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\section{Introduction}

Vortices, which are topological defects of U(1) symmetry fields,
plays an important role in low dimensional systems
such as thin film super fluids, liquid crystals,
layer superconductors and Josephson junction arrays(JJAs).
A well known example is that two dimensional XY (2dXY) model
exhibits a vortex driven KT phase transition \cite{Kosterlitz73}
while the elastic theory, which ignores the vortices,
predicts a unique phase with quasi-long-range order.
In this case, i.e., a vortices behave as two dimensional Coulomb gas,
which make dipole pairs in the ordered state.

Vortex is also an important keyword
in dynamical property of the system.
In the out-of-equilibrium dynamics,
relaxation process from certain initial state to the equilibrium
at fixed temperature environment,
it is pointed out that
the critical relaxation of the 2dXY model seems not to be universal;
the dynamical exponent $z$, which connects
dynamical correlation length $L(t)$
and time $t$ as $L(t) \propto t^{-1/z}$,
depends on the initial state.
When the initial state is an ordered ground state,
$z$ equals 2, which agrees with the result
of the elastic description, i.e., the Gaussian model.
On the other hand $z \approx 2.35$ \cite{Bray-Briant-Jervis00} for process
quenching from highly disordered initial state at high temperature.
The latter value of $z$ is, however, considered to be
a consequence of short time correction caused by topological defects.
In the disordered initial state the system is filled with vortices
and vortex-antivortex pair annihilation
is a main process of initial relaxation.
This yields logarithmic correction as
$L(t) \sim (t/\ln t)^{-1/2}$
\cite{Yurke93, Rojas1999, Bray-Briant-Jervis00},
which resembles $t^{-1/2.35}$
when the observing time is not large enough.
The long time asymptotic behavior
is expressed by $z=2$ as well as
in the case of the ordered initial state.

In the phenomena mentioned above,
interaction among vortices is important.
On the other hand, it is also reported that
even a single vortex causes abnormal behavior
in transport property of a JJA system.
Under very low magnetic field, which yields very diluted vortices,
the frequency dependence of the vortex mobility
behaves as $1/\omega$
\cite{Theron93}.
This result conflicts with the free Coulomb gas picture
\cite{Ambegaokar80, Shenoy85}.
Korshunov explained this experimental observation
(deriving corresponding facts that
the mobility of the vortex decreases as $1/\ln t$)
by analyzing the 2dXY model assuming an effective action
which involves a memory kernel in the interaction term
\cite{Korshunov94}.
In this article,
we study the diffusion dynamics of a single vortex based on two models
and discuss about the origin of the memory effect.
At first we show numerical study of the bare 2dXY model.
Then we derive a one dimensional model
as an approximation of the 2dXY model,
which enables us to understand the phenomena more clearly.
Analysis of both models reveals
that the dynamics of a vortex shows abnormal diffusion,
where mean square displacement grows as $t/\ln t$.

\section{Numerical analysis on the two dimensional XY model}

We study the XY spin model on a square lattice,
whose energy is written as
\begin{equation}
E
= J \sum_{\langle i, j \rangle}
\left[  1 - \cos( \theta_i - \theta_j) \right].
\label{eq:hamiltonian}
\end{equation}
Here $\theta_i$ indicates the angle of the XY spin at the $i$-the site
and the summation is taken over all nearest neighbor pairs.
The dynamics of this model is investigated
by the overdamped Langevin equation,
\begin{equation}
\eta \frac{d}{dt} \theta_i(t) = - J \sum_{j \in \mathrm{n.n.}}
\sin ( \theta_i(t) - \theta_j(t) ) + \zeta_i(t),
\label{eq:eom_xy}
\end{equation}
where $\zeta_i(t)$ is a Gaussian white noise satisfying
\begin{equation}
\langle \zeta_i \rangle = 0
\quad \mathrm{and} \quad
\langle \zeta_i(t) \zeta_j(t') \rangle = 2 \eta k_B T \delta_{ij} \delta(t-t').
\end{equation}
Here $\langle \cdots \rangle$ means the average over
independent noise realizations.
In the following, we set the coupling constant $J$,
friction coefficient $\eta$ and the Boltzmann constant $k_B$
to unity.

Next let us introduce the quantities to observe.
The mean square displacement (MSD) is calculated as
\begin{equation}
D(t,t_0) \equiv \langle \left| \mbf{X}(t) - \mbf{X}(t_0) \right|^2 \rangle
\end{equation}
where $\mbf{X}(t)=(X(t),Y(t))$ is a position of a vortex at time $t$
and $t_0$ is a waiting time.
The velocity auto correlation function
is derived from $D(t,t_0)$ from the relation
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial}{\partial t} \frac{\partial}{\partial t_0} D(t,t_0)
= - 2 \langle \dot{\mbf{X}}(t) \dot{\mbf{X}}(t_0)  \rangle
\equiv -2 C(t,t_0).
\end{equation}
When the system has time translational symmetry in stationary state,
the MSD is a function of only $t-t_0$
and the velocity correlation function is rewritten as
\begin{equation}
C(t-t_0) = \frac{1}{2} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2} D(t-t_0).
\end{equation}

\subsection{Simulation settings}

We numerically integrated eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_xy})
by the second-order Runge-Kutta method \cite{Honeycutt92}.
The samples are square-shaped including $L^2$ spins
and open boundary condition is imposed.
In the initial state,
the phase $\theta_i(t=0)$ is given as
an angle between the $x$-axis and the vector $\mbf{r}_i - \mbf{X}(0)$,
where $\mbf{r}_i$ is a position vector of the $i$-th site
and $\mbf{X}(0)$ is the initial position of the vortex core
set to the center of the sample $( (L-1)/2, (L-1)/2 )$.

Next let us explain how to detect the position of the vortex core.
We calculate vorticity $n_i$ from the snap shot at time $t$
by summing the phase difference along the closed path
of each plaquette as
\begin{eqnarray}
2 \pi n_i = [ \theta_{i+\hat{x}} - \theta_i ]
  + [ \theta_{i+\hat{x}+\hat{y}} - \theta_{i+\hat{x}} ] \\
  + [ \theta_{i+\hat{y}} - \theta_{i+\hat{x}+\hat{y}} ]
  + [ \theta_i - \theta_{i+\hat{y}} ],
\end{eqnarray}
where $[x]= x - 2\pi \mathrm{int }( \frac{x+\pi}{2\pi})$
and then $[x]$ returns a value between $-\pi$ and $\pi$.
Thus $n_i$ can take 0 or $\pm 1$.
A vortex core exists in the plaquette labeled
by index $i$, where $n_i=1$.
The velocity of the vortex is calculated as
$\mbf{V}(t) \equiv ( \mbf{X}(t+\tau) - \mbf{X}(t) )/ \tau$,
where $\tau=m\Delta t$ is time interval between sequential observations
and $\Delta t$ is an incremental time step of the simulation.
We set to $\Delta t = 0.056$ and $m=64$.
When $\tau$ is set to sufficiently small value,
$\mbf{V}(t)$ equals zero in the most time steps.
This is because the motion of the vortex is discrete and intermittent.
In such situation
we have to note that this velocity averaged for finite time span
barely depends on the choice of $\tau$.

There are two difficulties in this simulation.
One is that pairs of vortex and anti-vortex
can be created by thermal fluctuation,
which makes it very difficult to find the trajectory
of the vortex initially prepared.
Such a thermal excitation, however, is observed
with extremely small probability at low temperature.
We set $T = 0.250 \approx 0.28 T_\mathrm{KT}$
where $T_\mathrm{KT}$ is the critical temperature
of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.
The other problem is that
the vortex feels attractive force from the sample edge
so that it gets out of the sample in a certain long time.
In order to observe the long time steady behavior
we make an operation to keep the vortex
around the center of the sample as follows.
Let us consider an example case that
the vortex core moves along the $x$(right)-direction
by $a(\ge2)$ steps.
At first we delete $a$ columns of spins from left edge
and then move the all remaining spins to the left by $a$ lattice units.
Finally we add spins to every empty columns on the right edge
by copying the $(L-a)$-th column in the same way.
We do similar operation
when the vortex core moves to the left, up and down.
Such operation affects the motion of the vortex core
to some extent but this effect will decrease
with the system size $L$ in a systematic way.

\subsection{Numerical Result}

If the dynamics of the vortex is the so-called ``normal diffusion'',
the MSD would be proportional to $T t$
and its coefficient means the mobility.
In fact $D(t)$ grows slower than $t$-linear behavior
as shown in Fig.\ref{fig:dt_xy}.
In order to show the deviation from normal diffusion apparently
we plot $T t / D(t)$, which can be regarded
as a time-dependent effective friction coefficient
(or inverse of the effective mobility) of the vortex.
The results for different waiting times $t_0$ are plotted together.
Since the deviation among them is very small as far as $t-t_0 \ll t_0$,
the system is considered to be in a stationary state.
The {\it coefficient} is found to be proportional to $\ln t$
in long time regime, i.e.,
\begin{equation}
D(t) \propto T t / \ln t.
\end{equation}
Finite size effect is observed in  the long time limit.

Figure~\ref{fig:dt_xy} shows that
the coefficients saturate to a finite values
which are roughly proportional
to the logarithm of the system size $L$.

