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Why back pain and how to deal with it

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Back pain, lower back pain – there is no person who would never in her life experienced. According to the world health organization, is the most common complaint and the most frequent cause of temporary disability.

What to do?

Phenomena of degenerative changes of the spine are often referred to as the outdated term "osteochondrosis". These phenomena are observed among the majority of people over 18 years old. By itself, the word "osteochondrosis" includes anything from age norm to severe pathology. This term reluctantly used by most neurosurgeons, and is not used in the international literature.

Back pain can be a separate problem ("grab", "gelidus back", etc.), but it may indicate disease of the spine, about a variety of serious conditions, from pyelonephritis and flu, spinal tumors or metastases in the vertebrae. Thus, back pain is a symptom that requires diagnosis.

By far the diagnosis for back pain are necessary in the following cases: the pain came after the injury, falls, accidents; severe pain lasts a few days, stopping to walk and/or sleep; pain radiates to the foot/leg (buttock, thigh, Shin/calf and foot); with torpor, the feeling of pins and needles in the foot/feet; reducing the force in any part of the feet/legs; weight loss feet/legs; difficulty or frequent urination, bowel movements; severe pain in an older person; in severe back pain from macie, weakened or a person with a temperature; with back pain in a patient with severe systemic disease, such as osteoporosis, cancer, tuberculosis.

Clearly the desire to find out why a sore lower back. Best to start with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbosacral spine. All other actions, including a visit to the doctor, then. On the MRI you will have to spend a few thousand, but to do without a doctor's referral.

The conclusion, written by a specialist in radiodiagnostics, often scares the patient. It can be written: hernia / protrusion / stenosis / degenerative disc disease / herniated Smorlya / spondylosis. This could mean anything, including nothing. Just describe the Mr-phenomena. They should be interpreted by the Clinician with consideration of medical history, diseases, additional research and more. Conclusion is not written for the patient, and another doctor.

Radiography and computed tomography in the majority of cases, additional studies prescribed by a doctor.

Making an MRI of the lower back, you need to consult a neurologist or neurosurgeon. Second, in my subjective opinion, better: the average neurosurgeons operate much better interpretiruya pictures, because daily I see the real images on the operations and correlate them with MRI and clinical picture. In some cases, about which I will say a neurologist or a neurosurgeon, you need a podiatrist.

If the results of inspection and evaluation MRI is not need surgery (most often the case), the treatment is carried out under the supervision of a neurologist. In typical cases this includes nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants and other medications. Sometimes other methods are required. To determine the manner and duration of treatment can only a doctor.

Self-treatment of lower back pain, especially without an MRI, an extremely unwise move. The use of alternative medicine, again – especially without an MRI, total idiocy.

Sometimes the doctor says that you need to remove the herniated disc. Thanks to the use of endoscopic and microsurgical techniques in the right hands this operation is quite safe. I usually tell patients that the risk of paralysis or other serious complications when removing a disc herniation is approximately equal to the risk of death in a traffic accident on the way to counseling.

Many fear that the surgery on the spine can paralyze. It is almost impossible. There are dangerous operations associated with this risk, for example the removal of intramedullary tumors, surgery for fractures of the thoracic spine etc. If there is such a danger, it warned. When you remove the disc herniation, the resolution of the stenosis of the spinal canal, the risk of these complications theoretical. Condition security is a qualified neurosurgeon and the clinic has modern equipment.

There are diseases that require stabilization of the spine – the installation of structures that hold the vertebrae with each other. Stabilization methods and systems to stabilize very much. Stabilization of the spine is performed only on strict indications. The need for it can only define a neurosurgeon. Most often stabilizing surgery is needed when spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, instability of vertebral segments, the vertebral fractures.

After most operations on the spine not only do not have long to lie, but often the patient begins to walk alone the next morning after surgery or even in the evening on the day of surgery.

What you need to do, not to hurt the lower back? In private hospitals you can find commercial programs to combat back pain at the cost of the car. It is scientifically proven that in fact is enough the basic things.

First of all, you have to be in the normal range of body weight, in other. You should have a well-developed axial muscles – swimming and fitness. Finally, back pain is a frequent first symptom of depression because depression is accompanied by decreased pain threshold. In General, it is necessary to have a normal mood and keep in shape.


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How does casino chip rat-holing work, and will it help me win?

How does Casino Chip Rat-Holing work, and Will it Help Me Win More?

Every experienced casino gambler in the history of wagering has sought out some form of strategic game play. From blackjack card counting to baccarat and roulette betting systems, there’s some tactic or another that can be applied to every game in the casino.

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If the game in question happens to involve chips – real, physical chips, not the digital variety at electronic tables or online casinos – there’s a supplemental technique known as rat-holing that, according to some, has the potential to further improve your return on investment (ROI).

Does Casino Chip Rat-Holing Really Work?

Before we get into the hole concept of how rat-holing works, let’s first discuss whether it’s actually effective. The truth is, yes, it can be, but only under the right circumstances.

In order for an ROI to be improved, it must exist in the first place. Casinos aren’t in the business of dishing up player advantages. There are only two games that can possibly be played with a player’s edge (as opposed to a house edge). They are blackjack and video poker. Since video poker doesn’t involve chips, that game is out.

Blackjack, on the other hand, does use chips at a land-based casino’s live dealer tables. And if the player finds a game with the right player-friendly rules, and employs a perfect decision making strategy, and is capable of inconspicuously counting the cards, it is possible to slide the scale of favor ever so slightly into the player’s corner. This, my friends, creates a positive ROI for professional blackjack players.

For this type of player, and this type alone, rat-holing can be a rather productive addition to one’s existing strategies. So without further ado…

What is Rat-Holing?

To be perfectly honest, the first time I read about this rat-holing technique, I mistook it for a form of cheating! Everyone seems to describe it the same way – as sneaking chips off the table and into your pocket. Sounds fishy, I know, but it’s not cheating or illegal, I assure you. It is a sneaky method, though, and must be done without any casino employees taking notice in order to be effective.

