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IBM Offers POWER Technology for Licensing, Forms OpenPOWER Consortiumby Jarred Walton on 8/7/2013 1:32 AM EST
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althaz - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkBut what are the actual benefits of "POWER" over x86 and ARM (and others)?
Licensing is great, but it only matters if people actually want your IP. Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI assume the biggest advantage is customizability, just like for ARM chips (or perhaps even more so). It allows customers to make (roughly speaking) any type of chip they want, instead of relying on Intel's "stock" chips.
Also ARM isn't in that high-end market yet, and probably the only competition there could be MIPS, but I think Imagination will be focusing more on mobile this decade at least. So yeah, I guess it makes some sense to do this at the very high-end levels, and it gives Nvidia the opportunity to stave off Xeon Phi. Reply
Ramiliez - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIntel offers customizability too and x86 is cheap and has thriving market which translates to really cheap hardware unlike IBMs vendor lock-in. Thats why is IBM trying to openwash Power with this openpower marketing
http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Sends-Amazon... Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI think this is IBM trying to get POWER to actually get used outside of IBM hardware. It may be too little, too late (RIP DEC Alpha and others), but we'll see. POWER processors tend to have a lot of options that appeal to the server market, more so than ARM servers I think, so as Krysto said there's now another option besides x86 or ARM for companies to look at. My guess: the licensing costs will be so high that no one will use it outside of academia. :-p Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkYes, IBM has been disrupted for decades by Intel with its cheaper prices. But the ironic thing is this may be just a battle between dinosaurs in the end. ARM chips will be disrupting Intel soon, too, with cheaper prices and a more customizable model (everyone can make their own CPU/GPU cores), much in the same way Intel disrupted IBM.
Nvidia is positioned to take advantage of that, too, with its Denver/Maxwell chips, and beyond. Reply
iwod - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkExactly, i am going to assume it will be expensive. Coming from IBM.
Would like Anandtech to do a summary on POWER, what is it good at ( if anything ).
To my knowledge it isn't any better then Intel at the high end ( TCO wise ), and it doesn't offer anything special in the low end either.
Which makes me kind of question its value of existence. Reply
nevertell - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkWell, IBM licenses it's software for the amount of cores, as many enterprises do, but you can use 2 intel cores for a single POWER license, so that's quite a good indication that Power does in fact beat Intel on some occasions. (And even with the 2 intel cores, customers often choose Power instead because of the higher performance). Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkAt the high end the current Power 7 offers some serious performance. The chips, caches power consumption and prices are truely massive. Don't know if power efficiency can get anywhere near Intel, though. Reply
iwod - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkLooks like i cant edit :(
I just read over in HN that ARM, MIPS and POWER all surprise x86 in Unit shipment. And it is interesting that Automotive industry are all set on POWER, ( why is that? ). Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkModern POWER and PowerPC chips share a common ISA. Early on when cars were first getting embedded computers, IBM made the push to get their embedded chips (PowerPC 400 series) into them. The rest has been historical. Another reason is that IBM has a IEEE compliant floating point unit incorporated within the PowerPC/POWER spec. Thus if an embeded PowerPC chip comes with a FPU, it will use the same FPU instructions as other PowerPC chips. (For comparison, ARM's FPU unit hasn't been standardized in its ISA until very recently.) This allowed software developers to keep their FPU code between generations of PowerPC chips. Reply
alpha754293 - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkWell, one of the things that POWER is known for is their compute ability. A decent POWER5 processor can probably still do donuts around ANY x86 processor in Monte Carlo simulations because the chip itself at the macro level is pretty much a Monte Carlo processor. Having said that however, it was also the trademark that they were quite woefully and semi-ironically power inefficient; which in today's world of rising energy costs, is just one of the many nails in the coffin.
By opening up the architecture and development of the hardware, perhaps you can see a lower power version of it, but we will have to see how that goes.
The other benefit that POWER brings is their mini-POWER processors (the PowerPC, which powered Macs and a bunch of offshoots), and their baby-POWER processors in the form of the Bluegene/L/P/Q series. Those are largely used in MPP installations where the lack of core speed is compensated for by just having a TON of them, with the advantage being VERY power efficient (the opposite end of the spectrum).
And BTW, bank mainframes still use IBM POWER systems a LOT because at 4 FLOPs/Hz, nothing has been able to beat that. And IA-64 resembles a copy of the POWER architecture, with poorer execution and implementation (plus general lack of support from hardware and software vendors alike). Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIntel does not offer custom x86 chips. If you want an x86 SoC you can either go to AMD who will gladly craft a custom chip for you if pay them or get what every SoC Intel is offerig everyone else because that is what Intel thinks should be on an SoC.
ARM's advantage has been customization. You could license a CPU core from them, go to another vendor for the memory controller, USB controller etc., add a bit of your own logic and then choose where you'd like for it to be manufactured. Each step comes at a price for licensing but it is fairly open.
