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Wondering how to run PC software on the Mac? This week we review Virtual PC, Connectix's entry into the PC emulation arena. We also continue our coverage of the clone licensing situation with news about Motorola's plans to discontinue cloning, note a new converter for Word users needing to access Word 97-98 documents, and take a light-hearted look at the truly strange contents of the Macintosh curio cabinet.
(Published 19 years and 31 weeks ago)
TidBITS Updates
TidBITS Updates -- The rapidity of important news releases surrounding the clone licensing situation recently prompted us to launch a Web-based project we'd been considering for some timeShow full article
TidBITS Updates -- The rapidity of important news releases surrounding the clone licensing situation recently prompted us to launch a Web-based project we'd been considering for some time. When news breaks after we've published an issue of TidBITS, as it has for the last few weeks, we'll provide a tight summary on our TidBITS Updates page (with headlines on our home page). We also plan to publish announcements of important software releases, occasional letters to the editor, and information about other appropriate topics. As with TidBITS, however, TidBITS Updates will focus on what we consider to be the most important news, not everything that happens. We're still completing our internal tools for TidBITS Updates, so, for now, use our home page to access TidBITS Updates content. [ACE]
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Word 97-98 Importer Available
by Tonya Engst
Word 97-98 Importer Available -- Recently, Microsoft announced plans to release Office 98 for the Macintosh by the end of this year, and - of more immediate interest - released a beta version of the Word 97-98 Import ConverterShow full article
Word 97-98 Importer Available -- Recently, Microsoft announced plans to release Office 98 for the Macintosh by the end of this year, and - of more immediate interest - released a beta version of the Word 97-98 Import Converter. Macintosh Word 5 and 6 users can use the software to read Word 97-98 format, used by Word for Windows 97, the upcoming Word for Windows 98, and the upcoming Word for Macintosh 98. The importer is available as a 1.4 MB download from the Microsoft Web site, and according to a contact at Microsoft, it will remain a beta for at least a little while. If you've experienced problems with Word 97 users not remembering to convert documents into Word 5 or 6 format for you, the beta may prove helpful, though I recommend you skim the list of known problems in the Read Me file. The installer installs the importer (called Word 97-98 Import version 97081800), some new graphics filters (JPEG, PNG, and metafile), and a batch converter. The importer requires a 68020-based Macintosh or better.
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In its announcement of Office 98, Microsoft noted Office 98 will run on PowerPC-based Macs only and will be self-repairing - that is, if a user unwittingly removes one of the many shared libraries required by Office 98, the software will automatically generate a new library. [TJE]
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Send Out the Clones
Despite the disbelief I expressed in some of my previous articles about the clone licensing situation, Apple has done what I then thought unlikely - eliminated at least two major players in the clone gameShow full article
Despite the disbelief I expressed in some of my previous articles about the clone licensing situation, Apple has done what I then thought unlikely - eliminated at least two major players in the clone game. Two weeks ago, Apple purchased Power Computing's Mac assets, including the company's Mac OS license. Last week, the Motorola Computer Group announced plans to discontinue its Mac OS clone system business. Motorola will continue to sell its StarMax systems until the end of 1997, after which Motorola will provide warranty and technical support to its customers. Motorola also will provide all existing and new StarMax owners with a full year of telephone support instead of the previous 90 days of support.
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As with Power Computing, the amount of money paid by the clone manufacturers to Apple didn't seem to be the final sticking point. Motorola was reportedly willing to pay a higher licensing fee to Apple, but according to a Reuters story, "Apple was not willing to give up the designs necessary for cloners to develop systems based on the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)." I suspect that means Apple wasn't willing to license a version of the Mac OS for CHRP to Motorola, since UMAX successfully renegotiated a deal with Apple to ship Mac OS 8 with computers that don't have CHRP motherboard designs.
What About Sub-Licensees? Remember that Motorola also sub-licenses the Mac OS to other companies, including TidBITS sponsor APS. Paul McGraw of APS noted:
Though it appeared to be inevitable considering the present licensing climate at Apple Computer, we find the decision of Motorola Computer Group (MCG) to eliminate its Mac OS compatible computer program to be extremely disappointing. The decision is detrimental to the market as a whole and the businesses of its sub-licensees in particular. We will be forced to make a number of difficult business decisions over the next few months as a result of this decision. At the least, one would have hoped that MCG would have felt it incumbent upon themselves to notify their sub-licensees in advance of a general release to the public. The fact that they chose not to do so seems disappointingly consistent with the extent of their commitment to their sub-licensee partners.
Industry sources say IBM has also decided drop its Mac OS business. Although IBM never manufactured a Macintosh clone (IBM helped design the PowerBook 2400 and was reportedly waiting for Apple to certify CHRP and portable designs before it started producing Macintosh clones), it sub-licensed the Mac OS to Tatung of Taiwan and Akia of Japan. Both Tatung and Akia had designed CHRP-based Macs using IBM's CHRP designs.
It remains to be seen how these situations will play out, since the existing clone licensing contracts are still in effect. Motorola has not ruled out the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Apple. Sources have said that it cost Motorola $140 million to start its Macintosh clone business, and the company is taking a $95 million charge to discontinue that business - I have to believe that Motorola will attempt to minimize its financial loss. IBM has less of a financial stake, since it never manufactured machines, but the various sub-licensees fall into an awkward position that may confuse the issue for weeks to come. For instance, according to a report on MacInTouch, PowerTools continues to manufacture machines based on Motorola's motherboards but has also signed an agreement with UMAX for motherboards.
Is the Sky Falling? Needless to say, Apple's moves (seemingly driven by Steve Jobs) have had some of the negative results predicted in TidBITS-395. A number of Macintosh developers are talking about moving projects to other platforms, and companies are pulling back on Mac-specific advertising and trade shows. Apple's actions have more subtly damaged its overall business reputation, its relationship with PowerPC suppliers Motorola and IBM, and its standing in the eyes of previously loyal Macintosh users.
The counter-argument being put forth by Apple executives is that Apple was losing too much money to survive. It's hard to evaluate this claim accurately, since only Apple knows all the numbers. Even if we give Apple the benefit of the doubt, I think there's no question that Apple and Steve Jobs botched this situation badly. It makes one wonder who, if anyone, is in charge of PR at Apple these days.
The only public information from Apple has been a telephone conversation Jobs had with Ric Ford of MacInTouch. Based on that conversation, Ric believes that Jobs is centering his strategy on the Mac OS and the PowerPC chip. Ric also believes Jobs has a viable plan for expanding the Macintosh market in 1998. I hope Jobs is telling the truth and that his plans succeed. I wish he hadn't seen the elimination of clone licensing as necessary, since I believe the negatives involved in doing so have overwhelmingly dangerous consequences.
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The Macintosh Curio Cabinet
by Kris Kunze
The good folk at TidBITS, perhaps suffering from spiked Seattle drizzle, have asked me to write an article about my Web site, "Oddities, Curios, and Rarities for Macintosh." Well, hey, why not? We all need love, admiration, and a chance to work off our 15 minutes of Andy Warhol-allotted fame. The theme of my page is simple enough: it is a downloadable collection of odd, curious, and rare shareware for the MacShow full article
The good folk at TidBITS, perhaps suffering from spiked Seattle drizzle, have asked me to write an article about my Web site, "Oddities, Curios, and Rarities for Macintosh." Well, hey, why not? We all need love, admiration, and a chance to work off our 15 minutes of Andy Warhol-allotted fame.
The theme of my page is simple enough: it is a downloadable collection of odd, curious, and rare shareware for the Mac. Each item comes with an informative description or a long rant about something completely irrelevant. People take a read and think to themselves, "Oh, I say, that sounds jolly interesting. I'll download this program that simulates a stapler and entertain myself with it for hours." And they do. And they love it. And they write to me and tell me so.
It's increasingly evident the Macintosh has bred a unique and silly brand of software. From Grouches that pop out of trash cans and satirical emulations of Windows 95 to utilities displaying hypnotizing, spinning yellow wheels, the Macintosh has developed a humorous freeware underground. There are, of course, reasons for this. Studies have shown we Macintosh users often lack important enzymes required for the stable processing of thought, and that as a group we are disproportionately inbred (due at least in part to our innate attractiveness and sexual magnetism).
