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It is a showdown the likes of which Arizona has probably never seen. The two teams have been hand-picked, with money seemingly no object, from the cream of the Valley crop. The rosters read like a Who's Who of Arizona business hotshots--engineers, lobbyists, public relations flacks. Consultants of every stripe, from traffic to environmental to political. There's even a private detective or two in the mix.
And the lawyers. With this much at stake, there are certainly lots of lawyers buzzing around. All these lawyers are specialists. Zoning specialists, environmental specialists, regulatory specialists, contract specialists and media specialists. Specialists in the administration of, and defense against, defamation.
Talk to a few of them, and it quickly becomes apparent that they all know one another. This morning, they're savaging each other in court or in the newspapers; tonight they'll be sipping Cutty Sark at the Biltmore and talking about their new eight-irons. They're hired guns. It's just business. Nothing personal.
With so much intrigue and political hackery and money swirling around, and so many marquee names on the list of combatants, what they're all fighting about may seem anticlimactic.
They're all fighting about a mall. An off-price outlet mall.
The most basic question is usually the least entertaining one, and so it is here: Does the Valley really need another mall? Even another outlet mall? Even a bigger, busier, noisier outlet mall, with giant television screens and dozens ofmovie theatres and even a 700,000-gallon aquarium--er, sorry--"multisensory marine science center"?
It doesn't matter. The Valley's getting another mall. That fight was over before it even started. This fight is about where the mall will go.
Two national mall development giants--Petrie Dierman Kughn of McLean, Virginia, and Taubman Realty Group of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan--and Grossman Properties of Phoenix are hoping to develop the $100million, 100-acre Great Mall of Arizona at I10 and the Superstition Freeway.
Just four miles to the south, the Mills Corporation, a huge developer based in Washington, D.C., plans to put an even larger mall at I10 and Ray Road in Chandler. If it gets off the ground, it will be called Chandler Mills.
Both development groups say they have the experience and the tenants to make their plans work, even as both acknowledge that the Valley retail market can only support one of them. Somebody's going to make a lot of money, they all say, and somebody's going to lose a lot.
It may be an understatement to say that the scrap has reached ludicrous proportions; each development group has spent untold thousands so high-priced, high-profile locals can lob suits, countersuits and disinformation at one another.
Although the potential financial rewards for the victor are indeed huge, one thing just about everyone agrees on--off the record--is that the fight has become less about money and more about ego.
Retail development is a highly speculative enterprise, something akin to oil wildcatting. It is not the kind of business good losers get into.
"I have never seen, in my 20-plus years ofrepresenting developers, one developer go after another with so much vigor and misinformation," says Paul Gilbert, a high-profile zoning attorney who is working on the Chandler proposal. "I do not like what Isee happening."
But representatives for the Tempe proposal make the same kinds of comments, in virtually the same words.
For the cities involved, the struggle is less acrimonious, but hardly friendly. The stakes are too high. Tempe, where PDK and Taubman want to put the Great Mall of Arizona, is rapidly running out of open land to develop, and needs to squeeze every last sales-tax dime it can out of what acreage it has left.
Chandler, a smallish town sporting big-city ambition, wants to put Chandler Mills right next to Intel and Motorola in its municipal trophy case--nearly doubling its own annual sales-tax revenue in the process.
In their efforts to keep their respective projects on the fast track, both cities have cut corners and massaged zoning and approval processes and offered the developers hefty inducements to hurry up and break ground.
Ultimately, though, both sides agree on one thing. Neither group will start up the bulldozers until it's holding signed leases from enough big-name tenants ("anchors" in the retail vernacular) to secure financing. Neither developer has the $100 million or $150 million it needs for its project jangling around in its pockets. Banks aren't eager to lend that kind of money without ironclad lease commitments from retailers.
The ferocity of the fight already has both developers bleeding. PDK-Taubman wanted to break ground July 1, with completion scheduled for October 1996. How far back the groundbreaking has now been pushed, no one at the company will say.
The Mills project also was supposed to be under construction by now, so it would be finished at about this time next year. That timetable has been pushed back, too, and Mills and its spokespeople are as tightlipped about firm groundbreaking dates as their competition.
They are quiet about it because it is the key to the fight.
All of the lawsuits, disinformation and politicking on both sides are designed to do one thing: spook the other side's prospective anchors and delay groundbreaking. Both sides know that whoever starts moving dirt first will likely win the race of the outlet malls.
Which developer that will be is still anybody's guess. So is what this slugfest may mean for Arizona's business future.oRULEoThe ferocity of the battle of the Valley outlet malls cannot be understood without a bit of history.
Between them, PDK and Taubman own and run dozens of retail centers in other parts of the country. Neither has ever operated an off-price mall before. Both are hell-bent on proving they are up to the task.
Mills, with the construction and operation of four outlet malls under its belt, is the king of this kind of development. Like any king, it has less to prove in the Arizona competition, but more to lose.
Two of the developers have competed for the same turf in the past, in the construction of a conventional mall in the Milpitas, California, area near San Jose. PDK won out when Mills decided against building there.
PDK says Mills showed up like a new tomcat on the block, made a lot of noise about moving in, then slunk away.
Mills claims it didn't make it onto the scene until after PDK already had broken ground, and it was unable to find the chunk of land it needed for its own, bigger project. But, the company hastens to add, many tenants wanted to be a part of the Mills project--and only ended up in the Great Mall by default.
This history has obviously seeped into the Arizona outlet contest. The loathing representatives of the competing development groups feel for their counterparts is evident in their voices.
Paul Gilbert doesn't make much of an attempt to hide his feelings, either.
The tall, plainspoken, 50ish attorney is considered the dean of the Valley zoning trade, and his A-list of clients reflects his status: Hehas represented development colossus DelWebb, Valley newcomer Hard Rock Cafe, and convicted swindler/Phoenician resort developer Charles Keating.
Landmark Land Company can certainly attest to his negotiation skills.
Through Gilbert's efforts, Landmark gained approval of the vehemently antisprawl environmental group Sonoran North for a new 5,500-home planned community in the northeast Phoenix desert.
Among the latest entries on his client list is the developer of the Chandler mall, the Mills Corporation.
For all his experience handling high-dollar, high-stakes development, Gilbert says nothing has prepared him for the fight he finds himself in now.
What he sees happening, he says, is this: PDK and Taubman, late to the table with plans for an off-price mall in Tempe, are running a full-court press on Mills and the City of Chandler to stall construction of Chandler Mills. The developers will stop at nothing, Gilbert says, to stymie Mills' plans--something that has been admitted by Taubman's own attorneys.
In July, PDK and Taubman filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleging that the development agreement between Mills and Chandler violates state and federal air-quality laws and the Arizona Constitution. The analyses Chandler used to determine the effect mall traffic would have on air quality in the area were invalid, the suit says.
In addition, Taubman's attorneys claim that the improvements the city has agreed tomake to I10 at Ray Road are not consistent with requirements of the Arizona Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The suit asks that the court nullify Chandler's development agreement with Mills--effectively putting the Chandler Mills project back at square one, and sending a message to unsigned tenants that if they want to open anytime soon, they'd be wise to commit to space in the Great Mall.
"They're coming in and raising environmental questions," Gilbert says. "Their motivation is to slow our development down. They don't care about environmental concerns.
"What they're doing is very hypocritical."
He appears to have a point.
The traffic study PDK and Taubman used for their own project in Tempe is actually several years old--and was developed for a different mall that had previously been planned for their site. PDK and Taubman appear to have simply attached a new executive summary to the report and passed it off as current.
The development originally planned for the site was to be a conventional mall, which would have created different traffic patterns than an outlet mall. For example, ordinary mall traffic closely follows commuter patterns; outlet-mall traffic does not.
Despite the deficiencies in the traffic planning for the Tempe outlet mall, PDK and Taubman have gone to great efforts to discredit traffic arrangements for the Chandler mall proposal.
Earlier this summer, the Great Mall developers tried to convince the Maricopa Association of Governments to remove Chandler's plan for $1.6 million of highway improvements at I10 and Ray Road in Chandler from the state transportation program.
PDK and Taubman told MAG that Chandler's traffic studies were "inherently flawed" and failed to look at long-term safety and air-quality impacts. Also, the developers argued that it would cost more than the $1.6million Chandler was offering to widen the Ray Road off-ramp and overpass leading to the mall.
MAG didn't listen.
PDK and Taubman did not let that defeat deter them.
They hired Valley Yberlobbyist Larry Landry, who has worked for the group that tried last year to pass Proposition 400, a new freeway tax, and for the paint industry, which would like to avoid bans on selling spray paint to teenagers.
In short order, Landry convinced Phoenix officials to examine the effects Chandler Mills would have on their city. Phoenix also decided Chandler's planned improvements were adequate.
Though PDK and Taubman's efforts to stop Chandler Mills were not successful, the state transportation department eventually did require the City of Chandler to provide about $1 million more than the city originally planned to improve the Ray Road intersection with I10.
PDK and Taubman's traffic offensive didn't stop at local government.
Over the last few months, puzzled staff members at the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., have been deluged with reports, studies and complaints about Chandler Mills--apparently generated by PDK and Taubman and their Arizona help.
And notable help it has been. Earlier thissummer, Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano, Guadalupe Mayor Anna Hernandez and County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox flew to Washington--on Taubman's behalf--to ask the feds to examine Chandler's plans for I10 improvements near the mall.
Taubman has even gone so far as to appeal to Transportation Secretary Federico Pea. The company enjoyed a close relationship with Pea when it developed a successful mall during his tenure as mayor of Denver.
Gilbert feels it is somewhat unusual for two mayors and a county supervisor to fly to the nation's capital--and for a developer to appeal to a member of the president's cabinet--for the purpose of slowing down the construction of a mall in Chandler, Arizona.
"Since when have officials of a city ever done that to the developer of a project in another town?" he says. "I've never seen anything like it."
So far, Taubman's tactics do not seem to be paying off. But that doesn't faze an architect of the developer's assault, Washington, D.C., attorney Neil Proto.
"We are confident that we will prevail in the race to build the mall we want," Proto says flatly. "And we are willing to do whatever we must, at every level of government, to do so."
