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I picked up a Miele S8 a little over a year ago, and we've had an issue with the SET220 power wand. We've had it replaced twice in a calendar year, and it's happening again.

There are plastic tubes inside the wand that cover the tray that holds the power cord, and as the wand is extended and retracted, we've found that the tube on the bottom portion comes loose, and gets stuck, so that when the wand is extended, there's no tube covering the power cable on the bottom half of the wand. The cable gets tangled, and starts catching dust in the tube, and you have to use a stick to force the tube back down again. Has this design flaw been acknowledged by Miele, and is there an updated version of the wand we can buy so we don't have to either keep shoving the tube back down, or replacing the unit?

Thanks!

Crossfit takes an approach that's more about flash and style than it is about proper training. It seems more dynamic and sells better. You get stronger while training by performing an exercise that causes enough stress to cause the body to adapt. You recover, and do the exercise again with slightly more weight, and repeat the process. In good training, you focus on proper form, and progressive overloading.

In crossfit, many people are just banging out reps at high intensity, regardless of form. It's one thing to do that in a competition, but to have that be the mantra every day at the gym is a recipe for injuries. While crossfit is having a good effect is that it's teaching a lot of people about the value of the barbell lifts, and it's particularly popular among women. The downside is that the random nature of the programming means that people aren't seeing the steady progression that they could be, and the higher rates of injury give the impression that weightlifting is a dangerous thing. (It shouldn't be)

I really want to play your game. I want to give you money. Unfortunately, you're forcing UPlay on me, and that means I won't play it. If gamers continue to tolerate terrible DRM being forced on them then they'll keep getting screwed. Can I pay more for a steam only version?

It seems like it goes beyond poor coaching though. I don't hang out at a crossfit gym, but whenever I see a crossfit video online, the common feature is lots of reps as fast as possible. If that kind of attitude is common in crossfit gyms, where novices are taught that a "good workout" is where you go as hard as possible and set a speed record where you just push past any pain, you're going to see a lot of injuries.

We're running Lync 2013 on premise, and it's been hands down the most arcane server setup I've done in a long time, particularly on the network side. Comparing Lync installation/config to Exchange, Sharepoint, Enterprise VOIP deployments, and our H.323 bridge/gatekeepers, Jabber, Lync has been the most difficult to troubleshoot & get working properly.

It feels like the product is several different code branches that have been bolted on to each other. Two servers, FOUR external IP's eaten up, a number of DNS entries, reverse proxy requirements, (And MS has dropped their reverse proxy product), and a real lack of troubleshooting capabilities.

What is in the dev pipeline for cleaning up/redesigning the networking code on Lync? And what's the freaking deal with TMG getting dropped when it's a part of nearly every Lync install?