Next we calculate the velocity auto-correlation function
by using the Fourier series $\mbf{V}_k$ of the $\mbf{V}(t)$
\begin{eqnarray}
C(n \tau) = \sum_{k=1}^{n^*-1}  |\mbf{V}_k|^2 e^{-2\pi i n k/N } \\
\mbf{V}_k = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n^*}} \sum_{n=0}^{n^*-1}
\mbf{V}(t_0 + n \tau ) e^{2\pi i n k/N },
\end{eqnarray}
where $n^*$ is the total number of observations of the velocity
with constant interval $\tau$.
Although the above $C(t)$ barely depends on $\tau$,
a normalized function $C(t)/C(0)$ does not for $t \gg \tau$.
Note that finite time observation results
non-vanishing constant in $C(t)$ for large $t$
(we set the observation time equivalent to the waiting time $t_0$).
Ignoring this finite time effect
the observation of Fig.~\ref{fig:ct_xy} supports that
\begin{equation}
C(t) \propto \frac{d^2}{dt^2} \frac{t}{\ln t}
= - \frac{1}{t \ln t ^2 } \left( 1 - \frac{2}{\ln t} \right).
\end{equation}
The correlation function is negative for $t>0$.
This is natural because
the local motion of the vortex core driven by random force
usually raise the interaction energy with surrounding region.
Thus restoring force works on the vortex core.
(Off course the system has an energy invariance
against the global translation of spins
if boundary effect can be ignored. )
The response time should correlate with the range of dragged region.
For a single vortex, there is no characteristic length scale
except the lattice unit
and therefore the system has infinitely long-time memory.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{Dt-xy.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:dt_xy}
Mean square displacement is plotted with $t-t_0$.
The result for three waiting times,
five system sizes (L=16, 32, 64, 128, 256)
are shown together.
Average is taken over 8192 samples.
}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{Ct-xy.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:ct_xy}
Vortex velocity auto-correlation function
multiplied by $t-t_0$.
The divergent behavior for large $t$
is due to the finite observation time,
which is set to be same length with $t_0$.
}
\end{figure}

\section{Reduced model}

In the previous section,
we saw that a single vortex does not behave
as a Brownian particle with normal diffusion
but the mobility decreases as $1/\ln t$.
For the aim to study the origin of the abnormal diffusion
the 2dXY model is hard to analyze
and numerical simulation is rather heavy
(note that the observation time of the present simulations
is not long enough to eliminate the possibility
that $D(t) \propto t^{0.8}$,
which is difficult to distinguish from $t/\ln t$ for small $t$).

For this reason we propose a reduced model of this system.
The fundamental idea is as follows.
Considering circles with various radii
centered on the vortex core,
all XY spins in the energy minimal state with single vortex
are directed the radial direction
(see the left figure in Fig.~\ref{fig:onion}).
We assume that the excited state
can be described only the motion of these circles
and spins on each circle are always along the radial direction
(see the right figure in Fig.~\ref{fig:onion}
and note that spins do not change there position).
By taking the center positions as a degrees of freedom,
the resultant equation of motion in continuum limit is
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{d}{dt}X(r,t)
= 2 \left( \frac{\partial^2}{\partial r^2}
- \frac{1}{r} \frac{\partial}{\partial r} \right) X(r,t)
+ Z(r,t).
\nonumber \\
\langle Z(r,t) Z(r',t') \rangle
= 2 \frac{r}{\pi} T \delta(r-r') \delta(t-t').
\label{eq:eom_1d}
\end{eqnarray}
The detail of the derivation is
shown in the appendix.
Here $X(r,t)$ is the $x$-component of the
center of the circle with radius $r$.
The $y$-component obeys the same equation
and decoupled with $X(r,t)$.
The position of the vortex core is
identified with $\lim_{r \rightarrow 0}\mbf{X}(r,t)$.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=150 420 160 -60,scale=0.50,clip]{onion.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:onion}
Schematic diagram of the restricted deformation
in the reduced model.
We consider virtual circles with radius $r$ and center $\mbf{X}(r)$.
In fact there are infinite number of circles,
whose radius varies continuously.
The spins direct to the radial direction
of the circle on which they are put on.
The deformation is described only with the positions of the circles.
}
\end{figure}

\section{Numerical integration of reduced model}

To confirm the validity of the above one dimensional model
we numerically integrate the equation of motion.
We write the elastic energy
\begin{equation}
E_\mathrm{el} = \frac{1}{2} \sum_j \frac{ |X_{j+1} - X_j|^2 }{r_j}
= \frac{1}{2} \sum_j \frac{ \Delta X_j^2 }{r_j}
\end{equation}
as a discrete version of eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_1d})
where $X_i(t)\quad(i=0,1,2,\cdots,L-1)$
is a degree of freedom on the lattice points
and $\Delta X_i = X_{i+1} - X_i$.
We use a system with reflective symmetry,
i.e.,
$r_j=j+1/2$ for $j \le L-1$
and $r_j=L-j-1/2$ for $j \ge L$.
Therefore both of $X_0$ and $X_{L-1}$ represents the
position of the vortex core.
The Langevin equation is written as
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{d}{dt} X_i
&=& - i \frac{\partial E_\mathrm{el}}{\partial X_i} + Z_i (t)
\nonumber \\
&=& \frac{1}{1-1/4 i^2}
\left[
\left( \Delta X_{i} - \Delta X_{i-1} \right)
- \frac{ \Delta X_{i} + \Delta X_{i-1} }{2 i}
\right]
+ Z_i (t).
\label{eq:eom_1dnum}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{equation}
\langle Z_i(t) Z_j(t') \rangle = 2 T i \delta_{ij} \delta(t-t')
\end{equation}
In this equation temperature can be absorbed
by scaling $X$ with $\sqrt{T}$ and therefore we set $T=1$.
We set $\Delta X_{-1} = \Delta X_{L-1} = 0$
as an open boundary condition.
Actually we approximate the denominator in eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_1dnum}),
$1 - 1/4i^2 $, with unity.

\subsection{Abnormal diffusion}

In order to compare the present reduced model
with the original two dimensional XY model,
we calculate the MSD and velocity auto correlation function
of $X_0(t)$ and $X_{L-1}(t)$.
Figure \ref{fig:dt_1d} and \ref{fig:ct_1d} is a result
of numerical calculation.
The behaviors agree with those of the two dimensional XY model;
logarithmic correction to the normal diffusion is observed.
It can be said that the present model holds the essential property
of the abnormal diffusion of the original model.
Furthermore we can perform much longer time simulation
on this model than on the 2dXY model
and observe logarithmic property more clearly.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{Dt-1d.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:dt_1d}
Mean square displacement of the vortex center $X_0(t)$
for the reduced one dimensional model.
}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{Ct-1d.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:ct_1d}
Vortex velocity auto-correlation function
multiplied by $t-t_0$
for the reduced one dimensional model.
}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Dynamical correlation length}

On the reduced model
we can easily investigate the behavior
of off-core region.
The MSD of $i$-th site
\begin{equation}
D_i(t-t_0) = \langle | X_i(t) - X_i(t_0) |^2 \rangle
\end{equation}
is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:dit_1d}.
For small $t$,
$D_i(t)$ is proportional to $t^{1/2}$.
This is a standard behavior of an stochastic diffusion equation,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial }{\partial t} X(x,t) =
\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial x^2} X(x,t)+ Z(x,t),
\end{equation}
which lacks the gradient term in eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_1d}).
Since local temperature increases with $i$,
the initial coefficient of $t^{1/2}$ term does as well.
The core region, however, shows different behavior.
Seeing in logarithmic scale the growth rate is larger
than that for off-core region.
This ease to move is due to the weak confinement
in the vicinity of the free edge on the one side.
After $D_0(t)=\langle X_0(t)^2 \rangle$
catches up with $D_i(t)$, $D_i(t)$ coincides with $D_0(t)$.
As time goes by,
more and more regions moves with the core.
Therewith the growth $D_0(t)$ becomes slower with factor $1/\ln t$
(seems to become faster in double-logarithmic scale).
This suggests that the dynamics of vortex is a collective one
and the mobility becomes smaller as its effective radius
of the collective motion becomes large.

The range of collective motion can be estimated by
the correlation function;
\begin{equation}
C(i,t) = \frac{\langle X_0(t) X_i(t) \rangle}{ \sqrt{D_0(t) D_i(t)} }.
\end{equation}
A universal scaling function is found
so that
\begin{equation}
C(i,t) = F\left( i / R(t) \right) \approx e^{- i / R(t)}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
R(t) \propto t^{1/2}.
\end{equation}
In Fig.~\ref{fig:cit_1d} $C(i,t)$ is plotted as a function
of $i$ scaled by $t^{1/2}$.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{D_it-1d.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:dit_1d}
Mean square displacement of
sites $i = 0, 2^0, 2^1, \cdot, 2^9$ are shown together.
}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[trim=10 240 0 -230,scale=0.30,clip]{Cit-1d.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-3mm}
\caption{\label{fig:cit_1d}
The strain correlation function is plotted as a function of
site $i$.
The data at different time is plotted together,
which collapse to a universal curve
by scaling horizontal axis by $\sqrt{t}$.
}
\end{figure}

\section{Discussions}

We have shown that
a single vortex exhibits abnormal diffusion
even though there is no inter-vortex interaction.
What is important is that vortex is not a mere point particle
but its motion drags the phase field
of the surrounding region.
As a natural result velocity auto-correlation function
has memory with negative correlation.
For an isolated vortex,
the influence of its core motion spreads infinitely large range
and then correlation time also diverges.

