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The Motley Fool has been making successful stock picks for many years, but we don't always agree on what a great stock looks like. That's what makes us "motley," and it's one of our core values. We can disagree respectfully, as we often do. Investors do better when they share their knowledge.
In that spirit, we three Fools have banded together to find the market's best and worst stocks, which we'll rate on The Motley Fool's CAPS system as outperformers or underperformers. We'll be accountable for every pick based on the sum of our knowledge and the balance of our decisions. Today, we'll be discussing Intel
Intel by the numbers
Here's a quick snapshot of the company's most important numbers.
Result (Most Recent Available)
|Revenue (TTM)
|$54.1 billion
|Net Income
|$12.5 billion
|Market Cap
|$135 billion
|Cash and Equivalents / Debt
|$13.8 billion / $7.5 billion
|Dividend Yield
|P/E Ratio
|Key Competitors
Advanced Micro Devices
ARM Holdings
Sources: Company earnings release and Yahoo! Finance.
There you have the numbers behind Intel's business. But is it a stock you should buy? Here's what we each think.
Travis' take
After all these years, Intel is still the market-share leader in the standard x86 processors, controlling 80.2% of the business to AMD's 19.1% share. The tug-of-war between the two companies has been going on for years, yet AMD has yet to get enough footing to encroach too much on Intel's territory.
Intel controls PCs, but that business has become less exciting for investors, while falling behind in smartphones and tablets is what has kept Intel's stock from advancing too far in recent years. As Intel plays catch-up, investors looking at the stock will find an opportunity for future growth. The first Intel Medfield-powered smartphone is now on the market, and it has gotten decent reviews. Intel is way behind ARM Holdings in the smartphone space, but it's all upside for investors from here.
In tablets, Intel has partnered with Microsoft in an attempt to knock Apple
The smartphone and tablet upside is nice, but the real reason I like Intel's stock is that the company has an impenetrable lead in the PC business and the stock trades at a great price of just 11 times earnings. A 3% dividend yield sweetens the pot, and cash flow from operations of nearly $21 billion last year means cash will continue to be returned to shareholders. I give a big thumbs-up to Intel in this debate.
Alex's take
The biggest knock on Intel isn't that it's losing market share in PCs or servers, as it has both locked up tightly. Rather, it's that the company seems to have missed the boat on the mobile boom. I've pointed out before that Intel hasn't needed first-mover advantage to claim the market-share crown of any given segment it sets its sights on. Being able to muscle into new markets against a seemingly insurmountable tide is something few tech companies can do, but Intel's managed it before, and I remain convinced that it'll do it again. The key lies in the technology.
You might have heard about Intel's tri-gate (or 3-D) 22-nanometer chips, but few actually understand the importance of this development. MIT's Technology Review, one of my favorite tech blogs, dubbed it one of the 10 most important technological milestones of the past year. Why? The electrical current in a 3-D transistor has virtually no leakage, allowing for lower-power operation in a smaller space with superior performance. As anyone following the Intel-vs.-ARM battle knows, power efficiency has been a key reason for the latter's mobile success.
No other chipmaker has similar designs in the works -- ARM's most advanced designs now entering production are 28 nanometers -- and Intel Architecture Group VP Steve Smith recently told Forbes that current-gen 32-nanometer Atom chips are already within spitting distance of ARM architecture in terms of power use. Other chips suffer increased power leakage as transistor gate widths shrink, which poses significant hurdles for all of ARM's designs going forward. If the tri-gate works as intended, its minimal leakage (and, thus, superior power efficiency) could be an insurmountable obstacle for chipmaking rivals and thus ensure Intel's future dominance of the mobile space.
A generational lead in chip technology is a tremendous advantage, and Intel has the added bonus of being the last fully vertically integrated chipmaker left standing. Sean will mention (spoiler alert!) Intel's server-chip dominance, and Travis has pointed out that the company's renewed its Wintel tag team to make mobile inroads. New system-on-a-chip designs play to Intel's fabrication strengths as well and will be vital in capturing mobile market share when they roll off the production line. To sum up, there are a number of compelling reasons to invest in Intel now (including that Treasury-trashing dividend yield), and few reasons to stay away.
We might not get a lot of CAPS points in the near term from this pick, but slow and steady wins the investing race. I like Intel for the long haul.
Sean's take
After highlighting Intel as a great dividend you can buy right now and an extremely attractive addition to your IRA over the long term, I'll give you three guesses what my opinion is on the chipmaking giant -- and the first two don't count! There are three reasons I think Intel makes a great buy right now.
First, it's the king of microprocessors. Advanced Micro Devices can't hold a candle to Intel's growth and has actually ceded market share to Intel recently. Although it has yet to make an imprint in the rapidly growing smartphone and tablet marketplace, which is dominated by ARM Holdings' infrastructure, Intel has the hardware and balance sheet to claim serious market share. Considering that research firm NPD noted the average selling price of smartphones is falling, this should make it more affordable for consumers to purchase smartphones in the immediate future, which, in turn, will increase the demand for unit sales; all great news for Intel.
