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Ballmer on services, twitch cycles, AJAX, Google and innovation
Following up on my questions earlier in the day, Steve Ballmer cleared some of the fog around how Microsoft plans to innovate in services and iterate at Web speed (compete with Google and others treading on his company's turf) during an interview at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo with analysts Tim Bittman and Dave Cearley [video clip here].
By Dan Farber for Between the Lines | October 19, 2005 -- 11:54 GMT (04:54 PDT) | Topic: Windows
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"The top priority for us is to innovate. If we don't, nobody needs to buy from us," Ballmer said. "The important thing we are focused in on across Microsoft is how through a combination of both product and through services that talk to those products—Internet-based services—all of our major businesses can have a short twitch capability--call that every six or nine months--a medium twitch capability and at same time we can't stop doing the R&D that takes every three or four years to get done. We just can't make our customers wait three or four years for things that should have been on more interim cycles. We try to orchestrate ourselves, so that we have innovations coming on all three of those cycle paths."
"If you do things that are innovative and bring value, and you respond to the big core trend, which is to move more toward a services approach, whether it's service-oriented architecture, on demand delivery through virtualization or services running out in the cloud—there is sort of a theme there," Ballmer added.
Each product will have its own cadence, Ballmer said, and needs to have services so that innovation can be fed to the market on nine month cycles. Major twitches are about a two year cycles, and some, like Vista and WinFS, take longer, but Microsoft wants to give visibility to customers on progress and get feedback, Ballmer added.
In today's world Windows is a long twitch, Office a medium twitch and MSN is the short twitch, but I suspect those territorial boundaries will be altered over time. Ballmer said Microsoft has a "phenomenal opportunity" to create new value for customers at the desktop, server and Internet cloud. "That value is going to come from both new applications and services, not only created by Microsoft but created by third parties. The question of how to allow third parties to create interesting scenarios that live partly on the client, on Windows; on the server, Windows; and out in the cloud is a very important one and certainly one we are focused in on." He mentioned MSN as an example of that direction.
Ballmer acknowedged the new coding techniques, such as AJAX, are having an impact on creating rich user experiences for Web applications. But he downplayed any notion that it could enable a client-side revolution where the need for thick clients (rich visualization, processing power and local storage) will go away. Rich clients and services will proceed in parallel, Ballmer said, first making Windows more manageable to lower the costs of rich clients and secondly with services. "We think most users like the benefits out of a rich local environment. I don't think that will go away. AJAX and Atlas only let you send Javascript down. You will see that deploymet as Ajax in Windows extend to other capabilities in the Windows environment," he said.
On the subject of Google, Ballmer joking said, "Other than curing cancer, Google will do everything." He went on to talk about the smart people at Microsoft (a competitive arena with Google, which has been poaching Microsoft talent) and the relentless focus on innovation.
Ballmer also talked about how there's plenty of room for improvement in the experience that most users see today and how Microsoft intends to be the company to take the search experience to a new level. He noted that 50 percent of all searches don't lead to a desired outcome, and Microsoft would focus on getting answers right and on improving relevancy and natural language querying, as well as on the targeted advertising front. Ballmer also suggested that the corporate network and the Web shouldn't be thought of as two entities that get searched separately and that the two should be tied together to provide one seamless search experience. Google would agree.
He also claimed that the products to be delivered over the next 12 months is the greatest innovation pipeline the company has ever had, touting Vista, new servers, IE 7, mobile windows and the Motorola Q smartphone (due in Q1), Xbox 360, IPTV, and Office, which he said would be the most exciting release in 13 years.
In regards to Vista, Ballmer said that it's the most important new version of Windows since Windows 95. "I'm going to trust Vista on day one," Ballmer said. "I bet most people in this audience will trust it day one--on their home computer," he joked. He's realistic about enterprise adoption cycles. "I'm trying to be honest among friends," he told the crowd of about 4,000 IT executives and managers. He also address some of the issue with Microsoft's licensing practices. The company just introduced a new license to deal with virtualization and has made the contracts easier to parse. "The simplest thing we have today is our enterprise agreement. Used to take two years of postgrad education (to understand it), now it's a 9th grade education. We know we have a lot more work to do in terms of tools and license forms," he said.
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With a Little Help From My Friends - How do Management Consultants Contribute to Innovation Processes?
Fremlagt på konferencen Academy of Management 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 7. til 11. august 2009. ; In step with an increasingly knowledge-based competition firms increases their innovation activities. For this purpose integration, of external inputs from management consultants increasingly comes fore. However, the value of management consultants in general and to innovation processes in particular has been challenged. From some perspectives, management consultants are being criticized as dressing up mundane truths in fancy concepts and doing nothing but telling customers what they already know. The purpose of this paper is to try to understand the value of management consultancy from a sensemaking perspective, using a case study of concept development processes in a leading European Kitchen manufacturer. As will be showed, redressing what customers already know may in fact comprise a valuable input for their clients' ability to identify a conception of reality which entails an actionable conception of reality.


In May millionaire Nick Hanauer gave a short TED Talk.
It's a provocative talk, which was followed by nothing from the TED folks (Technology Entertainment and Design), including, notably, not posting a video of the Talk ... which provoked additional communication with media outlets. Time's article on the events was title "Was Nick Hanauer's TED Talk on Income Inequality Too Rich for Rich People?"
Basically Mr. Hanauer said that rich people don't create jobs. When TED didn't post the video it was suggested rich people, no matter how strong their desire to be forward-thinking liberal minds, don't post videos arguing they should be taxed more.
