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Alastair Cook, the England captain (right), and coach Peter Moores see the West Indies as a must win tour. Photograph: John Walton/PA

It is perhaps apt England begin their tour of the West Indies in close proximity to the setting of Death in Paradise. After all, anything other than victory in the three-Test series and there is likely to be blood in the clear blue waters of the Caribbean.

The BBC murder mystery is filmed on Guadeloupe, part of the Leeward Islands and an area that also includes the neighbouring St Kitts. That is where England arrived on Friday for their two warm-up matches against a St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI that precede the series against West Indies.

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Sharks are still circling Peter Moores, Englands coach, after the shipwreck that was his sides shambolic World Cup campaign. The positions of Moores and Paul Downton, the managing director of England cricket, were significantly weakened by the shambles in Australia and New Zealand.

Alastair Cook, the returning Test captain who is without an international century in almost two years, could do with some convincing performances as well. In light of the comments by Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, the futures of all three men could well rest on the outcome of the series here.

Graves does not take office until next month but has wasted no time in laying down the law. He has already caused offence in this part of the world by writing off a West Indies team shorn of nine regulars thanks to the Indian Premier League as mediocre. The bluff Yorkshireman has also put the triumvirate of Moores, Downton and Cook on notice by saying there will be inquiries if England lose the series.

Things are always heightened in the build-up to an Ashes summer. However, this year the stakes have been raised even higher by Englands World Cup embarrassment and Gravess encouragement to Kevin Pietersen. The exiled batsman, discarded amid the purge that followed the 2013-14 Ashes whitewash, has rejoined Surrey and committed to playing first-class cricket after negotiating a release from his IPL deal with Sunrisers Hyderabad. An England recall seems highly implausible, if not impossible. However, the fact Pietersen is still dominating the news agenda 14 months on from his very public divorce from the ECB is a distraction the team could do without.

Cook, who has benefitted from the three months off provided to him by losing the one-day captaincy, is at least aware of the stakes. Asked on Saturdaywhat would constitute success over the next five weeks, he replied simply: A series win.

That really is the bottom line and despite all the problems the team have endured in recent months, they should have more than enough quality to beat West Indies.

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This is about focusing on an England team, Moores said when asked about Pietersen again. We have not mentioned the fact we have new players here today and the frustration for me is there are people whose dreams are being made by going on this trip but are not being mentioned. People who have worked so hard for years to get their chance Adam Lyth, Mark Wood are not getting any airtime at all.

We have some very good players like Gary Ballance, who was International Cricket Council young player of the year. That was exciting news. I understand Kevin is a huge subject but Cooky and me cannot be drawn into that. We have got to focus on what is ahead.

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Pietersen returns to action next week for Surrey and both Moores and Cook batted away attempts to draw a definitive answer about whether he had any chance of playing for England again.

Contrary to what you may read in the media Im a long way away from that decision [Pietersen]. Its not down to us, said Cook. Weve got 16 guys going to West Indies who are desperate to start turning round English cricket from whats happened over the last three months. We need to get back to winning ways and its about a brand of cricket and trying to win this series. The ECB will have to deal with everything else.

Cook has been out of form with the bat for some time

New faces always lift a team and the sheer excitement of Lyth, Mark Wood and Adil Rashid going on their first England tour should help change the mood. Ben Stokes is also back and there was good news concerning Moeen Ali, who expects to fly out in time for the second Test in Grenada as he recovers from a side strain.

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We have to focus on the exciting thing, which is the guys who are lucky enough to pull on that shirt and represent our country, said Cook. I was with Adam Lyth when he got his phone call from James Whitaker in Dubai. It was such a refreshing thing to see. A gritty Yorkshireman was in tears talking to his mum telling her he had been picked by England. That is what playing cricket for England means. To get that opportunity to stand in the airport in his first England suit is something he will remember forever. We have to concentrate on that now.

Gravess comment last week that the West Indies were a mediocre team offended some in the Caribbean but if that leads to a backlash from the West Indies the new chairman will simply expect England to take it in their stride.

