, there are very few places on Earth that if you're an engineer you can push a line of code and over the course of the next twenty-four hours you'll effect over a hundred million people. That's sort of the state that we're in right now.
Say no often – we listen to our customers carefully, we pay attention to them, we just don't let them necessarily dictate our product development
Another one of the issues you raised was the 'say no often' part of things. When is a customer-driven organisation the right thing to do? And when is it the wrong thing to do, and how hard is it to resist that customer?
We listen to our customers carefully and we pay attention to them, we just don't let them necessarily dictate our product development. When I said in the talk earlier today that it's important to say no, it's really hard when a big Fortune 500 company comes to you and says 'we'll pay you twenty/thirty/forty thousand dollars a month if you'll just make the following changes'. What we've found is that we put those change requests on the board, and we evaluate them not next to the fact that they're worth twenty-thirty-forty thousand dollars to us but next to 'is this something, which is moving the product forward'. Usually if the changes really make sense then they'll get made at some point and at that point we'll go back to those customers, but what we don't want to do is end up having a few customers who dictate what it is that we're working on. We want to be driven by the smart engineers that work for us, and they're designing a product to scale to power the entire internet as opposed to having a small handful of customers that are really dragging us around and telling us what to do.
Under-price and over-simplify - focus on 'viable' in the 'minimum viable product'
"Under-price and over-simplify" was another one of your philosophies. Are you sceptical about the MVP philosophy and how do you focus on what's importan
I think that the ideas of a minimum viable product, the MVP philosophy, are good but a lot of times people don't spend the time with their first products in order to get them in ship-shape to really launch. What concerns me is that you only, as a start-up, get a very short window of time and attention in order to actually get out and make a big splash and grow. Our secret advantage was that we had a large community before we launched publically that trusted us and was willing to let us experiment and really get the product right before we turned it on and launched it. That's the best case. If you can quietly test behind the scenes before you reach out then that makes a lot of sense, but as soon as you go live the expectations of the quality of web service are so high today that you've gotta get that right from the beginning. I think that the idea of minimum viable products is right, but when you're ready to really launch your start-up make sure that you really focus on 'viable' in the 'minimum viable product' sense; get it out there, make sure it really solves a problem and then the way to keep that under control is to simplify the product down to its core essence and make sure that that core essence is as good as possible, and if you do that customers will really respond.
We saw a whole bunch of surrogate mother sites come under attack by what appeared to be an organisation in China that was opposing surrogate motherhood
In your experience, what kind of sites are generally subjected to more hacking attacks?
It really ranges. We saw, for example, a whole bunch of surrogate mother sites come under attack by what appeared to be an organisation in China that was opposing surrogate motherhood. The day before Valentine's Day, February 13th, we saw a number of small-business flower shops come under attack: a purely financially-motivated essentially extortion scheme that said 'pay us a thousand dollars or we'll knock your site offline on the busiest day'. We've witnessed in the last six months a six hundred percent increase in denial of service attacks launched at a wide range of sites, so it's hard to point to any one particular type of site that's there. But philosophically the internet's one of the greatest inventions of human kind and what it stands for, the telos of the internet, is that anyone with an idea can make that idea available to a global audience. Something like a denial of service attack is really a form of censorship, it's one person with power using that power in order to knock offline an idea that they don't agree with or they don't support. We think that what we're trying to do is make that impossible, to allow the internet to achieve its full potential. Where anyone, regardless of how controversial the idea is, is able to keep it online.
One of the somewhat ironic things that happened fairly recently was we were getting attacked and had complaints launched against us by an Iranian group that was protesting the fact that a pro-Israeli website was on CloudFlare, and at exactly the same time we also had attacks and had protests from a bunch of Israelis that were protesting the fact that a pro-Iranian group was on us.
CloudFlare doesn't see our mission as a censor, we don't think that we know what the right thing for the internet is. We just believe that the internet is a tool to spread knowledge and let anyone have access, and we want to make sure that you don't have to have a lot of money and you don't have to have a lot of technical skill in order to ensure that you have a site which is fast and will stay online even if you're attacked
"It's a bit of a fool's errand to come after us"
So as controversial and potentially immoral sites are generally subjected to more hacking attacks? Is there a moral dilemma in supporting organisations like Lulzsec? Are there legal implications – where do you draw the line? Is this almost a disaster waiting to happen?
