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Is Haswell Ready for Tablet Duty? Battery Life of Haswell ULT vs Modern ARM Tabletsby Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/22/2013 2:11 PM EST
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StormyParis - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkWhat are the result once you normalize for battery life ? Right now the article reads like "hey, bigger batteries last longer !" Reply
StormyParis - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkbattery size, not battery life Reply
ljlego - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkUnless I'm grossly misunderstanding your question/statement, I feel like this passage directly from the article should assuage your concerns: "You'll notice two bars for the 2013 MacBook Air, one indicating its result and one with that result scaled down to simulate what would happen if it had 78.7% of its actual battery capacity - putting it on equal footing to the 42.5Wh iPad 4. With workload and performance constant, it's safe to assume that battery life scales linearly at best with battery capacity. In other words, our MacBook Air numbers at 42.5Wh should be indicative of what we'd expect if the 13-inch MBA actually had a 42.5Wh battery rather than 54Wh unit." Reply
andykins - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkRead the damn article before commenting, idiot. Reply
Spoelie - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkthe 42.5 wh result *is* normalized for battery size. Reply
cdegallo - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI think there's misunderstanding in this article. The MBA is only scaled in battery life to match the 42.5Wh iPad4. NOT scaled relative to the battery capacities of the other devices. This becomes a poor display of power efficiency as much as it became a battery capacity study. The experimenters should have scaled all battery life numbers by the capacity of each device's battery. But that would unfortunately show the Haswell platform in dead last all the time... Reply
ClockworkPirate - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI'll do some math here.
The MacBook Air's battery can store 54 (fifty-four) Wh (watt-hours) of energy, or 194400 joules. It lasted 14.28 hours (about 51408 seconds) on the light browsing test. Therefore, it consumed 194400J/51408s = 3.782 W(watts = joules per second) on average during that test.
The fourth-generation iPad's battery can store 42.5 (fourty-two point five) Wh (watt-hours) of energy, or 153000 joules. It lasted 9.48 hours (about 34128 seconds) on the light browsing test. Therefore, it consumed 153000J/34128s = 4.483 W (watts = joules per second) on average during that test.
The iPad drew more energy from its battery every second. Obviously some of that is thanks to it's higher-density display, but it's nevertheless impressive that full x86 has come down so low. Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkIt does appear that the high resolution display on the iPad 4 is what it drawing the extra power consumption - it needs a comparatively higher strength backlight to push enough photons through the smaller pixels.
In that sense, the test is quite unfair, when you consider the iPad 4's average power consumption for web browsing is 4.5W. It's why the iPad 4 has such a large battery in the first place. It would have been good to see normalised power consumption for other tablet battery capacities.
Or we can wait for the iPad 5, which may be using IGZO which should use a lot less power. Apple will probably choose to trim battery size rather than lengthen run time. It may also use a 28nm SoC rather than a 32nm SoC, and incorporate more power saving features in their second generation Swift ARM core. Reply
cdegallo - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNo problem with the math. But let's go to the video playback test: The 54Wh MBA gets the same playback time as the 16Wh Nexus 7. This makes Nexus 7 out to be ~3 times MORE efficient than the Haswell platform in that case, and the iPad4 is still ~30% more efficient than the MBA in that same benchmark. Scaled by battery capacity in the video playback, the Haswell MBA would come in last place near the Surface 8 Pro (which isn't very surprising).
I think there are too many compounding factors and assumptions between the devices tested to make statements other than that you get even better battery life on full-OS computers with Haswell, and you don't need to use a cut-down simplified OS (like iOS or Android) to get tablet-like battery life on a laptop. Reply
munim - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkBut then you're comparing a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 screen to a 13.3 inch 1440 x 900 to a 10 inch 2048 x whatever. Reply
cdegallo - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkJust another example of how this was not a good comparison between CPUs as much as it was a comparison between the Haswell MBA battery life, and other device battery life. It becomes less and less conclusive the more and more you look into the situation. Reply
purerice - Sunday, July 28, 2013 - linkplease provide a link to your own article that is way better than this so we can shower you with praise at how superior you are. Reply
ironargonaut - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkThe HSW number was scaled to match the iPad4 battery capacity as you yourself state, and when scaled it still beat the ipad4 in the web browsing category by 18%. Therefore, your statement "But that would unfortunately show the Haswell platform in dead last all the time..." is categorically false. Kinda of hard to take your comments seriously when make blatantly false statements. Reply
cdegallo - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkMy so very profuse apologies; I was looking at the video playback conditions. Sorry if that makes it hard to take my comments seriously... /scoff
My main point is that the Haswell MBA getting better battery LIFE does not mean that the processor is always more power efficient when compared to the list of other devices, or even necessarily comes close. This was not a scientific examination of the processor's power efficiency, yet its trying to make conclusions as such. There are far too many assumptions and unaddressed variations between the hardware platforms compared. Reply
purerice - Sunday, July 28, 2013 - linkiow, you are saying there are still too many variables, yes? Yet the process described in the article removed variables as many as possible and describes the variables still present.
Of course you cannot stick Haswell in a smartphone. The article does not state that you can. It states that the gap is shrinking and lists what Intel can do to improve. Reply
FwFred - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkGreat article. I'd be interested to see a better breakdown of display power between the iPad and MBA. You mention the resolution difference driving increased power, but I'm sure the growth from 9.7"->13.3" would also have a similar effect on display power. Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkHe noted the entire panel + backlight power usage as a delta of 4.2 W more from the iPad if I understand correctly, due to the higher requirements of the panel itself and the greater backlight required (because pixel density leaves less room for light to pass through).
What I would be more concerned about is the extra power needed to drive the iPad panel as opposed to the MBA panel. Reply
FwFred - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThat delta was between the iPad 2 vs 3 (same screen size), so we attribute it to mostly the resolution change. I haven't seen good numbers to compare between different panel sizes Reply
Sm0kes - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkYikes man, did you even bother reading the article? Your question was essentially the point of Anand's testing. Reply
cdegallo - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkAgreed. The battery life values should have been scaled by battery capacity for each device. This became a misleading study for people who only looked at the charts. Haswell is the LEAST power-efficient platform by far in all of these tests. Reply
dusk007 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThe questions is: "Doesn't this all come too late?"
Just looking at the performance Baytrail promises, it seems that most people that only require some tablet like or MacBook Air like, light workload will do just fine with those newer Atoms. If it is just a bit of taking notes, web surfing and watching the occasional video, 14nm Atom and 20/16nm ARM should do fine.
Who needs those $200+ Haswell/Broadwell anymore? More efficient less bloated software (such as Windows 8) and some fast ssd (Smartphone flash is often very slow), cheap tablet SoCs will serve that market just fine.
Those that want to game and do more demanding desktop stuff will probably prefer to go straight for serious speed ala 4750HQ and up. Why bother with a 7W Haswell? Or even the 15W think about the cost.
I feel like this low power Core CPUs won't be in very high demand unless they can make a case for gaming and appeal to all those that want some Windows PC gaming capability. For the mass market gaming is the only saving grace I see. Reply
jeffkibuule - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkWe'll have to see what Bay Trail actually does first. At some point we reach the point in all platforms when you achieve "good enough" computing for most people and sales of tablets, PCs and even smart phones drop off because what you have lasts a really long time. I shudder to see what artificial tricks will be made to make you upgrade then. Reply
smartypnt4 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThis is Intel working with what they had in the pipeline when they realized they needed something low power. Bay Trail will come out this year, and that will serve the low-power market much better than Haswell.
However, with Haswell, you get more dynamic range for performance. Yes, you can make Haswell have super great battery life... if you're not doing anything strenuous. This is just a good argument for the race-to-sleep argument Intel has been making for a while now. In heavy workloads, yes Haswell is going to eat WAY more battery. However, this allows for one device to fill two roles. No one wants to work with an Atom as their primary productivity device; however, people would love Atom-like battery life. This is a way for people to have battery life if they want, and performance when they need it.
The other thing: Atom is good enough for most of the market, true. But Haswell should still outperform Atom and the ARM-based chips significantly, even at low power. Theoretically. I'm not sure how this bears out in actual testing, but still.
For my personal use, Bay Trail will be more than adequate. For a different portion of the market (think Surface Pro-level pricing), Haswell will be the better choice. It'll be interesting to see if the market share of Atom vs. Haswell changes as computing moves more to tablets. Reply
Sm0kes - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkYou hit the nail on the head - dynamic range. Performance when needed, great battery life when not.
I think the market is getting to the point where cost will artificially limit Haswell's (and presumably Broadwell's) adoption across "converged" devices, whereas this was previously an architectural / power / heat limitation. Interesting times indeed :) Reply
smartypnt4 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkExactly. The Haswell chips will be so expensive compared to ARM/Atom implementations that most people will end up with Atom/ARM chips in their primary compute devices, which will probably be tablets.
The Core family will become for anyone who wants to game or to create content, both of which needs more than what Atom can provide. Reply
RYF - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI agree with you on this. There are some hybrids out there with ARM + x86 chips and dual booting Android and Windows. If Haswell offers the dynamic range as what you have stated, there is no need for the existence of such hybrid devise anymore. Reply
beginner99 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThe thing is that haswell offers way, way better performance in case you need it without sacrificing battery life at idle-light workload. All ARM and AMD fanboys that still doubt that silvermont will demolish ARM should just look at these results: Haswell is more power efficient than Apples custom ARM SOC! I guess the conclusion can only be that silvermont is even a lot more efficient and intels claims of 4x less power at same performance seem resonable. Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThat custom ARM SoC also loses to A15-based and Krait-based devices. And don't forget that Haswell is more efficient on the platform that allows more low-level code. Video decode, which is identically optimized on both platforms, is almost as important.
A better test would be if the ARM SoCs ran Linux with good drivers and firmware, and as such maximize their potential. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkYou can be certain that Apple optimized this already. iPad is almost certainly the best optimized tablet available and hence other tablets will just look worse in such tests. Reply
Krysto - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI wish good luck to Silvermont beating 3 Ghz 20nm ARM chips in 2014.
Haswell costs $350 for the damn low-end dual core version. How Anand seems to completely ignore this HUGE issue when he's talking about tablets, I have no idea. News flash - people are not going to buy $800+ "tablets", just because they have Intel chips in them. I thought we settled that already? And using 10" screens as work computers sucks. Reply
FwFred - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI don't think we have any idea what OEMs pay for CPUs. It's pretty obvious it's not the price on ARK when you can sometimes buy full PCs at retail within $70 of just the CPU alone. The Celeron 847 is listed at $134, but Google sells the Acer C7 Chromebook for $199.
Let's see how the prices play out over the next year. Haswell is obviously not competing with <$300 tablets (Silvermont for this), but I don't think they need to cost $800 either. Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkYou forget that this is a DEVICE power consumption test, and that the devices are very different - most notably the display. The iPad 4's display requires a lot more power to push light through its tiny pixels.
It's impressive that Haswell, under very light loads, is now this good. But it does cost around ten times more than the ARM SoC, and it's coming in devices that cost twice as much.
Also it is comparing 2012 tech (iPad 4) with 2013 tech (Haswell). Let's see what the iPad 5 brings.
As for Silvermont, performance leaks show that it's substantially behind AMD's Jaguar on a per-clock basis still. Reply
eanazag - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI have a surface pro and I have been waiting for Haswell. The Ivy Bridge is good. Battery life is okay. I want to see Surface Pro with Haswell; no wait for Broadwell. MS can't wait for Broadwell. I am okay with the current thickness.
I have an iPad 3 also and have cut back using it except in some scenarios. Video is one of them; specifically Netflix. Unfortunately, I can only get Netflix to run in the browser, because the app gives me an error code and Netflix support routed me back to MS since I already had up to date drivers.
I think there is a market for good enough gaming that can dock and do real work. The iPad doesn't do real work - I miss the mouse. The Surface Pro hangs in there a bit with Blizzard titles because they're CPU heavy (must be plugged in because it really taxes the system). It is in no way competing with my desktop,but it spanks anything in the first Core i5 series and before even with entry level dGPU.
I am currently carrying a quad core Ivy Bridge laptop, surface pro, and iPad to work every day. I find that 90% of what I do is accomplished easily on the Surface Pro. The laptop does knock out video encoding more quickly. Virtualization on the Surface Pro is RAM limited. Everything else I comfortable with. I'd like to see Thunderbolt on the next Surace Pro. I still dream of possible external GPUs at night when I get to bed early. Reply
ClockworkPirate - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkGaming is exactly why I have a Surface Pro and not a Surface RT (well, that and the active digitizer). The HD 4000 can run most everything (short of Crysis and Battlefield, obviously) when it's plugged in and I've yet to have issue with the battery life. Haswell improves both cases: the HD 5000 is more powerful maxed out, but the whole package uses less power when you need it to. In another year or two (Broadwell?) I expect to ditch my gaming desktop in favor of some future Surface Pro. Reply
James5mith - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkAsserting that tablet makers will take Microsoft's example with an actual SSD instead of something SDIO connected is assuming an awful lot. The Surface is the only modern tablet that I've seen with actual mid-high range performance of the storage subsystem. Everything else is abysmal, and it almost exclusively has to do with using SDIO for power concerns vs. a full SATA implementation. (From what I've seen.) Reply
Jaybus - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI think it pointless to compare a MBA, ultrabook, or Surface Pro to a tablet. They are for different uses. It's like comparing a Smart car to a F-150 pickup and then claiming the Smart car is more fuel efficient without qualifying what it is more efficient doing. The Smart car can move two people around 3 times as efficiently as the F-150. On the other hand, it isn't even a third as efficient as the F-150 if you have to move 30 cases of bottled water. Reply
twotwotwo - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI'd love something that could (mostly) stand in for my current computer (good with a keyboard, fast enough, open app ecosystem), but pick up some of the benefits of all of these low-power gadgets--serve as an acceptable tablet, get up to modern pixel densities, have a price roughly in line with its performance (not rMBP prices for MBA speed), etc. Currently that's a lot like saying "I don't want the Wintel ecosystem to collapse completely"; realistically a future Surface or a Silvermont-based Atom tablet thingy is the most appealing thing likely to come out super soon. But if a touchscreen Mac comes along or even if Google gets Chrome OS over the line, they could possibly win me over. Reply
dwade123 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkCan't agree more. I can see Apple bridging the iPad and Mac with future Macbook Air lineup. Reply
Khato - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThanks for the further investigation Anand! Really quite surprising to see Haswell on top in the realm of 'active idle' battery life. Even adjusting for the difference in screen resolution and size (have to remember that nit is just another name for cd/m^2 and hence total light output at 200 nits on a 13.3" display is 1.88x that of a 9.7" display) it's likely on par. Note that I found the discussion of display backlight power usage somewhat peculiar as the average power consumption for the devices was only 3.78W for the MBA and 4.48W for the iPad 4 - far less than those backlight figures.
Also quite interesting to see how poorly Haswell does during video playback comparatively. I'd imagine this might be due to two sources actually. First the obvious of Haswell's hardware accelerated video decode likely having to fire up a decent amount of the GPU and hence not being the most efficient. Second is a more interesting possibility - I'd assume that Apple is using a panel self refresh enabled display which is most effective in 'active idle' scenarios where screen content is rarely changing and then pretty much useless on video content. I know it's not likely going to happen, but I'd be quite curious to see whether video playback battery life changes much if it's not actually displaying the video on screen. My guess is that it wouldn't make that big of a difference (other advantage of PSR being that graphics engine can be turned off, but that can't happen if it's still decoding video) but maybe it would? Regardless, could be interesting. Reply
Khato - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkAnd since there's not an edit button...
A more amusing and simple way to potentially test the effect of PSR (again, I'm assuming that such is the kind of option Apple would have enabled if possible.) Simply run the tablet web browsing battery life test with a screensaver that has activity over the entire screen running. That'd give a much better idea of whether it's the hardware accelerated decode or the graphics activity on screen that's at fault for the reduced battery life. Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkAfter the screen the biggest difference in power consumption will be caused by the software. The biggest battery eater is a lousy app. A good video playback app will cause the CPU to be awake about 10%-15% of the time, sleeping 85%-90% and all the awake time will be at lowest available frequency. A poorly optimized video playback app will cause the CPU to be awake as much as 60%-70% of the time with the CPU occasionally spiking to higher frequencies. Differences in battery life can be 2x-3x worse.
In my experience, comparing different hardware is hard enough. Comparing them across different software (OS and App) at the same time makes it nearly impossible to reach any meaningful conclusions about the hardware. Reply