The odd thing is that most people are seeing this announcement from IBM as attempting to emulate ARM's business model. This is incorrect as IBM already offers up embedded PowerPC cores designs in a similar fashion. The news worthy change is that IBM is opening up their ultra high end POWER cores in this model. Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIt looks like nobody has bothered to actually answer the question. POWER has a few advantages over x86, but most are only useful in the server realm.
1. the architecture is designed around accuracy. While the SSE instructions in X86 have reduced the accuracy of PC calculations today, POWER was designed to calculate them out to many more significant digits. This is useful for many types of scientific research and banking, not so much for running Excel or games.
2. POWER has many ECC routines built into every stage of the architecture, including the instruction set. Because of this, data corruption and system crashing happens far less often.
3. POWER was built from the ground up for virtualization, instead of being an addon like X86. This makes it much more efficient when running virtual machines.
These things could be useful in a PC environment, but not really game changers. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - link1. SSE and the binary floating point units inside POWER both adhere to the IEEE 754 spec. POWER6 and POWER7 do offer a binary decimal unit which do offer greater precision but require applications to be rewritten to use the new instructions and data types.
2. It is true that every data path in IBM's power lines have ECC support, the instruction set itself inherently is not ECC protected. Thus the instructions moving around inside a modern POWER chip are ECC protect, that can end once they move off chip.
Data corruption and system crashing related to errors encountered inside the CPU is surprisingly rare when systems are run within spec. Memory chips are where most of the corruption originates. End to end ECC protection does offer better detection as integrity is maintain throughout the design.
3. Actually virtualization is also an add-on to the POWER architecture. Hardware virtualization capabilities didn't arrive until the POWER4 and really didn't hit its prime until POWER5. A lot of POWER's virtualization capabilities were ported or adapted from IBM's mainframe efforts which have had decades of polish. Reply
Brutalizer - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkThe POWER7 was a good cpu when it was released some years ago, but now there are faster cpus. x86 is faster in some benchmarks, at a much lower price. Oracle SPARC T5 is way faster and holds several world records, but it is a newer cpu so that is to be expected.
The main advantage of Unix cpus such as IBM POWER7 is the RAS. What costs is not performance, but reliability. RAS is very difficult to get, and very expensive. Intel Xeon is getting some RAS features now, but they can not compete with the RAS from traditional Unix cpus such as IBM POWER, Oracle SPARC and Itanium. This is the reason a IBM Mainframe is very expensive, RAS costs. Speed doesnt. Once a server is fast enough, you want it to be reliable in the Enterprise market. Downtime must be avoided. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIn their highest end Xeon variant, IIRC Intel has added most of the RAS features that were previously only available with the Itanium. Although they continue to insist otherwise, I expect the remainder are planned to be added soon at which point the Itanic will be allowed to sink. Reply
Henriok - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkPower Architecture processors comes in a very wide variety of flavors. From <50 MHz, sans-FPU and MMU parts that consumes milliwatts (Freescale's e200z0 cores), to 18 core monster-SoCs with powerful FPUs and integrated communications fabrics (BlueGene/Q) and everything in between like customized gaming CPUs with integrated GPU (XCGPU in Xbox 360 S), LTE base stations on a chip (QorIQ B4860) or the most powerful server CPU available with massive amounts of embedded DRAM and enormous amounts of IO (POWER7).
The cores can be tiny single threaded in order things or four way our of order, multithreaded with multiple memory controllers, cryptography accelerators, special media accelerators, DSPs, floating point engines, SIMD-egines, GPUs, multiple levels of cache, integrated USB, Ethernet and other IO, one core or 18 cores, the same core type or different, run a single operating system or many asynchronously.
All these are binary compatible.
All these features are specified under the same living specification, governed by a broad spectrum consortium.
Many cores are available in hard and soft macros, freely licensable from a variety of sources like Synopys, LSI as well as Freescale and IBM. These designs have a veriety of cores to chose from for their bespoke SoCs. Like the e200 and e500 from Freescale and 400 family (405, 440, 460, 470) from IBM, Applied Micro, LSI and Synopsys.
And these designs can be manufactured by a fab of your choice: IBM, Global Foundries, TSMC, UMC or your own.
Freescale offers a guarantee to manufacture certain designs for 20 years or more. That's a prerequisite to sell parts to certain projects with a long expected life span, like military equipment such as the F-35.
Many designs like the PowerPC 603e, 440, 750, e500, and 7400 are available in radiation hardened versions for use in space or other extreme environments. Manufactured by several companies, like BAE, Space Micro, Broad Reach, Atmel and Honeywell.
AMD and Intel offers _nothing_ like this. Their offerings doesn't even compare, but on just some special cases.
