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There are always a lot of questions on the table at any NASCAR event and this week's contest at Kansas Speedway was no exception.
The first question on everyone's list was the newly paved racing surface. Usually, the first event on a new surface does not present a lot of side-by-side racing but that wasn't the case this weekend. The hard racing produced 14 cautions and a lot of extra work for the pit crews.
The most obvious was with the No. 17 team of race winner Matt Kenseth as he crashed early in the event but went on to victory.
"I flat-sided it pretty bad," said Kenseth of his encounter with the outside wall. "It ended up working in our favor. They fixed the body as good as it was when we started, and we had to take less gas in that last pit stop, and the pit crew put me out front."
Danica Patrick made another Cup Series start in preparation for running the full Cup schedule next season. She has been pushed around a lot this season in her Cup competitors, posing the question as to when she would stand up for herself. That question was answered on Lap 156 when she unsuccessfully tried to take out Landon Cassill.
"The bummer here is that I'm out of the race and he's not," said Patrick after crashing her car in the attempt.
Her efforts caught the attention of some drivers that she might finally be fed up with the pushing and shoving that she has received. However, Cassill made the observation that she has a little more learning to do before her efforts carry a lot of weight.
"Rule No. 1 is to learn how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself," commented Cassill on his car radio after the encounter.
AJ Allmendinger, who was in his second ride in James Finch's No. 51 car, had some unanswered questions at the start of the day that involved his future at the Cup Series level. He left with some answers even after a failed right front tire sent him into the wall and relegated another good run into a 35th-place finish.
"The guys really made me feel like they wanted me here and were excited to have me at the race track," said Allmendinger. "That, for me, did more than anything, even more than driving the race car."
Then finally, there was the question of who is going to take control of this Chase event. Jimmie Johnson made a statement that even a crash was not going to take his title hopes away.
"All-in-all, a good day, but it could have been a lot better," said Johnson regarding his wreck. "I think we could have been in Victory Lane and stretched some points on these guys."
Brad Keselowski didn't have a good day either and as we leave Kansas, the point question will have to follow us to Martinsville next week. I'm sure that more questions will arise that need answering - and we'll be there to report the answers.
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The Wait Is Over: The Oreo Cookie Separation Gun Is Finally Here
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for Oreo cookies, especially the Double Stuff ones. What Oreo lover has not separated the top of the cookie to get right to the cream center...awesome! If you have ever hoped for a device to separate an Oreo cookie so you wouldn't have to waste the millisecond it takes to accomplish this, your wait is over.

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Jesse James Involved in New Custody Battle with Ex-Wife
Janine Lindermulder is attempting to use James' wild ways to win the fight.
-Carolyn French
Jesse James' ex-wife Janine Lindermulder may have a shot at regaining custody of her 6-year-old daughter Sunny now that the motorcycle tycoon's home life is a shambles.
The onetime porn star, who is currently staying in a halfway house after being convicted of tax evasion, has filed legal papers in the case involving her daughter in the hopes of getting her back.
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Lindermulder used to believe that obtaining partial custody of Sunny wasn't even in the realm of possibility, but since James' alleged Nazi-praising mistress Michelle "Bombshell" McGee has hit the scene it's an entirely different story.
Lawyers for Lindermulder are aiming to use her June 14 court date to argue her case. (The New York Post)
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KENT, Ohio (AP) -- Police in one Ohio college town say they're ready in case a street party gets out of hand again.
Students near the Kent State University campus are organizing another all-day party on Saturday.
This comes after police in Kent arrested over 30 people last Saturday after the first College Fest party ended. Most of the people arrested weren't Kent State students.
WKYC in Cleveland (http://on.wkyc.com/IwLU0J ) reports that police in riot gear used tear gas and pepper spray to break up a crowd showering them with bottles and debris.
Kent Police Chief Michelle says bigger parties are being planned for this weekend.
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So when she's found dead in her home, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks. Outside the crime scene, Nixon Nash and his television crew have set up shop. Nash is the charismatic host of a hit reality show called "Vigilante TV," dedicated to beating the cops at their own game: solving murders before they can. Now he has the murder of Lita Mendez in his sights. He presents the detectives with a choice: either join his team, or prepare for a public takedown. But Scully knows that Nash isn't the folk-hero he seems. He will do anything in the name of self-promotion. If a detective got in his way, would he be prepared to kill? In this new novel, Scully will have to risk everything save himself and the job he loves"-- Provided by publisher. "Inspired by true events, this haunting thriller follows Homicide Detective Souder and his partner, Detective Heigh as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields.' Though the fields are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner's warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl, Anne, goes missing the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl's life."-back cover Rated R Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. 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An old saying in professional kitchens is, ''You can tell a good pastry chef by how cold their hands are'' - they don't melt the butter when they rub it in with their fingers. Even better is the cold, quick steel blade of the food processor - a few pushes of the pulse button brings most simple pastries together.
Then just shape it into a ball, cover it in plastic wrap and rest in the fridge for at least an hour. Of course, it's fine to use bought pastry, but making your own should only take about 15 minutes. If you do it in the morning before work, when you get home it will be well-rested and ready to create a quiche or pie shell. Once you master the basics, try different kinds of pastry, such as the olive oil version for this Swiss chard pie recipe.
175g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
Pinch of salt
75g butter, plus extra for greasing
Sift flour together with salt in a large bowl. Chop butter into small cubes and place with the flour into a food processor bowl. Pulse mixture until a soft, breadcrumb-like texture is achieved. Leave the processor running and add a small amount of chilled water, just enough to make the crumb mixture come together to form a firm dough ball. Remove from food processor, shape into a round ball, cover with plastic wrap, then rest in the fridge for an hour or until needed.
This pastry can be used for many savoury dishes including quiches, tarts and pies.
Makes enough to line a 22-centimetre flan mould.