It is not the first time Taubman has employed such tactics. The developer has been in similar scraps in Annapolis, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut. Each time, Proto has launched attacks on the competition on two fronts--traffic and air quality. And though Proto's strategy has yet to work, both he and Andrew Hurwitz, the big-name attorney he has hired to employ it here, say they think the third time may be the charm.
Gilbert doesn't think their plan will succeed--but he doesn't like being on the receiving end of their technique, either. He questions his opponents' motivation.
"I would have to say that ego plays a part here," he says. "Mills is more market-driven and doesn't have anything to prove. I think Taubman sees this as more than a market decision. They want to make a big splash."oRULEoWalt Petrie, president of PDK, is an excitable guy who loves to talk about himself, his company and his mall-building exploits. He says he also loves a good fight--and, despite the headaches it has doubtless caused him, he seems to be relishing this one.
"They [Mills officials] have done a lot of complaining about the way things have gone out there," he says. "But this is business. This is the American way.
"Mills knows that as well as anybody."
Petrie also hastens to point out--correctly--that for all his talk about the ferocity of the attack on his client, Gilbert can only credibly carry the babe-in-the-woods routine so far. He didn't get his corner office--or his reputation--by letting the other guy roll over him.
Gilbert has pulled off his gloves, too.
"All we were looking for was a level playing field," Petrie says. "Now Mills is trying to regain the unfair advantage that they had."
After Mills was slapped with PDK's lawsuit in July, Gilbert and other attorneys representing the Chandler project started poring through the details of the Great Mall's development agreement with Tempe. They found plenty wrong with it, and filed a countersuit in early September.
Mills' suit--eerily remindful of PDK and Taubman's--basically contends that Tempe, in its rush to beat Chandler Mills to groundbreaking, violated both city and state zoning laws, as well as Tempe's own general plan. The suit asks that the city and Great Mall developers be required to start their approval processes all over again, which would bump back their groundbreaking--and presumably spook unclaimed tenants into signing with Chandler Mills.
Petrie says Mills' efforts will go for naught. He says he has signed leases for space at the Great Mall from Oshman's Supersports USA, Linens N Things superstore, and Off Fifth, Saks Fifth Avenue's outlet arm.
"They [Mills] are claiming that Tempe forced through all these approvals because they can see that we're attracting a lot of attention from tenants," Petrie says. "They're scared, and they're worried. We beat them once [in Milpitas], and we're going to beat them again."
Tempe did act hastily to get the necessary approvals for the Great Mall, and here's why: The project is just the kind of development city planners want to attract--and soon, because they are running out of land.
Eighty-three percent of Tempe's land is filled; a third of it with homes, apartments or condominiums, and more by Arizona State University. Within a few years, almost 95percent of the available land in Tempe is projected to be developed. Tempe Community Development Director Terry Day says that within 15 years, the city will be "built out"--that is, totally full.
Zoning questions, then, have become more urgent and controversial as the city's land squeeze has tightened. City officials like Day must work to balance commercial and residential uses. More than 40 percent of the city's general fund comes from local sales taxes. Houses cost the city more for services than the revenue their property taxes produce.
It isn't difficult to imagine what kind of development the city wants to cultivate.
"We need the right kinds of development," Day says. "We're running out of land. We have to plan for the city's future revenue needs."
Besides tiny Guadalupe to its west, Tempe is the only city in the state that has all its boundaries determined by other entities: Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to the north, Phoenix to the west, Chandler to the south and Mesa to the east.
To beef up the tax base, the city has two main projects planned: the Rio Salado, north of downtown along the Salt River, which officials hope will become a retail and commercial tax-generating plum à la San Antonio's River Walk, and the Great Mall, which would generate millions of dollars a year in sales taxes.
It is this zeal for sales-tax revenue that, Gilbert claims, drove Tempe officials to break the law, hoping to beat Mills in the mall race.
Mills' suit appears to have merit; Tempe's general plan says the southeast corner of I10 and the Superstition Freeway is to include amixture of owner-occupied residential, retail, office and industrial properties. Theplan for the Great Mall, the suit points out, does not contain any provisions for owner-occupied residential development.
Public documents show that the city's planning staff recognized the need for a general plan amendment for the proposed outlet mall.
"Normally, a zoning change of this nature would trigger a need to modify General Plan 2000 if one of the uses was not owner-occupied residential," a staff report says. No such amendment was made.
Also, the suit claims that, rather than having zoning variances approved by the city's Board of Adjustment, Tempe occasionally, "in connection with certain favored projects," allows such rulings to be made by the city council, acting as the Board of Adjustment. That is what the city did with the Great Mall.
Mills contends that such a move by the Tempe City Council was illegal. Whether it was illegal, the council's action illustrates how loyalties and principles can become scrambled in a fight as acrimonious as this one.
When Gilbert says the Tempe City Council sometimes makes zoning decisions in place of the Board of Adjustment, it's because he knows. Gilbert has represented multiple clients in such actions before the city, which Petrie points out with glee.
"He's doing what he has to do," Petrie says. "I understand it. But for Mills to be going around saying that we're hypocrites is absurd. We are no more hypocritical than they are."
Mills has fought the Great Mall with some other fairly unconventional and heavy-handed tactics. After it was sued by PDK-Taubman, and then countersued, the company commissioned Rust Environment and Infrastructure, a national engineering firm, to execute a traffic engineering study ofthe PDK-Taubman site. The study concluded that the Great Mall would create a "traffic nightmare" on Baseline Road and at the I10/Baseline interchange.
Mills then used the traffic study as the linchpin of a public relations attack.
Cardboard leaflets with covers reading, "What's the last thing you want popping up in your neighborhood?" were left hanging in plastic bags from the doorknobs of thousands of Tempe homes. When residents opened the leaflets, photos of a gridlocked freeway popped up, along with the ominous news that the Great Mall would create the "Super Bowl of traffic jams."
The leaflet went on to say that the Great Mall's developers, "who have no experience building malls of this magnitude--are in over their heads ... especially evidenced by their inability to make realistic traffic projections."
Mills' claim in the flier that PDK and Taubman have never built a mall "of this magnitude" is incorrect. PDK's Great Mall of the Bay Area in California is approximately 1.5 million square feet, generating around $4million in sales-tax revenues every year. Both those numbers are slightly larger than what the developers are predicting from the Great Mall in Tempe.
Also, Petrie says, his opponents' traffic study is incorrect and points out that Mills approached the owners of the Great Mall site before settling on the one in Chandler. Though Mills says it was initially attracted to the Great Mall site because of the heavy nearby traffic (the intersection of I10 and the Superstition Freeway is the busiest in the state), access concerns caused it to look elsewhere.
Petrie attributes Mills' actions to jealousy.
"We have a better site than they do," he says. "It's that simple. They looked at it themselves, didn't want to spend the money on a site this good and now are saying it's bad. That's ridiculous."
Among the most troubling questions raised by the great mall race are these: At what point does healthy business competition become unhealthy? Are cities willing to go so far to secure sales-tax revenues that they damage themselves in the long run? What messages do conflicts such as these send toother companies interested in building or locating in the Valley?
There is a fundamental conflict between two important tenets of city revenue planning, says Mary Jo Waits of ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy. To pay for fire, police and other services, cities need an adequate sales-tax base. Consequently, they strive to lure large merchants inside their borders. But zoning large parcels of land for retail means that there is less space left for companies that produce stable, high-paying jobs--which are also extremely important to a city.When a city finds itself running out of available land, as Tempe is, the choices it has to make about employment versus revenue can become agonizing.
"It would be good if Arizona towns could focus on high-quality, high-paying jobs that offer benefits and enough money for people with families to live on," she says. "The question is how towns will use inducements. Will they try to get those kinds of high-tech businesses and services, or will they go for retail?"
In this deal, Tempe comes out the loser inany comparison with Chandler regarding bang for incentive bucks. Tempe will reimburse the Great Mall's developers $14.5million from sales-tax revenues for infrastructure already under construction to make the property accessible. The developer will receive 70percent of the sales-tax revenues from the mall for 12 years, or until the $14.5 million is paid off, whichever comes first.
The city will pay an additional $8 million for improvements to the roads surrounding the Great Mall. For its $22million effort, then, Tempe will get a development that beefs up its sales-tax bottom line by about 6percent annually.
Chandler has agreed to pay back the $2.6million it will "borrow" from Mills for its own infrastructure improvements with sales-tax refunds to the mall. For this relatively small investment, however, the city will see its annual sales-tax revenue nearly double.
Another key factor in deciding the amount and type of incentives for a large retail development is employment. Is there an ironclad agreement that the business will hire employees from inside the city?
While Tempe's Great Mall is expected to provide thousands of jobs, there is no agreement about where tenants will find the people to fill them. Guadalupe Mayor Anna Hernandez has waxed enthusiastic about the Great Mall, saying it will provide much-needed work for underemployed citizens of her town. She also boasts that the mall will be within walking distance for her constituents, more than 40 percent of whom do not own cars.
Without some commitment from mall retailers, however, the question must be asked: With a labor pool made up of thousands of young, energetic ASU students just minutes away, how many Guadalupe residents will find jobs in the mall? Developers are happy to accept endorsements from local politicians, but neither PDK-Taubman nor Mills has made anyone any promises in this respect. Nor has any of either mall's confirmed tenants.
The war of the malls has also raised the question of whether predatory business practices may affect companies considering a move to Arizona.
Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny says the outlet-mall battle has stretched tactical and strategic boundaries dangerously.
"It's kind of uncharted territory," Tibshraeny says. "What we may be doing to ourselves in the long run, I don't know. The only ones really making out here are the consultants and the lawyers."
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Paul Gilbert says he thinks Arizona is considered a good place to do business by other parts of the country. And that perception may change if politico-legal conflicts like themall war occur on a regular basis. Competition is a good thing--but there is a point when you can have too much of it.
"I don't think it's healthy," Gilbert says. "We're sending all the wrong messages out. Competition is good when it's about improving the quality of your product, but that's not what is happening here. We're only trying to slow each other down, to hurt each other's chances of getting off the ground.
"I have not enjoyed this fight.


