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Desomorphine (dihydrodesoxymorphine, former brand name Permonid, street name krokodil) is a derivative of morphine with powerful, fast-acting opioid effects, such as sedation and analgesia.[1][2][3][4] First synthesized in 1932 and patented in 1934,[5] desomorphine was used in Switzerland under the brand name Permonid[6] and was described as having a fast onset and a short duration of action, with relatively little nausea or respiratory depression compared to equivalent doses of morphine. Dose-by-dose it is eight to ten times more potent than morphine.[7]
Desomorphine is derived from morphine where the 6-hydroxyl group and the 7,8 double bond have been reduced.[5] The traditional synthesis of desomorphine starts from α-chlorocodide, which is itself obtained by reacting thionyl chloride with codeine. By catalytic reduction, α-chlorocodide gives dihydrodesoxycodeine, which yields desomorphine on demethylation.[8][9]
Desomorphine was previously used in Switzerland and Russia for the treatment of severe pain; although for many years up to 1981, when its use was terminated, it was being used to treat a single person in Bern, Switzerland with a rare illness.[10]
Desomorphine abuse in Russia attracted international attention in 2010 due to an increase in clandestine production, presumably due to its relatively simple synthesis from codeine available over-the-counter. Abuse of homemade desomorphine was first reported in Siberia in 2003 when Russia started a major crackdown on heroin production and trafficking, but has since spread throughout Russia and the neighboring former Soviet republics.[10]
The drug can be made from codeine and iodine derived from OTC medications and red phosphorus from match strikers,[11] in a process similar to the manufacturing of methamphetamine from pseudoephedrine. Like methamphetamine, desomorphine made this way is often contaminated with various agents. The street name in Russia for homemade desomorphine is krokodil (Russian: крокодил, crocodile), possibly related to the chemical name of the precursor α-chlorocodide, or similarity of a skin, damaged by the drug use, to crocodile leather.[10] Due to difficulties in procuring heroin, combined with easy and cheap access to over-the-counter pharmacy products containing codeine in Russia, use of krokodil increased until 2012.[12] In 2012 the Russian federal government introduced new restrictions for the sale of codeine containing medications. This policy change likely diminished, but did not extinguish krokodil use in Russia.[13] It has been estimated that around 100,000 people use krokodil in Russia and around 20,000 in Ukraine.[12] One death in Poland in December 2011 was also believed to have been caused by krokodil use, and its use has been confirmed among Russian expatriate communities in a number of other European countries.[14]
Adverse effects
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Illicitly produced desomorphine typically contains large amounts of toxic substances as a result of being "cooked" and used without any significant effort to remove the byproducts and leftovers from synthesis. Injecting any such mixture can cause serious damage of the skin, blood vessels, bone and muscles, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.[7] Causes of this damage are from iodine and phosphorus (and other toxic substances) that are present after synthesis. The large volume of tissue damage/infection is what gained the drug its nickname of the flesh-eating drug, as homemade versions made by suppliers and users contain multiple impurities and toxic substances that lead to such tissue damage/infection (the pure form of the drug itself would not cause this damage).[15] Gangrene, phlebitis, thrombosis (blood clots), pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia (blood infection), osteomyelitis (bone infection), liver & kidney damage, brain damage and HIV/AIDS are also common amongst users of krokodil.[12] Sometimes, the user will miss the vein when injecting the desomorphine, creating abscess and causing death of the flesh surrounding the entry-point.[7] Test subjects were subjected to desomorphine intake. The completed tests on animal subjects produced results that contrast desomorphine to morphine. Compared to morphine, the results show increased toxicity, more potent relief of pain, higher levels of general depression, decreased respiration, and increased digestive activity.[16]
Reinforcement disorders
Early medical trials of humans taking desomorphine have resulted in the finding that, like morphine and most other analgesics of the morphine type, small amounts are highly addictive and tolerance to the drug develops quickly. However, though tolerance to respiratory depression with repeated doses was observed in rats, early clinical trials failed to show any tolerance to these same effects with repeated doses in humans.[16]
Physical and chemical properties
Desomorphine has a molecular weight of 271.35 g/mol and three salts are used: hydrobromide (free-base conversion ratio 0.770), hydrochloride (0.881) and sulfuric acid(0.802).[17] Its freebase form is slightly soluble in water (1.425 g/L at 25 °C), although its salts are very water-soluble; its freebase form is also very soluble in most polar organic solvents (like acetone, ethanol and ethyl acetate).[7] Its melting point is 189 °C.[7] It has a pKa of 9.69.[7] Desomorphine comes in four isoforms, A, B, C, and D[18] and the latter two appear to be the more researched and used.