To rat-hole chips is to discreetly take a small amount of the chips from your stack and slip them into your pocket. Notice I said from your chip stack, not the chips you bet on the table. That would be cheating! (See how easy it is to mix that up?)

What’s the Point of Rat-Holing Chips?

There are two potential benefits to casino chip rat-holing. First, it keeps you out of the spotlight when you’re winning more than the casino might think you should be. Second, it can make you appear down on your luck, worthy of those beloved casino comps.

Let’s say your strategies are combining for a 100.8% average RTP. The edge is in your favor. Your grinding away, slowly but surely increasing your chip stack. If that stack keeps rising, you’re going to draw attention. The dealer may not care so much, but it’s not their job to care. That’s the job of the pit boss and the security crews watching from the overhead cameras.

If your stack keeps rising, they will take notice. But if you rat-hole casino chips, just a few at a time, without attracting any attention for it, your stack will look like it’s going down, or at least staying about even. Thus no one will suspect your counting cards or politely ask you to leave the tables for doing so.

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Sources revealed to Deir Ezzor 24 network that 12 Shiite militiamen were killed and one captured this morning by “Maghawir Al-Thowra” forces in al-Tanaf area on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border, and one element of Maghawir Al-Thowra was killed.

The sources noted that this morning, a military force of Maghawir Al-Thowra Army stormed a position of the Iranian militias near Al-Tanaf, which forced the militia to respond by targeting the positions of al-Maghawir with mortar shells, which in turn pushed the international coalition warplanes to intervene and bomb the militia position.

It is worth mentioning that Maghawir Al-Thowra is one of the Free Syrian Army’s factions, and is stationed at al-Tanaf base in the Syrian badiyah, close to the Syrian-Jordanian-Iraqi border.

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    Color Speed   37 ppm
    Black & White Speed   37 ppm
    Maximum Duty Cycle   80,000 prints
    First Page Out Time   Black: 10 sec or less, Full-Color: 15 sec or less
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    Standard Paper Sizes   500 sheets
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    Power Consumption (Operating)   B&W: 725 W
    Color: 770 W
    Power Consumption (Sleep Mode)   0.53 W
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    Power Requirements   120 V, 60Hz, 12A
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Equities have been a terrific investment recently, but the existence of substantial risks that investors appear to be ignoring raise the possibility that the market is exhibiting the characteristics of a bubble.

Equity prices are clearly on the minds of many business leaders. The most common question I get when discussing the economy with clients concerns the surprising behavior of equity prices.

Is equity price behavior really so notable? The benchmark S&P 500 is up 54% since bottoming in March, regaining its pre-crisis level. One could argue that once it became clear that there was a path to recovery, investors bet on a return to normalcy.

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So, is the market behaving rationally? The forward-looking price-earnings ratio for the market is now at the highest level since the tech boom early in this century. Either investors are correctly expecting a surge in profits, or this is a bubble―or, investors are discounting expected future profits using an unusually low discount factor, reflecting historically low interest rates.

Central bank policy stands out when looking at the factors likely contributing to the rise in equity prices. Massive Federal Reserve purchases of assets and European Central Bank policy have led to a surge in U.S. and Eurozone money supply. With borrowing costs at an historic low, and money not being spent on goods and services, investors are seeking better returns.

Moreover, investors appear confident about the economic recovery. The surge in equity prices, however, has made some investors nervous. Indeed, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has expressed concern about a perceived disconnect between equity prices and economic fundamentals. So, what potentially negative factors might investors be ignoring?

First, investors appear relatively confident that a vaccine will soon emerge, setting the stage for a more robust recovery. If this doesn’t happen, investors have not adequately discounted the risk of vaccine failure.

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The Absence of Business Travel Threatens the Global Economy

A prolonged period of almost no international business travel will stymie global economic growth by limiting the transfer of knowledge, according to Ricardo Hausmann, a noted economist at Harvard University and former chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Business travel was about 1.7% of global GDP before the crisis and had been growing three times faster than GDP prior to the crisis.

Many people argue that, because of online conferencing software, we’ve learned that we needn’t travel as much as before. However, similar technologies existed before the crisis. Rather, as Hausmann has demonstrated, there were good economic reasons for travel. He found a strong correlation between international business travel and productivity, employment, and exports. The idea is that, when people travel overseas on business, they cause a diffusion of knowledge that contributes to better economic outcomes. It is not sufficient to talk on Zoom. In-person consultation and observation are far more impactful. As Hausmann pointed out, “to run a firm, you need not only information, but also the capacity to figure things out. One of the advantages of multinational corporations and global consulting, accounting, and law firms is that they can move that capacity to different points in their network.”

Perhaps most stunning is the estimate by Hausmann and team that, even though business travel accounts for 1.7% of global GDP, a complete and sustained shutdown of global business travel would likely cut global GDP by 17%. To me, this makes sense, considering the role that migration and cross-border investment have played in economic history. Knowledge transfers influence innovation, productivity, and growth. And, according to Hausmann, online conference calls cannot fully compensate for the absence of travel.

Supply Chain Issues Faced by Global Companies

Mike Wolf, Deloitte global economist, looks at some key supply chain issues facing global business.

Recent events that have caused large disruptions to the flow of goods are forcing businesses and policymakers to rethink how supply chains function. Past disruptions provide some clues as to how businesses and policymakers may alter supply chains. Moreover, businesses will have to choose the best risk mitigation strategies within the confines of the macroeconomic and regulatory environment.

Among the more persistent disruptions to supply chains are natural disasters, which are increasing in frequency due to climate change. They, along with geopolitical risks from the U.S.-China strife, could lead to even more regionalized supply chains. Producers may want to move closer to their customers to mitigate the risk of supplies getting caught in severe weather events. Plus, a U.S.-China decoupling could create divergent technology systems, with parts for Chinese technology largely sourced from Asia and parts for U.S. and European technology increasingly sourced from the Americas and Europe.