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Maurice Watkins is a sports lawyer whose firm represents QPR Raheem Sterling's agent has emerged as key player in his contract talks Peter Moores will begin review into England's failed World Cup next week

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Published: 16:32 EST, 2 April 2015 | Updated: 19:31 EST, 2 April 2015

Rival clubs claim QPR, facing Football League fines of up to 50million for multiple breaches of financial fair play regulations, are making an outrageous attempt to get their man on the inside of the discussions.

Football League board member Jim Rodwells departure from Notts County to become chief executive of Scunthorpe has created the need for an election for a League One representative as Rodwell cannot automatically keep his place.

League One clubs have been informed that there are two nominations for the vacant seat Rodwell and former Manchester United director Maurice Watkins, now chairman of Barnsley.

Maurice Watkins is a sports lawyer whose firm represents QPR over their considerable FFP troubles

Tony Fernandes, owner of QPR, wants to avoid fines of up to 50million for Financial Fair Play breaches

QPR are 19th in the Premier League, four points away from escaping the relegation zone

Watkins is a sports lawyer and his firm Brabners are representing QPR over their considerable FFP troubles.

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Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Maggie Latham of Dardanelle; son and daughter-in-law, Ronald and Paula Latham; daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Kyle Elliott, all of Dardanelle; three brothers, Ronald Dale Latham, Manford D. Latham and Johnny Willie Latham, all of Dardanelle; four sisters, Eva Mae McGuire of Benton, Iva Lee Reece, Ima Faye Rose, both of Dardanelle, and Ava Sue Carter of Atkins; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and a host of nephews, nieces and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 1, 2015, at Cornwell Chapel in Dardanelle with Don Erwin officiating. Burial will be in Moores Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. today at the chapel.

Grandchildren will serve as pallbearers.

Arrangements are by Cornwell Funeral Home in Dardanelle. Online guest book and condolences at http://www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.

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Labour is risking a new clash with business with a pledge to reverse the Government's final cut in corporation tax just weeks after it is due to come into effect, if the party gains power after the General Election on May 7.

On the first full day of campaigning, shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the move would enable them to throw a lifeline to smaller firms - cutting business rates on 1.5 million small business premises - rather than the big firms who benefit from the reduction in corporation tax.

However the Conservatives warned that it could lead to the loss of almost 100,000 jobs, putting economic security at risk, "for the sake of making a political point.".

The parents of two British medical students stabbed to death while in Malaysia on a placement have said they are "pleased" after a man was found guilty of murder, but added that the verdict will not bring their sons back.

Newcastle University students Aidan Brunger, of Kent, and Neil Dalton, of Ambergate, in Derbyshire, were killed in Sarawak on the island of Borneo in August last year.

Zulkipli Abdullah, a 23-year-old fishmonger, was sentenced to death at the high court where prosecutor Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad said he had told friends he wanted to "test his strength" against bigger and taller foreigners before going after the two men.

Britain's intelligence agencies are engaged in a "technology arms race" with terrorists, cyber criminals and other "malicious actors" bent on causing the country harm, the head of MI6 has warned.

Alex Younger said the agencies were facing opponents "unconstrained by consideration of ethics and law" who were exploiting internet technology to "put our people and agents at risk".

In his first public comments since taking over last year as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - as MI6 is more properly known - Mr Younger said traditional human espionage was becoming increasing intertwined with "technical operations".

Binge-drinking is costing UK taxpayers 4.9 billion a year, a study has suggested.

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Hen harrier chicks at a nest - the species has become a symbol of UK bird of prey protection efforts.

A top naturalist and TV presenter really got to the art of the matter in his fight against illegal bird and animal persecution - and used a Constable masterpiece to make his point

Chris Packhams anger had been simmering throughout his keynote address to a conference on illegal wildlife persecution in the UK and it exploded in a frenzied finale as he destroyed a copy of perhaps the most famous painting ever to depict a Suffolk scene.

A mysterious, shrouded easel had been placed in front of conference delegates and the gathered campaigners were at first baffled, then bemused and finally inspired.

Naturalist and TV presenter Packham deftly removed the shroud to reveal a copy of John Constables 1821 masterpiece The Hay Wain.

Ominously, out came the cans of spray paint. The scene near Flatford was too cluttered, said Packham, as he obliterated the famous cart and much of the rest of the work in a blur of orange, black and blue.