smartypnt4 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI feel like if the MBA included PSR, Apple would've been hawking that at the top of their lungs. I suppose it's possible, but I feel like it would've been something that they bragged about. Reply
eio - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkalso wondering about the power consumption number, and still don't know how does the 4.2w delta translate into 10% difference.... Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkAs someone whose carried a netbook around convention centers for years because near idle battery life, a physical keyboard, and a rigid hinge (so I can use it without a desk) were more useful to me there than more performance or a touchscreen this is a really encouraging result. Haswell looks like it's capable of giving me everything I want.
Now if I could just convince at least one OEM to build something with the same height as my old netbook. I could, barely, stuff it into a pocket of holding in some of my pants; while awkward I liked being able to free both of my hands when I need to without carrying a backpack. This years crop of 11.6" mini-laptops and atom based convertibles are all at least a little bit too big to fit. Reply
ananduser - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkSilvermont will kill ARM. Those crazy 16 hour ATOM tablets(with dual batteries) will smash through the 20h mark easily. The Thinkpad tablet is already an epic coffee shop machine; imagine it with Silvermont. Reply
Krysto - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkNice dream, but it won't happen. And is it 16 hour battery or 20h? Make up your mind. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI think what he's saying is that just swapping the CPU up for the new model and keeping everything else the same will push battery life from 16 to 20 hours. Reply
ananduser - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThat's what I meant. Thanks! Reply
Krysto - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkYou seem to be implying that Apple needs a device that is between the iPad and the Macbook Air, that will use Haswell.
Ok - how the hell would that help Apple's profits? A $700 Macbook with a $300 Haswell chips will NOT help Apple. If anything, Apple will make a quad core 2+ Ghz Swift (or wait until the next-gen and even faster 64bit architecture in the ARMv8-based A8X) and release a $700 Macbook, that uses a $30 ARM chip inside.
I'd say that makes a lot more sense for Apple's profit - no? Reply
Krysto - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkHeck, let's do some quick math, too. Let's say Apple make 30 percent profit ($300) on the $1000 Macbook Air. That Macbook Air uses a $350 Haswell ULV chip (according to Anand).
Let's take that out and put a $30 ARM chip. Now Apple makes 300+350-30=620 dollars in profit for the $1000 Macbook Air. Of course they wouldn't actually do that to a $1000 Macbook. So they'll release this "new" Air that is $300 cheaper, and sells for $700. So now we take this 300 out of the $620, and we're left with $320 in profit for the $700 Air.
That's actually a bit more raw profit than before, but at $700, they'll sell many more such devices which means a lot more total profit in the end. $320 pure profit for a $700 product would be amazing for Apple.
And the best part is they wouldn't need to cut the quality of any of the other components. If they did put Haswell into a $700 Air, not only would it completely and utterly OBLITERATE Apple's profit on it, but they'd also need to use much cheaper components than in the $1000 Macbook Air, to make up for Haswell and the $300 price decrease.
Using a 64 bit ARM chip in future lower-end Macbooks without compromising on quality and battery life at all makes so much more sense than using Haswell and on so many levels, that's it's sad to even imagine someone would recommend them go with Haswell. Reply
jemima puddle-duck - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThis. Thank you for bringing some reality back to this discussion. Can we please have at least a little acknowledgement of costs amongst the technology. It's all very well that the new Ferrari has the efficiency of a Prius, but if it costs 100x more, it's academic to normal people. Reply
Ktracho - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI think this is exactly why Microsoft says they aren't giving up on Windows RT. If they can get the number of apps up dramatically (say, by a factor of 1000), and simultaneously find a way to decrease price by, say, half, they could have a winner.
For those times when performance is not enough, these tablets can be docked, and in the future (this is not yet a reality), people will be able to remote into a powerful PC complete with a real, physical graphics card, and use it as if it were all built into the tablet. I think this is eventually where everyone is headed. In other words, no one will ever need to carry around anything more powerful than a Windows RT system. (If you don't like Windows, Apple will do the same thing with their ecosystem, and Google likewise, etc.) Intel Core CPUs will be relegated almost exclusively to servers, where price does not have to be bargain basement level. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkMS currently has 100k apps in the W8 store, vs 600k for Google, and 900k for Apple. More apps wouldn't hurt; but they're much closer to parity than your factor of 1000 implies. Reply
Ktracho - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI don't really know how many Windows RT apps are in the store, but I doubt there are anywhere near 100K of them. Reply
smartypnt4 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI think this scares Intel more than they're willing to admit. Apple is a very large customer that pays for the best binned CPUs Intel makes (in terms of leakage, not pure GHz). That's 10% of Intel's consumer business right there, which is definitely non-trivial. Apple's already got the people with the expertise to make a quad-core Swift. I think the issue is that it's just flat out too slow to use on OSX and keep a good user experience. Also, Apple would have to do *everything* Intel does associated with the Haswell SoC: a full-sized memory controller (you can't just grab the one from the A6X), and all the I/O (SATA, PCIe, USB, etc.), and that's a non-trivial task. Reply
madmilk - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkApple would also cajole a lot of OS X developers into recompiling/porting their application, or else they'll end up with a fruity version of Windows RT. Reply
smartypnt4 - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThat's very true as well. While it's still a threat to Intel, it's not *that* big a threat, I suppose. That's a lot of legwork that Apple would have to do. I'm not even sure it'd be any cheaper for them to develop, validate, and get their own chip fabbed. Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI don't think Apple will switch to ARM in the near future for their MacBooks, iMacs, etc.
But *if* they were, they could invest in a larger SoC than they budget for the iPad, and it would be a 64-bit ARMv8 design, not the current ARMv7 Swift. They probably have this core designed, possibly ready to manufacture, maybe even being manufactured in SoCs right now (but more likely for next year's SoCs).
A quad-core, 20/28nm, 2GHz+ custom ARMv8 SoC should compete fairly well with a ~1.5GHz dual-core with HT Haswell, on the tasks a person wants to run on an 11.6" MacBook Air. The MBA has more thermal headroom than a tablet, so the CPU and GPU upper clock speeds can be higher as well. They might even do a big.LITTLE thing with their own core and an ARM Cortex A7/A53 for the mostly idling common case.
As for recompiling Mac OS X apps - that's a button press away for the developers, once Apple makes XCode support ARM compilation for desktop apps. Again, in-house I bet this is already happening.
This path could cost Apple $50 per SoC to manufacture (more advanced process, larger SoC), but that's still vastly cheaper than the price of Haswell, even with the discounts that Apple no doubt gets. Reply
djscrew - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkYou complain about CPU price and then suggest buying an over-marked up Apple product instead? Are you demented? Just get the iPad you're in denial about wanting and move on. Or use the iPad you already probably have and be happy. Either way, if you have an iPad you should donate that extra money to an orphanage or something useful. Besides, everyone knows that no $30 ARM chip can do what a $350 Intel chip can do or Apple would use it. People still want the ability to work on their Airs. Granted in 10 years this all should be pointless as the $30 chips should end up replacing the $350 chips of today and mobile technology + the internet is ubiquitous... that is if we're not all too greedy to realize that goal. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkApple does not pay list price for Intel CPUs. I have no idea about the actual price but a safe guess is probably half, eg. $175. No the picture already looks very different. And don't forget that apple still is fancy in content creation stuff which all does require powerful hardware so ARM is already a no go. Reply
ancientarcher - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkInteresting thoughts!
But why do people think that Apple will keep the CPU limited to quad-core. They can have 16-core or 32-core CPU which massively increases the raw computing power. The reason we haven't seen so many core CPUs till now is because of Windows which is mostly single core/thread based. If you have full control of your OS, you can do funky things - like massively parallelizing your CPU workload.
And on the GPU front, Snapdragon 800 is already exceeding core-i3 graphics (not much grunt there, agreed). With PowerVR6 (Rogue) series, we will see GPU power increase multiple times over current levels, which should help in graphics related stuff people do on Apple computers.
All in all, I would think it is a reasonable bet that Apple will go its own way with processors Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkA 16 or 32 core A-15 based chip would likely consume more power than Haswell does today. Just look at what Tegra4 and Exynos 5 Octa do to batteries.... and they're only 4 core. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThere's just no evidence of a huge market for a tablet that is a laptop, too. So far, all the evidence suggests on the contrary that people want their computer to be separate from their tablet because they want to take their tablet everywhere and no matter how thin or cheap Intel makes the Core line, it won't ever be cheap or as thin as ARM or even Bay Trail.
I think most people want tablets to be like a cheap novel they take. If they lose it or if it gets broken, eh, it happens. You start talking about Core series tablet/laptop hybrids, suddenly you're talking a LOT more money and a LOT more investment in it.
Eh. I don't think Apple is particularly interested in the hybrid strategy because their strategy involves getting you to buy into the entire ecosystem. You buy an iPhone, which compels you to want an iPad, which compels you buy a Macbook and an iMac and then they have you.
So you're suggesting they combine the iPad with the Macbook, remove all need for the iMac, and suddenly Apple is cutting their nose, their ears, and their mouth to spite their face. Reply
chizow - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkHaswell ULT/ULX in a Surfarce Pro 2 for $500 would sell tons. I'd be in line for one for sure. Make it happen MS! Reply
cdegallo - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkUnless I read this article wrong, the MBA battery normalizations were only relative to the different MBA's and the iPad, NOT relative to the other platforms tested? If so, these plots need critical thought. The values are battery life; except the goal of this article (as I read it) is to showcase how power efficient Haswell is, not to showcase how much battery life the MBA gets. So get rid of the battery bias all together.
The most logical thing to do would be to scale the battery life studies by the battery capacity for each device. The numbers are misleading; scaled by battery capacity, the Haswell MBA would come in last place in almost every benchmark. It pretty much matches the Surface 8 Pro in video playback when scaled by battery capacity. But of course, then the MBA/Haswell wouldn't come in first every time...
Take a look at the video playback numbers. The 54Wh MBA has video playback time almost the same as the 16Wh Nexus 7; but the N7 does that with less than one third the battery capacity of the MBA. That indicates that the Haswell platform is over THREE TIME LESS power efficient than the Nexus 7 in the video playback test.
Scaling the web browsing values, the Nexus 7 is still twice as efficient as Haswell.
The equal-capacity 42.5Wh iPad4 gets almost twice the video playback efficiency of the 42.5Wh-scaled MBA.
It's clear that there are important power-saving features built into Haswell, but I don't think this experiment proves that it is ready for "tablet duty" on a universal scale anytime soon. One step closer, perhaps.
The biggest takeaway is you still get a full OS plus better than average battery life and the extra CPU power when you need it. But it is not ready to displace ARM in mobile devices. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkVideo playback does suck on haswell but that can be easily explained: ARM SOCs have a dedicate decoder while haswell uses it's iGPU. In fact I wonder why intel doesn't use a fixed, efficient decoder as watching videos on such mobile devices is very common. Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkIntel does have a fixed function video decoder, and an encoder. However I'm sure post-processing is still done on the iGPU, which may be affecting the equality of tests. Or Mac OS X doesn't support the video decode hardware...
We should remember that the Nexus 7 costs less than what an OEM will pay for an ultra-low-voltage Haswell on its own. Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkYou can't honestly compare Nexus 7 to Haswell in this. The Display is the biggest battery eater in mobile devices. Put the Netbook display on the N7 and battery life will plummet. We already know Tegra3 is not very power efficient comapred to it's peers. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe amusing thing is that both the MacBook Air and the iPad are leaving a few power optimizations on the table. Neither takes advantage of panel self refresh. That is a pretty big win for light workloads. Reply
watersb - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - link"total platform power of the 2013 13-inch MacBook Air is lower than Apple's 4th generation iPad" - favorite quote from any AnandTech podcast, ever. (which is saying a lot, because BK's rants are quite fun)
When we got our first iPad, we got a great keyboard case for it. My wife uses is for hours each day, much like a laptop. The kids pull it out of the case and use it for games... Last month, I got the same case for my iPad 4.
After 6 months of using it as a tablet, I didn't like the laptop-like form factor. I made myself stick with it for two weeks. But I found that I wrote *less* weigh the keyboard.
I was surprised. I don't have a MacBook Air for comparison; I still want my iMac-keyboard-trackpad for coding, hosting development Linux servers via VMWare...
But a convergence device seems like the ultimate solution, until I tried to use my existing tablet like that. And found that I really want it to be just a tablet.
(When my phone can wirelessly pair with desktop display-keyboard-trackpad and run VMWare, then I will know The Convergence has finally arrived.) Reply
watersb - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - link(typo: I wrote less _with_ the keyboard. I suppose I wrote more accurately, though...) Reply
iwod - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI am pretty sure Apple hasn't had the best software implementation into using Haswell Video Decoder. Quicktime just hasn't been getting that much attention and i have no idea why. May be OSX Mavericks will improve on that but i have no idea. Otherwise I dont believe Haswell Video Decoder is that far behind ARM / PowerVR Camp.
Taking into consideration MacBook air has Fans, and a more power sucking SSD controller etc, LPDDR3 4GB, compared to LPDDR2 1GB, and as mentioned the LCD display difference. And OSX, at least the tested version isn't even as well power efficiency optimzied as iOS.This is actually some very astonishing results.
And if you think about what next year Broadwell may even come up with.....
But then is the price. I believe without the Memory, Apple are making their iPad SoC for no more then $30 per piece. So even if you add in much exaggerated $10 per Apple SoC for R&D. This is still less then $40 per SoC.
Compared to Intel Haswell ULT, even with some hefty discount i am sure they are at least $200 a piece. 5x difference!
I am not seeing how Intel can win this battle. Reply
omnimoeish - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkWhile a jump from $40 to $200 is obviously 5x the price and sounds unwinnable. In the grand scheme of things, I would have no problem paying $160 more to get a device that runs a full blown x86 chip that allows me to run Mac OS X, Windows and any software available for these OSs. This is like comparing a bike vs a motorcycle but still has all day battery life.
There's a couple of things to consider here as well. One is that we're assuming that there's really a use for more than 9 hours of battery life. I don't think there is. Assumption 2: there are no battery advances that could possibly make these x86 power consumption problems.
One interesting thing is that apps are so light weight, that unless Apple makes a hybrid a la Surface Pro, there's really very little reason to worry about getting more powerful processors. 99% of people are playing Angry Birds, surfing the web and these devices already have plenty of power. Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkThe article was about whether or not Core is ready for tablet-like form factors. The comments have degraded into a discussion on pure power consumption of the Haswell chip vs ARM chip. There is not enough data to compare the chips directly.
It seems to me that Haswell may be the beginning of Core being good enough for a tablet-like form factors. Reply
damianrobertjones - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkCould you please include the Dell Latitude 10 with extended battery? That would spank EVERYTHING with regards to battery life Reply
dealcorn - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkBased on Anand's earlier review of Valleyview (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6203/details-on-inte... I think Intel agrees with Anand's statement "I wonder if Haswell's video decode engine just isn't as low power as what you can get in most ultra mobile SoCs today." That appears to be the reason Baytrail includes an "Integrated Imagination Technology* VXD392Decode engine". Assuming the licensed decode engine is reasonably efficient to start with, when you build it using superior transistors with a superior process node, Baytrail should have class leading playback battery life. While Core products may catch up in due course, Atom will set a high bar on tablet efficiency in all areas. Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkAll Intel Atom chips use an IMG Video Decode engine. Many ARM vendors do as well. The same is true of the IMG Video Encode engine. Reply
darwinosx - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe problem with Surface Pro is far from just the hardware. It's the fact that people hate Windows 8 in any of its forms. Reply
Anato - Saturday, July 27, 2013 - linkNot sure if there is any point to compare, Haswell is so far apart from current ARM's when you take price of the whole platform to account. And thats something Intel will not fix. Reply
purerice - Sunday, July 28, 2013 - linkIn other words, performance per watt per dollar? You're on to something there.
My guess is this article is a preview for the real article 4 months from now when we have next gen Atoms and 4 months from then when we have next gen Nvidia SoC. Reply
LMF5000 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkStrictly speaking, you can't scale battery life down like that because of the Peukert effect - As the rate of discharge increases, the battery's available capacity decreases because more of the energy is wasted as heat by its internal resistance. To put it another way, a 54Wh battery only delivers 54Wh at a specific (low) discharge current. As the discharge current increases you'll find that the same battery runs out of juice after delivering only 50, 45 or less Wh.
Therefore, your results for the scaled battery are too optimistic. A smaller battery would be working harder to supply the same wattage. Therefore by Peukert's law its capacity (and thus battery life) would be LESS than predicted by a simple linear proportion. Reply
Les Slater - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIt seems to me with all the discussion about power efficiency, performance and to some extent, x86 compatibility, it looks like Atom might be the eventual winner.
But the bigger picture is that there is, and will be, a trend toward offloading processing to some variation of an evolving cloud, right down to the pico cell. There's plenty of room for Intel, and others, to expand sales.
At an even higher level though, this is all heading toward commoditization where profits will be much slimmer. Reply
damianrobertjones - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkCould you please add the Dell Latitude 10 with extended battery to your battery charts? That way a Windows based machine will beat everything else and not provide Apple with press and sales Reply