Worries over national security in the event of another global supply disruption like the pandemic could cause policymakers to require a larger share of goods be produced and consumed within countries. Medical equipment, food products, and technology are some of the most likely candidates. Reshoring production to rich countries would come with higher labor costs, which should encourage more investment and innovation. As companies innovate, production costs fall, and high-income countries’ manufacturers would become more competitive globally. Global trade would initially fall as reshoring efforts begin but would rise again as the U.S. and Europe become larger exporters even to middle- and low-income countries.

A drastic change in supply chains is not inevitable, however. Recent disruptions could be viewed as extraordinary events that are unlikely to occur again. Although tensions between the U.S. and China are unlikely to disappear altogether, risk mitigation efforts could be limited to incrementally adding redundancy to the supply chain, slowly shifting some production away from China and toward mostly low-cost countries within Asia.

How businesses ultimately choose to reorganize their supply chains and mitigate risks will largely depend on sector- and company-specific factors. However, macroeconomic forces and regulations will help determine their options. Take capacity constraints, for example, which will slow the speed of supply chain adjustments. Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam have been popular among firms looking to diversify away from China. Relocating just 13% of China’s $2 trillion of production value to Vietnam would require Vietnam to double its annual output.

Labor considerations will be a key determinant for where a company chooses to relocate production. Low labor costs will continue to attract suppliers to developing countries where wages are lower than they are in China. However, finding workers with the requisite skills is also critically important. Research shows that increases in the share of skilled labor in a country leads to higher participation in global value chains. Some companies and industry associations have provided their own training to overcome skills deficits in low labor-cost countries.

Resource endowments, such as commodities also play a part, and many are inflexible. Producers of lithium ion batteries will struggle to diversify their supply chains away from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which produces about 60% of the world’s cobalt, a critical component in these batteries.

Regulatory issues will also affect how supply chains are reworked. Moving some production to a new country may change the status of the final good’s compliance with free trade agreements. Other regulatory burdens and the general ease of doing business in a new country may add challenges. For example, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand all have more restrictive FDI regulations than China.

How companies navigate these constraints, as well as their own sector- and company-specific issues, will determine how and whether global supply chains change.

—by Dr. Ira Kalish, chief global economist, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.

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Identity Politics

It’s an odd time to be Scottish and living in England. There’s an election taking place on Thursday that may change my nationality—or at least my sense of nationality. That’s a disturbing notion. People kill and get killed when their nationality is called into question. But it’s only now, in the shadow cast by the likelihood of a Yes vote in favor Scottish independence and the break-up of a 300-year old union, that I’ve begun to take this election seriously.

I was born in Scotland, and grew up in the austere Scottish countryside. The Scottish landscape is a fundamental part of who I am, and I feel biologically linked to it. In other words, Scotland is an inextricable part of me.

I went to the local village school, and then to the school in the nearest big town (which really wasn’t big except in the staggering ability of its inhabitants to interest themselves in the lives of each other). To walk down the main street was to encounter dozens of people I knew and who knew me. I didn’t know it then, but this is what a community is: it’s life on a human scale with everyone feeling a sense of ownership of the place they live in.

But at the time, I loathed it.

The idea that I knew everyone and that they knew me was a sort of prison. Escape was a matter of the utmost urgency. Of course, I now see this as my inability to live in my own skin. I was a work-in-progress, and unable to withstand the intrusive scrutiny of others. And so, as soon as I was able, I did what thousands of Scots had done before me, I packed a bag and left. I didn’t leave for just anywhere, though: I left for London, where I’ve lived ever since, revelling in the sense of anonymity that the UK’s capital offers, and thrilled by the discovery that, like any great megacity, London is mostly unknowable and inexhaustible in its attractions.

Up until now, life in modern Britain has meant that I can retain my Scottishness without ever having that allegiance tested. No one has ever asked me to defend or reconsider my status as a Scottish Brit. I support Scotland in sporting events; especially if it’s against England—and I recognize the unfairness with which England, the bigger nation, has throughout history used its military and political power to keep Scotland in its place. Even today, Scots are faced with the undemocratic reality of being governed by a political party who have only one Scottish MP.

In the last few days before polling, and as a Yes vote becomes more likely, big powerful forces—leaders of the main UK political parties, banks, and industries, and other wielders of power—have launched finely tuned, media savvy scaremongering PR campaigns in favor of a No vote. It’s hard to think of anything more likely to push undecided voters into the Yes camp.

If I lived in Scotland and had the right to vote, I might feel differently, but I’m in the No camp. To be in the No camp is to be aligned with some reactionary and unsavory forces—banks, big business, the Orange Order, and Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-EU UKIP party. Even Henry Kissinger is against Scottish independence.

But my support for the No vote is based on an instinct that, despite all its faults and myriad shortcomings, modern Britain stands as a successful example of four interdependent states living in relative harmony in the twenty-first century—and this despite a slaughter-filled past going back to beyond the dark ages, and the still raw wound of the Northern Ireland “troubles.”

As the former British Prime Minster Gordon Brown argues in a long article in support of maintaining the UK: “ … we redefined the idea of citizenship from one based just on civil and political rights in one nation to one based on civil political social and economic rights shared across nations. Even today no other group of nations—neither the EU, nor the states that make up the USA—has evolved such a sophisticated form of citizenship.” I also fear an England without a Scotland to remind it that it has responsibilities and needs to consider others on occasion. Scotland and the other two states in the Union are a constant reminder to the far larger England that it cannot act like the imperial power it once was. Without Scotland, and its role as sort of counterbalance to English power and self-confidence, I see only the rise of Little Englander-ism, and the growth of far right parties advocating isolationism and withdrawal from the EU.

No matter what happens on Thursday, I can’t imagine ever not feeling Scottish. But more than this, I take pride in belonging to a funny little island grouping on the edge of Europe—with all its faults—that stands as an exemplar of peaceful co-existence, tolerance, and democracy.