Krokodil is made from codeine mixed with other substances. The codeine is retrieved from over-the-counter medicine and is then mixed with ethanol, gasoline, red phosphorus, iodine, hydrochloric acid and paint thinner.[7] Toxic nitrogen oxides fumes emerge from the drug when heated.[19]
Desomorphine was first synthesised in the U.S. in 1932 and patented on November 13, 1934.[10] In Russia, desomorphine was declared an illegal narcotic analgesic in 1998. However, while codeine-containing drugs generally have been prescription products in Europe, in Russia they were sold freely over-the-counter until June 2012.[20] The number of users in Russia was estimated to have reached around one million at the peak of the drug's popularity.[21]
Society and culture
Legal status
Desomorphine is a Schedule 1 controlled substance, indicating that the United States FDA has determined that there are no legal medicinal uses for desomorphine in the U.S. It has maintained this status as a controlled substance in the United States since 1936.[16]
The drug is a Narcotic in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act 1970 of the United States as drug number (ACSCN) 9055. It is therefore subject to annual aggregate manufacturing quotas in the United States, and in 2014 the quota for desomorphine was 5 grams.[22] It is produced as a hydrochloride (free base conversion ratio 0.85) and sulphate (0.80)[23]
Western media
The media in the U.S. and Canada have brought awareness to desomorphine. There have been incidents reported where desomorphine had supposedly been present within either country but no incidents have been confirmed by any drug-testing reports.[24][25] However, a 2014 episode of the National Geographic Channel series Drugs, Inc. suggested that the drug had indeed reached North America.[26]
Internet search behavior
Illicit drug use data is generally regarded as difficult to obtain through traditional survey methods. A 2014 paper suggested it is plausible that Internet search behavior can serve as a proxy for patterns of krokodil production and use in Russia.[13]
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Traditionally, much of the IT infrastructure that we've built over the years can be divided fairly simply into storage (the place we save our persistent data), network (how we get access to the storage and get at our data) and compute (memory and CPU that crunches on the data). In fact, so successful has this model been that a trip to any cloud services provider allows you to order (and be billed for) exactly these three components.
We build effective systems in a cost-optimal way by using appropriate quantities of expensive and fast memory (DRAM for instance) to cache our cheaper and slower storage. But currently fast memory has no persistence at all; it's only storage that provides the application the guarantee that storing, modifying or deleting data does exactly that.
Memory and storage differ in other ways. For example, we load from memory to registers on the CPU, perform operations there, and then store the results back to memory by using byte addresses. This load/store technology is different from storage, where we tend to move data back and fore between memory and storage in large blocks, by using an API (application programming interface).
New memory technologies are challenging these assumptions. They look like storage in that they're persistent, if a lot faster than traditional disks or even Flash based SSDs, but we address them in bytes, as we do memory like DRAM, if more slowly. Persistent memory (PM) lies between storage and memory in latency, bandwidth and cost, while providing memory semantics and storage persistence. In this webcast, SNIA experts will discuss:
•Traditional uses of storage and memory as a cache
•How can we build and use systems based on PM?
•What would a system with storage, persistent memory and DRAM look like?
•Do we need a new programming model to take advantage of PM?
•How we might take better advantage of this new technology
After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/32F2l98.
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ESG Research: The Hybrid Cloud Tipping Point
Apr 23 2019
61 mins
Scott Sinclair, ESG; Michelle Tidwell, IBM, Mike Jochimsen, Kaminario; Eric Lakin, Univ. of Michigan; Alex McDonald, NetApp
Has hybrid cloud reached a tipping point? According to research from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), IT organizations today are struggling to strike the right balance between public cloud and their on-premises infrastructure. In this SNIA webcast, ESG senior analyst, Scott Sinclair, will share research on current cloud trends, covering:
•Key drivers behind IT complexity
•IT spending priorities
•Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud adoption drivers
•When businesses are moving workloads from the cloud back on-premises
•Top security and cost challenges
•Future cloud projections
The research will be followed by a panel discussion with Scott Sinclair and SNIA cloud experts Alex McDonald, Michelle Tidwell, Mike Jochimsen and Eric Lakin.