Oh, whoops, did I say that? What I meant to say was that something sets us Mac users apart from the crowd. The original aesthetic that went into the creation of Macintosh continues to this day. This aesthetic is not only the idea that software should be easy to use, but also that it be fun to use. And, let's make it not just fun to use; let's be crazy and waste space cramming goofy pictures of the developers into our operating system. The Mac has that sort of mentality as a constant undertow.
This means my Web page has no lack of material. Every time I think I've hit the oddity ceiling, I uncover more treasures. Recently, on a foray into Hotline (a part of the Internet only a few of you will have explored), I came across a utility called Psychomatic that displays an animated stick figure in a small window. The author "was bored" that day and took time out from writing executive software to create this useless item (which is actually clever and contains artistic merit). In another context, you could easily imagine it projected on the wall of a contemporary art gallery, right next to the exciting multimedia display of nostril hair.
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Not all items in my Curios collection have such obvious merit. A good example is Lobsterpetting, a utility that displays a picture of a lobster which you then proceed to pat. As it squeaks appreciatively, you wonder what on earth you are doing and try to comprehend what was going through the mind of its creator. Very little, you find out when you peruse the accompanying ReadMe. Is it bad art? Comedy? An existential statement channelled through the mind of the proverbial fool?
Probably none of the above. But Lobsterpetting is unique to the Macintosh. People who are bi-platformal (oh yes, very modern) tell me Windows has not spawned a similar genre. Sad really. The cold, grey corporate machine strides into the infinite night, filled with a frigid unswerving purpose, dragging its empty and corrupt creators into the dawn of an emotionless void.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a field on the outskirts of the Empire, a band of madmen and fools plot the beginning of a new age. They buy colorful paints, sniff and drink a good variety of them, laugh, and paint their way into a joyous crimson-stained sunrise. They are destitute and their profits are poor, but there is something appealing about them; they seem to be filled with life. The software I catalogue may be foolish, inane, or trivial (and often a solid combination of all three), but it shows that a crazy spirit lives on in the Macintosh world.
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Virtual PC: Slow But Well Worth the Wait
Running Connectix's new Virtual PC is a little eerie. Within a minute of double-clicking its icon, you have a Windows 95 startup screen staring you in the faceShow full article
Running Connectix's new Virtual PC is a little eerie. Within a minute of double-clicking its icon, you have a Windows 95 startup screen staring you in the face. For some people, this is a horrible nightmare; for others, an inevitability; and for still others, the business reality of using a Macintosh in organizations which rely on software that runs only on Intel-based computers.
<http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_ virtualpc.html>
Consider this: I have a PowerBook 3400c/200. With Virtual PC installed, I can carry around both Mac OS 8 and Windows 95 with CD-ROM and floppy access for both, plus dial-up and Ethernet connectivity. It's a truly weird experience to watch Virtual PC running Windows 95 running the Dial-Up Connectivity tool using a Macintosh modem to do a PPP connection. It's much more like a fantasy than a nightmare for those of us who must run Windows software occasionally but don't want the extra equipment or expense.
Virtual PC uses your Mac's PowerPC processor to emulate the behavior of an Intel Pentium MMX chip and its several secondary support chips, creating a "virtual machine" capable of running software that would never otherwise work on a PowerPC processor. As a result, though Virtual PC comes with Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, according to Connectix, you can install any Intel-based operating system, such as Windows NT, OS/2, or the Rhapsody preview for Intel boxes. This review concerns itself entirely with running Windows 95 under Virtual PC.
Although Virtual PC helps Mac owners around the problem of potentially needing to buy a PC clone, it does require a Mac with a decent amount of horsepower. To run Virtual PC Windows 95 Version, Connectix recommends you have at least a PowerPC 603e processor running at 180 MHz, with a minimum of 32 MB RAM and 300 MB of free disk space. Connectix also notes Level 2 cache improves performance, and larger Level 2 caches help even more. In fact, Brian Grove at Connectix said that "one of the single best methods to help Virtual PC performance (especially for Windows) is to increase the size of the Level 2 cache. This is especially true for 603e configurations. There are cases where, even on fast PowerPC processors, Virtual PC is actually waiting for data from the cache." (The hardware requirements decrease slightly for the Windows 3.11/DOS Version.)
Installation -- Virtual PC is a breeze to install. It requires a CD-ROM drive, but the process takes only a few minutes because the installer merely copies over disk images containing preinstalled configurations.
The coolest part of the installation process is that you don't need to reboot. There are no extensions or other system modifications. This fact elicited an audible "Wow!" from my office-mate Steve Broback, co-author of Beyond the Little Mac Book - who quickly thereafter bought and installed his own copy.
After installation, you can decide how much RAM your Windows virtual machine will have. Select the Virtual PC icon, choose Get Info from the File menu, and change the Preferred Size field. Virtual PC requires some memory for overhead, so specifying 40 MB in the Preferred Size field allots about 33 MB to Windows.
I noticed one irony using Virtual PC: the version of Windows 95 that ships with Virtual PC is "revision B," which includes a File Allocation Table (FAT) update that doesn't use minimum file allocation units. That means the Windows 95 file system wastes considerably less disk space (especially with large groups of small files) than the Mac OS. Although Mac OS 8.0.1 is scheduled to include HFS Plus, a major enhancement to the Macintosh file system that also removes this limitation, it's ironic that my Mac's disk space is used more efficiently in the disk images files controlled by Virtual PC than by my Macintosh itself.
Using It Like a PC -- In ordinary usage, Virtual PC works like a charm. I've installed all kinds of imaging and Web-related software without a hitch. Netscape Communicator 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, DeBabelizer 4.0, and the whole Ulead PhotoImpact line all worked without a hitch.
However, I pushed Virtual PC over the edge by installing a preview release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 95. Unlike the Macintosh preview release of Explorer, the Windows Internet Explorer 4.0 beta can change the entire desktop environment. That's not such a hot idea even for Windows users - I've seen reports of numerous problems occurring on real PCs, and it's definitely out of the question for Virtual PC. I had to go back and install Virtual PC from scratch (which was much easier than re-installing Windows on a real PC, admittedly).
When working on a LAN and using TCP/IP, Virtual PC requires a different IP number than the one being used by your Macintosh. In this regard, it's one of the first consumer products that allows a Mac to use two IP numbers simultaneously (it requires Open Transport to use Ethernet). The practical upshot is that you can use the Internet in both the Macintosh and Windows environments simultaneously. I've browsed on the Mac while downloading files via FTP in Windows.
Connectix manages to provide two separate IP numbers on the same physical machine by not doing anything special. The virtual machine runs its own, separate TCP stack - essentially the software that handles interactions between application software and network hardware. Each stack can have its own logical IP number even though the computer has a single physical Ethernet device; the two are totally independent. In the Unix and Windows NT worlds, people often have numerous IP addresses with a single Ethernet device.
You configure PPP in Windows rapidly using wizards in Windows 95 that walk you through a task while explaining it. The wizards suited me well, because it's complex to configure PPP without assistance. My PowerBook 3400c's internal modem wouldn't work with Windows PPP (although other applications in Windows 95 recognized it), so I switched to a Global Village PowerPort Platinum Pro PC Card (I like to call it a GV PPPPP). This caused bizarre "processor errors" as Virtual PC launched; I eliminated them by disabling Ethernet temporarily via the Preferences submenu. Connectix has identified the issue and should have a solution in an upcoming maintenance release.
Mac-specific Issues -- I found it easy to switch between the Mac and Windows environments. You can choose a full screen or a within-a-window display for the Windows environment. In full screen mode, pressing Command displays the Mac menu bar as well as a status bar that indicates activity on your Ethernet connection, CD-ROM drive, floppy disk, and hard disk.
Virtual PC also makes it easy to change video modes, and the display has worked well with both the PowerBook 3400c's 800 by 600 display and an external monitor. You select resolutions in Windows using the Windows Displays control panel; you determine how much virtual video RAM Windows has in Virtual PC's Preferences dialog box.