Based on the reduced one-dimensional model,
clearer picture of the phenomena is obtained.
In addition, we can perform numerical simulations
for large scale both in time and space.
We found that the correlation length $R(t)$
grows as $t^{1/2}$ not as $(t/\ln t)^{1/2}$.
This means that the logarithmic correlation
does not come from the growth law of the correlation length $R(t)$ itself
but originates with the size dependence of the mobility as $1/\ln R(t)$.
This is consistent with the finite size effect of the mobility
in the 2dXY model.

The reduced model, eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_1d}), has two points
that ordinary stochastic diffusion equation does not have.
Those are the gradient term and the position dependence of temperature.
We found that the $i$-linear dependence of the local temperature
is not essential for the logarithmic correction
but the gradient term in eq.~(\ref{eq:eom_1d}) is important
(not shown here).
This term has a function
to make the deformation amplitude $X(r)$ propagate
to the positive direction of $r$.
This makes the diffusion of the end of chain slower
than that of the ordinary elastic chain.
This is in contrast with the Bessel equation with $n=0$
which has positive sign on the gradient term.
Since the derivative kernel of the eq.~(\ref{eq:bessel}) is
that of the 1st Bessel equation (see the appendix),
expansion of the solution with the Bessel functions will be useful
and the exact analysis of the present reduced model may be possible.
This is challenging open question.

\acknowledgments

The present work is supported by 21st Century COE program
``Topological Science and Technology''
and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture,
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), 19740227, 2007.
A part of the computation in this work has been done
using the facilities of the Supercomputer Center,
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo.

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Ian Siegal
Interview – March 2015
Although Ian Siegal had already been on my radar for several years; nothing prepared me for his 2012 album Candy Store Kid; which was released under the moniker Ian Siegal and the Mississippi Mudbloods. That heady mix of top quality Southern fried Blues and Swamp flavoured Country music was my soundtrack to that particular Summer and the timeless sound means it will remain in my car for many years to come.
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When I started planning my last tour I needed a band so asked them to join me; and they've really refreshed my playing; their technical ability and influences are so broad we can go off into a million directions every night; and having Dusty playing lead leaves me to concentrate on my singing and playing rhythm which I'm probably best suited to. It's been a great year; and the reason I felt that the time was right to record a live album; as they aren't as easy to produce as you'd think.
If you want to do it properly; and I did, you've got to choose a venue with a great sound and vibe; plus a partisan crowd and that all came together at the North Sea Jazz Club; which I've always loved playing at. After releasing the Man & Guitar solo album from last year's Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, I wanted to do something completely different and mix the songs up – something old; something new….that sort of thing.
A live album gives you the opportunity to do things like that; which is why I included a couple of my older songs like Brandy Balloon and Queen of the Junior Prom from way back and I Am The Train from Candy Store Kid sitting them next to songs like Tom Russell's Gallo del Ciello and I also got to play the Gram Parsons role on Love Hurts with Tess Gaerthe being Emmylou; which isn't something I get to do every day. The album also gave me the opportunity to finally record one of my favourite ever songs, Writings On the Wall by an old friend of mine from Nottingham, Harry Stephenson.
When I first started visiting clubs to hear bands as a teenager with a harmonica in my jacket pocket, Harry was the local star and it took me a year or more to pluck up the courage to even say "hello." Eventually he took me under his wing and we became close friends; and a few years ago I needed a driver for a UK tour and Harry volunteered without hesitation. We had a great time; but I still feel a bit embarrassed at having one of my heroes driving the van; but he loved it.
I'm really looking forward to bringing this band to the UK in the next few months; like I said earlier, they've really rejuvenated me and this feels like it's going to a really exciting tour, then it's off to Europe for quite a few Festivals and then if I can find the time hopefully there should be a new album out by the end of the year. There's nothing written down on paper; but it's all brewing inside my head…..so 'watch this space'; as they say.
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Paul Adams- Director — Acquiring/Payment Acceptance, Barclays Bank Ireland
Paul Adams leads the Acquiring business in Ireland is an Executive Director of the Board and a member of the UK Executive Committee, accountable for the day-to-day strategic and commercial leadership of the payment acceptance business in Ireland.
Ray Bassett — Former Irish Ambassador
Ray is a former Irish Ambassador to Canada and a senior diplomat for over 30 years.
Ugo Bechis — e-Payments & SEPA Advisor
Ugo Bechis is an independent e-Payments & SEPA Advisor, to UBI Banca and to other institutions. He has banking experience in the areas of distribution, securities transactions and payments services as head of Multichannel Distribution, Home Banking, Trading On-line, Corporate and Retail Payments, Cards, Consumer Credit and Bancassurance Divisions, following his first banking practice in Corporate and Trade Finance and in Audit and Acquisitions assessment. He gained his management expertise in commercial, organizational and strategy roles in international and italian banks.
Russell Burke — Senior Payments and E-Money Authorisation Specialist, Central Bank of Ireland
Russell is working towards building a more efficient and modern payments environment in Ireland.
John Burns — Client Projects Director, Payment Services, Compliancy Services UK
John has 35 years experience in retail banking and payments. He worked on the PSD from it being a Commission proposal, through the negotiations, as a member of the EPC experts group and the Commission's Payment Systems Market Experts Group. He joined the FSA in June 2008 to see the implementation of the directive into UK law through and assist in the FSA's implementation process.
He was a compliance advisor to Global Transaction Banking in Lloyds Bank, advising on major migration project and introduction of new corporate online banking system while acting as subject matter expert on payments and is now Client Project Director in Payments Services at Compliancy Services, UK.
Marcia Clay — Senior Vice President, Market Development, Mastercard UK & Ireland
Marcia is Senior Vice President, Market Developement for Mastercard UK and Ireland.
In this role, Marcia is responsible for developing and executing the Mastercard business strategy and development plans for the UK and Ireland to drive market growth and performance. Previously, she managed Key Customer relationships at Mastercard.
Marcia has extensive experience in payments, working in the UK and International markets. Before joining Mastercard, she was Vice-President, Client Development at First Data and prior to this, held a number of roles within American Express covering new product and marketing strategy and acceptance network development.
Emma Cunningham — Principal Officer, Banking Policy Division, Department of Finance, Dublin
Andrew Doukanaris — Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, JCB International (Europe) Ltd
Andrew joined JCB in 2016. As Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, he leads hte issuing, acquiring, marketing and communications team for JCB in Europe. He represents JCB at EMVCo and European Card Stakeholders Group.
Prior to joining JCB, Andrew established Flotta Consulting — a bespoke consulting practice — working with numerous global merchants, schemes, fintech start-ups and banks in strategy development and executive and product design and deployment.
Tribh Grewal — Head of Europe, Director, Global Business Development, Diners Club International
Tribh Grewal is the Head of Business Development and Relationship Management for Europe at Discover Financial Services. He joined Discover/Diners Club three years ago from Modirum Ltd, a payments software and services company, where he was the Managing Director. Prior to Modirum, Mr Grewal was Head of Emerging Payments at Visa Inc. and before that he held senior roles at Visa in Acceptance and Product Development and Marketing. Mr Grewal is an experience senior professional with over 20 years' experience in card payments business gained through his various roles at Discover, Modirum, Visa and VeriFone.
Simon Grossman — Vice President, Regulatory & Public Policy, Mastercard UK & Ireland
Simon Grossman is responsible for regulatory and public policy issues for Mastercard in the UK and Ireland and is a member of the UK senior management team, having joined Mastercard in 2015.
Simon is a qualified lawyer, but spent the early part of his career working in Parliament before moving into public policy, primarily in the telecoms and technology sector. He spent 11 years at Orange (and subsequently EE) where he undertook a number of public affairs, policy and regulatory roles, ultimately managing the team in the UK. He worked for several years at US-based media company 118 118 (both in telecoms and financial services) where he was responsible for regulatory, Government and business affairs across the European business, having initially established the function within the company. He also worked at global technology company Huawei where he managed Government relations in the UK and Ireland.
Niamh Hall — Partner — Design & Copyright/Trademarks, FR Kelly European Patent and Trademark Attorney
Niamh is a solicitor and trade mark attorney dealing with all aspects of intellectual property. She has received a personal recommendation as one of the world's top 1000 leading trade mark
attorneys in each edition of the WTR1000.
She is the co-author of the leading Irish text Intellectual Property Law in Ireland (Clark, Smyth & Hall, Bloomsbury Professional), the European publication Concise European Trademark and Design Law (Kluwer Law International) and the forthcoming eBook on Technology and Intellectual Property Law by the Law Society of Ireland.
Niamh is the current President of the Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Ireland and was recently appointed as a Notary Public.
Philip House — General Counsel, CB Infrastructure
Philip started his career as a practising barrister specialising in litigating for a number of FTSE100 companies on regulatory and competition matters. Moving in-house thereafter, he has held senior roles in government and financial services firms advising on legal and regulatory matters whilst also building and maintaining the relationship between the businesses, their respective regulators and the European Commission across multiple jurisdictions. Philip joins the Lafferty Group's Brexit Council as General Counsel of a new UK based financial services company.
Rob Hudson — Group Executive, TSYS International
Rob Hudson is Group Executive for TSYS International. He is responsible for TSYS' European business, it's existing clients' relationships alongside it's performance across Europe encompassing the full spectrum of payments methods and processing. A 25-year veteran of the payment card industry, Hudson has previously managed the full product portfolio at TSYS International in addition to supporting the building of TSYS' European business from its inception in 2001. Prior to his time at TSYS, Hudson held senior roles at HSBC, GE Capital and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and has played a key role in all card sectors including consumer and commercial issuing, merchant acquiring and debit.
Emma Hynes — Head of Government Affairs, Citi, Dublin
Emma is a Marketing and Public Relations professional with fifteen years' experience. Her diverse background includes nine years in the global telecommunications sector in the Caribbean, Central America, Pacific and Ireland, followed by three years as Press Officer for Ireland's majority ruling political party. She currently heads the Public Affairs and Government Affairs function in Citi, Ireland.
Marek Iwanicki — Card Schemes Compliance Team/Manager, eService
Marek has 22 years of experience in the acquiring side of the cards industry. He spent six years managing cards acceptance risk and compliance produces in Poland with First Data Poland (formerly PolCard), and another six years managing cards acceptance risk and compliance procedures for acquiring and issuing in Central and Eastern Europe with Visa Inc.
Marek has had responsibility in card schemes compliance, card schemes fees control (interchange fees, scheme fees, processing fees, switching fees) and managing the industry impact of card schemes. He now works with eService, a member of EVO Payments Capital Group, Europe.
Colm Kincaid — Head of Division, Consumer Protection, Central Bank of Ireland
Colm first joined the Central Bank in 2004 as a solicitor in the Legal and Enforcement Department. After a short period as Regulatory Counsel at Merrill Lynch in Dublin he returned to the Central Bank in April 2008. He was Deputy Head of the Legal Division from October 2010 to May 2013, when he took up a position as Head of Consumer Protection for banking, insurance and investments supervision and policy. As of January 2015, he now heads a new Division at the Central Bank overseeing all consumer protection policy and the authorisation of payment institutions, electronic money institutions, retail intermediaries, debt management firms, bureau de change, moneylenders and retail credit firms, as well as bank charges.
Previous to joining the Central Bank he was a solicitor at Linklaters in London and an Associate at A&L Goodbody in Dublin.
Professor Ray Kinsella — Professor of Banking and Financial Services, UCD School of Business
Ray Kinsella received his PhD from Trinity and worked as an Economist in the Central Bank where he was nominated to participate in the IMF institute.
He worked as an Economic Adviser in the Department of Industry and Commerce before being appointed to the Chair of Banking and Financial services in the University of Ulster, He returned — on the day of the Good Friday Agreement! — to the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School.
He has written and published extensively in the fields of Banking and Regulation. Ray is a former member of the Northern Ireland Economic Council and here in Ireland the Higher Education Authority. He is now a member of the Global Retail Banking Academy.
Michael Lafferty — Chairman, Lafferty Group
A former banking correspondent, accounting correspondent and LEX columnist with the Financial Times, Lafferty received the Wincott Foundation's Young Financial Journalist of the Year award in 1977.
In 1981, he founded Lafferty Group, which has come to occupy a preeminent position in the global financial services industry and received The Queen's Award for Export Achievement (now known as the Queen's Awards for Enterprise) in 1988.
Jason Lalor — Country Manager, Ireland, Mastercard
Jason's current role incorporates all aspects of General Management for the Mastercard brand in Ireland, including oversight of local office operations and configuring in-country sales and delivery activities. He is accountable for defining and leading the broader business strategy for Mastercard Ireland as well as establishing, and being accountable for financial/operating objectives, identifying business opportunities and achieving sales objectives. He represents Mastercard to government and regulatory bodies in Ireland and in this capacity acts as Mastercard's ambassador, spokesperson and key contact for all associated regulatory and government agencies. He oversees communications with Mastercard's customer banks, and the merchant community and position Mastercard as a business partner, thought leader and trusted advisor with customers. He is accountable for identifying, coaching and grooming top talent and pro-actively developing employees as organisational resources.
Michelle Loftus — Business Development Executive, Lafferty Group