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Protocol Analysis 201 for High-Speed Fibre Channel Fabrics
Apr 11 2019
63 mins
Yamini Shastry, Viavi Solutions; David Rodgers, Teledyne LeCroy; Joe Kimpler, ATTO Technology
In the FCIA webcast "Protocol Analysis for High-Speed Fibre Channel Fabrics" experts covered the basics on protocol analysis tools and how to incorporate them into the "best practices" application of SAN problem solving.
Our experts return for this 201 course which will provide a deeper dive into how to interpret the output and results from the protocol analyzers. We will also share insight into using signal jammers and how to use them to correlate error conditions to be able to formulate real time solutions.
Root cause analysis requirements now encompass all layers of the fabric architecture, and new storage protocols that usurp the traditional network stack (i.e. FCoE, iWARP, NVMe over Fabrics, etc.) complicate analysis, so a well-constructed "collage" of best practices and effective and efficient analysis tools must be developed. In addition, in-depth knowledge of how to decipher the analytical results and then determine potential solutions is critical.
Join us for a deeper dive into Protocol Analysis tools and how to interpret the analytical output from them. We will review:
•Inter switch links (ISL) – How to measure and minimize fabric congestion
•Post-capture analysis – Graphing, Trace reading, Performance metrics
•Benefits of purposeful error injection
•More Layer 2-3 and translation layers debug
•Link Services and Extended Link Services - LRR Link Ready Rests
You can watch the 1st webcast on this topic on-demand at http://bit.ly/2MxsWR7
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Transactional Models and their Storage Requirements
Apr 9 2019
58 mins
Alex McDonald, Vice-Chair SNIA Europe, and Office of the CTO, NetApp; Paul Talbut, SNIA Europe General Manager
We're all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We're also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required?
One of the more important concepts in storage is the notion of transactions, which are used in databases, financials, and other mission critical workloads. However, in the age of cloud and distributed systems, we need to update our thinking about what constitutes a transaction. We need to understand how new theories and techniques allow us to undertake transactional work in the face of unreliable and physically dispersed systems. It's a topic full of interesting concepts (and lots of acronyms!). In this webcast, we'll provide a brief tour of traditional transactional systems and their use of storage, we'll explain new application techniques and transaction models, and we'll discuss what storage systems need to look like to support these new advances.
And yes, we'll explain all the acronyms and nomenclature too.
You will learn:
• A brief history of transactional systems from banking to Facebook
• How the Internet and distributed systems have changed and how we view transactions
• An explanation of the terminology, from ACID to CAP and beyond
• How applications, networks & particularly storage have changed to meet these demands
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Trends in Worldwide Media and Entertainment Storage
Mar 27 2019
56 mins
Alex McDonald, SNIA SSSI Co-Chair (Moderator), Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates, Motti Beck, Mellanox Technologies
Join SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) Education Chair and leading analyst Tom Coughlin and SSSI member Motti Beck of Mellanox Technologies for a journey into the requirements and trends in worldwide data storage for entertainment content acquisition, editing, archiving, and digital preservation. This webcast will cover capacity and performance trends and media projections for direct attached storage, cloud, and near-line network storage. It will also include results from a long-running digital storage survey of media and entertainment professionals. Learn what is needed for digital cinema, broadcast, cable, and internet applications and more.
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The Scale-Out File System Architecture Overview
Feb 28 2019
69 mins
Zhiqi Tao, Intel; John Kim, Mellanox
This webcast will present an overview of scale-out file system architectures. To meet the increasingly higher demand on both capacity and performance in large cluster computing environments, the storage subsystem has evolved toward a modular and scalable design. The scale-out file system is one implementation of the trend, in addition to scale-out object and block storage solutions. This presentation will provide an introduction to scale-out-file systems and cover:
•General principles when architecting a scale-out file system storage solution
•Hardware and software design considerations for different workloads
•Storage challenges when serving a large number of compute nodes, e.g. name space consistency, distributed locking, data replication, etc.