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The former deputy editor of the News of the World has been told he will face no action over phone-hacking allegations.
Neil Wallis, who has spent nearly two years on police bail, will not face prosecution because there is insufficient evidence.
He said on Twitter: "After 21 months of hell for my family, CPS have just told my solicitors that there will be no prosecution of me re my phone-hacking arrest."
Prosecutors said that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against a journalist arrested under Operation Weeting.
Wallis was arrested in July 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept communications.
In a statement, Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said prosecutors had been considering whether to bring charges against two journalists over alleged phone hacking.
She said: "The file in relation to one of those two journalists was resubmitted on January 11 2013. Having carefully considered the matter, the Crown Prosecution Service has concluded that there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in relation to that journalist. The other journalist remains under investigation."
So far, 26 people have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, Scotland Yard's investigation into illegal access to voicemails, and another six as part of a separate line of inquiry that came out of the probe.
Of those, eight are facing charges over alleged phone hacking - ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, former spin doctor Andy Coulson, private detective Glenn Mulcaire and five other former NotW staff. Brooks is also accused along with six other people of perverting the course of justice in relation to Operation Weeting. This is over an alleged conspiracy to withhold material from police.
Mr Wallis became embroiled in the controversy which led to the resignation of then Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson. The country's most senior officer quit in July 2011 after he came under fire for hiring Mr Wallis as a PR consultant before his arrest. The journalist also had close contact with Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who also resigned after criticism of his links to the NotW and the decision not to reopen the inquiry into phone hacking.