One of the neatest features of Virtual PC is that it can save its state, which is much like putting the Virtual PC's Windows environment to sleep. When you quit Virtual PC through its own menu (rather than shutting down via Windows 95's Start menu) you're given the option to save Virtual PC's current state to disk. Next time you launch Virtual PC, you must wait a bit (about twenty seconds on my 3400c), but after the wait you are - in theory - right back where you left off. I've found these saved states a mixed blessing because they don't work exactly as expected. The 3400c's hot-swappable drive bay (CD-ROM or floppy) and the Mac's ease of changing Ethernet and TCP/IP configurations are fabulous, but those capabilities play havoc with Virtual PC when I restore a saved state. It's as if I reached into a running PC and yanked out the Ethernet card or CD-ROM drive. You must do a full shutdown inside Windows 95 before changing configurations, though you still need not shut down the Mac.
System Resources -- You must consider system resource issues before installing Virtual PC. For instance, I originally had 48 MB of RAM. After experimenting with RAM Doubler and running multiple applications alongside Virtual PC, I upgraded to 80 MB of RAM, though I can still run RAM Doubler at the same time for memory management benefits. Adding more RAM enabled me to allocate more than 32 MB to Windows, which is effectively the minimum amount of RAM necessary for Windows 95, whether or not Virtual PC is involved.
Disk space is another concern. Virtual PC creates a single file that acts as the C drive for the PC. You can choose to create either a 150 MB or 260 MB disk image, depending on whether you use the minimum or standard disk images. Even 260 MB is barely enough space to work in, and since Windows' memory management system is constantly swapping material between RAM and disk (like Virtual Memory on the Mac), you should leave 40 or 50 MB free just for kicks. These disk images are Finder mountable just by double-clicking on them, very much like ShrinkWrap disk images. The disk images are mounted in such a way that Windows 95 long file names re-map to DOS-style eight-dot-three character names.
Creating another file to act as another drive is simple: in Virtual PC's Preferences dialog, click the D drive, click the New Hard Drive Image button, and then enter the size of the disk image file you want to create. Unfortunately, if you do this while in a Windows 95 session, you are presented with an option to restart the virtual machine. Just as powering a Mac down in the middle of working is bad, so too is powering down a PC running Windows 95 - and the same applies to the Virtual PC virtual machine. Instead, first choose Shut Down from the Windows 95 Start menu, then select Restart in DOS Mode in the Shut Down dialog. Once in DOS mode, you can reboot at will, so you can create the new disk image and allow it to restart. Some warning or documentation in the Preferences dialog would have been welcome: I figured this out through trial and error.
Once you create a drive, you can't modify its size, and the image occupies its entire volume size on your Macintosh hard disk no matter how full (or empty) it is so far as Windows is concerned. These disk images can play havoc with backups created with Dantz's popular Retrospect backup software (and other backup programs as well). Just launching and quitting Virtual PC modifies its disk image files, which means Retrospect will back them up during its next backup run. With my current disk images, I'd add about 600 MB to my backups every night if I didn't specifically prevent Retrospect from backing up those files.
I've found several solutions to the sizing problem. First, you need not rely on disk images for all PC files. Virtual PC enables you to share folders between the Mac and Windows environments, so you can save most of your work to a shared folder (the K drive, perhaps), at which point Retrospect would see individual files. Or, you could mount the disk images in the Finder and have Retrospect recognize them as volumes, not individual files. Both mounted disk images and the shared folders use DOS file naming, so restoring files could be a problem later. Second, you could leave Virtual PC running all the time and use the Windows 95/NT Retrospect Remote control panel to back up Virtual PC's disk images as though they were real hard disks on a physical PC! That's a bit peculiar, but it should work and it would preserve long file names.
Performance -- I'm asked frequently about Virtual PC's speed. I'm at the low end of Connectix's recommendations with a 200 MHz 603e chip in my PowerBook 3400c, and, to me, Virtual PC is slow. [Surprisingly, I've received a few comments from Virtual PC beta testers who happily ran Virtual PC on PowerPC-based Macs that didn't meet Connectix's recommendations. -Tonya] I often feel as though I'm running a 50 MHz Pentium MMX system. With some tasks, it feels fast; other times, I wait minutes for basic network or image functions to complete. One advantage of having Virtual PC as a separate Macintosh application, though, is that it functions perfectly well in the background, without stealing an overwhelming amount of processor power. A speedier chip than my 603e would help, although I doubt Virtual PC's performance will ever cause jaws to drop.
Virtual PC requires more rebooting than the PC hardware I'm accustomed to, and it's a little finicky about settings. On the whole, though, doing a normal Shut Down in Windows 95 and then starting it up when I needed it again resulted in consistently good behavior.
At a street price hovering below $150, it's impossible to not recommend Virtual PC if you need to run Windows software and have a machine that meets Virtual PC's minimum specs. If you design or write for the Web, it's increasingly critical to test pages in browsers running on the Mac and the PC. Being able to do this on a single machine is a boon, even with the wait.
[Today, Insignia Solutions, long-time makers of SoftWindows, which enables you to run Windows applications on the Mac, shipped RealPC, a Pentium MMX emulator complete with Sound Blaster support and an emphasis on running games under DOS and Windows. RealPC has an estimated street price of $79, Windows operating system not included. -Tonya]
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Recycling Experts Are Tired of Your Crap (Literally)
Whether it's Sunnyside, Spokane or Portland, recycling experts from all around have had it up to here (picture a hand at my neck) with people who are inconsiderate recyclers! Each item in the blue bin must be hand-sorted. Here's why they're mad:


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Arizona requires all motorists to cover their vehicles with liability insurance. The state calls it a statutory form of financial liability. In addition to cars, trucks and SUVs, the law also applies to golf carts, motorcycles and mopeds. Vehicles must be registered and insured before they can be driven on any roadways.
There are minimums for liability coverage: $15,000 for bodily injury of one person and $30,000 for two or more, and $10,000 for property damage liability. Liability means that you are responsible for the injuries and property damage of another person or persons when you are in an accident.
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Drivers can get Arizona auto insurance quotes from any provider licensed or to provide liability coverage in the state. For a list of companies qualified to provide Arizona auto insurance quotes, contact the Arizona Department of Insurance.
The law does not require insurance to cover damage to or theft of your own vehicle . However, if you owe money on a car loan, the bank or lienholder could require insurance on the vehicle to protect their investment. Coverage for repairs or replacement of your own vehicle is known as collision and comprehensive coverage. If your car is stolen, or damaged in an accident that is your fault, or if the other driver is to blame but is not insured, having this type of coverage will provide funds to help you repair or replace your vehicle.
Why you need insurance
Those who don't insure their vehicles properly could have their vehicle registration or drivers licenses suspended.
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In order for registration or license to be reinstated, Arizona motorists will have to pay fees and provide future proof of financial responsibility. This is commonly referred to as an SR22 form, which the motorist gets from an insurance company. Arizona law requires the vehicle owner to keep an SR22 for three years, which can be expensive for the motorist.
More Arizona auto insurance tips
If you lived in another state and have moved to Arizona, you cannot drive your vehicle until you've registered it and purchased insurance from a company licensed to do business in Arizona.
Arizona residents who are leaving the state, for military service, to attend college or a similar reason, can de-insure their vehicles on a short-term basis.


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Detection of nucleic acids and production of type I interferons (IFNs) are principal elements of antiviral defense, but can cause autoimmunity if misregulated. In previous work, we discovered the interferon- stimulatory DNA (ISD) pathway, a cell-intrinsic antiviral response that is activated by detection of cytosolic DNA. We then identified 3'repair exonuclease 1 (Trex1) as a cytosolic, ISD-binding DNA exonuclease. Remarkably, loss of function mutations in the human Trex1 gene cause Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome (AGS), a rare and severe disease that resembles congenitally acquired viral infection. Using Trex1-deficient mice as a model of AGS, we defined Trex1 as an essential negative regulator of the ISD pathway, thus revealing a novel, cell-intrinsic mechanism for initiation of autoimmunity. Specifically, accumulation of endogenous Trex1 DNA substrates within cells triggers type I IFN production through the ISD pathway, which then leads to the activation and recruitment of autoreactive lymphocytes that attack the initiating cells. Our findings raise fundamental new questions about the connections between the innate antiviral response and autoimmunity, with important implications for the treatment of AGS and related diseases. Very little is known about the cells that initiate disease, the source and nature of the DNA that accumulates within these initiating cells, or how detection of this accumulated DNA ultimately links to the autoreactive lymphocyte response. In this proposal, we will develop new tools and apply a combination of genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and cellular immunology to address these important questions.