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Helicopter Missing In Central California
UPDATE: Sheriff's officials have located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing in Central California, and they say the female pilot is dead. The wreckage was found in a vineyard about 4 hours after the helicopter was reported missing.
A helicopter has gone missing on its expected return to Delano Airport in Kern County.
A spokesperson from the Federal Aviation Administration says the helicopter was returning to the airport when it disappeared around 6:15am, Wednesday.
It was one of three helicopters that were supposed to be conducting frost control on a local field. The two other helicopters returned as expected.
The spokesperson says one of the returning pilots was unable to contact the missing pilot by radio.
Sheriff's officials are searching the area.

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Special for The Willits News
Warm spring weather combined with lower-than-average rainfall totals means Little Lake Valley residents can be certain area vegetation will dry early, increasing the danger of fire during the 2013 fire season.
"Now is the time to act," Little Lake Fire Chief Carl Magann says. "Every homeowner and property manager needs to take action now and remove this combustible fuel."
While there is little valley residents can do about the weather, "we do have the means to control the buildup of fuel and vegetation around our homes and businesses," Magann notes.
"Weeds detract from the appearance of individual properties and our neighborhoods. When left unattended, they can turn to seed and spread throughout the neighborhood, creating problems for other properties."
Weeds also create a fire hazard, Magann says, "endangering the property and surrounding neighborhood, and can provide cover for transients or a food source for insects and rodents."
Willits' Municipal Code, as well as the California Fire Code, prohibit excessive intrusion of weeds on private property, Magann notes.
"Tall weeds are considered a nuisance," he says, "and also may be deemed a fire hazard. In the event overgrown weeds are found to constitute a fire hazard, the fire department will provide a notice of violation to inform property owners/managers the necessity to remove the weeds and combustible fuels from their properties."
The notice is "a courtesy reminder" sent by the Fire Prevention office to owners of parcels within the City of Willits, reminding them they are responsible for weed abatement on their properties by June 28.
Beginning May 13, "the fire department will actively begin conducting inspections on all affected properties," Magann adds. "Properties not in compliance with the city Municipal Code and the California Fire Code will be issued an official notice of violation for compliance. If by June 29 the lot or property is still not in compliance, property owners will receive a citation, a hired contractor will abate the problem, and the property owner will be billed."
Anyone who receives a notice from the Little Lake Fire Protection District is "encouraged to act on it promptly," Magann says.
Residents who have a concern about fire-prone grass and brush near their home, or want a list of abatement contractors, should contact the Little Lake Fire Protection District at 459-6271.
"Someone will investigate whether brush or grass removal is necessary," Magann says.