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This article was published 29/10/2012 (1758 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
EVEN if you've had it up to here with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' quarterback quandary, it's still the compelling storyline this week.
Buck Pierce is out, Joey Elliott is banged up, Alex Brink is OK and Justin Goltz is waiting in the wings.
If Elliott is too banged up to start on Saturday in the last regular-season game against the 11-6 Montreal Alouettes, a game that is meaningless save for the fact it is expected to be the last Bombers game at Canad Inns Stadium, would Bombers head coach Tim Burke start Goltz?
Not likely, Burke said as he spoke with media on Monday at Canad Inns Stadium. Burke said he's not going to turn the game into one giant audition for jobs that will change over the winter anyway.
"Our goal is to win the game, that's our No. 1 goal," Burke said. "Guys who haven't played, we're not going to play them just to see if they can play. We're going to play the best guys that we have left on our team who can win a football game for us."
Burke said Pierce is a definite scratch for the last game of 2012 with a shoulder injury and, since Elliott is questionable after being "banged in the knee" in last week's 28-18 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, third-string pivot Alex Brink would be next in line to start.
He said Goltz will see the field against the Alouettes.
"If Joey can't go, or if he's banged up, it'll be Alex," Burke said, noting Elliott will miss today's practice. "If (Elliott's) banged up where he's going to have some mobility problems, he would be in a backup role," Burke said.
" (Goltz) will get some (playing time). He'll definitely run our wildcat package for sure this week. We might throw him in there in some other downs."
As the 5-12 Bombers were eliminated from post-season play after last Saturday's loss to the Tiger-Cats, Burke said his message to the players this week will be to not squander their last chance this season to work together as a team.
"There's going to be some change," he said. "There'll be draft picks added that'll make the team, there'll be guys brought in that'll make the team, there might be guys who decide not to come back who are free agents. Obviously, the coaching situation is in flux at this point in time.
"This is the last chance for us as a team to... play together and do it for each other. So that's going to be my message."
Oh, and one more thing. Burke said "yeah, we might" when asked if quarterback RJ Archer could come off the practice roster for the game.
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What better way to start the new year off than with a post about another private navy? lol The last couple of years, I have been posting about the Jardine Lloyd Thompson CEP 'private navy'. With that venture, they made a lot of promotional announcements, but never got it off the ground. Funding of such a thing is the problem, and we will see how this new private navy venture by Typhon does in their drive to get set up.
So lets look at the business model, as was stated by Typhon in January of last year.
"A huge difference between our model and others is that we will negotiate reduced insurance rates. Rates have skyrocketed because it's costing the industry $10bn-$12bn a year when you add everything up. Ransoms alone are $800m-$1.2bn."
South Korea reportedly paid $25m to reclaim a ship last year. "And then that's the new bar. It throws out Lloyds' actuarial valuations," says Sharp. "You have no idea what to charge as a premium. For my clients, we can take out some of the risk. I've got a letter from a Lloyds broker saying we can offer a 50pc discount on rates. That more than caters for our services."
You know, in fairness to potential clients, the company should post that letter from Lloyds on their website. Matter of fact, they should do a lot of things with their website in order to spell out exactly what they are all about because it is 'vacant'.
Furthermore, when a company puts it out there that it is recruiting 240 former Royal Marines, you kind of think there would be some talk of that within the industry? I haven't heard anything about it, nor is there any lively talk about it over at Close Protection World. I would also like to see this recruitment advertisement or maybe even a recruitment career page on their website, but there is nothing.
I do know that their website is registered in the UAE and supposedly they are based in Abu Dhabi. I do know that they made a promotional video for the company and concept, and you can watch that over at the gCaptain's website here.
According to the article last year, they have brought on some interesting folks to run this navy. Here is the list.
The ribs will be manned by ex-Royal Marines, as will the group's base in Abu Dhabi. Murray, a former French Foreign Legionnaire, will be Typhon's chairman, with Lord Dannatt a non-executive. They will be joined by non-executives including General Sir Jack Deverell, former commander of Allied Forces Northern Europe; Admiral Harry Ulrich, ex-head of US naval forces in Europe; and Peter Ahlas, former chief of HSBC's marine and insurance business. It's quite a roll-call for a company that's just completing its first fund-raising, of just $15m, and has yet to put to sea.
On a side note, Simon Murray has an interesting background. He did a stint in the French Foreign Legion. He is also a power broker and wealthy enough to make a project like this work. He is also partnered up with a non-military guy who I guess was the one that came up with the idea of Typhon. Here is the quote.
But Sharp himself is new to the all-action side of things. His career has seen him invest in start-up travel ventures from lastminute.com to GoAmerica, take AIM minnow Cashbox public, and launch Earthshine, a commodities distributor.
"I had the idea for Typhon playing polo one afternoon, thinking about what my next business might be," says Sharp. "I picked on maritime security. Two years later we're completing our funding round, acquiring our first vessel in weeks, and hope to be in theatre shortly after."
It is always funny to me when you hear about the inception of an idea, like with Sharp's statement of 'while playing polo one afternoon, thinking about what my next business might be…' lol Polo or golf, it seems like a lot of ideas for businesses get their start during play.
No mention of a Letter of Marque being issued either. Here is what was mentioned, and it would be cool to hear more about the legal side of this private navy.
The Britons intend to sail under a sovereign flag which will give them the legal right to carry their weaponry into harbour, rather than cache them on platforms in international waters.
Interesting stuff and I wish the company luck in their goal of firing up a private navy. –Matt
Glencore chief Simon Murray launches private navy to combat Somali pirate threat
By NICHOLAS HELLEN
January 06, 2013
BRITAIN'S first private navy in almost two centuries is being created by a group of businessmen to take on the Somali pirates who are terrorising an expanse of the Indian Ocean.
Its armed vessels – including a 10,000-ton mother ship and high-speed armoured patrol boats – will be led by a former Royal Navy commodore. He is recruiting 240 former marines and other sailors for the force.
It will escort its first convoy of oil tankers, bulk carriers – and possibly an occasional yacht – along the east coast of Africa in late March or April.
Typhon, the company behind the venture, is chaired by Simon Murray, a millionaire businessman who joined the French Foreign Legion as a teenager and walked unsupported to the South Pole aged 63.
Typhon has been set up because the Royal Navy, NATO and the European Union Naval Force lack the vessels to patrol an area of ocean that is as large as North America, said Anthony Sharp, chief executive. "They can't do the job because they haven't got the budget and deploying a billion-pound warship against six guys [pirates] with $500 of kit is not a very good use of the asset," he said.