In Aim 1, we will apply new genetic tools to visualize the in vivo dynamics of the IFN-dependent autoimmune response with unprecedented resolution.
In Aim 2, we will identify and characterize the Trex1 DNA substrates that cause disease.
In Aim 3, we will define how cell- intrinsic nucleic acid detection is linked to the adaptive immune response. Our long term goals are twofold: we will rigorously define the basis of disease with the hope of developing new treatments and preventative measures to cure AGS and related diseases, and we will use this model system to probe more general questions about interconnections between innate immune detection of nucleic acids and lymphocyte-mediated antiviral responses.
Detection of foreign nucleic acids is an ancient form of host defense, but can cause autoimmunity if misregulated. We recently characterized a new mouse model of Aicardi Goutieres Syndrome (AGS), a severe human autoimmune disease that presents in infancy with symptoms resembling a viral infection. We will develop new tools to explore the interconnections between nucleic acid detection, antiviral responses, and autoimmunity, with the hope of identifying new treatments for AGS and related diseases.


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Equal parts short surf pic, immersive educational film and plug for the Tahitian board of tourism.
Stephen Low's Imax feature "The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D" is equal parts short surf pic, immersive educational film, and shameless plug for the Tahitian board of tourism. The briskly paced docu should mostly provide school-aged children with a particularly engaging science class field trip, yet the superb camera and stereoscopic work on display here makes one anxious to someday see a fully fledged 3D surf film.
Nominally an exploration of the famously savage surf spot Teahupo'o (memorably labeled "a freak of hydrodynamics" by docu "Riding Giants"), the film follows surf legend Kelly Slater and Tahitian guru Raimana Van Bastolaer as they prepare to tackle it — although just as much time is spent exploring the natural history of Tahiti, the scientific properties of big waves, and the psychology of surfing. Yet any attempted narrative is merely window-dressing for the stunning photography of edenic Tahitian rainforests, crashing blue waves and the impossibly fit and tanned people who ride them. (Mounting a 3D camera on the front of a surfboard while bikini-clad surfers paddle out seems, in retrospect, an obvious move.) Technical contributions are stellar. — Andrew BarkerThe Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D
A Suzuki presentation of a Stephen Low production in association with K2 Communications and Havoc Television. Produced by Pietro L. Serapiglia, Stephen Low. Executive producers, Jeff Cutler, Terry Hardy, Stephen Low, Mark Kresser. Directed by Stephen Low. Written by Alexander Low.
Camera (color, Imax 3D), Mark Poirier; editor, James Lahti; music, Michel Cusson. Reviewed at California Science Center Imax Theater, Los Angeles, Feb. 4, 2010. Running time: 42 MIN.
Narrator: Michael Hanrahan.


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A lot can change between project conceptualization and completion. Budgets often tighten, needs can evolve, and new goals may emerge. In the best of circumstances, the project team can embrace the waves of change and use them as a springboard to innovate.
Such was the case at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Ariz. The university has seen nearly double-digit enrollment increases each year since 2004 and with this rapid growth, the institution has found itself expanding its facilities.
"We had outgrown our recreation center even before it was completed back in 1989, so it has been too small for over 20 years," says Jane Kuhn, associate vice president of NAU. "We're also busting at the seams in health services and disability resources and counseling."
The NAU Health and Learning Center began as several projects. The university's outdated recreation center needed to be replaced and brought up to speed with NCAA Title IX requirements. The campus' Lumberjack Stadium was scheduled to be torn down in 2011, and one plan was to rebuild it along with new athletic facilities.
At the same time, NAU was planning the Wellness Center, a project that would bring the student health program—currently spread throughout campus in four separate facilities—into one space. The university also was working with the state legislature on a project through the state's Stimulus Program for Economic and Educational Development (SPEED) program that would divide $1 billion from lottery revenues among three universities.
"We submitted our plans for what we would do with our third of the money, and one of those things was to build a new general-purpose, high-tech classroom facility," Kuhn recalls. "Early in the design phase of what was then the Wellness Center, the SPEED funding got cut. We lost the funding dedicated to the new classroom facilities, so we decided to add two additional floors to the wellness facility to accommodate those classrooms. Because of economies of scale, the cost is much less than if it would have been a stand-alone building."
Thus, all these varied initiatives merged into the 270,000-square-foot Health and Learning Center. Scheduled for completion in August 2011, the project will house recreation, athletics, academics, and student health services, as well as the rebuilt Lumberjack Stadium.
"What started out as 120,000 square feet of building program now combines the services of five less-efficient facilities in one 265,000-square-foot high-performance building," explains Jason Boyer, principal with Phoenix-based OWP/P | Cannon Design and design leader on the NAU project. "That is a pretty sustainable concept. It is also cost effective; we saved nearly $12 million for the university by designing five facilities into one project."
Setting Goals
The state of Arizona requires all public agencies to build to a minimum LEED Silver certification, but with the Health and Learning Center, NAU is aiming to earn LEED Gold. "We try to get beyond LEED Silver if we can," Kuhn says. "Our university president has signed the Campus Climate Challenge, so we're very active in green building and sustainability efforts."
Approaching a project of this magnitude, it was important to take an integrated design approach. "We knew a high level of sustainability thinking was important, so we started the project with a climate engineering charette," Boyer explains. "We got the entire team—designers, engineers, and consultants—in a room and facilitated a workshop about what sustainable concepts we could incorporate into the project."
Energy efficiency became a primary goal; the team has targeted a performance level exceeding ASHRAE 90.1 2004 standards by 40 percent. Strategies to reach this goal include a tight envelope design, increased daylighting, and an estimated 23 percent reduction in lighting power density.
"Energy is one of our biggest concerns because of our seasons. It does snow here and it does get cold. We have heating bills in the winter and cooling bills in the summer," Kuhn asserts. "We're always looking for energy-efficient methods."
The project was able to find major savings both in energy and in up-front costs. "By going with a chilled-beam system in the building, we reduced the number of air handlers from 20 to 12," Boyer says. "It also reduced our floor-to-floor height by 6 inches on each floor, saving us a few feet on the overall envelope height." These types of savings impact the building's long-term operation, but also make a major impact to first costs. "While the initial cost of a chilled-beam system is higher, when you factor in the square footage savings in not having as many mechanical rooms, the reduced costs, number of air-handling units, and the other intangibles that go with reduced skin heights, we actually were able to save $2.5 million off the top," Boyer notes.
Water conservation is another major goal. While Flagstaff's climate is more temperate than other parts of the state, water is in limited quantity and sunlight is abundant, as in other Southwestern cities. With that in mind, the Health and Learning Center will incorporate a solar hot water heating solution. The building's roof will utilize 100 solar panels to heat approximately 70 percent of the facility's hot water. Because it is an athletic and recreation center with showers, water demand is high. The energy saved from the solar hot water system alone is expected to represent a 6 percent overall reduction in building energy usage over a standard design.
NAU also is able to recover almost 60 percent of the initial cost of the solar installation through local utility provider programs and federal incentive programs. Along with specifying low-flow water fixtures, toilets, and urinals, the campus is able to use Flagstaff's graywater loop and will use recaptured water for things such as land-scape irrigation, as well as toilet and urinal flushing. This should reduce potable water usage by 45 percent.
Student Centered
The center began construction in October and is the largest building project ever undertaken by NAU. At its heart, however, the facility truly will be for the students and will provide state-of-the-art services without forgetting the human element. "One of the big drivers is to provide physical and visual connectivity throughout the building, inside and out," Boyer says. More than 30 percent of the building's skin will be glazing, providing daylighting and views of Flagstaff's breathtaking mountain scenery. The facility is oriented so that much of the glazing is on the north and south faces, while the east and west façades are shielded with overhangs and punched openings.
The design also incorporates what Boyer calls "sticky space," areas that support chance encounters for students and faculty. "In the past a student union consisted of a dining hall, some conference rooms, a few support services, and maybe a bowling alley or pool hall. Those programs are no longer relevant to how students live, study, and learn," Boyer says. "This building anchors an emerging trend toward combining programs and creating facilities where students can thrive through learning and interaction with each other on a nearly 24/7 basis."