Michelle is a Career Banker with 25 years' experience in a variety of roles across Retail and Commercial banking. Michelle's key responsibility is the development of the Brexit Council for the cards, payments and retail banking sector.
Declan Lynch — Chief Executive Officer, Elavon/US Bank
Elavon is a fully chartered Irish bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank (fifth largest bank in USA), based in Dublin, Ireland and operating principally in Ireland, UK, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Spain and Poland with approximately 1,800 employees across that European footprint. As one of the world's largest global payments brands Elavon Europe processes over one billion transactions annually, worth more than $120 billion for over 270,000 customers across Europe. Elavon also operates a number of other fast growing payments and securities services businesses in Europe including Corporate Card Issuing, Corporate Trust and Fund Administraiton.
Ronan Lynch — COO and Director — Global Knowledge Centre, Lafferty Group
Ronan Lynch comes from a family with a history of merchant trading and occasional piracy. Apart from writing about banking and finance he writes about Atlantic history and its malcontents. He is also a regular contributor to Village magazine on media matters and director of research for the Centre for Conflict Resolution Journalism.
Chloe MacEwen — Vice-President, Public and Regulatory Affairs, Western Union
Chloe MacEwen is Vice-President, Public and Regulatory Affairs at Western Union. She joined in 2016 and is responsible for Western Union's EU engagement with policy makers, legislators and regulators. Chloe qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons in 1998 and then worked as a competition lawyer at Herbert Smith before spending ten years working as a regulator at the Competition Commission, Office of Fair Trading and DG Competition, European Commission. Prior to joining Western Union Chloe worked as Head of competition and Head of International Policy at Lloyds Banking Group overseeing the bank's engagement strategy with policy makers on a broad range of financial services and competition issues. Chloe was educated at King's College London where she gained a LLB and LLM.
Marie Mangan — CRO, Elavon
Marie Mangan is Chief Risk Officer at Elavon Financial Services Limited with responsibility for risk and compliance. Marie has more than twenty five years' experience in various regulatory compliance related roles. Prior to taking up her current role, Marie headed up KPMG's regulatory advisory services team in Dublin where she advised clients across the financial services sectors and previously held roles as head of compliance at an IFSC bank and as a senior regulator at the Central Bank.
Cameron McEvoy — Senior Legal Counsel, TSYS International
Cameron McEvoy is Senior Legal Counsel in the legal team at TSYS International. Cameron joined TSYS from a Silver Circle firm where he acted for mid-market PE houses on investments and disposals. Cameron then spent time with the Ministry of Defence assisting with the renegotiation of various PFI contracts, and other wider outsourcing contracts and the legal framework for the withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan.
John McGrane — Director General, British Irish Chamber of Commerce
John is Director General of The British Irish Chamber of Commerce, a private sector organisation which he co-founded in 2011 to represent businesses with interests in the two islands and their economies.
He is a retired financial services professional having completed a 40 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland / Ulster Bank Group in Ireland.
His career has spanned substantial initiatives in the enterprise and corporate sectors, both indigenous and foreign direct investment.
He is Founder of NSI Technology, a tech start-up which helps Not For Profits become Not For Losses. He is a Board Director at Dublin Chamber of Commerce and at The British Irish Chamber of Commerce and a number of charities.
Charles McManus — Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, ClearBank
An experienced international banking professional with over 30 years' in global investment banking, wealth management and retail banking, Charles McManus is ClearBank's Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director.
Prior to joining ClearBank, Charles was the Group CFO of RBS Ulster Bank Group until 2013, before which he spent 13 years with The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). His time with RBC culminated in a role as CFO of Europe and Asia and Global Head of Product Control.
Stephen Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President- Business Development, Evo Payments
Stephen Mendelsohn is a manager with 20 years of sales, project management and consulting experience in the payments and technology industries.
Theodore Morita — Head of Compliance and Internal Control, JCB International (Europe) Ltd
Theodore is an English, Japanese and French trilingual Compliance Professional with 10 years' experience in the financial industry. He is experienced in payments, corporate and investment banking, prime brokerage and asset management.
Michael Mulhall — Founder/CEO, FinTech Innovations
Michael is founder and CEO of FinTech Innovations — specialists in the design/development of Personal Finance Management (PFM) Apps for financial institutions.
Peter Oakes — Non-Executive Board Director, TransferMate Global Payments
Peter has a multitude of experience as a senior leader operating at Board & C-Suite level in Central Banking, Financial Regulation, Risk Management, Anti-Money Laundering, Credit Risk, Data Privacy, Compliance, Financial Services, Fintech & Digital Currencies. Proven track record in transformational change, effective senior leadership, international financial systems, private and government/public sectors.
Mark O'Keefe — Partner, Optima Consultancy
Founding director of Optima Consultancy, Mark is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Operating across commercial finance, strategic change and business transformation he has 20 years experience in the Payments business.
His recent focus has been the development of Optima's payment reporting solution to help acquirers comply with the impending EU legislation on transparency (IRF, Article 12) and the unblending of interchange rates (IRF, Article 9).
Dr Solomon Osagie — Chief Legal Counsel, TSYS International
Dr Solomon Osagie manages the legal team at TSYS International. A leading General Counsel ranked in the FT top 25 GC rankings, he was named in the Hot Lawyer rankings for 2016 and also received a nomination at the UK Diversity Awards.
With a number of citations including lawyer of the year, General Counsel of the Year and Innovative GC, he is acknowledged as an expert in consumer finance, banking and regulatory services.
Solomon was appointed to the Law Society's Company Law Committee in 2011 and sits on several advisory boards including Acritas, GOAL, The Lawyer Financial Services Forum and the Brussels GC Advisory Board. In 2014, he was invited to join the Westminster Policy Forum on Legal Education and Training in the UK.
Solomon speaks and writes regularly about regulatory matters in the financial services sector.
John Phelan — Banking Policy Advisor, Department of Finance, Ireland
Gavin Purtill — Head of Capital Markets, Banking & Payments Federation of Ireland
Gavin Purtill joined BPFI in 2011 where he is Head of Capital Markets. He is active in many of the key areas of interest to FIBI (Federation of International Banks in Ireland) members such as EMIR, MiFID, UCITS V, MMF, AIFMD, ACS and Securitisation. Gavin is currently a member of the Financial Markets Committee of the European Banking Federation, a member of the ECBC (European Covered Bond Council) Steering Committee and ACS Ireland Committee Secretariat.
Prior to joining BPFI, Gavin worked with Aareal Bank AG as a Treasury Dealer and Regulatory Accountant for six years where he learnt first-hand the importance of regulation in determining the strategic direction and long term positioning of banks. He holds a Masters in Investment Treasury and Banking.
Emma Read — Vice President, First Data
Emma Read is the EMEA head of Enterprise Business Continuity and leads the Brexit Council at First Data.
Emma joined First Data on 1 October 2015. Prior to First Data, Emma worked at JPMorgan For 11 years where she held various roles in the bank. Her most recent role was EMEA head of Global Resiliency and Crisis Management. Prior to JPMorgan, Emma worked at BNP Paribas, Abbey National (now Santandar) and Schroders (now part of Citi).
Bernard Sheridan — Acting Deputy Governor (Financial Regulation)/Director of Consumer, Central Bank of Ireland
Bernard became Acting Deputy Governor on 8 April 2017. Previously, he was appointed Director of Consumer Protection (May 2010) and is responsible for the Consumer Directorate covering Banking, Insurance, Investment and Policy, and Retail Intermediaries and Payment Institutions. The directorate is responsible for developing the Consumer Protection Framework and for monitoring compliance with conduct of business requirements by retail firms and the development of consumer protection codes. It is also responsible for the supervision and authorisation of retail intermediaries and payment institutions.
Bernard joined the Central Bank in 1985 and has held a range of senior positions including head of domestic credit institutions, consumer protection codes and consumer information. He previously held the role of Chief Operations Officer of the Investor Compensation Company Limited (ICCL). Bernard holds a BComm from University College Dublin and an MSc in Investment and Treasury from Dublin City University.
Michael Stern — Former MP and Director, Lafferty Group
Michael Stern is a Chartered Accountant and served as a Member of Parliament for the British Conservative Party for 14 years.
Adrian Stoll — SRP Programme Director, Barclaycard
An experienced Finance and Treasury leader, Adrian is responsible for Structural Reform and Brexit planning for Barclaycard, which covers a broad spectrum of the changes required to adapt to emerging regulation. His prior experience includes senior Treasury and Finance roles with RBS and ABN AMRO including Retail Treasurer and Head of Balance Sheet Management.
Maol Muire Tynan — Head of Public Affairs, AIB
Maol joined AIB in February 2012 as Head of Public Affairs. Prior to this, she was Head of Public Affairs at ESB. She has also worked as a journalist in several national newspapers.
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Best CPUs for Gaming: Q1 2018
by Ian Cutress on January 2, 2018 9:00 AM EST
In our series of Best CPU guides, here's the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing (Nov 6th). Numbers in graphs reflect MSRP.
Our most recent guide can be found at this link:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus
Best CPUs for Gaming Q1 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data from our reviews. Our Best CPUs for Gaming guide targets most of the common system-build price points that typically pair a beefy graphics card with a capable processor, with the best models being suitable for streaming and encoding on the fly.
AnandTech Gaming CPU Recommendations: 2017
(Prices are Nov-06 or MSRP)
Segment AMD Intel
Best Overall Choice Ryzen 7 1700 $294 Core i7-8700 $340
The $1500 Gaming PC Ryzen 7 1700 $294 Core i7-8700 $340
The $1000 Gaming PC Ryzen 5 1600/X $210 Core i5-8400 $200
The $700 Gaming PC Ryzen 3 1300X $130 Core i3-8100 $130
The $500 Gaming PC - - Pentium G4560 $80
The $300 Gaming PC A8-9600 $71 - -
Ones to Watch AMD Ryzen APUs (2018)
Intel with Radeon Graphics (2018)
To see our Best CPUs for Workstations 2017 Guide, follow this link:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations-2017
The majority of our recommendations aim to hit the performance/price curve just right, with a side nod to power consumption as well.
Best Overall Choices:
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 ($294)
Intel Core i7-8700 ($339)
If you want a great mainstream gaming processor, that works great for builds from $1000 and up, then we recommend the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and the Intel Core i7-8700.
Between the two, the Ryzen 7 1700 currently sits as the better option: it is widely available, is a little bit cheaper, has two more cores, cheaper motherboards on offer, and is overclockable. The Intel Core i7-8700 has a much higher stock frequency and better IPC, which will help on most games that only use a few cores, but is a victim to undersupply where most of our regular retailers either have none, or are charging a premium.
For the AMD Ryzen 7 1700, we expect someone to point out it is not the fastest AMD Ryzen 7 processor available. This is true, but it is most of the way there: adventurous gamers can try their hand at overclocking to match the faster speed, saving $170 on the MSRP that could go into another 16GB of DRAM or grabbing another 500GB SSD. Even without overclocking, it rarely becomes a bottleneck, especially when users want to combine other intensive tasks such as streaming as it has eight cores and sixteen threads. The AMD Ryzen 7 1700 also takes advantage of having cheaper AM4 X370 and B350 motherboards on offer, most of which will support a high speed M.2 drive with a storage drive and other peripherals.
With the Intel Core i7-8700, the higher clock frequency and IPC will drive home some of the final FPS in games that are not GPU limited or older games. This is observed more at lower resolutions, but IPC is something that has to be fundamental to the system. A user with a Core i7-8700 and a good graphics card should find most games a walk in the park, with a clear upgrade option in either doubling the GPU count or investing in the best next time around. The motherboard ecosystem is rich, especially with multi-M.2 support on even the cheaper designs, although the main drawback to the i7-8700 is the lack of stock. Our two fundamentals for US readers, Amazon and Newegg, have it listed as 2-4 weeks or simply out of stock at the time of writing.
Buy Intel Core i7-8700 on Newegg
Why No Intel Overclockable SKUs!?!
Some users may have questions about us choosing the i7-8700 over the 8700K or 8600K. As a former world #2 overclocker many years ago, I still get the importance of overclocking. However:
Over the overclockable i7-8700K, the answer both price (Newegg lists it as $420, out of stock; Amazon has no price) and stock performance: our initial testing results put the i7-8700K as only 0.3% ahead of the i7-8700.
