In this video Jim and Paige visit Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

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Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia and its largest city. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to over 4,260,000 people.

The city is divided into 15 municipal districts, managed by Riyadh Municipality headed by the mayor of Riyadh, and the Riyadh Development Authority, chaired by the Governor of Riyadh Province, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The current mayor of Riyadh is Abdul Aziz ibn Ayyaf Al Migrin, appointed in 1998. http://www.fentonreport.com/news/saud…

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In this video Jim and Paige visit Dakar in Senegal.

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Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, on the country’s Atlantic coast. It is Senegal’s largest city. Its position, on the western edge of Africa (it is the westernmost African city), is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

According to December 31, 2005 official estimates, the city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2.45 million people.

Dakar is a major administrative centre, home to the National Assembly of Senegal and Senegal Presidential Palace.

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In this video Jim and Paige visit Dakar in Senegal.

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Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is the capital of Senegal’s Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal’s Capital City Dakar, it has a population officially estimated at 176,000 in 2005. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until independence in 1960. From 1920 to 1957 it also served as capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania.

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In this video Jim and Paige visit Barcelona, Spain.

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Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081. It is the central nucleus of the Urban Region of Barcelona, which relies on a population of about 5.5 million. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).

Barcelona is a major economic centre with one of Europe’s principal Mediterranean ports, and Barcelona International Airport is the second largest in Spain after Madrid-Barajas Airport. Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the Counts of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, it became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination and has a rich cultural heritage. Particularly renowned are architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner that have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city is well known in recent times for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean are located in Barcelona.

As the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona houses the seat of the Catalan government, known as the Generalitat de Catalunya; of particular note are the executive branch, the parliament, and the Supreme Court of Catalonia. The city is also the capital of the county (comarca) of the Barcelonès.

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Some joke that giving computers to salespeople is what caused the recession of the early 90s.  Maybe today’s economic woes are a result of Facebook and YouTube.  The rise of Web 2.0 and social media has almost directly correlated to the drop in the economy.

The clever thing about social media and the rest of today’s Internet is that it fools you in to thinking you are working.  Being without a Facebook or LinkedIn account will soon be like having no email address.  YouTube is the world’s largest broadcaster; a great source for breaking news and commentary that has real value.  These activities waste time but, just as companies in the 90s who tried to ‘ban the web’ from the workplace soon realized, they are necessary.

For most professionals, the problem is not that they play World of Warcraft for hours at a time during the workday, the problem is the long tail of semi-work-related time eaters, emails, scheduling, getting sidetracked when visiting a legitimate work-related website or blog and other time-creep.

RescueTime is a nifty tool that helps us keep on track and keep our time-wasting, low payoff, low productivity and borderline activities to a minimum.  The small, free program installs in minutes and quietly tracks what we do on our PCs.  It’s hard to fool: RescueTime even can distinguish which window you are working on if you have multiple ones open and if you walk away from the PC it will know you are not there because nothing is clicked.

The RescueTime interface includes a report and ability for the user to define what they personally consider to be time-wasting or not.  Since writing reports and proposals is a productive part of my business I prioritized it as a +2 for example, same with my in-house investment analysis software and my phone.  My phone is wired to the PC so it’s easy to track.  Offline activities like meetings are a little tricky, there are plug-ins, updates and a premium version that enhance this.  Despite using my Facebook page and YouTube economic commentary channel for some work related tasks, I rated them both at -2, the lowest possible efficiency rating.  Graphics designers, accountants and other professionals can tailor RescueTime to rate programs and websites as productive or unproductive or neutral activities.  For example, email and the calendar for me are 0, or neutral, Huffington Post a -1 but Bloomberg a +1, you get the idea.

The next version of the software will even have a pop-up window that you can optionally enable: “Sorry Sally, you’ve spent over 30 minutes on the YouTube, if you really want to stay please enter your password.”

Many first react that people should just have willpower and not need such a tool, this is true however the simple reporting and interface gives a level of measurement that you wouldn’t have on your own.  Some of the facts might surprise users.  Everyone who has taken a time management course knows that email should only be checked a couple times a day and in time-blocks; yet we all know busy executives who check email as much as 10 times per hour…that’s every six minutes.  For most professionals, the problem is not that they play World of Warcraft for hours at a time during the workday, the problem is the long tail of semi-work-related time eaters, emails, scheduling, getting sidetracked when visiting a legitimate work-related website or blog and other time-creep.  RescueTime also offers the ability to set goals:  minimum or maximum of a certain number of hours per week or day on certain activities.  If you meet or exceed your goals you can opt to receive an email or popup.

For managers RescueTime is a must.  Advanced reporting in the paid version allows managers to track multiple employees, projects and teams and share certain data with other.  In a heavily regulated industry like financial services, review of employee activity is a must – viewing cache files of visited sites and other tools are the norm.  RescueTime seems a little less invasive and friendlier and might help employees (and managers) self-monitor their actions.

I’d like to offer an alternative instead of featuring just one product, but I haven’t found one yet.  I’d browse the web looking for one and write some more but I know my new friend RescueTime is watching so I think I’ll get back to work.

Bruce Fenton
Bruce is an economic adviser, founder and Managing Director of Atlantic Financial Inc. the Internet’s first full service investment company and a specialist in web technology.  Bruce is interested in new technologies, next generation practices and focuses on globalization and the changing economy.

