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The best breakup books
"In Love," by Alfred Hayes, recently reissued; "Light Years," by James Salter; and Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair."
NEW YORK -- What is the true practical use of a breakup book? When an important relationship ends, you imagine you are in a completely singular situation, that no one else has endured quite the exact exquisitely painful situation that you are currently muddling through. You intuitively believe that your feelings are unique, sui generis, but it is somehow reassuring or uplifting to stumble on evidence that they are not. The pleasure of listening to certain songs or reading certain books is that, after an obligatory and useful period of disorienting isolation, they welcome you back into the human circle. It is oddly reassuring to see that you are not unique, i.e., alone, that this same tragedy has befallen other people, and they have mysteriously survived. (As Shakespeare put it: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not from love.")
What follows is my list of the three all-time best breakup books:
"In Love," by Alfred Hayes
The New York Review of Books is reissuing this lost masterpiece of breakup literature, originally published in 1953, and when I came across it, I thought to myself, "How have I made it this far in life without reading this book?" A man who read it said to me, "It's great isn't it? I'll never date again." Both of which seem to me completely reasonable responses to "In Love." It's a ruthlessly observant novel with heart-stoppingly good sentences. (It's impossible not to be seduced by passages like: "The only thing we haven't lost, I thought, is the ability to suffer. We're fine at suffering. But it's such noiseless suffering. We never disturb the neighbors with it. We collapse, but we collapse in the most disciplined way. That's us. That's certainly us. The disciplined collapsers.")
The whole book is the moody monologue of a man sitting at a bar telling a woman about a bruising affair that has haunted him. (One of the clever and elegant things about it is that the elegy for the lost affair is also the preamble for a new one; it's both a fierce indictment of love and the chatting up of a pretty woman.) In the affair that obsesses the man, he was evasive, uncommitted, ironic. But when the woman in question runs off with a rich man and marries him, he is lost: "It was becoming painful to think. There seemed to be inside me whole areas I had to be careful of. I could feel my mind, like a paw, wince away from certain sharp recollections. I contained, evidently, a number of wounded ideas."
Hayes' description of a failed trip the two lovers took to the Jersey Shore is one of the greatest scenes of romantic alienation ever written. He pinpoints the desperate desire for love and the recognition that it is slipping away with magnificent precision: It is one of the most confusing states two people can encounter, and to see it rendered in words is rare and lovely.
"Light Years," by James Salter
In this painfully beautiful book, Salter somehow manages to capture the lushness of a thriving marriage and its simultaneous decline. ("Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.") He conjures the gorgeousness of daily life, the rhythms of love, of a worn and comfortable familiarity along with the wordless restlessness, the growing discontents. (" . . . and he reads to them, as he does every night, as if watering them, as if turning the earth at their feet.") Somehow we see in this elaborately complex portrait of domestic life both the greatness and transcendent possibility of family, and the crashing insufficiency of it, which is an astonishing, nearly impossible literary feat. The book is ultimately about how happiness and restlessness collide, about the ends entwined in beginnings, the imperceptible changes of heart, the nascent elegies embedded in our warmest, safest, happiest moments. If the real question we want answered in breakup novels is how a vivid, pressing love fades, this book comes closer than any other I have ever read to answering it.
"The End of the Affair," by Graham Greene
In this classic of the genre, Greene captures the mood of natural malice that occurs post-love: "This is a record of hate far more than of love," he writes. His main character, Bendrix, is not afraid to express his untrammeled rage for his ex-flame: "Nothing would have delighted me more than to hear that she was sick, unhappy, dying."
The novel, like all of Greene's, mingles a perfectly crafted story with existential musing. His mistress writes in her journal: "Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. What do we do in the desert if we lose each other? How does one go on living after that?"
Here as elsewhere, Greene takes as his subject the mysteries of sexual involvement: "The act of sex may be nothing, but when you reach my age you learn that at any time it may prove to be everything."
Other great breakup literature, should one need more, would include several stories from John Updike's "Licks of Love," Richard Ford's "Independence Day," certain poems of Robert Lowell's, and the first dazzlingly ironic chapter of Mary McCarthy's "The Company She Keeps."
Roiphe, a journalism professor at New York University, is the author most recently of "Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages" and "In Praise of Messy Lives."


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The number of women giving birth after the age of 50 is on the rise, more than doubling in the last five years, according to British report. There are now three children born to a woman over 50 every week.
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Two recent stories suggest that a disturbing practice has found acceptance among teens and young adults: broadcasting the sexual misbehavior of their peers, especially girls, on a massive scale within hours. Photos preferred.
Is it just gossip, gone digital? "Mean Girls," with a sexual twist?
I don't think so.
Some commentators too easily dump these incidents into the overflowing bucket of cyber-bullying or dismiss them as teen-age drama, writ large. But these episodes deserve a second look.
A few months back, a Washington state eighth-grader named Margarite "sexted" a nude, frontal photo of herself to her new sort-of-boyfriend. Within weeks, their fledgling relationship died.
The photo lived on.
The boy sent it to another girl who captioned the photo, "Ho Alert!" and added instructions: "If you think this girl is a whore, then text this to all your friends." The photo instantly ricocheted, via text, from one social circle to another. Within hours, students from four different schools had ogled the sexter's naked body and passed the photo on. The eighth grade girl was devastated.
The second situation occurred in the upscale suburbs of New York City. Someone created rankings of 100 allegedly sexually adventurous girls and boys from the surrounding school districts and circulated the lists using Blackberry Messenger.
One teenager (who claims he was not the original creator of the lists) quickly created a Facebook page called the "Westchester SMUT List" ("SMUT" meant "slut," thinly disguised to evade Facebook restrictions), and posted only the girls' rankings (including full names and descriptions of sexual activity).