•Use cases for scale-out file systems
•Common benchmark and performance analysis approaches
After you watch the webcast, check-out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2EWqXQO
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SNIA Swordfish™ Swims in Open Waters
Feb 27 2019
47 mins
Don Deel, NetApp, SNIA; Moderated by Richelle Ahlvers, Broadcom, SNIA
Tools for speeding your implementation of the next-generation storage management standard
The SNIA Swordfish™ specification for the management of storage systems and data services is an extension of the DMTF Redfish® specification. Together, these specifications provide a unified approach for the management of servers and storage in converged, hyper-converged, hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments.
To help speed your Swordfish development efforts, SNIA has produced open source storage management tools available now on GitHub for your use. Join this session for an overview of these open source tools, which include a Swordfish API Emulator, a Swordfish Basic Web Client, an example Swordfish plugin for the Microsoft Power BI business analytics service, and an example Swordfish plugin for the Datadog monitoring service.
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What's New in Container Storage
Feb 26 2019
38 mins
Keith Hudgins, Docker; Alex McDonald, NetApp
Containers are a big trend in application deployment. The landscape of containers is moving fast and constantly changing, with new standards emerging every few months. Learn what's new, what to pay attention to, and how to make sense of the ever-shifting container landscape.
This live webcast will cover:
•Container storage types and Container Frameworks
•An overview of the various storage APIs for the container landscape
•How to identify the most important projects to follow in the container world
•The Container Storage Interface spec and Kubernetes 1.13
•How to get involved in the container community
After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2GPkFET
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Feb 20 2019
54 mins
Patty Driever, IBM; Howard Johnson, Broadcom; Joe Kimpler, ATTO Technologies
FICON (Fibre Channel Connection) is an upper-level protocol supported by mainframe servers and attached enterprise-class storage controllers that utilizes Fibre Channel as the underlying transport.
The FCIA FICON 101 webcast (on-demand at http://bit.ly/FICON101) described some of the key characteristics of the mainframe and how FICON satisfies the demands placed on mainframes for reliable and efficient access to data. FCIA experts gave a brief introduction into the layers of architecture (system/device and link) that the FICON protocol bridges. Using the FICON 101 session as a springboard, our experts return for FICON 201 where they will delve deeper into the architectural flow of FICON and how it leverages Fibre Channel to be an optimal mainframe transport.
Join this live FCIA webcast where you'll learn:
- How FICON (FC-SB-x) maps onto the Fibre Channel FC-2 layer
- The evolution of the FICON protocol optimizations
- How FICON adapts to new technologies
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Networking Requirements for Hyperconvergence
Feb 5 2019
61 mins
Christine McMonigal, Intel; J Metz, Cisco; Alex McDonald, NetApp
"Why can't I add a 33rd node?"
One of the great advantages of Hyperconvergence infrastructures (also known as "HCI") is that, relatively speaking, they are extremely easy to set up and manage. In many ways, they're the "Happy Meals" of infrastructure, because you have compute and storage in the same box. All you need to do is add networking.
In practice, though, many consumers of HCI have found that the "add networking" part isn't quite as much of a no-brainer as they thought it would be. Because HCI hides a great deal of the "back end" communication, it's possible to severely underestimate the requirements necessary to run a seamless environment. At some point, "just add more nodes" becomes a more difficult proposition.
In this webinar, we're going to take a look behind the scenes, peek behind the GUI, so to speak. We'll be talking about what goes on back there, and shine the light behind the bezels to see:
•The impact of metadata on the network
•What happens as we add additional nodes
•How to right-size the network for growth
•Tricks of the trade from the networking perspective to make your HCI work better
•And more…
Now, not all HCI environments are created equal, so we'll say in advance that your mileage will necessarily vary. However, understanding some basic concepts of how storage networking impacts HCI performance may be particularly useful when planning your HCI environment, or contemplating whether or not it is appropriate for your situation in the first place.