ARM and MIPS does compare, but there's nothing from either that can perform as powerfully as Power can. The FPUs, SIMD-engines, frequencies, number of cores available to those who design custom processors based on Power outperform anything either ARM or MIPS can up bring. ARM is least 10 years behind when power consumption isn't the primary constraint of the design.
SPARC is comparable too, but doesn't offer the range, nor the customization options or choice of designer or manufacturer.
And now, IBM offers their future POWER8 as a base for a new breed of ultra high end customized processors. I can see supercomputer-SoCs with 8x eight way multithreaded POWER8 cores, integrated Tesla GPUs, interconnect intra-CPU fabric from Mellanox, and PCIe for direct attached super fast SSDs.. on one chip. That'd be a super dense supercomputer of which we've never seen. 10-50 times as performance dense as the best design today.
Can't do that on any other platform.
I can see Google and Facebook making a series of highly customized server processors with only what they need, and nothing else. Many high speed simple cores, integrated 10 Gbit Ethernet on chip, DDR-controllers, nothing else. They have an enormous amount of servers so they can afford customized hardware on this level just to make their modules cheaper to manufacture and run.
For super computers or the likes of Facebook and Google, the ISA doesn't matter. They are not running off the shelf software anyway, so a recompile to another architecture (than x86) doesn't matter. Reply
wumpus - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - link"the ISA doesn't matter". Fine, you just change the arch selection on the makefile and re-compile major enterprise software and deploy it. I'm sure everybody bothered to make sure all the byte accesses would work just as well on big endian machines as they did on the little endian systems they were written fore.
A more accurate statement is that the costs to change ISA are fixed (and relatively small) while the costs to buy hardware keep increasing (and are significant). Also, Intel makes a great deal of money selling to those us who do care about ISA (even if we hate ours), so they include a cost that these companies aren't interested in.
Finally, I can't see this as anything but a surrender. IBM lost control of the PC world when they opened it (and it ate the mainframe's lunch within the decade, nearly killing IBM). IBM isn't opening this up because they want competition. IBM is opening it up because they can no longer afford the infrastructure to keep making POWER. My guess is that they won't share enough of the profit to convince others to pay those costs either (how many licenses has Nvidia bragged about lately?). Reply
loa_dir - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkOne of the advantages is performance. POWER chips can have about twice the performance per core in throughput-oriented server applications. In HPC and other FPU-intensive applications the advantage can be even higher.
The POWER chips powerefficiency seems to be quite good also, at least if you look on the green500 list (the most powerefficent supercomputers in the world). IBM occupies quite a lot of the top spaces. Reply
jjj - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkWonder what this means for Project Denver ,if anything. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkNothing directly. nVidia has already stated that Project Denver is an ARM based design.
Any future POWER plans with nVidia will be under a different project name. Reply
TooYellow - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIt's disingenuous to call something "open" then license it to people. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkYou can create open software on POWER now, while if you want to build your own CPU/SoC you need to license. So it is open from the software angle. That's my understanding at least -- I don't think POWER7/POWER8 were open in this way before, though some of the earlier POWER instruction sets are. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIBM had licensed earlier PowerPC cores which are ISA compatible with the POWER chips.
In fact, the only difference between POWER and PowerPC at this point is marketing and artificial segmentation. Reply
WeaselITB - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIBM has been in the process of divesting their hardware divisions for years ... this seems like another logical step in the overall scheme. Get a consortium together, license the IP, eventually sell off the IP to the consortium -- a nice, clean way to break ties with hardware while still maintaining ties with hardware.
-Weasel Reply
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loa_dir - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkIs it really true that the use of POWER is diminishing? Yes, on consumeroriented hardware, definitely. But I think that IBM is very well positioned in the server, mainframe and HPC market. I remember reading somewhere that about half of IBMs profits comes from products with POWER processors, and services and software for that hardware. That means IBM is making about 8bn $ /year of profits on the POWER chips. You seldom make that big profits on an architecture that is heavily declining. Reply
shodanshok - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkIf I correctly remember, about half of IBMs profits comes from _mainframes_, ergo SystemZ installation. Probably the upper-end Power installations can be considered mainframes also, so this data can include some Power system also. However, SystemZ is the mainframe system of choice for IBM. I fear that for widespread Power usage is too little, to late, but I hope to be wrong ;) Reply
ultimatebob - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkI guess that it's nice that companies are now deciding to open source their dying technology products now, but moves like this never seem to save a product from extinction.
Some good examples of this "death by open source" maneuver are Open WebOS from HP/Palm, MeeGo from Intel/Nokia, and the opening of the BeOS source code. Reply


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SCHOOLS in the Ribble Valley have raised more than £13,000 for charity after performing a play penned by a Longridge headteacher.
A dozen schools in and around the market town came together to collect cash for the Royal British Legion with a performance which included 500 pupils.
The primary and secondary school pupils were joined by 100 members of staff for the performance of Forget Me Not at Preston Guild Hall.