200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup cold water
15 medium to large chard leaves, washed and dried
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 onion, finely diced
150g mozzarella cheese, cut into 2cm dice
1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
1 egg
Salt and pepper
1 large sweet potato, peeled and cut into 3cm dice
To make pastry, add flour and salt to food processor and blend briefly. Pour olive oil into a small jug, then add water and mix. With food processor running, pour oil and water into flour. Keep processing until dough forms a ball. Lightly dust workbench with flour and knead dough for about a minute. Place dough in a large bowl, cover with a dry tea towel and leave for 1 hour to rest at room temperature.
Pre-heat oven to 200C. For filling, remove leaves from chard stalks and finely chop stalks. Rinse leaves and chop, then place in a bowl with stalks. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a heavy-based saucepan, add onion and cook for 5 minutes on a medium heat. Add chard and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove from saucepan and cool to room temperature. Add mozzarella, parsley and egg, and season. Boil sweet potato until tender, add to mixture.
Brush a flat baking tray with oil. Roll out two-thirds of the pastry into a large circle and lift onto tray. Place filling onto pastry, leaving about 5 centimetres around the edge. Roll out remaining pastry for top of pie. Place over filling and squeeze together edges to seal the pie. Prick the top with a fork and brush with oil. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
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A survey commissioned by SpringHill Suites by Marriott asked 1,048 adult Americans across the nation what they would give up in exchange for a hotel discount.
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Now, when asked about social media, only 43 percent would stop logging on websites like Facebook or Twitter for the discount. That could be because most of those adults said they liked seeing people "like" or comment on their vacation photos and statuses.
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AMD's B3 Stepping Phenom Previewed, TLB Hardware Fix Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2008 12:00 AM EST
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eok - Thursday, March 20, 2008 - linkThe article, while great news, still leaves me guessing at what they actually tested and how.
They say they got their hands on a 2.2ghz B3. The CPUZ data confirms that. But in the final "extreme" test, they show the B3 @ 2.3ghz. So, they overclocked?? Via unlocked multiplier or by increasing the FSB??? Reply
eye smite - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - linkI don't typically read your site anymore as the articles since phenom launch, particularly the phenom launch article reads more like a rant than a review. Every AMD article reads the same, it's a good cpu but........and then this laundry list of issues and why you see them as critical or distasteful and so on. Why the hell can't you just do a straight forward review based on the facts and leave the colorful commentary for the political videos on youtube? You lot suffer from some idiotic perception issues. Reply
Narg - Friday, March 14, 2008 - linkPersonally I think the problem lies within the 3 levels used. When I first read the Phenom specs, I was sad to see there were 3 levels of cache. The complexity that adds to a processor is exponential! I would have been far more happy to see a single L2 cache between all processors of much larger size and better access. I can't imagine why they opted for 3 levels. Seems to be a hurried solution to get the Phenom to market, since so many of the single core chips AMD has built in the past have 3 levels of cache, which of course helped those chips. They need to design an effective 2 level cache only chip. Reply
BernardP - Friday, March 14, 2008 - linkAbout the article, I am thankful for the most complete and understandable explanation of the TLB error and fixes I have seen since Phenom was released. Reply
bradley - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkWe finally have more concrete instances of the bug being induced and documented. Though maybe we have different opinions of what constitutes a rare bug. If it took AMD to inform us, perhaps they are fairly rare instance. In hindsight, the coverage on the TLB issue does appear vastly disproportionate to the actual threat itself. Reply
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkOn the desktop, yes. My understanding is that it's a huge issue with the Opterons, which are more likely to be used in situations where the bug crops up (VMWare, etc.) It also explains why you still can't buy a quad-core AMD server from HP, Dell, etc. Reply
Griswold - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - linkIts not so much of an issue with opterons if you use a unix/linux derivate and apply AMDs own kernel patch which solves the problem with almost zero performance loss (it doesnt just disable the TLB like the BIOS option does). Windows Servers on the other hand...
Still, understandable that some vendors just stay away from it until B3. Reply
JumpingJack - Friday, March 14, 2008 - linkhttp://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white...">http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content...e/white_...
As most have stated, errata are a fact of life for every CPU, the fact that Intel or AMD publish errata is because the found something so obscure, the typical quality assurance testing (which must be rigorous and thorough) never expressed the bug. The occurence so rare that the problems it may cause would likely go unnoticed to the average user. This is fine for DT, a crash or lock up would probably result in a few choice, colorful words with regard to Microsoft and they reboot and on their way.
In the enterprise space, though, uptime is everything, and more importantly the sanctity of the data.... from AMD's own publication on Errata 298 ...
" One or more of the following events may occur:
• Machine check for an L3 protocol error. The MC4 status register (MSR 0000_0410) will be
equal to B2000000_000B0C0F or BA000000_000B0C0F. The MC4 address register (MSR
0000_0412) will be equal to 26h.
• Loss of coherency on a cache line containing a page translation table entry.
• Data corruption. "
It is last possibility that most likely resulted in AMDs decision to hold off service the mainstream server market and they made the absolute right decision doing so...
bradley - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkYes, that goes without saying. I guess most assumed the same held true for Phenom as Barcelona, when taking the TLB errata into consideration. And there wasn't one clear voice to dissent or say otherwise, which is unfortunate. For whatever reason Intel's own C2D TLB bug didn't receive nearly as much press, which could also cause system instability. Every chip has bugs, but only when documented does it become errata and revised. Reply
larson0699 - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkSPEC CPU 2006 in Vista x64 may be real world for enough to warrant the fix (though IMO it should have been right the first time), but it's really not that common.
Only labrats and enthusiasts run benchmarks (but at least they have my respect), and only complete tools run the version of an already heavy OS that further bottlenecks most of today's apps. As a tech, I have no sympathy for anyone who chooses to run down MS's path and patronize their every mistake--yes, it may be a hasty opinion, but it is backed by common sense. There is nothing XP or an Xbox 360 cannot do better.
Anyway... *sigh*
High fives to Anand for another awesome in-depth review, for making me one article smarter, and to AMD for more practical results as of late.
P.S. These guys run their own show--not plagiarize others. Please cite your evidence to them directly instead of FUD the forums. Reply
Griswold - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - linkYou're a tech? Is that what they call callcenter jobs at Dell nowadays?