After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2Va4wwH
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File vs. Block vs. Object Storage
Feb 5 2019
66 mins
Alex McDonald, Vice-Chair SNIA Europe and NetApp
When it comes to storage, a byte is a byte is a byte, isn't it? One of the enduring truths about simplicity is that scale makes everything hard, and with that comes complexity. And when we're not processing the data, how do we store it and access it?
In this webcast, we will compare three types of data access: file, block and object storage, and the access methods that support them. Each has its own set of use cases, and advantages and disadvantages. Each provides simple to sophisticated management of the data, and each makes different demands on storage devices and programming technologies.
Perhaps you're comfortable with block and file, but are interested in investigating the more recent class of object storage and access. Perhaps you're happy with your understanding of objects, but would really like to understand files a bit better, and what advantages or disadvantages they have compared to each other. Or perhaps you want to understand how file, block and object are implemented on the underlying storage systems – and how one can be made to look like the other, depending on how the storage is accessed. Join us as we discuss and debate:
Storage devices
•How different types of storage drive different management & access solutions
•Where everything is in fixed-size chunks
•SCSI and SCSI-based protocols, and how FC and iSCSI fit in
•When everything is a stream of bytes
•NFS and SMB
•When everything is a blob
•HTTP, key value and RESTful interfaces
•When files, blocks and objects collide
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How to Prepare Your Data Center for the Big Data Explosion
Jan 24 2019
37 mins
Kevin L. Jackson, CEO, GovCloud Network, LLC
Cloud computing innovation will power enterprise transformation in 2018. Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the big data storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity.
Join this webinar with Kevin L. Jackson, CEO, GovCloud Network LLC and globally recognized cloud computing thought leader. He will show how Cloud Storage 2.0 can be used to address this proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications, and how all of these are affecting today's data centers.
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Blockchain in 2019: The Impact on Enterprise Storage and Data Security
Jan 24 2019
61 mins
Ian Smith, CEO and Reuben Thompson, VP Technology, Gospel Technology
Join this webcast with Ian Smith, CEO and Reuben Thompson, VP Technology at Gospel Technology, as they discuss:
- Private enterprise blockchains vs public ecosystems (i.e. crypto)
- Enabling data transactional trust without compromising speed
- How blockchain can be used to store and protect data
Gospel is an enterprise data platform built on blockchain, providing data storage for the distributed era, as well as enterprise data security and data breach avoidance.
About the speakers:
Ian is a serial entrepreneur and experienced enterprise technology executive, at one point holding a VP Product Management role for IBM Storage, and has been involved in solving some of the largest and most complex infrastructure and data problems in enterprise business.
Reuben is responsible for all Gospel platform development and has extensive experience of managing large-scale software projects, scalable, distributed, service-oriented software architectures, and satisfying complex and divergent compliance requirements (FCA, PCI, etc).
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A Citigroup Inc. shareholder has an idea for an unusual employee perk: He'd like the bank to buy back shares from older employees.
Roy Sykes, a shareholder and former employee, asked that the bank buy back shares from employees once they are old enough to qualify for Medicare – age 65, in most cases. Under Sykes' proposal, the bank would have to buy back the stock at the price the employee paid, provided the employee had not sued Citigroup over the stock.
In a letter to the bank in November, Sykes said his proposal would boost employee morale. He said that Citigroup's senior management "knew, or should have known, that Citi stock was a risky investment for employees" and encouraged employees to buy it anyway. The proposal would apply only to shares rewarded as part of an employee's pay, or bought through an employee plan.
It should be no surprise that Citigroup's stock price would be a source of consternation to longtime holders. It was walloped in the financial crisis, plunging well into the single digits. For damage control, the bank did a 1-for-10 reverse stock split in 2011, which meant that an investor with 10 shares worth $4 each suddenly instead had one stock worth $40. But shares have budged only slightly upward since then.
Sykes filed his proposal in November and asked the bank to include it on the ballot for the spring annual meeting. The bank asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to exclude it. Late last month, the SEC agreed, saying the proposal interfered with "ordinary business operations."
The SEC also weighed in on two other shareholder proposals that Citigroup wanted to exclude from the ballot, agreeing with the bank in one case and with the shareholder in the other.
A Citigroup spokesman declined to comment on any of the proposals.
