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Imagine a racism workshop–not a touchy-feely “prejudice reduction” workshop but an all-out emotional and cathartic conversation on race. Now imagine a church service–not a solemn devotion but the kind of rocking, joyous communion that shakes the floorboards. Now imagine, lofted above the congregation, a sea of protest banners. The orations are secular; the pulpit is political.

This pretty much captures the spirit that dominated the first US Social Forum, held in Atlanta June 27-July 1. Having appropriately fine-tuned the World Social Forum motto to fit the host country (“Another World Is Possible, Another US Is Necessary”), this gathering– with more than 900 workshops conducted in the Atlanta Civic Center, local hotels and theaters, and drawing some 12,000 registered attendees–made only partial concession to dry political strategy; it was a locus of progressive dreams and activist chutzpah.

“Our national dilemma today is not technological retardation but moral deficiency. We have a moral deficiency in establishing priorities when putting our technological advances to work for the common good,” said iconic civil rights activist Joseph Lowery at the opening-day march. The crowd left from the State Capitol and wound down Peachtree Street, the main business thoroughfare of the city, as bankers, clerks and secretaries gathered on steps and watched in wonder. A crowd of a couple thousand was a rare display, even in a city accustomed to conferences and rallies. Lowery had positioned the spirit of the marchers vis-à-vis the American Republic to a T: The problem was the need for an America less stingy, less conceited and altogether less thuggish.

The Civic Center sits blocks away from Task Force for the Homeless, which was also the site of a forum-sponsored art exhibit. The visibility of the homeless was much commented upon; invisible, however, were Atlanta public officials. The only Democratic presidential candidate to send representatives was Dennis Kucinich–who supports and in fact co-wrote universal healthcare reform bill HR 676, which was touted by several activist groups. The opening parade was too big a spectacle to be ignored by the press, but thereafter, the forum disappeared from the media, apart from a few rather trivializing articles.

What did it mean to sponsor a social forum in the United States–in the city of Martin Luther King Jr., but also in the heart of conservative Dixie? In Georgia, a state with heinous immigration policies? What the national media missed was that this meeting was big news among America’s grassroots organizers, who focused on issues such as immigration, gentrification, homelessness and prison reform.

It was commented on from the first day that the US forum was different from previous World Social Forums. There was a notable absence of political scientists, philosophers, policy heads and large NGOs. While all fifty states and several countries were represented, the largest US contingents came from the Southeast and Southwest. There was a large Latino contingent, and most sessions at the forum were translated from English into Spanish, or vice versa. Hundreds of participants arrived via the “Freedom Caravan,” commemorating the civil rights Freedom Rides of 1961. Buses that began in Albuquerque linked with others in Texas, the ravaged Gulf Coast and historic points in the Deep South such as Selma, Alabama, symbolically connecting the Gulf Coast with other seminal places in activist history.

A considerable number of attendees had never been to a World Social Forum–and often expressed scant familiarity with those gatherings. Most said they were in Atlanta to support a local group that practiced “bottom up” organizing. The workshops on antiglobalization and other world issues were accompanied by US-specific workshops on resisting the privatization of schools, building a black-Latino coalition and finding alternatives to foundation support, as well as a slew conducted by or addressing the concerns of hip-hop enthusiasts.

Nation-specific social forums are not new. The process initiated in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001 has already led to national and regional social forums throughout Europe and Latin America. According to researchers Jennifer Hadden and Sidney Tarrow, “In Italy alone, one of us found hundreds of local and regional social forums.” Yet social forums have received relatively little publicity in the United States, and for the first few years at least, relatively few US citizens participated in the world conclaves. This is ironic, considering that the anti-WTO protest of 1999, familiarly known as the Battle in Seattle, was the major impetus behind the initiation of the social forums–the five-day gatherings being a “positive” alternative to anti-WTO agitation.

The WSF International Counsel began talking with US activists about a US event as far back as 2003. Grassroots Global Justice, a California group that focuses on US trade policy, was integral to those early discussions. Executive director Michael Leon Guerrero remembers, “We saw that it was very important that grassroots efforts taking place in the United States receive more visibility in the international community…. Many of our colleagues in other parts of the world have little knowledge of conditions here, and they often do not know there are organizations working for social change here. But we thought it best at that time to delay a US forum. We found that the level of understanding wasn’t high enough. We were getting too many questions like, How will this be different from any other conference?”

Eventually, a date was set for a US Social Forum: the summer of 2006. An organizing committee accepted bids from grassroots groups throughout the country; the finalists were Albuquerque, San Francisco and Atlanta. “I think we were swayed by Atlanta primarily for moral reasons,” remembers Guerrero. Project South of Atlanta became the lead USSF administrator. “We fought for it,” says Jerome Scott of Project South. “The South bears a legacy of slavery and oppression, but also a legacy of resistance that no one can deny. There’s no place better than the South to show that we can be–that we deserve to be–a part of the Global South.”

Then Katrina struck. The floodwaters that demolished the Gulf Coast in 2005 stole the energies of numerous grassroots organizations. In particular, Project South was overwhelmed by its own relief work with Katrina refugees displaced in Atlanta. Walda Katz Fishman of Project South anticipated the first US Social Forum as the place “to start connecting the dots of a US justice movement–something visible, something national. We have allies worldwide, but you can’t go from being local to global. First, you’ve got to be national. We did some tough wrangling over the decision to delay it, but I think it was necessary.”

“Katrina still hurts,” said an audience member at the Gulf Coast plenary. If the workshops were the nuts and bolts of the forum, the plenaries were the Oprah Winfrey version, charged and emotional auditorium gatherings. However, the Katrina panel, which included speakers on the black-brown coalition, marked a register of emotional turmoil that exceeded that of any protest at the USSF against the Iraq War. Panelist after panelist accused the government of indifference, racism, exploiting the hurricane as a gentrification scheme; some went so far as to use the words “murder” and even “genocide.”

No wonder the Gulf Coast plenary brought many audience members to tears. There were a number of Katrina warriors and veterans in the crowd; many belonged to groups that still have tentacles on the Gulf or that counsel Katrina refugees in their own communities. The decimation of the coast and its reconstruction affect the issues that grassroots activists take most personally, and see as their own: housing, healthcare, gentrification, community rights, wages and workers’ rights.

Doubtless the disaster would be much worse without their efforts. There is nonetheless a sense of having failed to promote the cause of Katrina survivors. The country still has not confronted the implications of having several hundred thousand former Gulf Coast residents displaced and scattered across the country–largely because of government neglect of the levees–while in many cases their home communities are being gentrified. From a bird’s-eye view, Gulf Coast “reconstruction” looks a lot like homegrown neoliberalism.

The plenary discussion on a potential black-Latino coalition reached a climax when Daniel Castellanos of the Alliance for Guest Workers for Dignity described his journey from impoverishment in Peru to substandard employment in New Orleans. “I saw so many African-Americans, and I asked, Why aren’t they getting this work?” he said. Then a dramatic pause. Instead of a lecture on how Bush’s post-Katrina suspension of worker protections resulted in an influx of cheap immigrant labor, he delivered the big picture: “It’s very clear. They want us to fight–they want the African-American and Latino communities to fight!” The crowd erupted in chants of approval.