Take your uneducated opionion and stick it where the sun doesnt shine, please. Reply
whatthehey - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkI believe the above "you stole this" comment is just spam. So just ignore it.
As for the x64 and SPEC CPU stuff... x64 is becoming relevant, as 2GB PCs are common and 4GB setups are increasingly popular. The problem is, you can only fully realize the use of 4GB (or more) RAM if you run a 64-bit OS. Now we just need more 64-bit apps (Photoshop, I'm looking at you!) I'm personally running a Q6600 with 2x2GB and Vista 64-bit, and have no complaints other than the lack of 64-bit applications (not games - applications). And don't even think about bringing Xbox 360 into the picture... last I checked, you couldn't run Photoshop, Office, or any other real business application on an Xbox 360.
Regarding the TLB errata, we have at least two confirmed ways of causing this errata to rear its ugly head. Having done plenty of system testing, I can state that there are infinitely potential operations a CPU might be asked to perform. Multitasking in particular throws a wrench into the gears, because you can never test all the potential multitasking scenarios.
With two cases where the TLB bug comes up, you can be sure there are more. They may be rare -now- but we don't know what will happen going forward. Personally, I don't want a system where any time I experience a crash, I'm left to wonder, "Was that something wrong with the OS or application, or was that just the TLB error popping up in some new way?"
This is the AMD equivalent of the FDIV error Intel had back in the early Pentium days; unfortunately, the workaround has a far greater impact on performance. If you want to take a chance on the TLB error never affecting your system, you're welcome to do so. If that's the case, however, I'm wondering what you use your system for that makes quad-core even necessary. Reply
Darkness - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkAMDPhenom if you are going to write a review please do not cheat.
This review was just copied and pasted from WWW.IMB.COM/UK.
We would like GENUINE reviews written by some one who has actualy tested this range.
You have not tested this personaly.
Please do not say you have as well all know you have not.
Please people the Phenom range is buggy I would not buy it untill AMD has sorted out these bugs.
I have read up on this range on many sites and all reviews say it is buggy and no anount of patches and updates are going to solve the problems for you.
Please wait before you decide to buy? Reply
stmok - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkDarkness if you're going to write feedback, please do not conduct fraud related activities.
www.imb.com is a bank located in California. Reply
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkLOL. Not even a valid site. What a dipsh!t. Reply
nomagic - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkIs this supposed to be some kind of joke? Reply
vijay333 - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkdammit, who disabled the moron filter to the internet again?
murphyslabrat - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkIf this was Dailytech, I would soooooo rate you up! Reply
fitten - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkAny news on if they fixed the "Core2" problem? Reply
Brian23 - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkI really wish you would do a clock for clock comparison of the Phenom to a Core 2 chip. That way we could see how the TLB fix affects which CPU is the prefered one in the lower cost segment of the CPU market. Reply
aguilpa1 - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - linkIt has already been done. There are tons of sites that have already benchmarked the Phenom (errata fix disabled) against the core 2. Fixing the TLB via hardware doesn't magically make it any faster. There is only a slight increase but its not significant.
Redoing all the benchmarks just to prove a slight increase but still lagging behind overall is just beating a dead horse at this point. Reply
crimson117 - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkClock for Clock is an irrelevant metric. So what if 2.0GHZ on a C2D is faster than 2.0GHZ on a Phenom?
Performance per Dollar or Performance per Watt are much more relevant metrics. Reply
backtomac - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkAll those metrics are important. Each individual will have a differing importance on each metric.
flipmode - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkSays you. It's relevant to at least two people here. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - linkActually, I'd say clock-for-clock is one of the worst comparisons to make, short of two things:
1) If available clock speeds are similar (they're not - Core 2 Quad tends to have about a 33% advantage in clock speed)
2) If you want to look purely at the architectural performance
While item two looks interesting at first, you have to remember that architecture and design ultimately have a large impact on clock speed. Which is better: more pipeline stages and higher clock speeds, or fewer pipeline stages with lower clock speeds? If you think you know the answer, go work for Intel or AMD. In truth, there is no correct answer - both approaches have merits, and so we end up with a balancing act.
Pentium 4 (NetBurst) is often regarded as going too far in the way of pipeline stages. Which Prescott certainly had some problems due to the pipeline stage count, Northwood and the current Penryn are actually not that far off in terms of stages. The difference is that Penryn (and Core 2 in general) have made numerous changes to the underlying architecture that makes the pipeline stage count less important now.
Clock for clock, I'd imagine an updated 486 core could compete very well in today's market. That is, IF you could actually make such a core. Just think about it: four pipeline stages, give it some more cache, add in SSE and x64 support, put two or four cores on a chip, and then run that sucker at 3.0GHz! But each stage is the old 486 requires so much work to be done that you could never actually get such a design to scale to 2.0GHz on current technology, let alone 3-4GHz.
So when someone says clock-for-clock comparisons are irrelevant, I largely tend to agree. Why don't we do a "clock-for-clock" comparison of a tractor-trailer diesel engine and a formula one engine? Or a "clock-for-clock" comparison of apples and oranges? The latter takes things to an extreme to illustrate a point, but in the case of the former all you really could end up determining is that large diesel engines and racing engines are vastly different.
K10 and Penryn might not be quite so different, but they are dissimilar in enough ways that the best way to compare them really ends up being a large selection of real world performance metrics. Sure, a 2.4GHz Penryn and a 2.4GHz Phenom X4 gives us some idea of how the designs match up, but at the end of the day what really matters is price, performance, stability/reliability, and power requirements (the latter also impacting noise). Reply
flipmode - Sunday, March 16, 2008 - linkWhether or not there is value in comparing IPC is pretty subjective. I happen to disagree with you - I find it valuable, at least for the time being while both AMD and Intel are offering CPUs at comparable clockspeeds (1.6GHz to 3.2GHz, generally). If AMD's were all less than 2.5GHz and Intel's were all more than 2.5GHz then it would be much less useful info to me to know how they performed at the same clockspeed since they didn't operate at the same clockspeed. But it's not the end of the world if Anandtech chooses not to look at such things. Reply
mindless1 - Friday, March 14, 2008 - linkClock for clock is quite relevant because prices change and people overclock. It doesn't mean someone only picks which has more performance per MHz or which has higher MHz or any such thing, rather within a family it is quite relevant to know how it performs clock per clock then the user does the math to further evaluate other alternatives. Reply
murphyslabrat - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkHowever, it does give a foundation for comparing prices and clockspeeds not explicitly compared. It also helps to evaluate potential gain from overclocking.