Simon Wallis, headteacher of Barnacre Road Primary School in Longridge, who wrote and directed the wartime play, said: "I was inspired to do something to commemorate the war five years ago when my mum passed away.
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PHILADELPHIA — Goals are dandy, wins are better.
Olli Jokinen is paid to see his name on the scoresheet regularly. And so when the big Winnipeg Jets centre put the Jets ahead 2-1 Saturday afternoon against the Philadelphia Flyers it must have felt like a gorilla had exited his shoulders. After all, the veteran Finn had gone nine games without scoring.
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"I feel a little rusty, but I think the timing and stuff will come. I told G (Claude Giroux) and Jake (Voracek) they have been playing so good I just wanted to get them the puck and head to the front of the net. That's where I make a living."
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|From: Williams, M. Douglas (M.DOUGLAS.WILLIAMS at saic.com)
Date: Mon Jun 19 22:46:53 EDT 2006
Both my laptop (running Windows XP) and my desktop (running Ubuntu 6.06) have 1GB of memory. Doug -----Original Message----- From: Robby Findler [mailto:robby at cs.uchicago.edu] Sent: Mon 6/19/2006 8:02 PM To: Williams, M. Douglas Cc: Matthias Felleisen; wooks wooks; plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu Subject: RE: [plt-scheme] Appalling performance of DrScheme on Windows How much memory does your main development machine have? Robby At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:12:47 -0700, "Williams, M. Douglas" wrote: > My experience has been like Matthias's. I do most of my development on my > laptop running Windows XP (and on Win2K on my laptop before this one). I > have been developing the science and simulation collections, both of which > are multi-thousand line collections, and running simulations, which tend to > rather computation or continuation intensive (or both), without the problems > you are having. This is true from v209 up to v350. > > I also regularly test my software on my wife's 256MB laptop to make sure it > runs on 'smaller' configurations. The only problems I have had was with > downloading and installing collections with very large files (pdf files of > the science or simulation collection reference manuals), which did show some > of the symptoms you mention. But that was just when attempting the download > - which would ultimately fail. > > I know this sound like a testimonial rather than a serious answer to your > concern, but I have been quite happy with the performance of the system - > particularly with the recently added JIT and continuation changes. > > But, maybe the guys with more actual knowledge of the innards of the system > can offer some suggestions. > > Doug > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plt-scheme-bounces at list.cs.brown.edu on behalf of Matthias Felleisen > Sent: Mon 6/19/2006 4:50 PM > To: wooks wooks > Cc: plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu > Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Appalling performance of DrScheme on Windows > > This sounds indeed like an appalling response time and it makes me > wonder why some 10,000 people are using DrScheme on Windows. Now I am > using DrScheme on Windows XP only via Virtual PC on a Mac OS X laptop > and it runs very nicely there. On my Mac, I am running "large" programs > (up to 5,000 lines, threaded) in DrScheme, leave the environment open > for days and weeks at a time, and haver very few problems of this kind. > > But before we bash Microsoft one more time on this list, let's > investigate your report in some detail. We don't want to blame them for > nothing, right? > > 1. What kind of machine do you own? CPU speed and memory are two things > we'd really like to know. > > 2. Which PLT Scheme implementation are you running? 350? 103p1? > Anything in between? > > 2a. Have you modified your PLT Scheme installation in any form or > manner? > > 3. What kind of programs do you run? Are they text-book exercises? > Dynamic flow equations? > > Once we have that information we will figure out how to get you to use > this thing in an acceptable manner. > > Thanks for the report -- Matthias > > > > On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:31 PM, wooks wooks wrote: > > > > > I am running DrScheme on Windows XP and I regularly experience abysmal > > response time running DrScheme. > > > > Usually its starts off ok but the longer its left running the worse > > the response time gets (especially if you leave a session idle for a > > long time). It is not uncommon for me to manage only 4 interactions in > > an hour because DrScheme just hangs for ages before it will accept > > input. > > > > Previously I had the same problem running under Win2k. I thought it > > would go away when I bought a new machine last year runnnig windows XP > > but its just as bad. > > > > It is pretty much impossible to use the environment with this sort of > > response time. > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme > > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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It's time again for what easily ranks as one of TripAdvisor.com's most talked-about annual lists: Dirty Hotels. Who doesn't want the dirt on where stay in Europe—and where to avoid?
eTurbo News | The list of Europe's ten dirtiest hotels was released today.
The list of shame is dominated by just three destinations, with London, Amsterdam and Turkey's Aegean coast collectively responsible for Europe's ten dirtiest hotels. The two Turkish hotels top the list, followed by four properties each in London and Amsterdam.
"Despite the average overall rating for a property on TripAdvisor rising to four out of five, it is clear that a minority of hotels are still not delivering the minimum standard of experience travellers deserve, especially in relation to cleanliness" comments Emma O'Boyle, TripAdvisor spokesperson. (Photo by iStock)


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Encyclopaedia Universalis
French-language encyclopedia.
