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It's not so far-fetched. George Foreman and Mr. T both have weird-ass branded products. Why not a Patrick Swayze microwave?
The jokers at Grocery Eats have mocked up what such an appliance might look like.
The power knob references Swayze's roles over the years, going from lowest to highest in terms of character badassitude—Vida (To Wong Foo ...; low power), Johnny (Dirty Dancing), Sam (Ghost), Dalton (Roadhouse), Bodhi (Point Break; high power).
What, no Jed Eckert?
Also, when it trips your circuit breaker, you can blame Jim Cunningham.

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The year is 2102, welcome to a world drowned in chaos and nuclear fallout. Humankind lay dessicated, what remians of us are conserved in bio dome cities, driven into risk, governments and military crippeled. I'm just a man, I don't know anything of my past, but I know about my future, and the future of this planet that was once ours. A story about a clan that looked out for everyone, human...or not human. A clan willing to risk anything to ensure survival, with the best technology and tactics at their disposal. A clan, that saved me, and made me something I tought would never be possible, I am a member of Phoenix Rising, I am Alec Shard, this is my story, this is our Earth, and what remains of it.
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Castillo returns to Cubs lineup for finale
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.
SAN DIEGO -- Catcher Welington Castillo was back in the Cubs' lineup Sunday after missing a few days to rest sore ribs.
Castillo was injured on Aug. 17 while making an awkward throw.
"We gave him enough days off and he's feeling a lot better," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said.
Castillo said he's still a little tender, but doesn't want to go on the disabled list with so little time remaining in the season.
"I'm not 100 percent, but I have to get through the season," said the catcher, who feels it more when he's hitting than when he's making a throw from behind the plate.
Castillo, who has not played since Wednesday, went 3-for-26 in his last eight games, and was batting .265 entering Sunday's finale vs. the Padres.
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Velocity stacks are the lace teddies of high-performance engines. So when Chicagoland's Fluid Motorunion wanted aluminum horns for their project BMW M3, they ran to the AutoCad and created a mockup. Then, they carved out these nasty sombitches in three dimensions.
The shop did all the conceptualizing, designing, cutting and assembling in-house — using 6061-grade aluminum, a part-magnesium alloy used in both automotive and aircraft construction. An Aquamist water-methanol injection system runs from a tank at the rear to a manifold that leads to eight direct-injection nozzles. These nozzles sit at the tips of eight arms that reach over the stacks (those are those gothic, flying-buttressy things). The designers wanted it to look mean. Mission accomplished.
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Adam and Gail Johnson will celebrate 45 years of marriage. They were married Nov. 23, 1963, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Livonia, Mich., by Rev. Jay Coulton.
The couple has two children, Ron (and Jerri) Johnson of Tucson, Ariz., and Jennifer (and Joe) Morgan of Tecumseh, Mich. They also have two grandchildren, Andrew and Adam Morgan.
Adam and Gail are the owners of Johnson's Gambles hardware store in Morenci.
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Southbridge police recently received a Humvee, or High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, from military surplus.
It's a large and — judging from the faces of pedestrians — intimidating looking four-wheel-drive military automobile.
It wasn't one of the 18-ton Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicles from the war in Iraq, which made news this week because the military gave them to law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
But free is free, and Southbridge authorities appeared pleased with the acquisition, which will be used for special operations and during inclement weather.
The Congress-created 1033 Program permits excess U.S. Department of Defense supplies and equipment to be transferred for free to state and local law enforcement agencies.
More than 37,000 "line items of property" were issued to more than 7,000 law enforcement agencies in fiscal 2013, said Michelle McCaskill, a spokeswoman for the military's Defense Logistics Agency in Virginia.
The program has been in existence since the late 1990s.
The most requested items were optics, such as binoculars and sights for weapons, and clothing and vehicles, Ms. McCaskill said.
Civil libertarian groups aren't as happy about the program.
"The police have been becoming more para-militarized ever since the War on Drugs started, and the War on Terror has really exacerbated the problem quite a bit," said Kade Crockford, director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology for Liberty program.
In addition to surplus items, the Department of Homeland Security has increasingly made large sums of money available to police departments to purchase military-grade weapons, tactical gear and surveillance equipment, Ms. McCade said.
Many people, she said, aren't aware of the extent to which police departments "are increasingly behaving" like militaries, she said adding her organization was working on a report on the issue in Massachusetts.
Last year, Southbridge also got 20 M-16 rifles, to add to the three it already got from military surplus, said Sgt. Steven Bellerose, who applies for military surplus items for Southbridge.