You are right, there are better methods. This one (clock-for-clock performance), while not a very valuable metric in and of itself, does allow better extrapolation. Reply
Cygni - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - linkIts called a PREview for a reason. ;) Im sure there will be AT rundown of the chip later. This short blurb is only to tell us about the TLB fix. Reply


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Hey folks,
I've been playing around with Python for a little while now and finding it very enjoyable. But have run into a bit of a problem:
I am working on writing a very basic irc client (planning an irc based game with it's own server and clients at some point in the distant future). Being a lazy sob I have tried getting things to work using irclib or blackbox. All I am aiming for at the moment is sending and receiving a message. I can manage both but have to run two separate scripts in individual terminal windows (on Linux here).
So far I have found mention of subprocesses and just using os.system('python other_script.py &') but while that is all nice and dandy for running the script listening and displaying a message when ever someone messages me, I still haven't found a way to pass info to it – getting it to pass on a message to someone... So at the moment I need to log on with two nicknames in order to send and receive messages... which is hardly ideal. No doubt there is a perfectly logical way to do this with irclib or blackbox (have had a look with help()) but I am completely stumped - as I fear it is outside of my understanding for the time being.
So in short: How do I combine the listen and send script OR get one to pass info to the other?
Anyone got any pointers or tutorials that they know of that might make this all a bit clearer?
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Saint Leo volleyball team started their 2011 Sunshine State Conference campaign with an impressive 3-1 (25-18, 21-25, 25-13, 25-21) victory in action at the NSU Arena on Tuesday evening. The win propels Saint Leo to a 5-3 overall record and a 1-0 conference mark while Nova Southeastern falls to 2-7 with a 0-1 SSC record.
Despite the long midweek travels, the Lions opened up the match with a dominating set one win, opening a gap early and keeping the host Sharks at bay. Set 2 was the only blemish on a rather dominating night by the Green and Gold as a four-point rally by NSU saw the Sharks get to 20 first and knot the match at one.
Sets 3 and 4 were all Lions, as Saint Leo pulled away behind a 10-point push in a rotation that had Corey Ryan at the service line in set 3. The Lions gained the advantage in set 4 and managed to stay ahead of the hosts through 25, claiming the match win.
It was a clinic that was taught by two Saint Leo seniors as Danielle Bletso blasted a game-high 18 kills while hitting .500 and Emily Calderon-Reyes was on her heels with 16 successful attacks.
Posting the double-double for the third time this season, Calderon-Reyes added 11 digs, but Molly Alexander led the way defensively as her libero position was responsible for 27 scoops.
Out-blocking the hosts at nearly a 2-to-1 margin, the Lions slapped back 12 Nova Southeastern attacks with Bletso joining in on six rejections.
Lauren Lewkowicz led the Sharks with 15 kills and 11 digs as the Sharks dropped their fifth-straight match to their opponents from Pasco County.
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AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Drivers Availableby Chris Hansen on 12/4/2012 11:30 PM EST
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H8ff0000 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkOut of curiosity, have there been any driver updates lately that have made improvements to the performance of the 6000 series line of cards? Or did they just drop all work being done on them as soon as the 7000 series was released? It just seems downright impossible that there are no improvements to be made, especially towards new games coming out. Doesn't seem fair. Reply
TrantaLocked - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThe HD 7000 cards were not doing so well compared to Nvidia's GTX 600 series. It was very clear at launch that the GTX 600 cards were a better value by quite a bit, so AMD has been putting in most of its driver development resources into the 7000 series out of necessity. I'm hoping they give some attention to 5000/6000 owners that are seeing bad performance in new games. Reply
aicom - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkWhile that is true that the 7000 series underperformed compared to the 600 series, AMD did push pricing down so it matched up better with its competition on the green side. I don't think it was necessary to pour that much into driver development but it certainly helped them raise their absolute performance.
Also remember that GCN was a totally new architecture for them. The VLIW5 and VLIW4 were very familiar architectures that had been around for many years. As such, the drivers for VLIW architectures were very mature with lots of code able to be shared between generations (with minor tweaks for VLIW4). When GCN came around, they had a much more dynamic computation platform that wasn't as cut and dry as VLIW was which required the optimization work to be done again. Reply
JPForums - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkWish I had seen this before I posted. Other than VLIW4 being a little newer than VLIW5 and therefore a little less familiar I completely agree with this.
I think the reason they put so much into the driver development here is make sure all the kinks are worked out when they merge it into their APUs. AMD's fusion initiative needs a compute oriented GPU architecture that can be merged into the x86 ISA as an extension. They need to know GCN's weaknesses and how to mitigate them before they get there. Reply
krumme - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkPaid or unpaid trolling?
Anyway always a good chance to make the facts clear.
For price parity, AMD cards today beats NV cards by 10-20% across the entire range.
The 5/6000 series was always a better perf/usd than their nv counterpart. The only exception for the last 4 years have been the may juni this year.
Anyone buying a NV card today simply gets far lower performance. No need to deny that.
But nice try. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkHe was talking about at launch, And just because someone says something you don't agree with doesn't make it trolling.
Silly little immature fanboy. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkWell krumme, I'd say you are an unpaid troll.
Your 10-20 po'cent cheaper whine is the usual amd fanboy screed, or rather religious creed.
LOL - fanboy is as fanboy does
Thanks for the usual, although across the entire line is a nice gigantic stretchmark, hope you don't split in two...