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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated November 12th, 2013
Adnan Oktar: I mean, [Turkey made] great moves in total. Turkey's moves in the last week were all very good. There has only been one ambiguity in relation to these latest comments about student homes. We need to avoid such ambiguities. Making very concise, wise, short and well-coordinated statements would be very good. Opening matters for discussion, presenting them as if there is something difficult to understand, attempting to give the illusion that the government regards freedoms as dangers and that the government is prepared to go after freedoms and work that way would be a grave mistake. Our government is the government of freedoms, of democracy. We should strictly avoid such language, such mentality.


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This article was published 22/2/2013 (1639 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
BEIRUT -- Gunmen from rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria have freed more than 200 people snatched in tit-for-tat kidnappings this month, easing tensions that threatened to touch off more sectarian violence, activists said Friday.
In Syria's largest city of Aleppo, three explosions that appeared to be caused by missiles killed at least 14 people, activists said, adding that dozens of others were feared to be trapped under the rubble of damaged buildings.
The wave of abductions in a rural part of Idlib province highlighted how much the civil war between the regime of President Bashar Assad and the hundreds of rebel groups seeking his ouster has enflamed tensions between Syria's myriad religious groups.
The Syrian regime, established more than four decades ago by Assad's father, Hafez, has largely stocked the upper ranks of the country's security agencies and armed forces with members of the ruling family's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Most of the rebels fighting Assad's forces are poor, rural members of Syria's Sunni majority. Other religious minority communities, like Christians and Druze, have largely remained on the sidelines.
As the conflict approaches its third year, its sectarian divide is worsening. This month, clashes broke out between Sunni and Shiite villages in the area of Qusair, near the Lebanese border. Islamic extremists who have joined the rebels have destroyed Christian liquor stores, and sometimes refer to their dead adversaries with derogatory names insulting their sects.
The Idlib kidnappings showed how quickly sectarian tensions can escalate, but also that local communities are still capable of pulling back from the brink.
Opposition activists say the abductions began Feb. 14 when a bus carrying dozens of Shiite civilians, mostly women and children, disappeared on the road to Damascus. Gunmen from the area's two Shiite villages, Fua and Kifarya, responded by snatching civilians from the Sunni villages nearby.
Some of the Sunnis were nabbed at makeshift checkpoints on rural roads, while others were taken while entering the provincial capital, which government troops still control. Many of the Sunnis captives, too, were women and children.
"They started taking over buses from the opposition villages that were heading to Idlib city," said activist Hamza Abu al-Hassan from the village of Binnish. "Some of them had government jobs or had to file papers or were just going to visit their families."
The total number of those kidnapped remains unclear. Abu al-Hassan said they included about 35 Shiites and more than 250 Sunnis. Other activists gave higher figures. It also remains unclear who hijacked the bus carrying the Shiite civilians. Local activists said no rebels claimed responsibility, possibly because the kidnappers were criminals seeking ransom or because the move was immediately criticized by opposition groups.
Local rebels threatened to storm the Shiite villages, whose residents they say have been armed by the government. But the crisis was resolved early Thursday when the Shiite captives returned home, followed by the release of the Sunni captives later in the day, activists said.
Residents of the Shiite villages could not be reached for comment, though a Facebook page for the larger of the villages, Fua, said in a post Thursday that the captives had returned.
"With God's help we have liberated our kidnapped sisters from hands of the enemies of God," the post said. It also called for "retribution."
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Andy Murray crashed out of the Mutua Madrid Open at the third-round stage on Thursday as he suffered a straight-sets defeat to Colombia's Santiago Giraldo.
Murray produced a disappointing display which saw his opponent, ranked 38 places below him at 46th in the world, rarely troubled en route to a 6-3 6-2 victory and a quarter-final meeting with Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.
The Wimbledon champion's below-par showing comes as a considerable surprise the day after he had made a decent start to his clay-court season by seeing off Nicolas Almagro in round two.
In that contest, Murray, playing his first match in a month, had battled to a 6-1 1-6 6-4 triumph over a player known to be particularly dangerous on clay.
But there was little fight exhibited by the Scot on Thursday in an encounter Giraldo took control of from the off.
Having served to take a 1-0 lead, Giraldo swiftly extended his advantage by breaking Murray at the first opportunity and then holding in the third game.
Murray got a game on the board for 3-1 but struggled to exert any real pressure on Giraldo as the rest of the set played out.
It did not take long for Giraldo to then break Murray again in the second, doing so in the third game to make it 2-1.
And he repeated the trick another time to move 5-2 ahead before serving out the match.