Second, Intel is the smartest cloud-computing hardware play, in my opinion. Everyone keeps trying to squeeze blood from a stone on the software side, but they're forgetting about the hardware potential. Intel recently released its Xeon E5-2600 chip, which is going to be incorporated in cloud-based servers. The chip, which has already shipped to industry leader Cisco Systems
Finally, Intel offers one of the most attractive dividends in the technology sector. Since 2004, Intel's payout has grown by an average of 34% -- annually! Currently yielding 3% and with a reasonably low payout ratio of 34%, it's not out of line to assume that more large dividend boosts could be in Intel's future.
There are very few companies that offer a better value and growth combination in the tech sector than Intel.
The final call
It's unanimous: We all think Intel will beat the market over the long term. To track this pick, we'll add an outperform CAPScall on Intel in our TMFYoungGuns CAPS profile. Take a look at the other picks we've made and how we're beating the market.
While Apple is by far the dominant player in the mobile sphere, it doesn't mean Intel's growth opportunity in the space isn't compelling. Chips are a key component of every mobile device, and here at The Motley Fool, we've outlined another chipmaker looking to take advantage of the Trillion-Dollar Mobile Revolution in one of our most recent special reports. Pick up your free copy today.


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Taken from a new Entertainment Weekly article on season two, these behind the scenes images show off one very scary creature in a skin mask. At least I think it's a skin mask — there's hair coming out of the chin, so that could be real hair flattened down with a bloody skin mask. But then again, this is AHS, so really it's anyone's guess. Maybe its the tanned flesh of a 1,000 gay ghost bunnies. We have no idea with this series. Which is why we're really looking forward to its return.
American Horror Story: Asylum will premiere on October 17th.
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It's hard to do worse than Julien Chabbott's fateful announcement of "I'm leaving," uttered right before he drove onto a cop's foot. It didn't end well for him.
Truth be told, even things you think of as safe to say can be bad, like asking "why are you pulling me over?" What other lines should you never say to a cop pulling you over? If any of you are police officers or highway patrol, please chime in to give your perspective, too.
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Conrad visits their pristine training center, talks with Dutch international Arjen Robben, club CEO Karl-Heinz Rumminegge and much more to get a feel for how a top domestic club and league can have an impact on the success of a national team heading into a World Cup. It is also a fantastic look into the very club that will be visiting Portland this August for the 2014 AT&T MLS All-Star Game.
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Zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, sharks. To the pantheon of classic movie monsters, add the most fearsome of all: Mormons!
September Dawn uses the classic horror plot of unsuspecting travelers stranded near the place Where Evil Dwells, to make a movie that's a horror in more ways than one. You needn't feel any sympathy for the Mormon religion in general to be offended by the way they're being maligned here– and amateurishly at that.
"Inspired by actual events," September Dawn tells of an act of religious terrorism that occurred on September 11. But it's not the one you're thinking of. In a coincidence that could make you believe a Higher Power was behind it, the slaughter of 137 California-bound settlers in Utah Territory actually took place on September 11, 1857!
Flashbacks are set up from two perspectives. Brigham Young (Terence Stamp) is questioned about his role in the events we're about to witness in 1875, when Young is old. In 1877 a young woman is revisiting Mountain Meadows, where the massacre took place when she was six months old.
A wagon train of weary travelers from Arkansas, with a few from Missouri, find themselves facing six men on horseback. "What is it?" one migrant asks. Captain Fancher (Shaun Johnston) replies, "Riders. Looks like six of 'em"; and we know we're in for two hours of bad dialogue.
Fancher says they'd like to rest and water their livestock, but the riders tell them to keep moving. They're overruled when their leader comes along. Jacob Samuelson (Jon Voight) is their bishop, general, and mayor of the local settlement, and probably has an Amway franchise on the side. He says the visitors can stay up to two weeks, but he'll be investigating them to be sure they're the Mormon equivalent of kosher.
Samuelson is accompanied by two sons, Jonathan (Trent Ford) and Micah (Taylor Handley), who ride around, investigating the women of the wagon train. Jonathan is single while Micah has only one wife, so he's almost as available. Jonathan spies Emily Hudson (Tamara Hope), whose father is the settlers' minister, and his fate is sealed.
Bishop Samuelson harbors a grudge against anyone from Missouri because he blames Missourians for the murder (in Illinois) of church founder Joseph Smith 13 years earlier. He's also upset ("A lot of things bother him," Jonathan notes) to see Nancy Dunlap (Lolita Davidovich), a woman in the wagon train, wearing pants and carrying a gun. "An abomination to God," he declares her, and condemns the whole party as "cursed beyond hope of redemption... children of Satan."
Besides noticing Emily, Jonathan has an eye for horses and admires the Kentucky thoroughbreds traveling with the travelers. When he tames one deemed "unridable," Capt. Fancher makes him a present of the horse and implies he can have Emily too, as a package deal. Their romance develops apace.
The Mormons, who have been widely persecuted, have some kind of working agreement with the local natives, the Paiutes, to keep new invaders from taking the land they now share. Currently fearing genocide in a threat from Pres. Buchanan to forcibly remove Brigham Young as governor, they would seem to have more important things on their plate than a few settlers passing through; but Bishop Samuelson declares the "gentiles" must die, according to a revelation he's had. Considering that his troops burned down a newspaper for printing a negative editorial about Mormonism, that's not unduly harsh. Besides, he's willing to spare children eight and under.
