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—Campaign vehicles' unfettered immunity and the question of internal security
YBTC News—The return of democracy in the year 1999 saw the return of political campaigns by politicians, which, unfortunately, continues to take dangerous dimensions and trends in each of the succeeding general elections.
Politicians deploy whatever that is at their disposal to realize their dreams, but the most dangerous trend was their integration of youth in political thuggery.
This spell doom as these easily manipulated youth are being engaged to cause mayhem of all sorts, including but not limited to the perpetration of violence before, during and even after elections.
Sadly from the 2003, 2007 and 2011 polls, this scenario was witnessed in cases during and post election violence that reached its peak with the death of innocent NYSC Corps members.
To execute their masters' bidding, these youth use vehicles well covered with their masters' posters, pictures and so many campaign things to identify them and their political parties.
During the political periods, those vehicles, either well tinted or covered, are the ones moving around without being checked by either the security forces. Their number plates removed and replaced with party logo or name of a politician.
Since 2003, our security forces blame the illegal possession of arms with more emphasis on holding of AK47 and other riffles to politicians who either gave the youth the weapons or support them with the money to buy such weapons.
But part of the major concern remains the unanswered question of how did these weapons get imported or transported to different places in the country, despite the seeming widespread number of security road blocks?
Nigeria has had serious security problem before, during and even after the 2015 general elections. The security problems like kidnapping, banditry and armed robbery became serious after the degrading of Boko Haram insurgents and are now assuming the level of another national security threats.
The proliferation of light arms is another problem though the ministry of interior in several occasions lament the porous state of the Nigeria border. But again, how did these arms cross the borders and reach these political thugs?
We in most often appear naive by focusing on only one aspect of the problem and forgetting the very impetus to its proliferation. The mode of transporting arms, drugs and even money for vote buying have never been looked at. And these campaign vehicles, usually driving with impunity and evading any security check point at will are likely to portent dangers during and even after the 2019 election, if something tangible was not done to this trend.
The use of vehicles fully covered by the posters and logos of political parties or cars, vehicles well tinted with special number showing that the car belongs to a particular party or candidate, which the security agents normally allows to pass without a simplest check or care to check them properly.
The major reason I see why the security agents decide not to be checking those vehicles are: firstly, if they check any vehicle belonging to a candidate of the ruling party, the candidate will use the power from above and the officers involved can be queried, redeployed or punished severely. So the fear of the order from above was quite an excuse for them at that moment.
Secondly, when the security agents check or stopped the vehicles of the opposition candidates the issue can easily turn to politics by describing it as an effort to use security to muscle or intimidate the opposition.
The above reasons are indeed unfortunate when we look at the security challenges we are facing as a nation. When the security look the other way when these vehicles came roaring, two questions are germain: what of if the vehicle is carrying arms, drugs or even money that can be used for vote buying? Are the people in the vehicle Nigerians or how sure the security is that they are not either terrorists or kidnappers using the political vehicles to disguise?
It is indeed very important that the police, army and all security agencies, put eyes on all the so called campaign vehicles so as to ensure they are not used as a means to transport arms, drugs or money for vote buying.
I also advise the security not be used as a tool to witch-hunt or muscle the opposition parties by ensuring all parties' vehicles are checked not only the opposition party's vehicles to stave off an iota of doubt in their operation.
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It is obvious that visa is among the most important documents when travelers go to another country, especially to Vietnam. If you intend to travel to the country, you will be expected to provide a valid visa regardless of your travel purposes, from visiting friends and relatives to traveling or doing business.
In order to get a visa to Vietnam, you need to travel to the embassy and complete the visa application form of Vietnam. A visa issued by the Vietnam Embassy ensures that you will have your visa to Vietnam before getting on the plane. Moreover, with this type of visa, you are allowed to enter Vietnam through all kinds of transport.
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NASCAR will return to single-car qualifying for ovals starting with this weekend's races at the Dover International Speedway.
All three of NASCAR's top divisions – Monster Energy Cup Series, Xfinity and Gander RV Trucks – will see an end to the group and elimination style format used since 2014. Drivers will be allowed one lap on tracks greater than 1.25 miles in length and two on tracks 1.25 miles or shorter.
Group qualifying will still be implemented on road courses.
The new higher-downforce lower horsepower Cup package has resulted in a few controversial qualifying sessions in 2019. This comes due to the cars getting a larger draft off a leading vehicle.
That caused some gamesmanship because nobody wanted to be the lead car in a group.
The most significant case came at Auto Club Speedway in March when none of the Top 12 drivers reached the start/finish line to make a qualifying attempt. Times from the previous session determined the order which put Austin Dillon on pole.
Problems arose again two weeks later at the Texas Motor Speedway which caught the attention of series officials. NASCAR used A band-aid solution at the Richmond Raceway round and cut each session to five minutes to encourage drivers to take laps without waiting.
Scott Miller, NASCAR senior VP of competition, noted that single-car qualifying was the only solution and is positive about its prospects.
"It was a unified decision between broadcasters, teams and NASCAR," said Scott Miller, NASCAR senior VP of competition.
"One of the other things to make a compelling program out of it is we've seen the use of the ghost car (on television). That's going to be a big element in presenting a quality show. I think fans are going to be able to see which drivers drive in deep, which drivers roll the middle faster and get off the corners faster and really give the talent in the booth something to talk about.
"Another interesting aspect is every team has a good shot of getting covered during the qualifying session. We're building in a few two-minute breaks to where TV can get some spots in and not break away from live action. That's one of the goals in this, and I think with those designated spots and breaks we will be able to present almost a whole qualifying session live without going away."
The starting order from the previous race will determine the qualifying order. Positions 21-40 will be made up of the drivers that started 1-20. Spots 1-20 will comprise the balance of the competitors.
Single car qualifying was only in use at Daytona and Talladega due to multiple crashes during its initial implementation at the Daytona 500 in 2014.


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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has confessed that she did not feel confident she would land a role in Transformers: Dark of the Moon following her audition.
The model-turned-actress, who replaced Megan Fox in the Transformers franchise, told MTV News that she initially had no idea how large of a role she was trying to grab but is grateful for the opportunity to play "a little bit of everything" in the film.
"I went to the audition and really I knew nothing about the role. No-one had said anything; it was just a role in Transformers so I kind of thought it would be an extra part or a cameo or something," Huntington-Whiteley explained.
"I went in a bit blind and also, it was my first-ever audition. I went in completely not knowing what I was doing. I left feeling not confident. There's something for everyone in it; there's the romance, the comedy, the drama, the action, there's the special effects."
She recently confessed that she is "scared" of the fame that will accompany her role in Transformers and worries about how her life will change as a result.
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Intel: Barclays And Goldman Downgrades Reveal How Wall Street Really Works
From the transcript of Intel's Q2 earnings call, you would not think there was anything to worry about. Intel had a great quarter and most analysts on the call just wanted guidance as to how to adjust their spreadsheets. However, a little more than a week later, Barclays and Goldman Sachs both downgraded Intel. Investors may wonder if there was another call where the hard questions about Intel got asked and answered?