Updated and revised, the French language Encyclopaedia Universalis is a comprehensive reference source for native French speakers, bilingual students, or anyone learning French. Characterized by ease-of-use and the capacity to provide answers to diverse questions, this 28-volume encyclopedia is an irreplaceable learning tool. Over 50,000 entries and 32,000 illustrations engage readers and satisfy their curiosity. With more than 6,000 in-depth articles on various subjects, covering nearly every field, the Encyclopaedia Universalis proves to be powerful, informative, and reliable.
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Lawrence J. Prochaska, Ph.D.
Ph.D.: The Ohio State University, 1975 (E.L. Gross)
Postdoctorals: Purdue University (R.A. Dilley); University of Oregon (R.A. Capaldi)
Our laboratory studies the biochemistry and molecular biology of membrane-bound enzymes that are crucial in heart and bacterial energy conservation reactions. Our research focuses on structure/function relationships in heart mitochondrial and thermophilic bacterial cytochrome c oxidases, using immunological, biochemical, and recombinant DNA methods. Cytochrome c oxidase is the terminal member of the respiratory chain of the mitochondrion and some aerobic bacteria. The enzyme contains hemes and copper atoms that act as oxidation-reduction centers. In the terminal electron transfer reaction catalyzed by the enzyme, molecular oxygen is reduced into water and the energy released by these oxidation-reduction reactions is conserved by the pumping of protons across the mitochondrial inner or bacterial cell membrane. The electrochemical gradient generated by the enzyme is subsequently used to drive the synthesis of ATP. The cytochrome c oxidases are multi-subunit enzymes containing from 13 subunits in the mammalian mitochondrial form to 3-4 subunits in the bacterial forms. The three largest subunits are conserved between the mitochondrial and bacterial forms. The two largest subunits contain the redox centers of the enzyme and most likely contain the proton-pumping function of the enzyme.
Our work has focused on the role of the highly conserved, non oxidation-reduction center containing third subunit (subunit III) in the functioning of bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. Toward this goal, we have studied a preparation of the mitochondrial enzyme that is depleted in subunit III and found that this enzyme has lost 50% of its energy transducing or proton pumping function by an unknown mechanism. Addition of purified subunit III to subunit III-depleted enzyme results in a stimulation of proton pumping in the enzyme. We also have made site-specific antibodies to the hydrophilic domains in subunit III and have observed that these antibodies stimulate electron transfer activity of the enzyme without affecting proton-pumping. Our results (and those from other laboratories) suggest that subunit III regulates cytochrome c oxidase activities.
Currently, we are studying the role of critical conserved amino acids in subunits III and I in the functioning of the bacterial enzyme in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In one collaborative project (with J. Hosler), we are mutating the amino acids at the interface of subunits III and I to investigate the effect of the mutagenesis on the functioning of the enzyme. In another collaborative project (with R. Gennis and D. Zaslavsky), we are attempting to measure the proton-pumping stoichiometries during the enzyme's oxidase and peroxidase catalytic activities.
Another interest in our laboratory is whether mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase functions as a monomeric unit or dimeric form within the mitochondrial inner membrane in vivo. We have shown by using heterobifunctional chemical crosslinking reagents that subunit I forms a contact site for two monomers of the enzyme. Furthermore, our work has shown that the dimeric structure is preferred in a membrane bilayer environment. We are currently preparing artificial membranes (liposomes) that contain either one or two cytochrome oxidase molecules per liposome to explore the possibility that monomers or dimers of the enzyme have different functional activities.
Other interests in the laboratory include integral membrane protein-lipid interactions and the interactions of detergents with membrane proteins. We also focus much of our research efforts on the reconstitution of membrane proteins into artificial membranes (or liposomes) and the development of assays to assess protein incorporation into membranes.
We have used a battery of techniques in our investigations, including membrane protein isolation, preparation and characterization of liposomes, chemical modification of protein functional groups using group specific reagents, and production and characterization of site-directed and subunit-specific antibodies.
- Lawrence J. Prochaska, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
- Lois A. Shroyer, M.S., Research Associate
- R. Ryan Geyer, Ph.D. Student
- Teresa L. Cvetkov, Ph.D. Student
- Rachel Omolewu, M.S. Student
- Matthew Jaruwannakorn, Undergraduate Student
- Dishita Patel, Undergraduate Student
- Nguyen, X.-T., Pabarue, H. A., Geyer, R. R., Shroyer, L. A., Estey, L. A., Parilo, M., Wilson, K.S., and Prochaska, L. Purification of Phospholipid Vesicles Containing Control and Subunit III-Depleted Beef Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase, Protein Expression and Purification 26, 122-130 (2002).