Over the cheaper and overclockable i5-8600K, it comes down to the single core turbo frequencies of the Core i5-8600K only barely hit the frequencies of the i7-8700 - at full core turbo, the i7-8700 will have all cores running at the best frequency of the Core i5-8600K. Users can overclock, and it should be easy, but not everyone does; in that way the i7-8700 is guaranteed. Also, the i7-8700 has double the threads, for when it matters. When this option was put to a poll in our launch day review, the readers overwhelmingly chose the i7-8700 over the i5-8600K by about 4:1.
We have just finished testing the Core i7-8700, ready for a review next week hopefully, showing just how close in performance it is to the Core i7-8700K. So when it does become more widely available, the Core i7-8700 is still the Intel processor we recommend.
The $1500-$2000 Gaming PC:
When building a gaming PC, the majority of the focus is on the graphics card: when all other components are sufficient, and the resolutions are high, the graphics card is often the limiting factor. Top-end machines will use cards like the GTX 1080, GTX 1080 Ti, Vega64 or Vega56 that cost from $400 to $800, sometimes even multiple, to push enough frames for that high-end 144 Hz display with a variable refresh rate. As long as the rest of the system is not a bottleneck, gaming enthusiasts are happy to sit higher up the price/performance curve with graphics. But with more games taking advantage of DirectX12, more CPU cores, virtual reality (VR), or even old games that rely on a single fast CPU core, having a processor that covers all areas is paramount. This is why we recommend the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and Intel Core i7-8700.
Obviously these choices are the same as our recommended parts, and all the commentary is still relevant. To this end we put together an example system that one might buy in this segment:
The AnandTech $2000 Gaming PC
Processor Ryzen 7 1700 $294 Core i7-8700 $340
Cooler Corsair H60 $60
Motherboard MSI X370 SLI PLUS $114 ASRock Z370 Killer $150
Memory G.Skill Trident Z DDR4-3200 2x16GB $307
Storage Crucial MX300 525GB $144
Graphics ASUS GTX 1080 Ti Turbo $710
Case Lian-Li PC-A75* $120*
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA 750W $120
Total Cost $1869 $1951
*Using 30% off promo code NAFDECLIA278 until 11/30
Users going beyond $2000 might decide to spend an extra $80-$100 on the absolute fastest processor (e.g. in an AMD build the 1700X is $349 and 1800X is $399), or double up on memory, storage, or graphics. Alternatively, dropping the GTX 1080 Ti down to a GTX 1080 saves $180, which could go to a mechanical hard drive and better CPU cooling. Memory is expensive, so moving down to 2x8 GB will save $150 or so, although having such a beefy system with *only* 16 GB of memory might be a 'how many tabs you have open' limiting factor for power users. For reference, with my usual workflow and researching for this article, I'm using 26 GB of memory.
Ultimately our build suggestion here puts the graphics card as 34% of the full system, and the CPU as 17%; or half as important. The issue here is perhaps that sometimes the rest of the components do not change so much, or that priorities change. Even playing GTA 5 on a mid-range graphics card at lower resolutions still requires 50GB+ of storage, so users then have to decide if they want an SSD over spinning rust (a mechanical hard drive) or if only 8GB of memory is enough. It will be hard to keep the CPU+GPU as 50% of the full build cost.
That being said, as we move down the gaming scale for graphics cards, to something like a GTX 1060 or RX 580, can bring the build down by up to $500. This CPUs are still relevant, however some users might prefer to alleviate bottlenecks elsewhere, perhaps pushing users to consider our next price point at $1000.
The $1000 Gaming PC:
AMD Ryzen 5 1600/1600X ($210/$220)
At this price users will have to decide if they want to keep that $500 GPU and end up with a limiting $70 processor, or move down to a graphics card around $250 and find the right balance between the graphics card and the processor. For our recommendations at this price point we have the Ryzen 5 1600 or 1600X (pricing is quite close), and the Intel Core i5-8400.
For a gamer who might be interested in streaming, or doing multiple tasks at the same time, the six-core Ryzen 5 1600 series parts are eminently suitable. The gaming experience should be pitched for a very good quality 1920x1080 environment or a mid-quality 2560x1440 setup, with future upgrade options either on the CPU or processor. Again, similar to the Ryzen 7 above, users can take advantage of cheaper B350 motherboards and still get a great experience, or move into M.2 PCIe storage with the Ryzen 5 system. Our benchmarking results for these processors put it in good stead for price of equivalent Intel 7th Gen equipment.
Buy Intel Core i5-8400 on Amazon.com
That being said, Intel is now on its 8th generation of processors. Set at almost the same price is the Core i5-8400 which offers six cores, the 7th generation counterpart only had four cores - the generation on generation upgrade in performance per dollar went up like a rocket. Intel now has a six-core processor at the same price that AMD offers six cores (AMD gives two threads per core, Intel only one), with a higher IPC as well which will benefit in games. Despite the 2.8 GHz base frequency, the all-core turbo frequency is at 3.8 GHz, which is higher than either of the AMD options we suggested. The motherboard ecosystem is also robust, offering multiple storage options as well as faster Ethernet options. Unfortunately the Core i5-8400 suffers the same fate as the Intel processor recommended above: it can be hard to find any stock. When it does get in stock, it easily becomes a viable option.
The $700 Gaming PC
Now for a processor that seems more widely available: The Intel Core i3-8100. This seems to be one of the jewels of Intel's latest launch: here is a quad-core, quad-thread (4C/4T) processor at 3.6 GHz with an MSRP of $117, currently retailing for around $140, but the equivalent processor previous generation would have cost $190-$240. In the last generation, the 4C/4T parts was seen as the smart options for gamers for price/performance - so with a 'price cut' on the new generation, that perception of that base-line can hit a new wave of gamers and enthusiasts. Our benchmarks show good results, and the i3-8100 should end up a lot of good mid-range builds.
AMD's equivalent here is the Ryzen 3 1300X, which is also a quad core processor. The frequency is roughly the same as the Intel part and the motherboard ecosystem should be cheaper with the B350 motherboard range, although Intel has an IPC advantage and does not have any cross-core latency edge-case concerns. To get the best out of the Ryzen 3 1300X, users might have to look at overclocking either with the pretty reasonable AMD bundled coolers or spending the extra saved on the motherboard for a better CPU cooler. Again, AMD has a slight advantage here as the 1300X is more widely available at this time, although it would be hard not to point at the i3-8100 when it is found in stock.
Intel Pentium G4560 ($80)
At this price point, the biggest focus is usually on the graphics card to the exclusion of (almost) everything else: the budget only allows for a mechanical hard drive, the power supply is going to be budget, and even 8GB of memory for ~$60-80 is going to cut into the budget and users might want to go down to single channel memory if they want to plump for a graphics card as powerful as the GTX 1060 or RX 570.
Buy Intel Pentium G4560 on Amazon.com
Although at this price Intel has you covered. For the last generation, the Pentium processor line was upgraded to give the parts hyperthreading – or in essence a Core i3-7320 for almost half the price. The lowest Pentium on that list is the G4560, which despite being 'low' still offers 3.5 GHz on all the threads all the time, matching some of the really nice Core i3-7000 series parts and blowing them out of the water on performance per dollar. Intel officially lists the G4560 as $64 MSRP, however due to demand most retailers sell these at a premium, from $70 to $80. At this price it is still worth it, followed by a cheap 100-series or 200-series motherboard.
The $300 Gaming Potato with Integrated Graphics
AMD A8-9600 ($71)
For enthusiasts that have been building PCs for a number of years, it can sometimes be hard to re-image the brain to build for a low budget. At this price point the other options for gaming include consoles or last-gen consoles, so the idea here is to enable a user to do as much as possible for as little as possible. For gaming that is particularly difficult, as reasonably powerful discrete graphics cards start north of $100. Both AMD and Intel have chased after this price bracket with their integrated graphics solutions: pairing a CPU and GPU on the same piece of silicon and enabling both. Aside from a very expensive lunge from Intel a couple of years ago, AMD has been leading this space.
The latest generation of parts, called the Bristol Ridge family, use AMD's latest AM4 socket but the previous generation architecture. Nonetheless, they still offer the best integrated gaming performance currently available, and offer an upgrade path into a full Ryzen CPU and discrete GPU later on without replacing the motherboard or memory.
Buy AMD A8-9600 on Amazon.com
For this segment, we've chosen the A8-9600 for $71. This part has a good balance in cost and performance at 384 SPs at 900 MHz, whereas the next step ups cost +$20 (384 SPs at 1029 MHz) and $40 (512 SPs at 1108 MHz). It will attack most of the popular eSports titles at low-to-medium settings at 1080p, although the newest games might have to take a step down to 720p. A big recommendation with a system like this is to equip it with a dual channel memory kit, such as a 2x4GB kit, (and in the right slots, refer to the motherboard manual) to get the best gaming performance. With DDR4 costs being relatively high right now, it becomes a sizeable chunk of a new build.
One benefit to a system like this is what integrated graphics will be available in the future. This leads us onto…
The Ones To Watch
AMD Ryzen APUs with Vega Graphics (2018)
In the first half of 2018, hopefully earlier rather than later, we are expecting AMD to release the next generation of processors with integrated graphics (APUs). AMD has already announced the equivalent mobile processors, known as Ryzen Mobile with Vega Graphics, for upcoming laptops, so it becomes a waiting game as to when the parts get packaged for desktop use.
These new APUs will have AMD's new Zen cores, up to four of them, and feature 8 or 10 compute units (512 SPs and 640 SPs) of the latest Vega graphics design, connected through the new Infinity Fabric that AMD is using across all of its products from laptops to graphics to gaming to workstations and to servers. With the laptop versions of the processors expected to help AMD regain laptop market share, it is also expected that the desktop versions should hit the sub-$200 market for processors with integrated graphics quite well also.
One of the laptop processors already announced is the Ryzen 5 2500U, a quad core APU with Vega 8 graphics. An equivalent system would put together a Ryzen 3 CPU and an RX 550 discrete graphics card, which combined is almost $200. It would be highly likely that AMD's new desktop APUs will go after 35W and 65W TDP designs (which means higher base frequencies than the laptop parts), and potentially 95W TDP.
Intel Processors with Radeon Graphics (2018)
The announcement this week that Intel is going to start creating CPU packages using H-series mobile processors, custom AMD Radeon graphics chips and HBM2 memory has been a whirlwind of trying to understand what it all means. These new parts, where Intel literally buys the chips from AMD's semi-custom division, uses Intel's new EMIB chip-to-chip communication technology between the GPU and HBM2. All three chips end up in a single package, with the aim to provide a reduced motherboard area to increase the battery in premium notebooks.
This article is almost exclusively about desktop parts and not mobile parts, so why bring it up at all? Depending on how well the integration of the Radeon Graphics with Intel's processor cores goes, there's an outside chance it might come to desktop. One of the theories is that Apple systems want better integrated graphics and smaller motherboard sizes, allowing for better battery life. Intel originally created Crystalwell based processors with 128MB of eDRAM to do this, and Apple was the main customer. The first generation eventually came in socketed form for consumers, albeit briefly, and the second generation was limited to mobile only.
Broadwell CRB from June 2013
Back when Intel launched that first generation part for the mobile sector first, they supplied Anand with one of their CRBs: a desktop sized chassis with a consumer reference board housing one of the first Crystalwell products. We need to speak to a good number of people, but the goal is to get something similar when this new product (which doesn't have a proper name yet) will come to market.
The AnandTech 2017 CPU Coverage
Our big CPU reviews for 2017 have covered all the launches so far, and are well worth a read.
AnandTech 2017 CPU Coverage
January - Core i7-7700K
February - Core i3-7350K
March Ryzen 7 1800X
Ryzen 7 1700X -
April Ryzen 5 1600X
Ryzen 5 1400 -
May - -
June - Core i9-7900X
Core i7-7820X
July Ryzen 3 1300X
Ryzen 3 1200 Core i7-7740X
August Threadripper 1950X
Threadripper 1920X -
September - Core i9-7980X
October - Core i7-8700K
All of our processor benchmarks can be found in Bench, our database.
http://anandtech.com/Bench
Future Consumer
Coverage Threadripper 1900X*
Bristol Ridge* Core i7-8700
Core i5-8600K*
Core i3-8100*
Core i9-7940X*
Coverage EPYC 7601
EPYC 7551P
EPYC 7351P Xeon W-2155
Xeon Gold 6154
Denverton C3958
Xeon E3-1200 v6*
*If any Intel or AMD product managers want to get in contact to help sample these, please sent an email.
One of the overriding issues so far this year worth mentioning is platform maturity. With new platforms come new challenges, and as far as we understand, extreme deadlines. Motherboard manufacturers, for both AMD and Intel, have had to rush through some of the production of their initial motherboards at launch. When we reviewed Ryzen 7 and Kaby Lake-X, both of those reviews did not have gaming results due to erroneous results on young hardware. At this point we expect both platforms to be running smoothly, but as an indication that this year is about time to market, it's a big one to note for early adopters (and reviewers that end up wanting to throw products out a window, at least to begin with).
Links to Other Guides
Best CPUs for Gaming: this article
Best CPUs for Workstations:2017
Best SSDs: Current
Best Laptops: Current