Green Team
Architect, interior designer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, LEED consultant: OWP/P | Cannon Design; owpp.com; cannondesign.com
Client, construction manager: Northern Arizona University; nau.edu
Structural engineer: Paragon Structural Design; paragonstr.com
Civil engineer: Arizona Engineering/GHD; ghd.com
Geotechnical engineer: Speedie and Associates; speedie.net
General contractor: Mortenson; mortenson.com
Landscape architect: Floor and Associates; floorassociates.com
Lighting designer: Aurora Lighting Design in association with OWP/P | Cannon Design; auroraltg.com
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Seating: Sports Seating Series 408, American Seating, americanseating.com
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The documentary one Washington Post blogger called "the best film on the Great Recession" just arrived as a Netflix streamer, and it is simply transfixing. Few of us get to peek into the lives of the 1 Percent, and this opens up the lives of David and Jackie Siegel as they are building the country'e largest private home, a 90,000-saquare-foot, 10-kitchen mansion in Orlando. It is not a pretty sight. The film starts just before the 2008 collapse, and billionaire Siegel, the CEO of Westgate Resorts, pretty much loses his shirt - but not his arrogance. The film spans three years of conspicuous consumption and deep denial in the family. The constants are the dog poop everywhere (I guess if your house is that big, you can't keep track) and Siegel's braggadocio (he claims to have rigged the 2000 Bush election all by himself). Director Lauren Greenfield (who won at Sundance for this) has amazing access to the beyond-creepy billionaire and his surgically uplifted wife who is so clueless that she becomes sympathetic. You won't be able to tear yourself away.
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This is the first major contract for Fast in Japan. IBM Japan says they were convinced of teaming with Fast by the "immediate and discernible benefits, which we witnessed firsthand after IBM chose FAST as search provider for ibm.com"
Offices in Japan will be opened soon.
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Author: | Nanaea (Authenticated as Nanaea) |
Date: | April 27, 2001 at 8:54:56 PM |
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I think you're being way too generous in saying that Robert Downey Jr. even showed us as much as nominal amount of "squat" in *Chaplin*. For me, Charlie Chaplin is GOD, and I found that movie somewhat disappointing. If it wasn't for Downey's mild resemblance to Chaplin, and some damn good directing from Richard Attenborough, that movie would've been more than somewhat disappointing.Perhaps this is a crazy choice, but I would have cast Bronson Pinchot in the role of Chaplin. I believe Pinchot is capable of doing a role like that (if given the opportunity), and he could capture Chaplin's physical humor perfectly.
Loved your suggestion of Downey following McVeigh's act in Terre Haute. :)
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Business case for organic restaurant :
Executive summary:
The business plan of restaurant is establishing for Studio67, a new and fresh medium-sized restaurant placed in a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon and on behalf of them now I establish a new restaurant in UK with a same name in Central London. Studio67's focus will be on fundamental and innovative indigenous food. A view on organic elements is relied on Studio67's commitment to sustainable exploitation. In addition, the restaurant secures local foods in potentially, decreasing their addiction on fossil fuels applied for transportation.
Studio67 offers UK based customer a voguish, provide a great place to have food in social environment condition. The Chef of this restaurant will have a great repertoire of cultural factors and formulas. Studio67 assumes that the bulk of purchases will be done according to the experienced chef's recommendations. Racial recipes will be applied to give the customers with a different, unusual menu with different taste and different design. Chef will also be given importance on dishes which are healthier, find out the tendency in between the industry of restaurant for the needs for healthy cuisine.
Studio67 considers that the any market can be divided into four different groups that it intentions to aim. The first group is consists of the rich persons which are the number of 400,000 people. The second group that are our target groups that is adult and young and happy customers which are now increasing by 8% according to the annual rate and among them the number of potential customer is 1,50,000. The third group is rich hippies who usually expect menu as well as ethnic cuisine. The fourth and the last group which is especially showing their intention to the menu's healthy offerings is dieting women which number 350,000 in the UK recognizing place.
In UK, Studio67 will have to set up a strong management team. The mangers have to have the broader experience in management sector of organizations and should have the ability to control and monitor the 6 to 45 employees. Financial manager will play the roles for all of the finance and accounting activities. Lastly, Studio67 will have the experienced chef who will be responsible for the back-end production of the venture and who can give concentration on the cultural ethnicity and make the food on the basis of this.
Financial success is the most significant for the company which will be attained by rigid control on finance. In addition, achievement will be assured by providing a service of high quality and tremendously fresh and non- oily foods with interesting twists. For doing the good business in UK, the company can take the plan of increasing the menu rates for attracting more and more customers.
The analysis of market and financial refer that with a start-up expenditure of $141,000,Studio67can yield more than $365,000 and $565,000 in sales by year one and year two respectively and make net profits of more than7.5% on sales at the end of year three. Profitability can be attained by year two.
- In first year, sales will be $350K where in second year it can be more than half a million.
- Staff cost will be keep on $300K in the year of first, which they want to do less than that in 2nd year.
- 7.5% profits on sales can be reached in year three.
Studio67 is a great place to eat, combining an aggregating environment with good, fresh and interesting food that is also very better for the people who eat our restaurant. We want reasonable profit for the owners, and also want to give rewards for the performance of employees.
Literature review:
Studio67 is a medium-sized and one of the best single-unit restaurants. We mainly concentrate on organic and innovative menu item. The restaurant will be placed in UK in Central London, where majority of the rich people are living and for sight seeing most of the people are coming here. So , the company take the strategy of great placement of restaurant. Most significant factor to us is our financial achievement, but we think that this will only be attained through providing high-quality service which is more standardized and more clean, non-oily food with interesting twists.
Company Ownership
The restaurant will first start and operate as a simple sole proprietorship, owned by its founders.
Start-up Summary
The company's founders are Andrew Flounderson and his associate Jane Flap. Jane mainly concentrates on the financial matters and Andrew on the recruitment, training and development issues. Jane achieved her educational qualification on the background of business from the University of Berkeley.
The company has establish the place and ensured the lease for $2,000 per month. We will be capable to establish shop in time to start growing support a profitby the terminating of month eleven and can achieve profit in the year of second. The location is already outfitted as a restaurant so we determine to start the business with a total of $40,000 in capital, plus a $100,000 SBA-guaranteed loan, to start up the new branch in UK.
Information about market
Due to the founders' relation inside the very trendy location of UK, we have a great feel and extra benefit for the place and its core group of customers. They will all exchange something similar, which is a notion of being in the "in crowd" and having "gotten it" in life. Though the crowd of customer will be different and can varied time to time and not related with each other in each division, each division is supplemental to the others. We make plan to increase menu rates as the restaurant attains more and more crowded of customers, and to make assure we are charging a premium for the feeling of being in the "in crowd."
Market Segmentation
The Lonely Rich
Most of the lonely rich are workers who done the job in technological sector these days, and most of those tech workers are workers who done the job on the internet. Their life has become their servers of websites and computer code they write, and the people who assist them to make the decisions in that world. They are stamping ground with each other, but urgently desire to become away from it and apply the investment they are extorting up. Because this fund has come fairly and easily for them, it is especially easy to divide them from their money back - they spend the most on drinks, appetizers and tips.
Young Happy Couples
The restaurant will have an environmental condition that motivates customers to bring dates and to have couples reach. It won't be cumbersome for others, and Studio67 does wish to be a social place where people can meet each other and develop a social and friendly network. These young couples are generally very successful but balanced and adjustments won't be spending as much on drinks.
The Rich people
The rich people in UK are a big group of customer of our company with enormous impact over the city's government and private enterprise. They wear the clothes of tie-die but drive BMWs and starve the thinking of being in a social boundary that is changing the world - even if in different ways than in their glory days. We will cater to their ecological ideology and contribute to charities to help them part with more of their money.
Dieting Women
The menu of organic food will always have a line of extremely delicious and tasty and very low-fat meals. Studio67 will always have arranged the tables for women meeting like they do in shows likeSex and the City, to discuss all types of matters while feeling good about the food they eat.
Project resources:
Financial resources:
The company has establish the place and ensured the lease for $2,000 per month. We will be capable to establish shop in time to start growing support a profitby the terminating of month eleven and can achieve profit in the year of second. The location is already outfitted as a restaurant so we determine to start the business with a total of $40,000 in capital, plus a $100,000 SBA-guaranteed loan, to start up the new branch in UK.
The Menu
The menu is going to be extremely simple but changing day by day such as: its premium rate, its taste and also change on the menu item. We will keep and sustain a small group of constants on the menu and then feature and design to plan a chef's recommendation that we plan to have 85% of meals ordering and also serve this to customers. This will help us to decrease waste and plan elements and purchasing.