The USSF may have been at its strongest in workshops combining information, practical experience and a human touch. Colin Rajah of the National Network of Immigrant Rights conducted a workshop titled “Trade and Migration: Exploring the Intersection of Trade and Immigration Policies.” Rajah’s lecture on free-trade economics was accompanied by live testimonials from “NAFTA survivors.” Says Rajah, “Even though we have different groups looking at trade and immigration issues, they are interlinked in a US foreign policy that seeks to accomplish two things: to open up markets and control those markets and, second, to manage and control the immigrant labor flow. I work for an immigrant rights organization, but to do my work effectively I need to be very savvy about trade policy. Trade and immigration work together to create a funnel effect, regulating the immigrant flow in ways that benefit multinational corporations. It’s not coincidental that Operation Gatekeeper [the 1994 security initiative that fenced the US-Mexico border near San Diego] and NAFTA were implemented months apart.” Testimonials that made the human impact of free-trade policies on immigrants real were provided by (among others) a former employee of a sweatshop operated by Levi Strauss before the company outsourced to China and a representative of a coalition of immigrant tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida, who led a successful protest for wages and health benefits against Taco Bell. “The real solution is to look at trade and immigration patterns together,” says Rajah.

If by some miracle the USSF did receive widespread media attention–if, say, every plenary were broadcast on national TV–would it galvanize a hidden majority of closet or disenfranchised radicals? Or would the rhetorical excesses of aspects of the forum provoke dismay, or laughter? Social forums could be called “orgies of idealism,” and thus would be easy to mock. But the few forum-related articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution were characterized less by condescension than simple befuddlement. “Marchers Take Beefs to the Streets,” ran the headline of a June 28 article that detailed few of their “beefs” in particular. A confusing article published during the forum began, “Karl Marx…held court Thursday night…at the US Social Forum” (the sixth paragraph finally explained that Marx was an actor in a performance), and summed up the week’s events as “a Woodstock for the globally conscious set, sans drugs.”

In addition to potential scoffing from without, there were treacherous fault lines within. Candido Grzybowski, one of the original founders of the World Social Forum, who now sits on the WSF International Council, said efforts to encourage groups to combine workshops often merely resulted in “two workshops in the same room,” an apt metaphor for the doggedness and insularity of activists who, accustomed to oppositional stances, are often loath to compromise. The agendas that make up social forums do compete–for attention. The forum itself is left of center, but where is the center of the forum? At the final plenary Native American activists were insulted when time limitations resulted in a speaker being cut short. In the context of the forum–a space for dialogue on race, justice and stories of oppression–the move struck the first Americans as hugely symbolic. They reacted by flooding the stage and performing a healing ritual. The conflict was resolved; in fact, it was resolved with admirable grace. But the incident underscores the problems of building a movement between spheres of regional activism and among oppressed communities.

That said, there was a freshness to the USSF. It was a coming together of activists who operate under the radar in the United States, who brought something new to the table: an army of small organizations devoted to their communities, whose efforts rarely make the evening news, acting locally but (potentially) connecting globally. The atmosphere was distinctly “hands on” and tutorial–political science and strategy took a back seat to insider knowledge. For instance, the Ruckus Society conducted workshops on violent and nonviolent protest, including one on “Blockades: How to Effectively Hold Your Ground,” just as other groups conducted workshops on maneuvering through the criminal justice system, the practical minutiae of voter organizing, immigrant organizing and resisting college military recruitment programs. There was an identifiable thrust behind the workshops considered as a whole: Teach organizing techniques that participants can then take home and use in their own communities.

It helped–greatly–that the planning and implementation of the USSF was a model of multicultural cooperation. The majority of the administrative personnel as well as the plenary speakers were women and people of color. It was not an environment where activists and minorities were lectured to by “others”–scholars, whites, representatives of establishment NGOs. “Where was the color in Seattle?” was a common joke that parodied the 1999 Battle in Seattle, implying that antiglobalization activism and its offshoots were the domain of a privileged white middle class. The USSF reversed that impression, bringing white activists initially inspired by the WTO protests together with radicalized blacks, Latinos and indigenous Americans.

The USSF won the respect of the participants by mirroring their own grassroots efforts. It was funded with a $900,000 budget–peanuts in today’s world–from sponsors, donors and registration fees, and it depended largely on the volunteer efforts of grassroots groups. For most of the implementation stage, the forum employed only three full-time staffers. If the seventh World Social Forum, held in Nairobi this past January, was by some accounts corrupted by commercial sponsors, the USSF was smaller, humbler and underfunded, but also untainted.

Although much ire at the gathering was directed against the United States, American pragmatism was in evidence in Atlanta. World Social Forums have been called confusing; in Atlanta the forum provided a space in which groups were able to make the connections they needed without the burden of having to sign off on every agenda or defend every plenary statement. The spirit of community and the welding of alliances was encouraging. “A disappointment of the grassroots left was that while there was a big response to Katrina, it wasn’t an organized response,” says Guerrero of Grassroots Global Justice. “If Hurricane Katrina hit today, the response would be very different. From all the relationships that have developed here in terms of communication, infrastructure, the feeling of solidarity, we could put out a general call and create a unified response. This forum has created a different situation; there could be a much higher level of coordination.”

A number of groups concerned with housing and urban issues decided to coordinate their efforts and drew up a collective “Right to the City.” Thirteen domestic workers’ rights organizations from various parts of the country (New York, Los Angeles, Washington, San Francisco) voted to form a domestic workers’ alliance. “We have those regions in our domestic workers’ alliance thus far. And we know of other cities where organizing is happening. We’re hoping our example will inspire them,” says Ai-jen Poo of Domestic Workers United.

This is movement–perhaps not “a movement” but movement-building. The best that interested parties can do now is find ways to facilitate and sustain those links until the next US Social Forum, in 2010.


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“Will the Olympics Change China?”

Like other China specialists, I’ve been asked crystal-ball questions like this many times–even though the start of the Games on 8-8-08 (a date that many Chinese view as chock-full of lucky numbers) is still nearly a year away.

I’ve tried to dodge such questions, having good reason to worry about making predictions where China and the Olympics are concerned. After all, both the country and the event have often surprised us in the past.

Fifteen years ago, for example, many thought China’s Communist Party was on its last legs–and few imagined it would soon welcome capitalists into its ranks. Then, as an example of a failed Olympics prediction, consider the Los Angeles Times story that claimed Chinese excitement over sports had reached “such a pitch” that within a short time–“perhaps only a few Olympiads”–Beijing would be “the scene of the world’s Olympics.” Not a bad prediction, if it had been made in 1984 or even 1964. But the story ran July 20, 1914.

Still, the invitations to prognosticate aren’t likely to stop, so I’ve come up with an answer–or at least pretend to do so.

When people ask if the Olympics will change China, I say the tense is misleading. The Games already have changed it. To prepare for 2008, Beijing’s urban landscape has been transformed, as old neighborhoods have been destroyed, giant new sports arenas built and big countdown clocks set up to tick off the moments until the opening ceremonies start on August 8, 2008–at eight seconds after 8:08 pm, no less.

The Games have affected another Chinese city: Shanghai. When news broke that its rival, Beijing, had gotten the nod from the International Olympic Committee, Shanghai stepped up efforts to secure alternative markers of global prestige and got the go-ahead to host the 2010 World Expo. (In case the parallel with the Games wasn’t clear, local authorities took to calling the upcoming World’s Fair an “Economic Olympics”–and, yes, Shanghai got its own countdown clocks.

When I’m asked what I expect to see in 2008, I say that one thing I’m certain we’ll all see is lots of American media reports that use the Olympics to suggest either that China is changing rapidly and is on the verge of Americanization, or that China is a country that remains stuck in dangerous old ruts and could easily become a threat to all we hold dear. These predictions seem safe, since what I like to call “America’s China Dream” and “America’s China Nightmare”–two story lines that tend to distort, more than they shed light on, Chinese realities–have been circulating for decades. And they’ve already been easily adapted to sports coverage. Witness competing reports on basketball great Yao Ming, who is alternately celebrated for moving easily between East and West and presented as a Frankenstein’s monster-like creation of a Communist sports machine.