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I was diagnosed with Stage 4, Metastised Bile Duct/Gall Bladder carcinoma on 8/28/12, just after my 65th birthday. I am a otherwise a very healthy and active person. The cancer had spread along the peritoneum causing problems with my colon, stomach, lungs, etc. The colon problem is what led to the cancer discovery by my GI doctor. Exactly where the cancer has spread is undetermined but as the doc who did the biopsy (needle in the liver) said "you have quite a mess in there". The CT's showed a lot of ascites all around the Peritoneum.
I have been through 8 cycles (cycle = 2 weeks and one off) of gemzar-cisplatin which was complete at the end of February. I am just finishing a 6 week holiday and start back with chemo tomorrow with Carboplatin replacing Cisplatin. The Cisplatin side effects necessitate the change. Neuropathy in the feet, legs, and fingers are the main problems. These started to show in the 7th cycle and my feet are pretty numb at this point. I am still walking to work and have generally been able to stay active although I had to stop some things that were too taxing. I think staying in motion is a good thing and people who know me have a difficult time believing I have cancer and am in chemotherapy.
My progress with chemo has been "amazing" in the words of my oncologist, Dr. Mohamed Bazzi of Antietam Oncology in Hagerstown, MD. I am also seeing Dr. David Cosgrove at Johns Hopkins for second opinions, who has supported the therapy plan developed by Dr. Bazzi. The CA 19-9 marker has gone from 6709 to normal (less than 37) over the course. The CT scans also show a lot of reduction to the point I can now see the Gall Bladder where initially that was just a big blob.
Dr. Bazzi arranged through one of the pharmaceutical companies for a DNA analysis but that was disappointing. The main problem being that there are very few approved gene specific therapies. It would be extremely lucky to hit one of those such as Her2, but not in my case.
The main issue right now is what to do next. I have decided to keep up with chemo as long as it is effective and I can stand it. Dr. Bazzi says that eventually the chemo will no longer do the job and we will have to find another therapy. My hope is that something becomes available between now and then.


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The country's youngest statewide elected official, State Auditor Hector Balderas, has his sights set on New Mexico's youngest public regulation commissioner, Jerome Block Jr.
Days before the Nov. 4 general election, Balderas sent a letter to Secretary of State Mary Herrera, first applauding the state's top elections official for penalizing Block to the tune of $21,700 for violating several campaign finance laws, then requesting all documentation regarding Block's case.
Finally, in the Oct. 30 correspondence, Balderas reminds Herrera that the law requires her to immediately report any criminal violation involving state money to his office.
"Statements made in the media got our attention and obviously concerns around allegations of misusing public tax dollars also triggered our interest and also the information the Secretary of State provided us," Balderas tells SFR. "And anytime an oversight agency, like the attorney general, gets involved, I think it's also important for us to make sure that we're also evaluating the situation on behalf of the constitutional authority vested in this office."
Herrera's office subsequently complied on Nov. 6, two days after Block won the general election for the District 3 seat on the powerful board that controls corporations and regulates everything from taxi cab registration to utility rates.
Block came under fire during his campaign, beginning with SFR's revelation that he had misrepresented his criminal background on newspaper questionnaires. The SOS became involved when reports emerged that Block had misused thousands of dollars in campaign money provided to him by the state.
In particular, Block admits he lied about $2,500 in public money paid to San Miguel County Clerk Paul Maez' country band for a performance that never occurred. Knowingly filing a false campaign report is a fourth degree felony under the Voter Action Act, which applies only to PRC and judicial candidates. It remains to be seen if the attorney general will pursue the case.
The SOS also found Block misspent money by helping US Sen. Hillary Clinton pay off her presidential campaign debt. All told, Block paid $11,000 in personal fines and returned $10,700 in campaign money.
In the week leading up to the election, the SOS' office announced an investigation into four other questionable payments first uncovered by SFR, including a Web site built by Block's father's employer, a mailer sent out by an Attorney General's Office employee and payments made to two county-level Democratic organizations.
Previously, the SOS told reporters the office only investigates campaign finance reports if a complaint is filed. This means that hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money are entrusted to politicians with little monitoring. In Block's case, he was given more than $101,000 to spend on his primary and general election campaigns.
The Secretary of State's Office has since closed the second investigation without charging Block—or providing much of an explanation. This decision, according to public-campaign finance advocates, illustrates the need for more oversight.
"The fact that the auditor is looking into [Block] just underscores that there is continued confusion over who is going to oversee the system," Matt Brix, policy director for the Center for Civic Policy, tells SFR. "That's why independent oversight of some sort, perhaps through the creation of an elections commission, is something we need to revisit."
Brix says the center plans to push for campaign ethics reform during the next legislative session. Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo III tells SFR he agrees the law needs refinement—adding that there may have been ethical problems with Block's reports, but the law is too vague to make a clear ruling.
In the meantime, Trujillo welcomes Balderas' involvement.
"The more oversight and input we can have [the better]. We have no problem with it," he says.
Balderas says right now his office is just evaluating the materials it received. "Upon further evaluation, I'm sure we'll have a more concrete position on how we're going to proceed," he says.
The state auditor has the ability to seek subpoenas in District Court for documents such as bank transfers. This tool is essential if Balderas hopes to solve outstanding discrepancies in Block's case.
Depending on what Balderas turns up, the audit's results could provide ammunition for the state Legislature if it attempts to draw up articles of impeachment against Block, an idea currently being floated by Rep. Larry Larrañaga, R-Bernalillo.
Balderas' findings also could provide the road map to loophole-closing reform or the clinching argument for dissembling the entire public campaign finance system.
SFR's full ongoing detail of "Blockgate"


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Remove the crowns from the broccoli, and refrigerate for later use. Remove the hard base of the stalk, about 1/2 inch, with a knife and discard. Peel the tough skin from the lower part of the stem and discard. Slice the stalk in very thin pieces, and place in a bowl or jar. Mix the ume plum vinegar and water together, and pour over the slices. Allow to marinate for 2 hours. Rinse to remove excess sodium before eating.
These pickles will keep for several days in the refrigerator. Leave pickles in pickling liquid until ready to eat. Remove several pieces at a time and rinse before eating. They become a little saltier the longer you store them. If too salty, soak the pickles for 10 minutes, and serve.
Per serving - 2 calories, 0 gram fat (9% calories from fat), 0 gram protein, 0 gram carbohydrate, 0 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 422 milligram sodium


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CAOLAN Lavery wants to bring the luck of the Irish to Southend United for the remainder of the season.
The under 21 Northern Ireland international striker has joined Blues on loan from Sheffield Wednesday.
And he has requested to wear number 13 during his time at Roots Hall.
"Everyone has always worn 13 in my family so I'll be asking if I can wear it for Southend while I'm here," said Lavery.
"I haven't been able to wear it since coming over to England too often.
"But hopefully I can for Southend and it can prove to be lucky too."
Lavery has been brought in by Blues boss Paul Sturrock to strengthen his striking options.
And the 20-year-old, who has yet to make a senior appearance in his career, is keen to make a good impression.
"This is a good chance for me and it's one I want to make the most of," said Lavery.
"I've heard good things about Southend and also the manager who used to be charge at Wednesday so I'm looking forward to it.
"Things have been going well for me at Wednesday and I've been in and around the first team.
"But it's time for me to step things up and this loan spell can help me do that.
"I want to do well and get some goals to help the team get good results and hopefully promotion."
Lavery, who describes himself as a hard-working striker, has been suffering with a slight hamstring problem.
However, he expects to be back in full training by the end of the week and hopes to be able to make his debut against Oxford United at Roots Hall on Saturday.
"My hamstring has been a bit tight but I should be available to play at the weekend," said Lavery.
"I'm looking forward to it too because it would be my senior debut."
Such an opportunity has been a long time coming for Lavery, who first came to play in England four years ago when he signed for Ipswich Town.
But, despite being brought up in Canada, the youngster always dreamed of making a name for himself overseas.
"My parents are Irish and my dad's a big football fan who always followed the game over here so it's where I wanted to play," said Lavery.
"In Canada it was hard because everyone played ice hockey not football but it's what I always wanted to do.
"My cousin (David Scullion) got a move to Aston Villa and my agent was able to get me a few trials.
"Luckily, I was able to get something sorted and now I want to get some games and hopefully show what I can do."