The short answer is the hard questions never get directly addressed during these calls. The reason is simple. The analysts work for banks that want a shot at Intel's investment banking business. If you embarrass the CEO by asking tough questions, your firm is not going to get the investment banking business.
In March 2017, Citibank and Rothschild split between $10 to $20 million in fees when Intel bought Mobileye for $15.3 billion. Rothschild did not have an analyst on the July 26 call, but Citigroup did. Here's what he asked.
Christopher Brett Danely – Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Thanks, guys, just a quick one on the DCG (Data Center Group) op margins. So data center rev was up sequentially, but the op margins were down. I think you talked about the 10-nanometer yield issues. Was that all that was going on there? And so essentially, are DCG operating margins capped at this 49% and change level? And when are these 10-nanometer headwinds going to go away and reverse and start to become tailwinds?
Robert Holmes Swan – Intel Corp.
So just to maybe repeat, 27% top line growth and 65% operating income growth with an 11 point improvement in operating margins year on year. So outstanding performance on product margin, as Navin indicated, particularly with strong ASP performance. Our margins have continued to improve, and I'd just say not at the expense of curtailing investments for our data center business. We see real good growth opportunities and we continue to invest, so really good expansion in margin performance while continuing to invest.
In terms of 10-nanometer, that is more – again, with client being first on 10-nanometer, they are more feeling the effect of the 10-nanometer on their margins. That's relatively de minimis effect for the DCG business.
Christopher Brett Danely – Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Okay. Thanks, Bob.
He was on the right track but stopped short asking some really tough questions such as; What happens when AMD launches its 7 nm products next year? Will Intel have competitive products at that time?
The closest we get to that question came from Blayne Curtis from Barclays.
Blayne Curtis – Barclays Capital, Inc.
Hey, thanks for taking my question. I just want to ask you about 7-nanometer. You mentioned 10-nanometer and timing there, and I don't expect you to put a date out there for 7-nanometer. So maybe you could talk about what you've learned on 10-nanometer, how you're applying it to 7-nanometer, and any indications of that development, how it's going.
Venkata S. M. Renduchintala – Intel Corp.
Sure. Blayne, so 7-nanometer is very much R&D in deep progress, and we're making good progress on that development. We're not giving a direct timeline right now. But we've also made some fairly judicious choices in defining 7-nanometer, learning from our 10-nanometer experiences. And we're focusing on an optimum balance point between density, power and performance, and schedule predictability. So I think what you'll see is a more balanced approach across those three vectors.
So we're still going to drive density but balancing that with a continued focus on driving transistor performance at the same time, which is highly valued as ASP drivers both in our client and server businesses. And we're really also focusing on being much more precise in our ability to launch. So those are the key learnings that are coming out of 10-nanometer as we go into 7-nanometer. And as we monitor progress on 7-nanometer just as closely as we are on 10-nanometer, I feel those lessons are being well absorbed into our progress, and we're lining up to support our product plans as our roadmap dictates.
Blayne Curtis – Barclays Capital, Inc.
He got closer to asking the key questions. But then he lets Intel get away with a vague answer that does not address his question.
Immediately after the conference call, Intel traded down over 8% in the after-hours market. From that we can infer that Blayne Curtis was not the only analyst who didn't like what he heard.
In fairness to the analysts, it is important for them to give their insights to their best clients first. If they don't like what they hear, they will tell their best customers before tipping off other analysts that they've turned against Intel.
Bank of America waited one day to downgrade Intel to Neutral from Buy.
Then, on August 6, Barclays downgraded Intel from Overweight to Equal Weight. Blayne Curtis said in a note to clients.
Intel continues to believe that it can retain a performance advantage even with a process node disadvantage, but has provided little evidence to support this, creating an overhang well into 2019.
Joining the chorus, on August 10, Goldman Sachs analyst Toshiya Hari cut his rating from neutral to sell citing greater competitive risk and skepticism over its ability to sustain margins and earnings growth. He must have felt confident because he was not even on the July 26 call to ask any questions.
Investment Banking Fees At Risk
Scaling up a 10 nm production line, and then a 7 nm one shortly thereafter is going to require billions in financing. By downgrading Intel, Barclays and Goldman have effectively taken themselves out of the running to raise this financing.
Among the analysts on the July 26 call, Barclays and Bank of America have downgraged Intel. The other analysts on the call who have maintained their ratings are:
- Christopher Brett Danely – Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
- Pierre C. Ferragu – New Street Research LLP (US)
- John William Pitzer – Credit Suisse Securities (NYSE:USA) LLC
- Stacy Aaron Rasgon – Bernstein Research
- Ross C. Seymore – Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
- Timothy Arcuri – UBS Securities LLC
- Joseph Moore – Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
- Ambrish Srivastava – BMO Capital Markets (United States)
- Christopher Rolland – Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP
- C.J. Muse – Evercore ISI
- Kevin Edward Cassidy – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.
- Tristan Gerra – Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker)
If you rely on any of these firms for guidance on Intel, it is time to ask them the hard question they did not ask Intel's CEO. How competitive will Intel be after AMD launches its 7 nm products?
I think I know the answer and I don't need to wait to hear it from a Wall Street analyst. It's only a matter of time before the firms that lose out on the investment banking engagement will find the courage to lower their ratings on Intel.
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Travel Tips to Help Prevent Identity Theft on Vacation
As you take off for vacation, the last thing you likely want to think about is identity theft. But, unfortunately, traveling with personal and financial information can put you at risk for having your identity stolen. Here's how to help protect your identity before, during and after vacation.
Before Leaving for Your Trip
Follow these tips to help protect your identity before leaving for vacation, says Experian:
- Don't post about your plans online: After booking your trip, avoid posting about your plans on the internet and social media. You should only share information with trusted friends and family.
- Call your bank and credit card companies: Let these companies know you'll be traveling, including when and where you'll be traveling to, says Equifax. It may also be a good idea to freeze any financial accounts you won't be using while on vacation.
- Put your mail on hold: You can typically ask your local post office to hold mail for up to 30 days so it doesn't pile up in your mailbox.
It's also a good idea to consider purchasing identity theft insurance or an identity theft protection plan. Some identity protection plans include identity monitoring services that alert you of suspicious activity (for example, when potentially fraudulent credit card accounts are opened in your name).
Packing for Your Trip
As you pack for vacation, remember to keep these tips in mind:
- Make photocopies of important documents: Create photocopies of documents you may need for your trip, says the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including passports, driver's licenses or credit cards. Plan to keep one set of documents in a separate piece of luggage or wallet in case anything gets stolen or misplaced.
- Keep luggage tag information to a minimum: Don't write your full name and address on luggage tags. Instead, Experian recommends listing only your last name and phone number to help keep your information private.
- Remove nonessential items from your wallet: You should only bring the credit cards you plan to use, says the FTC. Be sure to take out anything else that can identify you.
- Safeguard information on your cellphone: Protect sensitive information that may be on your phone by setting up a password, recommends Consumer Reports. You may also want to consider installing an application that can help locate your phone if it gets lost or stolen.