We're told the settlers are leaving "at first light," but comes the dawn and the Mormons have a meeting with the Paiutes, who then have to don war paint and otherwise prepare for an attack. When they reach the camp, the wagons still haven't moved. After their first assault, we're told there's a four-day siege, but we see no sign of it. The final attack occurs on September 11.
Director Christopher Cain, whose son, Dean Cain, makes a cameo appearance as Joseph Smith, made Young Guns, so it's no surprise he's better with scenes involving hot young men on horses than those involving romantic, spiritual, or political complexity.
Voigt, for once, doesn't have to overact because his dialogue does it for him. Ford has to deal with being prettier than his love interest while speaking a lot of unspeakable lines. While the Christian thing to do is give the whole cast a pass because they're stuck with unsalvageable material, it's just as well the wagon train doesn't make it to California– these people would have no future in the movies.


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Food law #2583: all sliders should come with layers of food. A slider is NOT a mini bun and a couple slices of meat--this does not make a slider. From now on if a restaurant is going to serve sliders they cannot serve just a bun with meat. That's not a happy slider. A happy slider is a buttered TOASTED bun with flavored hot meat, (or vegan meat substitute is cool too), a couple of flavored cold veggies, good cheese, and a dressing of some sort, or two dressings. Right? Let's get this passed through the food of congress stat--I'm done with crappy ass sliders. Until then you can use this slider--it was the bomb. And the best part, so easy to pull together. The meats, the veggies are all interchangeable. You can use corned beef, beef, bbq chicken, grilled sausage, grilled tofu, etc....Endless possibilities; it'll get your creative-culinary flowing.
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1/2 lb of pastrami (or whatever deli meat, chicken, beef you want)
1/4 lb of baby swiss cheese
broccoli slaw
cole slaw dressing for broccoli slaw
grain mustard
fresh tomatoes
mini buns
Butter and toast the buns, layer on the baby swiss on top of the hot buns,set aside. Mix the broccoli slaw with the cole slaw dressing, set aside. Fry up the pastrami, till crisp. Layer on a thin layer of grain mustard on the bun, then put on the pastrami, tomato, then the cole slaw.
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They look yummy!ReplyDelete
Dawn, I'll eat that whole rack 'o sliders...Yep! Up here, smoked meat from Montreal is the prized deli meat...have you tried?ReplyDelete
I am actually drooling. Like, literally, sitting here drooling. Damn you, Dawn.ReplyDelete
Wow, these look insanely delicious! Love the colors and all of the ingredients!ReplyDelete
Love the idea of pastrami sliders! Yum!ReplyDelete
YUM! I love good pastrami:-)ReplyDelete
Totally agreed. What's the point of having a mini ANYTHING if it's not out-of-the-park awesome? Then you just get less food...and it's not even worth it!ReplyDelete
These pastrami sliders though...SO worth it.
i am SO into sliders these days....and pastrami!ReplyDelete
Esto para el desayuno tiene que ser una delicia, me encanta.ReplyDelete
Definitely my kind of food!!!!I had some delicious pastrami shipped in from New York in Seattle!ReplyDelete
The color on these alone...just awesome! I love the toppings you used. Hope you had a nice weekendReplyDelete
Now that is a slider. These truly look amazing, Dawn.ReplyDelete
These look like breakfast!!ReplyDelete
But I think the "technical" definition of a slider is just bun meat and onions, supposedly everything else is a mini burger. But, I like your definition better.ReplyDelete
So delicious looking! Perhaps I will make these for a picnic this weekend. : O )ReplyDelete
Oh my god, that looks divine...ReplyDelete
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OH MAN THESE WERE GOOD! YOu have to make them again!!!!ReplyDelete
Sliders are so much fun to eat and yours is making me drool!ReplyDelete
Oh yeah, way better than burger-type sliders.ReplyDelete
Would you look at that pile of goodness on a bun? YUM.
I've just discovered your site, and it's great!!!! This recipe looks delicious!!!!ReplyDelete
just because a slider is small doesn't mean the buns don't deserve piles and piles of food between them!ReplyDelete
Hail the slider!!! That damn little sandwich looks so good! I like your rules. And your sliders girl.ReplyDelete
Restaurants need to follow your food rules because these look superb Dawn! Love 'em.ReplyDelete
Oh lordy, those sliders are sooo mouthwatering! A perfect combination.ReplyDelete
these look so cute and delicious.ReplyDelete
Ok, those look darn good but isn't a true slider really a hamburger from White Castle or Chrystal ;)ReplyDelete
I want one (actually two) now, for breakfast, please?ReplyDelete
These look positively wicked. Would be great at a afternoon bbq with some ice cold beers. Mmmm!ReplyDelete
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Yes. Yes. A thousand times YES!ReplyDelete
How much time needs to prepare this delicious food?ReplyDelete


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TUESDAY, Jan. 10, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- The so-called "love hormone" oxytocin promotes greater kindness in monkeys, a new study finds.
It included two rhesus macaques who were seated next to each other and trained to choose different symbols that either provided a squirt of fruit juice for the monkey itself, juice for the other monkey or no juice at all.
In repeated tests, the monkeys had to make a choice between just two of the options: juice for self or no juice; juice to self or juice to other; and juice to other or no juice.
After inhaling oxytocin, the monkeys paid more attention to each other and were more likely to give the other monkey juice, even if they didn't get juice themselves, the Duke University researchers found.
Oxytocin is currently being evaluated as a therapy for autism, schizophrenia and other disorders characterized by a lack of interest or caring about others, study leader Michael Platt, a neuroscientist and director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, noted in a Duke news release.
The hormone appears to boost trust and social skills in patients, but it's not known how the process works or whether the effects are consistent over the long term.
This type of research may help establish monkeys as a good behavioral and pharmacological model for understanding oxytocin therapy, Platt said.
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Francis David (Bud) Nielson, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, passed away Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
He was born August 12, 1923 in Nephi, UT, to Francis Shirley Nielson and Marian Elizabeth Park Nielson.
He married Velda Johnson on November 12, 1942, in the Manti LDS Temple.
Bud grew up in Blanding, UT, and in his youth, Bud worked as a cook for his Dad out on the range.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, and was trained as a radio operator.
He spent several years working in the uranium mines in southeastern Utah.
He was elected to the Blanding City Council effective January 1, 1956, but resigned a few months later when he was asked to take the position of City Administrator, a position he held until he retired in 1986.
Bud was active in the LDS Church, having served as Sunday School Superintendent, Stake missionary, High Priest Group Leader, Stake Genealogist, Counselor in several bishoprics, and as a Bishop.
His greatest loves were his wife, his children and extended family members, the Church, the community of Blanding, his horses, playing baseball and basketball, singing, and hard work.
Bud is survived by his wife Velda; children, Sylvia Lusty, Suzanne (Steve) Anderberg, David Boyd (Vicky) Nielson, Michelle (Mario) Cintron; 24 grandchildren, 24 ½ great grandchildren; brother Hans Joseph (Belva) Nielson, sisters-in-law Sandra Nielson, Clea Johnson and Flora (Bill) Graham; and brother-in-law Don (Claire) Northern.
He is preceded in death by a son, Francis Lyle Nielson; son-in-law Evan R Lusty; sister Merlan (Keith) Jones; brother Shirley Park Nielson; brothers-in-law Lyle Johnson and Roy (Klea) Johnson.
Funeral services were held at the Blanding North Chapel (255 East 200 North) on September 28, 2009. The viewing was held that morning.
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Mattress makers are selling mattresses with a new claim to comfort: a cold night's sleep. Big names have various techniques to cool down a mattress and claims to solving what may be an even pricklier problem: couples rarely agree on temperature. Ellen Byron has a look. Photo: Getty Images.
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As we enter the fall months and the approaching holiday shopping season, we will be surrounded by advertisements that encourage spending. While financial education is important year-round, now is a particularly ideal time for educators to inform consumers about the benefits of comparison shopping, the hazards of impulse buying, the importance of budgeting, and the need to understand the true costs of borrowing, especially with credit cards. This edition of Money Smart News includes timely updates on developments that can help reinforce those messages.
Inside we report on a new FDIC tool kit with information that can help struggling homeowners at risk of losing their homes pursue legitimate alternatives, such as a mortgage modification, and avoid scam artists and others who prey on people having financial difficulties. These new resources can help homeowners as well their friends, family members and others.
We also discuss new consumer protections for credit cards and mortgages, including improved and more timely disclosures of terms and costs. For example, starting February 22, 2010, credit card issuers must provide on their monthly statements a box showing how much the cardholder has paid in interest and in fees during the current year, plus warnings about the high costs of only making the minimum card payment. Included among the new rules for mortgages are requirements already in effect that consumers must have at least seven business days between when a lender delivers or mails the early disclosures and when the mortgage is consummated. You, as financial educators, have a critical role to play in helping consumers know about these legal protections -- and why they matter -- so that people will care enough to be proactive and make good use of their new rights.
This issue of Money Smart News also reminds educators about the critical need for people to save more money, even during difficult times. You can also read about a new consumer brochure and video to help explain FDIC insurance coverage, as well as discussions at an FDIC advisory committee meeting that was focused on creative programs that encourage low- and moderate-income households to save money.
Here you can also find an update on the FDIC's Money Smart for Young Adults, introduced last year and already having great success in teaching American youth about topics like... the benefits of sticking to a budget, saving money for future needs, and understanding the true costs of borrowing, especially with credit cards. Sounds familiar, right? Check out some of our Money Smart partners' Success Stories with the 12 to 21 age group.
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FDIC Launches Foreclosure Prevention Initiative
The FDIC has produced a free tool kit of information that will help homeowners and the banking industry avoid unnecessary foreclosures and stop scams that promise false hope to consumers at risk of losing their homes. The tool kit includes a new FDIC brochure entitled "Is Foreclosure Knocking at Your Door?" that encourages consumers facing difficulties to contact their mortgage servicer and apply for a loan modification. Find the tool kit and other resources at http://www.FDIC.gov/foreclosureprevention.
New Consumer Protection Rules for Credit Cards
Financial educators may be interested in new consumer protections for credit cards, some of which have already been implemented under rules from the Federal Reserve Board. For example, as of August 20, 2009, creditors must give customers 45 days notice before increasing the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on a credit card account (up from 15 days) and they must mail or deliver periodic statements at least 21 days before the payment is due (an increase from 14 days). For details about the provisions already in effect, see the FDIC Financial Institution Letter to banks. For more information about the new credit card rules in general, including future requirements, read the Summer 2009 edition of FDIC Consumer News (see the next item). These rule changes also will be reflected in the next edition of the FDIC's Money Smart curriculum, scheduled to be available to the public in January.
Latest FDIC Consumer News Features Credit Cards, Mortgages, Bank Rewards Programs and Deposit Insurance Coverage
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FDIC Advisory Committee Explores Prize-Linked Savings and Other Outreach to Underserved Consumers
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Money Smart for Young Adults: Success Stories and Strategies for the School Year
This is the second school year for Money Smart for Young Adults (MSYA), the FDIC's financial education curriculum introduced in April 2008 for instructors to use to teach youths in the 12 to 21 age group, In this issue, Money Smart News is sharing some early success stories as well as some strategies that can help educators reach this crucial target audience. (Read the stories and tips.)
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"The cards are in place for oil prices to retreat," he says. "Either the Middle East settles down, or China's growth slows. The price ought to be in $90s." If the Middle East doesn't settle down, Parker says, energy users in the U.S. and elsewhere will find ways to use less oil, resulting in less demand and leading to lower prices. He's already seeing signs of decreasing demand. Parker is hardly a commodities bear. But he understands that industries tied to commodities are highly cyclical -- that is, their fortunes wax and wane with changes in the economy. The best commodity investors know when to pull in their horns. Advertisement Parker is doing that now, by carrying a little more cash than usual and putting more assets into big, integrated energy companies, whose stocks tend to be more stable than those of firms with a narrower focus. Among his holdings are Chevron (CVX), ExxonMobil (XOM) and French oil giant Total (TOT), shares of which trade in the U.S. as an American depositary receipts. The oil majors pay dividends and are less sensitive to the price of oil than, say, exploration-and-production companies. Once the price of oil falls -- and Parker expects that to happen within six months -- investors will be presented with a great buying opportunity. "I would get my shopping list ready," says Parker. Historically, commodities have been bad long-term investments because rising prices always lead to increases in supply. But rapid economic growth in developing nations means demand is likely to sprint ahead of supply for several more years. "We're still in a super-cycle for hard assets, including oil," Parker says. "By the middle of the decade, we'll have more supply." T. Rowe Price New Era is a fine fund for investors who want to diversify into commodity-related stocks. Over the past ten years through April 21, it returned an annualized 12.4%, trouncing Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by an average of 9.8 percentage points per year. Advertisement Of course, most of that sizzling performance was due to soaring commodity prices. New Era actually trailed the average energy-stock fund by an average of 2.3 points per year over the past ten years. But New Era is a broad-based commodity fund -- one that has tended to hold up best, relative to its peers, during periods when energy prices are falling. It usually has about two-thirds of its assets in oil and gas stocks, and the rest in a variety of other commodity stocks. An energy analyst at T. Rowe Price for a decade, Parker, 36, took over New Era when its longtime manager, Charles Ober, retired about a year ago. I miss Ober, but I think Parker will do just fine. He was groomed for years and he has the support of Price's crack team of analysts. New Era's Other Commodity Picks Advertisement Parker thinks the average investor should have roughly 10% of his or her assets in commodities. He prefers commodity stocks, but you can also buy mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track the prices of commodities themselves. "Commodities provide diversification and an insurance policy in case inflation does go crazy," he says. Parker likes gold, even though its price has doubled over the past four years. He expects the U.S. dollar to weaken over the next two or three years. Ditto for the euro and the yen. Declines in these established currencies should be bullish for gold. His favorite stocks are Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM), which owns six gold mines in Canada, Finland and Mexico, and Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold (EGO), which operates mines in Brazil, China, Greece and Turkey. Parker says the stocks should perform better than gold itself because the companies are producing more of the yellow metal. He also thinks farm prices will keep rising as inhabitants of emerging markets improve their diets and, in particular, consume more meat. His favorites for playing the growing demand for better food are fertilizer giants Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) and Mosaic (MOS). But he's sold most of his agricultural-equipment stocks, such as Caterpillar (CAT) and Deere (DE), because the stocks have gotten too expensive. "They're too rich for my blood," Parker says. Like most T. Rowe Price managers, Parker is a careful, value-oriented stock picker. New Era is a fine way of taking advantage of rising commodity prices. Just not yet. Steven T. Goldberg (bio) is an investment adviser in the Washington, D.C. area.


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Delaware Military Records
This entry was originally written by Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FUGA, FGBS, FASG, in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The Delaware Archives, 5 vols. (1911'16; reprint, New York: A.M.S. Press, 1974), contains military rolls, pensions, and other records from colonial soldiers of 1744 through militia lists of 1815. Material for an unfinished sixth volume at the Delaware Public Archives covers nonmilitary records of the Revolutionary War era. Background information on the early period is well covered in Colonial Military Organization in Delaware, 1638'1776, by Leon de Valinger, Jr. (Wilmington: Delaware Tercentenary Commission, 1938). Colonial Delaware Soldiers and Sailors, 1638'1776, by Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1995) was compiled from various sources. William Gustavus Whiteley compiled The Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware, Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, 14 (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1896). Christopher L. Ward, The Delaware Continentals, 1776'1783 (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1941) should be read for proper historical background, and Harold Bell Hancock, The Delaware Loyalists (1940; reprint, Boston: Gregg, 1973) should be consulted for information about those on the other side of the conflict. Revolutionary Patriots of Delaware '¦, 1775'1783 (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1996) has a genealogical focus. Scharf included a list of Delaware Civil War soldiers in an appendix in volume one of his History of Delaware (see Background Sources for Delaware). The National Archives'Mid-Atlantic Region has a microfilm index of names of Delaware Civil War soldiers.
Lists of Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware are in the Delaware Public Archives. The archives has a detailed guide to its Civil War collection on its website. At the archives are several card indexes of those called or who volunteered for federal service in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Mexican Border Campaign (1916'17). The archives also has a card file of World War I service medal applications, giving service information and often the date of death and place of burial. Delaware's Role in World War II, 1940'1946, by William H. Conner and Leon de Valinger, Jr. (Dover, Del.: Public Archives Commission, 1955) does not list all military personnel, although thousands of names are mentioned. De Valinger's collection of World War II photographs, letters, and lists of deceased soldiers should also be consulted at the archives. Much military material is also found at the Historical Society of Delaware.
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Optimist's club: Bailey tackles touchy subjects
If you're like most people, you probably avoid talking about politics and religion. Well, Charlottesville journalist Ron Bailey isn't most people. In fact, he relishes biotechnology debates– and they usually involve both religion and politics.
As the science correspondent for Reason magazine, Bailey often finds himself extolling the merits of cloning, euthanasia, and harvesting stem cells. And in his most recent book, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution, he addresses pretty much every touchy subject in the field.
The book, released in July, attacks both the Academy and the Administration. Bailey goes after prominent Boston University bioethicist George Annas for his "precautionary principle" as well as Dr. Leon Kass, the former head of the President's Council on bioethics.
"The Bush administration doesn't much care for me," says Bailey.
What exactly is it about the man that compels him to endorse such unpopular subjects?
"I'm a technological optimist," says Bailey, "and a lot of people– both left-wingers and right– focus only on the bad possibilities of science. We create these scary monsters that never come true."
Bailey, 51, who works from his home downtown, says he's not merely trying to vex his critics, although you wouldn't know it by his book titles. One is called Ecoscam; another mentions "false prophets" in its title. His latest book riffs off a famous nuclear Armageddon-flirting film with this as its original subtitle: Why You Should Relax and Enjoy The Brave New World of Immortality, Stem Cells, and Designer Babies.
"His goal is to bring these issues to public debate," says University of Virginia medical researcher Jonathan Moreno, "and he does that very well."
For instance: "With regard to the stem cell debate," Bailey says, "the Catholic Church argues that embryos are people. But let's take a look at how nature treats embryos: 80 percent of naturally conceived embryos die. My question to religious people is this: Are 80 percent of the souls in heaven embryos?"
Although his arguments can shock, it's not as if no one sides with Bailey.
"Typically, the scientists and researchers agree with me," he says. "It's the bioethicists and policy-makers who disagree."
"Bailey is libertarian," says Moreno, "so he doesn't believe that the government should impose moral values on science. I'm very sympathetic to that belief."
And despite the constant challenges of those who are less understanding, "my work's a lot of fun," Bailey says. "I might even have another book idea. We'll see."
A reading from Liberation Biology is scheduled for December 1 at 5:30pm at New Dominion Bookstore.


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Real disaster recovery testing
You have a disaster recovery plan in place, but how often does it get tested? We describe what parts of a plan should be tested, suggest a few wrinkles that can make your tests more effective and point out some DR-related activities that are often overlooked.
It's not enough to have a DR plan--you need to know it will work. Repetitive, detailed tests will tell you if your DR plan is up to snuff.
We've had more than our share of disasters--hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, acts of terrorism and blackouts--but the good news is that most companies are now focused on dealing with a disaster and have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place. Companies are paying more attention to the next level, which includes keeping DR plans current and periodically testing them. While this represents a dramatic improvement in disaster response planning, more often than not the testing component is the part of the equation that's often delayed, fails at some level or doesn't properly mirror the response activities during a real disaster.
|Key lessons learned in DR testing
That said, it's time to take a detailed look at DR testing and the specific steps to take to ensure that your DR plan will perform as expected. A solid DR strategy isn't a small-ticket item. However, it should be treated as fundamental, must-have insurance to safeguard the company's information assets. There are two key aspects to a DR plan: nontechnical details, which focus on the people, policy, process and procedures of DR testing; and technical details (see "Key lessons learned in DR testing," at right).
|The five most overlooked items in DR tests
The business-continuity plan
The business and functional aspects of executing and testing a DR plan are just as important as the underlying technologies. Perhaps even more important than testing the DR plan is testing the company's business-continuity plan (BCP). A BCP comprises the arrangements and procedures that enable a company to continue critical business functions despite a major interruption from a disaster event. For example, a BCP should document who can actually declare a disaster and define alternate modes of communication for staff, application owners, customers, partners and even stockholders. BCP testing on this level, which includes non-IT staff and other key executives, helps to identify potential process and policy flaws and, more importantly, provides a methodology to correct them.
I've seen BCP plans that call for using corporate e-mail for critical communications during the recovery process--a system that's likely to be down during a disaster. A similar BCP blunder would be relying on internal voice communications when the corporate telephony and voicemail runs on a voice over IP (VoIP) system located in the production data center. A good BCP should have a plan B--and even a plan C--for its most critical objectives (see "The five most overlooked items in DR tests," at right).
Obviously, staffing can't be overlooked. First and foremost, a good DR plan must be role-based, and should be detailed enough so that people with technical competencies and skills similar to those of the primary staff can fulfill the required activities. Don't assume that your top storage person, DBA or network administrator will be available during recovery from a disaster. So don't always assign your best staff to each DR test. Switch up your teams, replace a senior member with someone more junior, or delay an entire group during your next DR test and see what effect it has on the execution of the test.
Depending on the logistics and location of your DR site, it may make sense to permanently base some internal staff there so they'll be able to start the recovery processes immediately (obviously, this wouldn't be their only job). It may also be a cost-effective move to contract with a vendor to start the DR recovery process until regular staff can reach the remote site.
When to test
It's often difficult to determine how often to test. The solution is specifically tied to benefit vs. cost, not just the cost of the test itself. Refer to your business-impact assessment and identify what the total cost would be if your most mission-critical applications go down. The downtime cost should include items such as potential regulatory penalties and reduced/lost employee productivity, as well as indirect costs such as the long-term effect of customer loss and damage to the corporate reputation.
Hopefully, the total cost of downtime ties directly to your recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). If some data center components can be down for a week with minimal overall business interruption, it probably doesn't make sense to test your DR plan every quarter; however, you may still want to validate subsets of your plan, such as recalling offsite DR tapes. On the other hand, if you measure downtime in hours rather than days, quarterly or semi-annual tests are probably best. Testing costs may be significant vs. your total DR investment and the cost of a poor or failed recovery, but it's money well spent.
When I was an IT director, I found it ironic that DR tests were carefully scheduled and planned. While some disasters can be anticipated (a slow-moving hurricane headed your way), most DR events are unforeseen. So it's a good idea to execute small parts of your DR plan as unplanned activities for your staff. You may find a major kink or two in the plan's execution, or the plan itself, when the parties involved are caught off-guard. I've done this, asking my staff to immediately get me a detailed list of every offsite DR tape we'd need to recover if our data center became unavailable at that very moment. The good news was that they had the list, including the offsite locations of the tapes and associated tape shipment procedures. The bad news was that the list was stored, both electronically and on paper, in our data center!
Production workarounds
We often hear that "We can't encroach on production" to do DR tests. While I wholeheartedly agree with this principle, with proper planning there's no reason that production needs to be affected.
In a best-case scenario, the DR site "becomes" the production site, with servers, networks and storage all taking similar or identical identities of the production platforms being replaced. However, there are some scenarios, most notably during testing, where production is still up and running while a recovery event or test is occurring. While much of this can be handled via networking and routing, sometimes the storage environment can't be completely isolated, especially if some type of real-time replication is being used. One way to alleviate this problem is to use snapshots of the replicated production data for DR testing, rather than the actual replicas. This will allow detailed testing to a specific RPO without the need to terminate or alter the background replication processes during the test. Some observers may suggest that this will require more storage at the DR site, but you'll probably have snapshots or mirrors at your DR site if you're replicating, especially to protect from rolling disasters. Use a subset of those copies for your DR testing.
There are times when you may need to recover from a DR event when production is still up. One scenario is a bomb threat or any other event that puts the entire data center at risk--even if it's still up and running. One such event I can recall was the "Chicago Flood" of 1992. This event was caused by a piling driven into the Chicago River bottom, which caused a leak in one of Chicago's underground freight tunnels. The rush of water spread through much of the system's miles of tunnels, flooding sub-basements and disrupting utility service throughout "the Loop." When my Chicago-based company was notified that our sub-basement might be affected by this flooding, we immediately declared a disaster. Throughout our entire recovery process, our primary data center was still up and running, as the pending flooding hadn't yet occurred. Due to the parallel "production environments," including live network links between them, our recovery team had to perform numerous workarounds for all networking and routing. If we performed recovery as planned, we could have caused downtime by broadcasting that the same hardware and apps were available in two distinct locations. Ultimately, our primary site wasn't affected, so this DR event was probably the best test we could have devised.
Other software approaches for addressing the production issue use specialized snapshots of production data in the data center while the testing occurs at the DR site. While this software is an additional expense, it may be worthwhile, depending on test frequency and the criticality of production data.
The nontechnical and technical aspects of recovering from a disaster are equally important and should be a critical part of every DR test. The details and technical aspects of DR tests will ultimately be the foundation for successful testing. If you take the best policy and procedure, and map them to poor technology and infrastructure, the results will be disappointing at best.
|Success criteria for initial DR tests
Test one
Application consistency groups
Regardless of whether DR is based on real-time replication or tape, the concept of application consistency groups is critical. The BCP plan should have a documented RTO and RPO for each application group (e.g., SAP, order processing, etc.). These RTOs and RPOs cumulatively become the DR service-level agreement with the application owners and end users. It's rare for a critical application group to be hosted by a single server or within one large database. Therefore, a consistent recovery from an application group perspective is vital. Application grouping and categorization requires research and preparation from an architecture standpoint, and should be one of the primary drivers for all DR testing activities. If all components aren't recovered in a coherent manner, the application may not work at all--even if each individual component is "successfully" recovered (see "Success criteria for initial DR tests," at right).
To ensure your DR testing recovers the entire application group, the architecture and recovery methodology must consider these questions:
- If your recovery is based on tape, do all backups within a group complete at the same time?