BTW - when amd is bought out soon, after the humiliating bankruptcy, do you expect more firesale pricing ? I mean you amd fanboys have destroyed them nearly utterly now, so when they finally die completely will you go whacko and pay 10 cents on the dollar, or will your collective fanboyism drive the prices sky high ?
I'm going with the latter - the only time an amd fanboy will pay top dollar for am and card is when they are dead and buried.
ROFL - yep, excellent prediction if I do say so myself.
Please try to keep the cussing out nVidia to a minimum since we all know all of you will blame them for amd's failure.
fuzznarf - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkTalk about trolls..
AMD isn't going to be bought out anytime soon. They have $1.2 Billion in cash on hand, $1.69 billion in revenue last quarter, and $100 million net profit. Q4 is already shaping up to be even better for the company thanks to PileDriver and Trinity.
As for 'top dollar' the AMD 7970 out performs the NV cards for $30-50 less. and the 7970 Ghz edition does the same to the 680. The only reason AMD 7970 cards cost $540 at launch is because NVidia didn't even have a card available yet. They were 4 months late to the party if you don't count their paper launch. A lot of good that did when you couldn't get them.
and for the record, I own 3 NV cards, and 0 AMD cards. The current line of AMD cards are just better. If i were to buy a top end card today I would get an AMD, not because I'm a fanboi but because they are currently better than the NV offering. Stop being an NV fanboi and pretending you are objective while spewing your misinformation and rumor. Reply
Spunjji - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkCerise is immune to being owned, which is a shame, because that just happened. Reply
JPForums - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkThe architecture of most of the 6000 series (like the 5000 series) is VLIW5. This is an architecture designed for DX9 efficiency. The 69xx cards were redesign with a width of 4 (WLIW4) to make better use of resources in DX10/11 games. Given shader architecture has changed, but the base 5 wide instruction width finds its origins in the 2900 that launched in April 2007. As such VLIW5 is largely a known quantity at this point. Though smaller improvements may yet be seen, I would not expect significant performance improvements in newer DX10+ games. The architecture is simply not as efficient at games built for DX10 and beyond. See AMD's VLIW5 slot utilization numbers:
The 69xx cards, however, were designed to be better utilized by DX10 and newer games. They don't have the inherent inefficiency that the lower end 6000 series has. Furthermore, VLIW4, while similar to VLIW5 on the surface, is a decidedly newer quantity in practice. It is probable that there is some performance that may yet be extracted in newer games with driver updates.
The 7000 series (discretes) are based on GCN. GCN replaces the VLIW SPs with SIMDs. Interestingly, like VLIW4, GCN can process 4 four instructions at once. GCN, however, has a dynamic hardware scheduler and doesn't rely on compiler scheduling the way VLIW did. This and other supporting hardware gives it the ability to work on multiple wavefronts at once. While this makes writing code for GCN easier, it also makes writing drivers a whole new experience. I would guess that there is a fair amount of performance left (relatively speaking) that AMD is hard at work trying to tap. Here's an article on GCN if you are interested:
Also, keep in mind, AMD may improve performance of older parts without calling it out specifically. Improvements made to the VLIW5 based (7000 series) APU graphics may find their way into the VLIW5 based 5000/6000 series parts. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkAfter endless days and hours of eternal tech screwing and hacking, a friend of mine got his no longer to be RMA'ed 6870 going to his personal satisfaction.... yeah it was drivers...
His clone backups couldn't reproduce running correctly.
Endless pure clean reinstalls - no.
15 bios flashes - NOPE.
user/../xml file hacking - NOPE
TRIXXX nope
on and on and on and on......
Finally, going to Sapphire and downloading their 12.8 version ... did the trick...
So the thing is - with amd, it may (probably WILL) take weeks off your life, and the rule of thumb is - don't use the latest driver... unless you have the current top videocard, and if things are working 2d/3d clocks etc no crashes etc - don't upgrade the driver.
That's not hard and fast because it is very true sometimes a driver finally does an amd card good, and you get a nice perf increase....
Hard thing is wasting your life finding it - and all the endless failures in between. Reply
Medallish - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkI love how some people can't install drivers properly, I've exclusively used AMD graphics card since 2008, never have I had driver related issues, I didn't see it before I went with AMD and I haven't seen it after, appearently running an exe file is too hard a task for some people. Reply
Gigaplex - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkI've had driver related issues when trying to upgrade the drivers on a system with an Intel ICH9 chipset. If any USB device was plugged in, the system would BSOD during AMDs hardware detection routines. Worked fine on every other machine I've tried though, go figure. Reply
Spunjji - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkBlah blah blah blah blah. Reply
trajik78 - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkrunning Win8 and tried installing the .net4 drivers...hanging on the HDMI/DP audio driver for me...great. Reply
Medallish - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkWhat's your system? I've installed it on my HTPC(A6 Trinity APU) so far it seems to work fine. Reply
Yorgos - Wednesday, December 05, 2012 - linkSince the X.org's new version in may-april all the amd graphic cards prior to the 5000 series are not supported, yet there was a beta in the summer that was abandoned when amd announced that they drop support for these cards. My concerns are not about improving performance on an old card but supporting the new versions of X.org in those old drivers.
This problem for example does not exist in win 7/Vista/xp no matter what updates decides MS to do on these OSes.
OSS drivers are far from stable and the greatest disadvantage is that they cannot clock the card properly or set the correct working profile(especially on laptops).
Does anyone know if there is going to be that kind of update on those cards by AMD?
Just to get it clear, nobody asks for performance fixes, or anything unrealistic for those card, I am talking about a small tweak on the card to support the latest X. Reply
overzealot - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI'm fairly certain they're not going to be releasing any further updates for those cards.
That's the downside to not having a stable ABI (the reason MS drivers stay functional through updates).
If you want the latest X, you're going to have to go the open source drivers. There's some promising improvements re: power management in the next few kernel releases, if you can wait that long.
If you can't - stick with the last release that does support your card, or switch to a distro using an older X (or build your own). Enterprise-centric distros tend to be fairly conservative with X and other components as well, if support is what you're worried about. Reply
klmccaughey - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - linkIF you are running Ubuntu 12.10 (it being the most acceptable OS for mainstream Linux, arguably) they SHOULD sort this out. They have made a commitment to Open Source and should stand by it.