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Beauty It List: Best Products for February
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and blemishes. No matter how diligently one follows her skin-care routine, emergencies are impossible to avoid. "Stress, hormones, diet—many factors affect how we look, and they can manifest at unexpected times," says NYC-based dermatologist Francesca Fusco, MD. Try these derm-approved tips for common skin mishaps.
Although a blemish will take several days to heal, reducing its size and color will make it easier to hide.
Fast Fix: Take a close look at the spot. See white? Apply a warm compress to open the pore and draw out the trapped bacteria, says Fusco, and follow with a disinfecting astringent, such as witch hazel. If the bump is hard and red, ice it for a few minutes, then follow with several drops of redness-reducing eyedrops. "Both will constrict the small surface blood vessels," Fusco says.
Extra Credit: Pre-bed, top with benzoyl peroxide.
Clinique Acne Solutions Emergency Gel-Lotion contains blemish-drying benzoyl peroxide.
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Game 10. Third of a six-game homestand.
Last game, perhaps, without Sean Avery. First in the last seven against a non-Canadian team. Just full of big info here, right?
Mike Rupp (knee) and Marc Staal (concussion symptoms) remain out. Artem Anisimov is OK after that hit by Zenon Konopka Saturday. Jeff Woywitka returns on defense because of the return of Tim Erixon to Connecticut. Call-up Andre Deveaux replaces the demoted Kris Newbury.
And of course, Martin Biron starts in goal.


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Clancy's Irish Pub
6218 Cortez Rd West
Bradenton, FL 34210
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Bradenton, FL 34210
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Hey there all you NTN fans, thanks for checking out our page! We're Clancy's Irish Sports Pub, located in beautiful, sunny Bradenton, Florida. Stop on in for an evening and give us a try, we have daily food specials, drink specials, live music, and of course, NTN. We also have live trivia hosted by JR on Tuesday nights from 6-8pm. Check out our website for some photos of the bar, our events calendar, and daily specials information. Our Facebook page is also a pretty happenin' place to view the fun we have here through our photos:) We look forward to seeing you soon here at Clancys. Never a cover, and a good time had by all!
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Reader Sam writes in to let us know he found some Christmas Creep at a Michaels craft store. He sent along some pictures he took in early August, 142 days before Christmas.
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Police searching for Missing Person
Press Release from the Fortuna Police Department
On February 19, at about 08:30 am the Fortuna Police Department received a telephone call from a motel located on Riverwalk Drive in Fortuna. Staff was concerned as a guest; Terry Turley (54) had left her dog in one of the rooms and was two days late in checking out of the hotel.
Officers responded and determined that the female had not accessed the room in two days to care for the dog and found the circumstances inconsistent with her normal behavior. Officers contacted out of the area family and determined that they had not spoken with the female and also believed this behavior to be odd as she is very close with her dog.
Turley is believed to be driving a Green 2005 Chev. Equinox, California License Plate 5PLD164.
The department is currently seeking the public's assistance in locating the missing female. Anyone with information is asked to contact the department.


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|Big Apple Angling
Would you believe you can practice catch and release right in the middle of Manhattan?
By Capt. Ken Kreisler
Over the years, I've been lucky enough to spend time aboard some pretty impressive multimillion-dollar battlewagons in search of big game. Yet some of my most treasured angling moments are the times I get to do some fishing in my own "backyard."
What might surprise you is that my backyard happens to be the island of Manhattan, the place I've called home for most of my adult life. And while you may scoff at the idea of fishing its waters, we who live in The City take it quite seriously. Whether it's along the East River that divides the city from Brooklyn, the Harlem River that's Manhattan's northern boundary, the Hudson River on the city's west side, or at the Battery on the city's southern tip, most any day you can see city folk with rods in the water waiting for tide-riding bluefish or striped bass.
Actually, the waters surrounding Manhattan once teemed with many species of fish. A hundred years ago Hudson River sturgeon were so thick that "one could walk across to New Jersey on their backs," according to the history books. And there were oysters, too. In fact, Pearl Street, in lower Manhattan, got its name from the pearl merchants who use to lay their wares out in the street for jewelry buyers and the uptown wealthy to peruse. Those pearls came not from the Orient or the South Pacific but from the East River just off of South Street, where the South Street Seaport Museum stands today.
But with the city's growth came industrialization and with that, pollution. However, the environmental movement of the 1970's and 1980's resulted in a cleaner Hudson River and Long Island Sound, which empties into the East River. And the fish returned. Today there's a great striper and bluefish hole nearly in front of the Statue of Liberty, lobster have been found at the entrance to New York Harbor, right under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, and private and charter boats regularly fish the waters of the upper Hudson, all the way up to Albany.
All these spots are special to me, but when I crave a true New York angling experience, I head for the city's real fishing oasis, right in the heart of Manhattan: Central Park. There's no place like it in the world, but fishing the park requires a little different take on things.
You could say the park was designed from the beginning for fishing—or at least for watersports. It was conceived, designed, and built by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after winning the commission to do so in 1857. They transformed what were then swamps, bluffs, and rocky outcroppings into the magnificent 843-acre haven it is today. Besides featuring equestrian paths, two ice-skating rinks, and a model-sailboat racing pond, there are also three sizable lakes. Rowboat, at 22 acres, is the largest; Turtle Pond is the smallest; and in between, up at the northern reaches of the park, around 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, is the Harlem Meer. (Meer is the Dutch word for lake; Manhattan was originally a Dutch colony.)
Next page > Part 2: During the spring, summer, and early fall, the prime fishing action is at the Meer. > Page 1, 2, 3
This article originally appeared in the February 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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The Home Health Occupational Therapist is a licensed therapist possessing special knowledge of care practices and regulations required for provision of comprehensive care to patients in their home. Occupational Therapists are responsible for managing the care plan for a group of assigned patients; directs care provided by the COTA; coordinates with other disciplines and departments while maintaining accountability for care provided. Able to perform duties and make appropriate decisions in an independent setting; possesses effective problem-solving skills; readily identifies resources and seeks assistance appropriately.
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The Crap We Missed – Monday 8.6.12
Welcome to Monday's The Crap We Missed, bearing its usual seam-bursting girth — Calm down, Joe Jonas — I just meant there's a ton of pics. Anyway, we've got Hailey Duff who I think may have misunderstood the whole Chick-fil-A protest, Wilmer Valderrama in an awkward moment that, to him, was like kissing his grandmother, Vanessa Simmons or as you've all so eloquently requested, 'Enough of this pig, where's her hot sister,' and finally, please apologize to your monitor's horizontal hold for me. It will never be the same.
See if you can pinpoint the creepiest thing about this Banderas Family Portrait. I'll check back in six months,
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Service Indicator is similar to a stop with added functionality. A positive service indicator allows students to access additional services, e.g., veterans' services, early registration, specialized accommodation. A negative service indicator will prevent an action from occurring e.g., registration block, or transcript block. View List of Service Indicators (PDF)
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Dualed by Elsie Chapman is about a girl named on West Grayer who lives in the country of Kersh where everyone has a double. A duplicate. A genetic Alternate twin. The mission: eliminate your Alt within thirty days of when you receive your assignment. If not, you both die. Your twin doesn't live with you, and you never meet them. So how do you know who they are? Well for starters, they have the same face as you.
The ultimate test: are you stronger than your Alt? Faster than your Alt? Braver than your Alt? Are you really worth living? But West Grayer knows that she is. In fact, she probably is the better of the twin. Although a tragic incident causes her to lose faith in herself and she decides to just run from her Alt. The days are counting down and the more West runs. So who will kill her first? Time, or her Alt?
Dualed is a very fast read and has lots of killing, suspense, and even a hint of romance within all of the chaos. There is love and loss and a destructive world where many are hurt and few are happy. I really enjoyed this book and I cannot wait for the sequel to come out soon.
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"The paper is very thick and some of my old photos had rough edges around the faces. However, they were very old photos and very small, so the details would be the old photos fault and not WeddingPaperDivas."
"I wanted a Save The Date that was unique in layout format, but would also serve as a creative manner to display our engagement photos. This save the date was PERFECT for this. Our guests raved about how beautiful and unique they were. No one had ever seen anything like it before. Kudos to this designer. In addition to showcasing our lovely photos, we were able to tell our story to our guests. The paper quality and photo printing/clarity were exceptional. (I took off one star for print quality due to there being smudges on a few of our save the dates. Wedding Paper Divas responded to this mishap promptly by sending additional save the dates, free of charge.) For those choosing the gold shimmer envelopes such as I did, be careful as they are much darker than the website suggests and can only be written on with a ball point pen. Ink Stamps will appear very faintly."
"I love this trifold save the date! It's very unique and gives opportunity to use several engagement photos! Also, the design team worked with me to include the text that I needed (that did not originally fit) and to change the colors to match my wedding colors!"
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"This save-the-date invitation was simply beautiful!!!! My fiancé even thought it was stunning! I personalized it with our engagement photos and the finished product was amazing! I can't rave about it enough! The quality of the paper was great and thick but not too thick. Some of my friends can't believe how beautiful and professional they look! Can't wait to send them out!"