- What about any updates to data within the application group that occur during the backup?
- How do the updates get incorporated?
- If your recovery is based on real-time storage replication, is all data replicated at the exact same time?
- If so, what if one of the applications within the groups falls behind?
- Is replication halted on the others until synchronization is re-established?
- What about middleware apps such as Tuxedo or MQSeries messaging queues, which don't readily lend themselves to replication?
Regardless of the recovery approach, you need to define your DBA's responsibilities within the consistency group. Note, for example, if they rely on Oracle archive and redo logs, perform hot/cold backups, if the database is replicated via a combination of methods and how flat-file data is synchronized with database data.
Finally, you need to consider the truly heterogeneous application groups, which can include mainframe, open systems and even NAS platforms, all on different tiers of storage. It's not too difficult to replicate data on a single storage array, but it gets much more challenging when the data to be synchronized is spread across several different server and storage platforms.
So why ask these questions specific to DR testing? Because if your order-entry system has been recovered five hours prior to your warehouse and shipping systems, and you have thousands of dollars of inventory on the shipping dock with no customers attached to it, that's a big deal and potentially a huge expense. Data consistency and synchronization are bigger issues than just getting the data offsite. If the data isn't usable or if the recovery point becomes unreasonable, then you're putting your money in the wrong areas of DR.
Think of your company's most mission-critical application. Chances are pretty good that there's a core system or application that has hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of data feeds going in and out during a 24-hour period. And if it's a 24/7/365 application, at what point do you stop to synchronize? Recurring DR testing will help to address and remediate these issues.
|When DR testing becomes routine
Getting end users involved
Application group recovery is where the rubber really hits the road for DR testing, and it can be a costly endeavor for each DR test. I worked with a client whose primary success criteria was being able to place a new order, start to finish, on their proprietary, in-house application running fully in the DR site. That might have been that user's key success metric, but we also determined that equally important--to the tune of millions of dollars--was the ability to continue those in-process orders and ensure that all critical components within the application group, including all sales inputs, fulfillment, shipping, billing/invoicing and accounts receivable, were in synchronization in accordance with the documented RPO.
So a DR test must allow adequate time for the application owners and end users to participate (see "When DR testing becomes routine," at right). Time must also be allocated to work through remediation of the identified critical issues, which includes interfacing with the IT recovery team, as well as programmers, DBAs, application owners and end users. This may take several hours or days. Make the remediation action plan a critical part of the test--don't treat it as an afterthought.
DR testing tools
Storage managers often ask what tools are appropriate for DR testing. Because each storage environment is so specialized--even those within the same industries--rather than dwelling on specific tools to use, storage managers should ensure that their DR testing process and procedures are stringently followed and, more importantly, improved and enhanced after each test. There are numerous tools available to emulate a user load, simulate WAN traffic and inject transmit/receive errors, and to track changes in the production environment during a DR test.
The right tool for you depends on the maturity of your testing process. For your first or second DR test, you should focus more on recoverability, including application group synchronicity, than on simulating an extreme user load or benchmarking performance. But if you're into your third year of successful testing, simulating a full production load on your servers and storage at the DR site, or even testing the resiliency of your DR fabric via simulated switch or cable failures, might be the ideal next step.
A technical aspect of DR testing that's often neglected is backup/restore. When the DR site goes live, backups of the production data that was just restored also need to commence. While the backup configuration at the DR site initially doesn't need to be as comprehensive as production, the infrastructure, software policies/procedures and schedule need to be in place right away. At the conclusion of your next DR test, pick an application, run some "transactions," perform backup operations, delete a key database and perform a restore. Backup isn't easy--you may be surprised at the difficulty of getting this done successfully, especially on the restructured architecture at the DR site.
|How to make your next DR test more real
Another often overlooked element of comprehensive DR testing is documenting the steps and procedures to get back into the primary data center when it's viable to do so. If the primary data center is within the campus of corporate headquarters, there will likely be internal pressure to get back to that site if it's an option. While this may not need to be factored into the first few DR tests, be sure to consider what you would need to do to fail back to the primary site after running in the DR site for a period of time.
Eliminate the "gotchas"
If DR testing has become a mundane requisite for you and your staff, put a few more challenges into the equation, monitor the results and address what needs fixing (see "How to make your next DR test more real," at right). Plus, don't forget those other DR testing "gotchas" such as adding the same amount of storage to the DR environment when mission-critical apps acquire new production space, or forgetting that your automated DR scripts may no longer work after firmware, microcode or operating system upgrades. Make it part of your normal change control process to consider how changes might affect your DR plan.


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Talking Stick - North
The 36 hole facility built by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community gets its name from the ancient instrument used to mark significant historic events. The two uniquely divergent golf courses assure a host of memorable golf experiences, from links style adventure through the grasslands and ingenious bunkering on the North course, to a traditional style of play on the tree lined fairways of the South Course. The uninterrupted desert panorama takes in the distant mountain ranges, reflecting cherished rural seclusion within an urban environment.
Type: Desert
Par: 70
Yardage: 7133
Slope: 129
Rating: 73.8
Designer: Bill Cooew & Ben Crenshaw


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The society of the descendants that arrived on Banks Peninsula, on the first ship from France in 1840.
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