While You're on Vacation
These tips can help protect your identity while you're away from home:
- Keep bank account information private: If you need to get cash while you're away, try finding an ATM that's monitored by security cameras or secured in a bank lobby, says Consumer Reports. This is because some identity thieves may try to install skimmer devices on ATMs. These devices can steal your card's PIN (personal identification number) or other account data when you swipe your card.
- Protect your account usernames and passwords: Be careful when using public Wi-Fi, says Consumer Reports, as identity thieves may try to hack these connections to steal guests' personal information. You should also think twice before using public computers. This is because security software may be out of date or key-logging software will remember your usernames or passwords.
- Lock up important documents: If your hotel room has a safe, lock up important documents, identifiable information and extra cash in it, recommends Experian.
- Don't share your whereabouts: Continue to be cautious about what you post online and on social media while you're away. Depending on your account settings, strangers (and potential thieves) may be able to see your posts and know you're away from home, notes the Better Business Bureau.
After You Return
Even after you return from vacation, it's a good idea to take a few proactive steps to help prevent identity theft:
- Check your bank and credit card account statements: Pull a copy of your credit report, says Experian. This can help you see if any suspicious activity took place while you were on vacation. And, remember to let your bank and credit card companies know you've returned from your trip.
- Shred sensitive documents: Consider shredding items that contain your personal information (such as boarding passes, flight itineraries or rental receipts).
- Update account passwords: If you accessed any of your accounts from a public computer or Wi-Fi connection while away, Experian recommends changing passwords on those accounts.
By taking these proactive steps, you can help protect your identity while you're on vacation and focus on making new, happy memories with your family and friends.
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Skype Troubleshooting: Behind the Scenes
Skype for Business has a lot of awesome features, but that also means there's a lot of places we, the Help Desk, need to look at if something goes wrong. You, the user, might find the steps we take to identify and resolve Skype issues time-consuming or complex - totally understandable.
The purpose of this article: To give you a sneak peek behind the curtain and explain how you can best help us help you troubleshoot any Skype issues you may encounter.
My call got disconnected!
Let's say you're in the middle of a call when you get disconnected.
- What do you do next?
- How do you prevent this from happening again?
The most common issue encountered with Skype, as with cell phones, landlines, and any other type of phone, is dropped calls, so we'll use that as our example problem.
To begin, a couple of important facts about Skype for Business:
- Skype for Business is the most network-dependent application that Cross the Divide supports. What this means for you is that the quality of your internet connection will be most noticeable on your Skype calls. You may notice connectivity problems with Skype that you don't really notice while browsing the web or using email.
- 90% of all Skype for Business dropped calls or disconnections are due to poor network connectivity, not a problem with Skype itself.
First: Check Network Connectivity
- Connect via Ethernet rather than WiFi. Wiring your computer directly to the network will always be more reliable than connecting via WiFi, and it offers more bandwidth, too.
- Verify the quality of your connection. We make sure all offices have top-quality internet service, but when making calls from your home or from other off site networks, such as at cafes or hotels, do your best to make sure the connection is not overloaded or unreliable.
If you have any questions about the quality or stability of your network connection, either in or out of the office, the Help Desk is happy to assist you in testing it thoroughly.
Second: Identify the Type of Call
Did what you could, but still having issues? The next step is to reach out to the Help Desk for assistance. We have several tools at our disposal to identify the causes of dropped calls, but in order to do so, we need to know a few very specific details.
The First Detail: Call Type
- Peer-to-peer. Any time you call one person within your organization, Skype to Skype, it's a peer-to-peer call type. From a technical perspective, your computer is talking directly to their computer.
- External. Any time you call someone not on Skype, whether you're calling a landline or a cell phone or any other type of recipient, the call becomes 'External'. External calls go out through your phone provider, a middle-person company that provides connectivity to the outside world.
- Conference. Any time you host or join a Skype-based conference call, aka you're speaking to more than one person via audio or video, you and the other participants are connecting to our servers rather than directly to each other.
Why does this matter? To troubleshoot, we need to identify where the faulty 'link in the chain' is. The type of call determines what systems are involved (your computer, your phone provider, or our servers), and so it's a key piece of info for our troubleshooting efforts.
The Second Detail: Identifying the Problem Call
Other vital pieces of information we need:
- Date
- Time
- Who you're connecting to
- If you're calling someone outside the organization, we need the phone number.
- If you're calling internally, we need the person's name.
- If you're doing a conference call, we need to know who hosted the conference.
A couple important notes:
- When we speak to your phone provider about external calls, their technical logs only go back a very short time, generally only three days.
- If you need assistance with an external call, be sure to contact us as quickly as possible so we can get info from the provider.
- When we search our own logs looking for call issues, we're sorting through thousands and thousands of calls, so the more specific you can provide about a call, the more quickly we can narrow the search.
- For instance, 'I called the North West office on Friday morning' is much broader than 'I called Jenny at the Northwest Office at 10:15 Friday morning". The latter is much more informative and helps us quickly identify the right call.
Now you know a couple of good practices for keeping your Skype calls reliable, and how to help us help you more efficiently resolve any issues you may encounter.


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President Donald Trump offered a backhanded congratulations to former Labour Secretary Tom Perez, who was narrowly elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday.
"Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!" Trump tweeted.
Perez won the chairmanship after a close race that was called after multiple rounds of balloting, eking out a victory over Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota.
Perez's victory has been viewed by some as as a slight against the more progressive faction within the Democratic Party, which had largely supported Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during his primary battle against Hillary Clinton.
The race between Perez and Ellison was frequently compared to that of Clinton and Sanders, with Perez being seen as the establishment figure and Ellison as the populist who could more effectively help the party appeal to working-class voters.
Trump offered Ellison praise earlier in the week for predicting early in the 2016 campaign cycle that Trump could have staying power in the presidential field.
"One thing I will say about Rep. Keith Ellison, in his fight to lead the DNC, is that he was the one who predicted early that I would win!" Trump tweeted.
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Hashimoto's thyroiditis belongs to the Thyroid Diseases.
It usually appears as Hypothyroidism.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis now belongs to the Autoimmune Diseases, due to the growth of Auto-antibodies against the thyroid gland.
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis – Symptoms
The main symptom in Hashimoto's thyroiditis is swelling of the thyroid gland. This bronchoculus (swelling), is developing slowly. Thyroid nodules may also appear. The bronchoculus is medium sized, has an uneven surface and a lusty and semi-hard composition.
The patient, could not get aware of the bronchoculus, if it doesn't get too big. The same applies to the thyroid nodules. The thyroid gland is usually homogeneously inflated, but there may be an asymmetric swelling, in the form of a large nodule or hump, due to the superiority of pathological and anatomical processes, to a particular area of the thyroid.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis, also shows symptoms of Hypothyroidism such as fatigue, drowsiness, memory impairment, dry skin, weight gain, etc.
The pathology of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis involves intense lymphocyte infiltration, which completely destroys the physiological Thyroid architecture. Lymphoid follicles and germinal centers may form.