I teach law, I'm a recovering lawyer, and so these are issues that I think about quite a bit. You're correct in saying that we're not the host of the site and you can't actually launch a hacking attack through our service. The most you can do is publish information and so again – we're a law-abiding organisation and if after due process a court in a jurisdiction that we operated in told us that we needed to stop providing service to some particular organisation or another, we would probably follow that requirement because again, we're not hiding form the law and we're not designed to hide from the law. But there are two things that are important: the first is, if that order ever came and we knocked someone off our service that wouldn't take the content away, it would simply make it a little bit slower and make the content slightly more vulnerable to attack. So it's a bit of a fool's errand to come after us.
The second thing is, it's actually pretty amazing that we've been around for eighteen months now publically, we have had organisations that ranged from hacking groups like Lulzsec all the way over to organisations that those hacking groups attacked and everything in-between and never in that entire time has any law enforcement officer ever asked us to remove content from our network. Whilst I'm not under the illusion that that day may come at some point, I think that I've been pleasantly surprised how clued in law enforcement is to the fact that we aren't the host, that hacking can't be launched from our network, and instead if they were to knock a service off of us it doesn't make the content go away it would just make it a little bit slower to be published.
I'm not sure that anyone has elected me to a position where I should be deciding what can and cannot be published
How beneficial to your company, not just on a technical basis but also on a business basis, is having hacking organisations or Lulzsec using CloudFlare? What does this mean in real terms obviously to your network but also to your company's reputation, to the press it receives? You received a lot of press as a result of the Lulzsec, did this play any part in your success?
That's a hard question to answer – because I don't have a time machine to go back and play it out the other way. I think from a purely business perspective an organisation like that is very unlikely to upgrade to a pro account and pay us, so it's not – from a financial perspective – a particularly positive thing. But what is very positive is the technical knowledge that we gain as a result of servicing sites that are under attack. So the Lulz security site, for example, came under a fairly aggressive attack for the twenty-three days that they were on our service, and in that course of time our system automatically generated over a million new rules and those rules were then used to protect other sites that are on the system. The core value of CloudFlare is again that every single site on the system makes the server smarter and that was true in their case and other cases, but it's also true with organisations that are on the other side of the spectrum – like various US government sites that use CloudFlare and also even governments in Turkey and Malaysia and Ghana and everywhere else in the world, but the internal revenue service of Pakistan uses CloudFlare in order to keep their site safe. So again we don't discriminate based on content, largely because it's just a slippery slope that doesn't make sense for us to be making a choice on. We've been just very public about the fact that our goal is to power the internet, and there are a lot of things on the internet that I find troubling but I'm not sure that anyone has elected me to a position where I should be deciding what can and cannot be published.
You're supporting US government sites and Turkish government sites, you're working closely with governments. What do you make of cyber-warfare, governments playing against each other? Will you ever find yourself starting to get wrapped up in politics? How close can you get to politics without actually getting involved in it?
We've never actually talked to anyone in the US government. They sign up for our service the same way that anyone else does, which is that they went to the website, filled out some information and came in. If they called us up and said 'hey, we'd like you to protect X, Y or Z large site, please fill out the following RFP and come play golf with us' our answer would be what I said above, which was that that's just not our style and we're trying to build a service that is out there, so it's not a problem that we've had, I can't imagine any circumstance under which we would let any attack through regardless of who the client was. For the most part we don't know who most of our clients are. The only things that you need to sign up for CloudFlare is an email address, a username and to make up a password. These are bridges which we'll cross when we come to them, but I doubt that we come to them.
Do you see a time when you could license your system and do you think that if you were to license it, it would be attractive to those 'older security companies' that you're disrupting?
So we work with a number of other companies in order to act as channels for our service now. Largely those are hosting providers and so I think that there may be opportunities to expand channel program like that, but the real value of what we have is that a bunch of people working together behind one product can create a better internet for all of them. That makes it challenging for competitors just to have the data that we do on what threats are, and so we'd be happy to work with just about anyone but right now I think we're definitely leading this part of the industry.