Within hours, thousands of people saw the list. Over 7,000 of them "liked" the Facebook page that trashed the girls' reputations. And with one click, each of those viewers magnified the damage, publicizing the page instantly to his or her Facebook friends.
The sexual behavior of the 8th-grader and of the SMUT 100 (to the extent the reports are true) reads like an MTV script. And that's certainly a huge problem.
But let's switch focus, for a minute, from the girls to their enthusiastic "audience" of thousands. Their behavior may well reflect the bigger problem.
Consider the smut list. What does it mean when thousands of young people swarm, within hours, to the site of their peers' humiliation? (Imagine piranhas in a feeding frenzy.)
And what drove seven thousand of them to click the "like" icon on the smut list?
Meanness, maybe. But narcissism is a likely suspect, too.
The Facebook generation shows an overwhelming desire for self-promotion, to weigh in, to be in the know. Want to be important? Dispense scandalous information.
The teens who "liked" the list not only didn't care that others knew they'd seen the list and passed it on, they wanted others to know that they'd done so. Being among "the first to know" matters too. It's a sure way to build social capital—be the source that sends others to the newest, most outrageous virtual place.
No shame, no hesitation, no reticence. In their narcissistic stampede towards Facebook fame and "firsts," thousands trampled on the dignity and reputations of very real people. And they didn't even care.
Why? Because, in a given moment, narcissism blots out both moral sense (do their consciences even register slander? detraction? cruelty?) and a sense of empathy. (Many ethicists believe that empathy is at the heart of morality.)
An empathic person in this case would grasp the pain, shame, and humiliation experienced by the girls on the list—and would never add to their misery by passing the information on, especially because it might be false. A narcissistic person would seize any opportunity, including the humiliation of others, to vault back into the center of attention.
Narcissism gave a good showing at the Westchester Smut List.
There's a second factor at work here as well.
In today's culture, sex is entertainment. It doesn't need to be either personal or intimate—a lesson the Facebook generation has learned well.
It's not surprising, then, that these young people easily accept the idea that women are sexual objects. Depersonalized sex is everywhere, in ads, music videos, TV, movies, teen websites, and, of course, pornography. Immersed in it, they can't help but be shaped by it as well.
Take, for example, the teens recently interviewed by The New York Times on the topic of sexting. For this sex-saturated generation, sexy photos become a strikingly impersonal part of the mating dance.
One girl puts it this way: "We see virtual images all day long, so if someone sends you a [naked] image, it loses the identity of the person. It's just a picture." A teen-age boy in the group added helpfully, "And usually the face is not in it."
It's the very definition of depersonalized sex: the most "personal" aspect, a face, is out of sight. But the naked body still titillates and makes the rounds, by cell phone and text.
And even when the photo does include the person's face—as it did in Margarite's case—her peers had already lost sight of the real person who would be mortified, shamed, and crushed with regret as they passed her picture along. She was just a body, grabbed, groped, and used as an object for pleasure (or humiliation) in the virtual space. Her reputation became a plaything as well.
Similarly, a teenage girl on a smut list is but a name—no one cares about her. They care only to know what she's willing to do with her body--or at least what others say she's willing to do.
What's missing is any sense that these girls are persons, not sexual objects. And what's lost, among other things, is the privacy and space that would allow these adolescents to mature, repent, change course and begin anew. Instead, they've been humiliated on a grand scale, and will be haunted by the exposure for years.
On the plus side, at least the girls know they've gotten off track and need to change.
But their peers—the thousands steeped in depersonalized sex and searching for the next narcissistic shot at popularity—they have no idea how far off track they are.
And the real question for our culture is…What are we going to do about that?
© 2011 Mary Rice Hasson
Topics: Family , Sexuality , Social Networking , Young Women


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The London-based bank, and the world's second-largest financial services group, said it had awarded WPP agencies its advertising business, media buying and planning, and direct marketing.
The appointment is a massive blow for Lowe and for embattled Interpublic, which has lost one of its flagship global accounts. It follows the loss of its Verizon Wireless account earlier this year and will put a question mark over the agency's future as a worldwide network.
HSBC did confirm that the new WPP advertising would continue to use the strapline developed by Lowe, "The world's local bank," which has been running globally.
WPP has put together a dedicated team to lead the business, which will be led by Toby Hoare who was appointed in January as chief executive of "team HSBC". Hoare also has an international role at J Walter Thompson.
JWT will be the lead advertising agency on the business and will work with WPP's fourth international network Red Cell/Berlin Cameron in New York and Bates Asia and Batey in Asia Pacific.
The Group M division of WPP will take over the media buying and planning business, which had been held by Publicis Groupe's ZenithOptimedia. MindShare will be the lead media agency with Maximise working on the business in Asia.
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Peter Stringham, group general manager for marketing at HSBC, said in a statement: "All four companies participating in the review demonstrated world-class resources. However, WPP's ability to coordinate those resources across HSBC's footprint and to tailor them to our needs proved decisive."
He added: "The appointment is a result of a thorough and wide-ranging review of HSBC's previous arrangements and its wish to consolidate its business with one marketing services organisation."
The decision came after a four-month review kicking off in January and which saw Publicis eliminated from the review process in February.
HSBC, which operates in 79 countries and territories, said earlier this year it could make more acquisitions in the US as it goes head to head with rival Citigroup.
Last week, Brand Republic reported that HSBC had delayed making a decision on the review and was holding further meetings with the agencies waiting to find out if they have won the work.
The review is the first HSBC has conducted in five years, following the appointment of Lowe in 1999, and was launched to improve cost effectiveness and the consistency of brand strategy.
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10-year-old Fresno area boy dies of gun injuries
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Reynolds says the boy was shot near Hidden Hollow Lane and Quail Mountain Lane around 4pm Friday in an accidental shooting that involved another boy, a close family friend who thought the pellet gun was unloaded.