The scenarios of dream and nightmare have both gotten boosts from historical analogies. Some see Beijing 2008 as Seoul 1988, an event that could help liberate an authoritarian land. Others see it as Berlin 1936 with Chinese characteristics. My crystal ball tells me just one thing: Whatever happens, we will be surprised. The regime will strive to control matters, but the unexpected will occur.

I say this not just because of China’s prediction-defying track record, but also because many Olympics are remembered for things that weren’t supposed to happen. Yes, Hitler got more legitimacy than he deserved from the 1936 Games, but the stunning performance by a black American athlete, Jesse Owens, was not part of his Aryan-supremacy plan. And who expected Munich 1972 to be remembered for a massacre? The Mexico City Games of 1968 are remembered for the Black Power salute of two African-American runners, who were determined to draw attention to racism in the country for which they had just won medals.

It would be foolish to speculate about what sort of unplanned yet highly memorable event might happen during the Beijing Games. But you don’t need a crystal ball to know the sort that China’s leaders worry about most: a symbolic act of protest by a Chinese athlete or even a scene-stealing gesture of defiance by a spectator while the world’s gaze is fixed on Beijing. This is no idle fear, as there is a long list of issues–rampant official corruption, exploited workers, limits on freedom of speech and religion, etc.–to which a protester might want to direct attention.

The Olympics always provide a unique platform for the world’s finest athletes. The 2008 Games will also provide one for Hu Jintao and company in their ongoing quest to convince domestic audiences that they have made China great again; they seek to persuade international audiences that they are steering their country and its booming economy down the right path. But this platform can’t be controlled–and China’s leaders are shrewd enough to realize the risk of trying too hard to keep the unexpected from happening. Their hope of having the 2008 Games remembered as China’s great global coming-out party could crumble, not just as a consequence of protests but of ham-handed security measures that end in making the 2008 Games memorable less for their grandeur than for the tightly monitored nature of the proceedings.

The most interesting Olympic event to watch could turn out to be one not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: The tightrope-walk China’s leaders attempt when the global media are more focused on Beijing than they have been since 1989–a fateful year when, as we know and Hu Jintao knows too, international audiences were alternately inspired by images of youthful Chinese protesters and appalled those of menacing Chinese tanks.

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VIETNAM – According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Vietnam ranks first in the world for the ratio of type A/H5N1 patients and second for the fatality ratio.

WHO’s report (made from reports of 14 countries) shows that Vietnam has the highest number of type A/H5N1 patients, with 105 cases since November 2003 and 51 of them dead, second after Indonesia.

So far, 370 people in the world have caught type A/H5N1 flu and 236 have died. The fatal ratio among type A/H5N1 patients is very high, experts said.

At present, Vietnam doesn’t record any new cases of type A/H5N1.

According to the news agency VietnamNetBridge, At a meeting of the Steering Board for Bird Flu Control on March 5, the Head of the Central Institute for Epidemiology Nguyen Tran Hien said bird flu has developed very complicatedly in Vietnam while most of type A/H5N1 patients died. Once again the Health Ministry warned the people to not contact with ill poultry.

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No8 Medium Biodegradable Disposable Bakery Cake Boxes (8") x 250

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These Feed a Field™ are ideal for small cakes or a range of bakery products and their folding design makes them easy to assembly and easy to fill, they are lined with a non toxic grease proofing so you contents don't go all soggy.

  • Perfect for small cakes or for a adding a range of pastries.
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  • Ideal for most bakery foods and pastries
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Alternate uses - Great for any bakery type foods.

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Abdominal Ultimate Muscle Toner Ab Toning Belt Wireless Trainer Set

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  • EMS device conveys to human body a microcurrent signal which is low frequency, The Device can be applied to the muscle layer to achieve the purpose of muscle training and fat burning.
  • Training device will be automatically shut-off in 12 seconds without any operation, and you can control the frequency of the operation according to your needs.

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  • Continue 12 minutes for full-automatic training process, intelligent adjustment of whole exercise status includes warm-up,
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  • The device will shut down automatic after you finish one time training for protection, advise 2 times each day.
  • 6 exercise modes and 10 intensity levels to choose from
  • Warm-up to high-intensity exercise and finally to relaxation
  • Available modes: Scraping, Massage, Acupuncture, Tapping, Combination, one time training is equal to 1500M running or 30 minutes swimming or 30 minutes crunches.

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  • Super light, ultra thin 7.5*6.7 inch, wearable & wireless, and easy to carry on, you can do fitness anywhere anytime.
  • Conveniently use When reading, watching a tv or doing housework, or even during business or leisure trips, no more excuses, just do your exercise.

Note: host controller equipment needs 2*AAA batteries, not included in package, you have to buy it separately.

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1 - Open the host battery shell, and install batteries. (2*AAA batteries for each host, and it’s not included in package)

2 - Assemble the host device on abdominal pad

3 - Peel off the protective layer from the Hydrogel patch pads, then put the muscle toner on your abdomen

4 - Press ON/INC button to turn on the device. ( The light is steady, it means the device is on, but not working)

5 - Press PROGRAM button to switch exercise modes, there have 6 modes, Light 1 - Mode A, Light 2 - Mode B, Light 1&2 - Mode C, Light 3 - Mode D, Light 4 - Mode E, Light 3&4 - Mode F. ( The light is steady)

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The server industry exhibited another spasmodic leap forward with a slew of news around composability, denser rack packing, Intel taking on Nvidia using FPGAs, and the onrushing NVME SSD tide.

Servers are simultaneously getting smaller and faster through acceleration cards and NVMe SSDs, and dynamically composable in racks, so users can get them to do more at scale with less management.

Size shrinkage, the use of compute acceleration cards and NVMe storage are being seen across the industry, but composability is limited. HPE is the standard-bearer, while startups like Liqid, partnering with Inspur, and DriveScale are knocking at the industry's door.

Cisco had a composable M-Series server line but closed it down in July 2016. Supermicro is pushing the idea using Intel's RSD scheme.

The ability to have more servers nodes in a rack - Fujitsu is talking about a thousand - will possibly add some more oomph to the composability movement.

The company has updated its half-wide server nodes. It has a PRIMERGY brand CX400 M1 which is a 2U server chassis containing four 2-socket Xeon SP blades (nodes) and 24 x 2.5-inch storage drives.

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The compute nodes use low-power Xeon D processors, meaning a 20 per cent power reduction compared to Fujitsu’s single socket RX1330 M3 1U rack server.

There is up to 128GB of memory (4 x DDR4-2400 RDIMMS) and 3.84TB of internal storage from two SATA disk drives or SSDs. A single PCIe slot and 2 x 10GBase T ports completes the basic component list.

Fujitsu said having 125 of these babies (1,000 nodes) in its data centre over three years would result in a ¥20m ($186,700) total cost of ownership saving compared to 1,000 x RX1330s.

The CX1430 M1 is available in Japan in May, and will then be rolled out globally over the following months. Fujitsu has a CX21430 sales target of 10,000 units by its fiscal 2020, and it is priced from $5,630 (¥602,800.)

This Taiwanese server, desktop, gaming system and motherboard supplier has seen the incoming NVMe tide and added NVMe drive options to five rack servers which use dual AMD EPYC 7000 processors.