In order for the internet to really survive and thrive, we believe two things have to happen
So to summarise: what are the main, broad, long-game core values of CloudFlare? Where do you envisage it in five years? Do you see any competition coming from any direction? You mentioned that you're disrupting the security industry, do you think those industries are going to have to start innovating soon?
In order for the internet to really survive and thrive, we believe two things have to happen:
The first is that it has to become less expensive and easier for publishers to publish, and CloudFlare is one part of an ecosystem in order to do that. We hope to play an important part to help that part of the ecosystem thrive and ensure that again, anyone that has a good idea can put it online and reach a global audience with that idea and not have to worry about either attacks or scaling or anything like that. That we will be able to handle that for them. So that's our vision on that side, and at the same time we believe that it's important that anyway that publishers are making money online, that we should be able to help them make more. An easy way to think of this is that Amazon sees, for every tenth of a second it can shave of page load time, a one percent increase in revenue. That's the start but over time we think that there are a lot of additional ways that we can actually help publishers earn more from their sites, and that's important in order to make sure that there's going to be high-quality publishing on the internet. I could never, in our wildest forecasts we'd have never thought that the last eighteen months would be like it has. It's been very, very successful, we have an amazing team.
What the next twelve months, what the next five years brings I have no idea but we're going to continue to work towards our mission, our goal, which is to make the internet faster and protect websites from bad guys. To eventually build a faster, safer, smarter internet that CloudFlare can continue to be a real part of. So it's an exciting time for us and we're really excited with what we're working on.


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Serevent Diskus
Generic Name: salmeterol (sal-MEE-ter-ol)
Brand Name: Serevent Diskus
Long-acting beta-agonists such as Serevent Diskus have been rarely associated with an increased risk of asthma-related death. They may also increase the risk of asthma-related hospitalizations in CHILDREN and TEENAGERS. When used to treat asthma, Serevent Diskus must be used along with another asthma-control medicine (eg, inhaled corticosteroids). It should only be used to treat asthma patients who are not controlled by using other long-term asthma-control medicine. Serevent Diskus should not be used in patients whose asthma is well controlled by inhaled corticosteroids.
Serevent Diskus is used for:
Treating asthma in combination with another long-term asthma-control medicine (eg, inhaled corticosteroids). It may also be used to prevent breathing problems in certain patients, including patients with nighttime asthma, or breathing problems caused by exercise. It may be used for long-term treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.
Serevent Diskus is a long-acting beta-agonist bronchodilator. It works by widening the airways in the lungs, which helps you breathe more easily.
Do NOT use Serevent Diskus if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in Serevent Diskus
- you are using another medicine that has a long-acting beta-agonist (eg, formoterol, arformoterol, indacaterol) in it
- you are taking an azole antifungal (eg, itraconazole, ketoconazole), an HIV protease inhibitor (eg, atazanavir, nelfinavir, ritonavir), a macrolide antibiotic (eg, clarithromycin), nefazodone, or telithromycin
- you are having an asthma attack (eg, sudden, severe onset or worsening of asthma or COPD symptoms, such as chest tightness, cough, shortness of breath, wheezing)
- you have asthma and you are not currently using a long-term asthma-control medicine (eg, inhaled corticosteroids)
- you have asthma that is already well controlled with the use of a long-term asthma-control medicine
Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.