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When I'm doing succession planting, how do I mulch?
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What can I plant in my terraced garden?
What shouldn't I do when gardening on a slope?
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Are raised bed garden kids good for school kids?
Do I build a trellis at the same time I build my raised bed?
Can I create a raised bed garden in the shape of a maze?
Does Rebecca have advice on stones for raised gardens?
Does Paul James have any tips for keeping raised beds safe?
How do I garden on a small scale?
Does Rebecca have any advice for creating a kids' garden?
Does Rebecca have any tips for gardening organic in raised beds?
Does Rebecca have any tips for working with mushroom compost?
Does Rebecca have tips on container gardening?
What soil mix does Paul James use for raised beds?
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Small Plant News: Volume 4, Number 10
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Making a Food Defense Plan Functional: It Won't Help If You Don't Use It!
- Revised and New Performance Standards for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Effect
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
- BIFSCo Releases Guidance Document
Making a Food Defense Plan Functional: It Won't Help If You Don't Use It!
By LTJG Kazuhiro Okumura, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
In Small Plant News, Volume 3, Number 5, the article "Developing Food Defense Plans: Shifting Greater Awareness Into Action" discussed why you should adopt a food defense plan, its benefits, and the process in developing a plan.
Nick Bauer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) Office of Data Integration and Food Protection gives five reasons why you should adopt a food defense plan. It:
- Helps to protect your product and customers.
- Helps to maintain a safe working environment for employees.
- Increases establishment preparedness and facilitates an appropriate response to an emergency.
- Enhances establishment security.
- Helps to protect your company's bottom line.
"Having a food defense plan is an effective way to reduce the risk of intentional tampering or contamination of your products. FSIS is encouraging businesses to not only have a food defense plan, but to make sure it's also functional," said Bauer.
So, what is a functional food defense plan? There are five elements:
- Conduct an assessment of your business and facility.
- Develop a food defense plan that can adequately protect your business and products.
- Implement the plan.
- Test the plan. This is a key difference between simply having a food defense plan and having a functional one. Every functional food defense plan must be tested to make sure it works. A plan on paper may look and sound good, but it may be a different story when it is put into action.
- Review and maintain the plan. Any changes in your operations and the results from testing should be considered, and your food defense plan should be revised to incorporate any corrective actions you identified. The plan should be reviewed at least once a year.
Graphs: Percentage of Plants With a Functional Food Defense Plan; Percentage of Small and Very Small Plants With a Functional Food Defense Plan: See page 2 of PDF version, or these data tables.
For those of you who have a food defense plan, how do you know it is effective? Will it work when you need it? In other words, if your facility was targeted for an intentional attack, will the plan help minimize losses to your business and your customers?
There has been an upward trend in plants adopting functional food defense plans across all establishment types and sizes. FSIS conducted a survey in August 2010 and found that 74 percent of all plants had a functional food defense plan, which represents an increase of 12 percentage points from December 2009. A total of 82 percent of small plants and 64 percent of very small plants had a functional food defense plan, compared with 72 percent and 48 percent, respectively, in December 2009. Detailed results of the August 2010 survey can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/Food_Defense_&_Emergency_Response/Food_Defense_Plan_Survey_Results/index.asp .
A copy of the general food defense plan, Food Defense Plan: Security Measures for Food Defense, can be found on the FSIS Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/GeneralFood-Defense-Plan-9-3-09%20_2_.pdf(PDF Only).
FSIS has many resources to help you develop a food defense plan and make it functional on its Web site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/
Food_Defense_&_Emergency_Response/index.asp . You can also request assistance on food defense guidance materials by contacting the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-FSISHELP (1-877-374-7435) or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. The Help Desk is open from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.
For policy-related questions, please call the FSIS Policy Development Division at 1-800-233-3935 (6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays), or submit a question to askFSIS at http://askfsis.custhelp.com.
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Revised and New Performance Standards for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Effect
By Jane Johnson, DVM
On March 16, 2011, FSIS announced the implementation of revised and new performance standards for verification sample sets aimed at reducing the prevalence of Salmonella and Campylobacter in young chickens and turkeys. The improved standards went into effect July 1, 2011. After 2 years of implementing the new standards, the Agency estimates that the new Campylobacter standards will prevent approximately 5,000 illnesses a year, and the revised Salmonella standards will prevent approximately 20,000 illnesses a year.
The revised and new standards include:
- The movement of young chicken and turkey establishments to the highest scheduling priority due to the initiation of Campylobacter testing for these product classes.
- Analysis of all sample sets scheduled for young chicken and turkey establishments for both Campylobacter and Salmonella, and analysis of followup sample sets responding to sample set failure for either organism analyzed for both organisms.
- The new Salmonella standards accept 5 positive samples in a 51-sample set for young chickens and 4 positive samples in a 56-sample set for turkeys.
- Salmonella performance Categories 1 and 2 for young chicken and turkey establishments will be applied exclusively for Agency internal analysis and quarterly aggregate reporting.
- Web posting of a list of young chicken and turkey establishments that fail the new Salmonella standards (Category 3) for their last set will begin when sample sets scheduled for July 2011 are completed.
- Campylobacter performance standards and sample set criteria for tracking and reporting to establishments are applied to results from the smaller of the two laboratory Campylobacter sample portions (1 mL), which detects higher levels of contamination, making the performance standards 10.4 percent for young chickens and 0.79 percent for turkeys.
- Campylobacter sample set criteria for tracking and reporting 1 mL results are 8 positive samples acceptable per 51-sample set for young chickens and 3 positive samples acceptable per 56-sample set for turkeys.
- Campylobacter results from the larger of the 2 laboratory Campylobacter sample portions (30 mL for chickens, 24 mL for turkeys), which detects lower levels of contamination, are used for Agency internal analysis.