Then, menacingly, out came the knife. The canvass was slashed time and again before a final flourish what was left of the work was smashed with all Packhams might onto the floor.

It was a dramatic way to get a point across, but it left delegates at the Eyes in the Field conference organised by the burgeoning Birders Against Wildlife Crime movement in no doubt about Packhams passion, even if some were clearly stunned by the performance. Representatives of the Suffolk-based Campaign Against Raptor Persecution were at the meeting in Buxton, Derbyshire, along with nature conservationists from many organisations from across Britain.

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This was a salutary defeat. This, surely, is the end for psychobabble and over-professionalism, a full stop to mark the end of overcoaching and joylessly prescriptive planning. It is time for Englands cricketers to put bat to ball, to react to the situation and not genuflect to the tactics manual. It is time to play once again. If this is what you get after six months of dedicated planning, then less planning sounds good to me.

Here is one possible summary of this disastrous World Cup: They found ever more stones to upturn, each less relevant than thelast. Lauded for their professionalism, they snuffed out the last glimpses of play (from a game, lets remember) . . . The resulting atmosphere: anxious, dutiful, earnest, fearful and highly professional. Too little in evidence: fun, naturalness, mischief, adventure, lightness, wit and maverick independence.

Only it was written in prospect, not retrospect by me, in this very space, 13 months ago. Since then, the same script has played out in full. Now, please, for the change.

New errors have been added, it is true. When England sacked Alastair Cook as one-day captain at the eleventh hour, it was almost universally praised as the right decision. I disagreed. There is a time when youve thrown your lot in with someone, and for this World Cup England had done that with Cook.

In seeking to avoid one problem Cooks batting form they ended up creating twoproblems. The discarded Cook, back at home, is deeply hurt. Eoin Morgan, adrift in totally uncharted waters as captain, may end up feeling he has been used. The adjectives streetwise and positive were hopeful to the point of neglectful naivety. Ifopting for Morgan was a sop to media pressure, it was disgraceful.

Selection was a shambles. On the eve of the opening game, they abandoned one of the few things that was working the form of James Taylor at number three. Instead, Gary Ballance was plucked from the subs bench. He is now needlessly scarred by having played in an ill-fated World Cup for which he had little preparation.

It is impossible not to feel sorry for Morgan, especially as his native Ireland have played much better than England at the World Cup. Morgan, like Ed Joyce before him, pursued a career as an England player because Ireland are held back by a lack of fixtures and opportunities. Watching a revitalised Joyce now back in Irish green chalkup elegant runs for his home team, its obvious how deeply he cares about the cricketing culture that produced him. You now wonder how Morgan, who may be tempted by the life of a roving Twenty20 specialist, will react to this bruising World Cup experience.

Having invented T20, England have engineered a situation where they squandered the advantages of being the pioneer. The best T20 leagues are the Indian Premier League and Australias Big Bash League. It is simply impossible to produce cricket at that level in a league of 18 counties the talent is diluted too weakly. Everyone knows this is a fact. When we shared a dressing room at Middlesex in 2008, I saw Morgan shake his head in disbelief at the ECBs refusal to set a franchise-based T20 league. He was right.

There is a brain drain in English cricket. The better thinkers rarely return to the game, whether as coaches or as administrators. After the defeat, viewers watched Andrew Strauss, Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain, three thoughtful former England captains, dissect the performance. Forgive my hypocrisy, but it seems a shame that the media are almost universally considered far more attractive than the coalface.

The pull of television is compounded by the push of the county grind. Top Australian ex-players such as Justin Langer, Stuart Law and Darren Lehmann have all recently coached at state level in Australia. It is much rarer for people of such distinction to enter coaching in county cricket. The prospect of a never-ending road trip around 18 counties works against recruiting top talent. When Peter Moores was reappointed as England coach a year ago, the striking feature was the unspectacular quality of the shortlist. Moores is a decent, hard-working enthusiast, probably the best of his type. It remains very unclear that his type is good enough.

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Legislation that will make hospital prices and information such as rates of complications and re-admissions available on a public website by 2018 has now passed the House and Senate and is awaiting the governors signature to become law.