Follicular epithelial cells are often inflated and contain a basophilic cytoplasm.
Gland destruction causes the reduction of T3 and T4 thyroid hormones in the patient's serum (blood) and the rise of TSH.
Initially, TSH can maintain a satisfactory hormonal synthesis, through the development of thyroid swelling or bronchoculus that it causes to the thyroid, impelling it to produce thyroid hormones. Often, however, the thyroid gland subfunctions and eventually Hypothyroidism follows, with or without a bronchoculus.
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis – Treatment
The generalized view that there is no definitive treatment for Thyroid gland disorders, as for Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (Disease), is wrong.
The usual administration of pharmaceutical preparations, has as a main purpose, to provide the body with the hormones it lacks, which it can no longer produce. This is achieved by administering synthetic thyroid hormones for decades now. In clinical practice, however, the patient is constantly deregulated. The change in the dosage of its hormones, is constantly required to treat his/her symptoms.
In addition, this cycle is infinite, with unfavorable results in everyday life, resulting to the burden of health and psychology of patients, who do not see their health levels being restored.
The key to a successful therapeutic approach is to find the causes.
Patients do not change their everyday life. Instead, they gradually see it getting improved, along with their overall physical health.
– Without "special diets" and deprivation
– Without taking chemical and pharmaceutical substances
– Treatments that act individually or combined, without side effects
By blood sampling, tests are carried out by specialised Molecular Biopathological Laboratories. In this way, we can detect the factors that caused the disease (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis) at a cellular level.
The total duration of the first visit is about one and a half hour and includes a specialized multi-page Personal Medical History, for all the body's systems – Head to Toe, as well as patient's nutritional habits and preferences.
After the neccessary biochemical, hormonal or specialized metabolic tests, any malfunctions are detected and all possible deficiencies are found.
The combination of regimens to regulate the Thyroid gland's function at its ideal levels may include:
Micro-Macronutrients Treatments
Molecular Nutrition
Hormonal Replacement Therapy with Bioidentical Hormones.
Therapies are personalized, determined by algorithms in relation to laboratory findings, thorough individual history, lesions, and the existence of additional Chronic or other Diseases.
These specific therapies have been used in clinical practice since 1997, starting from the United States of America. They do not contradict with any parallel pharmaceutical or homeopathic treatment.
The appropriate treatment and nutrition is the one that ultimately results in the greatest benefit, according to the clinical results and the relevant test scores.
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Lionsgate's The Expendables 2 took in $3.23 million on Tuesday to lead the daily box office for a fifth straight day. The ensemble action sequel was up a very solid 16 percent over Monday. In comparison, 2010's The Expendables fell 2 percent on its first Tuesday to gross $3.87 million. The Expendables 2 has grossed $34.61 million in five days, which is below expectations and places the film 19 percent behind the $42.63 million five-day start of The Expendables. With this weekend's new wide releases not expected to make much of an impact at the box office, The Expendables 2 is highly likely to remain in first place over the weekend.
The Bourne Legacy held steady in second place with $2.01 million. The fourth installment of Universal's action thriller franchise increased 18 percent over Monday and fell 54 percent from last Tuesday. With the summer box office season nearing its end, daily grosses for holdovers in general on Tuesday continued to be down significantly from last week. The Bourne Legacy has grossed $73.33 million in twelve days, which is in line with expectations and places the film 30 percent behind the $104.87 million 12-day performance of 2004's The Bourne Supremacy.
ParaNorman was up a healthy 20 percent and one spot over Monday to take third with $1.75 million. The 3D stop-motion animated film from Focus and animation studio Laika has grossed $17.29 million through five days of release, which is towards the lower end of expectations. ParaNorman is now running just 8 percent behind the $18.71 million five-day start of 2009's Coraline, thanks in part to stronger midweek grosses.
Warner's The Campaign slid one spot to place in fourth with $1.71 million. The R-rated comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis was up 12 percent over Monday and down 50 percent from last Sunday. The Campaign has grossed a solid $54.68 million in twelve days, placing it 27 percent behind the $74.45 million twelve-day gross of 2010's The Other Guys.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green was up 18 percent and one spot over Monday to round out Tuesday's top five with $1.511 million. The family film from Disney outpaced Warner's The Dark Knight Rises by a very slim $7,735 for the day. The Odd Life of Timothy Green has grossed a solid $17.89 million during its first week of release, which was 21 percent softer than the $22.77 million Sony's Hope Springs recently grossed in its first week of release.
The Dark Knight Rises fell one spot to place in sixth with $1.503 million. The blockbuster superhero sequel was up 9 percent over Monday and down 44 percent from last Tuesday. The Dark Knight Rises has grossed $412.67 million through 33 days of release. The film currently ranks in twelfth place on the all-time unadjusted domestic chart and will soon overtake the $415.00 million final gross of Toy Story 3 for eleventh place.


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LOS ANGELES, CA March 23, 2015 / BioSig Technologies (OTCQB: BSGM), a medical device company developing PURE EP(TM) a proprietary technology platform designed to improve the clinical outcomes of electrophysiology (EP) procedures, today announced Jay Millerhagen has been appointed Vice President, Clinical Affairs. Mr. Millerhagen has over 25 years of experience developing, evaluating and launching new medical technologies and therapies.
Most recently, Mr. Millerhagen served as Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Market Development for RESPICARDIA, Inc., in Minnetonka, MN. At RESPICARIDIA, he led all clinical operations, staffing and site management leading to the pivotal IDE trial of the fully implantable remedē System for the treatment of Central Sleep Apnea.
Prior to joining RESPICARDIA, Mr. Millerhagen served in positions of increasing responsibility at St Jude Medical in St. Paul, MN. From 2011 to 2012, as Vice President, Clinical Affairs, he lead a team of 20 in-house clinical personnel and a team of 22 field clinical engineers to execute a series of clinical studies targeted at addressing cardiac arrhythmias. He oversaw the team that completed enrollment in five major IDE (investigational device exemption) trials most of which were completed several months ahead of schedule. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Millerhagen served as Senior Director, Clinical Affairs. He was the first to design, submit and secure approval of an IDE from the FDA for a novel open irrigated ablation catheter based indication for Atrial Fibrillation.
For eighteen years (1989-2007) Mr. Millerhagen held senior positions at Boston Scientific Corporation. Joining the company as a Manager of New Product Planning, he co-authored a patent on a pacemaker based on hemodynamic performance. Promoted to Director, he oversaw Brady Marketing, Heart Failure Research and Development, Heart Failure Marketing and from 2004 to 2007, he served as Director, Business Alliance Marketing with industry giants Johnson & Johnson and GE Healthcare. During his tenure at Boston Scientific he directed numerous areas of cardiovascular health.
Mr. Millerhagen received his MBA from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, earned an MS in Exercise Physiology from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, and a BA in Physiology and Psychology from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. He has been member of the Heart Rhythm Society (NASPE), the Heart Failure Society of America, and the American College of Sports Medicine.
