| New Chicago-Area Co-Location Data Center Embraces Green Technology
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Data center company Stargate Holdings Corp., a leader in the global IT services industry, today announced the addition of a flywheel-stored motion system to back up power in its new high-density facility in Oak Brook, Illinois. "Stargate is committed to the extraction, rather than mass cooling, of heat expelled into its new data center," says Stargate CEO G. Gary Chaffin. "The use of leading-edge Flywheel Technology to support critical loads traditionally provided by conventional battery UPS systems, maintains the company's responsible and unique design approach to green technology. "The Flywheel system is a safe, low maintenance, environmentally friendly alternative to large and inefficient UPS battery banks," says Chaffin.
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Half of Scots see Muslims as 'cultural threat' in wake of terrorist ...
As increased immigration from around the world changes the social make-up of Scotland, the latest survey of attitudes showed the majority of people are willing to embrace different cultures. But despite government campaigns to tackle racism, a hardcore of people continue to believe prejudice is acceptable. And while attitudes to gay people and women have improved, one in five people think civil partnerships are wrong and one in seven think a woman's place is in the home. In particular, attitudes towards Muslims and ethnic minorities have deteriorated in recent years. Half of those surveyed considered the increasing number of Muslims in the country as a cultural threat and one in five feared ethnic minorities would take their jobs. Equality groups said such attitudes are unacceptable in the 21st century and called for the "silent majority" to speak out against prejudice.
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Omnicom agreed to take about 185,000 square feet at 195 Broadway in November, moving its subsidiary OMD into the building from multiple Manhattan locations. CB Richard Ellis represented Silverstein Properties on the Arnell deal at 7 World Trade Center. Representatives from CB Richard Ellis and Silverstein declined to comment. .
Faith Under Fire In IA & NH
The Politico has broken a story on a phone calls to Iowa and New Hampshire voters masquerading as being pro-McCain while slamming ex-Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) for his Mormon faith -- equating his beliefs to a cult. According to news reports, the campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) vehemently denies involvement or sanction of such phone calls.Apparently the calls have been traced back to a Utah-based phone vendor called Western Watts.The calls asks a series of questions, asking if the respondent would be more or less likely to favor Romney if they knew XYZ about him. The litany included the topics of his faith, Mormonism and Vietnam-era military deferments due to his missionary service in France. The calls allegedly note the Mormon faith holds its text is superior to the Christian Bible and that Mormon bishops would not accept African-Americans into their church up to the 1970's.According to the Associated Press, one call recipient described their experience this way: ""It started out like all the other calls.
Supermicro Launches PCI-E Gen 2 Servers and Workstations With 1600 FSB ...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) , a leader in application optimized high performance server solutions, today launched new lines of motherboards, servers and workstations optimized for 1600 FSB Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5400 Series (Harpertown) and Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 Series (Wolfdale-DP) processors. These latest dual-processor (DP) server and workstation solutions deliver sharply increased performance, energy efficiency and memory capacity. These new systems are now on display at SuperComputing 2007 in Reno, Nevada, booth 1229, from November 12-15. "With support for a 1600 MHz dual point-to-point CPU bus and 800 MHz 1.5V FB-DIMM memory, as well as Gen 2 PCI-Express, our new SuperServers and workstations based on the Intel 5400 (Seaburg) chipset deliver more than 30% system performance gains*," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.
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