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The Covid-19 pandemic saw a mindset shift for investors when it came to renewable energy and the transition to "Net Zero".
That's because many companies, worldwide, started taking action to improve their energy mix. Naturally, this meant garnering more of its power from renewable sources.
One of the companies that realised this opportunity during the pandemic was Sembcorp Industries Limited (SGX: U96).
The local power provider spun off from Sembcorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51) via a demerger in 2020 and is now focused solely on transitioning its power portfolio from "brown to green".
Earlier this year, Sembcorp Industries agreed to sell two large coal-fired power plants it owns in India.
Now, over the past week, Sembcorp Industries has agreed to buy two more renewable energy assets. Here's what Singapore investors need to know about Sembcorp Industries' latest buys.
Clean energy in China and India
Last Friday (11 November) and then two days later on Sunday (13 November), Sembcorp Industries announced two acquisitions in quick succession.
The first deal was a plan to buy 795 megawatts (MW) of solar assets in China while the second was 583 MW of solar and wind assets in India.
With regards to the China deal, Sembcorp Industries' 49%-owned joint venture (JV) Beijing Energy Sembcorp will acquire 100% equity interests in three solar projects, located in Hebei.
These have a total gross generating capacity of 795 MW and will be purchased from BEI Energy Development.
The initial consideration is an upfront tranche of RMB 15 million (S$3 million) while there'll be a future capital injection of up to RMB 1.15 billion if BEI Energy's application to enter the China renewable subsidy catalogue is approved.
That deal structure provides Sembcorp Industries with a downside protection mechanism in the (unlikely) event that the application isn't approved.
BEI Energy's assets are contracted to State Grid Corporation of China – a large state-owned electric utility and grid operator.
Cash flows from the assets come from 3-5 year power purchase agreements (PPAs), providing strong visibility of revenue.
Buying India's Vector Energy
The second deal will see Sembcorp Industries' fully-owned subsidiary – Sembcorp Green Infra – acquire a 100% equity interest in Vector Green Energy, an independent power producer in India, for INR 27.8 billion (S$474 million).
Vector Green Energy is currently owned by Global Infrastructure Partners via its India Infrastructure Fund II.
Vector Green's power portfolio consists of 495 M of solar and 24 MW of wind capacity already in operation, along with a further 64 MW of solar capacity that is under development.
Sembcorp Industries' current India portfolio is split between 1,958 MW of wind and 496 MW of solar. This deal will help strengthen its solar portfolio in India to offset any low-wind seasons.
In terms of the energy assets' customers, they're contracted out on long-term PPAs with an average of 19 years remaining.
Sembcorp Industries 10 GW clean energy target could be revised
After these two deals close, with both expected to be completed in Q1 2023, Sembcorp Industries' renewable energy capacity will increase to 8.5 GW.
Both deals are expected to be accretive to earnings. It also takes Sembcorp Industries that much closer to its stated 10 GW target of installed renewable energy capacity by 2025.
At the company's current pace of acquisition, that target may need to be revised at some point next year.
After a 52% surge in its share price so far in 2022, but still around 12% off its 52-week high, Sembcorp Industries looks like it will continue to position itself for growth in the renewable energy sector.
Disclaimer: ProsperUs Head of Content & Investment Lead Tim Phillips owns shares of Sembcorp Industries Limited.
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ATF throwing Adventure Outdoors under the bus
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft
"The entire pro-gun community is aware of Mayor Bloomberg of New York City�s lawsuit against licensed FFLs - the lawsuit that was a result of his sending private investigators to their stores to break the law and then try and sue them for it." ...
"The ATF throwing Adventure Outdoors under the bus pertains to the original case, which is still being fought in court. Earlier in the year, Adventure Outdoors had subpoenaed three BATFE agents to be deposed in regards to the case pending against Adventure Outdoors. After the initial subpoenas were withdrawn, the BATFE 'agreed' to allow the agents to be deposed in written question - now BATFE is going back on that agreement and has filed motions to exempt the agents from their written depositions." ...
H/t to David Codrea.
Who's the real criminal - Gun owner or BATFE?
"The Second Amendment very clearly recognizes our God-given right to own firearms without infringement. Yet, many in the government, media, and education system have made careers out of trampling on this right. The government has ignored the Second Amendment, enacted anti-gun legislation, and even jailed innocent people for decades without repercussion. Even as the Supreme Court is debating the issue, the government is still wreaking havoc on American citizens."
"David Olofson, a Wisconsin gun owner, was convicted for transferring a machine gun. In actuality, Mr. Olofson owns a perfectly legal, AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. ..." ...
Wal-Mart to Videotape Gun Buyers
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Website: HTTP://WWW.RPA-PAC.ORG
"Is America's largest retailer getting out of the hunting and fishing business?"
"If not, it certainly seems to be cutting back." ...
"... Nor is the company turning its back on hunters, they added."
"But recently, Wal-Mart joined New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at a gathering of his group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, to announce a series of changes to the way the company handles firearm transactions."
"In the future, firearm purchases at Wal-Mart will involve a video record of the sale, which the store will keep on file as a database of gun buyers. Employees also will be given the discretion to deny firearms sales to anyone who's had a firearm traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for any reason." ...
MAS-49/56: End of an Era.
"In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, France was blessed with a creative and prolific arms industry, as forward-thinking as any in the world. Two French innovations alone completely changed the nature of land warfare. First was the hydraulically-buffered quick-firing field piece... The second innovation was just as significant."
"Experimenting with new types of propellant yielded a high-energy powder that burned cleanly, without the barrel fouling and attendant white smoke clouds generated by the black powder that had been used in guns for the last half-millennium. The new powder allowed much higher velocities, especially from the smaller-diameter bullets made possible by the lack of fouling ..." ...
NY: Albany gun violence task force to update community
"The city's gun violence task force, which released its interim report to the Common Council this week, will hold a public forum on Thursday to update the community on its progress and get input from residents."
"The forum is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Giffen Elementary School."
"The Rev. John Miller, who chairs the task force, said groups have been formed to collect and analyze data, identify prevention methods and 'connect community input with some of the troubles that currently exist.'" ...
The Firearms Column
"While America awaits the decision from the Supreme Court of the United States about whether Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, we'll take advantage of the legal cease-fire to have a closer look at this landmark case."
"By the time the Supreme Court heard District of Columbia v. Heller on March 18, the case had been in the works for six years. It was not initiated by the NRA (National Rifle Association) or the six plaintiffs but by a businessman, lawyer, and private citizen who said he has never owned a gun." ...
IA: Des Moines homeowner corners burglar in garage
"A Des Moines homeowner fired a gun during a burglary this morning but it was only a warning shot."
"Randy Owens, 42, said he fired a shot into an old furnace so the burglar would know he wasn't holding a BB gun. He said he did not shoot at the burglar." ...
"Owens heard a garage alarm about 5:30 a.m. and went to investigate. A side door had been kicked open; it had the outline of a large footprint on it. The lock was broken."
"When he entered his shop, Owens said he noticed someone under one of his tables."
"Police said ... 'He told the suspect to come out and a verbal argument ensued. As they argued Randy stated that he drew his 9 mm handgun. The suspect lunged forward, striking Randy in the forearm with a cane.'" ...
NRA chief stresses common ground with McCain
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National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre says Republican John McCain isn't in lockstep with the group on every issue, but the nation's gun owners aren't "foolish enough" to ignore their common ground.
LaPierre sized up the presidential candidates in an interview Tuesday, a few days before the NRA opens its convention in Louisville. McCain is scheduled to speak to the group Friday.
McCain has voted against a ban on assault-type weapons, but he favors requiring background checks at gun shows. McCain also voted to shield gun-makers and dealers from civil suits.
LaPierre was critical of Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying both are pandering to gun owners by "mouthing pro-Second Amendment words."
Libertarian Barr announces run for president
Submitted by: Anonymous
Former US congressman Bob Barr on Monday announced plans to run for president on the Libertarian Party's ticket, in a move some analysts say could hurt Republican presumptive nominee John McCain.
"My name is Bob Barr and I'm a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America," said the former Republican lawmaker, who played a key role in the congressional impeachment of former president Bill Clinton.
Barr said he was running because there was not "currently or anywhere on the horizon" any candidate who understood the principles of fiscal conservatism and basic principles on which he said America was founded.
"Former US congressman Bob Barr on Monday announced plans to run for president on the Libertarian Party's ticket, in a move some analysts say could hurt Republican presumptive nominee John McCain."
"'My name is Bob Barr and I'm a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America,' said the former Republican lawmaker ..."
"Barr said he was running because there was not 'currently or anywhere on the horizon' any candidate who understood the principles of fiscal conservatism and basic principles on which he said America was founded." ...
McCain To Speak At Same Event As Violent Nugent
"Although mostly hidden by his campaign ... Sen. John McCain will participate in the 137th NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky--in the same event as right-wing pundit Ted Nugent." ...
"Why might McCain be reluctant to have himself officially listed on the NRA's event? The answer may well be his concern about being associated with Nugent who, less than one year ago, held up two machine guns at a concert and ... threatened the lives of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Diane Feinstein, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Barack Obama." ...
Submitter's Note: Mr. Feldman has kindly provided the link which shows nothing of the sort. Ted told each of those individuals to perform sexual activities not condoned in the Bible, but I heard no threats.
CA: Ose points to House record to back his conservative credentials
"During his six years in the House representing the 3rd Congressional District, former Rep. Doug Ose's votes on such issues as abortion, guns, spending and immigration placed him squarely on the moderate end of the Republican caucus."
"Now ... Ose's record is rearing up as his biggest hurdle as he competes against state Sen. Tom McClintock, a champion of the far right, for the Republican nomination in a neighboring district ... that is arguably the most conservative in the state."
"Ose's record is Issue No. 1 for McClintock, who cites his voting record in denouncing him as a liberal." ...
"Ose's votes ... tend to back the Second Amendment but are more apt to tolerate local controls to combat rising big-city death tolls." ...
OH: Give an hour or two and advance our gun rights
"Last week I received a call from Brian, a campaign aid for Ohio Senate candidate Jim Hughes (http://www.vote4hughes.com/). His staff and a bunch of volunteers were getting together again Saturday May 10 to commence another 'lit drop' [literature drop] in the Hilliard neighborhoods."
"I had participated in an earlier lit drop a couple weeks ago, and found it to be a very worthwhile experience. So of course I said I'd do it again!"
"Here's how it works:"
"Show up at the designated time and place ... and look for a couple dozen of people dressed in Hughes for State Senate (or your pro-gun candidate) tees. They'll be ... chatting, munching Krispy Kreme donuts and sipping the coffee provided by the campaign." ...
PA: Why do we buy the NRA's line?
"Mayor Nutter and Gov. Rendell are taking aim and don't plan to let up."
"In the aftermath of the cold-blooded killing of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski with a semiautomatic weapon, they made a written appeal to lawmakers in Harrisburg last week."
"Man up - now."
"Stand up for the state's law enforcement officers and ban the possession, manufacture, use and importation of assault weapons."
"This latest action comes on the heels of the mayor, no doubt sick and tired of being sick and tired of Harrisburg's failure to get any traction on gun control, signing five new gun laws that were to take effect immediately."
"He had to realize that his defiant stroke of the pen would amount to nothing more than shooting blanks." ...
IL: Capitol Commentary
Submitted by: todd vandermyde
Website: http://isra.org
"'5/10/08 � Senate Bill 1007 which bans the sale, manufacture and possession of any large capacity ammunition magazine is scheduled to be debated in the Illinois House of Representatives in the next several weeks. Now is the time to call your State Representative and urge them to support this common sense legislation to reduce gun violence in Illinois.' � Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
"That kinda tells us where we will be and what will be taking place over the next couple of weeks. We have been hearing rumblings that they may try and bring back SB-1007. We know from past votes they are short of the 60 they need and we plan on making them shorter." ...
Indiana Politics. [N.Y. Times, Aug. 19, 1864]
Submitted by: GunShowOnTheNet.com
Website: http://GunShowOnTheNet.com/
"...Gov. Morton's Reply to a Treasonable Democratic Address..."
"...Should its recommendations be followed, men belonging to other political organizations will feel their personal and political safety endangered, and would be driven for purposes of self-defense to resort to similar measures. Thus we should have two or more political parties in the State, armed and organized . . . The constitutional right of the people to bear arms for their own defense has not been and will not be infringed. But this does not cover the case or justify the formation of military organizations to hold the constituted authorities in check under the pretence that they are about to commit illegal or unconstitutional acts*..."
MO: Fordland police officer charged with raping 14-year-old
"A Fordland reserve police officer has been suspended from duty after being charged with forcible rape of a 14-year-old girl."
"Earl Leon Thompson ... is accused of having sex with the girl on two occasions ..."
"During one incident, Thompson allegedly ripped off the girl�s clothes and had sex with after she 'asked him to stop and he wouldn't stop,' ..."
"The alleged rape came to light May 7 ..."
"The stepfather told Deputy John Everett he became concerned after seeing a cell phone text message to the girl that said 'I luv you' and had a heart next to the message."
"He questioned the girl, who broke down in tears and said she and Thompson 'went all the way,' ..." ...
FL: Man Ticketed For Wearing Speedo On Beach
Bob Hezzelwood said he has been visiting Bonita Beach for years and no one has bothered or complained about his bathing suit.
However, recently, a Lee County sheriff's deputy gave Hezzelwood a ticket for trespass and told him not to return to the beach.
A judge tossed out the case.
However, Hezzelwood said he plans to sue the sheriff's department, saying his civil rights were violated.
"It frightens me and embarrasses me to go public with it. But by the same token, I don't know what else to do," Hezzelwood told The Naples News. "I'm a civilian out here who�s been picked on by a little bully deputy and that�s wrong. It�s just wrong."
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Canada: Crash raises questions on whether cops convicted of drunk driving can stay on job
"A fiery crash allegedly involving an off-duty Alberta policeman is raising questions about whether officers should be allowed to keep their jobs if they are convicted of impaired driving."
"Const. Douglas Kurtis Brown ... was charged Sunday after a collision in which a teen was severely burned when the truck he was driving was broadsided by a car and burst into flames. The teen also broke a collarbone ..."
"Brown is accused of impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing bodily harm and driving with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit."
"Edmonton Police Chief Mike Boyd said Monday that officers who are convicted of drunk driving do not necessarily lose their jobs." ...
You must understand, therefore, that there are two ways of fighting: by law or by force. The first way is natural to men, and the second to beasts. But as the first way often proves inadequate one must have recourse to the second. � Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Prince."


