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USC's journalism school gives the Walter Cronkite Award to CNN for its Parkland townhall event.
On Tuesday, CNN celebrated the fact that the Leftmedia outfit had been awarded the Walter Cronkite Award from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism for its infamous Parkland Townhall, a shamelessly orchestrated event designed to vilify gun rights and attack the NRA in the wake of the massacre at a Florida high school. The NRA’s Dana Loesch was invited to speak at the townhall event under the false pretense of “advancing the conversation.” Instead, she was vilified for defending the Second Amendment and representing the NRA.
Evidently, the Walter Cronkite Award is awarded to media outfits that produce leftist propaganda and fake news. It’s certainly not given for actual journalism.
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1. Software: The Servers including virtualization tools are all standardized around x86 (Intel, AMD). In fact, there is a lot more invested in software than in the HW.
2. Architecture: If the competition is based purely on architecture, the server team will look for highly dedicated (NVIDIA type), or the generalized architecture. A general purpose ARM CPU doesn't buy you anything special. Why not stick to AMD or Intel?
3. Silicon: TSMC may have an advantage in Silicon over Intel but Intel has been pumping out these processors for a long time and beating them on Silicon is an iffy strategy at best. If AMD is having a hard time competing then how can you expect a whole different architecture to win?
1. Watts: Clearly ARM has an advantage when it comes to lower watt CPU but at the higher end, I don't see it being a deal breaker unless the difference is huge. Nothing seems to indicate otherwise.
2. Bottom up: Remember how DEC stole the market from IBM, Sun from DEC, and then Intel from SUN? My believe is that when the majority of the CPU's are ARM systems, which they already are, that they will slowly move into the mainframe.
However, this will take time.
3. Customization: ARM Cpu's can be customized at a faster rate than intel CPU's. ARM CPU's with full blown AI engines, DSP's etc. are very common.
4. Multiple vendors for CPU choices: Unlike Intel or AMD, ARM allows anyone to find a vendor with close enough specs to what they need. If there isn't one then you can have a vendor design and spin one for you. You want one with 3 DSP cores, 2 Neural network cores, etc. and can't find one? Ask a vendor to make you one.
Ultimately ARM will win because of the speed of customization is in months and it will keep on eating into the x86 market. It will, however, take time.
The new company, VDIworks, will focus on virtual desktop software and management.
ClearCube, which has specialized in PC blade hardware and management tools, is spinning off its software division into a separate entity with the hope of cashing in on the emerging virtual desktop market.
The new company, called VDIworks, headquartered in Austin, Texas, will focus on creating desktop virtualization management software under the product name Virtual Desktop Platform.
ClearCube will continue to sell its PC blade hardware, its thin-client PCs and its Sentral management software. Earlier in 2008, ClearCube announced that it would begin selling Sentral separately from its hardware for the first time.
The two companies have an OEM agreement in place that will ensure that VDIworks' software, including the Sentral management software, continues to work with ClearCube hardware. ClearCube and VDIworks will also continue to share the same owners and investors. ClearCube Chief Operating Officer Randy Printz will take over as president and CEO, while Rick Hoffman, previously president of ClearCube, will move over to VDIworks and serve as that company's president..
While still in its early phases, desktop virtualization and centralized management of a corporate PC fleet has attracted the attention of industry heavyweights such as VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems as well as a host of smaller companies that offer a range of different features and management tools for controlling these environments.
However, creating an environment for desktop virtualization is an expensive undertaking and no single company has come to dominate the market at this point. In an interview, Hoffman said he believes many enterprises will begin seriously considering the technology in 2009.
"Right now this is a very nascent space and you have some people out there running proof-of-concept tests but there's not a lot of people taking advantage of virtualization of the desktop," Hoffman said. "For a company like ClearCube, you have a company that will now have the sole focus on delivering the physical and virtual management tools needed for that environment."
Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, said splitting ClearCube into two gives the two businesses a chance to take advantage of their individual strengths in the market.
For ClearCube, the deal allows it to separate its PC blade hardware from the software, which should strengthen its relationship with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft in the rush to produce management tools for controlling a centralized desktop environment based in the data center.
As for VDIworks, the deal gives the new company a chance to work with hardware vendors such Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM to provide desktop management tools that work with a different array of hypervisors-the software that makes virtualization possible. This means the customer can have a choice of VMware's ESX hypervisor or the upcoming Hyper-V from Microsoft.
"By separating the software and the hardware, it allows the company to go places that it couldn't go before," Enderle said. "Dell is not going to work with a company that is selling hardware."
The move might also make one or both companies more attractive as an acquisition target.
The drawback is that neither of the companies yet creates enough new business on its own to keep it financially sound. In addition, the market does not seem ready to embrace a full desktop virtualization environment at present, which could create problems for both companies as they start out on their different paths.
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JAKARTA • Indonesian President Joko Widodo's daughter has shared her pre-wedding photos on her Instagram account, ahead of her nuptials next week.
Mr Joko's only daughter, Ms Kahiyang Ayu, is set to tie the knot with Mr Bobby Affif Nasution on Nov 8 at a ceremony in her father's Central Java hometown of Surakarta.
The photos show the couple, both 26, posing at some of the country's popular destinations, including the Borobudur Temple and a beach in Bali.
JAKARTA • Indonesian counter-terrorism police killed two militants in a shootout on the eastern island of Sumbawa, officials said yesterday.
The two militants were suspected members of a pro-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) network, the Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, they added.
BEIJING • A new law that punishes disrespect for China's national anthem with up to three years' jail may also apply to Hong Kong and Macau, state media reported yesterday.
Any such move could trigger a major backlash in semi-autonomous Hong Kong, which enjoys rights and freedoms not seen on the mainland under a "one country, two systems" formula.
YANGON • The United Nations named a new interim UN resident coordinator for Myanmar yesterday. Norway's Mr Knut Ostby will take over the humanitarian role at a time of growing strains with the Myanmar government over the handling of the Rohingya crisis.
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An active duty member of the Air Force, assigned to Security Forces at Barksdale Air Force Base, was killed Saturday night in a 4-vehicle crash on Interstate 49.
According to a release from Louisiana State Police, troopers responded around 8:20 p.m. Saturday to the crash, which occurred on I-49 at the Cheneyville overpass.
The crash involved a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, driven by Eduardo Ramos Jr., 22, of Barksdale Air Force Base; a 2005 Peterbilt, driven by Shane Williams, 49, of Nett Lake, Minnesota; a 2008 Honda Pilot, driven by Esther D. Smith, 59, of St. Landry Parish; and a 2014 Toyota Camry, driven by Cody M. Stanley, 19, of Cheneyville.
According to the state police report, Ramos was heading southbound on I-49 when he lost control and collided with the overpass bridge rail. The collision caused his vehicle to become disabled in the southbound inside lane.
Smith stopped her Honda in the roadway to provide assistance, which resulted in the Peterbilt colliding with both Ramos' and Smith's vehicles. A pedestrian, identified as Bobby E. Savage, 59, of Bunkie, was standing near the Chevrolet when the Peterbilt collided with it and the Honda and was hit with debris from the vehicles.
At some time during the collision, Ramos exited his vehicle and either jumped or fell from the overpass onto LA Highway 181, approximately 25 feet below. Immediately after Ramos hit the roadway, the northbound Toyota collided with him.
Ramos was pronounced dead at the scene, but it was unknown Tuesday evening if he died from the fall or as a result of the Toyota striking him. Troopers suspect that he was impaired, but none of the others involved were suspected of impairment.
Savage received minor injuries in the incident and was transported to Bunkie General Hospital. Williams was wearing his seat belt and was not injured. Smith and her two passengers were wearing their seat belts. All three were transported to Bunkie General Hospital with minor injuries. Stanley and his passenger were wearing their seat belts and were not injured.
Routine toxicology tests are pending and the crash remains under investigation.
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U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas issued a strongly worded statement late Tuesday defending the Republican health care plan while Kansans opposed to that bill stepped up their efforts to help kill the legislation.
Republican leaders in the Senate had planned to vote on the bill as early as Thursday, which would have set up conference negotiations with the House. But leaders announced Tuesday that they would delay the vote until after the Fourth of July recess because the bill did not have enough support to pass.
Republicans hold 52 seats in the 100-seat chamber, plus the vice president’s tie-breaking vote, so they cannot afford to lose more than two GOP votes. But the health care bill was losing support, both from moderates who said it would have cut Medicaid too deeply and from conservatives who said it didn’t go far enough in repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
Opposition began to build Monday when the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its analysis of the bill, which said 22 million Americans would lose insurance coverage over the next 10 years if the bill became law, including 15 million in the first year.
Using the CBO’s numbers and other census data, the left-leaning Center for American Progress issued a state-by-state analysis of the bill and estimated that 198,200 Kansans would lose coverage within 10 years under the GOP bill.
In his statement, Roberts listed several aspects of the GOP bill that he extolled as virtues but that health care advocates in Kansas strongly disputed.
But Sheldon Weisgrau, director of the Kansas-based Health Reform Resource Project, said those comments tell only part of the story.
Furthermore, he said, while it is true that the Republican bill would continue to ban insurance companies from denying coverage to people based on pre-existing conditions, it would give states the option of reducing the minimum benefits requirements under Obamacare, which could effectively result in denial of coverage.
“So if you have a pre-existing condition that requires a particular service, like a pre-existing mental health condition that requires certain treatments, companies could offer you a policy that doesn’t include the things you’re going to need,” Weisgrau said.
“The subsidies (under current law) to purchase coverage, combined with the effects of the individual mandate, which requires most individuals to obtain insurance or pay a penalty, are anticipated to cause sufficient demand for insurance by enough people, including people with low health care expenditures, for the market to be stable in most areas,” the CBO report said.
Moran has been the target of protests outside his district offices in Kansas because he initially was undecided about the bill and thus was seen as a swing vote who could tip the balance of the Senate one direction or the other.
Wednesday afternoon, about 100 people rallied outside his district office in Olathe, urging him to vote against any bill that would repeal or weaken the Affordable Care Act.
Amy Burgin, an organizer in the group Indivisible Lawrence, speaks during a health care rally Wednesday outside U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's district office in Olathe. Demonstrators were urging Moran to vote against any measure that would repeal or weaken the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Several people who attended the rally said they appreciated that Moran had come out against the bill, albeit not until after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced the delay in the vote.
Kevin Flattery, of Prairie Village, said he had called Moran’s office to thank him for opposing the bill.
Moran issued a news release Wednesday afternoon saying he had been contacted by 10 Kansas health care groups praising him for opposing the bill. Those groups included the Kansas Hospital Association, the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, the Kansas Association of Osteopathic Medicine, the Kansas Dental Association and others.
The next meeting of Ponteland Village WI is on Tuesday, at 7.30pm, in St Mary’s Church Hall. Giles Hodges will talk about antiques.
The group meets on the second Tuesday of each month and has a diverse and fun programme. For more information email pontelandvillagewi@hotmail.com or see PontelandVillageWI on Facebook. New members and visitors are welcome. Admission costs £3 for visitors, including refreshments.
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There is something instantly recognisable in Phil Thompson's music, which is surprising as it has come straight from mathematics.
He has taken images of fractals and translated them into music.
Fractals are geometric shapes that look the same under any level of magnification. A small section of a fractal image is a copy of the whole image.
"When I first heard it, I was slightly scared," said Mr Thompson. "What was coming out of the loudspeakers was not noise, it was recognisable music."
Mathematical experts are impressed. Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, said: "What amazes me with this kind of music is that it sounds much better than you would expect.
"Music has a certain structure, which our minds seem to like. You need theme and variation. By coincidence, or perhaps not, the mathematics of fractals is just like that."
With his work on fractals in the 1970s, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot created a new branch of science and a new scientific icon for our age.
The strangely psychedelic images of fractals, one version of which bears his name, have become a symbol of the profound mystery of numbers and the strangeness of order emerging from chaos.
Fractals are everywhere. Most of the objects we encounter in our daily lives are fractal.
A mountain and its rocks are fractal, each rock when magnified looks like a tiny mountain. Such structures within structure are the hallmark of fractals.
Clouds are not spheres but fractals, coastlines are not smooth but fractal.
They are to be found in the timing of our heartbeats and the falling of a snowflake. Even the distribution of galaxies throughout space is fractal.
The Mandelbrot set does not just produce beautiful pictures, it has also produced a new branch of music. A number of composers have shown interest in the musical application of fractals.
Phil Thompson has turned the Mandelbrot set into a composition he has called 'A Season in Hell'.
There has always been some mathematics in music. Bach in his Toccata and Fugue in E Minor moves a trio of notes up and down on the staff in such a symmetrical way that you could take one trio of notes and lay it perfectly over another.
But fractal music is different, some say it touches something deeper within us than note symmetries on the page.