Greg Cash, BioSig CEO, said, "We are delighted Jay will lead our clinical affairs program at BioSig Technologies. He has a long and very successful career in cardiovascular devices, their application, clinical development, and designing strategic plans as products move toward for FDA approval. The entire company will certainly benefit from his extensive experience."
Jay Millerhagen stated, "I am very pleased to join BioSig Technologies. Having spent my career at leading cardiovascular companies, I see many opportunities to create and build the Company's clinical affairs strategy and team. The entrepreneurial atmosphere was evident from the first time I met with BioSig. I look forward to the challenges and successes we will all encounter."
Kenneth L. Londoner, Co-founder and Executive Chairman added: "BioSig has always been focused on bringing leading talent to the Company. We have a world class, independent Board of Directors and now we are building out a world class management team. I am excited to welcome Jay to the team and look forward to his many contributions in making the PURE EP system the future gold standard in the EP Lab."
About BioSig Technologies
BioSig is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary technology platform designed to greatly improve the $3 billion electrophysiology (EP) marketplace(1), (www.biosigtech.com). Led by a proven management team and a veteran, independent Board of Directors, Los Angeles-based BioSig is preparing to commercialize its PURE EP System.
PURE EP is a next-generation surface electrocardiogram and intracardiac multichannel recording and analysis system designed to assist electrophysiologists in making clinical decisions in real-time by acquiring and displaying high-fidelity cardiac signal recordings and providing guidance in identifying ablation targets - areas of tissue to destroy that otherwise create a heart rhythm disturbance (arrhythmia).
Analysts forecast the global market for EP devices will grow at a 12.1 percent compound annual growth rate, from $2.5 billion in 2012 to $5.5 billion by 2019(1) - making it one of the fastest growing medical device segments. Just in the US, the number of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) arrhythmia ablations is forecast to grow at 10.5 percent from 2012 to 2017(2).
BioSig intends to seek FDA 510(k) approval for the PURE EP System. The Company has already achieved proof of concept validation through UCLA EP & Animal Labs, and is collaborating with several of the nation's most prestigious cardiac arrhythmia centers including Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, and Mayo Clinic.
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This release includes forward-looking statements. Statements contained in this release that are not historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. Actual performance and results may differ materially from that projected or suggested herein due to certain risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, ability to obtain financing, regulatory approvals, competition and marketplace demand. More information, and BioSig risk factors, are set forth in its filings with the SEC. BioSig assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements.
(1) Electrophysiology Devices Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019
(2) HRI 2013 "Global Opportunities in Medical Devices & Diagnostics" report; triangulation of multiple sources; *AF includes left atrial tachycardia, left WPW, left atrial flutter.


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Course syllabus A15-0222-B - Animal Nutrition (FAaFR - SS 2019/2020)
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra
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|Animal Nutrition
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|General Agriculture - bachelor (required), 4. semester
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|The term grade will consist of continuous assessment – one written exam (20 points) and one seminar work (20 points). End-of-term examination – written exam (60 points). Grading scale: letter grade A requires minimum 93 points, letter grade B requires minimum 86 points, letter grade C requires minimum 79 points, letter grade D requires minimum 72 points, letter grade E requires minimum 64 points. A student may earn units of credits in grading scale from A to E.
Learning outcomes of the course unit:
|Student will know to analyse an individual nutrients, to calculate of nutritional value, to evaluate of protein and dietetic charakteristics of feeds. After completion of the subject the student understands the issue of the composition of the feed and is able to analyse the nutrient content of feed.
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Definition of nutrients, their function in biology process, determination, digestibility, systems of energy and nitrogen evaluation for ruminants and nonruminants, science on fodders, intake and production, ability of forages, conversion of nutrients, basis of technics of feeding.
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doc. Ing. Branislav Gálik, PhD. (examiner, instructor, lecturer)
prof. Ing. Miroslav Juráček, PhD. (examiner, instructor, lecturer)
doc. Ing. Michal Rolinec, PhD. (examiner, instructor, lecturer)
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Learn French - Absolute Beginner (Lessons 1 to 25)
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Since we were in South Dakota for Christmas this year we had Oliver open his gift from his aunt Anna, Grandpa and Grandma Riederer, and us before we left. He's still figuring out how to ride the tractor, as he calls it but I think Oliver, Joseph, and Isaac will enjoy it for years to come.
David's company also threw a family Christmas party before we left where there was food, bowling, pictures with Santa and crafts. Oliver decorated his first gingerbread house by eating a piece of candy for every piece that was put on the house.
I realized only after I returned home from our time in South Dakota that I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked. We spent two weeks there and definitely got our white Christmas. Derek, Laura, and Jordan were all able to come while we were there too so Oliver had plenty of playmates and Isaac got plenty of holding.
Oliver helping make Christmas cookies
I got together with a couple high school friends while I was home. Mika is currently pregnant with her first baby due in March. Hannah had her first baby just a few weeks before Isaac was born. She named her son Isaac too! Isaac meet Isaac.
Pictures after Christmas Vigil Mass
Christmas morning the boys got gifts in their stockings. My mom made their stockings and I think they are super cute.
Then more presents were opened once Jordan arrived the next day.
These are the only pictures I have of Oliver and Isaac with their Aunt and Uncles.
They did take Oliver sledding on several occasions though which despite what the picture might show he enjoyed.


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I Wanna Defeat The Munimson
Creator: Muni
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Adorable crimson-themed boss that's more on the easier side, so that newer players can experience a little of what it's like to play Crimson's last boss. Even though it's an easier version, it's still a lot harder than you might think. It's well-balanced, and it does a great job on looking and playing like an easier version of the boss it emulates, specially with the cute visuals and music that give a more vanilla feeling. I liked it. Would recommend.
I was actually a few minutes away from taking longer at this boss than I took at Kamilia 2's version. Scary...
I was actually a few minutes away from taking longer at this boss than I took at Kamilia 2's version. Scary...
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Oct 27, 2018
It was fun, not a fan of the deaths at the end but whatever.
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A cluttered home can be a stressful home. Clutter can just build up over time until one day you look at your bookshelf and it's full of chaos!
Chances are if you're feeling anxious or stressed then it's because of clutter in the home and you don't realize it.
Recently I have been on a mission to organize my home, so it's back to basics.
I love my possessions. If something has slight sentimental value, then I will keep it.
I keep every piece of artwork my son has drawn, every junk modeling masterpiece he has made, I'll collect shells from holiday and keep them in jars (you get the idea).
So over time and living in my flat for 4 years I have acquired a lot of stuff!
I realized I was feeling stressed by coming home from work and carrying on with my household chores and still not feeling satisfied. It just kept looking a mess!
So I've seen a lot on TV and social media lately about decluttering and minimalizing what you have.
The first room I tackled was my kitchen. Although not very big in size it was rammed with stuff I HAD to have or possibly NEED for that 1 recipe I tried 3 years ago.
I'm a person that needs things done now so I spent the entire day organizing and getting rid of anything I haven't used lately.
I was left with giving so much to charity and even the food bank!
The end result was a relief and like a load had been taken off my shoulders. It surprised me that I had been agitated about my cluttered kitchen and I didn't realize.