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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New types of dragons are added regularly!
Imperial Fleshcrownes are an active and playful breed. They are equally good at flying and climbing and while they are not good swimmers, they love to take an occasional dip. Fleshcrownes live in large social groups called "communities." Adult Fleshcrownes share the responsibility of looking after the young, who are very playful and active. Even after maturing, they retain their curious and mischievous natures, often getting into trouble. The fleshy crowns on their head can be raised at will, and are usually erect when happy, excited, or scared. Fleshcrownes—being a very peaceful breed—are more prone to flight than fight. If threatened, they can raise their crowns while hissing in an attempt to scare off predators.
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.


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Why would anyone use this?
BBM these days is pointless, especially on anything other than a Blackberry in an age where people generally have free texts, use iMessage amongst iOS users, and the ever-growing popularity of whatsapp. Sorry BB you're at least 3 years too late with this one.....FLOP
Here's the thing I would use it for, you can share your screen live (or Atleast on the actually blackberry Z10 version you can.) that could be very helpful and useful, on android then can incorporate that feature. On iDevices it'll be tough because that's against the App Store policies. So if they don't have that feature it's not worth it.
I want to try this out, ugh
I personally feel that blackberry owners are a little stupid because they spend $$$ on services which others offer for free, and that too on edge network!
And i can get girl's numbers and actually have them reply. It takes some personality, not a pin to talk to girls.
but my daughter used to be addicted to blackberry's bbm for years till i converted her to iphone..
in a nutshell:
bbm was the first to offer imessage type service via data connection, but one step further... you dont need a data plan cause it went encrypted through blackberry's own enterprise server.. this was huge to low budget oriented users like teens (no text limits and faster sms.. no limits to out of country chatting etc).. this alone attracted many.. as well as first to have group chatting then an "exclusive club" type thing formed where everyone who was anyone had bbm.
it is almost the same as computer chat programs like MSN messenger, Skype, AIM or gchat.
nothing to do with your phone number associated to your phone, it works with the PIN number which can not be changed (so u dont need to get a girl's phone number which is kinda personal.. instead just need her pin which is more anonymous.. girls feel more secure from creeps.. hence the "get a girls pin" comment.. its true lol
bbm has proprietary things like:
profile emotions
built in emoticons
ability to block bbm users at will
ability to let people know before they text u whether you want to chat or are busy or mad/upset/happy, thus allowing people to bbm u only if its important etc..
send voice notes as well as pics/vids
bbm is like having a direct connection with another bbm user.. like a private message.. same with group chats.. a group chat looks very much like this forum when chatting
its true with a jail broken phone u can get these features too,, and using some other programs like gchat can get u most.. but these are standard feature of bbm.. and has been for 7+ years.
and no one program has them all except bbm
the most important thing about bbm from my understanding is the "exclusive club" thing i mentioned... if all your friends and contacts have it.. so will you.. there are too many text type bbm wannabe program's out there but not everyone uses only one.. everyone used bbm.. this in my opinion is the ONLY reason RIM still exists today... iphone rolled over it and crushed it.. had iphone come out with a true bbm alternative before.. i doubt there would be a rim today... same could be said about RIM.. if they came out with a true iphone type contender 5-7 years ago like samsung/android/windows have... the cell phone world would have been a different place with iphone being much less popular and blackberry's being where iphone is now.. jmho
but i will say now the same what i said when i got my gen 1 iphone (gen 1 iphone was never sold in canada.. had to take a drive to the USA to grab one..) i wouldnt trade it for the world
imessage still lacks in encryption and status/profile.. built in stuff like emoticons and stuff as well as any ability to block users or hide.
and email is not as impersonal like a pin number is
when bbm is released for iphone.. i will be first to install it.. and my life will be complete as my daughter is telling me.. i will have the very best of everything phone related lol


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The houndstooth print isn't for everyone. In fact, half of you probably love it and the other half…not so much. But, that's OK! Just because it's a trend doesn't mean you have to like it. I like my prints in small doses, that's just me. And I can imagine wearing this print, also known as dogstooth, in an office or business casual setting.
It definitely has a retro vibe to it and I think that's why I like it so much. And there seems to be a lot of it out there. I found tops, dresses, shoes, skirts, hats, nylons, and bags in houndstooth.
I'm curious to know what you think of it and where you'd wear it.
- Ashley Stewart Houndstooth Print Tight $10
- Charter Club Plus Size Blouse, Long-Sleeve Houndstooth-Print Macy's $54.99
- NY Collection Plus Size Dress, Half-Sleeve Houndstooth Belted Macy's $54
- August Accessories Houndstooth Mod Cap Bloomingdales $42
- Rachel Roy Pointed Toe Pumps – Ana Bloomingdales $225
- Alfani Plus Size Skirt, Houndstooth-Print Pencil Macy's $69
- Lane Bryant Houndstooth Cape $49.95
- Sejour Back Zip Shell Nordstrom
- ASOS CURVE Peplum Top In Dog Tooth Check $64.71
- Vince Camuto Contrast Trim Houndstooth Blouse Nordstrom $99
- Grace Elements Plus Size Dress, Sleeveless Houndstooth Faux Leather Macy's $99
- ASOS CURVE Exclusive Peplum Skirt In Dogtooth $59.61
- Lane Bryant Mixed houndstooth sheer overpiece $54.95
- Lane Bryant Houndstooth wrap dress $69.95
- ModCloth Houndstooth or Dare Bag $59.99
- Forever 21 Houndstooth Combo Shirtdress $22.80


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St. George police Tuesday were asking for the public's help in identifying a motorist who stabbed another during a possible road-rage incident.
Police said they responded Monday about 5:45 p.m. to a report of a stabbing at 1911 W. Sunset Blvd. Officers said the victim was traveling in one vehicle and his attacker was traveling the opposite direction in another when there was some sort of "exchange."
When the victim entered a parking lot, he was confronted by the occupant of the other vehicle. A verbal exchange took place and the victim was slashed on the arm. The cut did not require medical attention, and the suspect fled before police arrived.


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So I made some chicken Yassa for diner the other night.
8-10 skinless chicken breasts (or their equivalent)
For the marinade
2/3 c. oil
1 c. red wine vinegar
1 c. freshly-squeezed lime juice
1/4 chicken broth
6 small garlic cloves, mashed
6 tsp. fresh ginger, grated
2 tsp. salt (or to taste)
12 tsp. coarse black pepper
3-4 tsp. red pepper (ground or flakes)
(You can add more pepper to your liking, the meal is not hot. Some other versions I have seen have diced hot peppers in it.)
Add the chicken to a resealable bag.
Mix the other ingredients in a bowl.
Add the liquid to the bag for marinating but keep some aside for basting while cooking.
(The original recipe calls for having alot of thinly sliced sauteed onions thrown on top of the chicken prior to serving but that did not appeal to me).
IMG_0220 by Askanison1, on Flickr
Both the wife and daughter that it was excellent. I liked it too.


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Passengers using Southern trains may experience delays of up to 60 minutes this morning due to an earlier signaling failure which was caused by an electrical power failure.
Problems are being experienced on all routes via Gatwick and Horsham and it is not yet known when services will be back to normal.
Tickets will be accepted on Metrobus routes, Southeastern and South West train services and on the 405 bus.


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OTTOVILLE — Cloverdale Mayor Judd Spencer believes whole-heartedly
that the worst of events brings out the best in people. And he has all
the proof he needs to back up that belief. This past Saturday, hundreds
of people gathered in Ottoville to help Cloverdale and its residents
recover from a catastrophe.
On Nov. 17 of last year, the Village of Cloverdale was ravaged by a tornado.
The storm leveled homes, displaced families, wreaked havoc with the
town's infrastructure and razed St. Barbara's Catholic Church. As
devastating as the emotional damage created by the loss of hearth and
home was for residents, the financial burden it incurred seemed nearly
insurmountable. Fortunately, the residents of Cloverdale are made of
stern stuff, are able to bear up under the stresses that assail them.
That and they have good neighbors.
benefit, held at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and a combined
effort of the Cloverdale Task Force and the Ottoville Mothers Club,
involved a 5K benefit run, a bake sale and a silent auction. Over 160
runners preregistered for the event, with some coming from out of town
and even out of state. While total revenues from the event have yet to
be tallied, Spencer was pleased with the results.
"It's more than I imagined," he said. "We don't have a final count, but I know it's over $15,000."
reported that all of the monies raised will help individual residents
with their individual needs, and needs are great. Even so, and despite
the fierceness of this past winter, there are already signs of progress.
gotten a lot done since the weather has shaped up a little bit,"
Spencer said. "Now we're seeing a lot of construction going on, a lot of
remodeling, a lot of rebuilding. That kind of gives everybody a bit of a
spring in their step."
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