Here's more:
Executive stock: Shareholder activist Kenneth Steiner asked that the bank's senior executives be required to hold onto a "significant percentage" of the shares they receive as part of their pay, until reaching "normal retirement age" of at least 60. The executives should also be banned from "hedging transactions" that would let them cut their own risk and skirt the proposal's intent, Steiner wrote in a proposal to the bank. The idea is that if executives are paid in shares and have to hold onto them, then they have more incentive to care about the stock price.
Citigroup asked the SEC for permission to exclude the proposal, arguing that it had already substantially implemented it. The SEC disagreed, which means that in all likelihood, it will be on the ballot at the annual meeting.
A similar proposal Steiner filed for the 2013 annual meeting raised 23% support, according to Proxy Monitor.
Stock split: Shareholder Leonid Zhevelyuk asked the bank to undo the 2011 reverse stock split.
"This reverse split was necessary to increase (from $4.50 to $45.00) the stock price (by simultaneously decreasing ten times the number of stocks) to make them attractive to institutions," Zhevelyuk wrote in a handwritten letter to the bank in November. "However, after over two years from (the) reverse split the price per Citigroup stock increased from $45.00 to $50.00 and therefore recovery from $45.00 to $450.00 per stock is practically impossible."
The SEC agreed to let Citigroup leave Zhevelyuk's proposal off the ballot, saying it prescribed a specific amount of stock dividends.
Citigroup's stock closed at $44.16 on May 9, 2011, its first day after the reverse split. It was trading Wednesday around $46.85.
--Christina Rexrode
Christina Rexrode covers banking for MarketWatch. Follow her on Twitter@chris_rexrode. Follow The Tell @thetellblog.
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BlackBerry to slash 4,500 jobs
SAN FRANCISCO – BlackBerry says it is slashing 4,500 positions in a last-ditch move to recharge the troubled company.
The Canadian company said it would eliminate that many jobs in a bid to cut expenses, a move that comes two days after The Wall Street Journal reported an expected 40% workforce reduction at the device maker.
BlackBerry has failed to invigorate its business despite unveiling a new smartphone line and software in January. The tailspin has prompted company officials to explore strategic options, including a sale.
Troubled BlackBerry said the layoffs will help slash operating expenses by about 50% by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
"It could make them seem a more attractive investment -- to buy or invest or go private. I think all of those are on the table at this point," says IDC analyst Ramon Llamas.
MORE: BlackBerry layoffs could portend a sale
Further clouding its future, BlackBerry reported Friday it expects a net operating loss of $950 million to $995 million in its fiscal second quarter.
"We are implementing the difficult, but necessary operational changes announced today to address our position in a maturing and more competitive industry, and to drive the company toward profitability," BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said in a statement on the preliminary financial results.
BlackBerry shares tumbled 17% to close Friday at $8.73 a share after trading was temporarily halted.
The smartphone maker also disclosed disappointing sales of its devices. "Selling 3.7 million (smartphones) is not a lot. There's more demand for their older devices," says Llamas.


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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Some boys find themselves cruelly under the thumb of unsympathetic and unloving foster parents. Harry Potter had to spend his first ten years sleeping under the stairs with the Dursleys in their smug suburban lifedespised and neglected. Most boys discover some idiosyncrasy in their looks; Harry has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Some children learn a surprising thing or two about their heritage, sometimes from a mysterious visitor. Harry receives a visit from Hagrid, a giant, who brings the news that Harrys father was a wizard and his mother a witch. They were killed by Voldemort, the evil sorcerer; Harry escaped with the scar on his forehead. Harry must leave the horrid Dursleys, explains Hagrid, to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And so begins Harrys education and his return to his birthright. He goes off to boarding school as a typical English child might, but his supplies include a message-carrying owl and a wand. There are new friends, new teachers, new sports, and a world of danger and enchantment.
Publishers Weekly, July 20, 1998: "Readers are in for a delightful romp with this award-winning debut from a British author who dances in the footsteps of P. L. Travers and Roald Dahl...There is enchantment, suspense, and danger galore (as well as enough creepy creatures to satisfy the most bogeymen-loving readers, and even a magical game of soccerlike Quidditch to entertain sports fans) as Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione plumb the secrets of the forbidden third floor at Hogwarts to battle evil and unravel the mystery behind Harry's scar. Rowling leaves the door wide open for a sequel; bedazzled readers will surely clamor for one."