Before using Serevent Diskus:
Some medical conditions may interact with Serevent Diskus. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
- if you have had a severe allergic reaction to milk protein
- if you have a history of liver problems, diabetes, heart problems (eg, fast or irregular heartbeat, heart blood vessel problems), high blood pressure, low blood potassium levels, seizures, an adrenal gland tumor (pheochromocytoma), or an overactive thyroid
- if you have recently been to an emergency room for asthma, have a history of frequent hospitalizations for asthma, or have ever had a life-threatening asthma attack
- if you have had an unusual reaction to a sympathomimetic medicine (eg, albuterol, pseudoephedrine), such as fast or irregular heartbeat, overexcitement, or severe trouble sleeping
- if you are taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (eg, phenelzine) or a tricyclic antidepressant (eg, amitriptyline), or you have taken any of these medicines within the last 14 days
Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Serevent Diskus. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Azole antifungals (eg, itraconazole, ketoconazole), HIV protease inhibitors (eg, atazanavir, nelfinavir, ritonavir), macrolide antibiotics (eg, clarithromycin), nefazodone, or telithromycin because the risk of fast or irregular heartbeat may be increased
- Diuretics (eg, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide) because the risk of low blood potassium or irregular heartbeat may be increased
- Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitors (eg, entacapone), other long-acting beta-agonists (eg, formoterol, arformoterol, indacaterol), MAOIs (eg, phenelzine), or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, amitriptyline) because they may increase the risk of Serevent Diskus's side effects
- Beta-blockers (eg, propranolol) because they may decrease Serevent Diskus's effectiveness or worsen your condition
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if Serevent Diskus may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use Serevent Diskus:
Use Serevent Diskus as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Serevent Diskus comes with an extra patient information sheet called a Medication Guide. Read it carefully. Read it again each time you get Serevent Diskus refilled.
- Always activate and use this device in a level, horizontal position. Do NOT try to use a spacer device with Serevent Diskus.
- To prepare the device for use, open the protective foil pouch and remove the inhaler device. Hold the device in one hand. Use the thumb of the opposite hand to push the thumbgrip as far away from you as it will go. The mouthpiece will appear and snap into position.
- Hold the device in a level, flat position with the mouthpiece toward you. Use your thumb to slide the lever away from you as far as it will go. You should hear a click. The device is now ready for use.
- Do NOT close or tilt the device, play with the lever, or move the lever more than once. You may accidentally release or waste a dose.
- To use a dose of Serevent Diskus, hold the inhaler level and away from your mouth. Breathe out fully. Do NOT exhale into the device for any reason. Put the mouthpiece to your lips. Breathe in quickly and deeply through your mouth and hold your breath. Remove the inhaler from your mouth. Continue to hold your breath for 10 seconds or as long as possible. Then, breathe out slowly.
- Close the device when you are finished taking a dose. Slide the thumbgrip back toward you as far as it will go. The device will click shut, and the lever will return to its original position.
- Serevent Diskus delivers your dose as a very fine powder. Most, but not all, patients can taste or feel it. Even if you cannot feel it, do not use more than the recommended dose. If you are not sure if you are receiving your dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
- If you are using Serevent Diskus to prevent breathing problems caused by exercise, use it at least 30 minutes before you start to exercise. Do not use another dose for at least 12 hours. If you already use Serevent Diskus twice daily on a regular basis, do NOT take an extra dose before you exercise.
- Discard the inhaler 6 weeks after removing it from the protective foil pouch or after all the blisters have been used, whichever comes first.
- The dose indicator on the device will tell you how many doses are left. The dose indicator will read "0" when all the blisters have been used.
- Never wash the mouthpiece or any other part of the inhaler. Keep it dry and always store it in a dry place.
- Do NOT try to take the unit apart.
- Continue to use Serevent Diskus even if you feel well. Do not miss any doses.
- If you miss a dose of Serevent Diskus, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not use 2 doses at once.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use Serevent Diskus.
Important safety information:
- Serevent Diskus will not stop an asthma attack or other sudden, severe breathing problems once they have already started. Be sure to carry a rescue inhaler (eg, albuterol) with you at all times to treat any breathing problems that may occur between doses of Serevent Diskus (eg, severe or sudden onset of wheezing or shortness of breath). If you have any questions about which medicines stop asthma attacks or other sudden, severe breathing problems, check with your doctor or pharmacist.
- If you have been regularly using a rescue inhaler (eg, albuterol), talk with your doctor about how to use it with Serevent Diskus. Rescue inhalers are normally only used with Serevent Diskus to treat breathing problems that may occur between doses.
- Serevent Diskus should be used to treat asthma only if you are currently taking a long-term asthma-control medicine (eg, inhaled corticosteroids) and your asthma is not well controlled. Using Serevent Diskus as your only asthma-control medicine has been rarely associated with an increased risk of asthma-related death. Contact your doctor if you have questions about this information.