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I'm having a hard time understanding how Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland "are a constant reminder to the far larger England that it cannot act like the imperial power it once was". Would England have an even stronger nagging feeling to "consider others" had Ireland remained a subject? Canada? The U.S.? To the contrary, it would seem that Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are a reminder that they are the last remaining subjects of an imperial power. Despite Gordon Brown's idealistic evocation of Adam Smith, it's a matter of political and bureaucratic necessity, not enlightened humanism — all empires, especially colonial ones, have complicated citizenship regimes. I'm having an even harder time understanding your claim that the UK stands as an exemplar of democracy, particularly because you live in such close proximity to the most undemocratic municipality in the land: The Corporation of the City of London. And for all the democratic reforms Brown mentions in his Guardian article, more than a decade of Labour rule couldn't get the job done (nor could any of the previous Labour governments). If anything, Scottish independence should put UK structural reforms back to the front burner of the political debate. It seems entirely plausible that independence would result in a more democratic polity on both sides of the border.
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Happy World IPv6 Launchiversary #2 – What Will YOU Do Today To Help Get More IPv6 Deployed?

World IPv6 Launch LogoWhat will YOU do today to help accelerate the deployment of IPv6?  Today, June 6, 2014, is the second anniversary of World IPv6 Launch and two years later the growth of IPv6 is going very well – “up and to the right” as our colleague Mat Ford writes!   But as Phil Roberts wrote on the ITM blog, “The effort is more like a marathon than a sprint, and persistent effort is still needed.”

Today, on this second “Launchiversary” we are celebrating by posting new IPv6 case studies (and more on the way today!) and promoting some of the many IPv6 resources that we have collected on this site.  Here are a couple of ways you can help with this celebration:

1. ASK YOUR ISP WHAT THEIR PLAN IS FOR IPV6! – If you don’t have IPv6 yet at your home or business, could you take a moment today and contact your ISP and ask them what their plan is?  Email their help desk… file a ticket in their issue-tracking system… call into their contact center… or contact them on Twitter or Facebook… or do all of the above!  As Vint Cerf said in a webinar earlier this year, we have to erase this idea that “no one is asking for IPv6”. If everyone reading this article could take this simple step… and encourage people they know to do so… we would go very far in helping erase that idea!

2. LEARN HOW YOU CAN DEPLOY IPv6 IN YOUR NETWORK – To help, we recently added our “Start Here” section to the site to help people more rapidly find the resources they need to get started with IPv6.  Please check those pages out… and if you don’t find enough info to help you get started, please let us know so that we can see what we can do to help you!

3. START WITH A SMALL PROJECT – Figure out some small way you can experiment with IPv6.  For instance, here are two things you can try:

Or read one of the IPv6 ebooks available out there.  Here are two good ones:

Or if you are a developer, look at some of the libraries your application uses and figure out if they support IPv6.  See if there is one step you can take today!

4. READ AND SHARE (AND CONTRIBUTE!) IPv6 CASE STUDIES – There are some who doubt that IPv6 will really happen… yet we are publishing case studies showing how it is happening already today on a large scale.  Please read those… and share them!  Email them to people who you think should be aware of IPv6.  Tweet them on Twitter or share them on Facebook and Google+.  Let the world know that companies all over the world are already making the move!

And if you have made the move to IPv6, why not tell the world about it?  Even if it is not a formal case study like we have here… why not tweet out that you have IPv6 on your network?  Or write a quick blog post?  Or share that story in some small way?  (And we’re glad to retweet/re-share and otherwise amplify stories we see out there.)

5. CELEBRATE! – Two years after World IPv6 Launch we have made significant progress!  If you have done something to help move IPv6 forward… either in the past or today… please do take a moment to celebrate today!   As Vint Cerf said, we are in the process of turning on the “production” Internet – let’s make it happen!

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Ask you Mobile service provider for IPv6 Internet access as well. In many respects it is an easier transition for mobile operators: the handsets churn completely in the space of about 4 years, Android 4.4 and iOS 7 already support IPv6. Most mobile user traffic goes through a CGNAT, so IPv6 bypass of the NAT is a service improvement. Rapid growth in IPv6 in mobile will encourage more websites and CDN operators to make the transition to enabling IPv6 access.

Yes, that’s definitely important! And it’s already happening on some mobile networks – for instance, the dramatic growth we’ve seen on Verizon Wireless’ network is because of their LTE rollout. T-Mobile in the USA is also doing some great things with running an IPv6-only wireless network and using 464XLAT on the edges to connect to the IPv4 Internet. I definitely think more of the transition will happen in the mobile space before many of the fixed environments.

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Internet Society expresses support for IANA Stewardship Transition Plan

Kathy Brown, President & CEO, provided the following statement to the ICANN Board of Trustees on Thursday, March 10, 2016 during the Public Forum session at ICANN 55 in Marrakech. Read more about ISOC’s view on our IANA Stewardship Transition page.

The Internet Society believes that the IANA Stewardship Transition package has the broad community backing it deserves. We strongly support it.

Importantly, we believe it does two things:

  1. It ensures the continued stability of key technical functions that are a core part of the smooth operation of the Internet, and
  2. It provides the path forward for strengthening the stewardship role of the ICANN community.

What the community has delivered is quite remarkable.

It has taken courage to persist in the face of our differences and diverse interests – courage to do what is necessary to achieve our common goal together and courage to stay with the process.

Today’s outcome confirms the strength of the multistakeholder process in tackling issues important to the continued growth and evolution of the Internet. The Internet way we call it. Indeed, it is the ONLY way in our complex ecosystem.

But, we are not done. Hard work still remains ahead of us to turn the promise of the plan into reality. The community now has a responsibility to ensure the plan is faithfully implemented in a timely way.

Again, I would like to congratulate the Internet community for reaching this critical milestone. The Internet Society remains fully engaged in seeing this most important transition to its finish.

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Added by Daniel Molina over 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

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Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is unsupported.

Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework.

Today, we’re announcing the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Soma’s blog). You can download these releases, now:

The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is a customer-focused release, based on feedback we’ve collected from UserVoice and other sources. In this post, we will highlight the top features that come with the release. If you want even more details, our earlier .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview post provides an in-depth description of the release.

Check out the Visual Studio Team blog for more information on Visual Studio 2013. The ASP.NET Team blog is also a good resource for new ASP.NET features available in Visual Studio 2013 and in the .NET NuGet feed.