All 23 arrived as fully automatic rifles. But not wanting that type of firepower on the street, the department switched them to semiautomatic weapons, for a minimal cost, the sergeant said.
After the 1997 North Hollywood shoot out between two heavily armed bank robbers and Los Angeles police — during which the out-gunned LAPD borrowed rifles from a gun store — many departments have looked at adding rifles to patrols, Sgt. Bellerose said.
"A lot of departments still don't carry rifles and a lot of, say, only SWAT team members or supervisors will have them," he said. "We're lucky enough that we have enough that all of our guys on the road have a rifle, should a school shooting (or something of the like) happen."
Ms. McCaskill, the defense spokeswoman, said the surplus program currently restricts the numbers and types of weapons that may be requisitioned to small arms.
Combat aircraft are not allowed for transfer, she said.
The program allocates weapons based on justifications of need for law enforcement purposes, including counter-drug and counter-terrorism operations, Ms. McCaskill said.
Each justification must be reviewed and approved by a governor-appointed state coordinator, and the officials overseeing the individual law enforcement activities and the state coordinator are responsible for determining whether any request exceeds the community's needs or ability to maintain, she said.
Approximately 10 percent of requisitions are turned down. A primary reason for rejecting a request is the property is not authorized to be allocated outside of the Defense Department, Ms. McCaskill said.
Massachusetts State Police devotes a full-time civilian position to oversee and process requests, spokesman David Procopio said.
The requests appear to have been fairly steady over the years, Mr. Procopio said.
Central Massachusetts appears to be in line with other parts of the state in terms of the number of departments making requests, Mr. Procopio said.
"The program has accountability. We keep careful records and the departments have to show that they are using the equipment as they said they would. It is a good example of federal–local partnerships to enhance public safety and homeland security capabilities," Mr. Procopio said.
Worcester Police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said it has been a while since the city received anything through the program, but its inventory includes M-16 rifles, two Humvees for inclement weather and two pickup trucks that are used for transporting items such as police barricades, parade equipment, or taking things to and from accident sites.
"They're older trucks — like 1988 — but they were low mileage," the sergeant said. "They work great. We're thankful for having them."
Auburn Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis said officers use the 10 pistols and 19 rifles it received last year from the program for target practice at a firing range.
In addition, the Auburn police department unloads the rifles and allows veterans to fire blanks in honor of fallen veterans during Memorial Day observances, he said.
"These are probably the first items we've acquired from them in probably over 15 years," Chief Sluckis said.
Asked why the agency wouldn't apply more often for free equipment, he said, "We don't apply for things just for the sake of applying for them. The space we have here is limited. We don't have a lot of space to park extra vehicles or anything like that."
In Southbridge, the Humvee had fewer than 4,000 miles on it and was in like-new condition when the sergeant and Chief Daniel R. Charette picked it up in Concord, N.H.
Brand new, it would be worth about $55,000, they said.
The speedometer goes to 60 miles per hour, but the chief said he didn't feel comfortable pushing it more than 55 on the highway.
"It's made for power, not speed," the chief said.
At the base, the Southbridge authorities were told the vehicle could have belonged to "an administrative guy" who used it to go from one office to another.
"This thing certainly does not look like it saw combat — much better condition than I ever thought I'd get for free," added Sgt. Bellerose.
Chief Charette said he also wants it used for community policing. It can be brought to parades, parks and Main Street, where pedestrians have complained about motorists not stopping at crosswalks.
It will be "a real visible piece to say, 'Police are here,' " the chief said.
Another thing to consider is departments have to pay to pick up and return the surplus items.
Once police are done with the equipment they received, the equipment must be returned in working condition.
If the item is used to the point it no longer works, or it has become too costly to maintain, the agency has to notify the military and return it to the military.
Southbridge will have to change its rifles back to automatic weapons before they are returned to the military, Sgt. Bellerose said.
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This can be served immediately as a warm salad or made ahead and served chilled.
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- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup (packed) chopped fresh basil
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 3 tablespoons drained capers
- 3 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
- 2 pounds small littleneck clams or Manila clams, scrubbed
- 2 pounds mussels, scrubbed, debearded
- 2 cups dry white wine
- 2 pounds sea scallops, connective side tissue trimmed
- 1 1/2 pounds uncooked large shrimp, peeled, deveined
- Whisk first 8 ingredients in bowl to blend. Season dressing with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead; chill. Bring to room temperature before using.)