The House passed the Senate Judiciary Committee substitute for SBs 323 and 474 on Wednesday night.

Hospitals and health facilities already are required to report on an extensive list of data to the state Department of Health, including medical outcomes, mortality and health-system costs. But the department is not allowed to publicly release it in a way that identifies a specific hospital or other type of health facility.

The bill amends the Health Information System Act to allow the release of hospital-specific quality and cost information. It would create an advisory committee to determine how to present the information and directs the department to create a user-friendly website where it can be presented.

The bill says the information would be presented in a way that complies with federal and state laws to maintain the confidentiality of patient information.

SB 323 was sponsored by Rep. Mark Moores, R-Albuquerque; SB 474 was sponsored by Sens. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, and Sander Rue, R-Albuquerque.

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Wayne was born Oct. 11, 1936, in Walnut Grove to the late Silas and Ellie Brothers Fleming. He was a carpenter. Preceded in death by his parents, brothers, Bob, Leon, R.C., Hayden, and C.J.; sisters, Barbara Beason, Johnnie Faye Pettitt and Myrtle Elliott.

Survivors include his wife of 31 years Vernice Fleming; children, Brian Fleming of California; Tammy Fleming of California; Sonya and Mike Adams of Indiana; Wendal and Patricia Cox of Booneville; eight grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, J.B. and Terri Fleming of Moores Chapel; Gene and Murel Fleming of Oklahoma; Cleve and Nell Fleming of California; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2015, at the Danville Cornwell Funeral Home Chapel with Mr. Owen Yandell officiating. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at the funeral home. Burial will be at Moores Chapel Cemetery.

Pallbearers include Cam Parish, Robin Carpenter, Bobby Cole, Jackie Corbin, Buddy Benson and B.J. Adair.

Arrangements by Cornwell Funeral Home of Danville. Online guestbook and condolences at http://www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.

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Darren Gough claims Englands one-day side isyears behind the rest of the world after seeing the Three Lions crash out of the Cricket World Cup.

Peter Moores side slumped to a 15 run defeat to Bangladesh on Monday morning a result which endedtheir participation in the competition.

And Gough, who is second in the all-time list of Englands record one-day wicket takers, insists selection policy must change to include more players who are capable of influencing matches.

I watched a World Cup from four years ago and saw some of the shots played with the new ball. England arent even up to that standard yet, he told Drivetime. We have certain players who can play that way but, because they look at all the data and stats, they decide not to play them.

We go with a law of averages and pick a guy who might get a nice little 30, instead of the guy who might win a game for you in tenovers - players like Jos Buttler, who was magnificent against Bangladesh.

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Two of the things that are lacking from this England team are 1) individual match-winners and 2) inspiring, energetic leadership at all levels. At the moment that probably goes for the Test side too. I hope they can find both before the Ashes series or it will be another debacle.

13.51 Andrew Barnes looks to the future

If the ECB are to make changes then surely nothing is going to happen until Graves and Harrison take charge in May anyway. The current hierarchy are really lame ducks now, certainly not in a position to make the big calls. Theyre just filing the paperwork and checking the sponsorship money is paid on time. Possibly not Downton, but how tenable is his position given this outcome and the water thats gone under his bridge over the past twelve months?

If Moores goes, Downton has to go too. It was his call as was effectively sacking Kevin Pietersen. He can't be credible having wasted so much time and money on a false start.

13.47 One of England's best ODI batsmen has his say on Moores' assertion that England are missing a certain batsman. No, not that one ...

13.43 Here's Mike Buckley's verdict

This cricket team are more embarrassing than our footballers. Something I never thought would type.

They were for much of my life, Mike. It's the failure to be bold that is most objectionable. Anyone can fail but they do it so meekly. Every time in this format.

Joe Roberts wonders

What have England got against picking spinners? They're obsessed with stats yet they won't pick Tredwell when he's been the most consistent bowler in ODI's for the last few years. Surely the selectors know he averages 27 with the ball at a good economy rate of 4. Spinners are crucial in the middle overs to slow run rate, create pressure and pick up wickets.