This felt great!
Everything had its place and the kitchen was clean.
So it just proves that having a clear out is good for the mind!
Here I'm giving a few suggestions for having a good old spring clean.
Anything for creating less stress in your life right?
Let's get started:
7 Steps To Decluttering Your Home
1. Where To Start?
So this is obviously your choice.
For me, I started as you know with my kitchen as it's the busiest place in the house. It gets used every day.
I cleared out the cupboards, threw out of date spices away and gave the cupboards a good clean inside and out.
So go for a room or area that is particularly busy.
Think, for example, the 'junk drawer' everyone has one. You just throw stuff from your bags or pockets in there and random things that don't have a place.
You'll be surprised how much of it can just be thrown out and you're keeping just for the sake of it.
You'll be amazed at how good you feel, even when starting somewhere small.
2. What To Do With Your Stuff.
I find it's best to categorize things.
- Bin
- Charity/sell
- Recycle
- Keep
Being a minimalist isn't about getting rid of everything you own and having an empty space.
For me it's asking yourself:
'Is this any use to me?'
'Have I used this lately?'
'Am I keeping this for sentimental reasons?'
'Would I buy this item now?'
If it doesn't add anything to your life then why is it on your shelf? Put your stuff into piles and set to work!
3. Living Room.
Another busy room in the house.
Everyone uses this room and easily gathers belongings from the family.
Put away anything that doesn't belong in there.
Empty cupboards and drawers of any old cd's and DVD's- do you even need them these days?
Untangle and sort out old wires that have built up. Find out what they're for and throw the old ones out.
Organize your ornaments and pictures, do you still like them? Do you need to have photos of the entire family out on display?
Remember this room is for unwinding and relaxing at the end of the day to make it that way!
4. Kids Bedroom.
Now, this can be a tough one. Who knew children had so much stuff?
I find it's best to do this when the kids aren't present.
They will tell you 'I love this toy.'
They haven't seen it under their bed for the past year, but it's their favorite HONEST!
When cleaning my son's room, I do find this harder as I feel sad that he's growing and doesn't love Thomas the tank engine anymore.
But 300 trains use a lot of space!
I throw out anything I haven't seen him play with in a while or outgrown. Any old books he's getting too old for and clothes…..so many clothes!!!
Children's belongings don't get used very long so I always donate to charity or give to family.
When I've had a clear out, he's loved the space and spent more time in there.
Unfortunately, he has a tiny room, so I have to cut down on what to keep but having a good storage system (IKEA!) really helps.
5. Your Bedroom.
A place to rest and relax after a day with the kids or a stressy day at work- but not so relaxing with unnecessary junk getting in your way!
So clear out your wardrobe. Are you going to lose weight and fit into those jeans from 5 years ago?
Their taking up room and probably won't be in fashion when you do shed those pounds.
Donate or throw any clothes you haven't worn in the past year.
Obviously, stick to having summer and winter clothes but be mindful of what you actually wear.
6. Bathroom.
Like the kitchen, this room can get overcrowded with stuff. I have so many half opened bottles and creams and really do you need them?
As not to waste anything get them out and use them and then stick to the minimum.
Check dates on items!
Buy storage boxes and put things in their rightful place, i.e. toilet rolls, creams and lotions, razors and sanitary items and so on.
7. Furniture.
Often a space can feel crowded because you have too much heavy, large furniture.
I'm a complete sucker for snapping up bargain furniture but sometimes less is more, and once you have had a clear out you won't need so much storage anyway!
Make some extra cash and sell some old furniture that can go to someone who needs it!
Freeing up more space can create more light and open up a room.
Not forgetting when you have had a clear out of your stuff it's a good idea to have a clean and really make your home spotless!
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11 Ways To De-Stress And Feel More Positive
Once you have made the change, you'll find everything has its place and it's easier to keep tidy.
It will instantly lift your mood and make you feel more positive.
Take your time and go at your own pace but when you have done it, you won't spend your whole weekend tidying and feeling like you're getting nowhere.


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From 1998 to 1999, an internal struggle known as the Kosovo Conflict caused Kosovo, a U.N.-administered province of Serbia, to become littered with mines and unexploded ordnance, including cluster-bomb units. Since the conflict ended, mines and UXO have claimed hundreds of victims in Kosovo. Today, very little of the original contamination remains thanks to the success of Kosovo's excellent mine-action program.
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How's that cloud thing working out for ya?
Folks around the planet are today unable to use Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook due to a baffling "Throttled" error message. The weird text box pops up in the chat software and cloud-backed email client, preventing people from sending messages, and talking to contacts. This is, according to Microsoft, due to a …
Yep. Now that I have a few years of observations on this, I can say without reservation that the people I know who rely on cloudy services suffer a lot more downtime than those who don't. Outside of a specific use case (being able to quickly change the scale of a deployment), I honestly can't think of a solid advantage to using the cloud. It looks more expensive and less reliable on the whole.
Outside of a specific use case (being able to quickly change the scale of a deployment), I honestly can't think of a solid advantage to using the cloud. It looks more expensive and less reliable on the whole.
Not really, it's how it's implemented. Implementation in a deficient way, where a region shuts down or errors disabling the cluster, bad. Implementation where such a thing springs up nodes to replace them, good. Rejoin them once they're back online, unfuck the clusterfuck of changes between the two at one's leisure, which is milliseconds at worst in a modern environment.
Seriously, I have 64 processors, with cores added, per brick, got two dozen of them in two cinder blocks in the rack.
I have, actually, more off site.
Not figuring out how to balance on site and off site, bad planning of the entire debacle to be.
And I plan on outage of a major sort, at the most vulnerable point, just to avoid a problem and worse, unscheduled overtime.
Overtime is for real emergencies or for work that I have scripts to do, while I surf the web.
I don't care how it's implemented if it's falling over all the time.
Explaining why is all nice and good, but it doesn't change the fact that The Cloud (TM) is as reliable as it is solid.
I'm glad you have your contingency plans. More companies need to wake up to that fact.
REG: Yeah. All right, Stan, and what has the Cloud ever given us in return?!
XERXES: Scale on Demand?
REG: What?
XERXES: Scale on Demand
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: Agility.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the Agility, Reg. Remember how slow it used to be to get hardware in and configure it, 3 months wait minimum.
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you can scale on demand and the agility are the two things that the Cloud has brought.
MATTHIAS: Go global in minutes.
REG: Well, yeah. Going Global. I mean, that goes without saying? But apart from the Scaling on Demand, Agility, and going Global--
COMMANDO: Serverless.
XERXES: AI, speech to text, machine learning, translation, all on-demand
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO #2: DevOps.
COMMANDOS: Ohh...
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
LORETTA: Only paying for Windows licences when they're in use
FRANCIS: Oh yeah that's right Reg, we used to have to commit to licences for three years up front, whether we used them the whole time or not, total waste of money
COMMANDOS: Yeah, that's true
COMMANDO #1: And all the managed services.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Cloud left. Huh.