- Combine clams, mussels, and wine in large wide pot. Cover tightly; cook over high heat until clams and mussels open, about 8 minutes (discard any clams and mussels that do not open). Using slotted spoon, transfer clams and mussels to very large bowl. Strain cooking liquid into medium bowl. Whisk 1/3 cup cooking liquid into dressing (reserve remaining cooking liquid for another use).
- Cook scallops in large saucepan of boiling salted water until just opaque in center, about 3 minutes. Using slotted spoon, add scallops to clams and mussels. Return water in saucepan to boil. Add shrimp and cook just until opaque in center, about 3 minutes. Drain. Transfer to bowl with shellfish. (Can be prepared 4 hours ahead and refrigerated.) Pour dressing over shellfish and toss to blend.
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When i first installed the informix through the removing the ; at php_ifx.dll and then restarted apache
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Leave no scone unturned: 11 great NYC Scones08 Mar 2010, Posted by Alice's Tea Cup, Best of New York City, Best Scones in New York City, Blue Ribbon Bakery, Bouchon, Bouley Bakery, City Bakery, Clinton St. Baking Co, Dovetail, E.A.T., Francois Chocolate Bar, Le Pain Quotidien, Levain Bakery, Sweets Truck, Whole foods in
Like muffins, New York City scones are a great excuse to eat cake for breakfast. Or, depending on where you get them, to eat cookies in the morning. Or, basically, to have dessert any damn time of day you want. We have an especially wide array of different types here in the city as New York is truly the Madagascar of scones. Anywho, here is my list of 12 recommended scones.
I'll start with my favorite scone, the raisin scone from Payard. [Payard is closed, try Francois Chocolate Bar for pastry- no scones or bread to date 3-1-2010] A very thin crisp shell with a sweet soft Challah-like inside. The aroma of the center of this scone is one of the great food pleasures for $1.50. Notes: Go early or they won't have any left. More on Payard.
The Maple scones from Blue Ribbon Bakery are almost like shortbread cookies. They are very small, sweet and flavorful with a thin layer of frosting. Perfect if you are not in the mood for a full-on bread bomb. More desserts from Blue Ribbon.
The goat cheese and herb savory scone from Clinton Street Baking Company has a thick, crunchy, textured crust and a very salty and flavorful inside. This is a big scone that is fun to eat in the same way ripping off pieces of French bread is. More Clinton Street Desserts.
Perhaps I should not have included the tiny savory biscuit-like scone from Dovetail since it's only available with their delicious brunch. However, it left an impression on me so I felt it deserved a spot. Chewy on the edges like a buttery chocolate chip cookie but 100% savory almost like a cornmeal grain, butter rich biscuit that's been cooked on a griddle. More from DessertBuzz 5-star Dovetail.
The savory bacon cheddar scone from Bouchon is a highly textured and flavorful creation worthy of the Bouchon name. More like a small specialty bread, this scone is not at all crumbly or buttery. Notes: You must go early to get these as they can be dry if you get them in the afternoon. Check with the staff if you go after 12:00 to see when it was baked. Also for god sakes, get a pastry here if you go.
The chocolate strawberry scone from Alice's Tea Cup packs tons of delicious dark chocolate and fresh strawberries. Their crust is thick and the inside reminds me of buttermilk pancakes with starwberries and chocolate. They are the biggest scones and most filling in this feature. Perfect for fueling up for a long walk around Central Park. Notes: ask for a hot one. It simply DESTROYS! More from Alice's Tea Cup.
The chocolate scone from E.A.T. definitely has some croissant in its bloodlines. Very buttery, light and flaky (um, like the inside of a good croissant?). This is the opposite of the dense Clinton St. or Alice's Tea Cup scones. Notes: The dark chocolate in this scone is simply outstanding. More from E.A.T.
The organic cranberry scone from Le Pain Quotidien is like a muffin but with an interesting glazed soft exterior that makes it stand out. The tart cranberries and low sugar content also keep this from becoming too sweet. Notes: if you like your scones to be very distinctive from muffins you might not like this scone. More dessert from Le Pain Quotidien.
Forget the name of the scone I am going to describe here and just go buy one and enjoy it. The vegan (yes vegan) chocolate chip scone from Whole Foods is really just a big thick less dense chocolate chip cookie that you can eat for breakfast. It has coconut inside and some other great textures to go along with excellent dark chocolate chips and a crunchy crust, all for $1.79. Notes: I said forget it's vegan! More Whole Foods here.
The currant scone from Bouley Bakery is a work of baking and culinary art. The cookie-like exterior is not buttery but is perfectly browned. The inside is crumbly and not too sweet. Like a less-sweet, less buttery slightly more dense shortbread cookie. Notes: Try some other items while you are down there – almost everything is superb.