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The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:

New Bern Police Department:

Christopher Blake Gaskill, 18, 106 Hilda Drive, Nov. 4, gun on educational property, weapons on campus/educational facility. Officer: T. Fisher.

Gregory Benton Jr., 25, 1902 Sycamore St., Nov. 4, driving while license revoked, canceled/suspended/revoked tags. Officer: B.J. McKee.

Alpacino Marshburn, 26, U-167 Craven Terrace Apartments, Nov. 4, misdemeanor larceny. Officer: J.A. Weaver.

Nassar Ture Mack, 33, 924 Bern St., Nov. 1, assault inflicting serious injury, resisting public officer. Officer: S. Oltrogge.

Alonzo LeCraft, age unknown, 1624 Park Ave., Nov. 1, assault inflicting serious injury. Officer: S. Oltrogge.

Corey Lopez Johnson, 45, 628 Watson Ave., Nov. 1, common law robbery, assault on a female, communicating threats, resisting public officer. Officer: B. Dale.

Donwonta M. Weatherspoon, 32, 308 Jones St., Oct. 29, assault by strangulation. Officer: L. Heckman.

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Student Council met in the Law School Tuesday to hear from a representative from the Student Bar Association, as well as members of University Information Technology Services.

Morgan Lingar, incoming SBA president and Law School representative, gave Council an overview of the organizations current concerns and plans for the upcoming year.

I really would like to focus on student self governance in terms of how it applies to a lot of ways over the past year weve seen administrators working unilaterally without consulting law students, Lingar said.

Lingar said there have been issues with administrative control of the Keg, a weekly social event at the Law School.

When we had to get reapproved for this semester, Lingar said. We were told that we were going to have to move it to Fridays with the knowledge that next year there would be no weekly events holding alcohol at all at the Law School.

Lingar said Law School students were frustrated with the reasons for cancelling these events, cited as safety concerns about sexual assault.

A lot of people, myself included, are very concerned that that is our way of addressing sexual assault, Lingar said. Were very frustrated our voices arent heard.

Lingar said when she asked more specifically about reported sexual assaults or any research which might show a higher number of reports on Thursdays due to the association with Law School events, she was told there have been reported assaults, but administrators have not kept specific data or records.

What weve been hearing from the administrators that it is within the philosophy for the administration to make changes without consulting students, Lingar said. For a school that values self-governance, that attitude to me is very disturbing.

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Rather than fearing the future, Samsung may be looking forward to inventing it.

Samsung Electronics, the worlds largest smartphone maker, may be looking forward to the end of Moores Law as a way to gain a new competitive edge, according to Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Susquehanna International Group.

Moores Law, the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors per surface area on a semiconductor doubles every year may be on its last legs, according to a KPMG survey of industry executives.

The battleground will become very interesting next year, Hosseini said in an interview with EE Times. If Samsung is able to commercialize a flexible display, thats going to be a game changer.

Within the next two years, the competitive edge in the smartphone business will not be about the chips that go into handsets, he says. Instead, it will be about the display, user friendliness and form factor.

Samsung is preparing for that future through an agreement with Universal Display Corp. of the US that allows Samsung to use the US companys technology to manufacture organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for a new generation of wearable devices that can be clipped on a wrist, according to Hosseini.

Apple Inc., which makes more than 90 percent of the profit in the smartphone business, would probably be the first company to feel the heat if Samsungs bet comes true, Hosseini says. Apple, unlike Samsung, outsources all of its manufacturing.

That explains why LG Display, which supplies more than half of Apples flat screens, just a month ago signed an agreement with Universal Display similar to the Samsung pact, according to Hosseini.

Apple is already thinking about next year, Hosseini says. Apple could be under pressure.

Longer term, the implications of an end to Moores Law are far reaching, potentially affecting the huge multibillion-dollar ecosystem of companies that have grown up to support the silicon chip industry. Indeed, Samsung Electronics, the worlds second-largest chipmaker, faces a large impact should Moores Law stop in its tracks.

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Intel will describe what it claims are some of the world's smallest DRAM and I/O circuits here this week, a testament to its 14nm process technology.

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In a preview of at least five papers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, one Intel executive also continued to express optimism about the companys work on 10 and 7nm nodes.