Forgetting the economics, I did find some humour in the following sections of Mr. Hamauer's Talk, and a response posted on a blog TED's Mr. Andersen keeps for thoughts too complex for Twitter.
Significant privileges have come to capitalists like me for being perceived as "job creators" at the center of the economic universe, and the language and metaphors we use to defend the fairness of the current social and economic arrangements is telling. For instance, it is a small step from "job creator" to "The Creator". We did not accidentally choose this language. It is only honest to admit that calling oneself a "job creator" is both an assertion about how economics works and the a claim on status and privileges.
...for the record, we have never sought advice from any of our advertisers on what we carry editorially. To anyone who knows how TED operates, or who has observed the noncommercial look and feel of the website, the notion that we would is laughable. We only care about one thing: finding the best speakers and the best ideas we can, and sharing them with the world. For free. I've devoted the rest of my life to doing this, and honestly, it's pretty disheartening to have motives and intentions taken to task so viciously by people who simply don't know the facts.
Strikes me as a "claim on status and privilege"
Haneuer seemed to identify that personality. Perhaps his economic thoughts are worth the 5 minutes it takes to view the video TED either didn't think had value, or didn't want to acknowledge for other reasons, only one of which is quality.


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By the time the reporter contacted the Starbucks, the person who answered had no knowledge of the sign.
Coffee's king rankles in Ocean Beach
"A customer told me about [the sign] and I said, 'No, it's not okay.'"
By Delinda Lombardo, Feb. 18, 2017
The Starbucks on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach recently posted a sign that directed non-customers to use restrooms at nearby businesses.
When the sign was posted on the restroom door earlier this week, someone asked them to remove it; after they refused, someone took it down for them.
"I didn't even know about it," Sal, the owner of OB Kabob, told me. "A customer told me about it and I said, 'No, it's not okay.' I think he went and took it down, but that was not okay for them to post it."
Tyler, a manager at Pizza Port was totally surprised.
"I was not aware that they did that," he said. "Especially in this area, you know, we're not okay with this. But with that said, I haven't noticed an influx of people coming in to use our restroom; but then again, we get really busy, but I will go talk to them today and see what's up."
When I called Starbucks, Kelly, the employee who answered the phone, said they don't have any such sign. "It says, 'For customers only.'" I explained that it has since been taken down and she said she didn't know anything about it. The manager was unavailable for comment, as was anyone from Starbucks' corporate office.
Visduh Feb. 18, 2017 @ 1:36 p.m.
This is really funny, and it is no coincidence that it happened in OB, with all of its street denizens and their often-obnoxious behavior. Who put up the sign? I'd guess it was the Starbucks employee who has to clean those facilities, and clean up after some users who can be clueless about basic sanitation.
But to identify other local businesses as the places to go was really over the top. This could get a small war going between local retailers.
AlexClarke Feb. 19, 2017 @ 6:56 a.m.
My first job was working at a gas station and my first duty was to clean the restrooms. It is not an easy job and it costs the employer to furnish water, towels, soap and to keep the restrooms clean. It is not unreasonable to discourage non-customers use of the restrooms. If people are so concerned about the street people in OB not being able to use restrooms in businesses then maybe they would volunteer to clean up after the street trash.
Visduh Feb. 19, 2017 @ 9:14 a.m.
I too worked in a gas station and had to clean the restrooms. While it usually wasn't a really nasty task, there were a few occasions . . . That's why I concluded that this was the work of the employee lowest on the totem pole.
Ponzi Feb. 18, 2017 @ 4:46 p.m.
It could be a lawsuit against the coffee giant. In the absence of an agreement, directing people to a nearby business specifically to use their restroom facilities is harassment.
That sign looks as if it was produced by Starbucks to steer people to "public" restrooms. That would be a valid use of the sign, if it told folks where to go to the nearest true public facilities. Not knowing much of the layout of OB, I can't say where that would be, whether it is near or far, and whether anyone would be willing to use them. I agree with you that it was improper and could be seen as a tort. But prior to filing a lawsuit, the appropriate action would be a documented demand that it be removed immediately. I really doubt that the manager of the Starbucks was behind that use of the sign, and if he/she was, would persist with it once challenged. As it is, the question now is moot, since the sign is gone, and it is not clear just who removed it.
The sign in the photo says "Public restrooms are available at: OB Kabob | Pizza Port" I would assume they were steering people to those businesses facilities. The only public restrooms (that I know of) in OB are restrooms on the pier and behind the lifeguard station.
iblonginob Feb. 18, 2017 @ 4:59 p.m.
Try examining their very liberal refill policy including refilling of random cardboard cups found in the trash.
They are a prime reason why that corner is a sh*t show with transients
dwbat Feb. 18, 2017 @ 7:23 p.m.
Friends don't let friends patronize Starbucks. There are so many better places for coffee.
There are so many places for better coffee than Charbucks.
swell Feb. 19, 2017 @ 11:01 a.m.
Lots of money pours into OB. Businesses are fat with paying customers and rentals are expensive but always full. Some of that money should be reinvested in the community to provide a clean beach, clean streets and well maintained public toilets.
artandtulips Feb. 20, 2017 @ 12:56 p.m.
Ridiculous comments re Starbucks. I doubt very much that Starbucks posted that sign, but I'm sure they're tired, as are customers, of having their bathrooms used by those on the street. This is NOT going to result in a lawsuit against Starbucks. My guess is that somebody on the street or a social services person posted the sign. It wasn't a good idea, either way, but Starbucks is not responsible for providing bathrooms for everybody on the streets of Ocean Beach. OB leaders should be responsible for providing some public toilets along with working to clean up some of what happens on Newport Avenue. Laissez-faire is great, but only goes so far. Even in sunny San Diego.
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Today, our Monday Listicles challenge is ... 10 Compliments. This is kind of a tough one. I don't necessarily accept compliments very well. I have gotten better during the past few years, but it's still something of a struggle. I broke this list up into two, because I think it's important to both accept compliments from others as well as compliment ourselves.
I'm glad we hired you. You're catching on really fast.
You're in great shape. Really great shape.
This bikini is fitting you so much better.
Wow! You've really improved with your bike riding in the past two years.
You totally rocked that workout.
How have you have been complimented recently?
Way to go! Feeling appreciated at work is always a good feeling.
Thanks! It really does feel good.
I try to be genuinely thankful, too, but I sometimes fall into the trap of negating the compliment instead of accepting it. "Thanks, but blah blah blah"
I love that you kept track of these! I need to get better at complimenting myself on things. It is hard sometimes to see the good in ourselves when we want to keep doing better - or when we are just critical of ourselves.
Yeah. It's really easy to fall into the pattern of being too critical.
I love it - and I totally agree! We all should compliment ourselves!
I agree..... Compliments are hard to take. Good on you for complimenting yourself (no easy task either).
Thanks, Stacey! I have a lot to feel good about right now, so the complimenting is easy(er).
I need to take your advice! Be willing to accept and give compliments. It's a work in progress. Great list.
You are awesome!!! Good for you. And I always pegged you as a great shoes wearing girl!!


Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are announcing some preliminary Labour economic policies today, and one of the headlines is a reduction in VAT on petrol, from 20% back to the 17.5% level it was set at prior to January this year. The main argument is that as petrol prices rise so this is hitting car drivers (read "middle England").
So what should Balls and Miliband say on fuel?
The solution is to set a flat rate tax on a litre of fuel, i.e. the same amount of cash goes to the exchequer, regardless of the price of oil. At the moment every litre of fuel is subject to the Hydrocarbon oil duty, currently £0.5895/litre, and VAT at 20%. This means that as the price of petrol goes up, so the amount of money the government makes from VAT on fuel also goes up, i.e. the motorist is hit twice. If price increases at the pump were only determined by rises in the price of crude it would be presentationally easier, not looking like the government is deliberately hitting the motorist, and also avoiding Labour advocating a VAT cut on fuel that symbolically looks anti-green.
Making the rate of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duty rise and fall relative to the fuel price would be the 'fuel price stabiliser' intimated in the Conservative Party manifesto.
1. It increases fiscal instability as the government will find it considerably more difficult to predict what the revenue will be from fuel taxation, since revenues will vary more than they do at present.
2. The government would in effect have to decide what is the 'fair' price of fuel. It will require governments to tell the difference between 'permanent' or trend increases in oil prices driven by the fundamentals of supply and demand and 'temporary' spikes and troughs that it must smooth out by corrective changes to tax rates. This is very difficult thing to do – anyone that can do it accurately can go to the City and make a lot of money as an oil trader.
In respect of your proposal, it is important to remember that fuel duty is already a flat rate per litre, as you suggest it should be. Taxes make up 63% of the price of petrol and 46% of the price from the duty and just 17% from the VAT). So a large majority of the tax on fuel is already in the form of "a flat rate tax on a litre of fuel", as you propose.
Farmers and fishermen already get their fuel almost tax free, and it seems the biggest competitiveness problem associated with rising fuel prices in the UK is for hauliers who face competition from continental haulage companies who come to the UK with very large tanks of fuel bought more cheaply on the continent. For ordinary people driving cars, the solution is to drive less. A high fuel price is the most effective policy we have to encourage this kind of behavioural change. And never forget that most people on low incomes don't own cars.
Thanks for the additional points.
Your last line brings this right back to the point of the blog entry in the first place – I agree that high fuel prices are a good thing, and that's why I'm annoyed Labour is – admittedly mostly symbolically – proposing the opposite.
@Jack – couldn't the Hydrocarbon Oil Duty be amended to be in inverse proportion to the fuel price? That plus VAT would then have the same effect?
Although I can see the tactical, opportunistic advantage of an attack, I can't help agreeing that it doesn't exactly scream "long-term strategy". It's also, as Dizzy somewhat unhelpfully points out, diametrically opposed to what EM said as Environment Secretary, which doesn't help the credibility of the position.
A flat tax makes some sense but reducing VAT on fuel to zero would require the EU to rewrite the VAT directive. VAT is an ad valorem tax, not a specific duty. I doubt a derogation would be granted to make such a large blanket exemption from VAT.


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Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction
Title: Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction
Subject: Hadron-Hadron Scattering | B physics | Heavy quark production | Branching fraction | Particle and resonance production |
Citation: Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 143 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)143
Abstract: The kinematic dependences of the relative production rates, fΛ0b/fd, of Λ 0b baryons and B 0 mesons are measured using Λ 0b → Λ +c π − and B¯0 →D+π− decays. The measurements use proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, recorded in the forward region with the LHCb experiment. The relative production rates are observed to depend on the transverse momentum, p T, and pseudorapidity, η, of the beauty hadron, in the studied kinematic region 1.5 < p T < 40 GeV/c and 2 < η < 5. Using a previous LHCb measurement of fΛ0b/fd in semileptonic decays, the branching fraction ℬ(Λ 0b → Λ +c π −) = (4.30 ± 0.03 + 0.12− 0.11 ± 0.26 ± 0.21) × 10− 3 is obtained, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, the third is from the previous LHCb measurement of fΛ0b/fd and the fourth is due to the b B¯0 →D+π− branching fraction. This is the most precise measurement of a Λ 0b branching fraction to date.