Developer Productivity

We heard many requests to make .NET development easier since our last release. We’re happy to report that we delivered a lot of new features to help with that, many of which were built in concert with the Visual Studio Diagnostics team.

X64 edit and continue was our most requested feature for this release. In the image below, you see a 64-bit app that is stopped at a breakpoint, with source that has been edited, and is in an invalid state. Once I finish editing the source to a valid state, I can step again (ex: F11) and then continue running my app.

Managed return values was another commonly requested feature that we delivered in this release. It allows you to write code the way you want, without having to worry about the difficulty of debugging method invocations that are passed as parameters to other methods.

Async aware debugging was the next step for us in delivering on the value of our Task-based Asynchronous Pattern. The call-stack Windows in Visual Studio 2013, when run on Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, now delivers the method frames in the order you expect. That’s a big step forward for async development.

ADO.NET connection resiliency is a bit of a magic feature in this release. It doesn’t come with any new APIs to use. Instead, it’s a new capability of .NET that you get “for free”. Idle connection resiliency re-builds broken idle connections to SQL databases transparently, so that you don’t have to write the code to do that.

Under the covers, this new feature provides a robust connectivity system for recreating broken connections and re-trying transactions. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous operations, so it can be used with a variety of code patterns.

Here’s some simple ADO.NET code that we used to demonstrate this feature:

SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryString, Program.SqlConnection); SqlDataReader reader = null; try { // Fetch the results reader = command.ExecuteReader(); } catch (SqlException) { // Let the user know something went wrong with the connection ReportError(); }

It’s part of an app that finds contacts from a SQL Server database. Let’s assume that we’ve started the app, on the .NET Framework 4.5 (not 4.5.1), and that we’ve searched for a few contacts. To mimic the scenario of losing a connection, we intentionally break the connection to the database for the app, with TCPView.

Here’s what happens when we search for the next contact. Tom, we’re out of luck! The database connection was lost.

When we run the exact same app, with no additional configuration on the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we see a much better experience. We close the connection again, in the same way. However, after that, we’re able to find “Tom” in the contacts database! You can see that ADO.NET re-connects to the database automatically. The green highlighted line in TCPView indicates a new connection was created. You can see that the process name is the same. ADO.NET re-created that connection. As you saw in the code above, there’s no logic to cover that case, but only to display an error message.

Application Performance

Performance is always an important focus for the .NET team. We added some core features that will help larger scale apps, with a focus on ASP.NET.

ASP.NET App Suspend is a bold new approach for shared hosting for .NET apps. It uses the combination of memory (RAM) and storage (HDD or SSD) in a new way that is inspired by the app suspend technologies in Windows Phone and Windows Store. It makes ASP.NET sites much more responsive and enables you to host more sites on a single server. It is very well suited for commercial web hosters, like Windows Azure Web Sites, and Enterprise IT web hosting.

We conducted a few experiments to run ASP.NET App Suspend through its paces, in our performance lab. I’ve included the results of one of those experiments in the chart below, with DotNetNuke (DNN). Check out our blog post on ASP.NET App Suspend to see the full set of perf numbers,

Check out this video to see the experiment that led to the numbers above. Pretty impressive perf improvement. No code changes required!

Multi-core JIT (MCJ) for ASP.NET is another scenario that we enabled this release, building on our earlier client MCJ solution. In the .NET Framework 4.5.1 release, we enabled MCJ for scenarios that rely on Assembly.LoadFrom and Appdomain.AssemblyResolve. These APIs are not specific to ASP.NET, but they show up a lot in the ASP.NET apps we tested, so they were necessary to make work with MCJ.

We used DotNetNuke again, to test the benefit of MCJ. You can see the results in the image below. You’ll see that the startup time is similar to what we saw above, with ASP.NET App Suspend. We tested a different page, so the “cold startup” number is a bit different. Here, we see an ~20% startup improvement. In the cold startup case, the app spends 852ms JITing. In the MCJ case, foreground JIT is reduced to 428ms, since 429ms (50%) of JITing can be done concurrently in the background. A 50% cut in JIT time is a good thing!

You might be wondering why you would use MCJ when you can use ASP.NET App Suspend instead. The App Suspend numbers look way better. Well, ASP.NET App Suspend only kicks in after the app has started once, and servers do need to be rebooted sometimes. So, our advice going forward is to use both MCJ and ASP.NET App Suspend, together. MCJ will improve the cold startup case, and then App Suspend will kick in after that, if your site hits the Idle time-out value. The two features work together nicely, as complementary solutions to the same problem.

The great thing about MCJ is that it is enabled by default for ASP.NET in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. You don’t need to do anything to turn it on, other than upgrade your server to use the .NET Framework 4.5.1. It is opt-in for client apps.

On-demand Large Object Heap (LOH) compaction is another requested feature that we delivered this release. The LOH is a heap used by the Garbage Collector (GC) for objects that are >= 85,000 bytes. Those objects are often (large) arrays. Until this release, the LOH did not have a compaction mechanism, which could lead to fragmentation over time. Fragmentation can occur when apps use large amounts of memory – at least hundreds of megabytes – and allocations are both large (objects that are >= 85,000 bytes) and temporary. On 32-bit systems, processes can run out virtual address space due to fragmentation, which results in OutOfMemory (OOM) exceptions. On 64-bit systems, running out of virtual address space is much less likely. Most apps do not run into this problem because they do not make extensive use of the LOH and the small object heaps (SOH) have automatic heap compaction built-in.

In this release, we delivered on-demand compaction for the LOH, which is useful for mitigating LOH fragmentation causing OOM. It is exposed as a GC Settings API. Since compaction moves large amounts of memory, which is expensive – GC pause times >1s – you should only use this unless your app has experienced OOMs due to fragmentation. That’s why we exposed an on-demand mechanism instead of an automatic one. With prudent use, it can be a great tool to reduce fragmentation and avoid running out of virtual address space (OOM). It is also not intended as general feature for reducing memory use.

In the image below, you can see an abstract example of an LOH memory segment that is fragmented. After compaction, you can see that the memory consumed by active objects (in blue) and the free memory (in white) have been separated.