Organic Ingredients
The organic ingredient element will permit us to price to the extremely wealthy Internet entrepreneurs who are finding out to spend an exorbitant amount of money to have peace of mind that their money is still return back to themselves. We will be extremely ecologically aware as well, and spread this across our literature. Eating at Studio67 will feel like having contributed to the Sierra Club and drinking fresh squeezed orange juice.
Ethnic Ingredients and Recipes
Our chef will have great latitude in planning and creating menu offerings from many different world cultures. We will endeavor to procure all the traditional, authentic ingredients necessary to hold true to these varied and interesting cultural recipes.
Interior Accoutrements
People persuade to keep their life more interesting, and the company's artwork will concentrate on the world influence that is mainly to the trend of the Studio67 chef.
Sources of resources:
Financial resources:
Sources of finance: A company can be raised its sources of funds by different ways.
Personal Savings - Is the amount which business person or a partner may have and which is available for use.
Tighter Credit Control By controlling the amount owed by credit customers reduce the assets and and this fund can be utilized for any other reason. It is considered as opportunity cost as it could be used to generate profit. However it could lead to lost sales or customer goodwill hence its effect needs to monitored as it could reduce its competitive advantage in comparison to its rivalry.
Share issues it is very much useful for limited company. It involves that a business selling new share entitled to the shareholders to share in business control and these shares give shareholders the right of directing the company. And shareholders participate the election of board of directors. But whether this company is a recognized company in Portland and want to establish a branch in UK, it can easily get the loan from the commercial bank as a business loan. We expect to raise $40,000 of our own capital, and to borrow $100,000 guaranteed bythe SBA as a 10-year loan. This provides the bulk of the start-up financing required.
Human resources:
Obviously, the company recruits or arranges the experienced person for establishing their business in UK market and try to achieve profit. They can hire people from their native country that is Portugal or from UK. But it is more suitable for them to recruit employees from UK because these people can have more knowledge about the current trends about UK market and they have the idea about the demand and needs of UK customers.
Implementation of the project:
Strategy and Implementation Summary
The strategy of our company is very simple and easy; our main purpose is to be successful by providing customers a mixture of better, healthy, interesting food, and an environment that attracts "trendy" people likea magnet. Implementation isn't easy, but we have to do this for becoming successful in UK market and it is the part of our business plan.
Competitive Edge
Our competitive edge is the menu, the chef, the environment, and the tie-in to what's trendy.
Sales Strategy
According to the table, we expected to deliver sales of about $350K in the first year, and to double that by the third year of the plan.
Marketing strategy:
Successful restaurants apply better strategy of marketing and people give feedback and respond to them by visiting their place. Many restaurateurs spend quite a lot of fund in restaurant marketing and till now, their restaurant is not getting the customers that they are wanted. Surely, their restaurant marketing is not working and it is not suitable and acceptable for their business.
Marketing strategy of many restaurants that habituated to work, don't work anymore.This could be because the marketplace is diverse (majority of the people are finding out for restaurants online and avoid the old fashion ads in radio, magazines, newspapers, etc.), and because of ending up everybody applying the same old restaurant marketing strategies, and their message possibly gets lost in a sea of restaurant marketing bombardment that people get.
There are three key marketing strategies for establishing restaurant business. These are:
Set Up Joint Promotions
In this strategy, we have to determining the features and actions of business's most profitable customers and then concentrating to other non-competing businesseswhich are already reaching them. Then find out a way to establish some joint promotions and advertising. This demonstrates strategy creates remarkable results for very little expense. The restaurant's menu adds various special dishes recommended by the health club's nutritionist. It also provides discount membership coupons for the club though their advertising mentioned the tie up to gain health aware customers who usually ignore food made in gourmet restaurants.
The health club's monthly newsletters consists a reprint of the restaurant's healthy new menu items recommended by the club's nutritionist. They also provides the restaurant's discount coupons to their members.
Reveal new niche markets
Continually concentrate on new niche markets the company can provide. Then improve customized diversion of our advertising appealing to the special concerns of prospects in each niche. Offer specific solutions to their unique needs and the restaurant will uncover new groups of customers eager to buy from you.
Exploit Emerging Trends
Pay attention to changes which is noticed in restaurant business and markets. The restaurant have to identify trends business can turn into new sales opportunities before business competitors. The first company to distinguish an emerging trend and take action often becomes the market leader in their industry.
For example, many smallbusinessestook advantage of the Internet early in its development. They used it to attractnewcustomersthey weren't reaching off-line and to capture customers from competitors who didn't yet recognize thebusinesspotentialof a web site.
Start using these 3 marketing strategies to create permanent growth for your business. Use them repeatedly to continue adding new layers of permanent income without inviting competition.
In case of restaurant studio67, we can use the first marketing strategy of setting up joint promotion.
Monitoring & controlling:
For food service restaurant, we may have to buy food products; that's the reality. The largest expenditure for most food service organizations is the cost of food. But we can reduce the cost of food. Even a 3% reduction in food costs for a restaurant grossing $ 1,000,000 with food costs of 4,00,000 means an approximates savings of $12,000 which will go straight to the company bottom line.
In order to control food costs effectively, there are four essential things which we need to do:
- Forecast how much and what we are going to sell.
- Purchase, receive and prepares according to these forecasts.
- Portion effectively.
- Control money, waste and theft.
Thankfully, an improvement in technology and management techniques allows smart restaurant operators to keep food costs within the boundaries needed to generate a profit. While still providing their customers with the level of service that they need to generate to repeat business. The restaurant manager must be prepared to develop and monitor cost control program, particular food costs to maintain profitability.
- http://www.bplans.com/organic_restaurant_business_plan/executive_summary_fc.cfm
- http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xvkp6MrEe1AC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=restaurant+monitor+and+controlling+technique&source=bl&ots=9gLQ8brBUx&sig=Kcgd68dcA4eZ8AdOsy0YOuszX24&hl=en&ei=LxehS46CIYGI0wSk5OydDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false


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Police in Newton fatally shoot bear in treeAP , Associated Press
Jun. 2, 2013 4:59 PM ET
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A young bear stranded in a tree over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton was shot and killed by state environmental police early Sunday morning. A police officer used a fire truck ladder to reach the bear, which was 40 feet up in the tree, WBZ reported. Police fired two tranquilizer darts at the bear, but said they failed to subdue the animal. Police said they shot the bear, concerned it would fall on to the highway and cause an accident. The animal fell on train tracks below. "We've never seen a bear running up and down Washington Street before," resident Todd Houston told The Boston Globe. "The bear was taking his time, I saw it climb up the tree about midway, then when the police showed up, it went up higher." Westbound traffic on the Mass Pike in the area was stopped for about two minutes during the incident. State police said environmental officers "neutralized the threat to public safety posed by the bear." Tom O'Shea, assistant director of wildlife for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, told The Boston Globe that black bears, in particular young males, are moving east in Massachusetts. "We've seen that the population has increased over time and with that, we have an expanding population moving eastward," he said. "In this particular situation, the bear didn't have any easy escape route." Mary-Leah Assad, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Environmental Police, said environmental police determined the bear to be a 1-year-old male weighing between 100 and 125 pounds.? © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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The Harry Potter book series is a 7-part series for children and teenagers written by the author J.K.Rowling. It follows the adventures of a young wisard called Harry Potter and his friends. Many Christians believe that the series promotes witchcraft and leads people away from religion.


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If we connect the positive power leads from both battery banks together at this point we will have connected the two battery banks together in parallel. This would give us 3 volts output with the combined power rating of the two battery banks. But then we would have to be very careful that we don't mix battery types or batteries that have different charge states. If we were to put fresh batteries in one bank and weak batteries in the other bank then we might get some undesirable results. The fresh batteries would try to charge the weak ones and they could dangerously overheat. We can prevent this by installing appropriate diodes on each positive lead before they are connected together. This will prevent current from flowing out of one battery bank and then into the other but allow current from both battery banks to reach the MintyBoost.
Refer to the first image below. Cut both positive battery leads relatively close to the edge of the battery case as shown. This will help conserve the limited amount of space in the Altoids tin that we'll be working with after the MintyBoost has been installed.