We need a solution to this. Reply
slatanek - Friday, December 07, 2012 - linkPerformance improvement in this case has been made at the expense of quality. Since I updated the driver (7850) every object in the game has a weird looking "border" shadow around its edges. Looks as if all objects were badly cell shaded. Reply
YEPP - Saturday, December 08, 2012 - linkRecently purchased a HD 7850 and encountered the artifact/flicker bug, observed in Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim. Done some digging and this bug has been plaguing the HD 7000 cards practically since launch. Maybe the HD 7000 cards are broken in DX9 altogether. Surprised there is hardly any fuss about this issue, no tech sites had picked up on this!? Reply
slatanek - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkhey, I get the same flickering issue with my 7850 (no oc) in iRacing which also runs on DX9. there's deffinetly something weird going on. I've tried going back to whql drivers and it's still there, it happens a bit less maybe (or its just me expecting it to happen less ;-) Reply
dstoop - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkMy 7850 did not display this bug on the old 12.6 drivers, and neither did my 7950, but once I upgraded to the latest release drivers (12.10?) i've had this obnoxious issue constantly in GW2. Really hoping they fix it, as 12.6 had an awful bug where the computer would sometimes bluescreen/lock up when the monitor turned itself off to save power. Reply


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PHILADELPHIA – Penn will add four players to its men's soccer team for 2013, James C. Gentle Head Coach of Men's Soccer Rudy Fuller announced this week. The Quakers will be adding two midfielders and two forward to the lineup this September, giving the Red and Blue 26 players all joined together in the pursuit of an Ivy League championship.
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Sam Hayward, F, Dallas, Texas/Highland Park
High School: Played club soccer for Solar under the direction of coach Kevin Smith … Served as team captain … 2011 District and Area champion … Named 2011 Newcomer of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year … Student Council representative.
Personal: Son of Esther and Frank Hayward … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences as an economics major.
Coach Fuller on Hayward: "We have been tracking Sam for the past few years and have always admired his goal-scoring ability. He has been a stalwart for his very successful Solar Academy team and is in the midst of another stellar campaign for them. He makes very intelligent runs through the backline and is always lurking in the defender's blind spot. He takes his chances well and is equally adept at setting his teammates up in and around the penalty area. Above all else, he has a unquenchable thirst for the game and is always watching games to try and pick up little things to add to his arsenal. I expect that he will continue to develop in our program and work hard to have the same impact at Penn that he has had with his Solar team."
Alec Neumann, F, New Hope, Pa./Council Rock North
High School: Played club soccer for PDA under the direction of coach Sam Nellins … Three-year letterwinner and team captain at Council Rock North, playing just three seasons before moving on to club soccer full-time … Two-time Suburban One League champion (2010, 2011) … 2011 PIAA District finalist … 2011 PIAA state semifinalist … Three-time All-Suburban One league selection … First-team All-Suburban One in 2011 … Second-team All-Suburban One in 2010 … Honorable mention All-Suburban One in 2009 … Twice led team in scoring (2010-11) … Named Team MVP in 2011 … Distinguished Honor Roll all eight semesters … Twice named Student of the Month.
Personal: Son of Clare and Mark Neumann … Father played soccer at Lafayette … Older brother, Steve, plays soccer at Georgetown where he has earned All-American honors … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences as a Philosophy, Politics and Economics major.
Coach Fuller on Neumann: "Alec comes from tremendous soccer pedigree. His father starred at Lafayette College and remains the program's all-time leading scorer. His older brother is in the midst of a stellar career of his own at Georgetown University. With that in mind, Alec is well on his way to writing his own chapter in the family's soccer history. He has proven to be an exceptional player himself in his time with his PDA Development Academy club. After scoring 10 and 12 goals over the past two seasons at the U-16 level, he has continued his torrid pace with his top-ranked U-18 PDA squad this year by tallying 16 goals so far this season, which ranks him in the top ten nationally. He has very good feet for a player of his size and strength and is excellent at combining with others in the run of play. As good as he is finishing at his chances in and around the penalty area, his coaches at PDA rave about his overall approach to the game and leadership ability. Those qualities that attracted us to him from the start and we think will serve him well in the years ahead in our program."
Travis Pillon, M, Oakland, Calif./Head-Royce School
High School: Played club soccer for DeAnza under the direction of coach Eric Yamamoto … Full-time club player who played at the U18 level for the past five seasons … Traveled with San Jose Earthquakes first team to England in February as part of a training trip with the Tottenham Hotspur U18/Reserve team … Played in two professional matches against Colchester United and Leicester City FC … Played in multiple reserve matches with Earthquakes … Honorable Mention Starting XI for DeAnza in Finals Week … Trained with the United States U14, U15 and U17 National Teams … Named to 2009 Winter Showcase and 2010 Spring Showcase Academy Select Teams.
Personal: Son of Marcia and Fred Pillon … Older brother, Cody, was captain at UC-Santa Cruz and is now an assistant coach with the Banana Slugs … Club teammate with current Penn player Sam Engs … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Coach Fuller on Pillon: "I have known Travis since our days together with the US U15 National Team. He is a tireless competitor and a very experienced player at the highest level. Following his time with the U15 National, he was invited into the US U17 National Team Residency Program and participated in pre-season with Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes in 2012. He has the ability to play any number of positions on the field, but we see him as someone who has the ability to make an immediate impact on the flank. He has a tremendous engine and provides excellent service from wide areas. His athleticism, pace, and work rate are all first class. I expect that he will become a very influential player for us over the next few years and will certainly make a positive impact on our program."
Matt Poplawski, M, Bellevue, Wash./Lakeside School
High School: Played club full-time for Crossfire under the direction of Bernie James … Five-year captain for Crossfire … Reached Academy Playoffs in 2012 … 2010 US Youth Soccer regional champions, advancing to national title game … Lettered in basketball in high school, serving as team captain … 2013 Metro Mountain division champions … 2013 District champions … 2013 state finalists … Honorable mention All-Metro Mountain and second-team All-State Tournament in hoops … Also ran one season of track, competing in hurdles.