LORETTA: And we get all that security that allows banks to run on the cloud, we could never afford to go to that level ourselves
FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG: All right, but apart from the scaling on demand, the agility, going global in minutes, serverless, AI, speech to text, machine learning, translation, DevOps, licencing, managed services, and security, what has the Cloud ever done for us?
XERXES: Reduced cost
REG: Oh. Cost? Shut up!
Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs.
As usual.
Same old, same old for root cause, over reliance on a geographical location with "preferred" links elected by the controllers, which then become unavailable and wreak havoc on the entire network until communications are restored and the flood of changes are propagated (OK, massively Goobered down version there).
Noticed it at work, noticed a roll back scheduled and erroring, due to it being rushed through change management.
BOFH MK-IV, occupying PFY's position currently. Little could be more dangerous than that. ;)
End result, Outrage, erm, Outlook hangs and is slow in updating. Same with Skype for MonkeyBusiness.
I'm blaming the HCU just outside of our star system for it. The bored Heavy Offensive Unit, the size of our moonish, was bored and introduced an intentional error to see the monkeys scatter about and throw scat at one another.
Or a programming team made a massive, glaring error, which they see what they think is there and not what is actually there in the code. Been there, done that, wore out that tee shirt. Back before said programmers were born.
Blaming an entire technology convergence is just idiotic. Over-reliance on a still immature technology, possibly yes, but we're stuck with what the vendor offers.
Ever look at Microsoft's certification portfolio? Looks like it was written by sales.
Seriously, find me a pathway that can find someone properly trained to find a resultant set of policy in a corporate environment of even moderate membership!
While I manage to figure out RSOP in my head to a minimum of 18 sets and frequently manage far beyond that.
Did a correction on a errored RSOP on New Year's Eve, when all of the on call couldn't figure out the debacle.
The debacle originated on making a significant change just before a major farking holiday! Worse, by junior staff and even worse, being rubber stamped at the end of the fragging day!
Fucking morons.
Took me 20 minutes, being quite well bathed in ethanol and logging in, due to being made on call, when I was solidly off call, looking at the cloistersmurf from hell that that team crafted (I strongly suspect that they began their celebrations and libations a full week before, considering the nature of changes and level), unfouled the mess in my head and ran a RSOP on it, got bored and applied it to fix the issue before I got the damned results.
Called out dead on the second, recovered on the third. Purely out of spite and besides, an old and long missed coworker, back in my ancient carpentry days, called out dead for the holiday weekend to excellent effect.
After decades of BOFH treatment, moving it all to cloud so you don't have to deal with that hellish thing called an IT department anymore feels like a pretty good solution. When that cloud experiences a hiccup and it's all over the media, worldwide, it feels good to know that your problem is taken serious enough to make the headlines, instead of IT telling you they have other priorities. Perhaps it's time we (IT) take a good hard look at our own performance, instead of making smug remarks every time there's cloud outage.
Bring on the down votes.
Why do you assume that something being a headline in, say, the Daily Mail means that (for example) Microsoft is taking it seriously? The 2 have nothing to do with each other..... I present as evidence TSB.
IT telling you "they have other priorities" just might be because they have a list of priorities set by someone besides you who has scored those priorities in a cold and calm manner using several factors - £ cost/min of outage versus reputational cost/min etc etc - that you might not even be aware of.
I want to bring this to meetings with senior executives... We need a Wikipedia or some easily accessible public link to all the Cloud outages. Its just too easy to skip over intermittent failures otherwise... Or try to explain them or excuse them away....
I want to bring this to meetings with senior executives... We need a Wikipedia or some easily accessible public link to all the Cloud outages. Its just too easy to skip over intermittent failures otherwise... Or try to explain them or excuse them away....
Seriously, have you ever heard of Google? It's a really cool site, found at https://www.googlel.com. There, you can search for such failures being mentioned. Even get a count of reports. Even look for scholarly articles on scholar.google.com.
Hint: You'd never get to work for me, if HR hired, you, *they* would get fired.
I don't think so. I tried, and the browser said "Site Not Found".
I would also appreciate a website clearly listing cloud failures, date, time, reason and duration. Searching with Google is possible, but there's too much noise for anything precise.
Actually, El Reg is not a bad place to search. Just search for TITSUP and you'll get a lot of good hits.
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Hardly. The wheel will turn again, and by the end of next decade the new thing will be "user-centric computing" or some such buzzword that means bringing the functionality back out to the client and not having everything depend on servers halfway across the country.
After all, once everyone is on the cloud, how will IT companies sell new stuff to their clients? By telling them their "cloud" stuff is old and tired, and needs replaced with Buzzword Bingo 2030!
looking at the curve for CPU performance and especially Price v. Performance on the low end, there'd be every reason to bring it back. Local loads that over-stress the user's device get automagically get translated to "The Cloud" when required especially for always on devices. Same for any other workload, there doesn't exist any boundary between local and remote.
That's my call, probably wrong. I doubt I'll be around to see 2030, so no downside to being wrong.
"What could possibly go wrong?"
Once, on a US military installation in the middle of a massive desert, we had a flood.
Even I, a paranoid contingency planner type, didn't plan of a flood.
The area, high calcium carbonate compact layer (old natural concrete from ancient coral shoals), composing the "bedrock" of the area, six to eighteen inches below the topsoil.
A 3/4 inch water pipe ruptured, spilling out heaven knows how many gallons of water.
End result, a manhole filled with water - our primary telephone trunk occupying manhole.
Network, being optical and continuous, operated normally.
Fine day of no telephone ringing.
Turned out, all telephones on the mid range military installation were entirely out.
Oddly, my IP based secure telephone never rang to report a major outage. Which was far outside of policy.
And noted in the subsequent staff meeting.
The policy being, use *every* form of communication when losing primary communication.
I literally look for smoke signals, when outside.
Morons failed entirely to do anything other than, initially, try a web interface. Failed, halt.
Two used a telephone, failing that, used a secure telephone communications network that was optically based.
Which utterly ruined a very fine day for me.
Turned it from maintenance to recovery in a New York minute, which is measured in Planc units.
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As an admin of several sites around San Antonio, where Microsoft's purported data center is located, I can state that none of my sites reported any service outages. They are all monitored by a third party service and located in standard office buildings. Neither were there massive blackouts reported on the news, nor did the lights so much as flicker in my home during this heavy rain event. (Tenth-highest in city history, thus well within expectations.) Whatever problems Microsoft had were confined to their campus.
There's cheap, and then there's multiple-single-points-of-failure cheap.
If the price of gas didn't go up, then Texas didn't have unusual weather.
An interesting phenomenon frequently reported and related in the Philadelphia area, as the entire Delaware River is lousy with refineries from coast to Philly and beyond.
Somehow, our gasoline prices soar, due to a Houston problem.
Yet the very same company complains over ACA cost sharing.
As a technician that handles about 50 clients varying between 10 and 500 users each, I can tell you that if you don't like the cloud you should just go spend money on therapy and try and get over it since we are going to the cloud whether you like it or not.