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During the Cold War, a scientist named William Atwater began burning different types of food, and measuring how much energy was released in order to determine which foods had what number of calories.
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One common sense alternative is the U.S. Health and Human Services Food Guide Pyramid. Instead of counting calories, simply follow the directions of the pyramid, and construct smaller meals based on its serving suggestions. Minimize the amount of fat and sugar you ingest, and increase the amount of fiber, low fat protein, and leafy green veggies. It is a lot easier to count the number of servings of each of the items in the food pyramid than it is to count calories.
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Jack Laugher has narrowly missed out on securing a hat-trick of titles at the World Junior Diving Championships in Adelaide.
The 17-year-old Olympian was beaten into second place by China's Peng Jianfeng in the boys' one-metre springboard.
Alicia Blagg and Hannah Starling also claimed second in the girls' 3m synchro to continue Great Britain's impressive meet and leave them second in the medal table.
Laugher won the 3m springboard and the 3m synchro, alongside Tom Daley, on the opening two days of competition but missed his penultimate reverse two-and-a-half somersaults to deny him a third gold in the South Australian capital.
Laugher's silver medal meant he finished a remarkable junior career with four youth world titles after he won the 3m and 1m lower age group springboard events in Tucson two years ago.
The Ripon diver has been touted as a future senior world champion by American diving legend Greg Louganis, and has established himself inside the world's top 10 in the past 12 months despite a disappointing London Olympics that saw him crash out in the first round of the 3m springboard.
"I guess 4 junior world titles is what I'll have to settle on :P haha! I'm so happy :)," Laugher wrote on his Twitter page.
Great Britain are behind diving superpower China on the medal table after City of Leeds duo Blagg and Starling won their silver medal.
Starling won Team GB's first-ever girls' world junior medal on Wednesday, when she took bronze in the 3m springboard, and went one better as she teamed up with Blagg in competition for the first time in six years.
The pair scored 278.70 to finish nine points behind gold medallists Zheng Qulin and Liu Jiao from China.


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Fall Festival planned at school, volunteers and items sought
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- Published on 21 October 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Parent Teacher Organization at Mount Vernon ISD is organizing their third annual Fall Festival at the elementary school. Volunteers and silent auction items are needed for the event. For more information, see the Oct. 17 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Speeding Up Development – WoodWing Releases Version 3.6 of Elvis DAM
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The new version of WoodWing´s innovative digital asset management solution Elvis DAM improves the way users can collaborate, share and manage high volumes of digital assets. Elvis DAM 3.6 supports the latest release of WoodWing´s publishing system Enterprise 8.
With Elvis DAM 3.6, WoodWing Software has released the first update of the product since the acquisition of Elvis DAM at the end of October, 2012. The new version offers new and intuitive ways to share digital assets and to collaborate in publishing processes any kind. Also new is the support for taxonomies to enrich the assets' metadata.
Sharing and collaboration – intuitive and fast
With Elvis DAM 3.6, WoodWing is introducing a variety of new sharing features. To share collections with colleagues in remote locations, partners or customers, users simply generate a link that they send via e-mail. Recipients can open the collection in their browser or the Elvis desktop client and preview, download and upload any number of assets. Another new option is to create an HTML gallery and share the HTML code to embed the collection in a Web page.
When sharing, it´s possible to set access rights, including an expiration date. Received assets or collections can quickly be approved or rejected, and the assets will immediately be updated with their new status.
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A taxonomy is a predefined, hierarchical tree of terms that makes it easy to consistently structure information such as metadata. Elvis DAM 3.6 offers a user-friendly way to browse taxonomies and allows the user to add metadata to assets straight from the taxonomy tree. Users already maintaining a taxonomy can import it in RDF or text format. Support for Enterprise 8 Elvis DAM also now supports version 8 of WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise. Users can export and import assets to and from Enterprise and its editorial management application Content Station. This integration allows users to incorporate their assets in the Enterprise workflow, which significantly increases the efficiency of the processes.