Next install diodes on the ends of each positive leads keeping the diode leads as short as possible to conserve space. Make sure that the ends of the diodes without the little silver stripe (the anode ends) are connected to the positive battery leads; this is critical. The leads on the end of the diodes with the silver stripe indicate the cathodes and these will be twisted together and connected to the MintyBoost positive input voltage connection.
Make sure these connections are insulated from each other. You can see in the first image below that I used a bit of heat shrink tubing on one lead to accomplish this. Then, as shown in the second image, the entire diode bundle was insulated with more heat shrink tubing.


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From Mark Stibich, Ph.D.,
Turning off your television will gain you, on average, about 4 hours per day. Imagine if you took that time to exercise, give your brain a workout and develop strong relationships. Not only would you be adding years to your life, you would become more interesting, energetic, and fun. So take the plunge and try not watching TV for a week. At first it will be strange and awkward, but stick with it and soon you will love all the extra time.
1. Television Eats Your Time
The average U.S. adult watches more than 4 hours of television a day. That's 25 percent of waking time spent every day. Imagine if you suddenly had 25 percent more time -- that's three extra months per year! You could get in all your exercise, cook your meals from scratch and still have time left over to write a novel.
Over a lifetime, an 80-year-old person would have watched 116,800 hours of television, compared to only 98,000 hours of work. As a nation, adults watch 880 million hours of television every day or 321 billion hours per year. Whew! Imagine what could get done if we all just stopped watching TV.
2. Television Makes You Stressed
With the average of four hours a day gone, it's no wonder everyone is feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. We put aside paying bills, finishing projects, making phone calls and cleaning our homes to watch TV. We feel overwhelmed because of all the things we should be doing (exercising, spending time with family, eating right) go undone.
And when we feel overwhelmed, tired, and exhausted we don't have energy to anything but -- you guessed it -- watch TV. It is a dreadful cycle. So take a break from TV for a week and see what happens to your life.
3. Television Makes You Overweight
Eating while distracted limits your ability to assess how much you have consumed. According to Eliot Blass at the University of Massachusetts , people eat between 31 and 74 percent more calories while watching TV.
This could add, on average, about 300 calories extra per TV meal. Now consider that at least 40 percent of families watch TV while eating dinner. It becomes clear that TV is a big part of the obesity epidemic in the U.S. and that TV, in fact, makes you gain weight.
4. Television Makes You Uninteresting
Many people have whole conversations that are recaps of TV programs, sporting events and sitcoms. When asked about their real lives, there is little or nothing to report and no stories to tell (except the TV shows they have watched).
Life is too interesting and wonderful to spend your time either watching TV or recapping television to your friends. Find something interesting to do: volunteer, read, paint -- anything but watch more TV.
5. Television Ruins Your Relationships
A television is turned on an average of 7 hours and 40 minutes per day in many U.S. households. With the TV on that much, there is little time for you and your significant other or children to spend time together, share experiences, and develop deeper relationships.
Sitting together and watching TV does not grow a relationship. Turn that TV off and find something to do together -- cooking, exercising, taking a walk, anything.
6. Television is Not Relaxation
TV is the opposite of exercise. If you are watching TV you are usually sitting, reclining or lying down. You are burning as few calories as possible. All that extra food you eat while watching TV does not get burned off. Your brain goes into a lull.
But you are not relaxing -- your mind is still receiving stimuli from the TV, you are processing information and reacting emotionally. Have you ever found yourself thinking about TV characters? Do you ever dream about TV shows? These are signs that the brain is working hard to process all the TV you have been watching.
7. Television Loses Opportunities
If you are sitting and watching TV, nothing new or exciting is going to happen to you. New opportunities and ideas come from being out in the world, talking to people, and reading interesting things.
Watching TV isolates you. Nothing is going to change in your world if you are watching TV. Turn off the TV, go out into the world, talk to people, and see what happens.
8. Television is Addictive
Television can become addictive. Signs of TV addiction include:
using the TV to calm down
not being able to control your viewing
feeling angry or disappointed in how much TV you watched
feeling on edge if kept from watching
feeling a loss of control while watching
If the idea of giving up TV for a week is horrifying, you may be addicted to television. Luckily, TV addiction is a habit and not a physical addiction like smoking. You should be able to control it once you are aware of the problem and make a decision to change.
9. Television Makes You Buy Things
By age 65, the average American has seen 2 million commercials. Your knowledge of products and brands comes from these TV commercials. Your perception of what you need also comes from these commercials.
If you didn't know that your iPod could talk to your running shoes, you wouldn't feel like your current shoes are too low-tech. If you didn't know about vacuums that never lose suction, your current vacuum would seem fine. Our perception of need is determined by what we see. Need less by watching less TV.
10. Television Costs Money
A basic cable package costs $43 per month and many packages cost much more than that. That comes to at least $500 a year spent on TV. For that much money you could: buy a membership to every museum or zoo in your town, get a gym membership, buy a nice bicycle, invest it every year for 10 years at 10 percent interest and have more than $10,000.
Sources: TvTurnOff.org; US Census Bureau http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongrelationships/tp/Turn_Off_TV.htm


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Heir Audio - banned from HeadFi? I'm sure there's a story there somewhere, but I don't know what it is. Is this permanent? Dunno that either. Is it just that one user? Are there other Heir MOTs floating around? Again, I have very little info, but obviously something must have gone down.
Definitely something happened.


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A first time winner kicks off this week's What It Means: 1) Keegan Bradley is 25 years old and today, after winning the HP Byron Nelson Championship, became the newest of the PGA Tour's twenty-something champions. He outlasted Ryan Palmer in a playoff, who hit his second shot into the water off a wayward drive. Bradley joins a long line of champions who make a big splash on a large stage. J.B. ...
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Making 2022 Olympics More Environmentally Sound The United States Olympic Committee USOC as everyone knows is looking to capture the 2022 for the Winter Olympics. Not only looking to further the athletic accomplishments but make sustainable environmental changes to the Games. And with the International Olympic Committee with naming Andrew Liveris and Dow Chemical the worldwide partner in the ...


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Child Passenger Safety Week has one goal
Let's protect our most vulnerable passengers
Year in and year out, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) dedicates itself to ensuring the safety of the American public on our nation's highways. Nowhere is that commitment stronger than in our high-priority efforts to ensure the safety of children.
And Child Passenger Safety Week is an opportunity to recognize –and advance – that effort.
At NHTSA, our safety focus continues through the many stages of a child's life: from infant and toddler, to the pre-teen, to the teenager just learning to drive. We want them all to be safe and secure in the family car, aware of vehicle traffic when they cross the street, and protected by the yellow school bus to and from school. And when they're old enough to drive, we want them to be alert and focused on driving, not texting or talking on a cell phone.
During Child Passenger Safety Week, we highlight the important safety benefits associated with the proper use of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.
Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of death for children. Regardless of the size of the vehicle, the age of the child, or the length of the trip, children should always be properly restrained in a car seat, booster or seat belt.
Car seats, when correctly installed and used, provide proven life-saving and injury-reducing benefits for child passengers. In fact, properly used car seats decrease the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and 54 percent for toddlers. Children are 59 percent less likely to be injured in a booster seat than if they were using seat belts only.
From 1975 through 2011, we estimate that approximately 10,000 lives were saved by car seats for children under the age of 5 in passenger vehicles, with more than 260 lives saved in 2011 alone.
So, it's very troubling to us that more than a third of children under age 13 who died in passenger vehicle crashes in 2011 were not in car seats or wearing seat belts.
To be sure that your child is riding as safely as possible in the car, please check out National Seat Check Saturday, September 21, where parents, guardians, and other caregivers can have their child's car seat inspected and properly installed by Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians.
Those who attend will also learn how to properly install the car seat themselves, and how to use the car seat the right way to keep their children safe. Technicians can help parents and caregivers determine if children are ready to move up from car seats to booster seats, and from booster seats to seat belts. They can also help make sure your car seat is registered so you'll be notified in case that seat is recalled.
If you can't make it to a Seat Check Saturday event, you can still have your car seat examined by a certified technician on a different date. The service that the technicians offer is available year-round, by appointment, and is usually free of charge. To locate a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician in your area, go to http://www.nhtsa.gov/cps/cpsfitting, or download the free SaferCar app from the iTunes App Store.