- Agency responses to Campylobacter sample set results will follow current Salmonella procedures for immediate followup testing for both organisms and for food safety assessments when necessary.
- Category 1/2/3 results will be posted in quarterly aggregate reports for all establishments producing raw products subject to FSIS Salmonella testing, including young chickens and turkeys under the new standards.
If you have any questions or wish to receive more information, feel free to contact the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-FSISHELP, or email email@example.com. The Help Desk is open from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Can a charitable organization custom slaughter livestock in accordance with 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 303.1 (a)(2) and serve the meat or meat food products derived from that custom slaughter to individuals who access the services of the charitable organization?
A. No. Meat or meat food products derived from the custom slaughter of livestock can only be used by an owner, household members, nonpaying guests, and employees. Individuals who access the services of the charitable organization are not "non-paying guests." They are clients who receive services from the charitable organization.
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BIFSCo Releases Guidance Document
By Jane Johnson, DVM
The Beef Industry Food Safety Council (BIFSCo) has posted a guidance document, Guidance Document for Sampling and Lotting of Beef Products and Sample Analysis for Pathogens, on its Web site. The document was introduced at the council's ninth annual Beef Industry Food Safety Summit, held in Dallas from March 2-4, 2011.
According to its introduction, it "provides best industry practices for components (lotting, sampling, and laboratory analysis) of the pathogen-testing program as a part of an overall food safety system. It's important to recognize that these are just components of the system, and their success depends on the proper implementation of the best practices leading to these steps and after these steps." The document may be accessed at the council's Web site at www.bifsco.org/CMDocs/BIFSCO/
Sampling,%20Lotting%20and%20Sample%20Analysis%20Document%20FINAL%20SEPT%202010.pdf (PDF Only).
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It's not exactly news that, in the wake of "The Avengers" and "The Dark Knight Rises," superheroes are enjoying a great deal of popularity, but is it just us, or are they suddenly just about everywhere? We don't mean in a "Look! Up in the sky!" sense, just that they seem to be turning up just about everywhere we go these days, especially on television, and on the most unlikely of shows.
For example, Monday's installment of "RuPaul's Drag Race" featured a superhero theme, as does this Thursday's episode of "Glee." And of course, there was "Avengers" star Jeremy Renner's guest appearance on Saturday's "Saturday Night Live":
That's a lot of superheroes. Of course, if we lived in Seattle, we could get a glimpse of real-life superhero Phoenix Jones, but here in Worcester, we mostly just have to settle for watching them on TV or picking up comics at That's Entertainment. (You know. That place on the corner of Lois Lane? We really never get tired of that.) And really, that's probably for the best. Of course, if there are any sightings of real-life superheroes here in Worcester, please, by all means, let us know. (Victor D. Infante)


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Shares of Intel (INTC) are up 23 cents, or 0.9%, at $26.74, as the stock this morning receives yet another positive view after multiple endorsements yesterday, all of this coming in advance of the company's Q4 report tomorrow afternoon, after the bell.
BMO Capital Markets's Ambrish Srivastava raised his rating on the stock to Outperform from Market Perform, and raised his price target to $31 from $21, writing that a "new pragmatism" in the regime of CEO Brian Krzanich is encouraging, as is a more "consistent messaging," and less-bad results in the PC market.
Krzanich & Co. are being more realistic about the threats facing the business, he thinks, echoing many of yesterday's hopeful remarks:
At a very high level, we see the company more willing to accept and address the challenges that the company faces. While quite likely that some of the initiatives were started before the current CEO took over, nevertheless, and as a few examples, we are encouraged by the company's willingness to be more flexible regarding its foundry strategy, including opening up its capability to ARM-based chip suppliers, by recognizing the challenges the company faces in addressing the core PC market, and innovating and coming up with form factors that transcend a much broader price spectrum […] And we had addressed this after our last Asia trip in early December that, after a long time, Intel's messaging around the end market demand and expectations seem consistent with our analysis, and with what we are also hearing from the channel. We are modeling 2014 PC units down 6% y-o-y, which is now somewhat consistent with the view from the trenches, as well as consistent with roughly what Intel had laid out in the company's analyst day as we ended 2013.
Srivastava is also hearing of customers being more receptive to Intel's mobile chip offerings:
Subsequently, our conversations with potential and existing Intel customers have suggested a new-found willingness to try out Intel-based SoC solutions. The cynic in us had earlier thought that customers would be willing to try out Intel in order to get price leverage against the existing tablet chip vendors. There probably is some truth to that given Intel's 'contra-revenue' driven 40 million tablets goal this year; however, we continue to get incrementally positive response from the channel regarding Intel's SoC-based offerings.
Being able to sell more tablet chips will greatly expand its addressable market, he writes, and he offers the following table of how tablets next year will make up half the overall personal computing market (click for larger image):
Being able to address the smartphone market more effectively will also expand the addressable market by another $21 billion annually, he writes.
Srivastava, unlike bulls such as Jefferies & Co.'s Mark Lipacis, who think Intel will massively exploit a manufacturing edge, thinks the jury is still out on whether Intel's manufacturing prowess will prove a trump card against chip competitors supplied by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM):
What we have always maintained is that Intel is the undisputed leader when it comes to silicon manufacturing. What we have struggled with is whether Intel's lead translates into a unique advantage as Moore's Law slows down and as the foundries/rest of the industry transition to FinFET transistors. In our view, it is really early to tell whether Intel's lead in FinFET will translate into a unique manufacturing advantage as nodes shrink to 14 nm for the rest of the industry and beyond. However, at current valuations for INTC, the market does not appear to be factoring in any advantage for Intel on that front either. Hence our view that if Intel is proven to have an advantage, and the foundry camp struggles with the transitions to 14/16 nm FinFET process and beyond, there is a likely re-rating of the stock, and additionally that advantage could potentially lead to Intel making additional in-roads into the mobile handset and the tablet markets, as Intel could potentially make products with more features, a lower power envelope, and/or for lower costs.