"We're confident Elvis DAM users will greatly benefit from the new features in this release," said Erik Schut, President of WoodWing Software. "In October 2012, we promised to speed up the development of Elvis DAM and this is the first proof we are delivering. Our next Elvis DAM release will contain a much deeper integration with our publishing system Enterprise 8 and Content Station, along with a number of other cool new features."
Elvis DAM has been adopted by numerous customers in publishing, marketing and non-profit organizations. A reference list is available at www.elvisdam.com/references/


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Arizona Veto Resonates in Other State Fights
Passage of Similar Laws Will be More Difficult, Opponents and Proponents Say
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of a bill allowing business owners to refuse service on religious grounds will make passage of similar laws in other states more difficult, both supporters and foes of such measures said.
"I'm not optimistic," Georgia Republican state Sen. Josh Mc-Koon said of the bill he is sponsoring that is similar to Arizona's failed legislation.


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Filibuster: In a March 12 column about Rand Paul, Sen. Lindsey Graham was identified as (R-Ky.). He is from South Carolina.
Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for 13 hours was that the Obama administration wouldn't give him a straight answer on the question of whether the president can unilaterally order the killing of American citizens on American soil with "lethal force, such as a drone strike … and without trial."
In other words, if an American member of Al Qaeda is sitting at a cafe, can the president sic one of his death-dealing robots on him?
Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. had replied with a muddled yes and no in a letter to Paul: The White House "has no intention of doing so," but it would not rule it out if it was deemed necessary by the administration.
That response gave Paul the opening he needed for his filibuster. "When the president responds that 'I haven't killed any Americans yet at home and that I don't intend to do so, but I might,' it's incredibly alarming and really goes against his oath of office."
But here's the interesting part. A Democratic president, who made his bones as a holier-than-thou antiwar candidate, clings to his constitutional right to rain death from the sky on American citizens drinking Frappuccinos, and conservatives attack the Republican senator who complains about it.
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-Ky.) have all but declared war on Paul. The Wall Street Journal poured sovereign contempt on him: "If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids." The Weekly Standard, in an editorial written by William Kristol, suggested that Paul was "semi-hysterical" and the "spokesman for the Code Pink faction of the Republican Party." National Review (where I am a contributing editor), Charles Krauthammer and others on the right were less scornful but still very critical.
While I agree with much of the substance of Paul's critics, I'm at a loss as to understand all the outrage.
As a constitutional matter, it's true that when America is officially at war, the president, as commander in chief, can kill the enemy where he finds them. If during World War II Nazi soldiers landed in New Jersey, nobody would dispute that FDR could have ordered them killed on sight, even if one happened to be a U.S. citizen sitting in a coffee shop.
Holder sent Paul a second letter that said the president did not have the authority to off an American on U.S. soil who was "not engaged in combat." This satisfied Paul, but it conjures the image of a loudspeaker on a drone announcing seconds before impact: "You in the Members Only jacket, this is formal notification you are an enemy combatant. Prepare to die."
I think many Americans recoil at death-by-drone. There's something creepily dystopian about this antiseptic way of war. We wouldn't be having this argument about whether a national guardsman or an FBI agent could shoot an Al Qaeda operative on sight.
But the novel nature of drones underscores an important point: The war on terror is not World War II, and Al Qaeda isn't a uniformed enemy. It's a confusing new kind of conflict, and that's why a reminder of our core principles — our American dogma — strikes me as a good thing.
Unfortunately, the dogma that dogma is a bad thing is an old fad in America. "Dogmas are not dark and mysterious," G.K. Chesterton wrote. "Rather a dogma is like a flash of lightning — an instantaneous lucidity that opens across a whole landscape."
A fundamental, dogmatic faith in the Constitution is a good thing. A dogmatic view that the president isn't a king but a servant of the people is a good thing. A dogmatic insistence that the president give a member of Congress a straight answer about when the government can kill Americans is a good thing. And a dogmatic conviction that an American life has special status in the eyes of the government is a good thing too.
Paul's filibuster briefly illuminated some very basic core convictions during a long gray chapter in international affairs, a chapter that isn't over yet, either. I can think of worse ways to waste 13 hours of the Senate's time.