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Quick Take
- While Intel's short term growth might suffer from the PC slowdown and a small footprint in the mobile computing market, we believe it has strong fundamentals to support a higher valuation.
- New ultrabook designs, a stronger mobile push and Intel's technology lead over its competitors support our belief in its long term growth potential.
- Lower price points, touch screen features and more convertibles and detachable designs will help spur ultrabook demand in the future; ultrabook shipments are expected to increase from 10.3 million in 2012 to 95 million by 2016.
- Though Intel only has 12 smartphones and 15 tablets to its credit so far, it has made good progress in mobile computing in the last year.
- It has introduced its new Silvermont chip which it believes is one of the biggest chip architecture advances in its history; an expanding mobile portfolio will help Intel increase its penetration in the smartphone and tablet market.
- Intel is the only chip maker with its own manufacturing, design and fabrication capabilities and the only company to design chips in the 22nm node; it intends to start production on the 14-nm process early next year.
Dominating the PC microprocessor market for the last two decades, Intel's (NASDAQ:INTC) growth rate has slowed on account of persistent weakness in the global PC market. The company closed its fiscal 2012 with 1.2% and 15% declines in annual revenue and net income respectively. Though the downward trend continued in Q1 2013 with Intel witnessing a 3% decrease in sales, we think the company managed to hold its ground well in the light of drastic decline in global PC shipments in the quarter (13.9% y-o-y). (Read: Intel Holds Its Ground Despite Dismal PC Sales)
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With more than 80% and 90% share in the PC and server microprocessor markets respectively, Intel has a near monopoly in these two markets. However, the company considerably lags leading ARM-technology based players such as Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) in the mobile processor market, which is the fastest growing segment in the semiconductor industry.
Intel has made good progress in alternate markets with new product launches and design wins last year. Being more responsive to customer demands in the mobile computing segment is one of the key growth strategies of its newly appointed CEO Brian Krzanich. For 2013, Intel has a robust pipeline of new platforms and products, which we feel will help increase its competitiveness in the market.
Intel's stock has increased by more than 20% in the last six month. While its short term growth might suffer from the PC slowdown and a small footprint in the mobile computing market, we believe the company has strong fundamentals to support a higher valuation. In this article, we discuss certain key developments that reiterate our belief in Intel's long term growth potential.
See our complete analysis for Intel
Ultrabook Improvement & New Designs Will Spur Demand
Despite introducing a $300 million fund for its development and promotion last year, Intel's ultrabooks failed to garner the expected response. While research firm IHS iSuppli initially estimated a total of 22 million ultrabooks to be shipped in 2012, it cut its forecast to just 10.3 million towards the end of the year. [1]
The high price point has been one of the key reasons for the lower that expected demand for ultrabooks. In its Q1 2013 earnings call, Intel announced that ultrabook prices will decline to $599 with some models available for even $499 by this year end. Additionally, early next month, Intel will launch its fourth generation core processor family, code-named Haswell. The processor promises to offer improved performance and up to 13 hours of battery life, in turn enabling a broad new range of ultra-sleek designs across multiple form factors. Intel claims that that touch-enabled Intel-based thin notebooks will be available for as low as $300 and probably below that in the future. [2]
We believe that lower price points, touch screen features and more convertibles and detachable designs will help spur ultrabook demand in the future. IHS estimates ultrabook shipments to reach 95 million by 2016, accounting for almost one-third of the global laptop market. [1]
Stronger Mobile Push With The Overhaul Of Atom Processors
Earlier this month, Intel's outgoing CEO Paul Otellini admitted that refusing a chance to supply chips for Apple's first iPhone six years back was perhaps his biggest mistake. [3] Intel marked its entry in the mobile market at the start of 2012, and its Atom processors power only 12 smartphones and 15 tablets at present, whereas ARM Holdings accounts for close to 90% of the market. ((Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first speech as CEO, Computer World, May 16, 2013))
Nevertheless, the company has made good progress in mobile computing in the last year. As Intel's processor in general consumed more power, they were not considered suitable for use in mobile devices. However, it has worked towards developing more energy efficient chips and its processors now compete with ARM designs on performance, and have equal or better power and battery life. Intel continues to focus on producing more energy efficient chips and adding features for connectivity and security.
Earlier this month, Intel introduced its new Silvermont chip which promises to offer three times more performance or similar level of performance using five times less power compared to the Atom chips. Intel believes that Silvermont is one of the biggest chip architecture advances in its history. Intel's first quad-core Atom SoC (Bay Trail) for tablets and the Merrifield platform for smartphones will be based on the new architecture. Both platforms will start shipping in the second half of 2013.
Intel recently introduced one of the industry's smallest and lowest-power multimode-multiband LTE solutions (XMM 7160) that supports smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks. It currently ships the single-mode 4G LTE data solution, and remains on track to ship multimode voice and data LTE baseband solutions by the end of this year. Despite increasing competition, we believe that an expanding mobile portfolio will help Intel increase its penetration in the smartphone and tablet market.
Intel's Technology Leadership Places It Ahead Of Competition
Within the semiconductor industry, Intel is known to have huge R&D capabilities. It is the only chip maker with its own manufacturing, design and fabrication capabilities, which makes it less dependent on other companies. It is also the only company to design chips in the 22nm node while even its closest competitors are still producing chips on the 28 nm node. Last year, Intel pumped in $4.1 billion into ASML Holdings (NASDAQ:ASML), to fund the next generation chipmaking technology.
Intel continues to invest in its manufacturing leadership. In 2012, it ramped up its 22-nm factories and intends to start production on the 14-nm process early next year. Intel purchased $11 billion in capital assets and invested more than $10 billion in R&D in 2012, the highest in the industry.
In addition to the above developments, Intel's data center group also underwent a comprehensive renewal across its product line, which we feel will contribute to higher revenue from this segment in the future. The semiconductor industry is undergoing a period of transition and innovation. With a robust portfolio of new platforms and products, we feel Intel is well positioned to leverage growth across the wide range of devices, from low power portable devices to powerful data centers.
Our $27.58 price estimate for Intel is at a premium of over 10% to the current market price.
Understand How a Company's Products Impact its Stock Price at TrefisNotes:
- Why Ultrabooks are falling well short of Intel's targets, PC Pro, October 2, 2012 [↩] [↩]
- Intel's CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results – Earnings Call Transcript, Seeking Alpha, April 16, 2013 [↩]
- Outgoing Intel-CEO has just one regret: Missing out on the iphone, Neowin.net, May 17, 2013 [↩]


text: Did anyone else get the impression that John Benton is a bit of a boob? I watched the video clip from HT.com http://www.houstontexans.com/tv/# and the things that stood out to me were that both Pitts and Salaam said that he spent most of his time with the younger players. (and I got the impression that they were suggesting that they had been somewhat left to their own devices.) I am not of the opinion that the OL has been the majority of the problem in regards to sack numbers BUT I do think that they have probably developed some bad habits with all the coaching changes and Carr-isms that they've had to deal with over the years. Pitts said something to the effect of "you know, if your technique isn't that good but you are working hard and being physical he's (Benton) the first to pat you on the back and say nice job." Shouldnt he STILL be demanding better technique from these professional football players? Perhaps this is a sign that our OL is actually quite good (despite the high sack numbers) and doesn't require that much work. I'm trying to spin my own opinion into a more positive light. Anyway, what are your thoughts?


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Socialbidragstagandets mönster - en studie av varaktighet och utträden under 2000-talet
Long term take-up of means-tested social assistance benefits increased rapidly in Sweden during the economic downturn of the 1990s and is at present established at levels well beyond those we saw before the crisis. In previous analyses of long term social assistance recipients the group has been defined as those with at least ten months of take-up in a calender year. However, this definition lacks the precision we need for a close scrutinsation of patterns of take-up durations and for analyses of transitions from take-up to self-maintenance. As from year 2002 official statistical records of social assist¬ance payments contain information for each month at the individual level. In the article we analyse these data linked to Statistics Sweden's LISA-database containing information of e.g. education, labour market attachment, and income for the total adult population. The article is primarily descriptive in character and aims at reflecting the patterns of social assis¬tance take-up during the first years of the new century more precisely than what has been possible in previous analyses. The analyses show that how we define both measurements and popu¬la¬tion at risk is of uttermost importance for what results may be obtained. Depending on these definitions median duration of take-up varies between 2 and 19 months. When we look at what type of income maintenance that is established the year after the termination of a take-up spell we find that the shorter the take-up period the more likely it is that the former reci¬pient will have gained at least some foothold in the labour market. However, the probability that he or she will be a student, begin at new period of social assistance take-up, or have an un¬konwn income source, increases by take-up duration. Furthemore, the analyses show that the probability to leave long-term take-up in the 2000s is lower as compared to the beginning of the 1990s.
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Obscure, Weird, Brutal, Strange, Finnish. I guess this sums it up quiet much. An obscure CD from this Finnish "all-star"-band. Weird in terms of the musical mix they perform:
While guitars and drums are playing a slower variant of Black Metal with some rare outbursts but totally memorable riffs, the vocals are much more Death Metal like. Not in the Demigod vein, more like newer Aeternus. And what it makes really brutal: there are a lot of industrial/horror sound samples as intros or inside the songs. And they fit perfectly. this gives a whole new approach to this band. Totally unique till date.
What is left ? Strange and Finnish. Ok, strange, because I never heard such a mixture. And never heard such a great instrumental intro-song. Wow, usually I skip intros as soon as they get boring, but this introsong grows more and more. Last but not least "Finnish". The Black Metal scene there seems one of the most productive ones, with a lot of quality stuff. This CD prooves it again.


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YouTube Classes It Up For Guggenheim Video Contest
The Guggenheim Museum's trademark white spiral has been pressed into the service of many artists. But its matching exterior was recently used as a projection screen for video, promoting a joint project with YouTube, called Play. That's because the winner of a two-year video art contest will be announced tonight.
The contest drew more than 20,000 applications of everything from jump-cut documentary to animations — and lots of work that meshes live-action with high design. The jury's not-so-short Short List has some fascinating stuff in it — enough so that you might feel a bit bummed out when you return to the standard YouTube diet of office freakouts and silly pets.
One the most-viewed pieces is "Human Mirror," with 5.2 million hits. In it, 15 pairs of twins filled a New York City subway car and sat across from one another — and then cameras rolled as people got on the car and gradually took note of their mirrored passengers.
On the other, less fanciful, hand, there's "Taxi III Stand Up and Cry Like a Man," a short documentary in which cab drivers in Northern Ireland recount their run-ins with violence during the "Troubles" of the 1980s and '90s.
And then there's Western Spaghetti, a stop-action animation of a meal being made out of sticks and Rubik's cubes — complete with white yarn shredded "cheese" and pats of Post-It "butter."
The jury for YouTube Play includes some big names — like Laurie Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Shirin Neshat, and Takashi Murakami. The winner's work will be streamed tonight at 8 pm ET.