- The risk of serious heart problems (eg, irregular heartbeat) may be greater if you use Serevent Diskus in high doses. Do NOT use more than the recommended dose or use more often than prescribed.
- If your symptoms do not get better within 1 week of starting Serevent Diskus, or if they get worse, contact your doctor right away.
- Tell your doctor at once if you notice that your rescue inhaler does not work as well, if you need to use it often (eg, 4 or more times a day for more than 2 days in a row; more than 1 canister in 8 weeks), or if you have a decrease in your peak flow meter results.
- Contact your doctor or seek medical care right away if you have breathing problems that worsen quickly, or if you use your rescue inhaler and do not get relief.
- Serevent Diskus is not to be used in place of a corticosteroid. If you are using a corticosteroid medicine for asthma, do not stop or reduce the dose unless your doctor tells you to.
- Talk with your doctor or pharmacist about all of your asthma medicines and how to use them. Your doctor may make changes to your asthma-control medicines once your asthma is well controlled. Do not start, stop, or change the dose of any asthma medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
- Serevent Diskus may sometimes cause severe breathing problems right after you use a dose. If this happens, use your rescue inhaler. Contact your doctor or seek other medical care at once.
- Diabetes patients - Serevent Diskus may affect your blood sugar. Check blood sugar levels closely. Ask your doctor before you change the dose of your diabetes medicine.
- Lab tests, including lung function tests and blood pressure, may be performed while you use Serevent Diskus. These tests may be used to monitor your condition or check for side effects. Be sure to keep all doctor and lab appointments.
- Use Serevent Diskus with caution in the ELDERLY; they may be more sensitive to its effects, especially effects on the heart.
- Serevent Diskus should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 4 years old; safety and effectiveness in these children have not been confirmed.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using Serevent Diskus while you are pregnant. It is not known if this medicine is found in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you use Serevent Diskus, check with your doctor. Discuss any possible risks to your baby.
Possible side effects of Serevent Diskus:
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome:
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur:
Headache; nasal or sinus congestion; nervousness; stuffy or runny nose; throat irritation.
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, tongue, or throat; unusual hoarseness); chest pain; choking; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever; new or worsening asthma or COPD symptoms (eg, coughing, increased chest tightness, shortness of breath, wheezing); overexcitement; severe or persistent headache, dizziness, or nervousness; severe or persistent muscle pain or cramps; symptoms of high blood sugar (eg, increased thirst, urination, or hunger; unusual weakness or drowsiness; confusion); tremor.
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. To report side effects to the appropriate agency, please read the Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA.
If OVERDOSE is suspected:
Contact 1-800-222-1222 (the American Association of Poison Control Centers), your local poison control center, or emergency room immediately.Proper storage of Serevent Diskus:
Store Serevent Diskus at room temperature, between 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Store Serevent Diskus away from heat, moisture, and direct sunlight. Throw Serevent Diskus away 6 weeks after it is removed from the foil pouch. Keep Serevent Diskus out of the reach of children and away from pets.
General information:
- If you have any questions about Serevent Diskus, please talk with your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider.
- Serevent Diskus is to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
- If your symptoms do not improve or if they become worse, check with your doctor.
- Check with your pharmacist about how to dispose of unused medicine.
This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take Serevent Diskus or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about Serevent Diskus. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to Serevent Diskus. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your health care provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using Serevent Diskus.
Disclaimer: This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take this medicine or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about this medicine. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to this medicine. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using this medicine.
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Barcelona, Spain – One cyclist will be chasing an elusive victory, another starting the long road back from doping disgrace when the Spanish Vuelta starts Saturday in Pamplona.
Christopher Froome is seeking to go one better after finishing second in the Tour de France behind Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins. He was also runner-up in last year's Vuelta.
"This race is definitely a great opportunity for me," Froome said. "I will do my part and I know the rest of the team is ready. I'd certainly love to win a Grand Tour after finishing second in the last two I've done.""
Froome's main challenger is likely to be Alberto Contador, who will be competing in his first major race since serving a doping ban that cost him his third Tour title.