The stock got more lukewarm review this morning from MKM Partners's Ian Ing, who reiterates a Neutral rating and a $25 price target. He thinks hopes for the PC market bottoming out are a little ambitious, and that improvement in Intel's PC chip business may not come until the latter half of this year:
We believe INTC set a low bar on 2014 expectations at the November analyst day (flat Y/Y revenue on PC units down low-single digits). However, we think upside likely comes more in the 2H on the Broadwell refresh (14nm) and continued data center strength, rather than clear signs of a 1H enterprise upgrade cycle ahead of Windows XP's May obsolescence. With both buy-side and sell-side PC sentiment improving of late, our expectations are closer to in line results and guidance or weak PC client could disappoint. While some PC suppliers are seeing clear signs of stabilization and improvement (ONNN (Neutral, $8.80, $8 FV) with their $7-$8 VCORE power management content), we should expect positioning of the PC "BOM" in advance of anticipated builds, but with low-ASP parts first (that consume less balance-sheet) rather than with expensive CPUs (likely procured last). While Intel has some favorable exposure to our 2014 themes of data center (server less than 22% Q3 sales) and a "Jump Ball" on the 4G opportunity (embedded less than 8%), we think PC expectations are getting ahead of themselves within the ongoing process of stabilization through 2014.


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Puberty struggles experienced were lonesome and confusing. Since I felt uncomfortable having my body shape and alignment change. Sorry for too much info. I got to do this so that my message will be clear.
My mom passed when I was 12, http://superiordomain.net/astounding-illness/ and that left me with some insecurities. I had elder sisters I could ask about some of the girls' stuff. I actually lived with one of them, however, I could not bring myself up to say anything. Because then, I was very shy when it comes to body issues and didn't want to talk about it.
What was it about these puberty struggles?
My menses started at 13 and did not want anybody at home to know. Since I was very uncomfortable about it. And shy too. Hence that made it difficult for me to have access to the right sanitary pads. I also started developing breasts, and hips. When it came to hips that were a huge torcher to me. Being an hour-glass girl after my mom, of course, I would try to hide under sweaters. The boys added salt to the wound 'cause they would check me out. I did not want to wear a bra…In my mind, I thought if I would ignore the inevitable, the features won't be apparent. I really thought I looked older and bigger than my peers. Therefore I admired late bloomers. Them puberty years' struggles were really twisting my mind.
At school, I did not like to change into a swimming costume. Hence feeling like the odd one out, to my self and others. Leaving me feeling like I was abnormal. I would give an excuse that I could not swim, which is true. Yet, the main reason was I was shy.
Anybody like me, out there? or who knows somebody like that?
The mirror and camera have become an obsession today
It seems there are other issues or just the same but wearing different faces. Through reading around and talking to young girls, I figured the following. Some girls think they are not skinny enough, pretty enough even light enough. Don't have a big enough burst or think their burst is too small. It could be about their legs( they are too skinny or too thick). Those with acne most of the time struggle 'cause they try all sorts of remedies to no avail. A comparison of clothing is also a big one. How fashionable someone is and how much of a big wardrobe is at one's disposal.
I want to fit in. I want to look cool. l want to look like the rest of them are also major outcries.
Sometimes there is a comparison among siblings, which is not healthy for the family love and unity. It's of utmost importance for parents to know how to affirm their girls without comparison. Somebody said 'the selfie-issue' is leading most of the younger girls into depression. Because of comparison and trying to keep up. I can't remember who said it, but I believe their observation is right. Social media, for the most part, isn't doing us a favor. Our young girls are loaded with negative information. They, therefore, really need some good direction..
Questions like the ones below are their torment and torture
How do I measure up?
What do other girls think about me?
Do boys think I am attractive?
Do they think I am cool?
What should we do about girls undergoing puberty years
We really need to be on the lookout for any issues. And listen to them plus attend to any of their struggles. To affirm, encourage, and motivate our young girls to accept their looks. They need to know that everybody is beautiful, but we are different in shape and bone structures. And if they are overweight, carefully talk to them about it. Because usually when a girl is overweight, they are already beating themselves up about it. As parents, teachers, or older women, we can teach them to clean themselves up. And enhance their beauty without going overboard.
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How does one go about explaining the importance of church membership and fellowship with the body? What scriptural references can I use to support this? I was trying to explain this to a family member but they kept saying they believed church membership is man's way of "excluding the public from worshiping God."
Thank you for your question to us about the significance of membership. I'll first point you to a small booklet that we publish that might be useful, and then offer a few helps. The booklet is by Mark Brown and Larry Wilson, called "Why Join a Church?" You will find it on the Publications page of OPC.org.
Regarding specific references, I would point to Acts 2:42–47. Note especially the last verse; being saved and being joined to the local church are distinguished, but not separated. All those the Lord was saving were being added to the numbers of the local church. And note also that the LORD was the one both saving and adding; it wasn't a device contrived by men.
You might also reference I Corinthians 11:17ff. regarding the Lord's Supper. Paul's rebuke is based on the fact that the table not only declares the union of the believers with Christ, but also with each other. Their selfish approach to the needs of their brethren meant that Paul regarded their sacrament as not being truly the Lord's Supper (v. 20). There was a mutual connection among the believers that was to be demonstrated at the Lord's Table. Historically, only those marked by God's people as belonging to God's people could take the Passover (Ex. 12:43ff.). So God has always separated those united with him and with each other from the world.
Finally, a comment about the wording of your family member that membership is "man's way of 'excluding the public from worshipping God.' " I cannot make sense of such a statement. I've never known a church that tried to prevent people from coming to the worship service. Faithful preaching of the Word calls men to worship God; that call is proclaimed to everyone within earshot! It appears that the family member is saying that the only real worship is taking place at the Lord's Table. That's not what the Bible says, so he/she needs to be corrected on that. Worship is an activity of the heart; the activities are to reflect the heart as God directs those activities by his Word. And his Word has always separated those who are part of His people from those who are not.