The win is that the free memory is now in one contiguous range and is able to satisfy much larger allocation requests than it could before. That means that an app will use less virtual address space, since fragmentation can be kept to a more manageable level, and memory is generally used more efficiently.

Continuous Innovation

We’re now delivering software faster. The .NET Framework 4.5.1 was delivered about a year after the .NET Framework 4.5. That’s pretty fast for a mature framework. For even faster releases, we use NuGet.org. You can see that we have released quite a few .NET NuGet Packages available already. It’s not just something that we started recently.

.NET NuGet releases have been plentiful over the past year, since we released the .NET Framework 4.5. If we look a traffic to this blog and also to our @dotnet twitter account, we can see that there is a lot of interest in taclip_image011rgeted releases that fill key gaps. Thanks for the support on this new approach. The following are the NuGet releases that have gone out since 4.5 RTM.

We’re happy to see high traffic numbers to our release announcements and to our download pages. Even more important is that NuGet releases enable us to have a higher-level of engagement with you, our developer customers. It’s somehow unintuitive that shorter releases would allow more feedback to get into the product, but it’s true. If you look at our blog posts for our NuGet releases, you’ll see multiple cases where we publically made product changes based on direct customer feedback. Here’s a favorite example, where we (temporarily) pulled ImmutableArray<T> from our ImmutableCollection package. This was based on your feedback and results in very high quality releases. We cannot wait to see where we are one year from now.

Better discoverability of Microsoft .NET NuGet packages was a key goal for us. Half a year ago, the NuGet client, which comes with Visual Studio, had a single view onto the entire NuGet catalog. That didn’t make much sense to us. We would talk to customers about the NuGet packages that we had released. They’d be interested to try out those releases, but that would be the first time they’d heard about them. We knew that we had a discoverability problem.

The NuGet team came to the rescue. We now have a “Microsoft and .NET” feed within the NuGet client. It’s the same feed that you can see on our .NET NuGet Packages page. You can use that feed, in either location, to find all of the libraries that the .NET team has released. Please try them out and give us feedback.

The screenshot below is the NuGet client in Visual Studio 2013.

Supporting enterprise use of .NET NuGet packages was an important goal of this release.  We wanted to extend the expectation of a high quality level and the support and servicing model that we already have with the .NET Framework to our .NET NuGet packages. To achieve that, we used the .NET NuGet feed described above as the focus for this effort. We’ve been adding our packages to the feed, and have ensured that each one of them meet the same quality bar as the .NET Framework. If you stick to stable releases in our feed, then are using NuGet as a supported .NET Framework release vehicle.

We also had major feature ask from some of our larger corporate customers, to enable Microsoft Update servicing of our .NET NuGet packages. In corporate/enterprise environments, we see .NET apps being installed thousands of times, on client machines and web farms. Those customers are happy depending on the .NET Framework, since they know it has a strong servicing mechanism, via MU. That’s one of the reasons they choose .NET, actually. Up until now, we had not extended that servicing model to our NuGet packages, which presented a blocker to those customers, and that’s exactly what they told us.

Starting with the .NET Framework 4.5.1, we have extended our MU servicing model to our .NET NuGet Packages. Going forward, you can deploy apps on desktops and servers that use our NuGet packages and feel confident that we’ll service them via MU. The only likely time we’ll service NuGet files via MU is to patch a critical security vulnerability. We’ve never found the need to do that, however, we do think it is a good idea to have this extra measure available to use. NuGet.org remains our primary vehicle for NuGet package updates, even in the case of critical security updates.

The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is a big release with many new great features to try out. We covered several areas of the product, such as developer productivity, app performance and shipping releases faster. We’ve had great feedback since our Preview release. Now that the final release of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available, please do install it and Visual Studio 2013 and try out the new features.

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A question about the FileTimeToLocalFileTime function turned out to be something else

Raymond Chen

A customer reported that their program was running into problems with the FileTimeToLocalFileTime function. Specifically, they found that the values reported by the function varied wildly for different time zones. Even though the two time zones were only a few hours apart, the results were hundreds of centuries apart.

The customer did a very good job of reducing the problem, providing a very simple program that illustrated the problem. I cleaned it up a bit.

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
 FILETIME ftUTC = { 0, 0 };
 FILETIME ftLocal;
 double vLocal = 0;
 BOOL result = 0;

 printf("ftUTC = {%d,%d}\n",
        ftUTC.dwHighDateTime, ftUTC.dwLowDateTime);

 result = FileTimeToLocalFileTime(&ftUTC, &ftLocal);
 printf("FT2LFT returns %d\n", result);

 printf("ftLocal = {%d,%d}\n",
        ftLocal.dwHighDateTime, ftLocal.dwLowDateTime);

 FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftLocal, &stLocal);

 printf("stLocal = %d.%d.%d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",
        stLocal.wYear, stLocal.wMonth, stLocal.wDay,
        stLocal.wHour, stLocal.wMinute, stLocal.wSecond);

 SystemTimeToVariantTime(&stLocal, &vLocal);
 printf("vLocal = %f\n", vLocal);

 return 0;

According to the customer, “When we run the program with the current time zone set to UTC-8, we get the correct values, but if we run it with the time zone set to UTC+8, we get the wrong values. We expect that a zero starting file time should result in a zero variant time.” They also provided two screen shots, which I converted to a table.

ftUTC = {0,0}
FT2LFT returns 1
ftLocal = {67,237191168}
stLocal = 1601.1.1 08:00:00
vLocal = -109205.000000
ftUTC = {0,0}
FT2LFT returns 1
ftLocal = {-68,-237191168}
stLocal = 34453.15281.0 00:30:19624
vLocal = 0.000000

Okay, first of all, let’s see which is actually correct and which is incorrect.

The FileTimeToLocalFileTime function subtracts or adds eight hours. Since the starting time was zero, the result in the case of UTC-8 is an integer underflow, which prints as negative numbers if you use the %d format. (Note to language lawyers: Don’t get all worked up about stuff like “passing an unsigned integer to the %d format results in undefined behavior.” I’m talking about Win32 here, and I’m trying to explain observed behavior, not justify theoretical behavior.)