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Leaving the EU without a trade agreement would cost the UK economy £400bn by 2030, according to new research from leading food and agribusiness bank, Rabobank.
A hard Brexit would cost the UK 18 per cent of GDP growth by 2030, compared to a situation where the UK would retain its EU membership. This equates to £11,500 per British worker. By comparison, negotiating a new free-trade agreement would cost the UK 12.5 per cent of GDP growth by 2030, and 10 per cent of GDP growth if the country was to undergo a soft Brexit. This equates to £9,500 and £7,500 per British worker respectively.
For countries in the euro area, a UK departure from the European Union – however severe – would result in a cumulative impact on EU GDP of – 2 per cent by 2024. The economic impact on the Netherlands, which was looked into specifically by the Netherlands-based research team, will be higher than on most other EU member states because it has a much closer trade relation with the UK, accruing losses of around €25bn and €35bn.
According to the Rabobank study, a hard Brexit outcome implemented in 2019 without a transition period would result in the UK economy immediately falling into a two-year recession period. For the FTA and the soft Brexit scenario there will also be a recession, but milder and much more short-lived.
If negotiations in Brussels result in a hard Brexit, UK GDP is expected to decline by -2.4 per cent following its departure in 2019. However, if the UK and EU were to agree on a freetrade agreement, a GDP decline of -1.1% would be expected, and a -0.3 per cent decline in a soft Brexit scenario.
With the EU being the UK's single most important trading partner, any 'Brexit' scenario would result in a slowdown of trade due to higher tariffs and custom controls. In the event of a hard Brexit, export volumes are estimated to be approximately 30 per cent lower than if the UK remained in the European Union, 15 per cent lower in a free trade agreement scenario and 10 per cent lower if the UK negotiates a soft Brexit.
Import volumes would also be impacted, with a hard Brexit resulting in a 27 per cent decline in goods and services coming into the UK. The effect would be 23 per cent in the event of a free trade agreement and 16 per cent in a soft Brexit scenario.
The research shows an initial rise in unemployment figures, with a hard Brexit causing a jump from 4.6 per cent in 2018 to 6.2 per cent in 2020, but quickly returning to long term structural unemployment levels. In a Bremain scenario, Rabobank would anticipate unemployment to be stable, hovering at just above 4 per cent. In any Brexit scenario, long-term damage to the UK's labour market is expected to be limited due to the dynamic nature of the UK labour market, with the research showing no indication that an exit from the European Union in any form will result in higher structural unemployment levels.
However, the research shows that labour-augmented technological change is anticipated to stall in any Brexit scenario, which implies that technology advances will affect fewer jobs compared to if the UK remains in the European Union.
*Rabobank's study uses an improved tariff version of the macro-econometric model NiGEM developed by NIESR, which does incorporate the negative impact of cost-push inflation on consumption resulting from imposed trade barriers between the UK and EU. They also estimate a unique total factor productivity model (TFP) for the UK, which assesses the specific impact on productivity caused by Brexit through determinants like innovation, competition, foreign knowledge and human capital.


SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 01-07-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Today, at the StartUp Health Festival at JP Morgan – Curatio, the world's first social health prescription, announced a new partnership with Dr. Brendan Byrne and Wellness Garage. The new partnership will provide free, private, and personalized prevention and treatment programs for diabetes support.
Diabetes affects 22.1% of Canada's population, and in 2016 was the direct cause of 1.6 million deaths worldwide. Lifestyle measures can be taken to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes can also be managed through a combination of diet and physical activity, along with lowering blood glucose and levels of other known risk factors. By taking into consideration the individual lifestyles and needs of patients, Curatio and Dr. Byrne are working to create personalized, private patient groups to overcome diabetes in a completely novel way.
"As a society, we are starting to understand the detrimental and costly impact that isolation has on health outcomes and wellbeing. No patient should be alone when managing a health condition. Curatio helps partners deliver private, social, patient support programs that combine personalized support with daily disease management for an all-in-one solution that drives better health outcomes and most importantly, better lives," said Lynda Brown-Ganzert, founder and CEO of Curatio.
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Craven County Cooperative Extension has been working hard to prepare for Farm City Day, and we appreciate the support of our host sites at the New Bern Farmers Market and the NC History Center at Tryon Palace. The event is scheduled for Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with educational booths and agriculture-related exhibits available at both sites. There are no sit-down presentations or other specific events scheduled, so you can drop by for as long as you like, anytime during that four-hour period.
You may be surprised to know that agriculture is North Carolina�s number one industry, representing a $72 billion economic impact and 17 percent of North Carolina jobs. And agriculture continues to be one of Craven County�s most important economic drivers, with annual farm cash receipts of about $60 million and another $60 million from forestry production.
The purpose of Farm City Day is to celebrate the importance of agriculture to our daily lives, and to highlight some of the linkages between farm families and urban residents. We certainly hope the few minutes you spend visiting the Farmers Market and the NC History Center on Nov. 2 will contribute to your appreciation of agriculture at the county and state levels. Feel free to call our office at 633-1477, or send me an e-mail, if you have questions about Farm City Day.