Intel will describe a 0.0500um2 SRAM bitcell capable of storing 14.5 Mbits per mm 2. At 0.6V, the 14nm cell still runs at rates up to 1.5 GHz.

The cell is part of a memory array will be widely used in Intels future SoCs such as cellular modems that use hundreds of Mbits on a die, said Kevin Zhang, an Intel fellow.

In another paper, Intel will describe a 14nm serdes transmitter that can signal rates up to 40 Gbits/s using either NRZ or PAM-4 modulation. AT 0.03 mm2, Intel claims it is the worlds smallest transmitter delivering more than 25 Gbits/s.

Another paper will report on a 10 Gbit/s serial link for PCI Express made in the 14nm process. It consumes just 59 milliwatts and takes up 0.065mm2 of silicon area.

Wafers are more complex and expensive in the 14nm process which requires double patterning and thus more masks. However, greater gains in density means overall cost per transistor continued to decline at 14nm, something Intel expects to continue for the next two nodes, said Mark Bohr, an Intel senior fellow, echoing comments made in September.

Moores Law can continue beyond 10nm with new materials and device structures and by close collaboration of process and product designers, Bohr said. I still believe 7nm without extreme ultraviolet lithography can deliver improved cost per transistor, but exactly how Im not ready to disclose, he said.

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Eventually, the conventional ways of manufacturing microprocessors, graphics chips, and other silicon components will run out of steam. According to Intel researchers speaking at the ISSCC conference this week, however, we still have headroom for a few more years.

Intel plans to present several papers this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, one of the key academic conferences for papers on chip design. Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr will also appear on a panel Monday night to discuss the challenges of moving from today's 14nm chips to the 10nm manufacturing node and beyond.

In a conference call with reporters, Bohr said that Intel believes that the current pace of semiconductor technology can continue beyond 10nm technology (which we would expect in 2016) or so, and that 7nm manufacturing (in 2018) can be done without moving to expensive, esoteric manufacturing methods like extreme ultraviolet lasers.

Why this matters: The discussion is anything but academic. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Moores Law, Intel founder Gordon Moores axiom that transistor density doubles about every eighteen months. In the real world, thats meant that the silicon chips that power PCs, phones, servers and more can run faster and consume less power as they move from generation to generation every two years or so.

The process to make silicon chips is complexan Intel primer on the subject details some of the stepsbut the gating factor is light itself. Chips are etched out of silicon using light, and chip makers have to wrestle with the wavelengths of light itself to continue to eke out new improvements. If the industry collectively fails to do soor fails to do so cost-effectivelychip improvements will halt.

Intel's diagram marks the improvements in cost and transistor size over the last few process generations.

Intel is on the cutting edge of silicon manufacturing, however, and Bohrs role as its senior fellow of logic technology development carries weight. Intel will present five papers at ISSCC, three of them covering the current 14nm technology. It will also participate in the 10nm panel, where Bohr said he expects spirited debate and discussion on what the industry needs to do to get there.

Intel was already forced to delay its 14nm Broadwell chips by several months due to manufacturing issues, and hopes to avoid that during the 10nm generation.

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From Arkansas to Texas to Washington, D.C., antigay politicians are frantic for some way to stem the tide of equality.

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The Judge Roy Moores of the world are running out of options to fight the advance of marriage equality, and it shows. The last week has seen a flurry of desperate attempts to undo equality, all of which are doomed to almost-certain defeat.

In Arkansas, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore may once again face consequences for his defiance of federal law. The Human Rights Campaign has gathered 30,000 signatures on a petition calling for an investigation into Moore's antigay rhetoric and strange interpretations of the law. HRC has requested that Moore turn over phone and email records, accusing him of potentially collaborating with anti-equality groups.

In Texas, top state officials have all spoken out against a lesbian couple that obtained a marriage license last week. Attorney General Ken Paxton has insisted that the license is void but it's unclear if he actually has the authority to invalidate the license, particularly since that the license was ordered by a judge.

And at the federal level, Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp introduced a federal constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality. Of course, this had a low chance of actually passing when it was first introduced over a decade ago, and its chance of passing has decreased every year since then.

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