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• Our photo here, shot by Marlin Levison of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and found by the lads at Out of Bounds, depicts a small child in the aftermath of either an unsuccessful attempt to ride another sheep or a very successful attempt to re-enact Shari Lewis's career.
• The Knicks land Amar'e Stoudemire (five years, $99.74 million), which makes at least some sense. What doesn't is how the Suns rooked themselves out of a couple minor assets (subscription required) by mistiming their offseason moves. This probably has something to do with their not having a general manager or an assistant general manager, and the poor intern who's running the show there would do well to look up "sign-and-trade" on Wikipedia or something.
• Tiger fired a 7-over 79 in the first round of some Irish pro-am, and otherwise little was notable except for the the little Beckett play that broke out at No. 6:
At the 6th tee, he stopped at a concession stand and munched on two bunless burgers. "Don't you want any ketchup?" asked a fan nearby in a plastic lawn chair. "I'm good," Woods replied, before asking his Irish caddie if he wanted a burger too.
• The body of Bobby Fischer, at whose crazy altar some of us spent our awkward years worshiping, has been exhumed to determine if he is the father of a 9-year-old Filipino girl.
• The intersexy Caster Semenya is returning to competition.
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I am a volunteer for the Spectrum Generations Meals on Wheels Program in Brunswick. We volunteers have just been informed that, owing to the sequestration, there will be a cutback on the program starting this month.
Meals will still be provided, but delivery will occur only on Wednesday, instead of Wednesday and Friday, and the clients will receive their week's meals on that day. No new clients will be added, even when a current client leaves. The other face of the program, a check on well-being, will be halved.
In all of the meals programs for which I have volunteered, daily meal delivery and well-being checks were standard. Needless to say, numerous other services of agencies for the elderly and disabled will be negatively affected.
The impression in the print and television news has been that the average person would not be severely affected by the sequester.
That may be true, but what has been largely ignored is that the sequester will have a severe impact on those who do not have the means to fend for themselves — the disabled and shut-in, the elderly, the poor and children.
I hope that our comfortably well-off politicians will take some time and effort to consider those who will be in hopeless straits without assistance from us, with the help of the government.
Leland Yee
Coverage of child's death exploits grieving family
Regarding " 'I can't imagine': Grief after father runs over son" (March 21):
A horrible tragedy. One cannot imagine how the poor parents of this child feel. They are now trying to get their arms around this unimaginable loss, and most probably never will.
And you called them on the phone the same night, or maybe the next night? For what? To see how they felt? To see how they were handling this tragedy? To see what they were planning to do from this time on?
What planet are you people from? What kind of response was that to their loss?
Is this what the Portland Press Herald is about? Get the story? Get the details? Put it on the front page? Shame on all of you.
Now that you have met the deadline and printed your story, are you going to be there in the coming months and years to help this couple put their lives back together, as best they can? No!
You will be on to the next story, violating the next boundary line that shouldn't be crossed, so that you can meet your next deadline and sell papers. Pathetic.
Tom Deignan
British term strikes odd note in article on Portland streets
I say, old chap, your article about roadway improvements was spot on ("Roundabouts eyed to ease traffic flow," March 19).
It's a bloody nuisance to come into an intersection and have your bonnet mashed in by some bloke who isn't watching where he's going.
But since when did we start getting caught up in Britishisms like "spot on" and "roundabout"?
Please. It's a rotary. Could we all agree to drop this "roundabout" nonsense?
I realize we live in New England, but unless we will also drive from the right-hand seat and drive on the opposite side, there is no reason to call it a "roundabout."
Call it a rotary.
Robert R. O'Brien
Peaks Island
Further regulation of BPA another burden to business
Once again, the government is interjecting itself into an issue that creates an additional burden to businesses across the state. I am referring to the overregulation of BPA and unnecessary product labeling.
The Board of Environmental Protection, activists against BPA and many newspapers have waged a war against this chemical by using children and pregnant women.
As a Mainer, I strongly believe that the safety of our children is top priority. Regulating the safe use of chemicals has its merits when scientific evidence is used to guide regulatory decisions.
With no evidence that BPA is unsafe, I cannot stand by and justify placing another burden on the business owners of Maine.
In fact, studies, such as a study by University of California structural biologist Michael Baker, are often misused to show the effects of BPA, generate headlines and fuel the outraged national advocacy to ban BPA.
However, Baker later stated that there is no evidence, none at all, that BPA causes any problems in humans.
Product labeling is an expensive and ever-changing process that creates uncertainty in the business community.
I urge members of the Legislature to stand with the business owners of Maine and not fall into the misleading use of studies focused on crafting politically driven policy measures.
Contact your legislator today and tell him or her to not support Sen. Seth Goodall's bill to identify BPA and other chemicals in food labeling.
Keith Herrick
Revenue-sharing cutbacks will hurt Maine's retirees
I've been retired since 2009, a widow on a fixed income who owns a home and lives alone. I'm writing as a concerned citizen about Gov. Paul LePage's proposal to suspend revenue sharing in the next budget.
I feel that instead of cutting off aid to localities, we should be working on ways to raise revenue at the state level to protect and strengthen the programs that are vital to Maine people and its economy.
Cutting state aid will probably result in higher property taxes to make up the difference. Because I only received one cost-of-living increase since my retirement, my income will not be able to keep up with ever-higher real estate taxes — let alone the constant increases in the cost for basic living necessities like food, utilities, prescriptions, gas and clothing.