The R181s are 1U enclosures, while the R281s are 2U ones, and they have varying storage options, all hot-swappable:

  • R181
    • Z90 - 4 x 3.5-inch SATA/SAS drives,
    • Z91 - 2 x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 drives and 8 x 2.5-inch SATA/SAS drives,
    • Z92 - 10 x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 drives,
  • R281
    • Z91 - 6 x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 and 20 x 2.5" SATA/SAS drives,
    • Z92 - 24 x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 and 2 x 2.5” SATA/SAS drives.

All five servers also have single M.2 NVMe slot for a gumstick-size NVMe flash card.

Intel is aiming to up its accelerator sales through deals with Dell and Fujitsu to embed Intel Arria 10 GX FPGAs in some of their servers. FPGAs are reprogrammable, unlike GPUs, and so can be re-purposed to suit different applications.

Arria is an Altera FPGA brand, the other being Stratix, and Intel bought Altera for $16.7bn in December 2015.

Intel Arria 10 GX GPU card.

Fujitsu will include Arria cards in its 2U, 2-socket RX2540 M4 PRIMERGY rack server, and be only available to priority customers initially. The PowerEdge R640 (1U, 2-socket), R740 (2U, 2-socket) and R740XD servers (2U, 2-socket high-performance) from Dell will also embed the cards inside their enclosures.

The Arria cards come with an Intel Acceleration Stack for Xeon SP processors, a software-development environment, and Intel expects more server OEMs to adopt Arria cards and so accelerate app areas from analytics to financial services. These would have a high proportion of repetitive low-level functions, not specifically to do with graphics, that could be offloaded to the FPGA and so boost server performance.

Supermicro has announced general availability of its RSD 2.1 server, with updated functionality. Its first RSD (Intel Rack System Design) composable server - came out in July last year and the 2.1 RSD version was introduced in January with limited availability to proof-of-concept customers.

Effectively the RSD is a data centre in a rack. Hardware asset discovery is now enabled by firmware instead of using the PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) infrastructure. This was regarded as a major requirement as the firmware route is much easier to use than the PXE path.

There is improved NVMe SSD handling; dynamic assignation doesn’t need a host restart, and SSD data can be automatically erased securely at a per-drive level on server node detachment.

The Pod Manager UI or Redfish API can be used to get BMC/BIOS firmware updates carried out, and the Pod Manager UI has had three features added to make things faster and easier:

  • Topological, photo-realistic view of rack level hardware with drill down to each server node,
  • Interactive dashboard enhanced to allow easier navigation from the dashboard to specific resources according to their status, health, or other displayed attributes,
  • Real-time and historical telemetry/analytics for CPU, processes, memory, software, chassis, status, power, and thermal status.

Composable server infrastructure takes server virtualisation a step further from virtualising the server software environment, which is what VMware pioneered and established so effectively, focussing on the environment inside a physical server.

Server composability looks at virtualising the physical rack server environment, dynamically composing compute, storage and networking into software-defined physical servers ready for use, and then returning the components to the resource pool from which they came. It promises to make more efficient use of hardware resources but requires a different view of servers, not as physical boxes dedicated to one or more application areas, but as disaggregated physical components dynamically assembled into physical servers as needed.

If you have racks of commodity server and are currently re-purposing servers between applications quite often, then having that process automated by products like Supermicro’s RSD could be seen as attractive. ®

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  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an order requiring Navy Federal Credit Union to pay $28.5 million, after the CFPB alleged that Navy Federal—the largest credit union in the country, whose membership includes many active-duty and retired military members—engaged in various deceptive debt-collection practices, including making false threats “when, in fact, it seldom took such actions or did not have authorization to take them.” Navy Federal consented to the CFPB’s order “without admitting or denying any wrongdoing,” and reportedly stated that it has “a long history of helping members when they are making the effort to pay back their loans, and…will continue to do so.”
  • The White House released Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, a report that discusses the current state of artificial intelligence, how it can be implemented in government, and how to regulate artificial intelligence. In the report, the White House asserts that “rapid progress in the field of specialized artificial intelligence will continue,” and that it expects “that machines will reach and exceed human performance on more and more tasks.” The White House suggested that, in areas that are regulated to protect the public from harm, such as cars and aircraft, an assessment of current regulatory regimes should be undertaken to determine the potential need for new regulations.
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a final rule that establishes procedures for whistleblower complaints under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The rule, which comes more than three years after the publishing of an interim final rule, protects workers who report what they believe to be a violation of the ACA, including the denial of coverage due to a preexisting condition, from retaliation. Also barred is retaliation against employees who receive health insurance tax credits, which can result in tax penalties for employers.
  • The U.S. Department of Education released a final rule for teacher preparation programs that is intended to create more transparency around the effectiveness of the programs by requiring states to report placement and retention rates of graduates from the programs, learning outcomes of the students taught by program graduates, and other metrics. Obama administration officials reportedly hope that these changes will improve the rigor of teacher preparation programs.

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This Dump-and-Bake Chicken and Cornbread Casserole comes together in about 10 minutes and requires only a handful of kitchen staples. A cozy, comfort food meal has never been quicker!
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Keyword casserole, chicken casserole, cornbread
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Resting Time 10 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 8 people
Calories 462kcal
Author Blair Lonergan

  • 1 (14 ounce) package cornbread stuffing mix (I used Pepperidge Farm brand)
  • ½ cup (1 stick) butter, melted
  • 2 lbs. uncooked boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs, diced into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 (10.5 ounce) can condensed cream of celery soup, NOT diluted
  • 1 (10.5 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup, NOT diluted
  • 2 cups chicken broth

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, stir together stuffing mix and melted butter. Spread half of the stuffing mix in the bottom of the prepared dish.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together condensed celery soup, condensed chicken soup, and broth. Stir in the diced chicken.
  • Pour chicken mixture over the stuffing in the dish. Sprinkle remaining stuffing mix on top.
  • Bake, uncovered, for about 45 minutes (or until chicken is cooked through). I like to cover the dish loosely with foil after about 25-30 minutes of baking so that the topping doesn’t burn while the chicken finishes cooking.
  • Allow the casserole to rest for at least 10 minutes before serving. The sauce will thicken slightly as it sits.

Cooking for a Smaller Family? Cut the ingredients in half and bake the casserole in an 8-inch square dish. You can just pick one flavor of condensed soup and use the entire can (omit the other flavor). The rest of the preparation instructions remain the same!

Serving: 1/8 of the casserole | Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 31.8g | Fat: 16.6g | Saturated Fat: 8.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3.5g | Cholesterol: 101.8mg | Sodium: 1108.3mg | Potassium: 404.4mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 3.5g


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It is a scary time to be alive. Then again, when hasn’t it been a scary time to be alive? Seattle has one of the lowest homicide rates in the nation, but evil, horrifying, and inexplicable stuff goes down in the dark corners of our city. Here are six blood-jumping, mind-racing sites of mystery and mayhem, including murders, suicides, and ghostly encounters. If you never want to sleep again, read on…

Wah Mee Club

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On February 19, 1983, a few days after the Lunar New Year, three men entered a high-stakes gambling parlor in an alley off King Street. They brandished guns and hog-tied everyone in the place—the cooks, the waiters, and the hardworking locals who'd headed over to the Wah Mee Club after long shifts to bet big on mahjong and pai gow. The robbers pilfered wallets and purses and emptied a cash register. Two of the men opened fire on the 14 tied-up patrons and employees, leaving 13 people dead.

Unbeknownst to them, they didn't kill everyone. As Todd Matthews describes in his book Wah Mee, two cooks later swung by the club to gamble and started knocking on the door. The knocks stirred awake Wai Yok Chin, a former US Navy officer and the second-oldest victim of the shooting. He managed to slip out of the ropes that bound his arms and legs to crawl to the entrance before falling down in front of the cooks, bleeding from a bullet hole through his throat.