Parents, guardians, and caregivers can also visit safercar.gov/therightseat to learn tips on car seat safety, how-to videos, recommendations, and car seat recalls provided by NHTSA.
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People are much more likely to take preventive medicines if they're combined in one pill, an international study has found. The findings are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Taking aspirin, cholesterol-lowering and blood pressure-lowering drugs long-term more than halves heart attack and stroke recurrence. However, only about 50 per cent of people with cardiovascular disease in high-income countries take all recommended preventive medications. In low- and middle-income countries, only five to 20 per cent do. This leaves tens of millions of people undertreated.
In the first study to test the impact of a fixed-dose combination pill - called a polypill - in people with cardiovascular disease, 2,004 participants in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and India were randomly assigned either the polypill, or their normal combination of medicines.
After an average of 15 months' follow-up, the proportion of participants in the polypill group who were taking medications regularly was a third higher than in the group receiving usual care. The polypill group also had lower blood pressure and cholesterol measurements.
Lead author, Professor Simon Thom, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said: "The reality is that large numbers of people who have already suffered heart attacks or strokes either don't receive these medications or get out of the habit of taking them. The findings of this study suggest that providing them in a single pill is a helpful preventive step."
Professor Thom said the new findings dispelled several myths about the polypill. "Despite the use of older medications and fixed doses, the polypill group had improved blood pressure and cholesterol levels simply because they took recommended medications more regularly. Also there were no differences in diet or exercise patterns." He also noted that the trial participants were almost universally eager to adopt the polypill if it were made available.
Co-author Professor Anthony Rodgers of The George Institute for Global Health and The University of Sydney, said: "These results show that polypills are a viable strategy for heart attack and stroke survivors. This is most relevant to the large number of high-risk individuals globally who currently don't take recommended medications long-term.
"While the World Health Organisation and many others have noted the potential benefits and cost savings of such an approach for over a decade, this is the first trial to show these benefits directly."
Most of the patients in the study had already had a heart attack or stroke; the rest were at high risk on the basis of risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking.
The polypills used in the study were developed by Dr Reddy's Ltd, Hyderabad. The late Dr Anji Reddy gave the green light to the development, seeing an opportunity to provide an affordable, convenient treatment package to patients in India and elsewhere.
The study was funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research.
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Here are 10 tips for building a better Web site:
What is the purpose of your site? Do you want to sell products? Are you looking to find new customers? Are you trying to provide information for existing customers? Do you want an online brochure, or something more complex? Think about what you're trying to accomplish via the Web and look for ways to reach that goal. Review your business plan and your marketing plan to make sure that your Web efforts accurately reflect your company's vision and image.
It's important to encourage repeat visits to your site with fresh content. Refresh your Web site on a regular basis, with new images, bits of product or company news, articles of interest to your customers or whatever else you think will both be compelling and useful. Capitalize on your efforts by featuring a "What's New" section which makes new information easy to find.
Web users are renowned for their impatience. If your images take too long to download, surfers will get bored and click right on past your Web site. Use small clusters of graphics, as opposed to one large sheet of color and form. Keep graphics on your home page interesting, but get rid of complex, overdone graphics that take forever to download. The same goes for text — look out for dense blocks or long lists that are hard to read, or require the user to scroll for a long time to reach the information they need.
Your Web site should have many, many, many listings of your email address, phone number, address, and instructions for ordering if you are selling products or services. Include this information in as many places as possible. Don't make someone search for a way to contact you.
If something is not ready to be featured on your site, do not put it up with an "under construction" sign. Users who spend time downloading an under construction graphic will be more than disappointed — they will be annoyed. Regard your site in the same way you do all marketing materials. If you want to highlight something before you showcase it, use a "coming soon" icon.
Whether you're marketing CD's to Gen–Xers or selling dentures to older people, your design and content should be suitable for the people you want to reach, just as you would do with any piece of advertising you produce. Remember, your Web site is a form of advertising, whether in–your–face or subtle, and it is a projection of your company image.
If something doesn't work perfectly, don't put it on your site — visitors are not beta testers. Look out for missing links — ones that go nowhere or result in an error message — since these do little but frustrate users. And be sure to proofread everything; typos, poor grammar and sloppy sentence construction will detract from the professional image you seek to develop.
Users will be more likely to browse around if they know they can return easily to your home page. Make this feature a part of all pages of your site. Another option: use a map or list of your features to encourage people to find what interests them. You can also try a "return to map" function. Keep navigation simple.
If you're selling products, make it easy for your customer to place an order. Product pictures and prices should be clearly displayed, along with available options. Some merchants favor shopping carts, which let shoppers add and subtract items as they go along and keep a running tally. Allow shoppers to order directly from your Web site, but also offer alternatives like phone or fax for people who don't trust online transaction processing.
If humor is appropriate, you might consider using it. If you have an interesting company history, include it. People like to attach a face to your business and feel personally connected, so you might even want to include a bio and a picture of yourself and those of other key staff members.
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Where the wires converge.
The E-Tube Di2 Junction Box is what is referred to as the B Junction. This is the point in the wiring system where all the component pieces converge. It's a crucial item along with the five required wire sections to operate your Ultegra 6770, Ultegra 6870, or Dura-Ace 9070 Di2 shift system.
The E-Tube Di2 Junction Box is available in two configurations—Internal (SM-JC41) and External (SM-JC40). The Internal style is designed to be located inside the bike frame (usually inside the down tube, tucked in from a hollow bottom bracket shell). The External version is designed to be fixed on the outside of the bottom bracket shell, usually fastened to the cable guide.
- Connects Di2 cycling component and battery wires
- Available in external or internal configurations
- Shimano's Di2 is the most popular electronic drivetrain in the pro ranks
Tech Specs
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Di2 Reference Guide
Note: This reference is meant to be used as a guide for creating a Shimano Di2 drivetrain package. For further assistance please feel free to give us a call.
Battery and Wires:
Our Shimano Di2 packages are built for three standard configurations based on battery location and wire routing. First, you'll need to determine if your frame uses an internal or external battery mount, and whether the routing is either internal or external. Below is a guide for which battery, charger, mount, and junction boxes are required for your configuration.
Battery | Battery Charger | Battery Mount | Junction A | Junction B | |
External Battery w/ External Routing |
SM-BTR1 | SM-BCR1 | SM-BMR2 | SM-EW90 A/B 3/5 port | SM-JC40 |
External Battery w/ Internal Routing |
SM-BTR1 | SM-BCR1 | SM-BMR2 | SM-EW90 A/B 3/5 port | SM-JC41 |
Internal Battery w/ Internal Routing |
SM-BTR2 | SM-BCR2 | SM-EW90 A/B 3/5 port | SM-JC41 |
Battery Mounts:
The SM-BMR2 battery mount is available in three configurations -- Long External, Short External, and Long Internal. Both Long versions are to be mounted using the bottle cage mounts, while the Short version is designed for Di2-specific frames with either a chainstay or down tube mounting location.
There are two junctions needed for completing your Di2 build -- A and B. Junction A, SM-EW90, is located at the handlebars and available in both three- and five-port options. The three-port option is intended for standard shifting with a left and right hand shifter. If you have the intention of using Shimano's satellite sprint shifters, or a combination of time trial shifters and shifter/brake levers, the five-port junction box will be the necessary selection.
Depending on your frame specification, Junction B (SM-JC40 or SM-JC41) is located either internally or externally at the bottom bracket area. Accordingly, SM-JC41 is designed for frames with internal wire routing, while SM-JC40 is intended for external wiring options.
E-Tube Wires:
For your convenience, we've created wire packages for your Di2 build kit in the sizes Small, Medium, and Large. Below, you'll find which wire lengths are included in each kit. Additionally, we've recommended a kit size based on your frame size.
Down Tube Wire | 700mm | 750mm | 950mm |
Front Derailleur Wire | 300mm | 350mm | 400mm |
Rear Derailleur Wire | 500mm | 550mm | 600mm |
Battery Wire | 300mm | 350mm | 400mm |
Frame Size | 47-52cm | 53-56cm | 57+cm |
Please Note:
E-Tube Wire length suggestions are an approximation.
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Works well.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Works great, make sure to plug any unused ports (like in 1x setups) with the shimano di2 port plugs, or else water will get in and short it out.
Gotta Have It
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
It's a necessity!