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New Software Reveals Local Deformation of Specimen and Component Surfaces
Instron revealed its new Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Software. This new combination of hardware and software is designed to optically detect strain and displacement within a defined area on the surface of specimens or components exposed to loads, and visualize these in real-time on a computer screen, so that they can be traced over the entire duration of the test.
Image and calibration data is supplied by an Instron Advanced Video Extensometer (AVE). The associated DIC software provides visualization and also saves the data at an adjustable rate of up to 50 Hz in the form of individual images for subsequent analysis in post-processing mode. The software runs independently of other programs, and leverages the graphical layout and tabbed style of Instron's Bluehill Materials Testing Software – making the user interface familiar and easy to use.
For more information, visit www.instron.com


text: Business & EconomyZimbabwe seeks stability in tourism Industry hopes UN summit and latest elections will help rebuild country's battered international image. 25 Aug 2013 11:19 GMT | Business & Economy, Environment, Africa, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe wants to attract more tourists, following weeks of negative headlines over President Robert Mugabe's re-election. So co-hosting a UN tourism summit seems like the ideal way to show off Zimbabwe's holiday attractions. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Victoria Falls.Source: Al Jazeera


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Georgeous HairThis shampoo along with the moisture nourishing conditioner has truly transformed my hair. My hair is the softest it has ever been after I wash and condition. After strugging all summer long, without having a perm and the humidity that comes along with living in the south, my hair would frizz up as soon as I walked out the door. This shampoo and conditioner changed it. My hair is now georgeous...read more, I no longer have to run from the parking lot to my office building, to keep the humidity from attacking my hair. — 7 years agoStacy_gapeach | 29 reviews
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Happy Birthday, G-Bob!
You can have a bite, if you want.
We miss you tons.
So we made a little video for you. (If you listen closely, you can hear the ocean. Just kidding. That's just the waves of chaos crashing over a bowl of cereal.)
And here's some other stuff to make you smile. (Ignore that picture of me. It's your grandkids who are singing.)


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Muskogee Man Attacked by Two Pit Bulls Shares His Story
A man nearly mauled to death by two pit bulls is out of the hospital, but still recovering. The July attack happened in Muskogee. On Monday the victim spoke exclusively to Channel 8's Yaremi Farinas.
"Sometimes I am on the porch and I glance that way and I have thoughts of what happened," Boulet said.
On July 14, 2014 Boulet saw his neighbor's pit bull jump a fence and nearly attack a little boy.
"He was going after the kid so that's when I rushed up and I told the kid run up on the porch," Boulet said.
The dog lunged at Boulet and seconds later a second pit bull escaped from the gated yard.
"That's when I caught him by the throat and we were tussling and he started saying crying because I was putting a grip on him," Boulet said.
At one point Boulet slipped and fell and the dogs took advantage of him.
"When I slipped and I had my arms like this here and I looked up and that's when the bog dog he came in and he snapped right here," Boulet said.
The struggle lasted about 10 to 15 minutes. He tried reaching for his knife, but the dogs continued to bite him. Boulet kept fighting. He believes that's one reason he is still alive today.
"Not only fighting back but my son and my neighbor was able to come and hit on those dogs," Boulet said.
His injuries were so severe, he spent a month in a hospital and has undergone several surgeries.
"He had to have surgery to put the food pump into his stomach because he couldn't eat or drink with his mouth," said Debra Boulet.
While it's hard to accept what happened to him, Boulet believes he was at the right place at the right time.
"Lord knows what happened and he blessed me for saving that kid's life because I was sitting on the porch for some reason," Boulet said.
Boulet still has scars on his legs, arms stomach and face. He said he will need plastic surgery to repair his facial wounds.
According to the Muskogee County District Attorney's Office, they have the case, but as of right now there are no charges filed.


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Emma Stone Talks Heartbreak and Ryan Gosling in 'Interview' Magazine
It's Emma Stone, The Matrix edition. At least that's what it looks like in her newest spread for Interview magazine. The slicked-back hair, the winged dark eye shadow, the black leather… It's definitely a far cry from the colorful, demure styles anyone's used to seeing on the bubbly star. But fashion's not what the actress from The Amazing Spider-Man is dishing on in the September 2012 issue. Instead, she's talking heartbreak (not from Andrew Garfield, so don't worry), paparazzi and her frequent co-star, Ryan Gosling.
When speaking of past break-ups, she admits, "Like, within the hour. I remember being on the floor… I have never felt anything quite like that. It was so visceral. It's like someone has killed you and you have to live through it and watch it happen… It was awful."
As for the now never-ending hounding from the paparazzi: "Of course, you do have that moment where you want to say, 'I don't know why there are eight of you here, and I'd like to have a conversation with you so I can know why you need this picture of me walking around…' And there are people who start to get really self-defensive and preach to you about why you're wrong for questioning it… Sometimes they're like, 'You chose this! Why'd you pick Spider-Man?' and you feel like an object or a zoo animal or something." Exhibit A.
But what Emma had to say wasn't all negative. In fact, when speaking about her on-screen love from Gangster Squad and Crazy, Stupid Love, Ryan Gosling, she had nothing but good things to spill: "I've asked him to read a couple of scripts. I just really like hearing his viewpoint because I know that it's never going to be tainted. He's very much his own person. It has really just been scripts so far, because I only met him two years ago when we did Crazy, Stupid, Love, but it was like meeting a member of your team or something. I really like his brain."
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 07:50:45PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Marko Kreen writes: > > Put encode() into base system. Used part of Alex' patch > > for docs, hope he does not mind ;) > > Please use #include "", not #include <>, for PostgreSQL's header files. > > Would you mind changing the copyright to match the rest of the source? > > Put everything in encode.c (not varlena.c), and put encode.c in utils/adt. > > I think we've covered before that 'uint' is not a standard data type. > VARSIZE is of type int32 (signed). > > To convert from text to C string, use textout(). > > Also, I think the term "encode" is already overloaded for multibyte use. > Maybe it needs to be qualified, such as "binary_encode". Used 'unsigned' in encoding code. -- marko
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A Salinas man faces more than 100 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl over a four-year period, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
In a jury trial, Jose Luna, 36, was found guilty of 22 felony sexual offenses, including multiple counts of lewd acts on a child, forcible oral copulation and unlawful intercourse with a minor.
Prosecutors said Luna committed the acts in his home when the victim was between 13 and 17.
After the jury verdict, Judge John M. Phillips, who is retired but sitting in for a few weeks this summer, found that Luna had committed a prior strike under the state's three strikes law, based on an assault with a firearm conviction in 1996. Having a second strike can double the next prison sentence.
Sentencing is set for Aug.15.
Alzheimer's group holds caregiver workshop
An interactive workshop, "Duty Bound: The Stress of Limitless Caregiving," will be held 1:30 to 3:30p.m. Tuesday at the Alzheimer's Association, 21 Lower Ragsdale Drive.
Discussion will focus on making sure caregivers recognize their own needs and limits. To register, call 800-272-3900.