The value {67,237191168} corresponds to 0x00000043`0e234000, which has the signed decimal value 288000000000 which is exactly equal to 8 * 10000 * 1000 * 3600, or eight hours after zero. On the other hand, the value {-68,-237191168} corresponds to 0xffffffbc`f1dcc000 which has the signed decimal value -288000000000 which is exactly equal to -8 * 10000 * 1000 * 3600, or eight hours before zero.

So far, the numbers match what we expect. Although we do have an issue that in the UTC-8 case, the value underflowed to a very large positive number.

Next, we convert ftLocal to stLocal. The easy case is UTC+8, where the timestamp of eight hours after zero is converted to January 1, 1601 at 8am, because the zero time for FILETIME is January 1, 1601 at midnight. This is spelled out in the very first sentence of the documentation for the FILETIME structure.

Okay, now the hard case of UTC-8. The timestamp 0xffffffbc`f1dcc000, if interpreted as an unsigned number, corresponds to May 27, 58456 (at around 9:30pm), but if interpreted as a signed number, corresponds to 4pm December 31, 1600. The FileTimeToSystemTime function rejects negative timestamps, return FALSE and ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. Since the call failed, the value in stLocal is undefined, and here, it just contains uninitialized garbage. (Because “uninitialized garbage” is a valid value for “undefined”.)

The next thing we do is convert the stLocal to a variant time. As noted in the documentation, the zero time for variant time is December 30, 1899. (Required reading: Eric’s Complete Guide to VT_DATE, wherein the insanities of variant time are investigated.) Again, the case of UTC+8 is easy: January 1, 1601 is many many days before December 30, 1899, apparently −109205 days. I’m going to take this for granted and not check the math, because the goal is not to double-check the results but rather to explain why the results are what they are. On the other hand, the (garbage) date of the zeroth day of the 15281th month of the year 34453 is not valid, and the SystemTimeToVariantTime fails because the parameter is invalid. In this case, the output variable vLocal is left unchanged, and it continues to have the value zero, the value it was initialized with.

Therefore, the fact that in the so-called “correct” case the value of vLocal is zero has nothing to do with the functioning of the API, but rather has everything to do with the line

 double vLocal = 0;

at the start of the program. Change the line to

 double vLocal = 3.14159;

and the result in the “correct” case will be 3.14159.

The conclusion here is that the so-called “incorrect” result is actually correct, and the so-called “correct” result is just an accident. The customer is under the mistaken impression that a zero FILETIME matches a zero variant time, but they do not. The zero points for the two time formats are quite different. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the test program didn’t check the return values of FileTimeToSystemTime or SystemTimeToVariantTime, so what it thought were the values set by those two functions were actually just the uninitialized values passed into the respective functions.

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The Magicality of Cuisine 4: A Special Dish for a Woman Cultivator, 19th Century Liberia, West Africa

As with other ‘magical dishes’ in this series, it is the context and activities associated with the dish that render it effective – not merely the specified ingredients: Pre-modern cuisine in many parts of the world can be more fully understood … Continue reading

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A Taste of 2012 – Top Posts Favor Colonial Era; Food; Ancient Egypt

2012 was an excellent year for blogging.  Daily reads ranged between 200 and 300, with a few entries going over 500.  Readers were most interested in posts that stress the colonial era of African history, together with wildlife, traditional farming … Continue reading

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An 18th Century Recipe for Alchemical Fertilizer & A Modern Version

This morning I stumbled across an 18th Century manuscript containing a recipe for ‘alchemical fertilizer,’ which I have transcribed below.  The ‘chemical symbols‘ that are used have been changed into capital letters in order to accommodate the blog.   A list of their meanings … Continue reading

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Organic Gardening in Burundi

   Morning ‘rush-hour’ from village to the fields.  Water in the left hand, long-handle hoe in the right, baby on the back, and a snack and nappies balanced on the head. Related articles Sorghum Beer in Colonial Burundi and Now … Continue reading

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The Unicorn Project, Part 2

By Dick Stark

To refresh, Part 1 of the Unicorn Project reviewed the early failures of “Phoenix” from the Dev rather than the Ops perspective. Here the main character is Maxine, a very successful architect/developer who has just been “exiled” to the Phoenix Project. After just a short time coming up to speed on Phoenix, Maxine quickly understood why things have gone so far south, and now it is up to her and her team to try to “join the digital age,” and save the company. Here’s a summary of Part 2.

Part 2 opens with Kurt being promoted to a Development Management position, taking over development of a legacy Data Hub system that interconnects and integrates many of Parts Unlimited’s mission critical systems. One of Kurt’s first tasks (with Maxine’s help) is to take down “technical debt” and automate things. This involves the third ideal, improvement of daily work. Parts Unlimited can’t get out of TWWADI syndrome, or “The Way We’ve Always Done It.”

For too long development teams at Parts Unlimited have tolerated work arounds, manual deployments and manual testing. Kurt does not want to end up like Nokia which fell from more than 50% of the worldwide smartphone business in 1998 to 0% in 2010. This fall is blamed in part on their failure to pay down technical debt.  For example, Nokia’s aging codebase slowed development—it took more than 48 hours for a simple build.

Next, software QA and testing is called out as another area for improvement. Maxine discovers that it may take weeks to get the Data Hub code tested due to the long backlog. To make matters worse, the urgent need to release the code reduces testing time. Additionally, QA uses a different ticketing system, is a location distant from the developers and has limited automated testing. Roy, the QA Manager does not like change and is afraid of automation.

Merging code at Parts Unlimited is like writing a screenplay with 50 writers: how to get everyone together in a room to merge their chapters in a short time, with no agreement on plot, characters, and the ending. Compounding this is the Change Management process in place that prohibits developers from pushing their own code into production. Operations must approve that change.