Cops arrested the three suspects in the coming days. All but one was convicted of murder. One of them was sentenced to death, though he had his punishment changed to life in prison. The night in question is known as the Wah Mee Massacre.

The other day, a man who gave his name only as Ancient Relic agreed to take me to the site of the mass murder. He wore wire-framed glasses and a bucket hat and said he grew up in the neighborhood. Maynard Alley is a beautiful Chinatown roadway between buildings, matted with sheets of soiled cardboard and smelling faintly of roast duck. The former Wah Mee Club is now rubble, torn down after its building, the Louisa Hotel, went up in flames on Christmas Eve 2013. The fire shut down longtime businesses, including Mon Hei Bakery and Liem's Pet Shop.

Crushed beer cans and black shoes were piled up on the debris. Weeds sprouted from cracks in the concrete. Ancient Relic pointed out a spot on a perimeter fence next to a no trespassing sign where the club's entrance used to be. In the days after the massacre, the Seattle Times reported that Wah Mee patrons rang a bell, passed a security check, and walked through three steel doors to get into the gaming room.

I asked Ancient Relic if he'd ever been inside. "Oh yes," he said. What was it like? "Dark," he said. That's all he'd say. Tour buses used to swing by the alley to point out the site of the deadliest mass murder in Washington State history. Gawkers used to peer through the club's barred windows, hoping to catch an eerie shadow or sound. The Stranger once followed a ghost hunter to the alley and snapped a photo of the club's abandoned interior, a flash of light illuminating an old cash register. No ghosts, however. Ancient Relic finds the rumors of hauntings disrespectful and said I'd have better luck searching neighborhood basements if I want to be spooked. He then asked if I like barbecue pork. STEVEN HSIEH

The Ben Lomond Apartments

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It was a little before 7 p.m. on October 3, 1935, when 7-year-old Sally Jean Kelley—described in the Seattle Times as "a striking appearing child with straight blond hair and large green eyes"—was last seen alive. She was staying with her grandmother at the Ben Lomond Apartments, a Spanish-mission-style building on the western slope of Capitol Hill with views of Lake Union. Her grandmother was preparing dinner. The building's janitor said he had seen Sally "skipping happily through a hallway, pretending a yardstick she was carrying was a cane."

When her grandmother called for the child to come in, she never answered. Later, reports emerged of the girl being spotted at the Garfield Drug Store, a block away. Grocery store proprietor Mrs. Margaret Treppman said she heard "the screams and voice of a little girl crying 'Help!' and then 'Oh, Eric!'" Another neighbor, Fay Ewer, said she heard voices, too, and when she went to her door, she saw a man standing near a sedan. He drove off after she told him to leave.

By 7:50 p.m., a search party had been formed. Four hours later, patrolmen found Sally Jean Kelley's body (she was strangled to death) in an empty garage nearby, and the last toy she ever played with—the yardstick—was found a few yards away. A piece of cloth, possibly from what she was wearing—a red-and-white gingham dress—was also found on a picket fence between the apartment building and the garage.

As the child was the granddaughter of a prominent banker in the area, rewards were offered and suspects were grilled—including an ex-convict with a history of violence, a 65-year-old Russian monk, and a 40-year-old man living on Howell Street who had been seen talking to a little girl a block away from where Sally Jean Kelley was killed. But nothing stuck. The murder remains unsolved to this day. AMBER CORTES

Rattlesnake Ridge

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On weekends, when Seattleites flee the city's glass towers to go for a day hike, they often do so in the verdant glory of nearby Rattlesnake Ridge. When the sun shines, the sweeping view from the ledge—of Mount Si, Mount Washington, Rattlesnake Lake, Chester Morse Lake, and more—is stunning. But on foggy, rainy days, you can sense the mountain's hunger for bodies.

When mist surrounds the mountain, visibility reduces to zero. No longer do you have a view of a vertiginous peak carpeted with pines. Staring out into a wall of white fog, the abbreviation of distance strangely heightens one's fear of heights. The imagination's precipices terrify more than any real rocky ridge.

If you toss a small rock into the fog, you can watch it completely disappear almost instantly. The void's almost blinding light-gray color emphasizes the sense of deletion. When an object descends into darkness, it gets smaller and smaller until it fades away. You can imagine it going somewhere—down a well, into a corner, somewhere out of sight, but still somewhere. When an object is lost in lightness, it vanishes whole, wiped clean from creation.

It's no surprise that plenty of people have died here. One Friday in January five years ago, a hiker pulled a corpse off the trail near Cedar Falls Road. In the silver light of afternoon, the hiker must have noticed the gunshot wound in the body's head. According to several reports, the day before, a 21-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department with an apparent drug problem got caught stealing crack rocks he was supposed to collect as evidence. His police badge and handgun were taken from him during his arrest. That night, he drove out to the mountain with his own personal handgun. Near an unremarkable segment of the trail, several yards away from the chemical-blue lake, he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger.

Another man, a Boeing engineer, once posed for a photo at a vista en route to the summit and slipped and fell "400 feet to his death," the Seattle Times reported.

Another man, while trying to jump from one rock to another near a ledge at the top, fell 150 feet and died.

At the edge of an outcropping just past the first summit where so many hikers have fallen to their deaths, there's a concrete plaque showing a guy riding his bike off rugged terrain. I've seen it while hiking up there. The vision of a man riding off the ridge and splattering on the rocks below haunts me. RICH SMITH

The Sidewalk Outside Uwajimaya

It happened a little more than two years ago—on June 27, 2015—right in front of Uwajimaya, the premier Asian supermarket in Seattle. A surveillance camera near the sculpture and fountain in Union Station Plaza captured Benito "Benny" Enriquez's final moments at exactly 9 p.m.

This is what the camera saw: Enriquez walking with two other people, a man and a woman. The man next to Enriquez wears a baseball cap backward, and the woman next to the man wears a pink dress. They all seem to be getting along. Enriquez, who had just left a Kenny Chesney country-music concert at CenturyLink Field, is chatting with the man. The woman appears to have a slight interest in what the men are talking about. Not one sign of the violence about to erupt can be spotted in the 31 seconds the three pass the eye of the silent camera.

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To this day, no one knows who the man and woman are. Like visions in a dream, they vanish as suddenly as they appear. And what makes their ghostliness even stranger is they look like the kind of people everyone should know or could easily identify. It would not be a surprise to hear some say, upon watching the footage: "Hey, that's the man I buy shoes from at Nordstrom" or "That's the woman who plays volleyball at Alki Beach." And so we have two people of interest who are at once recognizable but cannot be recognized. Isn't that worst kind of specter? As for Enriquez, he is alive one moment and brutally beaten the next. If someone witnessed the beating, that person has not come forward. How could brutal violence happen in the heart of the city and go unnoticed or unreported?

After the beating, Enriquez was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where his life could not be saved.

The utter suddenness of it all has stumped detectives, and the fact the killer is still among the free has made it hard for the victim's family to find closure. Indeed, if you go to the northeast of corner of Uwajimaya (Fifth Avenue South and Weller Street), you will find next to the spot on which Enriquez's beaten body was found a memorial that's plastered with pictures of Enriquez (Enriquez with a dog, Enriquez with friends, Enriquez wearing a Seahawks cap, Enriquez chilling on a sofa). This man, this nurse, this father of two, was really loved. If you know anything about this unsolved murder, call the police. CHARLES MUDEDE

Seattle University Campus

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Seattle University is haunted, lots of people on campus believe. Chardin Hall, for example, used to be the Bessie Burton Sullivan Skilled Nursing Residence, before the university kicked out more than 100 elderly residents to turn it into student housing. When the changeover was announced in 2007, there were candlelight vigils. Protesters held signs that said things like "Don't throw my elderly father with Alzheimer's out of his home."