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Trunk Bar & Restaurant
A few days back we celebrated Felisa's birthday at Trunk Bar & Restaurant. They have a restaurant (the one above), diner hall as well as outdoor garden dining. A great restaurant only needs good food and good music and great company. We had a pizza party that night.
Note: My virgin bloody Mary is nasty.
Fries & Aioli, 8.50AUD + Rocket & Parmesan, 8.50AUD
I couldn't stop eating them fries and the aioli sauce is pretty darn good. The Rocket Salad on the other hand was too salty. Meh!
Capricciosa, 18.50AUD
Even though I'm not a huge fan of Trunk bar & Restaurant's pizza crust, I do still think that the pizza main ingredients are pretty good. With the ham being switched to chicken, this Capricciosa has a tomato base with chicken, scamorza, mushrooms, black olives.
Zucca, 17.50AUD
For a vegetarian option, you can order Zucca which consists of tons of caramelized pumpkin slices, gorgonzola (blue cheese), dried tomatoes and sprinkles of candied walnuts.
I never liked blue cheese because of its strong awful taste. If you're a fan though you should love it.
Funghi, 19AUD
Nothing beats wild mushrooms I could eat them non stop. Drenched in stracchino cheese and some red bell peppers, its good to go.
Gamberi, 22AUD
Tiger prawns, peas, chili and some roasted garlic on a tomato paste pizza. I kinda like it.
With the gorgeous Indonesian girls
Once again Happy birthday beautiful 🙂
I sure had fun that night.
Trunk Bar & Restaurant
275 Exhibition Street, CBD
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Tel: +(61) 03 9663 7994
Mon to Fri: 12pm-12am
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Summer is growing nearer and I have two weeks left of school. I have many projects to complete in the next couple of months. I will continue educational blogs and offer advice for getting your child academically ready for next school year!
Saturday May 12
Leaders, Followers, & Peer Pressure
Some children are natural born leaders and some are not. Some children will follow others anywhere and everywhere that they go. This article discusses characteristics of both personalities.
Summer Activity Bags
While browsing through an education magazine, I found a great idea for summer bags to give to students. In this article, I adapt the idea and share it with you!
Sunday, May 13
Helping Your Child Stay Strong in Values
In a previous article, I discussed leaders and followers. In this article, I give advice on how to help your follower follow the right people.
A to Z Educational and Fun Summer Activities: A-H
This article is the beginning of my series on fun and educational summer activities. I discussed letters A through H. Activities such as ants, butterflies, cooking, and exploring are suggested.
Perks of Public Education: J = Job Security
In my view, teachers will always be in demand. I do not fear getting to work and being laid-off or changed to a different shift. Job security is another perk of public education.
Monday, May 14
A to Z Educational and Fun Summer Activities: I-N
In continuation with my educational and fun summer activities, I address letters I through N. In this article, I discuss activities such as earning money, getting outdoors for exercise, and keeping a journal.
Perks of Public Education: K = Kids
Kids are what teaching is all about. To be a teacher you must love and respect children. Without a love for kids, the job of teaching would be very miserable.
Concerns of Public Education: J = Job Placement
Although most teachers in general do not fear losing their job from year to year, they may fear what grade level and school to which they will be assigned. Teachers can be moved from grade to grade or even from school to school.
Tuesday, May 15
A to Z Educational and Fun Summer Activities: O-T
This article discusses fun and educational summer activities for the letters O through T. Pretend play and quiet time are among some activities discussed.
Concerns of Public Education: K = Keeping Records
I have never been a pro at staying organized. However, being a teacher often requires a lot of organization. We must keep a record for everything! Therefore, keeping records is a concern of mine.
Think You are Too Old to Return to College- Read This!!
The oldest lady in the world graduated from college this year at the age of 95. Read more for all of the details!
Wednesday, May 16
Perks of Public Education: L = Love
Many teachers get a great reception each day when they arrive at work. The children are excited to see you and make you feel needed. It is a wonderful feeling to have a job like this!
Thoughts on the Recent Faked Gun Attack
The recent faked gun attack on a group of students was terrible. The teachers involved were suspended. There were many comments and opinions on this topic. Read them here!
A to Z Educational and Fun Summer Activities: U to Z
This is the last of the educational and fun summer activities series. The article discusses vines, examining, and going to the zoo.
Thursday, May 17
Perks of Public Education: M = Music
Music is a wonderful part of education. A good music program and a great music teacher are strong components to a school. If a music program is not available, teachers can add music to their curriculum.
Concerns of Public Education: L = Lice
Lice have always been a concern to me. How they are treated is the real concern. Some parents do not treat their children and the problem is enhanced.
End of the Year Ideas for Teachers
Many teachers like to give their students a memory book for the end of the year. This article offers ideas for teachers.
Friday, May 18
My Day- I have a Substitute!
I took off from school today to travel to a school in Nashville. I went to surprise my nieces and spend field day with them.
Concerns of Public Education: N = New Teachers
The preparation of new teachers should be a concern to the school systems and education programs. In addition to preparing new teachers, we also need to provide support for them once they have a classroom of their own.


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THE image of Michael Clarke doubled over in agony, tears welling in his eyes, summed up the finale to this match and series as appropriately as anything.
Struck on the protector by an otherwise innocuous delivery from Vernon Philander after lunch on Monday, his pain reflected the ruthless way in which Australia was felled at the WACA Ground.
It was disappointing enough that Ricky Ponting's last hurrah from Test cricket was an unremarkable scratching together of eight runs.
For the ambitious Clarke, though, the whole debacle will be viewed as a missed opportunity to crown his captaincy with a return to the top of the Test charts.
Australia should have won last week in Adelaide, but having been thwarted by the stubborn Faf du Plessis, the might of the South Africans awoke to deliver the heaviest of defeats, by 309 runs, in Perth.
South Africa's second successive series win on Australian soil, following hot on the heels of its triumph in England, confirms the Proteas as the leading force in Test cricket, and by some distance.
The Proteas are the first visiting nation to succeed in back-to-back trips here since the West Indies two decades ago.
''From Adelaide, us not winning that second Test match, they kept running with momentum and certainly outplayed us in this third Test,'' Clarke said.
''I think throughout the series we probably missed opportunities. We dropped a few too many catches and you can't afford to do that against such great players.''
Clarke defended the resting of two of his bowlers from Adelaide, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus, and insisted blame should not lie with the new pace attack that was brought in as a result in Perth.
Instead, in assigning culpability, he pointed towards their collapse with the bat for 163 on Saturday.
''If Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus were fit, they would have played,'' he said. ''We can talk about rotation as much as we like, but the fact was they weren't 100 per cent fit to take part in this Test match.
''I believe the reason we didn't win, or give ourselves the best chance to win this Test match, is because of the way we batted in our first innings.''
Siddle (hamstring) and Hilfenhaus (knee) are both tipped to overcome niggles and be available for next week's first Test against Sri Lanka in Hobart.
Successfully reaching an enormous victory target of 632 was never realistic for Australia, and any hopes the hosts had went down in flames in the first session on day four.
David Warner was given his marching orders for 29 after the second ball of the day, sent down by Philander, and the dominoes promptly fell.
Australia's squad for Hobart is expected to be named on Friday.
South Africa (1st Innings) 225
Australia (1st Innings) 163
South Africa (2nd Innings) 569
Australia (2nd Innings - overnight 0-40)
E COWAN c Elgar b Steyn 53
D WARNER c Smith b Philander 29
S WATSON c Smith b Morkel 25
R PONTING c Kallis b Peterson 8
M CLARKE st de Villiers b Peterson 44
M HUSSEY c de Villiers b Steyn 26
M WADE c Smith b Peterson 10
J HASTINGS c Smith b Morkel 20
M JOHNSON c de Villiers b Philander 3
M STARC not out 68
N LYON c Smith b Steyn 31
Sundries (3lb, 2w) 5
Total 322
Fall of wickets: 40 (Warner), 81 (Watson), 102 (Ponting), 130 (Cowan), 188 (Clarke), 198 (Hussey), 198 (Wade), 204 (Johnson), 235 (Hastings), 322 (Lyon)
Bowling: D Steyn 22.5-6-72-3 (1w), V Philander 21-8-41-2, M Morkel 16-2-57-2 (1w), R Peterson 20-2-127-3, D Elgar 1-0-4-0, F du Plessis 2-0-18-0
Result: South Africa won by 309 runs
Man of the match: Hashim Amla
Man of the series: Michael Clarke
Series: South Africa won three-match series 1-0


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London, August 12 (ANI): Gordon Ramsay has apparently become a favorite among American TV viewers, as it was revealed that the celebrity chef had raked in a staggering 100 million dollars.
The TV chef, who has become a prime-time flagship brand for the Fox Broadcasting Company, is currently featuring in five different shows, including 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Kitchen Nightmares', the Mirror reported.
It was also reported that marketing bosses earn more from Ramsay's shows than any other and it is believed that Ramsay himself raked in tens of millions in 2012.
The latest US figures show that the 46-year-old restaurateur makes the network over 64,000 pounds per 30-second spot.
Experts have also estimated that Ramsay has made 100 million dollars in ad sales revenue for Fox and he also brings in another 18 million pounds from show sponsors. (ANI)