Maxime and Kurt look for quick wins and discover that containerization (i.e. Docker) allows code to work in both Dev and Test, making development and testing more efficient and much faster. By merging Dev and Test into one team, and using a CI server to do continuous builds and tests for every check-in, results in a significant improvement in the speed of the test and development process.

The next hurdle is deployment and how to get Ops ready and Data Hub into production. Parts Unlimited has a time-tested deployment approval review board, but after a great presentation, no approval. But, an exemption is granted allowing Data Hub to test, deploy and operate the code on their own. Another win is the movement of the Data Hub product manager to the Dev team. This eliminates a key bottleneck in the overall development process. Things start getting resolved quickly and the developers gain a better understanding of how the business works. All the retrospectives, learning, and hard work is paying off. And just in time for the Unicorn project roll-out in Part 3. Stay tuned….

About dick1stark

I am the President, CEO, and founder of RightStar Systems, a leading ITSM and DevOps consultancy and BMC Software Gold Solution Provider and Atlassian Platinum Partner. My passion is customer success—whether it’s reducing the cost of service management, improving overall efficiency, or increasing end-user or employee satisfaction. Since founding RightStar in 2003, RightStar has made the INC 5000 list four times. In 2011, RightStar was awarded the prestigious National Capital Business Ethics Award (NCBEA) by the Society of Financial Service Professionals based upon RightStar’s foundation of honesty, ethics, and integrity. And in 2014, RightStar was selected by Forrester Research as one of 13 North American companies profiled in its ITSM Consultancy Wave Report. Finally, in 2019, BMC selected RightStar as its DSM North American Partner of the Year for its sales and partnership excellence. Dick is a graduate of Stanford University and a Project Management Professional (PMP).
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Did the iPhone kill BlackBerry?

imageYes and no.

I raise this issue today because of the extract from a soon to be released book, Losing the Signal: The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. I happen to have read this book for a forthcoming review of it in the Literary Review of Canada. I have a keen interest in this area as it is an important part of my own forthcoming book on disruption that will be published in 2016 by MIT Press.

The extract, and indeed the book, is worth reading but the highlights are as follows, the iPhone appeared and it broke every single rule RIM (the company that sold BlackBerries) had believed was important to its customers — mobile phone carriers. Namely, phones had to be scant in their use of data so that networks don’t collapse. AT&T had an exclusive contract with the iPhone with an unlimited data plan too boot. And just as would have been predicted by any radio engineer, iPhones made that network worse so much so that for years AT&T struggled with an increasingly poor reputation.

Now in a mode familiar to those who study disruption, RIM assessed the iPhone and decided that it was not for its customers. It was a consumer product, included a touch screen keyboard that was inferior to those in BlackBerries (and possibly still is), it was slow (on Edge rather than 3G) and would suck up battery life. Not to mention that email would not travel through RIM’s more secure network — a network that they operated and was then adopted by the US Government who were no puppies when it came to security. True to form, the iPhone appealed to customers who didn’t care about these things and, at least initially, there weren’t that many of them. (Yes, a million were sold in the first quarter but that number would not be predictive of its future success).

What surprised RIM was that their ‘real’ customer, carriers, and specifically, Verizon and Vodafone were worried about the iPhone and the fact they wouldn’t be able to sell it for years. They felt vulnerable. In hindsight, they had reason to worry. Two months after the iPhones release in 2007, Verizon approached RIM to see if they could come up with something that would compete with the iPhone. The problem was that, at that time, RIM and Verizon assessed that the main issue with BlackBerries was the fact that the keyboard took up half of what could be screen space. The solution to that was a big touch screen. And RIM immediately complied with this and came up with the BlackBerry Storm — a touch screen BlackBerry. Verizon were thrilled and placed one RIM’s biggest ever orders.

The problem was that it was hard to produce this new phone. It took 15 months and by then the list of failings on the iPhone started to be ticked off. The Storm launched and, like the iPhone, it had 1 million sales in the first quarter. Consumers wanted this. The problem was, they didn’t want it for long and returned them in droves. The Storm was flawed on dimensions too numerous to count.

The rest of the story is well known. Verizon went elsewhere for its iPhone killer and seeded Motorola with producing a new Android phone. And unlike iPhones, Android phones were cheap. And unlike BlackBerries they had a modern mobile computing heart of software and hardware. BlackBerry subscribers continued to rise world-wide and peaked in 2011 (4 years after the iPhone was introduced). The disruption finally caught up with them after that.

So it is tempting to suggest here that the iPhone killed BlackBerry. But if you read the whole book you will find that perhaps it was not as inevitable as that. RIM wasted time producing a touch screen BlackBerry when it could have been re-architecting its product. As I have argued elsewhere that is where the iPhone was truly disruptive: it gave rise to a new dominant design that would take over the industry. BlackBerry didn’t really adopt that design until 2013 (with the BlackBerry 10) and by then it was definitely too late. BlackBerry also wasted time with a skunkworks to produce the PlayBook to counter perceived disruption from the iPad.

The book suggests that this lost time was perhaps critical. Yes, the iPhone changed the market. But BlackBerry had alot to offer. It was dominant in enterprise and also around many parts of the world where the networks could not handle iPhones and Android phones and these were too expensive anyway. It was also ahead of the game on mobile messaging with BlackBerry Messenger which could easily have, on its own, become WhatsApp or WeChat but RIM waited way too long to see its potential. Instead, at this critical strategic juncture, it was bombarded with poor managerial advice that devoted key resources to wasted endeavours. I am not saying here that RIM would have remained the force for impact that it had been but that, had it more appropriately crafted a response and not rushed itself and instead kept to its engineering routes and its pioneering efforts for user-first usability, it may have retained a substantial amount of its value.

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Diamond reinforced nonstick coating
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We use these high-quality TiAL wastegates in our dual turbocharger system, but they can also be purchased individually for those who are building custom turbocharger applications. They are made from a combination of 347 Stainless Steel (housing) and a high temp NiCrFe based alloy (valve). These units feature a silicone Nomex reinforced diaphragm. For those running in extreme conditions, these units can be water cooled using supplied fittings. Ultra compact at only 4.17 inches tall, they come with all necessary flanges and clamps.

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