So, I feel we should look to other sources to raise revenue, such as suspending unfair tax breaks to large corporations, like Walmart; increasing sales taxes on tourists by raising the lodging tax by 1 percent on hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts; and raising luxury sales taxes by 1 percent.
These are just a few steps that would help preserve revenue sharing and avoid any increases in our property taxes.
Jacqueline Edwards
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Need a family SUV with seven seats? Bored by what's on offer? SEAT hopes you'll like its offering, the Tarraco. You get Volkswagen Group engineering, sharp styling, plenty of interior space and, the Iberian maker hopes, a dash of Spanish flair. Which this car will need to stand out in its segment.
Just how important is it for a mid-range 'D'-segment 7-seat family SUV to be 'sporty'. Not very, according to the key protagonists in this segment. SEAT disagrees and is positioning this car, the Tarraco, as a slightly more responsive choice for folk who want to feel that they're driving more than just a crossover-cultured bus after they've dropped the kids off at school. Of course, the Spanish maker needed something to set this contender a little apart from the mechanically almost identical Volkswagen Group models that share its MQB-A platform, the Skoda Kodiaq and the Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace. It wasn't so very long ago that SEAT didn't have a single SUV in its line-up. Now, this Tarraco sits at the head of the company's crossover triumvirate that already includes the little Ibiza-based Arona and the slightly larger Leon-structured Ateca. It's the biggest car the brand has yet made and will only be offered in our market with 7 seats. But will it live up to its maker's expectations? Let's find out.
Driving Experience
SEAT says it's put a lot of work into driving feedback so that this car will feel 'sportier' than its rivals. The same people who made its smaller Ateca stablemate so alert and nimble claim to have repeated their magic here, with sharp steering and supple multi-link rear suspension which can be enhanced with optional 'ACC' adaptive damping. The Tarraco offers five direct injection turbocharged engines, three of them petrol, two diesel. Predictably, we've seen them all before in various VW Group models, things kicking off with a 1.5-litre petrol TSI unit mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox and front-wheel drive. The alternative mainstream petrol option, the 190PS 2.0-litre TSI unit, comes only in high spec guise with a 7-speed DSG auto 'box and 4WD. There's also a PHEV Plug-in hybrid variant available, which mates a 1.4-litre TSI petrol engine with an 85kW electric motor and a 13kWh lithium-ion battery pack. Both the diesels are 2.0 TDI unit, the choice being between a 150PS powerplant with front wheel drive and a 190PS variant with 4WD. If you're regularly going to be using the third seating row and really loading the car up, then the extra grunt of the pokier powerplants will obviously be useful. The 4WD system that these pricier powertrains offer is, as usual in this class, of the 'on-demand' variety, cutting in when a loss of traction is detected. Predictably, the AWD isn't there to enable any sort of prodigious level of off road prowess; there isn't really the ground clearance for that. Instead, this Tarraco is very firmly tarmac-orientated, like SEAT's other SUVs.
Design and Build
SEAT Design boss Alejandro Mesonero says that the styling of this Tarraco gives 'a hint' to the company's future styling direction. By that, he presumably means that the slightly different design approach that this SUV features in its headlamps and front grille will in future be replicated on other models. The Spaniard claims that the aesthetics will make 'a strong first impression'; you may disagree. What's not up for debate though is that this is a fairly substantial thing by class standards. Measuring in a 4,735mm long and 1,658mm tall, it's 38mm longer than its Skoda Kodiaq class cousin. That and the 2.8m wheelbase facilitate a roomy cabin. And quite a sophisticated-looking one, thanks primarily to a 10.25-inch digital instrument binnacle and the placement of a 'floating' 8-inch infotainment screen on top of the dashboard. The 10.25-inch digital instrument display you'll view through the steering wheel allows drivers to access everything from classic information found on analogue dials to full-colour maps and navigation. Controlling the information provided is simple and requires the driver to merely press the steering wheel-mounted 'View' control button to scroll through the three different available main displays. What else? Well 2nd row seat room is aided by that long wheelbase, but the third row will suit children only. Out back, there's 700-litre of luggage space, which increases to 1,775-litres when all the seats are folded.
Market and Model
The Tarraco sells in the £29,000 to £40,000 bracket - so, in other words, there's the same kind of price spread as you'll find on a rival Skoda Kodiaq, though it's one that notably undercuts competitors like Volkswagen's Tiguan Allspace, Hyundai's Santa Fe and even Kia's Sorento. There are the usual 'SE', 'SE Technology', 'FR', 'FR Sport', 'Xcellence' and 'Xcellence Lux' trim levels. Safety-wise, 'Front assist with bicycle detection', 'Lane assist' and Emergency Call are all standard throughout the range, while Adaptive Cruise Control is standard on the Tarraco in 'Xcellence' trim. SEAT offers a plethora of additional systems too, including 'Emergency Assist', 'Blind Spot Detection and 'Exit Assist', 'Traffic Sign Recognition', 'Traffic Jam Assist' and 'Light Assist' as options, while it has also introduced two new safety systems for the first time: 'Pre-Crash Assist' and 'Rollover Assist'. The Tarraco claims to be extremely well connected too, thanks to its brand's 'Full Link' technology built into its centre-dash infotainment screen, which incorporates 'Android Auto' and 'Apple CarPlay' smartphone-mirroring. Access to calls, messages, music and voice recognition as well as a bespoke 'SEAT Drive' App, means that the Tarraco allows you to network wherever and whenever. In addition, Amazon Alexa is also available to help you manage your personal schedule, play music, navigate to points of interest, request personalised news or find the nearest SEAT dealership.
Cost of Ownership
The headline engine is SEATs well regarded 1.5 TSI petrol turbo unit and it should certainly prove to be very frugal. Expect the 150PS version to manage just over 40mpg on the combined cycle and just under 150g/km of CO2. Obviously, the 150PS 2.0-litre TDI diesel will be much better. Expect about 50mpg and about 145g/km. For the 2.0 TSI 4x4 auto petrol variant, you're looking at just under 40mpg and around 170g/km. And for the 2.0 TDI 190PS DSG auto diesel version, the readings will be around 48mpg and about 152g/km. If frugality is everything, you'll want to consider the PHEV variant which mates a 1.4-litre TSI petrol engine with an 85kW electric motor and a 13 kWh lithium-ion battery pack. This derivative offers a 31 mile all-electric driving range and boasts WLTP-rated CO2 emissions of less than 50g/km. All models get an automatic stop & start system to cut the engine when you don't need it, stuck in traffic or waiting at the lights. If you want to go further, then you'll need to talk to your SEAT dealer about the Plug-in hybrid variant that's been developed as part of the model range. This, the company claims, will offer an electric driving range of 31 miles and a CO2 output of less than 50g/km of CO2. What else? Well there's SEAT's usual three year/60,000 mile warranty. That's unexceptional when rivals like Hyundai offer five years of cover as standard and Kia offers up to seven years. However, the SEAT deal is extendable, so you might be able to negotiate on that. And it includes two years of Europe-wide roadside assistance. SEAT dealers also offer an 'It's Fixed!' low cost servicing programme. To even out the cost of regular maintenance, you can take up fixed price servicing packages for up to three scheduled halts and they go with the car when you sell it if the balance has still to be used.
By Jonathan Crouch
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Key Standard Features*
- Metallic - Reflex silver
- Metallic - Atlantic blue
- Metallic - Deep black
- Metallic - Oryx White
- Metallic - Dolphin grey
- Metallic - Merlot red
- Metallic - Camouflage green
- Solid - Urano grey
- Metallic paint
- Solid paint
- Overhead storage compartment
- Front courtesy light with front reading lights
- Rear reading lights
- Olot cloth - Black
- Emergency tyre repair kit
Body Glass
- Electric front/rear windows
- Rain sensing wipers
- Rear wash/wipe
- Electronic parking brake with auto hold
- Hill hold control
- Electronic stability control
- Traction control
- Comfort suspension
- Bluetooth audio streaming with handsfree system
Driver Aids
- Rear parking sensor
- Lane assist
- RPM counter
- Front assist city emergency braking and pedestrian protection
- Cruise control with speed limiter
- Power assist steering
- SEAT Drive profile - 4 different modes, progressive steering, 4Drive versions with off-road/snow, steering response, throttle response
Driver Information
- Digital clock
- Low fuel warning light
- 'Lights On' Remainder warning buzzer
- Digital cockpit
- Full Link Smartphone Integration with Mirror Link, Apple Car Play, Google Android Auto
- Wash water level indicator
- e-Call (emergency call)
- Outside temperature gauge
- Trip computer
- 10.25" digital cockpit
Driving Mirrors
- Auto dimming rear view mirror
- Electrically adjustable and folding door mirrors
- Heated door mirrors
Embellishment Trims
- Chrome interior detailing - door and dashboard decorative inserts
- Steering wheel mounted audio/telephone controls
- Media system with 8.25" colour touchscreen with proximity sensor, DAB, AM/FM Radio, 3 USB (type C), Aux-in, 8 speakers, SD card
- USB (type C) cable for Apple and Android compatibility
Exterior Body Features
- Exterior black mouldings
- Chrome front grille frame
- Fuel door linked to central locking
- Black bumpers
- Hidden exhaust pipe
- Body colour door mirrors and handles
- Power locking and remote control with two foldable keys and opening boot selector
- Black roof rails
- Black window trims
Exterior Lights
- LED daytime running lights
- Auto headlights with automatic coming and leaving home function
- Front halogen fog lights with cornering function
- Rear fog lights
- Automatic headlight adjustment
- Full LED headlights with LED rear lights
- LED licence plate lighting
- 3 zone climate control
Interior Features
- Leather wrapped multifunction steering wheel
- Black interior roof
- Centre armrest in front with air outlet in rear
- Luggage compartment floor with split function
- Leather gear knob
- Front cupholders
- Four cargo rings in the boot
- Leather steering wheel
- Tool kit
- Illuminated glovebox
- Storage draw under front passenger seat
- Gear shift indicator
- Three 12V sockets
- Olot cloth upholstery
Interior Lights
- Illuminated boot
- Instrument lighting with brightness control
- Ambient spot lighting and front footwell illumination
- Sliding boot cover
- Welcome lighting
- Tyre pressure monitoring system
- Drivers knee airbag
- Front passenger airbag deactivation
- Front side airbags
- Tiredness recognition system
- Active front head restraints
- Seatbelt reminders for all seats
- Two curtain airbags
- Driver/front passenger airbag
- 3x3 point rear seatbelts
- Height adjustable passenger seat
- Front seat back storage pockets
- Comfort front seats
- Height adjustable driver's seat
- Height adjustable front headrests
- Driver/passenger lumbar adjustment
- Rear armrest and easy back seat release mechanism from boot
- ISOFIX points in outer 2nd row seats and front passenger seat with top tether anchorage points
- Easy fold rear seat system - second and third row
- Forward and backward adjustable seats 2nd row
- Folding table on front seat backrests
- Rear head restraints
- Locking wheel bolts
- Keyless entry and go
- Alarm
- Central locking
- XDS electronic differential lock
Vanity Mirrors
- Driver and passenger sunvisor with covered and illuminated mirror
Wheels - Alloy
- 17" Dynamic alloy wheels v37/1
- 0 to 60 mph (secs)
- 0 to 62 mph (secs) 10.2
- Engine Power - BHP 150
- Engine Power - KW 110
- Engine Power - PS
- Engine Power - RPM 3500
- Engine Torque - LBS.FT 251
- Engine Torque - NM 340
- Engine Torque - RPM 1750
- Top Speed 125
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