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U.S. Representative John Linder (R-GA), issued the following statement following the passage of the Democrat health care takeover:
"Today, President Obama failed the American people. Over $592 billion in new taxes will fall on every American taxpayer, breaking the President's promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Over $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will not extend the life of Medicare but will pay for a massive new health care entitlement, thus breaking the President's promise to our seniors. And all for one purpose -- government control of our lives."
"This bill gives the government more than $1 trillion to spend in just ten years. And there's no telling how many trillions the government will have to take from taxpayers in the decades to come. In 1966, we thought Medicare would cost just $12 billion by 1990. In reality, it cost $107 billion. Now, Medicare costs over $400 billion annually. Clearly, the government underestimates costs. And this doesn't begin to address how trillions in new spending could lead to hyperinflation in the next decade -- further hurting the middle class."
"But for now, the House's job is done. The Christmas Eve health care bill now goes to the President and will be the law of the land -- complete with the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, and Gator Aid -- all special deals meant to buy votes. And the Reconciliation Act goes to the Senate where it will be hotly debated. There is no guarantee that the Senate will pass the Reconciliation Act, which could leave all those backroom deals as law."
"Georgians could lose their Medicare Advantage, while their friends in Florida will see no change in their coverage. Georgians will pay more taxes to fund Medicaid in Nebraska. Georgians will see funding cuts for our hospitals, while hospitals in Connecticut will get more money. This devious backroom deal that the President cooked up with Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid is a great deal for government bureaucrats and Congressmen who want to dole out special favors, but it's no deal for American taxpayers."
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Valencia consolidate third place
Valencia consolidated third spot in the Primera Division and gained a confidence boost ahead of Thursday's Europa League semi-final second leg with a comfortable 4-0 victory over nine-man Real Betis at the Mestalla.
Jonas Oliveira opened the scoring early on and, after Betis had lost Jose Antonio Dorado to a straight red card just before the hour, Valencia wrapped up the victory with goals from Sofiane Feghouli, Roberto Soldado and Pablo Piatti.
To complete a miserable night for Betis, they also had Jorge Molina sent off late on for protesting.
The triumph sees Los Che move four points clear of fourth-placed Malaga.
Two goals in two second-half minutes from Arda Turan guided Atletico Madrid to a comfortable 3-1 win over Espanyol.
Diego Godin had headed the hosts in front inside 10 minutes but Didac Vila replied for Espanyol with a fine finish shortly afterwards.
Arda restored Atletico's lead just before the hour mark with a stunning overhead kick and the Turkish midfielder extended the lead moments later as his left-footed shot crept past Cristian Alvarez at his near post.
An early goal from Gaizka Toquero sent Racing Santander one step closer to relegation while lifting Athletic Bilbao back into the European places.
Toquero got the only goal in the 12th minute to leave Racing 11 points from safety with four games left to go, while Athletic go up to sixth place.
The result was perhaps harsh on Racing who created plenty of chances but, in keeping with a record that has seen them score only nine goals in 18 home matches, they could not find a breakthrough.
Carlos Vela's spectacular overhead-kick five minutes from time handed Real Sociedad a point from an entertaining 1-1 draw with Villarreal.
The visitors dominated for long spells in the first half and took the lead three minutes before the break as Marcos Senna fired in off the post from just inside the area.
Sociedad then had Claudio Bravo to thank as the Chilean keeper denied Marco Ruben and Cani to keep his side in the game after waves of attacks from the hosts.
The equaliser eventually arrived as Vela acrobatically turned in Xabi Prieto's header for his fifth goal in his last five games.
Granada took a significant step towards survival as they secured a 1-0 victory over Getafe - their first win in four games - to move eight points clear of the relegation zone.
Franco Jara put the hosts in front after 18 minutes as he latched onto Carlos Martins' great through ball and calmly slotted past Miguel Angel Moya.
Getafe only really had one clear-cut chance to get level when Inigo Lopez's slip allowed Diego Castro to stride through on goal, but he went for power rather than accuracy and sent his shot just wide.
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When I was working on the Bluetooth core, I got this mistake the first time I tried to compare 2 bluetooth addresses (a bluetooth address is 48 bits wide and at the time we were not using a ULONGLONG to represent the address, so we were doing structure comparisons). The result from RtlCompareMemory is the number of bytes that matched, while the result from memcmp is the standard CRT result for a comparison function where the result is <0 if the first buffer is less then the second buffer, result == 0 if the 2 buffers are equal, and result >0 when the first buffer is greater then the second. This made the following code which was trying to compare for equality return the opposite result
typedef struct _BDADDR {
union {
struct {
unsigned int LAP : 24;
unsigned int UAP : 8;
unsigned int SAP;
unsigned short NAP;
PBDADDR pSrc, pDest;
// initialize pSrc, pDest
if (RtlCompareMemory(pSrc, pDest, sizeof(BDADDR)) == 0x0) {
// they are equal
which was wrong and corrected to the following correct check
if (RtlCompareMemory(pSrc, pDest, sizeof(BDADDR)) == sizeof(BDADDR)) {
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Hype Week here in the NFC North was a dud. Fell flat. Totally ran aground. Sure, there was some roundabout talk of reven… er, "human nature" from quarterback Brett Favre. Otherwise, there was simply no evidence that anyone harbors much resentment stemming from last summer's divorce between Favre and the Green Bay Packers.
We media types tried. Oh, how we tried. Alas, no one bit. Frankly, the cordiality was sickening at times. But I suppose that's what happens when everyone finds their happy place -- which is how I truly believe the Favre saga has ended. After the initial pain subsided, and rational analysis overtook raw emotion, this turn of events has worked out for everyone.
The Packers endured some short-term agony, but they also navigated a quarterback transition that historically has tripped up many franchises. A year later, Aaron Rodgers is among the top young quarterbacks in the NFL.
Favre not only landed on a team structured perfectly for this stage of his career, but also with a franchise that allowed him to define the parameters of their courtship. His arrival sparked Minnesota's ticket sales, led to its first 3-0 start in five seasons and has excited local politicians who have thus far denied the team's requests for a new stadium.
Even the league itself has benefited. Favre's journey to Minnesota has transcended sports and crossed into celebrity journalism, drawing new eyes to the game. The Vikings' Aug. 31 exhibition at Houston generated ESPN's best preseason rating in 13 years, and Monday night's showdown could be the highest-rated NFL game in the history of cable television.
"I feel good about where I am," Favre said in a statement that could speak for all involved. "I feel very good about what I did in Green Bay those 16 years. I was not going to play there forever. I've said that over and over. You can't take away the 16 years I spent there, and what I was fortunate enough to accomplish and the great teams I played on. You can't take that away. But there is no afterthought, really."
The Packers had the most at risk in this gambit. Favre had one of the best seasons of his career in 2007, and the team fell one step short of the Super Bowl. With a full nucleus returning, the Packers would have been a prime championship contender in 2008.
We could debate the he-said, she-said of Favre's retirement decision for eternity. But one fact can't be disputed: The Packers groomed Rodgers for three years and believed he was ready for the next step. The transition was going to come sometime, and I think ESPN's Mike Tirico said it best: "It's better to say goodbye too early rather than too late."
Yes, I still think the chaos of Favre's departure distracted the Packers last summer in training camp and played a role in their 6-10 season. But I attribute that to an error in timing, not in the content of the decision. Resolving Favre's status before training camp should have been a higher priority, I believe, but it's now quite clear that Rodgers was ready to take over.
Did he perform last year as well as Favre might have? We'll never know. But as we discussed Saturday, Rodgers and the Packers have already done a better job of replacing Favre than most NFL teams have when bidding farewell to a future Hall of Famer.
"There comes a time in everyone's career and at an organization when you have to make those tough decisions," said former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski, who will join Tirico and Jon Gruden in the broadcast booth Monday night. "Where are you going to be three years from now and five years from now? If you look historically at teams that have been successful over a long period of time, they aren't afraid to make those tough decisions.
"If you're the Green Bay Packers and you have a guy like Aaron Rodgers -- who you believe is your guy that's going to be your quarterback for the next 10 years -- and you've got a 39-year-old guy, it's a tough decision but I believe it's a decision that had to be made."
You might say that another season of grooming wouldn't have hurt Rodgers. But most football observers agree there is a diminishing return after two or three years of inaction.
"I've always felt in the development of a quarterback that once you get to play, that is really the last hurdle to get over," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "Some individuals do and some don't. I think when you talk about quarterbacks in their development and you make statements where you always knew he was going to be a great one, I'm not necessarily a believer in that. … We were always excited about [Rodgers'] talent and his ability. He showed a lot of promise in his limited opportunities playing behind Brett Favre. … You always felt good about the way he was developing, but truly you never know until you go through the games."
While Rodgers slipped seamlessly into a starting role, compiling a 92.3 passer rating in his first 19 NFL starts, Favre found a team that couldn't have catered any better to his needs. Upon arriving in Minnesota, Favre admitted: "I don't think I am capable of making some of the plays I used to make." But fortunately for him, the Vikings have a crew of receivers who can make plays on their own.
Favre's average pass is traveling only 5.7 yards past the line of scrimmage, an unprecedented short distance relative to his career. (It also ranks No. 36 among NFL quarterbacks.) But his top targets -- Chester Taylor, Percy Harvin and Bernard Berrian -- are all excellent open-field runners who excel in gaining yards after the catch.
The Vikings spent years building a talent-laden roster but had been unable to match it with a stable, veteran quarterback. The situation was so ripe that coach Brad Childress hardly blinked when Favre passed on attending offseason workouts and then training camp. In fact, it was Childress who decided to resume his recruitment after training camp ended.
Where some might see a self-absorbed quarterback holding on to the last strands of his career, Childress has only seen a quarterback who brought, as he put it, "experience equity" and wants nothing more than to win a Super Bowl.
"It's been a good process here," Childress said. "He's a consummate team guy. He's got history. He's got wins. He's got a Super Bowl ring. He's got money. He's here to win. I don't think anybody takes anything away from that. That's what we're all about."
I compare this dynamic to childbirth. (Or what I imagine it must feel like.) There can be prolonged and excruciating pain. But eventually it fades away, leaving nothing but cooing and giggling in its place. I'd say we're pretty darn close to the cooing stage by now.