- Lincoln, A.J., Donat, N., Palmer, G., and Prochaska, L. The Effects of Site-Specific Polyclonal Antibodies Against Conserved Hydrophilic Domains of Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit III on the Functioning of the Enzyme. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 416, 81-91 (2003).
- Riegler, D., Shroyer, L.A., Pokalsky, C., Zaslavsky, D., Gennis, R., and Prochaska, L.J. Characterization of Steady-state Activities of Cytochrome c Oxidase at Alkaline pH: Mimicking the Effect of K-channel Mutations in the Bovine Enzyme. Biochimica Biophysica acta, 1706, 126-133 (2005).
- Geyer, R. R, Patli, S. S., Alter, G. M., Hosler, J. P., and Prochaska. L. J., Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I FromRhodobacter sphaeroides Assumes an Alternative Conformation in the Absence of Subunit III. Submitted (2006).
- Cvetkov, T., Shroyer, L.A., and Prochaska, L. J. Purification of Phospholipid Vesicles Containing Cytochrome cOxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Submitted (2006).


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A TRIO of West Midlands Ambulance Service employees are strapping on their running shoes in the name of charity.
Paramedics Lisa Medhurst and Andy Lightbody along with emergency medical technician Nicky Masters are taking part in the Worcester City 10k race on Sunday, June 1.
Ms Masters is running for the Midlands Air Ambulance and will be joined by her colleague Mr Lightbody, who will be on hand to offer her moral support
"I have recently been encouraged to join the 10k run with a group of friends who have been training together," she said.
"I then decided to do it for an amazing cause and chose the Air Ambulance, an obvious choice for us in the emergency services.
"I wanted to help promote awareness and raise money at the same time.
"My ex-ambulance crewmate Colin Apps has been part of the air ambulance team for some years and has been my inspiration."
Ms Medhurst is fundraising for The Lullaby Trust, a charity supporting bereaved parents.
On her JustGiving page she says: "I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a child. This charity try and help people deal with that unimaginable nightmare."
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Three people believed to be aboard a twin-engine plane were killed when the plane crashed shortly after departing Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Friday afternoon, according to city of Fort Lauderdale officials.
WPLG-TV reports the Piper PA-31 Navajo crashed at 964 NE 53rd Court, an area east of the airport, about 4:23 p.m. Roadways were shut down near the area.
John "Jack" Seiler, the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, said three bodies were recovered.
"We've been very fortunate not to have these kinds of accidents and incidents," said Seiler.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane departed Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport at 4:20 p.m. and crashed.
Fort Lauderdale spokesman Matt Little said the plane took off, banked right, and crashed into several parked vehicles. He believes the plane is Fort Lauderdale based.
A woman said her husband, who works at the airport, saw the plane depart, then saw smoke minutes later.
Dozens of firefighters were there dousing the area in foam used to extinguish fires sparked by jet fuel. Several vehicles were on fire and A propeller was seen in the parking lot.
A man who works for UK Stone, a business inside the warehouse, said he heard a loud bang and saw 50-foot flames.
Little said no one on the ground was injured.
A large plume of black smoke could be seen in the area.
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Comedy Nights, The Piano Men, Andy Cooney and More Set for Westchester Broadway Theatre, Jan-March 2013
Some fun Specials are coming up at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, including comedy, a girls' night out, The Piano Men, Andy Cooney and more. See below for more details.
Comedy Night
Winter Blues? Cheer up with a night of laughter and fun with the best stand-up adult comedy around! Featuring six of the country's funniest comics. With Richie Byrnes, Mike Gaffney, Steve Kr amer, Rodney Laney, Jack Simmons and Mick Thomas.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013
Time: 6:15 pm
$80.00 plus tax per person
Girls' Night Out Valentine Bachelor Auction
To benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy
Presented by Wanderlust Women Travel & The Westchester Broadway Theatre. Warm-hearted men will brave the auction block to light up your Valentine's Day with date packages.There will also be a Silent Auction of exciting items and experiences, from spa escapes to private dance lessons. Money to The American Red Cross Sandy relief fund. Music provided by DJ Rich. Join us for tasty snacks and delicious men from 6:30 - 8:30pm.
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Tickets are $30.00
The Piano Men
A Great Valentine's Day Concert featuring some of the BEST Music ever written! Jeff Scott as Elton John, JEFF BREWER as Billy Joel backed by the live band SHEAR ENERGY w/ Jamie Shear.
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Time: 6:15 pm
$85.00 plus tax per person for Dinner & show. GOLDSTAR EVENT
Legends To Life, COLE Remembered
Joe Bourne has produced an incredible entertainment experience for audiences across America and around the world: a reminiscence of Nat King Cole, one of the most-loved entertainers in musical history. Joe's elegant style and top-notch virtuosity bring you a classic musical experience in tribute to the all-time jazz and pop great. The Gary Moran Trio uses arrangements transcribed from the original recordings. Inspired and influenced by Cole, Joe Bourne communicates the same purity of voice whether presenting swing, blues or ballads. You'll hear " Goody Goody", "Dhat Dher", "Misty" and so much more in your trip down memory lane with the remarkable Joe Bourne.
Date: February 25, 2013
Time: 6:15 pm
$80.00 plus tax per person for dinner & show
Carl Thomas In A Night At The Copa
Carl Thomas celebrates the music of beloved Musical Legends! Bobby Darin! Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra and Paul Anka.He is not an impersonator, but in his own style he evokes these legendary performers' nightclub and concert performances across the country. He has worked with Joan Rivers, Jackie Mason, Pat Cooper, Anthony and The Imperials, Earl Lewis and The Channels, and the late Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge. Also appearing: Comedian Joe DeVito.
Date: March 5, 2013
Time: 6:15 pm
$80.00 plus tax per person for dinner & show
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Andy Cooney was christened by The New York Times as "Irish America's Favorite Son". With his outstanding voice and dynamic stage presence makes him a favorite with audiences as he renders songs ranging from all-time favorites like "Galway Bay" and "Danny Boy" to his hit records "The Irish Wedding Song", "Boston Rose" and "Daughter of Mine". Andy's talent and versatility provide the ability to deliver a song directly to the hearts of his listeners.
Featuring: THE THREE IRISH SOPRANOS ( ANNEMARIE GILLMAN, SARAH BASS, GILLIAN QUINN), The Andy Cooney BAND, The DARAH CARR DANCE COMPANY.
Monday. March 11, 2013
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Time: 6:15 pm
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Lorri Olan
NALP Regional coordinators play a significant role in planning, implementing, and leading specific components of the Association's annual education conference. Olan, who just returned from NALP's annual planning meeting, believes her participation will help introduce W&L law students to more potential employers.
"As a member of the 2011 annual education planning committee, W&L Law can contribute to the discussion of issues affecting the profession at this transitional time in the legal market," said Olan. "This is also a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with firm and law school leaders in the profession and raise the law school's national profile."
A former law clerk herself, Olan has also been selected to serve as Vice Chair for the State Court Working Group of NALP's Judicial Clerkship Section. During the 2010 annual conference, she participated on a Judicial Clerkship sponsored panel titled, "America the Beautiful: Exploring the Country through State Court Clerkships."
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April 13, 2013
CLAREMONT, Calif. – TMC's track and field squad toed the line in five separate events on Saturday at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.
Representing the Mustangs in the high jump was Jason Logan (Spartanburg, SC). Logan won his flight by clearing 2.10 meters (6-10 ¾ Ft.), posting a lifetime-best mark along the way. Logan's performance surpassed the NAIA's "A" standard (2.06m (6-9)), qualifying him for the NAIA National Championships in May.
Matthew Crichton (Mission Viejo, CA) and John Gilbertson (Saugus, CA) competed in both the 1500m and the 800m.
In the 800m, Crichton won his heat and set a new personal record in 1 minute and 57 seconds. Gilbertson also set a new personal record at 1:53.31 and surpassed the NAIA's "B" standard (1:54.50) which qualified him for nationals in the 800m event.
Now, Gilbertson has qualified for nationals in the 800m, 1500m, 10,000m, and the marathon.
In the 1500m, Crichton qualified for nationals under the NAIA's "B" standard (3:57) in 3:55.48. Gilbertson finished his 1500m showing in 3:48, six seconds under the NAIA's "A" standard (3:55.25).
David Eller (Los Angeles, CA) and Ryan Freeman (Highland, CA) competed in the 3000m steeplechase. Highlighting the Mustangs' efforts was Eller, as he finished the race in 9:12. Eller qualified for nationals under the NAIA's "A" standard (9:20.00), while setting a new school record. Currently, Eller owns the second-fastest 3000m steeplechase time on the NAIA's performance list. Freeman finished the race in 10:00, which was just three seconds slower than his personal best.
John Hurd (Fairview, PA) highlighted the Mustangs in the 5000m, finishing the event in 15:05. While it was six seconds off of the NAIA's "B" standard (14:59:00), Hurd's time was a staggering 20 seconds faster than his previous best.
The Mustangs now look to compete at the prestigious Mt. Sac Invitational next weekend (April 19-20) in Walnut, California.
Gilbertson is slated to compete in the men's 5K, while Freeman, Crichton, and David Eller will represent The Master's College in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase.


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In less than a year, they went from being teens hanging out at the Boys and Girls Club with their first baby, Phoenix, to an estranged couple whose fury spilled over at a funeral home after the death of their second child.
The inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair heard for the first time Wednesday from someone who witnessed the tumultuous relationship and recalled holding baby Phoenix.