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Home Edu Business News Baroness Usha Prashar appointed as the Chair of FICCI UK Council
Baroness Usha Prashar appointed as the Chair of FICCI UK Council
London: The Rt Hon The Baroness Usha Prashar of Runnymede CBE is appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the FICCI UK Council for a period of two years.
Baroness Prashar is a crossbench member of the House of Lords and served on the European Union Select Committee and chaired its Sub-Committee on Home Affairs. She was also a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Select Committee on Economic Regulation.
Mr Sandip Somany, President, FICCI said, "We are honoured and privileged that Baroness Prashar has accepted our invitation to become its inaugural Chairperson. I am sure under her leadership FICCI UK will play a vital role in the India-UK trade and investment initiatives."
Baroness Prashar said, "I am honoured to be the inaugural Chairperson of FICCI?s UK Council. I look forward to helping to increase FICCI?s influence and impact throughout the UK. As a strong membership organisation with regional presence and prominent visibility, FICCI is in a very strong position to support businesses, represent their interests and make a real contribution to India-UK trade and commerce relations."
Baroness Prashar made the announcement for forming Sectoral Committees for sectors like Financial Services, Startups & Innovation, Education, Healthcare amongst others.
Mr Lok Nath Mishra, MD & CEO, ICICI Bank UK Plc has consented to be the Chair for the Sectoral Committee on Financial Services and Mr Alpesh Patel, Managing Director, Praefinium Group has agreed to Chair the Startup & Innovation Sector committee.
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is the largest and oldest apex business organisation in India. A non-government, not-for-profit organisation, FICCI is the voice of India's business and industry.
Established in 2005, FICCI's United Kingdom office is working towards optimally utilizing the emerging economic paradigms in UK to enhance the chamber's reach and depth and to seek opportunities for the Indian industry. FICCI UK has a solid institutional framework backing it.
The appointment of the Chairperson and extension of the Council also reinstates FICCI's commitment to the India-UK economic engagement, in any Brexit scenario, as it will unlock huge bilateral opportunities.
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