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I like this interesting concept, but if you want to run it open loop like that (without encoders) you can tell if you have any sticking by adding a second limit switch for each motor at the other end of travels. I'm sure you know this.
PC Floppy disks were notorious for running open loop and having only one limit switch and/or mechanical stop at the limit of travel (track 0 sensor). They made a racket if you had more than one, and Much more noise if you had several types, with different track to track settle times.
If only they ran quietly from one end to the other and could TELL you on posting if they were indeed functioning properly.
Your clock would also benefit from more or different switches because if you wanted to Rube Goldberg something to happen electrically, a second pole on the switch could power it, sort of like an indexed relay. Further switches, triggered by the indicator could drive quarterly and half-hour bells, klaxons, fire alarms, air raid sirens, and other fun things. TVBgone everything at a prescribed time?
Very cool, considering USB only power.
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With significant new hiring in the private sector in February and a lower unemployment rate, there was considerable good news in a new jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department. But one of the bad numbers was the stubbornly high level of those out of work for a long time — officially defined as 27 weeks or more.
That number rose to 4.8 million in February from 4.7 million in January. People out of work for that long-term period now account for 40 percent of the unemployed.
It's data that worries Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve.
"High unemployment has substantial costs, including not only the hardship faced by the unemployed and their families, but also the harm done to the vitality and productive potential of our economy as a whole," Bernanke told the U.S. Senate last month, before this newest report.
However, given the large amounts of data crunched by the Fed and its member banks, it's quite likely that Bernanke knew that the problem wasn't likely to be fixed in the February report.
"Lengthy periods of unemployment and underemployment can erode workers' skills and attachment to the labor force or prevent young people from gaining skills and experience in the first place — developments that could significantly reduce their productivity and earnings in the longer term," Bernanke said.
It's a significant worry, and ought to put a more positive light on the Fed's strategy of trying to keep interest rates extremely low in the hopes of gradually improving the employment picture.
The Fed's job is to look at the long term, and with inflation so far not a threat, the issue of getting people to work deserves priority.


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Norwich City boss Chris Hughton wary of West Ham captain Kevin Nolan's goalscoring threat
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Chris Hughton believes Norwich's strikeforce can draw inspiration from Kevin Nolan's goalscoring antics ahead of trying to thwart West Ham's captain in Tuesday's Premier League trip to Upton Park.
Nolan is the most prolific player in the top flight on current form after taking his tally to four goals in two outings following a second consecutive brace in the weekend 2-0 win at Aston Villa.
The 31-year-old's goals have cushioned the loss of suspended England striker Andy Carroll, but Hughton is adamant his men have the same quality to emulate Nolan and improve their own modest goal tally.
"West Ham have shown when they need a goalscorer or that bit of inspiration Kevin Nolan has come up trumps for them, and that is the type of individual he is," said Hughton. "To score four goals in two games illustrates how fine the margins are and how much that can change things. Offensively we need to be better, we know that. We are conscious of that. It is frustrating but all you can do as a manager is keep working, keep encouraging them to get into the right positions. We would be worried if the lads were not getting into those positions. You see the chance for Ricky (van Wolfswinkel) at the end of the Manchester City game and that would have given all of us a massive lift. When that ball was fired across on another day he gets a touch and scores. You don't want to heap pressure on them. You want them to play their natural game."


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Disaster preparedness saved hundreds of children`s lives in AzerbaijanThe last 10 years have seen some of the largest disasters on record. UNICEF is featuring our work on DRR in this region with new and past stories to coincide with the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 14-18 March in Sendai, Japan.
We focus on protecting and caring for children in danger — wherever they are — and the efforts to start building more stable futures for all children, including the most vulnerable.
By Elena Veliyeva
ZAGATALA, Azerbaijan, 11 April 2013 – For the past three years, children in this small village school have taken part in disaster preparedness education. They recounted recently how this has helped save their lives from a major earthquake.
Nestled in the slopes of the snow-capped Greater Caucasus mountain range, the Zagatala region is about 450 kilometers northwest of the capital Baku and prone to natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides and mudflows.
To address this, a project called "Supporting disaster risk reduction amongst vulnerable communities and institutions in South Caucasus" has been carried out by the government in partnership with UNICEF and funded by European Commission's DIPECHO disaster preparedness programme under the Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Directorate. It is implemented in eight disaster prone regions globally, including in the South Caucasus.
Through games, workshops and practical exercises, children were taught preparedness skills for the kinds of emergencies they may face and what they need to do to protect themselves and others. Learning was fun but they now vividly recalled how the knowledge and drills saved them.
On 7 May 2012, a 5.6-magnitude quake jolted the region. It was the strongest earthquake in the country, destroying 3,000 houses and public buildings. Their school was severely damaged but despite having more than 200 people inside the school walls, there were no deaths or injuries.
"We were having a history class when suddenly [the school] shook violently," said 16-year-old school boy Tarlan Mammadov. "We were very scared because this was our first experience. But despite the fear in those first few minutes, we immediately recalled all the things we had been taught. "
"We knew that we had to quickly hide under the desk and cover our heads with our hands. We were taught that one should not jump out of the windows, "said Aybaniz Mammadov, who recently graduated.
Their school was among the most active participants out of the ten schools in the project in five regions of Azerbaijan - Shamakhi, Sheki, Zagatala, Saatli and Sabirabad. This is one of the few schools in the country where an evacuation plan was developed and children regularly receive lessons on disaster risk reduction and conducted emergency drills.
All the preparedness kicked into action and they were able to overcome their fear and panic to escape danger. Having waited out the powerful tremors in a safe place, children then evacuated the building in an orderly manner in just 15 minutes, said Aybaniz.
"It really helped to have evacuation drills and to conduct them regularly," said Gazykhanov Hussein, a Russian language teacher with 30 years of teaching experience.
He and other teachers had special training provided in the framework of the project by experts from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Education.
Initially, the project was designed to provide training only at the elementary level. However, at the insistence of the school administration, the course is now held regularly in all grades, from the first to the eleventh.
"Children`s safety is our main objective. The school administration, teachers and students, as well as the parents all enthusiastically support the project, "said Abdulrahman Soltanov, the school principal. He commended the learning-through games-approach which makes it faster and easier for children to absorb and retain the knowledge.
The project is not only focused on knowledge and skills. Staff psychologists at all schools are undergoing training to work with children who may develop stress in the aftermaths of a disaster.
"We have often been taught in school that we should not be afraid. An earthquake is a common occurrence in nature and it can happen again, but we must be ready for this, "said Aybaniz.
The school's principal believes that being emotionally prepared is crucial.
"It's always scary to go into a dark room. But if you were forewarned what to expect in the room, it is much less scary, "he said.
By working with the younger generation, the most vulnerable in emergencies, UNICEF aims to develop a culture of safety so that other preventable incidents can be avoided.
The experience in the region has prompted the Ministry of Education to have more teaching hours devoted to disaster risk reduction in the national school curriculum. They intend to introduce mandatory disaster risk reduction training courses so that every school in Azerbaijan can protect their most important resource: its children.
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