But the university went forward anyway. There have been reports of geriatric ghosts, flickering lights, and elevator problems in Chardin ever since. I've seen both elevators violently open and shut on their own, for hours, on the same floor. A former Jesuit in Residence, Fr. Mike Bayard, told the Seattle U Alumni blog, "You always feel like there is someone with you on the stairs."

Bayard added: "I live in Chardin year round. And in the summer, I'm often the only one there. But at night, as I close my door and get ready for bed, I can hear people shuffling back and forth outside my room on the top floor."

He also said: "Students ask me to perform blessings to get rid of the spirits, but this is how I see it—this was a nursing home, these were good people. We've already asked them to move once—we shouldn't do it again."

There have also been reports about Campion Hall, just up the street. Campus legend says that a woman died on the 10th floor a few years back, and she still remains there to this day to haunt the students. Another ghost is rumored to haunt the second floor women's bathroom in the administration building, one of the oldest buildings on campus. Six people have told me about a paper towel dispenser that turns on and off, sometimes continuously, with nothing near it. There's also the 1103 Building off Madison, which used to be a morgue and now houses the communication department. Its basement is infamously chilly and lights flicker on and off by themselves.

One late evening during finals week, I walked out of a stall in the fifth floor bathroom of the Lemieux Library, and all three automatic sink faucets turned on by themselves. I straight booked it out of the library, and have yet to return to that bathroom since. ANNA KAPLAN

The Sodo Light Rail Station

Link Light Rail has only one creepy station. It is the Sodo Station, which is between Stadium Station and Beacon Hill Station, in that zone of transition between downtown and the neighborhoods of South Seattle. A student of critical theory would describe the station as "liminal"—which comes from the Latin word for "threshold." A buff of slasher films would know this is exactly the kind of place that terrible things happen to nice people.

The station is almost always empty, even during the day, despite being close to the headquarters of one the biggest global brands, Starbucks. Its green siren's face can be seen hovering above the horizon from the south end of the station. The station's art, a sculpture called Made in USA, is a memorial for the ghosts of our country's industrial past. It includes benches and "cast bronze tools... awaiting reanimation," as Sound Transit puts it.

I have never seen more than five souls waiting for a train at Sodo during the day. At night, the place is usually deserted. If you are unlucky enough to exit a train after 7 p.m., you will look up and down the platform and find you are alone. Nothing here looks right: the lurid "SODO" neon sign on the top of the empty hill-sized parking garage, the huge shadows, the rows of mail vans that look abandoned, the haunting yellow "M" of the burger corporation in the distance. There are bushes here and there. There are small creatures in those bushes. They can see you, but you can't see them. The station is surrounded by the massive and dark shapes of silent storage and manufacturing facilities.

There is no traffic. There always seems to be someone behind you—but when you turn, you find nothing is there, which only increases your anxiety. The slasher buffs are so right; this is a perfect spot for a bad encounter. You badly want a train to arrive, and when one does, it's often on the other platform. Its brightly lit passengers don't notice you. They are in their own safe worlds as they wait for the doors to this little hell to close. If that train departs before you get there, once again you are alone with the noises in the bushes. CHARLES MUDEDE


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FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alico, Inc. ("Alico" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ALCO) today announced that John Kiernan, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 23 r d Annual ICR Conference to be held virtually January 11-14, 2021.

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Amazon (AMZN) - Get, Inc. Report probably just killed the hard-charging rally in its stock in the near-term.

Here are several of TheStreet's biggest stories on Amazon's bizarre earnings miss Thursday evening.

Amazon's Shock Earnings Show That It's Cashing In on Wall Street's Goodwill

  • By: Eric Jhonsa

With Inc. flirting with a $500 billion valuation and shares of bricks-and-mortar rivals frequently tumbling on fears of what the company might do to them in the future, Jeff Bezos & Co. must be well-aware that Wall Street is providing them with more leeway than ever to sacrifice near-term profits to make big investments meant to drive long-term e-commerce and public cloud growth. Amazon's Q2 results and Q3 guidance show that it's making the most of this goodwill, even if doing so risks triggering a bit of selling from investors holding giant paper profits.

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This Explains Amazon's Big Second-Quarter Profit Slump

  • By: Annie Palmer

Amazon's message to investors on Thursday was simple: spend, spend, spend.

Wall Street wasn't happy about it. Shares of Amazon were dropping 3% to $1,014.41 in after-hours trading on Thursday, after the company missed big on the bottom line for the second quarter.

In an earnings call following the report, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky gave a glimpse into what exactly the company is investing in. Olsavsky said Amazon is plowing profits into fulfillment (sorting facilities, fulfillment centers and its Fulfillment By Amazon service), video content, overseas expansion (mostly India), Amazon Web Services infrastructure and marketing, where its been building out its AWS sales team and advertising sales team.

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Despite the selloff after-hours, some analysts said these kinds of investments are par for the course for Amazon. The company itself said investors should expect more of the same, forecasting it could lose up to $400 million in the current quarter.

"Those margins, as we say frequently, are going to fluctuate quarter to quarter and always going to be in net of investments, price reductions and cost efficiencies that we drive," Olsavsky said. "So we have really stepped up the [AWS] infrastructure to match the large usage growth and also the geographic expansion. And that is showing up in tech and content."

Outside of AWS spending, Olsavsky said Amazon stepped up its investments in Prime benefits both in the U.S. and internationally. Amazon continues to add more features to its Prime subscription service, such as Prime Video and its Prime Now same-day delivery service, which it just launched in Singapore on Wednesday, furthering its investments in Asia.

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Amazon Talks Whole Foods

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The ink is far from being dry, but Amazon is clearly excited about when it could call Whole Foods (WFM) subsidiary.

Here is what Amazon's Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky told analysts on a Thursday evening earnings call:

"As far as Whole Foods is concerned, its not included in this guidance but we are excited about that acquisition and looking forward to working at the team at WFM. Think they're very customer centric just like us, built a great business focused around customers. On your larger question about the place of AmazonFresh, I will echo Prime Now and some of our other efforts, I would say we believe there will be no one solution, so we are experimenting with a number of formats physical pickup points in Amazon Go to online ordering and delivering to your door through Prime Now and AmazonFresh. And we'll see how customers respond. We like the response that we've seen so far, we think it's a valuable, all those are valuable services, Amazon Go is not out of beta, the other ones are. On top of that, were looking forward to adding the Whole Foods team and their great reputation for quality customer service to this offering."

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Hard to find Corner Commercial Lot in Victorville close to City Center. Two blocks from Palmdale Road and Amargosa Rd intersection. only minutes away from Victorville court house, Kaiser, Victor Valley Mall, ChuckeCheese, Ashley's furniture, Hobby Lobby... Amargosa Rd is a Main Artery in Victor valley, thousands of cars pass by every day. Just 2 min from I-15 freeway, ideal for retail, office building or stand alone business, and of course Restaurant. Brightline Train project to Las Vegas is scheduled to start in March 2021. Businesses and investors already buying land to start businesses, get yours before it becomes unaffordable. Come get your piece of prime land. This Gem won't last with this price hurry! make an offer and start your dream project. Good Luck...

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1/29/2021 Listed $150,000

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Lot Size Square Feet 20107
MLS Area VIC - Victorville
Property Type Land
Senior Community Y/N No
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Special Listing Conditions Standard
Status Active
Terms Cash
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Lot Size Acres 0.46
Lot Size Area 20107
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Facebook IPO facts and figures: the house that 100 petabytes built

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We've pulled out interesting facts and figures from Facebook's $5 billion IPO filing today.