Personal: Son of Kim and Eddie Poplawski … Older brother, Danny, played baseball at Georgetown University from 2009-13 … High school classmate of Penn teammate Louis Schott … Enrolled in Wharton.
Coach Fuller on Poplawski: "Matt is a member of an endangered species - a stellar, multi-sport athlete. In today's world of specialization and year-round training, Matt is one of the few exceptions. He excels on the soccer field with his Crossfire Academy team, and he is a standout basketball player at the high school and AAU level. This past winter, he led his Lakeside School basketball team to the Washington Class 3A State Championship game after scoring 23 points in the state semifinals against a team that included a few players slated to play Pac-12 basketball next year. His leadership and competitiveness are second to none. He is a true two-way midfield player capable of scoring goals and holding down a midfield defensively. His team-first, unselfish attitude and competitive work ethic earn rave reviews from his coaches and teammates alike, and I expect the same will happen during his time at Penn."


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Designed for dairy producers, their employees and advisers, the focus of this year's "Technology Tuesdays" webinar series from Penn State Extension is "Dairy Systems Planning and Building."
The next topic in the series is "Feed Storage and Handling System Design," which is scheduled for March 26, 2013, from 8:30 - 10 a.m. (EDT/EST)
Also mark your calendar for the following topics:
The Use of Existing Buildings, April 9, 2013, 8:30 - 10 a.m. (EDT/EST)
Animal Welfare and the Dairy Industry, April 23, 2013, 8:30 - 10 a.m. (EDT/EST)
- Building Structures that Last, May 14, 2013, 8:30 - 10 a.m. (EDT/EST)
There is no registration fee, but advance registration is required. For more information or to register, visit the Technology Tuesdays Webinar Series.
Source: Penn State Extension Dairy Team


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SKIPPER Shane Moore was determined not to let Wildcats' heartbreaking play-off semi-final defeat cloud what has been a successful season for the club.
The Link Centre side went down to an overtime defeat to Manchester in Coventry on Saturday following a harsh penalty call on Aku Pekkarinen which eventually resulted in Frantisek Bakrlik's winner for Phoenix.
However, speaking the day after the devastating defeat, Moore was able to cling on to the superb form his side showed during the second half of the season which saw Cats roar into the play-offs as the EPL's form team.
"We are really happy with the way we've performed, not only in this game but over the course of the whole season because this is the best Swindon team we've had during my 10 years or so here," he said.
"They boys have performed so well this year, and we're really happy with that, although this one result has ensured it's ended badly and left a sour taste.
"In the second half of the season we brought in some experienced guys like Jan Kostal, Lee Richardson and Aaron Nell and from then on things turned around and I truly believe we could have gone all the way.
"The calm was not needed in my opinion because in the play-offs there is kind of an unwritten rule where you pretty much have to take someone's head off in the last minute of overtime for a penalty. Unfortunately the ref deemed it appropriate to give it and the rest is history.
"The two teams couldn't be separated really and in my opinion the players should have decided the result on penalty shots and not the officials.
Despite their season coming to an abrupt end less than 48 hours ago, skipper Moore is already clock watching for the start of the 2014/15 season.
"The key for Swindon next season is to bring back a core of the players because Ryan has assembled a really good team," he said.
"More than that we've had a good team spirit too and our team has been much like a clock. You can't have 15 cogs and still expect the clock to function properly, you need other bits too to have a successful clock.
"The team spirit is a so important for any hockey team and if we can capture what we had this season, next season, then we will be going in the right direction."


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William Overgard: Steve Roper, Mike Nomad, Rudy and Milton Caniff
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials
William Overgard was a writer, novelist, and comic book artist who had a long-running gig on the Steve Roper (later Steve Roper and Mike Nomad) comic strip. His bold line and storytelling owed a lot to his idol, Milton Caniff.
Continuing my little series on cartoonists, here's what Overgard had to say about his work back in 1964. This is pulled from an oversized saddle-stitched magazine from Allied Publications with the creatively-challenged title These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America's Favorite Comics. It featured an introduction by Beetle Bailey's Mort Walker and was compiled by Allen Willette. My previous entry on Dennis The Menace's Fred Toole can be found here.
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The Massachusetts Bar Association co-sponsored the New
Legislators' Reception on Tuesday at the John Adams Courthouse. The
event was held to welcome new members of the Massachusetts
Legislature and to emphasize the importance of their support in
ensuring funding for legal services.
"State funding for legal services is one cog in the machine that
is legal services… Despite the best efforts of the bar, including
much pro bono activity, we are still falling short in providing
civil legal aid to our most vulnerable citizens," said MBA
President Denise Squillante, a featured speaker. Squillante was
joined by MBA President-elect Richard P. Campbell; Chief Operating
Officer and Chief Legal Counsel Martin W. Healy; and Legislative
Activities Manager Lee Ann Constantine at the event.
As a result of the November election, 39 new faces will join the
House of Representatives and eight will join the Senate.
The Jan. 11 event was hosted by
the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation and co-sponsored by
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Marriage, memories and disappearing car keys
Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 06:00 am
Like most newly married couples, in our first year of marriage, my wife and I made many adjustments to our lifestyles, in order to accommodate the other person. We adjusted to a host of new preferences: TV shows, food, furniture styles, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, favourite movies, fashions, friends, and household chores � just to name a few. By the end of our first year together, I thought that we had resolved most of these issues. In retrospect, I should have known it couldn�t be this easy.