Contador, who won the Vuelta in 2008, completed the ban earlier this month after testing positive for the banned stimulant clenbuterol during the 2010 Tour. Having not raced for over a year, he then used the seven-day Eneco Tour in Belgium and the Netherlands to warm up for the Vuelta with his Team Saxo Bank.
Contador, who denies he doped, said he had been affected by the ban and was eager to compete again.
"My spirits are high and I am up for the race," he said. "What I have been through during the last months has left its mark, it is impossible to ignore it. I have suffered but I am now looking to the future. I am motivated and excited for the Vuelta to begin."
Five-time Tour winner Miguel Indurain, who failed to win the Vuelta in his native Spain, predicted a close race.
"The best names in the world are going to fight for the victory," he told Spanish sports daily AS, predicting that Froome and Contador will face competition from Alejandro Valverde, Juan Jose Cobo, Joaquim Rodriguez, Igor Anton and Robert Gesink.
Indurain said Contador was "a born winner...I'm sure he will be eager to win on his return."
Cobo, who edged Froome to win last year, returns with new Movistar teammate Valverde, while Rodriguez, who finished second at the Giro d'Italia, will be supported by two-time Vuelta winner and Katusha teammate Denis Menchov.
Froome again proved to be one of the best climbers in this summer's Tour when he had to slow down for Wiggins to keep pace with him on the tougher mountain stages.
"Froome could be the main rival to take into account," Contador said. "He has a potent team, and he is a very strong rider. In 2011 he came close to winning the Vuelta and he was the strongest rider in the Tour."
The Vuelta's course appears perfect for the mountain skills of the 27-year-old British rider who will finally be riding to win and with a team to back him.
"It's definitely going to be a change, a new experience for me. I'm not riding at someone else's speed," Froome said. "I'd like to think I've learned from the last two Grand Tours I've done how to pace myself, how I need to ride to be in optimum position throughout three weeks, not just a couple of days."
The Vuelta, the third of the classic European summer races following the Tour and Giro, begins on Saturday with a 16.5-kilometre team time trial through the narrow cobblestone streets of Pamplona to a finish in the city's bull ring, retracing the route of its famous running of the bulls.
The 67th edition will be based in northern Spain and will take riders through 3 360 kilometres (2,050 miles) divided into 21
stages, including two rest days. The race ends on Sept. 9 in Madrid. This is the second straight year the Vuelta will pass through the Basque Country after a 33-year absence due to political unrest related to Basque separatist group ETA.
Riders will face 13 mountain stages, six of which have summit finishes, including three straight over stages 14-16. The penultimate stage finishes in a 7,380-foot (2,249-metre) climb at the Bola del Mundo outside the Spanish capital. The course has just one individual time trial, coming in the 11th stage.
"Those (mountain stages) should be decisive, together with the individual time trial," Contador said.
This will be Contador's first competition in front of his home fans since the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his claim that contaminated beef caused his positive test in 2010. He was subsequently stripped of his Tour title from that year, leaving him with two victories in cycling's premier event. The 29-year-old rider remains a popular, if now questioned, sports figure in Spain.
Froome was hesitant to signal out Contador as his main rival.
"I can't really say. I haven't ever raced with him," Froome said. "I'm sure he's very motivated after his suspension and obviously in the Vuelta, his home race, it'll be added motivation for him. We'll find out during the race." – Sapa-AP


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Nick Gill says he was warned by a teammate on his indoor volleyball team about what Cleveland might be like before they left Portland, Maine, for the Gay Games this week.
"He was telling us horror stories about growing up here," Gill said Thursday while watching the beach volleyball tournament at a lakeside park just outside downtown Cleveland, which is staging the Games with nearby Akron.
Gill said his teammate, who was raised in Cleveland, has been "humbled" by the progress the city has made and by the warm reception Gay Games participants have received.
"People are just so thankful we're here," Gill said. "It's exceeded all of my expectations."
Other Games participants also praised Cleveland and Akron and called the host cities friendly and hospitable.
Cleveland, a former manufacturing center on the southern edge of Lake Erie, and Akron, about 35 miles south, were hardly the first choice of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community when they were chosen in September 2009 over gay friendly locations Boston and Washington. Some critics in the gay media predicted the Games in northeast Ohio would be a disaster.