Disruptors of lawn and landscape peace and harmony over the past few weeks have included fire ants, mushrooms and earthworms. In that same order, our recommendations range from �do something� to �do nothing�.
Fire ant mounds are very numerous and prominent in October, and this represents an excellent opportunity to reduce next year�s population on your property. Before the weather turns cold for good, make every effort to treat all the active mounds you can find, with baits, drenches or whatever formulation you feel comfortable using. Do keep in mind, however, that for most of us baits will be the safest and easiest products to apply, and will tend to be just as effective as other formulations.
Mushrooms will be the topic of additional conversation in next week�s column, but for today I want to stress that there are no general remedies or fungicides to apply for the suppression of all the different types of fungi that might be producing mushrooms in your lawn or landscape beds. The best approach, if you feel the need to clean things up a bit, is to mow them over in lawn areas and rake them out from landscape beds. Doing nothing is also a reasonable strategy.
Earthworm activity, most noticeable in the fall and winter, is recognized by small mounds or castings of soil on the lawn surface, possibly the diameter of a nickel to a quarter. Castings may be so numerous that it appears as if someone has stood back and strewn loose soil across the lawn surface. It may look a little messy, but through soil aeration earthworms are doing more good than harm. Control measures are rarely recommended, and you won�t find any chemical pesticides registered for treatment against earthworms.


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Dunkelkammer steht für:

 Dunkelkammer (Fotografie), einen lichtdichten Raum
 Darkroom, ein schwach beleuchteter Raum für sexuelle Aktivitäten
 camera obscura (lat. "dunkler Raum"), eine Lochkamera

Siehe auch:

 Dunkel (Begriffsklärung)
 Kammer (Begriffsklärung)
 Dunkelhaft, eine Form des Strafvollzugs und der Folter
 camera silens (lat. "schweigender Raum"), einen dunklen, schallisolierten Raum als Folterinstrument

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The future of the Internet is at risk
by Christian Hellwig	,	August 26, 2015
The unprecedented growth of the Internet provides a serious risk to individuals, businesses, and governments, alike. In order to secure the future of the Internet, the world need to start thinking differently.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will lead to an unprecedented level of private and global hyper-connectivity. Against this backdrop, the mere thought of a dysfunctional internet seems aberrant. But presently, it is far from clear whether policy-makers, internet operators and private tech firms will be able to manage the most crucial challenges to the internet's future existence properly and on time.
Generally speaking, cyber risk is highly dynamic and volatile, making it extremely difficult to manage. More importantly, it can also turn into a tail risk, which defines its potentially far-reaching public impact on data, public and private infrastructure, or reputation. With the advent of the Internet of Things, both the private and public sphere's vulnerability has dramatically increased, and will continue to do so.
In this context, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified the future of the internet as one out of the ten most significant global challenges the world will be facing for the next decade to come.
This has also prompted the highly renowned international organization to father a so-called "future of the internet initiative" to specifically address internet-related risks and to induce better cooperation among various actors, such as private tech-firms, NGOs, political decision-makers, and international regimes, and those that are in charge of the technical infrastructure of the internet, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), the root servers' operators, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Digitalization and the unprecedented growth of the internet
One key factor driving the rapid growth of the internet and digitalisation and innovation processes at large can be traced to the ever-expanding tech hub epicentres around the globe. Be it in London, Palo Alto, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Santiago de Chile, Bangalore, Singapore, Nairobi or Mexico City, new start-up scenes emerge quickly, changing the lives of millions of people by means of groundbreaking new ideas, technologies, and digital services.
This trend lies at the very heart of the current quick pace of the technologization of nearly every part of our daily life, including smart cars, smart housing or wearables.
Parallel to this, the number of users of modern technologies and online devices is hitting new global records. However, its acceleration has slowed down over the past three years. The same accounts for smartphone subscription growth, the consumer internet, and mobile data traffic. The following four charts, courtesy of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will exemplify these key trends in more detail.
Despite the slowing down, more than 400 million people purchased a smartphone in 2014. China alone is going to spend around $180 billion to improve countrywide internet access and its respective speed by the end of 2017. Over the next three decades, an estimated 5 billion people in the global south will go online for the first time. In the same breath, data storage centers skyrocket in numbers and capacity on every continent.
In this respect, the Internet of Things, which refers to the connection of physical devices to the internet, will add another new dimension to the internet realm, creating staggering opportunities and severe cyber risks alike. It is expected that IoT will at least double the size of the smartphone, PC, tablet, smart car, and wearables market combined by 2019, amounting to a total value added to the global economy of up to $1.7 trillion.
Why the hazard of data overload is real
Exponential data growth has become a major concern. To date, the world produces 1 exabyte (1 billion gigabytes) of data per day. The creation of big data itself is one key challenge for internet technology.
However, the largest threat originates in the fact that new big data is created faster and faster while more and more people around the globe have access to the internet, using internet-driven apps, cloud computing platforms, location formation services, consumer applications, and social media portals.
In particular, cloud computing currently drives data explosion, since it enables the accelerated building, storage, aggregating, and processing of extremely large quantities of data. As most of the big data creation is primarily consumer-driven, and as surging numbers of technologies are combined, the issue of data explosion might become a real-case scenario. In light of this, a recent study expects the internet to collapse until 2023, due the interconnected mega-trends of rapid global internet user and data growth.
Another key concern of the study is simply associated with the energy consumption that will massively increase parallel to this development. This will even become more of an issue with regard to the so-called deep or dark web, which is hidden and whose exact size cannot be determined. However, its size and data growth is estimated to massively outweigh the visible web used by the general public.