It's a better solution to almost every enterprise problem than on-premise anything. Do outages occur? Yep, whats worse tho, an outage that microsoft spends it's time fixing or one you do? Because they will still happen to you even if you don't have cloud based anything. Power goes out, how long does your UPS last, bro?
As technology advances outages will become so short and unnoticeable that all you whiners will finally have something to point to and go "oh, I actually didn't know the first thing about what I was complaining about".
Enjoy being bad at computers tho.
You're right of course but the luddites here don't want to hear that.
They'd rather jump on every outage (of which there are very few when you factor the scale of cloud), as an excuse not to learn a new technological paradigm and hang onto their old skills, fine if they plan to retire in the next 5 years otherwise their prognosis is not good.
jump on every outage (of which there are very few when you factor the scale of cloud)
What you're missing here is that an outage in "the cloud" likely as not affects whole geographic regions. In this instance, half the globe by the sound of it.
Something goes wrong in an on-premises system, local systems go down, life in the rest of the world carries on as normal.
Something goes wrong in a shared off-premises system, dozens or hundreds (or more) of companies suddenly wonder if it's worth taking the afternoon off because, short of calling the issue in (if the phones are actually working) there's nothing more they can do than wait.
"Yep, whats worse tho, an outage that microsoft spends it's time fixing or one you do?"
Microsoft's problems arising from an outage are any penalties in its SLA. End user companies' problems arising from an outage are loss of business during the outage, ongoing loss of business from those customers who went elsewhere and didn't come back, and trying to sort out any inconsistencies in data mangled by the outage or resulting from falling back to manual operations.
Who has the greater incentive to keep systems up and running and to fix them when they fall over?
Yep, whats worse tho, an outage that microsoft spends it's time fixing or one you do?
One Microsoft spends its time fixing. Because they "fix" it by deploying an untested update which prolongs the pain. Did you even read the article?
Power goes out, how long does your UPS last, bro?
Til my generator kicks in. Which works until the issue is over or until the secondary site is brought up. That's what happens when you properly plan business continuity solutions, instead of chasing buzzwords.
Enjoy being bad at computers tho.
Right back at you, bro.
It's a better solution to almost every enterprise problem than on-premise anything. Do outages occur? Yep, whats worse tho, an outage that microsoft spends it's time fixing or one you do? Because they will still happen to you even if you don't have cloud based anything. Power goes out, how long does your UPS last, bro?
The UPS may last for 2-3 hours when the power goes out, but the access to the local server and the cloud would last for the same amount of time when the power goes out. This is because your example is an event that affects both the local server and clients.
The cloud is someone else's computer. There's nothing wrong with using it, but there's a problem when you overly depend on it without any backups. Without backups, you have not control of what happens to the data in the cloud. You snooze you lose.
The problem isn't the technology, it's the shitty way people like you choose to employ it, were warned by us and we were ignored and it blew up the enterprise.
Then, you fail by trying to blame us and we have tons of notes and memos that proved we had grave reservations over "implementation X", which subsequently blew up.
Thank you!
Proved our points, yet again, Pointy Haired Boss moron.
Single point of failure, bad, especially when it's a fucking cluster. Shared traffic amongst clusters as super groups, good, negotiating constantly for roles.
Adds overhead, but adds reliability.
So, how many bowls of stupid flakes to you enjoy in the morning, with moron milk liberally applied to them?
Plan for failure modes and recovery, not trust the shit actually always fucking works.
Hey, l33t h4x0r boi, you'll find that most people here consider "technician with 500-25,000 users" too banal to even bother putting on their resume... No-one needs to know the rookie stuff!
It's "know-all" newbies like you that are the cause of many previously solved computer problems reoccurring in cycles. The only thing new about "the cloud" is the overgrown size of the thing, and the stupid name.
Learn from history. Don't be part of the crowd that give us the 90's Microsoft backwards thinking.
Meanwhile, at my Linux and BSD-centric employer, we got work done instead of sitting around getting paid for doing nothing. Emails magically worked, phones seemed to ring and dial out just fine. Organisation internal cloud is working just fine, as it has for literally years on end. Got to go home on time too instead of putting in lots of overtime like certain Microsoft dependent shops will be doing later today / tomorrow / whenever it comes back up.
Non-external-cloudy bliss...
I was working in a corporation in the 1990's and they switched from Lotus Notes which the users were very good at creating business apps to MS Outlook and Exchange which could not seem to do much with themselves.
I was puzzled at the time why they did this and I am convinced it was just some sort of corporate conspiracy to get rid of Lotus from the computer industry.
Same sort of thing happened with Flash. Web developers loved it and users enjoyed the fancy animations but no we have to get rid of it, along with wolf whistling and proper light bulbs.
Between 1997 in 2002, I had an interesting position in Northern California with a firm based in Texas (since absorbed by others) . Telecom Valley has long since dried up and blown away, but I have a lot of memories of that time.
I was the de facto EMC expert in the R&D department there, and beside monitoring designs in progress, was often called on to fix problems that developed in the field. One such problem came up shortly before the inevitable layoffs began and one got me; equipment in Texas was shutting down mysteriously, not a cloud in the sky, nor high tension power lines collapsing on the telephone outside plant, no, not that.
Protective devices on telephone lines were just quietly dying of overload, burning out and and taking down-line equipment "off the net", as we would say now.
They had at the time other EMC engineers than myself, the headquarters being in Texas, so I am confident (ha!) somebody eventually fixed that – but here's my theory.
Clouds passing over the millions of miles of lines across the state carried quite sizable charges, despite never discharging via lightning until things REALLY got "charged up". And as they passed over portions of the network, the charge they carried induced a flow of current between different parts of the land-line system. Equipment protectors being designed to handle short if exceedingly high currents, were burning out because these slowly rising and slowly falling peaks of current exceeded their ability to dissipate it as heat.
It's a good theory, anyway. It's never nice to fool Mother Nature.
Well, if you will put all your eggs in a fluffy thing somewhere out there that's actually just vapour and nothing solid, and expect 99.999% uptime like any decent on-prem datacenter can provide - good luck to you. The fixation with the cloud, and the funniest part - thinking it can actually save you money, will eventually blow up big time, but by that point, with companies facing multi-year lockins, and having already fired their on-prem IT staff and decommissioned their kit, it will all be too late for them.
For me VisualStudio (online licensing) and MSDN were also affected. Took about 2 hours to be able to work again.
Start VS, get coding - a popup message about invalid license appears.
Click 'search for an updated license' - nothing (apart from an error message) happens.
Try to login to MSDN to get a product key - MSDN barely loading and login.live.com not loading.
Try the login button on microsoft.com - it's just text and no longer 'clickable'.
Rinse and repeat for about 2 hours until VS could get an updated license.
Right now it seems to be working again but I am really happy that my company hasn't switched to O365 (yet).
This sounds familiar, along with Composed sent emails remaining in Drafts for days, all sorts of nightmarish things of a 365 type. Made me smile that one time Protonmail was being DDOS hammered all day by the Russians and still it allowed logins, sent some stuff and didn't lose anything coming in. Maybe they should compare notes?
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