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Facebook's historic IPO filing has unveiled an entire side of the company that most have never seen — the business side, something that the company's bean counters will need to get accustomed to reporting every quarter. Here's some of the most interesting (and, in many cases, staggering) data we've seen so far.

  • It has $1.5 billion in cash and "cash equivalents" presently at its disposal, along with $2.3 billion in marketable securities. Total assets on hand amount to $6.6 billion against total liabilities of $1.4 billion, so the company is in the black.
  • It counts over 800 million monthly active users, 483 million daily active users, and — in December of last year — it reports it had 360 million users active in six out of seven days, "providing perspective on the number of people for whom Facebook is essentially an everyday activity."
  • Facebook made $1 billion in 2011 on total revenue of $3.7 billion. In 2010, it made $606 million.
  • Some 12 percent of Facebook's 2011 revenue came from Zynga alone.
  • 44 percent of 2011 revenue came from outside the US. It's an upward trend: that figure was 38 percent in 2010 and 33 percent in 2009.
  • Mark Zuckerberg made $1.5 million in total compensation last year on salary of $500,000, while COO Sheryl Sandberg made $30 million on a base salary of $300,000.
  • Zuckerberg holds 28.4 percent of the company, which puts his net worth close to $30 billion assuming a commonly-asserted valuation of $100 billion.
  • Part of his 2011 compensation was $692,679 in chartered jet services as part of his "comprehensive security program."
  • As of the end of 2011, the company had 56 issued patents and 503 patent applications related to social networking in the US; in other countries, it had 33 issued and 146 applications.
  • More than 250 million photos are uploaded each day to the site. It stores more than 100 petabytes of photos and video in total.
  • Last year, it spent $388 million on research and development. That's up from $144 million in 2010 and $87 million in 2009.


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The Weekend Leader - Tablighi Jamaat effect: TN gets 57 new cases to reach 124

Tablighi Jamaat effect: TN gets 57 new cases to reach 124

Compounding its woes, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday reported a near doubling of its coronavirus positive cases with 57 fresh cases, including those who attended the Islamic congregation in Delhi and even a doctor, taking the state's total number to 124.

Out of the new cases, 50 of them have a travel history to Delhi to attend the conference held by the Tablighi Jamaat.

Tamil Nadu Health Minister C.Vijayabaskar on Tuesday said the new patients have been admitted into hospitals in Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Chennai and Namakkal.

Meanwhile, the state officials were busy tracing other persons who had attended the event at Tablighi Jamaat's international headquarters Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi, pointing out that around 1,500 persons from the southern state had gone there.

They also brought Erode district under strict monitoring as several persons from there have tested positive for coronavirus.

According to a Health Department official, the spike in corona positive cases was due to the fact that those affected had mingled with others and passed on the infection.

Some Thai and Indonesian nationals had also attended the conference and then visited Tamil Nadu. Two of these Thai nationals, who tested positive, have been admitted to hospital here. The 54-year-old patient in Madurai who became the state's first Covid-19 fatality last week was in contact with these two Thai nationals.

Health Department officials are screening persons who have returned after attending the conference.

"We have covered more than 500 persons who had attended the Delhi event. The exact number is yet to be known," an official said.

According to him, a sizeable number of persons who had attended the conference are from Erode and Coimbatore. Other places from where Muslims had attended the event include Sivaganga, Thanjavur, Nagercoil, and Kanyakumari.

With Erode district topping the state with 24 positive cases, the Tamil Nadu government is seriously implementing its containment plan under which an area with 7km radius from the house of a coronavirus patient is declared a containment zone.

All the homes located within that radius will be surveyed and its residents screened.

Suspected cases are stamped with quarantine warning on the back of their hands.

Also, in another worrying development in Erode, a doctor who treated Covid-19 patients in Erode, her 10-month-old baby and two others in her household tested positive and are admitted to hospital.

Meanwhile, Sivaganga District Collector J. Jayakanthan told IANS that "none of the persons who had attended the conference from Sivaganga have been found infected with coronarvirus".

Revenue Commissioner J. Radhakrishan appealed to those who had attended the Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi to self-declare so that necessary tests could be done and necessary steps taken.

Appeals have been made to family members of attendees to home quarantine themselves and register with the nearest government hospital.

Officials in Vandavasi had enquired with 37 persons who had attended the Delhi conference.

In 13 districts where coronavirus patients have been reported, about 1.08 lakh homes have been checked and over 3 lakh persons screened.

A health official told IANS the screening had brought to the fore many asymptomatic persons which was worrisome.

As of March 30, as many as 3,052 contacts of earlier coronavirus patients in Tamil Nadu have been traced. A total of 74,533 persons have been home quarantined.

The state is also taking steps to tackle increased admissions of COVID-19 patients by augmenting bed capacity in hospitals and ordering masks, ventilators and other items.

Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Tuesday announced extension in service on temporary contract basis for doctors, nurses and lab technicians set to retire on March-end.

The government has also placed orders to procure 1.1 crore masks, 25 lakh N-95 masks, 2,500 ventilators, 30,000 test kits and other medical items. IANS

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The Weekend Leader - Maharashtra braces for Cyclone Tauktae onslaught

Maharashtra braces for Cyclone Tauktae onslaught

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As the Cyclone Tauktae whirls towards the Gujarat coast, Maharashtra is preparing to grapple its impact on the coastal Konkan and some interiors which are likely to be affected with heavy rains and gusty winds, officials said here on Saturday.

The entire coastal belt comprising Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg besides Mumbai is in a state of high alert with all rescue and relief agencies in full preparedness to tackle any eventualities.

The NDRF has deployed 3 teams in Mumbai, 15 in Pune and one in Goa with Cyclone Tauktae now said to be in the Arabian Sea off north Karnataka-south Maharashtra coasts.

However, officials are optimistic that Maharashtra may escape the fury of the cyclone as it is likely to pass around 250 kms in the Arabian Sea, moving at an average speed of 7 kms/hr.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has reviewed the situation and asked the people and the government machinery to be vigilant, rekindling memories of the devastating Cyclone Nisarga that pounded Raigad-Ratnagiri in June 2020, at the height of the pandemic lockdown.

"In a preparatory meeting regarding Cyclone Tauktae on Friday night, Thackeray has instructed all Divisional Commissioners and district Collectors to be vigilant and well-equipped in coastal areas, especially in Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg," informed an official of the CMO.- IANS

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The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building make Melbourne one of the coolest places in Australia. The capital of Victoria is also reputable for its excellent dining options, cultural diversity, fantastic street art, and superb coffee. Melbourne is also home to a creative community of artists, designers, and fabricators.

The last decade has witnessed a rise in the kitchen renovation sector, which offers a variety of makeover services. Expert service providers like the United Marble Melbourne would take great pleasure in resurfacing kitchen benchtops, splashbacks, and overlays, among other renovations.

Admittedly sprucing up your kitchen is an exciting and adventurous experience; however, one that requires expertise.  Thus, you first need to consider a few essential factors when selecting the best benchtop resurfacing experts Melbourne area has to offer, lest you become a victim of unscrupulous services.

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Therefore, apart from having an interest in your work, your ideal benchtop resurfacing expert needs to know what he is doing. He should be professionally trained for the work, as well as have the pre-requisite experience.

Not to forget, it is recommendable to ensure that his business is registered and at the same time insured to protect you if things go south.

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I’ll be totally honest and say I was not aware of Animal Super Squad before I started working on the Xbox One version. I giggled at the acronym at first, but a quick look at ASS developer DoubleMoose Games’ website certainly piqued my interest.

A physics-based adventure where you speed through side-on levels in whacky vehicles piloted by equally whacky animals. You also get to create your own levels with a fully featured freeform editor, then upload and share them with the community.

The DoubleMoose gang, along with PewDiePie who partnered with the team on ASS, had a technically impressive and fun game on their hands. It would be a great fit for Xbox One and the Xbox Live community, especially with the all-new and Xbox exclusive addition of Mixer support.

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As I progressed with the work of integrating the game onto the Xbox One platform, things went very smoothly. Kudos must go to DoubleMoose for creating its game in a way that made updating and maintaining the code very straightforward. Writing code that works is one thing, but making code easy to understand so someone unfamiliar can modify it without breaking it (remember I was not involved in the initial development) is the sign of a very skilled team.

The game was developed for PC using the Epic Games Unreal Engine, and sometimes Unreal blueprint code can be especially ‘fun’ to work with. It’s developed visually, using a graph structure of nodes and links that describe data, control flow, and conditional logic.

There is a technical term for complicated or hard to maintain code, it’s called spaghetti code, and Unreal blueprints can resemble literal spaghetti. Thankfully, Animal Super Squad was not like this, with a clean mix of well written C++ and Blueprint logic.

This is a good example of neat blueprint logic…

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And here’s a contrived, but still valid, bad example…

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When the bulk of the development work was done, and the game was running well on Xbox One, I turned my attention to the Mixer integration.

A unique aspect of Mixer is the MixPlay system, which allows developers to create a special Mixer ‘dashboard’ that consists of user interface widgets such as buttons. These buttons let viewers directly interact with the streamer and the game as it’s being played, and since Mixer viewing latency is so low, both streamer and viewers get immediate feedback and results.

This is how Animal Super Squad’s widgets appear in the developer dashboard…

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Since Animal Super Squad has physics-based gameplay, one obvious feature to allow viewers to interact with was gravity. I added a ‘Moon Gravity!’ button, which does exactly what you might expect, allowing the streamer to fly higher and farther, until the timer runs out.

Next was the ‘Boost Boost!’ button. Each vehicle in the game has a boost feature, but it’s limited in time or power, and this button extends those. A boosted boost and Moon gravity at the same time can help a streamer out when completing levels or let them explore areas otherwise unavailable.

Then for some simple fun, I added a ‘Props!’ button to shower the streamer in gratitude. Lastly, some voting buttons for the next vehicle that viewers want to see the streamer use. This is a subtly different use of the feature, allowing for interaction at any point in the stream, not just while the streamer is actively playing.

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To finish this post, I must give a shout out to the developer support team at Mixer who helped me in a number of ways. They directly offered me setup advice, coding tips, and helped me debug a crash issue with the Unreal Engine plugin. The Mixer plugin being open source, I naturally submitted code back to the project for the crash bug fix, helping anyone else doing the same thing in the future.

Really hope everyone has fun with Animal Super Squad and enjoys trying out the Mixer features.

Animal Super Squad is available to pre-order now from the Xbox Store and will launch 1 February.

Massive thanks go out to the team at Digerati for making this article happen. If you wish to check out their great work, make sure you are following them on Twitter and by hitting up their Discord channel.

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Policy issues that affect older people are the focus of a new class at the University of Minnesota.

The university’s public health school has introduced Gero 5100-003 Aging Policy, a seminar that will give students a chance to produce a paper on an elder policy issue.

Each student also will develop and lead a class session on the topic chosen.

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The topics could include long-term care, Medicare, Medicaid, employment discrimination, end-of-life issues, or other issues, the university says

The Center on Aging, the public health school arm that will run the seminar, pulls resources from many different University of Minnesota colleges and schools, including the medical school, the nursing school, the kinesiology school, and the social work school.


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Adeela Warley: Only talking to those who share our values leaves us preaching to the converted

Charities are founded on deeply-held principles. We should use them to connect people and create movements for lasting change

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Stop arguing on fundamental values and focus instead on communicating grounded, specific demands. That’s the call to politicians from Alan Finlay, professor of political and social theory at the University of East Anglia.

Why this call now? Because he wants our leaders to show how power could be used to unite people of widely differing values.

That’s an important challenge for charities too, founded as they are on deeply held principles. Charitable values help explain who we are and differentiate us, as well as building trust and credibility.

But if we only ever talk to those who share our values, we can be left preaching to the converted and unable to galvanise the wider support we need to achieve our aims.

Surely our charitable role is not to convert value sets but to connect people who need our help and create movements for lasting change?

Climate change is not a new issue but its potential to be a global disruptor has become all too real, with many lives devastated by droughts, floods and fires.

For too long the language of climate change focused on the frames of environmentalism – global carbon emissions, temperature ranges, melting ice caps and emergencies – all true, but stubbornly the concern of a minority.

Narratives rooted in the places people live, which hold the promise of healthy lives, stronger communities and better jobs, will increase saliency and create positive associations.

They can bridge political and social divides and forge alliances not reliant on shared values, but a shared will to get something positive done.

Changing frames can dramatically shift expectations, social norms and behaviours, and help make climate change action something everyone has a stake in.

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Photographs store memories, and we can’t get enough of those. There’s something so sweet about pouring over family albums, rediscovering the past and sharing stories of “remember when?” That was my feeling wandering the current exhibition, Celebrities: We Remember Them Well, at ArtsWestchester. Seeing Lyndon Baines Johnson on horseback…he appears somewhat regal and audacious. This […]

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Review : Convair Eco

The Conviar Eco air purifier is very easy to install.  Simply plug in and switch on.  There are no extra bits to add or install.  The unit is very light weight and sits 33cm tall.  I like the clear mirror effect on the front of the unit.  It adds to the sleek and stylish look.  The air purifier unit is therefore very portable and can be used in a selection of rooms around the house.

When switched on the air purifier unit gives a hum noise as it cleans, purifies and ionisers the air.  It is a quiet and portable air purifier unit.  The Convair Eco uses its HEPA filter to remove 99.97% of pollutants [smoke, dust, pollen, mites, smells] from the atmosphere.  The unit helps to create a healthy and comfortable environment by generating negative ions which are beneficial to  health.  Unlike an air conditioning /air con unit the air purifier helps to clean the air striping the air of toxins.

I have looked at an air purifier for some time.  Wanting one that was sleek and portable so I could not only use it round the house but also take it with me if we went away.  As I suffer badly with hay fever and have tried most medications on the market with no benefit I felt an air purifier maybe of some help.  Since using the Convair Eco my symptoms inside the house have been reduced, which is great.  We have also noticed that my daughters Eczema seems to be more under control, although I do not know for certain that this is the air purifier.  The unit was a little larger than I was expecting but the unit is not big, it is a nice compact size and can easily be transported between rooms.  I am very pleased with the Convair Eco and think it is a great compact air purifier unit.

I was lucky enough to be provided with a Convair Eco unit to review, all opinions are my own.  Should you wish to purchase a Convair Eco Air purifier, Appliances direct are offering £25 off with the code 25PURE making the unit amazing value at £24.97

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  1. And where could I find a replacement hepa filter for it when I need it?

    1. It seems they are unobtainable. I have asked the same question, without response. In other words, when the filter is clogged you must throw the machine away and buy a new one. That makes it VERY bad value.

    2. Apart from it's colour, the Convair ECO looks identical to the Dimplex VIRO3 (DXAPV3). A good chance that the VIRO3 filters, available from the Dimplex website, will also fit the Convair.

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