As our second year unfolded, I began to notice a disturbing trend: many items in our household appeared to be changing locations on a random basis. The list of items was staggering. At various times, I could not locate my shoes, car keys, overcoat, wallet, glasses, fishing gear, belts, TV remote control, cologne, deodorants, pens, briefcase, binoculars, or virtually every hand and power tool I owned. Probably most frustrating of all was the constant location changes for food products. Coffee would appear at random intervals on the fifth shelf in the pantry, in the spice cabinet, then in the refrigerator, beside the dishwasher, or heaven only knew next. And the problem was not limited to just coffee, as virtually every other food product was also �on the move.� Salt, pepper, mustard, relish, mayonnaise, cookies, bread, cheese, and yogurt were just a few of these �happy wanderers.� Initially, I questioned whether my memory was the problem. I thought this was a very valid explanation, because I noted that my wife never seemed to have problems finding anything. However, I also realized that I had no problem finding items at work, or at the clubhouse for my golf course, or in the garage. Something was happening that I simply did not understand.
For a while, I accused my wife, and my children � unfairly � of being the instigators of these nocturnal journeys, an accusation they all flatly denied. In time, I realized that it simply made no sense for them to be involved � constantly moving items would take a lot of time, and my wife and children were simply far too busy to invest so much time in such a pointless pursuit. One evening, when watching a Disney nature movie about zebra migration in Africa, the proverbial old light bulb came on. I had unfairly blamed my wife, my children, and myself but the truth was that no one was moving these items � they were simply migrating! Now, it made perfect sense.
In the years since, I�ve been able to track the migration of just about every food item in our home. Some patterns are very, very simple. For example, salt routinely moves � every fourteen days, from the spice rack to the cereal shelf in the pantry. Fourteen days later, it reverses its path back to the spice rack. Other items are far more complex. It took me nearly nine years to work out the migratory pattern for hot mustard. It moved in a random pattern of days, and in its nine-year cycle � it visited 27 different locations. Finally there has been one item that has eluded my best efforts for all these years: marmalade. Despite years of hard work, I�m sad to report that we still know virtually nothing about the migratory patterns of the Great Canadian marmalade. Perhaps next year �
Brian McLeod is a St. Albert resident.


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Westheimer Lecture Series
Monday, 22 April 2013 - 1:00pm - Friday, 26 April 2013 - 3:00pm
IUPUI Campus
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the School of Science at IUPUI will host the inaugural Westheimer Lecture Series the week of April 22.
April 22 @1pm | Lilly Auditorium in the University Library
The Contributions of Frank Westheimer to Biological Organic Chemistry
Presented by Dr. G. Michael Blackburn of the University of Sheffield
Dr. G. Michael Blackburn of the University of Sheffield will present the first lecture at 1 p.m. on April 22 in the Lilly Auditorium, lower level of the University Library. Titled "The Contributions of Frank Westheimer to Biological Organic Chemistry," the lecture will discuss the impact of American chemist Dr. Westheimer, former Harvard University professor. Westheimer, who passed away in 2007, is one of the earliest researchers in the area of physical organic chemistry. Among his honors were the Priestley Medal in 1988, the U.S. National Medal of Science, the U.S. National Academy Award in Chemical Sciences and the Robert A. Welch Foundation Award.
The presentation will explore Westheimer's early work in Harvard on enzyme mechanisms, his quantitative analysis of the reactions of phosphate esters and mechanistic proposals thereby derived, and his engagement with the centrality of phosphorus in life, employing a blend of objective and subjective views. That will lead into a contemporary survey of the possibility of alternatives to phosphate and a critical view of arsenate as a surrogate for phosphate. It will expose the central paradox of phosphate esters in life as the necessary characteristic of their truly universal deployment. Lastly, the presentation will survey the range of experimental and computational methods that have been deployed to bring studies on enzyme mechanisms of phosphoryl group transfer to their present advanced state and some of Sheffield University contributions to that knowledge.
Frank H. Westheimer (1912 - 2007) was Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University. After earning his Ph.D. from Harvard, he trained in Columbia with Louis P Hammett, the father of physical organic chemistry, and also studied physics and electrostatics plus statistical mechanics. Those skills equipped him in Chicago to study isotopes and their uses in organic chemistry and led him into a study of enzyme mechanisms.
A renewed interest in organophosphorus compounds and their reaction mechanisms led into problems related to phosphate processes in biochemistry, especially for adenosine triphosphate and ribonuclease. These called for new experimental techniques and their analysis demanded dramatically new concepts in reactivity, especially related to dynamic stereochemistry.
As an Emeritus Harvard Professor, he became committed to understanding the fundamental role of phosphorus in life and attempted to rationalize it in terms of the breadth of his knowledge of phosphates. Frank Westheimer is regarded as the Father of Mechanistic Biological Chemistry by many of his successors and followers.
April 25 @5pm | IT, Room 90
Strain Catalysis: Westheimer and Beyond
Blackburn will continue the series at 5 p.m. on April 25 in IT Room 90 with "Strain Catalysis: Westheimer and Beyond."
Westheimer was deeply committed to the concept of strain in the reactions of phosphate di- and tri-esters in relation to ribonuclease. This presentation will briefly outline his work on enzyme mechanisms and relate that to present-day studies to show the strength and limits of his work. From there, the presentation will involve a discussion of current opinions on the role of strain in enzyme catalysis and bring that to focus on work in Sheffield on a unique DNA repair enzyme, Uracil DNA Glycohydrolase, which many believe to be a prominent example of Strain Catalysis.
April 26 @1pm | Lecture Hall 105
Resolving Enzyme Mechanisms of Phosphate Transfer
The final lecture, "Resolving Enzyme Mechanisms of Phosphate Transfer," will be at 1 p.m. on April 26 in Lecture Hall 105.
Enzyme catalyzed phosphoryl transfer mechanisms lie at the heart of life. This presentation will illustrate this using the biosynthesis of ATP involving a proton gradient across a membrane, by the polymerisation of RNA using ATP etc., and by energy production from metabolising glucose via 1,3-diphosphoglyceric acid. The strengths and also the shortcomings of analysis of protein structures by crystallography divorced from chemistry will be exemplified. Finally the centrality of studies on transition states to understand mechanisms will be applied to a unified theory of phosphoryl transfer in the isomerisation, hydrolysis, and alcoholysis of phosphate monoesters and anhydrides.
Lynn Gerrard
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology