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Youth March Against War July 3, 2004
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Media Advisory for Aug. 4 Demonstration
Event: Demonstration Against Israeli Aggression
in Lebanon and Palestine
Gather: Detroit/Windsor Tunnel Entrance, Corner of
East Jefferson and Randolph, at 4:30 p.m.
March: To Grand Circus Park for 6:00 p.m. Rally & Teach-In
Date: Friday, August 4, 2006
Contact: The Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)
Phone: (313) 680-5508 or log on to the MECAWI Website: http://www.mecawi.org
Detroit Honors the National Day of Action to Stop U.S./Israeli Terror & Aggression Against Lebanon and Palestine, August 4, 4:30 p.m. Gathering, 5:30 p.m. March to Grand Circus Park for 6:00 p.m. Teach-In
The Bush administration with the backing of both political parties in Congress, have given Israeli rulers the green light to wage all-out war in Lebanon and Palestine. This war is part of the drive by the United States administration to dominate, colonize, exploit and rob the natural resources (especially oil) of the people of the Middle East.
This war is not about religion and does not benefit the Jewish people. It is an extension of the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq. The obstacles to peace in the Middle East are not Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria or Iran, but the U.S. government and its client, the Israeli settler state.
The U.S. government spends over $100 billion a year to wage war in Iraq and gives Israel an additional $15 million a day in military aid. In the meantime, despite growing poverty and joblessness at home, social programs are slashed every day. Only the oil companies with their rising gas prices and record profits benefit from the U.S. wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Together we must intensify the struggle to get U.S. imperialism out of the Middle East, to free the thousands of Palestinian, Lebanese and Iraqi prisoners held in U.S. and Israeli prisons and to end the occupations of Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.
Representatives of MECAWI are available for media interviews on the current crisis in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.

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A big thank you to all those we've worked for and with over the last 7 years however we have decided to close RARE's doors and pursue new ventures. We thank you for all the love and wish you all well for the future.
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Improving Your Leadership Relationships
What can you do to improve your leadership relationships?
Here are five key prenciples, including action steps (and responses) for the first three principles.
Understand yourself clearly
First, take a personal inner inventory. Answer the following questions, which look at motivations and goals.
- What are your motivations; why are you interested in leading?
- What are your personal goals in accepting leadership responsibility?
- To what extent are you leading to meet your own needs?
Second, learn to "hot check" your motives in the midst of a leadership situation; that is, be emotionally mature enough to step outside of yourself and analyze your emotions in the midst of an intense situation. If you simply act on the basis of your unevaluated emotions, you probably feel confident that you are right- but you may actually be rigidly unwilling to entertain the possibility that you might be wrong.
Learn to be sensitive to the needs of your followers
Remember that every person in a church comes with a set of personal needs, with the core needs of acceptance and significance. These needs are at least in the background of every interaction the person has with you.
Often they are legitimately in the foreground. For example, when a person has a particular issue with which they need help, a struggling child or a dying parent, those needs are up front. But the core needs are there in every interaction. If you get exasperated and "blow off" a person's question, you have impacted that person's core need for acceptance and significance without even realizing it.
Will Schutz observed that people come into any relationship with three questions:
Inclusion: Am I in or out?
Control: Am I on top or on the bottom?
Openness: Am I open or closed?
To what extent do you think people come into the church situation with these questions in the back of their minds?
Learn to listen
The ability to listen is crucial to solid relationships and a sense of trust. Begin by giving the other person your full attention. Look directly at the person. Be sure your body language- how you sit or stand- communicates interest. Do not interrupt the speaker. Three tips for listening well are:
- Withhold judgment until the person has finished speaking. Do not begin framing your answers while the person is still talking. Wait until you are certain you understand his position.
- Ask clarifying questions to be sure you understand. Ask if there is more they want to say.
- Resist the impulse to become defensive; learn to recognize defensive feelings within yourself.
Learn how to express genuine approval and acceptance to others
Every person wants to feel accepted and valued by those important to him or her. As leaders, when we make people feel they're part of the team and express sincere appreciation for their efforts, they will be motivated to help further.
Learn how to handle difficult relationship issues.
Concerning this final step, note that Matthew 5:23-24 implies that even among people who are spiritual, there is the possibility of fractured relationships. Church conflict is one of the most painful experiences in the life of a church as well as in the individual lives of those involved. Long-term friendships can be shattered, distrust can infect ministry relationships, and ugly accusations can leave lingering wounds. Because of mishandled conflict, people will leave the church- some in sadness, in disillusionment, others in self-justifying anger. However, as painful as conflict can be, keep in mind- it is unhealthy if there was no conflict in a local church as well. Complete calm is no more a measure of spiritual maturity than a bright paint job is a measure of the structural integrity of a termite-infested house.
Relationships are messy because emotions, egos, and sanctification are messy. However, as a leader others are looking to you to bring order into that chaos. It will certainly take practice and prayer, but by checking your own emotions and motives, genuinely listening to and caring for the needs of those to whom you minister, and keeping the perspective that conflict is healthy, the Lord will use you as a peacemaker rather than a bulldozer.
About the Contributors
Andrew B. Seidel
Dr. Andrew B. Seidel served as executive director of the Hendricks Center at Dallas Seminary for fifteen years, which provides leadership training and development for seminary students as well as ministry and business leaders. A graduate of West Point and a colonel in the U.S. Army, Dr. Seidel was senior pastor at Grace Bible Church in College Station, Texas, for fourteen years. He left the pastorate to provide leadership training for pastors on the mission field in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Today he continues to work in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia with Entrust (formerly BEE International). The author of Charting a Bold Course; Training Leaders for 21st Century Ministry, Dr. Seidel and his wife Gail Norris Seidel have been married for more than fifty years and have two married children and six grandchildren.


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Privacy & Access to Information
Rainy River District EMS Privacy Statement
The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board (RRDSSAB) is vitally interested in protecting the privacy of personal information. The Board is committed to collecting, using and disclosing information responsibly and only to the extent necessary for the services we provide. The RRDSSAB endeavours to be open and transparent as to how they handle personal information.
Privacy encompasses the rights and obligations of individuals and organizations with respect to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information. The collection and storage of personal information should be treated in a manner that is respectful of the individual.
We will ensure that access to your personal health information is limited to those who are involved in your emergency medical care or during your time in our care in non-emergency circumstances. We will further ensure that access to your personal health information by our staff is time-limited.
Collection of personal health information
Paramedics may collect personal health information about you directly from you or from people acting on your behalf, during an emergency or otherwise, while you are under our care. The personal health information that we collect is limited to that which is necessary to provide care and may include: your name, date of birth, address, health history, medications, and/or recent event history.
We use and disclose your personal health information to:
- provide emergency treatment;
- get payment for your treatment and care (from OHIP, WSIB, your private insurer, or others);
- conduct quality improvement activities (such as sending patients satisfaction surveys);
- teach;
- conduct research;
- compile statistics;
- comply with legislative requirements;
- fulfill other purposes permitted or required by law; and
- hospital physicians and staff.
Important information
We take steps to protect your personal health information from theft, loss, and unauthorized access, copying, modification, use, disclosure, and disposal. All documents containing personal health information are secured and access is limited. We conduct audits and complete investigations to monitor and manage our privacy compliance. We retain personal information for a minimum of five years as required by the Ambulance Act so that we can answer any questions you might have about the services provided, and for our own accountability to external regulatory bodies. We destroy paper files containing personal information by shredding. We destroy electronic information by deleting it and, when the hardware is discarded, we ensure that the hard drive is physically destroyed.
Personal access
You may access and correct your personal health records, or withdraw your consent for some of the above uses and disclosures by contacting us (subject to legal exceptions). With only a few exceptions, you have the right to see what personal information we hold about you. Often all you have to do is ask. We can help you identify what records we might have about you. We will also try to help you understand any information you do not understand (e.g. technical language).
We will need to confirm your identity, if we do not know you before providing you with this access. Your request will need to be put in writing. If we cannot give you access, we will notify you within 30 days and provide a reason why access cannot be granted. We reserve the right to charge a nominal fee for such requests. If you believe there is a mistake in the information you have the right to ask for it to be corrected. This applies to factual information where you can substantiate that our files are wrong.
How to contact us
For more information about our privacy protection practices, or to raise a concern you have with our practices, contact us at:
RRDSSAB Privacy Officer
Joanne Spence, Personnel & Policy Officer
Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board
450 Scott Street
Fort Frances, ON
Ph: (807) 274-5349 Fax: (807) 274-5729
You have the right to complain to the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario if you think we have violated your rights. The Commissioner may be reached at:
Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
2 Bloor Street East
Suite 1400
Toronto, ON
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Welcome to Timely Classics
We have been collecting and dealing in Vintage Watches since 1985 and on the Internet since 1996. Watches offered are carefully selected and ready for your growing collection. Condition is well noted and satisfaction is guaranteed with our 3 day return privilege. Trade here with complete confidence.
We deal in antique, vintage, military, and pocket watches of all types.
Special interest in Rolex, Patek Phillipe, Blancpain, Cartier, Breitling, Bulova, Gallet, Gruen and especially Gruen Curvex, Hamilton, Illinois, IWC, Le Coultre, Longines, Movado, Universal Geneve and Vacheron and Constantine. Also, all New Old Stock (NOS) watches and related factory items and advertising pieces.
Affiliations are listed at the bottom of page. Timely Classics.com is not an authorized dealer for any watch company unless otherwise noted.
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Besides the availability of a device driver, some hardware also requires so-called firmware or microcode to be loaded into the device before it can become operational. This is most common for network interface cards (especially wireless NICs), but for example some USB devices and even some hard disk controllers also require firmware. With many graphics cards, basic functionality is available without additional firmware, but the use of advanced features requires an appropriate firmware file to be installed in the system.
On many older devices which require firmware to work, the firmware file was permanently placed in an EEPROM/Flash chip on the device itself by the manufacturer. Nowadays most new devices do not have the firmware embedded this way anymore, so the firmware file must be uploaded into the device by the host operating system every time the system boots.
I de flesta fall så är den fasta programvaran icke-fri enligt de kriteria som används av Debian GNU/Linux-projektet och kan därför inte inkluderas i huvuddistributionen eller i installationssystemet. Om själva enhetsdrivrutinen är inkluderad i distributionen och om Debian GNU/Linux juridiskt sett kan distribuera den fasta programvaran så finns den ofta tillgänglig som ett separat paket från sektionen non-free i arkivet.
However, this does not mean that such hardware cannot be used during an installation. Starting with Debian GNU/Linux 5.0,
debian-installer supports loading firmware files or packages containing firmware from a removable medium, such as a USB stick. See Avsnitt 6.4, "Läsa in saknad fast programvara" for detailed information on how to load firmware files or packages during the installation.
If the
debian-installer prompts for a firmware file and you do not have this firmware file available or do not want to install a non-free firmware file on your system, you can try to proceed without loading the firmware. There are several cases where a driver prompts for additional firmware because it may be needed under certain circumstances, but the device does work without it on most systems (this e.g. happens with certain network cards using the tg3 driver).


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Better to light a Candle - Greece
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. You can can search for solidarity through despairing about the state of our planet, of violence, war and hate, of discrimination, pollution and poverty..or you can use that same energy to get up and Do something. Do something small, or something huge, as long as it is a something that is bigger than you. This year I had the honour of traveling with One Voice, to a small Greek island called Lesvos, where many thousands of refugees are stuck in an unmoving world with years of trauma, tragedy and loss following them and no ability to move forward. Trapped and at the mercy of strangers from a foreign land, they have no choice but to wait and hope for refuge. We offered to them the simple gifts of our hearts, our ears and all the paintbrushes and coloured paints we could find. There were times where the darkness and pain remained inescapable, but there too, were moments of hope, moments of warmth, moments of love and joy. Although I admit I still struggle with my own moments of helplessness, feeling like I can do nothing to really heal the wounds that scar so many beings on this planet I know that it is better atleast try. The beautiful humans I met in this little camp will always have a place in my heart and I only hope that it will not be long before the hearts and minds of our 'leaders' will open to them. I mean, what if the politicians across the globe for once came together not for business, war or sport- but for peace and rufuge for those have lost everything? Today, on world peace day, this is my greatest wish. There is always hope.Read More


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PowerXGames Theater is a playful PC testing application containing three games Blocker Plains, Color LIFE Sound and Perpetuum mobile, that can be run simultaneously to evaluate PC performance.
Each game can be re-sized to display at the full screen resolution, or they can be arranged in a side-by-side format or in other overlapping or stacked formats. The selected arrangement can be saved to the later recall as configuration.
Blocker Plains is a reaction game with six levels, an unlimited number of balls, 50 stone plains and a freely movable Blocker. The objective of the game is to move the Blocker to manipulate the balls to clear away the stone plains.
The blocker size, the size and speed of the balls and the ball gravity are changed variably through the game levels. High scores are stored in a Champions list. Eight captivating sound themes and changing backgrounds makes Blocker Plains a fun experience. Six players can simultaneously participate in the game.
Color LIFE illustrates the reproduction behavior of microorganisms. The reproduction rules, the incremental width and the output time of the generations can be independently selected. Color-palettes can be produced on your own. With a shape-run, new rules and nice graphics can be found.
Color LIFE Sound plays the cell pattern with 3D-Tones. 24 sounds from four different sound themes can be selected. The area size, the bar and the volume is variably adjustable. Universal settings can be saved as file.
Perpetuum mobile highlights continually moving and rotating balls. Up to 500 balls can be shown at one time. The ball movement can be selected to follow gravitation rules or be manipulated impulsively. The spectator position can be the screen, the middle of the room, on a ball, or on an elevator. Hereby special visual and acoustic effects come to the validity.
Rats! is a frantic game of rodent extermination. You must kill all the rats before they have a chance to mate and overrun the maze. To do this you can use bombs, radioactive waste, gas, poison, plague rats, blocks, and gender changing chemicals...
Play the most realistic driving simulator, VAZ 2108!
PowerXGames Theater is a playful PC testing application containing three games Blocker Plains, Color LIFE Sound and Perpetuum mobile, that can be run simultaneously to evaluate PC performance.


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The Chi
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.
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Director: Lena Waithe
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Enabling Core Files
Enabling Core Files
Core Files
Sometimes a bug in a piece of software will cause it to crash, and, if enabled, create a core file. This core file can often be used by Zimbra Technical Support to examine what problem occurred and either fix it, or contact the proper project (OpenLDAP, MySQL, etc) with the details so it can be fixed in their code and incorporated into ZCS. This wiki discusses how to enable core files on Linux and OSX OSes.
Enabling core files on Linux varies slightly based on kernel revision and distributor. The primary parts are to enable core dumps via sysctl settings. The parameters are:
This appends the PID to the generated core file, allowing multiple core dumps.
kernel.suid_dumpable=2 fs.suid_dumpable=2
Depending on the kernel release, one of these two must be set to two. Older 2.6 kernels use the kernel.suid_dumpable parameter (RHEL4, CentOS4, SLES10, OpenSuSE 10.2). Newer ones use fs.suid_dumpable (RHEL5, CentOS5, RHEL6, F7, DEBIAN4.0, UBUNTU6, UBUNTU8, UBUNTU10, UBUNTU12). What this parameter does is allow binaries that are setuid (like slapd) to drop core.
Optional (but useful):
kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core-%e-%s-%u-%g-%p-%t
or for the GNR release and later:
kernel.core_pattern = /opt/zimbra/data/tmp/core-%e-%s-%u-%g-%p-%t
Filename variables: %e is the filename %g is the gid the process was running under %p is the pid of the process %s is the signal that caused the dump %t is the time the dump occurred %u is the uid the process was running under
This would cause all core files to get created in /tmp/ (or /opt/zimbra/data/tmp/). Obviously, this can be changed to any other directory as well. The default is kernel.core_pattern=core, which means it gets created in whatever the current working directory was at the time the process started, which is less useful, as that could be anywhere on the system and may not be writable by the executing process.
Note: This setting gets overridden on RHEL6/CentOS6 by default if ABRT is installed.
In general, these parameters should be set in /etc/sysctl.conf. After the modifications are finished, the command
/sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
can be executed so that a reboot is not necessary (although some OSes require a reboot, see below).
See notes for Ubuntu14 and later below, however.
Ubuntu 14 and later
Unfortunately, generating usable core files on Ubuntu requires disabling the apport process. This is likely not a big deal unless you want various crashes reported upstream to Ubuntu. To do this, edit /etc/default/apport, and set enabled to 0, then stop the services:
service apport stop
Create /etc/sysctl.d/60-zimbra-core.conf with the following contents:
kernel.core_uses_pid=1 fs.suid_dumpable=2 kernel.core_pattern=/opt/zimbra/data/tmp/core-%e-%s-%u-%g-%p-%t
Then run
service procps start
REDHAT derivative OSes only
On RHEL6:
echo "DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT='unlimited'" >> /etc/sysconfig/init
then reboot the system.
On earlier RedHat derivative OSes (RHEL4, RHEL5, F7, CentOS) also need to have a modification made to the startup scripts. By default, those OSes hard set the coresize to zero in /etc/profile. To fix this, you need to find the following line in /etc/profile:
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
and change it to
ulimit -S -c unlimited > /dev/null 2>&1
and then reboot the system.
OSX derivatives
Core dumps are disabled by default under Darwin/Mac OS X. To re-enable core dumps, a privileged user must edit /etc/hostconfig to contain the line:


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Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 63 Issue 6 December 2004 pp 1391-1405
Working group report: Neutrino and astroparticle physics
Srubabati Goswami Raghavan Rangarajan K Agashe A Bandyopadhyay K Bhattacharya B Brahmachari C Burgess E J Chun D Choudhury P K Das A Dighe R Godbole S Goswami N Gupta M Kaplinghat D Indumathi J Forshaw Y Y Keum B Layek D Majumdar N Mahajan P Mehta R N Mohapatra N Mondai S More Y Nir S Pakvasa M K Parida M Ravikumar G Rajasekaran P Ramadevi R Rangarajan S D Rindani D P Roy P Roy N Sahu A Samanta Y Shadmi A M Srivastava S Uma Sankar R Vaidya U Yajnik
This is the report of neutrino and astroparticle physics working group at WHEPP-8. We present the discussions carried out during the workshop on selected topics in the above fields and also indicate progress made subsequently. The neutrino physics subgroup studied the possibilities of constraining neutrino masses, mixing and CPT violation in lepton sector from future experiments. Neutrino mass models in the context of Abelian horizontal symmetries, warped extra dimensions and in the presence of triplet Higgs were studied. Effect of threshold corrections on radiative magnification of mixing angles was investigated. The astroparticle physics subgroup focused on how various particle physics inputs affect the CMBR fluctuation spectrum, and on brane cosmology. This report also contains an introduction on how to use the publicly available code CMBFAST to calculate the CMBR fluctuations.
Volume 72 Issue 1 January 2009 pp 277-283
Working group report: Quantum chromodynamics sub-group
Asmita Mukherjee R Basu H Dahiya L Gamberg R Godbole S Gupta M C Kumar L Magnea P Mathews N Mathur A Mukherjee P J Mulders V Ravindran A Tripathi
This is the report of the QCD working sub-group at the Tenth Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-X).
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Our people
Arunima Tripathi joined Macquarie as the first technology employee in the Gurugram office. Since then, she has been part of huge growth and change over the last decade. She's also been able to work flexibly around having a family and completing an MBA.
Arunima Tripathi studied mechanical engineering and hadn't planned on a career in technology. However, in 2005, a tech consultancy hired her straight from university and provided on-the-job training in software.
Five years later in 2011, she was looking for a new challenge and Arunima became the very first person hired to join Macquarie's Technology team in Gurugram.
I'm very proud of the career journey I've had at Macquarie over the past decade. I feel a real connection to the organisation, and I think this is due to the culture. It's a very inclusive environment."
Arunima says Macquarie has always supported her to develop her skills and career. Directly after joining, she travelled to Sydney for training and to meet members of her global team.
In 2013, she was then offered the opportunity to complete an Executive MBA, a pilot program with the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow.
And, in 2014, after returning from maternity leave, she was offered a promotion to become a team leader.
Currently, Arunima is a Vice President and leads the Tech Control Room team in Gurugram for accounts receivable, accounts payable and fixed assets, and has just gone live with a new project.
Outside of her role, Arunima was nominated as an Innovation Champion to help embed a culture of innovation within the technology group in Gurugram. She has also become involved in the Women in Technology employee network group.
"Women in Tech is a networking group where we are involved in a lot of initiatives including mentoring, the Gurugram Returnship Program, a women's Hackathon event and the 'Bring your Kids to Work' events. We also look at ideas like how psychological safety in teams helps to build high-performing teams".
Arunima is passionate about enhancing Macquarie's culture of inclusion and is also a member of Macquarie's diversity, equity and inclusion committee.
"We look at how we can support people with diverse backgrounds in our organisation," she explains. "This could be improving our working and hiring practices to employ people with disabilities, for example. We also organise trainings and recently launched a pride initiative for LGBT+ colleagues and allies."
One constant Arunima has observed at Macquarie over the past decade is change.
"Movement and growth are very common at Macquarie," says Arunima. "I've seen significant progress over the years in staff engagement, collaboration between teams, mentoring and people bringing new ideas."
Arunima says she's also seen flexible working become more entrenched.
"In the near decade I've worked at Macquarie, flexible work arrangements have become more common," she says. "Both in the way the organisation offers flexible working and in people taking up the opportunity to work flexibly."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, her whole team has been working from home. But Arunima has also benefited from flexible working, both personally and professionally, at several other times.
"There are a number of occasions that I would have had to take a career break or had to leave my job if I hadn't been offered flexibility," Arunima says.
She has taken maternity leave twice and returned to work three days a week after her first child was born. After her father passed away in 2016, Arunima also took a year-long work-from-home arrangement so that she could support her mother who lived in another city.
"My manager and I organised a cycle where I would work from my mother's home for four days a week for three months, then in the office for one month a quarter," Arunima says. "It not only helped me to manage my work but it also gave my mother a lot of strength."
"The main challenge is to create a boundary between work and home," she explains. "And, as a leader, it's important to schedule regular catch-ups with your team to make it work."
Arunima says she finds Macquarie's attitude to flexible working representative of the company's willingness to support its employees and its non-hierarchical structure.
I feel an openness at Macquarie in terms of being able to reach out to people, and people approaching me."
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AMD's SB750: Enabling Higher Phenom Overclocks?by Gary Key on July 23, 2008 12:00 AM EST
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The new SB750, or more like a SB700 with BOTOX-
The SB750: I remember when South Bridges weren't built on flip-chip packages
While technically a new part, the SB750 appears to us to be a point upgrade to the SB700. However, it is a major improvement over the SB600 used on the current 790FX boards. Anyway, let's get into what has changed and what has not.
The SB700/750 features six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports, up from four on the SB600, with the ability to reserve up to two of those ports for eSATA connectivity. Drives can be set up in RAID 0, 1, or 10 and RAID 5 now makes its appearance in the SB750. We just received a beta set of drivers for this new feature, but at first glance, it appears to work fine at this point.
Still missing in action is a native interface for networking support. AMD continues to use an external PHY and MAC for network operations. Although performance is similar to the NVIDIA and Intel solutions, this setup does incur a cost penalty for the motherboard suppliers.
The major improvement in the SB700/750 series over the SB600 is the increase in USB 2.0 performance and the number of ports available. The new dual-channel controller features 12 USB 2.0 capable ports and 2 specific 1.1 ports for compatibility reasons. USB 2.0 performance is now on par with the Intel and NVIDIA solutions.
A single PATA channel provides native IDE support for up to two drives. This channel supports PIO, multi-word DMA, and Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133. Six PCI lanes are still included although we doubt a board manufacturer is going to offer that many. AMD dropped HyperFlash support on the SB700 to make way for the new Advanced Clock Calibration interface.
The SB700/SB750 features four PCI Express lanes for the A-Link Express II interconnect, but like the current 790FX/780G series or upcoming product that we dare not mention, those four lanes are based on PCI Express 1.1 specifications. That means the interconnect bandwidth is capped at 2GB/s, half of what it would be in a PCI Express 2.0 configuration.
Finally, we have the High Definition Audio controller carried over from the SB700 that allows up to 16 channels of audio output per stream. The controller supports up to four codecs with sample rates reaching 192kHz at up to 32-bits per sample.
How it Works, um, Kinda
AMD was extremely vague in explaining to us exactly how the new SB750 South Bridge actually improved Phenom overclocking. At first all we were given was these two diagrams:
It makes it faster.
You see, the SB750...yeah, these pictures really meant nothing to us so we dug a little deeper with AMD.
Here's what we do know:
The SB750 now has a direct 6-pin interface to the AM2+ socket on the motherboard, there are now pins on the Phenom CPU that connect directly to the SB750. These pins were previously unused and are now used as a means of communication between the South Bridge and the CPU. The SB750, in combination with an updated BIOS, can now override some of the CPU's internal settings which can potentially increase the overclocking headroom of the chip.
AMD says that the settings tweak doesn't impact performance and doesn't change thermals or voltages, it simply can allow a Phenom processor to clock higher when overclocking. The BIOS exposes the parameter being changed, which AMD refers to as the Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC) value. Typically this value has a range of -2 to 0, on motherboards with the SB750 that support ACC the value can be set from -12 to +12. Higher numbers should allow for higher clock speeds, while lower values should allow for lower voltages/lower power operation.
Even after further pressuring, AMD wouldn't tell us what this value actually adjusts - simply stating that it makes it easier for the CPU to run at higher speeds. Based on AMD's careful choice of words, it would seem that adjusting the ACC somehow changes the acceptable margins of operation for the CPU cores (the value can be changed on a per-core basis in AOD or BIOS). By loosening these margins, however it is able to do so, the SB750 + ACC combo can enable many Phenom processors to operate outside of their normal overclocking margins. In fact, AMD is confident enough about the technology that they are willing to state that on average; a 100MHz to 300MHz increase in clock speeds is attainable by the user after some tweaking.
The SB750/ACC trick doesn't work on anything other than Phenom processors, and it works particularly well on the Black Edition processors. While AMD didn't rule out eventually enabling this on K8 based cores, it is a Phenom-only option for now. Reaching higher clock speeds is more of a top priority for Phenom, and it's unclear whether or not whatever AMD is doing here can even work on K8 if they tried. AMD also committed to enabling similar tweaks for upcoming 45nm based Phenom parts, implying that this was not a short-term solution to the clock speed problem.
At the same time, AMD implied that the tweaks that the SB750/ACC feature enables could be incorporated into the manufacturing chain and actually implemented in hardware. There's something strange going on here, but as you'll soon see - the tweak actually works.
Microprocessors are designed to operate in even the most extreme of conditions, AMD seemed to imply that its ability to adjust the ACC value somehow changes this. Curiously enough, AMD cited "competitive concerns" as a reason why it would not disclose exactly what's going on with this new overclocking feature. We can't help but wonder if it is because AMD is going a little too far in the sacrifices it's willing to make in the quest for higher clock speeds.
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bbqchickenrobot - Monday, August 11, 2008 - linkThis article claims the PCIe slots are 1.x when they are in fact 2.0 as stated in the manual, website and other sources.
Just wanted to make everyone aware of this. There are four total PCIe 2.0 that can run 2x PCIe 2.0 cards at x16/x16 or 4x PCIe 2.0 cards at x8/x8/x8/x8
To get around this, get an X2 version of the Radeon HD 3870 or 4870 and then crossfire with another one or drop down to a standard 3870/4870
MikeODanyurs - Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - linkAnyone see AMD OverDrive 2.1.2 available for download yet? It's Wednesday the 6th, official release day of 790GX+SB750.
CZroe - Monday, July 28, 2008 - link"it's unclear whether or not whatever AMD is doing here can even work on K8 if they tried."
Nope. I've been waiting for a board/BIOS maker to expose this chipset setting since the Athlon XP Mobile Barton CPUs first made me aware of it. My Mobile Barton Athlon XP was basically a completely unlocked bin-sorted Athlon XP 3200+ that was stable at lower voltages expected to be run at much-lower voltages and clock speeds.
With it, I discovered that there was clearly a chipset setting not exposed when my Mobile Barton failed to reach 200/400FSB in an nForce2 Ultra400 board (the Shuttle board inside my SN45G XPC... the FN45-whatever IIRC) while the same CPU could easily do 450+FSB in an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and an Abit NF7-S. The solution? Drop a thin wire inside the socket to make this completely unlocked CPU *DEFAULT* to 400FSB and it runs perfectly fine and can even go higher (the L12 trick/mod).
With the default FSB being the only difference (all settings/frequencies, including the FSB, were the same), it was very clear that it was related to a calibration setting that was automatically applied by the chipset based on the default FSB (100MHZ/200FSB for this unlocked CPU). Previously, I could only get to 333FSB before Memtest 86+ would start giving errors. There were some reports of even the overclocking boards (mentioned earlier) getting higher with the L12 trick and later many had BIOS updates and board revisions that seemingly integrated the trick. Regardless, the setting was still not exposed and was likely not even something the board/BIOS makers could expose (though they could spoof the default FSB I'd assume). It looks like AMD, having full control of chipset and board-level options here, has finally let the cat out of the bag.
Although the FSB has become the HT bus, the behavior is the same. Changing the calibration setting allows for higher clocks while actually becoming unstable at lower clocks. Ever accidentally erased the OSCAL calibration value on a PIC microcontroller and had to find a working value through trial and error? I'm guessing that this is why it was automatic before.
initialised - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - linkLeads me to suspect that ACC is a means of adjusting the substrate potential to provide a bias to the bottom of the SOI stack to control the threshold voltage of the transistors.
SirYes - Friday, July 25, 2008 - linkTo spread the word: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread...
| To be honest I find it hard to believe that they have a campaign
| against Linux. There would be nothing to gain and would have
| a zero fiscal gain.
| I think it is a bug you have found
After looking through the disassembled BIOS for the last several hours, rebooting it, and tweaking it more, I'd say this is very intentional, I've found redundant checks to make sure it's really running on Windows, regardless what the OS tells it it is, and then of course fatal errors that will kernel panic FreeBSD or Linux, scattered all over the place, even in the table path for Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista, and had to correct them (Well, at least divert them off into a segment of RAM I hope to god I'm sure about)
No, this looks extremely calculated, it's like they knew someone would probably go tearing it apart eventually and so tried to scatter landmines out so as to where you'd probably hit one eventually.
So if it is a mistake, or incompetence, then it's the most meticulous, targeted, and dare I say, anal retentive incompetence I've seen.
Will14 - Friday, July 25, 2008 - linkI've never had much faith in Windows OC tools.
However if this one actually works and AMD can up their speeds a little then I may switch back for my next system.
I must say my 6400-8400(cheated got an e3110 with 20% discount when first released and they were all $280 or OOS for $170). Upgrade path was seamless and I feel bad going from 1950Pro to 8800GT 512 but I follow my wallet not the company I root for.
A cheap system built off cheap Black Box edition(OC'd easily with their tool) and 4870x2 would be pretty sweet come this December if the new cores are kicking and the utils work(a lot of ifs). Not that I need a new system though, but if one did. I don't see nehalems being affordable anytime soon(unless new AMD core rocks(another if)), although my mobo would support. I like the $200 mark for processors $100 for HDD's $200 for gpu's plus generally only needing 1-4 new parts for a yearly $400ish upgrade which is cheaper and allows better performance than the $1-2k some people build.
Zisyncmon - Friday, July 25, 2008 - linkDoes anyone know when they will release more info? Gary? Any estimates of when to expect another article? Or will we have to be in suspense all weekend.
geok1ng - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - linkI am really hoping that AMD can make some competition on CPU market as they did on the IGP (man i am really looking forward to the next IGP offer from AMD, the 780G is the king, the next chip will be a market consolidating move for sure)and VGA markets but i am not joking when i ask:
Will a 3.1Ghz ultraoverclocked quad core Phenom beat a $80 E2180@3,1Ghz in gaming and common day tasks?
As i remember the C2Ds are 15%-25% faster clock per clock, and the AMD CPUs consume MORE power for the same tasks , because they take LONGER to do the same task of a C2D.
jslusser - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - linkSo does this ACC on the SB750 do anything for vanilla Phenom's? Will it unlock the multiplier on the non-black Phenoms or just make them more stable with the HT and memory over clocks?
I'd like to see where the 9150e/9350e can get to with ACC and the power usage, since the voltage, etc doesn't change. So many questions...
HazaroudsSmoker - Friday, July 25, 2008 - linkFirst, you can't unlock the multiplier on the non Black Edition Phenoms. They are locked at the factory during manufacturing and can not be altered.
Sounds like there will be an advantage still to having the SB750 with Vanilla Phenoms.
Can't wait for Benchmarks.


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No. But you need to accept to have a religious service.
Is there a room available for a light reception after the ceremony (vin d'honneur)?
Yes, there are several rooms suitable for holding a light reception after your blessing ceremony. You will either need to do the set up & clean up or hire a caterer who will do both the set up and clean up.
Flowers, a photographer, a caterer and any other service providers are the responsibility of the couple. The Internet is the best source for available providers. We can provide a short list of florists and photographers that have provided good service in the past. Music questions should be discussed with our Music Director.
Can we make suggestions to the pastor regarding our wedding?
The pastor will welcome any questions and suggestions that you may have about your service and will help you with your service plans. We seek to make every service personal and special.
Can we have the blessing ceremony in another language than English?
Our services are normally in English. However, we can arrange a bilingual ceremony in English and French. We can also discuss a bilingual service with English plus another language.
Can we rent the church to have a wedding with our own clergy?
No. An ACP pastor will be in charge of all weddings held at the church. A wedding is not only held in our church; it is a service of the American Church. At your request we can invite your pastor to co-officiate.
Why do we have to have a civil ceremony before our religious blessing in France?
In France, only weddings solemnized by the civil authorities have legal standing; thus, a church wedding has spiritual significance, but not legal status. Before the religious wedding ceremony can take place, you must show proof of civil marriage. The easiest way to do this is to be married in a legal ceremony in your home country. In the U.S., your pastor can perform your service or you can go to a justice of peace. If the service is legal in your country, it is considered legal in France. To be married by the civil authorities in France requires a 40 day residency and a great deal of bureaucratic paperwork. Please send a copy of your legal certificate by fax or by email ahead of time unless your legal ceremony is right before your service at ACP. If that is the case bring a photo copy to us when you come.
Can we throw rice or rose petals after the ceremony?
Only rose petals are permitted, and the couple is responsible to have persons available to sweep them up. Bubbles blown by wedding guests are popular and require no cleanup.
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Backstreet Brawler in a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan
Brandon Meddock's Fire-Licked, Bad Attitude '56 Chevy
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Some guys build a new rod or custom every few years; others craft one and keep it forever. The latter option may sound a little boring to the former group, but there are advantages to hanging on to a ride for the long haul. First, you can rebuild it every so often to suit your changing tastes, and each time it's kinda like getting a new set of wheels. Plus, you never have to utter the words, "Boy, I never should have sold that car!"
Brandon Meddock has owned this '56 Chevy for 16 years. It's the only hot rod he's ever had. It was also his first car, purchased with the help of his parents, Ken and Geri, when Brandon was just 14. Even then he knew a '56 Chevy was a cool ride; he particularly liked the versatility. "It could go from a dragstrip look to a conventional street rod look," Brandon says. "Also, the details were interesting, like the gas filler in the taillight."
The car's first rebuild, completed in late 1990 by Brandon with help from mom and pop, could be dubbed "Pro Street lite." It had a stout 327, TH350, Guards Red paint, black interior, and 10-inch Center Lines stuffed in place without wheeltubs. Nothing too noteworthy by today's standards, but it was nevertheless a very cool high school driver for Brandon. Not only that, he had the foresight to keep the Chevy when he left home for college; he just stored it in his parents' garage to await its next incarnation.
It's worth noting that Brandon studied industrial design, with an automotive emphasis, at Academy of Art College in San Francisco. That led him to Southern California and a career as a clay modeler, first in Ford's design studios and now at Honda. Education and career refined Brandon's design sense; so did a growing interest in traditional hot rods. All of it influenced his Chevy's second coming.
Oddly enough, it was a '46 Ford--a Fresno-area rod with no hood, triple carbs, and a red firewall he remembers seeing as a kid--that Brandon kept thinking about as he tore into his '56 again. "I knew it was going to have whitewalls and steel wheels," Brandon says. "I also knew it had to have a white firewall with stickers." A theme was slowly emerging. Brandon calls it a "late-'50s, early-'60s drag car look." We prefer to think badass backstreet brawler.
Many of the ingredients were already in place. The stout 327, for instance, merely needed fresh gaskets before being dolled up with vintage-style Edelbrock valve covers and dual Carter AFBs on a Weiand intake. Ditto for the TH350--all it required was a more appropriate Lokar nostalgia shifter. The black Naugahyde upholstery with red piping worked with the new theme, too, as did the owner-built rollcage.
The key changes came outside. Brandon tackled his first priority quickly--spraying the Ivory-colored firewall (a key factor considering that he often cruises the car sans hood). Flames had also entered the equation, but not just any fire would do. Brandon wanted period licks with fat, tapered outlines. To achieve the desired look using single-stage paint, Brandon sprayed the black pinstripe first, then laid down the Guards Red and India Ivory, overlapping the black slightly with both. This left a clean pinstripe edge once everything was color-sanded and buffed.
As striking as the flames are, they're almost overshadowed by the plain-Jane wheels (we can just picture the guys with 20-inch billet rollers shaking their heads in disbelief). Somehow the gloss black steelies help complete the Chevy's "incomplete" persona--that no-nonsense, just-back-from-the-dragstrip, don't-mess-with-me demeanor that oozes from every seam. McGaughy dropped spindles and 2-inch lowering blocks do their part to enhance the surly attitude with proper altitude.
In the end it all boils down to wheels, tires, stance, and paint. Those elements define most rods and customs, and they're exactly what set this '56 apart from other Tri-Five Chevys. Brandon is certainly excited with the way those ingredients came together; then again, this Chevy has never disappointed him. "I wouldn't do anything different," Brandon says. "Everything we did made sense at the time, or was the right choice for what we could afford." Right choices, right time, right car--no wonder he's kept the Chevy all these years.
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A stock frame provides the foundation for this fire-branded Chevy. The 3.55:1-geared stock rearend gets help from KYB shocks, 2-inch lowering blocks, and owner-built traction bars, while McGaughy dropped spindles, lowered springs, and disc brakes get things down up front.
Brandon turned to Pete Paulson for the 15x7- and 15x8-inch steel wheels, which were powdercoated black. They're wrapped in Coker Classic whitewalls, size 215/75R15 and 235/75R15.
Stripping the car bare and doing a bunch of bodywork wasn't necessary since Brandon had done that on the first go-around. This time he just made a few repairs, scuffed the surface, and started spraying. He began by masking off the flames (with help from mother Geri, we might add) and spraying the black outline striping. Next he laid down the Valspar Guards Red and India Ivory, overlapping the black slightly with each. This left him with the most uniform surface possible using single-stage paint. Body mods include a shaved hood (the bird is gone) and license-free front bumper.
The cabin fits the car's theme perfectly--bare bones and basic. There's no radio and no air conditioning, just lots of black Naugahyde, a little red piping, VDO gauges, a Moon tach, Danchuk seatbelts, and an owner-built rollbar.


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When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
Don't expect any champagne toasts.
After a history marked by engineering triumphs, tunnels leaks, epic traffic jams, last year's death of a motorist crushed by falling concrete panels and a price tag that soared from $2.6 billion to a staggering $14.8 billion, there's little appetite for celebration.
Civil and criminal cases stemming from the July 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse continue, though on Monday the family of Milena Del Valle announced a $6 million settlement with Powers Fasteners, the company that manufactured the epoxy blamed by investigators for the accident. Lawsuits are pending against other Big Dig contractors, and Powers Fasteners still faces a manslaughter indictment.
Officially, Dec. 31 marks the end of the joint venture that teamed megaproject contractor Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to build the dizzying array of underground highways, bridges, ramps and a new tunnel under Boston Harbor — all while the city remained open for business.
Open heart surgery under a city
The project was so complex it's been likened to performing open heart surgery on a patient while the patient is wide awake.
Some didn't know if they'd live to see it end.
Enza Merola had a front row seat on the Big Dig from the front window of her pastry shop — stacked neatly with tiramisu, sfogliatelle and brightly colored Italian cookies — in Boston's North End.
During the toughest days of the project, the facade of Marie's Pastry Shop, named after her sister, was obscured from view. The only way customers could find the front door was along a treacherous path through heavy construction.
"For a while we thought we weren't going to make it," Merola said. "But you know, we hung in there."
The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project — as the Big Dig is officially known — has its roots in the construction of the hulking 1950's era elevated Central Artery that cut a swath through the center of Boston, lopping off the waterfront from downtown and casting a shadow over some of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
Almost as soon as the ribbon was cut on the elevated highway in 1959, many were already wishing it away.
One was Frederick Salvucci, a city kid for whom the demolition of the old Central Artery became a lifelong quest.
"It was always a beautiful city, but it had this ugly scar through it," said Salvucci, state transportation secretary during the project's planning stages.
Highway buried, not troubles
Rather than build a new elevated highway, Salvucci and others pushed a far more radical solution — burying it.
Easier said than done.
Those who built the Big Dig would have to undertake the massive highway project in the cramped confines of Boston's narrow, winding streets, some dating to pre-Colonial days.
Of all the project's Rubik's Cube-like engineering challenges, none was more daunting than the first — how to build a wider tunnel directly underneath a narrower existing elevated highway while preventing the overhead highway from collapsing.
To solve the problem, engineers created horizontal braces as wide as the new tunnel, then cut away the elevated highway's original metal struts and gently lowered them onto the braces — even as cars crawled along overhead, their drivers oblivious to the work below.
It was the just one of what would be referred to as the Big Dig's "engineering marvels."
The Big Dig's long history is also littered with wrong turns — some unavoidable, others self-inflicted.
One of the biggest occurred in 2004 when water started pouring through a wall of the recently opened I-93 tunnel under downtown Boston. An investigation found the leak was caused by the failure to clear debris that became caught in the concrete in the wall during construction. Hundreds of smaller drips, most near the ceiling, were also found.
Some delays were unrelated to construction.
Deaths mar project
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge — the project's signature element — went through dozens of revisions as designers labored to come up with the most practical and elegant way to cross the Charles River.
But the project's darkest day came near the end of construction in 2006 when suspended concrete ceiling panels in a tunnel leading to Logan Airport collapsed, crushing a car and killing Del Valle, 39, a passenger in the vehicle driven by her husband.
The tunnel was shut down for months as each of the remaining panels was inspected and a new fastening system installed. A federal investigation blamed the use of the wrong kind of epoxy and the Massachusetts attorney general indicted the epoxy manufacturer.
Four workers also were killed working on the project. During peak construction, more than 5,000 workers labored daily on the project.
The project's escalating budget also became an unwanted part of its legacy.
Regrets and pride
In 2000, former Big Dig head James Kerasiotes resigned after failing to disclose $1.4 billion in overruns. A frustrated Congress capped the federal contribution.
"It never should have taken so long. It never should have been so expensive," said former Gov. Michael Dukakis, who left office just as major construction was to begin.
For those who grew up with the noise and clutter of the old Central Artery, the transformation of downtown Boston is still a wonder to behold.
The darkened parking lots under the old elevated highway have been replaced by parks, dubbed the Rose Kennedy Fitzgerald Greenway after the mother of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who grew up in the North End. Buildings that once turned their backs to the old Central Artery are finding ways to open their doors to the parkway.
Mayor Thomas Menino, who presided over the city during most of the construction, said that for the first time in half a century, residents can walk from City Hall to the waterfront without trudging under a major highway.
"When I came into office in 1993, people said your city isn't going to survive," he said. "Now we have a beautiful open space in the heart of the city. It knits the downtown with the waterfront. All those dire predictions by the experts didn't come true."
Huge time savings
Drivers also give the Big Dig a big thumbs up.
A study by the Turnpike Authority found the Big Dig cut the average trip through Boston from 19.5 minutes to 2.8 minutes.
"Before we drive bumper to bumper, but now they are moving very well," said Gamal Ahmed, 38, who has been driving a cab in Boston for seven years. "Sometimes we are stuck, but not like before."
For Salvucci, who warns gridlock could soon return without a major commitment to public transportation, the Big Dig _ for all its whiz-bang engineering _ was always second to the city itself.
"The Big Dig is not a highway with an incidental city adjacent to it. It is a living city that happens to have some major highway infrastructure within it and that highway infrastructure had to be rebuilt," he said. "This was not elective surgery. It had to be done."


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Harrods in Knightsbridge
Disneyland for the rich and famous shoppers of the world. I'm not sure that many Londoners actually go there but at least it is very sparkly and photogenic at night :-)
Docklands Sunset
Museum Light
Off to Paris
This is the Martin Jennings statue of Sir John Betjeman. Anyone who has ridden the Eurostar from London to Paris will be familiar with this work of art.
Spiral Up
Metallic Rainbow
Business Portal
Towering Giants
Docklands at Night
Half Regal
Home Time
Learning the Dark Arts
This is the real set from the Harry Potter movies at the Warner Brothers studios.
No One Stops Here
Gherkin sandwich
Taken in the Financial district around Liverpool Street station, these are the Lloyds Building on the left, and the Willis Building on the right. And nicely sandwiched between them is the Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe)
Follow The Rainbow
Escalator To Heaven
Spooky Ben
Afternoon Parliament
First in the Museum
Brolly Canopy
Victorian Operating Theatre
A New Skyline
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A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.
PHOTO GALLERY: Maureen Lovetro
They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children's book, "Read All About It."
"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out of here! You're being a moron!' "
The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen – a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.
"I heard my daughter hysterical yelling, 'He's hitting me!' " said Wendy Lovetro.
"He punched her on the shoulder blades, but that wasn't enough," she said.
"My husband pushed the wheelchair away from him and he reached beyond my husband and began pounding my daughter in the thigh."
The two men fought as the president's family drove off. Cops broke them up and busted Talis on charges of assault and resisting arrest.
Maureen was not seriously injured.


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The first opportunity is for students studying in a financial service-related curriculum to apply for the peer financial counselor positions. Counselors will provide individual counseling and presentations to students after extensive training. Those applying should demonstrate an interest in improving the financial capability of all K-State students and have sufficient time to dedicate fully to this pre-professional internship opportunity. This position requires approximately four to eight hours of commitment a week.
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It's Thankful Thursday hosted by Brian of Brian's Home. He wants us to post what we're thankful for. I think it's a good thing to do each week. Focus on the positive things in our lives.
Make sure you link up to the Blog Hop at Brian's Home and get the code to put on your blog. Then visit all the participants.
I'm thankful that the weather has warmed up and it's finally spring. I've a feeling in a week or so we'll jump right into summer. Then it will be HOT!
I'm thankful for our wonderful cruise last weekend to San Joaquin Yacht Club. A great time was had by all.
I'm thankful for the time we had with our precious Little Bit. We got her as a puppy from Animal Control and she was just the cutest little thing. She went with us almost everywhere. She traveled all over the place on our boat and made lots of friends with other fleet pups. We had her for almost 13 years and it broke our hearts when she went to the bridge. If you have four legged family members, give them extra love today.
What are you thankful for today?


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Sun: 12pm-10pm
Wakame Sushi & Asian Bistro is a wonderful addition to the Lake Calhoun area. Noted for it's wonderful blend of Asian flare (most notably the Pad Thai) with fantastically fresh sushi (you have to try the Mango Tuna Roll!), we agree that Wakame is a must try for everyone. The brightly lit location is a wonderful lunch spot or a very romantic date destination. Wakame also serves food late which is always a plus for those of us who get a sushi craving at 10pm, they serve food until 12am! For those who require a bit more visual stimulation, there are Big Screen Tvs for your viewing pleasure! Either way you look at it Wakame Sushi & Asian Bistro has something for everyone so just go check it out! It is a fast growing personal favorite, make it yours too!
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