In 1999, Nikki Humenchuk (formerly Taylor) worked for the Boys and Girls Club on Stella Avenue as a supervisor when Samantha Kematch and Steven Sinclair were there before Phoenix was born. Humenchuk described how the young parents acted around Phoenix before their relationship ended. Kematch killed Phoenix in 2005.
"Steve was an excellent guitar player," said Humenchuk, who described him as "surprisingly sweet." Kematch, she said, was immature, cognitively delayed and had a tough time showing her emotions.
When Kematch became pregnant with Phoenix, it was obvious to staff at the club but Kematch and Sinclair denied it, said Humenchuk. The couple didn't tell her about the baby until the April 2000 day Phoenix was born and apprehended from the unprepared parents.
"I was in shock and I think I said 'I'll be right there,' " said Humenchuk. They didn't tell her about Kematch's previous baby who was apprehended, she said. They wanted to get Phoenix back and she helped them navigate the child welfare system to do it. She remembered being with them at Child and Family Services to see baby Phoenix.
"I took a turn holding her. Samantha and Steve seemed interested and caring and loving."
They got Phoenix back in September 2000. Kematch became pregnant again but didn't hide it, said Humenchuk. Echo was born in April 2001 and the family stopped spending much time at the club, she said. She learned the parents broke up that summer and Sinclair became caregiver.
On July 15, Echo died of an acute respiratory infection, an autopsy said. Police investigated and said foul play wasn't suspected. Humenchuk went to the baby's wake on July 18.
"It was a volatile situation," she recalled, with separate viewing times at the funeral home for the Kematch and Sinclair families. There was a family dispute and an outside source called the police because of fears violence would erupt, according to a crisis response unit report read at the inquiry. Kematch said there were bruises on the baby's body and accused Sinclair of inflicting them. Humenchuk contacted the chief medical examiner, who said the cause of death was a respiratory infection, not abuse. Then Humenchuk lost touch with them.
Sinclair had Phoenix and CFS closed the file on them in March 2002. It was reopened in February 2003, when the Child Protection Centre reported Phoenix was taken to the hospital with an infection caused by an object that had been left stuck up her nose for months.
The intake worker who was supposed to see Sinclair within five days didn't see the child for four months because no one was ever home, the inquiry heard Wednesday.
Laura Forrest said she went to check on the little girl the day she was assigned the case in February 2003. When Forrest went to the home, Sinclair was there but Phoenix wasn't.
"He presented at the door in a rather foul but sober manner," her notes at the time said. "He was also sporting a rather sizeable black eye which he refused to discuss."
He said Phoenix was staying with a family friend for a few days and he wouldn't tell her where, the inquiry heard. Forrest said she went back to the home several times but there was never an answer.
That June, Phoenix was apprehended by CFS after-hours staff on a weekend. Sinclair was abusing substances and leaving Phoenix with inappropriate caregivers, a report said. She was placed in an emergency shelter.


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The unnamed device has been shown off as a prototype with a fetching chrome finish.The 5.6" "laptop" is complete with touchscreen keyboard (which dominates the screen), atom processor and MS Vista operating system. It also has 64GB of storage and GPS built-in. But most of all, its cute!!!!!!!!!!


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Hillel welcomes students of all backgrounds and fosters an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel. As the largest Jewish student organization in the world, Hillel builds connections with emerging adults and inspires them to direct their own Jewish journey.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
According to Freud, the mind is made up of the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is concerned with satisfying our needs, the ego is aware of the self and the world, and the superego is concerned with morality.
Creative ideas originate in the unconscious id and must be filtered through the ego and superego before they can be expressed to the world. The ego may reject an idea because it is unrealistic or impractical and the superego may reject an idea because it is against our ethics.
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A little bit of much-needed consolidation is finally taking place in the European Venture Capital industry. On Wednesday DFJ Esprit and Tempo Capital announced plans to merge their secondary investment businesses.
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Succession planning at family businesses is often full of unlikely twists and shrieking. After the phone-hacking scandal broke over Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers in 2011, Vanity Fair claimed that the Murdoch siblings had discussed succession with a "family counsellor", partly in an attempt to smooth the process. Read more


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We're teaming up with our friends at the Community Cycling Center this Saturday, August 28th for our second annual bike drive. Come on out between 9 am and 1 pm to donate a new or used bike in good condition and receive a coupon for a free breakfast at our Whole Grain Store. The Community Cycling Center uses the donated bikes to teach children about bike safety and maintenance. The program helps kids in need get bikes and fosters a lifelong love of biking. What more could you ask for?
Our goal this year is to collect 100 bikes. All bike donations are tax deductible and a voluntary donation of $5 will help the Cycling Center get the bikes into good working order for the Bikes for Kids program. So bring those bikes sadly collecting dust or those that are just too small for your tikes on down to the Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Store on Saturday. Those bikes will make some kid very happy and get all the love they deserve!
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