In this video Jim and Paige visit a racetrack in Jerez, Spain.

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And when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new settler homes in East Jerusalem while Joe Biden, the US vice-president, was visiting the country last week as part of a Middle East peace inititative – the US was not happy.

A senior US official has called the timing of the announcement an “insult”.

And Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, had earlier told Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that his government was putting “US ties at risk” by failing to take action towards renewed Middle East peace talks.

Although Netanyahu has apologised for the timing of the announcement, Israel is not showing any signs of stopping the settlement expansion and the US is not backing down from its tough criticism.

Al Jazeera’s John Terret reports.

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ARMONK, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM ( IBM) today unveiled new System x servers that offer increased memory and can help improve efficiency to allow customers to better exploit virtualization and support more sophisticated workloads.

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IBM has completely revamped its line up of two-socket x86 servers. The all-new line delivers 50% more cores and can provide 40%-60% better performance [1] than previous generations, enabling users in some scenarios to consolidate some 20 servers down to one and potentially to recoup acquisition costs in as little as three months.[2]

The new System x M3 and Blade Center systems include:

• Two new rack servers, the x3650 M3 and the x3550 M3 deliver 50% more memory capacity and 60% more internal storage than the previous IBM generation.[3]  The x3650 M3 is also 50% more power-efficient than the previous generation, which was the industry leader in power efficiency.
• Two new enterprise tower servers — the x3500 M3 and x3400 M3 — that feature twice the storage capacity of previous generations and lower power and facilities costs.[4]
• The BladeCenter HS22 and the virtualization-optimized BladeCenter HS22V, which allows clients to fit 30%-50% more virtual machines on a single blade server.[5]  Both feature new memory that consumes 15% less power.[6]  The HS22V runs Java applications up to 43% faster than IBM’s prior-generation, two-socket blades.[7]
• A new iDataPlex server, the dx360 M3, increases iDataPlex compute performance by 50% for HPC workloads.[8]  It is the first two-socket server to achieve 3,000 operations per watt, a 36% improvement from the previous generation of iDataPlex servers.[9]  New redundant power allows the new iDataPlex server to remain running even during service to power supplies.

The new systems run on Intel Xeon™ 5600-series processors.

The new systems ride a wave of market share growth for IBM, which gained more revenue share than any of the major x86 server vendors in each quarter of 2009 and now holds nearly 20 percent share — a 3.5 point year-over-year gain, according to IDC. IBM also significantly outperformed the blade market in 4Q09, recording 64 percent revenue growth in blades and gaining 5.7 points, according to IDC.[10]

Today’s news builds on IBM’s announcement earlier this month of new eX5 servers that improve the economics of operating enterprise-sized, x86-based systems. IBM has now renewed its entire portfolio of x86-based systems to meet the broadest set of client needs.

The M3 systems take advantage of integration with IBM middleware to offer a sophisticated suite of systems management tools, including:

• IBM’s Systems Director software — Allows users to pre-configure servers, remotely re-purpose systems and set up automatic updates and recoveries.
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) — Next-generation BIOS firmware.
• Integrated Management Module (IMM) — Manages, monitors, troubleshoots and repairs servers from anywhere.
• IBM ToolsCenter – Ideal for small and medium businesses, ToolsCenter simplifies the acquisition and usage of system management tools with a single webpage to acquire tools.

For more information on IBM System x, go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/.

1) Intel measurements based on Xeon® X5680 vs. Xeon® X5570 – results on SPECint*_rate_base2006 and OLTP workload.

2) Based on TCO analysis of System x3650 M3 vs System x346 using IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool. Link: https://roianalyst.alinean.com/stg/

3) June availability for a limited number of storage and memory configurations.

4) Based on Intel data of x5680 processor with Annual Server KWh energy usage of 772,904 vs Intel Xeon 3.8GHz with 2M cache processor with annual server energy usage of 37,938 kWh.

5) Comparison of BladeCenter HS22V with 18 memory DIMMs vs BladeCenter HS22 with 12 memory DIMMs.

6) Based on 1.35V memory versus 1.5V memory.

7) Competitive comparisons for performance reflect results published as of March 16th, 2010. The results are based on SPECjbb2005 and can be found at www.spec.org. (link resides outside ibm.com).  IBM results to be submitted to SPEC by March 16th, 2010. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Based on comparison of 8 teraflops for dx360 M2 Intel Xeon 5500 series processors compared to 11.8 teraflops with dx360 M3 running Intel Xeon 5600 with 12 cores/node at 2.93GHz and 4GB memory per channel. The results are based on SPECcpu2006 and can be found at www.spec.org. (link resides outside ibm.com).  IBM results to be submitted to SPEC by March 16th, 2010. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org (link resides outside of ibm.com).

9) Competitive comparisons for performance reflect results published as of March 16th, 2010. The results are based on SPECpower_ssj2008 and can be found at www.spec.org. (link resides outside ibm.com).  IBM results to be submitted to SPEC by March 16th, 2010. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org (link resides outside of ibm.com) ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/news/newsblurb_dx360M3_specpower_031610.pdf

10) Share measured in factory revenue according to IDC. See http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29517.wss