No review on New York City scones would be complete without the monster offering from the Levain Bakery. A thin but crispy exterior layer and a super buttery smooth interior. When hot, these scones are hard to beat in the more traditional category. Notes: Monster size means you won't need more food for hours. Pair it with one of their world famous cookies and you could feed the entire Army Core of Engineers. More Levain.
Honorable mention goes to the Street Sweets Truck oat currant scone. Very textured, flavorful and extremely fresh, this is a perfect morning scone to go with your coffee. Cake-like although not particularly scone-like in texture, you couldn'tt eat it as a stand alone dessert. One to try if you can figure out where the truck is parked. Try Midtown Lunch to see where their spot is.


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Tour bus operators may have to pay to access Lower 9
Ordinance proposes fee for bus tours in Lower 9th Ward
New Orleans tour bus operators wanting to take visitors into the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood may soon have to pay a fee to do so.
After a meeting this month with tour operators and residents, City Councilman Ernest Charbonnet, who represents the Lower 9th Ward, has drafted an ordinance with a yet-to-be-determined fee for companies proposing to provide for-pay tours of the Hurricane Katrina-devastated neighborhood.
The proposed ordinance would also limit the tour bus size to 28-passenger vehicles or smaller and limits them to an established route that steers clear of most residential streets.
But some tour operators argue the fee, if imposed, could hurt a business that is generating revenue for the city and open business owners to possibly more fees from other parts of the rebuilding city.


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07 February 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Dr Perry has over 25 years of successful pharmaceutical and biotech management and development experience
Singapore: Regenerative medicine company Avita Medical, listed on ASX, has appointed Dr Michael S Perry, vice president and senior global program head, Stem Cell Therapy at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, to the company's board of directors. Dr Perry has over 25 years of successful pharmaceutical and biotech management and development experience.
Mr Dalton Gooding, chairman, Avita Medical, said, "Michael has extraordinary biotech and business expertise, and we are delighted that he is joining Avita's board of directors."
Dr Perry currently serves as vice president and senior global program head, Stem Cell Therapy at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Based in the US, he has previously served as the global head of R&D at Baxter Healthcare, president, Cell & Gene Therapy at Novartis affiliates SyStemix and Genetic Therapy, VP Regulatory Affairs at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, director of Regulatory Affairs at Schering-Plough, and chairman, CEO or CMO at several early-stage biotech companies.
From 2005 to 2012, Dr Perry was a venture partner with Bay City Capital, a California-based venture capital firm managing over $1.6 billion invested predominantly in life science companies. "Michael brings a wealth of experience and scientific acumen as well as the insights that come from running successful large global divisions and emerging start-ups. Michael will be a great addition to our board and I am delighted to be working with him," said Dr William Dolphin, Avita chief executive officer.
"I am honored to join the Avita board and work with this exceptional team," Dr Perry said. "Avita has the potential to make a significant impact in the field of regenerative medicine and I look forward to sharing my experiences and contributing to the future direction and growth at this early stage in the company's history."
In addition to Avita Medical, Dr Perry currently serves on the board of two publicly held companies.


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Rapid growth in wind farm installations across China over the past few years has created a thriving post-warranty maintenance market, estimated to be worth more than CNY 100 billion ($16 billion) by 2020. This is significant considering a slowdown in new installation and turbine makers' plummeting profit margins.
The estimate of the market's value is based on the current average operation and maintenance (O&M) costs at Chinese wind farms of CNY 0.05/kWh ($0.008/kWh) and the assumption that annual availability of wind turbines averages 2,000 hours. Under the country's wind-power development plan, China will have 150GW of capacity installed and connected to the grid by 2020.
By the end of last year, China had a total of 62.4GW in wind installations, according to the China Wind Energy Association, which equals 45,894 wind turbines that will require 20 or more years of post-warranty maintenance. To fulfil its 150GW target, China will need to install over 10GW annually over the next eight years. This means by 2020, China will have more than 100,000 wind turbines.
The warranty period in China has historically lasted just two years, meaning the number of turbines coming out of warranty every year closely reflects the huge growth in installations. Many specialist companies have sprung up to grab a share of this growing market, including subsidiaries of wind-farm developers, turbine manufacturers and third-party companies.
Keeping services in-house
More than half of all wind farms are developed by China's top five state-owned power groups, which have their own O&M subsidiaries or divisions to provide maintenance services.