Internet espionage and cyberwarfare as threats to international security
In today's world, the internet has become a decisive tool for inter-, intra- and non-state warfare. The risk of large-scale cyber attacks continues to be considered above average on both dimensions of impact and likelihood.
For instance, Kaspersky Lab states that different non-state actors, including Mafia groups, have entered the cyberwarfare battleground to commit far-reaching attacks on infrastructure, physical things, and critical data. The same goes for terrorist groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State. Accordingly, cyber attacks have been classified as potential high-impact risks that can affect international security and political stability at the local, national, regional and global level.
Due to these unprecedented security risks, infrastructure investment into the maintenance of the internet are expected to shift from the public to more critical spheres that form part of the military-security complex or governmental sectors, for instance.
New security imperatives also emerge from online encryption & security protocols used by open source web servers, such as OpenSSL, which make up more than 2/3 of all the world's websites. Flaws in it have already been exploited by hackers and terrorists to steal sensitive data or install malware.
Lastly, increasing hyperconnectivity and more security-related information being stored in the cloud constitute risk dimensions that the current internet infrastructure was not designed to cope with. Therefore, present legislation is ill-fitted to keep pace with the highly volatile evolution of the internet structure that occurs outside of legal frameworks. Consequently, a potential high-impact state-sponsored, state-affiliated, criminal or terrorist cyber attack could spark a system breakdown and / or loss of trust in the internet as a whole.
The need to think differently
Mitigating risk: Data explosion
The set of solutions to reduce the risk of data overload is limited. For instance, faster cables and fiber optics will consume too much electricity in the long run. In addition, thinner cables to transport more information are presently not workable from a scientific point of view. Employing more cables and fiber optics could work; however, this will incur higher costs, which will have to be paid by consumers.
A second approach focuses on simply building larger server farms to store more data. Google, amongst other tech firms, pursues this strategy. In turn, server farms create new front lines regarding energy and water consumption.
Another solution is associated with new ways of data shortening and compression. As costs might rise with regard to storing more data within a limited capacity, online black markets might emerge.
Lastly, some firms have begun to providing more offline solutions. For instance, Google is currently building an offline version of Google Maps. Besides, Chinese search giant, Baidu, has massively scaled up its investment into offline services.
Mitigating risk: Cyber attacks
In order to fight cyber attacks, private businesses and governmental bodies, in particular, have improved their anticipatory capabilities and preventive measures based on real-time intelligence and threat assessment data. Companies also respond by making use of embedded security when designing and producing products.
Global internet governance undergoes change for currently being too Western-centric, which doesn't account of the power shift in international politics. However, it is expected that any multi-stakeholder approach to internet governance could cause far-reaching interstate tensions and ultimately result in a fragmentation of the internet based on localized data storage and halting cross-border data flow. Different perceptions of democratic values and questions regarding how online content should be disseminated already impinge negatively on these negotiations.
Another issue that needs to be tackled by an international approach to internet governance is down to the rapid centralization of the internet, which has led to the emergence of monolithic platforms, such as those owned by the world's most popular search engines and social networks.
Categories:	International, Security
Tags:	Boko Haram, Internet of Things, Islamic State, WEF
Christian Hellwig
Christian works as a strategic communications, policy analysis and public affairs expert and has been a longstanding contributor with Global Risk Insights on a wide range of issues since early 2015. Most recently, he has worked for CNC Communications & Network Consulting and Schneider Minar Jenewein Consulting, two companies with a strong European footprint in the fields of strategic communications, reputation, crisis & (cyber) risk management, public affairs and government relations. Christian holds a MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics & Political Science and a first class honours BA from a leading German university in Governance & Public Policy.
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Located in Playa d'en Bossa, this hotel stands out for its pistachio and pastel pink tones and its neon lights. The good cheer decorates each of the rooms and takes us to a place where summer is present 365 days a year. They got inspired by emblematic buildings from Miami's art deco district. Are we at Ocean Drive? No, it is the Boulevard of Playa d'en Bossa.
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Home is a place where you will spend time with your family and a place where you start your story of life. Celebrity Square offers a perfect place where you can find your dream home, come and be a part of Celebrity Square and spend joyous life with your family. This project has 65 % of Pure breath space, well ventilated with optimum space utilization.
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Writing for The Future of Energy report, published in The Times newspaper, Tim Wynn-Jones of Centrica Business Solutions, explains how organisations can create an energy-resilient tomorrow.
The article draws on research from Centrica Business Solutions, which shows that UK businesses are not prepared for the increasingly likely event of energy disruption.
A survey undertaken for Centrica's Resilience Report shows that 81% of UK businesses experienced an energy-related failure during the previous 12 months. Although this had caused unscheduled downtime for 39% of these organisations, only 18% had a formal energy resilience strategy in place.
"While there are many worst-case scenarios in business crisis management, an energy-related failure ranks among the most frequent and most damaging, yet it remains one of the least well prepared for", writes Tim Wynn-Jones.
The lack of preparation by UK businesses is all the more alarming since Centrica's resilience report shows that businesses are risking 17 per cent of their revenue by failing to plan for disruption.
Becoming an energy generator rather than an energy consumer that relies on an uninterrupted power supply from a single source provider, is the way forward, advises Wynn-Jones. He also stresses the importance of making the energy go much further through prioritising energy efficiency measures.
Ageing and poorly maintained equipment is one of the most common cause of energy-related failure, he writes. "But maintaining every piece of equipment and machinery so that it remains in peak working order is an absurdly expensive way for any large organisation to prevent breakdowns."
One solution he offers is equipment-level monitoring via Centrica's Panoramic Power technology. By attaching sensors to energy-using equipment and analysing that real-time data, energy consumption can be tracked at a granular level and equipment failures can be spotted before they actually happen. This is proven to reduce maintenance costs, prevent unscheduled downtime and achieve savings in excess of 50%.
Combined heat and power (CHP) is another highly effective energy resilience strategy, reports Wynn-Jones. Not only does this reduce reliance on the grid, it is also highly efficient as instead of wasting heat as in conventional power generation, it is captured to provide a cost effective heat supply.
The cost saving potential of CHP is becoming more impressive, he argues. This is due to the low price of the gas input fuel, compared to electricity purchase costs, and CHP's ability to mitigate non-commodity energy costs, which now make up more than half of an electricity bill.
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Social Media For Business – Which Platform to Use?
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My favourite social media for business:
There are many social media options out there. My favourite social media for business are the four below because, in my experience, they deliver results and the content I create for these platforms works well for my clients:
YouTube (not quite like other social media platforms but very effective)
Google my Business – Google Posts (also not social media really, but valuable)
How do they differ?
Below is what I have discovered in my experience of using these social media platforms for business.
1. Facebook Business Pages (social media for business)
Facebook business pages are great for the B2C space, small businesses and for smaller businesses offering products or services to a larger business, in my experience.
Your own business listing. Facebook pages create a type of business listing with location, contact details and reviews which helps to reach those people or businesses in that location.
Content Creator. Facebook has its own content creator studio where you can schedule and manage posts, videos, stories and more.
Facebook Ads. The advertising element of Facebook is powerful in reaching new audiences with detailed specific criteria so that your advert can reach the group of people you would like to target.
But, advertising is only half of the story. The reason why Facebook is a useful social media for business option, is the amount of information and feedback that it provides:
Feedback with Analytics or Insights. The comprehensive analytics and insights that Facebook provides from posts, videos, stories and adverts helps you to make better decisions. So instead of posting the same stuff out there and getting the same results, you can see what works and what doesn't, then adapt your strategy according to that valuable information. That's why I'm a fan. More helpful data means data-driven decisions rather than praying to the Internet gods for a good result!
The not so good?
Facebook has a changing algorithm (a behind-the-scenes system that decides whether or not to show your post to a bigger audience based on which posts the algorithm thinks are likely to be popular). This means keeping an eye on your reach and analytics regularly to see if you are reaching the right people and to change things up if not. It's about regular monitoring, testing and tweaking for results.
2. Instagram Business Profile (social media for business)
Instagram is a great social media for business platform. As a visual platform, it can be beneficial for products, events and any services that can be communicated well visually. I think it works better for B2C (business to customer) or for collaboration with small businesses.
What: It is predominantly all about photos, art, graphics and video content (posts, reels, stories) and has a strong entertainment element. This means that most people go on Instagram to be entertained, in a way, but that is why it provides an opportunity for product placement and relationship building through interactive visual stories.
Business profile. You can make a business profile with location, a short summary and one link only (there's a hack for that which I will talk about in a future article).
Build a following. Instagram for business is a great place to build a following for your brand, its values, what it stands for, the products you sell, the events that people should know about and services that they would love to enjoy.
Instagram shops. If you sell products, you can connect your online shop to Instagram shops so that people can make purchases directly from Instagram whilst they are enjoying content on there for entertainment.
Reach the right people. I think of Instagram as a collection of visuals where you can build a connection with your audience through the values that you both have in common. And, when running adverts, I think of it as almost a scrolling movie where your product or service is placed because it is relevant to the user. If people share your values or interest in a specific topic, they are likely to follow you and see your posts. This is much better and focused targeting than, say, a billboard that targets anyone who drives by.
The bonus: It is owned by Facebook so you can schedule your posts in Facebook Creator Studio. The analytics are linked to Facebook and you can see insights into how your content is doing. This means a more integrated app for two platforms and less time to get your content out there on both.
3. YouTube (social media for business)
Businesses who want to reach people globally or a first point of contact demonstrate a skill by giving tips that ultimately brings the audience into your business as customers. I think YouTube works well for entertainment and product businesses that sell B2C or for larger businesses who want to create a stronger online profile.
Global reach. YouTube can have a much larger geographical reach around the world!
Good for website traffic. As it is owned by Google and Alphabet Inc, YouTube is connected to the Google search engine and can bring more traffic to your website.
Monetisation. There is an opportunity to make money from YouTube. Once you have 10k+ subscribers, monetisation of videos is possible and it becomes an extra income generator. There is also the opportunity to sell chat stickers and other in-app products.
An indirect marketing tool. I like to think of YouTube as an indirect marketing tool that works well for services where it is possible to share knowledge on a topic or provide tips, tricks and training on how to do something.
Analytics. YouTube provides comprehensive information about the geographical location of your viewers, most popular videos, age groups and lots more. If you use it alongside a service like TubeBuddy, you can get even more information about the best keywords to use to reach more of your audience.
You need to spend considerable time on this a YouTube strategy, content and interaction to get good results.
YouTube is different to other social media…
Most other social media platforms focus on short bites of content and encourage scrolling through. YouTube is like a collection of small TV channels run by individuals, businesses, organisations etc. It does have a shorter scrolling video option that is similar to other social media like TikTok (YouTube Shorts) but has always hosted all sorts of videos including documentaries, 'how to' videos, educational videos, fitness, technology, science, entertainment videos and more. You can watch something substantial or something quick and follow the channels you like. That's why it can be beneficial as a central part of a marketing plan – it is one of the most successful social media platforms.
4. Google My Business – Google Posts (social media for business)
If you have a business listing on Google My Business, you will have access to Google Posts. They are not technically social media but they are picked up by the Google search engine and that's why they are valuable.
Increased reach. Most people find themselves 'googling' whether they are searching for information, products or services. So, the value of your business content being found on Google can be huge as you will reach more people who are searching for what you offer.
Connected to Google search engine. Google My Business helps you to add more to your profile on your Google listing. That means, there's more for the search engine to find when someone searches for the products or services that you offer.
Increase website traffic. Add links to your posts to direct traffic to your website and post videos and photos on there for visitors to see.
Reviews: You can get reviews on here too. So, when someone searches for your SEO keywords and sees your listing, it is likely to stand out with your branded content.
Insights. You can see the numbers using Insights. This is helpful because it shows you what people are searching for when they find your listing, how many people saw your posts and photos and the number of overall views and visits to website your business received over a time frame. This is valuable information that tells you whether the content you are sharing is working for you…and the best thing is that the Google My Business insights are quick and easy to view! If you also use the Search Console or more detailed (and sometimes very complex) Google Analytics with your website, you are adding to the valuable information that helps you to make better decisions about your marketing.
Key Tip
Don't try to do all-of-the-social-media-channels if you have limited resources. Pick two and do them well. Only go for YouTube if you can commit enough time to running a YouTube channel.
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Bode Miller Reveals Wife Is Pregnant Again Less Than a Year After Daughter's Death
By Jose Bastidas - May 8, 2019 03:29 pm EDT
Bode Miller revealed he and wife Morgan are expecting another child less than a year since the drowning death of the 19-month-old daughter Emmy.
The Olympic skier and his wife, along with Nicole Hughes, who also lost a child in a drowning incident, appeared on CBS This Morning Wednesday to discuss their new initiative bringing guidelines to prevent such tragedies.
During the visit to the morning news show, Bode and Morgan revealed they were expecting another child, though its gender and expected birth date were kept under wraps.
Emeline drowned in a swimming pool at the Millers' neighbors' house back in June 2018 in Coto de Caza, California, where paramedics attempted CPR at the scene before transporting her to a nearby hospital where she passed away.
After the tragic loss, the Millers partnered up with the American Academy of Pediatrics to create new Public Service Announcements informing parents on the dangers of drowning, CBS News reports.
New guidance says swim lessons can be beneficial for children after age one, and home pools need to be surrounded by four-foot fending and a locked gate.
Bode said during the appearance on the show that he is found it terrifying that most child drowning incidents, including Emmy's, tend to occur during "non-swimming time."
"Kids are crafty and they get out fast and this whole process, I think the terrifying part about this time of year is you know the kids are thinking it before the parents are," Miller said. "It happens quick and it happens when you're not swimming. You're cooking and the kid's gone for that amount of time and you're left with a lifetime of, sort of, regret."
Hughes, who is also expecting a new child after the drowning death of one of her kids, said their work is meant to ensure parents and pediatricians start thinking about pool safety as they do car seats and seat belts.
"Drowning is just as deadly and just as preventable as car accidents and as these illnesses. So if we could just approach it with that same urgency. It is 100 percent preventable. You can keep your child alive," Hughes said.
Four months after losing Emeline, Bode and Morgan Miller welcomed son Easton. Bode previously revealed how the new baby's arrival helped ease their pain from the tragic loss.
"If there's one thing that can help to heal and fill that spot in your heart, it's a baby. And he's a special one," he said. "Besides the lack of sleep, it's been a really nice process to go through."
Morgan also made headlines in April when she shared video clips of Easton in his swim lessons, putting the initiative's teachings into practice.
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Today at SC15, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that more than a third of the HPC market is leveraging HPE Compute platforms. Among the organizations using HPE solutions are The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Ghent University and the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet. They use HPE solutions based on the HPE Apollo server line to solve some of the world's most challenging problems in science and engineering. HPE also announced the first solution deployments resulting from the HPC alliance with Intel.
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)– Hikari, TACC's HPE Apollo 8000 installation, harnesses 432 HPE Apollo 8000 XL730f servers coupled with HPE ProLiant DL380 and DL360 nodes that are interconnected with Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions to deliver a unique hybrid configuration for the exploration of alternate supercomputing energy sources.
Ghent University in Belgium– The University is using the HPE Apollo 6000 System in a dense, energy-efficient implementation to address the growing demand for HPC in bioinformatics, engineering and statistics, while controlling costs and optimizing operational efficiency.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) – To bring HPC and big data resources to new research communities, PSC is implementing HPE Apollo 2000, HPE Integrity Superdome X and HPE ProLiant DL580 servers for its Bridges system. This solution, which is based on the Intel® Scalable System framework and features the Intel Omni-Path Fabric, is the first customer success from the strategic alliance that HPE and Intel announced in July 2015 to advance customer innovation and help expand the accessibility of HPC.
NVIDIA Corp. – The Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU, the flagship offering of the NVDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform, currently powers multiple HPE Apollo product lines in energy-efficient datacenters in government labs, universities, service providers, enterprises and small- and medium-size businesses around the world.
Seagate Technology –As part of a new strategic reseller agreement, HPE has added Seagate's ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 appliances into its HPC and big data ecosystem of solutions.
Visit HPE booth #603 at SC15.


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