Longyuan Power, China's largest wind-farm developer, set up a subsidiary, Zhongneng Lianchuang, in 2007. It had supplied turbine maintenance service and spare parts to more than 100 wind farms totalling 9GW by the end of 2011. Developer Datang Renewables also has a specialised O&M company.
In addition to serving wind farms of its parent company, Xiehe Yunwei, the maintenance arm of China Wind Power Group is offering O&M services to other companies. It signed an outsourcing contract in October 2011 to service Tianjin Jiyunhe Wind Farm, totalling 4.5MW. Other leading wind farm developers have their own O&M service sections, but are yet to establish stand-alone subsidiaries.
Owner efficiency
Leading developers choose to maintain turbines themselves, believing they can improve efficiency with scaled services, concentrated procurement to lower costs and unified management. These all ensure industrial standards, replicable management modes and assessment indexes, industry officials say.
Smaller developers without the resources of the big state-owned power companies usually outsource O&M work because they do not have the capacity to carry out maintenance themselves. Turbine manufacturers tend to be their preferred outsourcing partners.
In 2005, Goldwind set up subsidiary Tianyuan Creation to offer O&M services covering the whole lifecycle of a wind farm. "We expand our business by elevating the turbine availability and quality, while lowering operational risks," says Cai Tao, general manager of Tianyuan Creation.
Guodian United Power is another leading turbine maker that split off all-round O&M services as an independent business, establishing Guodian Sida Technology late last year.
Third-party challenge
While the subsidiaries set up by big developers or manufacturers tend to offer all-round O&M services, third-party companies largely focus on specific fields, such as blade maintenance services, which is offered by Baoding Shenglian Wind Power Technology.
Third-party companies can take up considerable market share because they quote lower service prices than turbine makers and are often based locally to wind farms and can respond quicker.
However, third-party companies also face many challenges in this competitive market. One of the key issues is that wind turbine manufacturers will not provide them with core technical information, such as operation instructions on replacing major components and inspection standards after the replacement. The operation manuals that turbine makers supply to wind farm owners are not sufficient to solve major technological problems. Manufacturers are also reluctant to supply spare parts to outsiders.
Despite these challenges, third party companies do have market potential, if they can effectively control costs and work closely with clients they can clearly demonstrate their service values to them.
Zhangbei county in northern China's Hebei province currently has 1,300 wind turbines totalling more than 1GW. The national plan has it earmarked as a 10GW-level wind power base, with 5GW installation by 2015, according to Huang Haixin, director of Zhangbei new energy office. "Now, wind turbines in our county have gone out of the warranty period in succession," says Huang. "Small developers find it hard to maintain by themselves and it is costly to extend maintenance contracts with turbine makers. So they expect to have third-party companies to offer O&M services with cheaper prices and professional expertise."
Buyers' market
Chinese wind farm developers allocate low budgets for O&M. They prefer to force turbine makers to extend the warranty period. And they are able to do this. Due to surplus production capacity from 80-odd turbine makers, the Chinese wind turbine market has become a buyer's market.
To secure market shares, most turbine makers are having to accept the demand of wind-farm developers. They have extended the warranty period to three, five or ten years. Some even offer 20 years' warranty service.
Long Xin, deputy general manager of XEMC, says that extending the warranty period will put turbine makers in a tight spot. Manufacturers have profit margins of less than 10%, yet under the present payment mode they must leave 10% of the payment in the hand of wind-farm developers until the end of the warranty period, he adds.
There have been occasions where issues with turbines or components have created major operational problems for wind-farm operators.
- In 2011, Wuxi Tianqi Zhufeng Technology, a bamboo blade producer, saw 100 sets of blades worth CNY 70 million suffer cracking problems at the tip or root of the blades.
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IBM has taken the wraps off a new version of its mainframe operating system, which has been designed to make it easier to port Unix applications onto Big Iron servers. The upgrade also includes scalability and security improvements.
The update, z/OS V1.9, will ship generally from 28 September, and includes the ability for a logical partition on the machine to span up to 54 processors. Previous versions of the OS were capable of setting up partitions spanning only 32 processors.
Improvements to z/OS Unix System Services assist customers looking to run packages more commonly associated with mid-range servers, such as ERP or CRM workloads, on mainframes. The latest version of the OS also makes it easier to set consistent network security policies across distributed systems communicating with a mainframe, as well as multiple instances of the OS. Improved security also comes from the ability to manage digital certificates directly through the mainframe, providing centralised key management for web-based applications.
z/OS V1.9 runs on IBM System z9 and zSeries (z890, z990, z800, z900) servers. IBM said it doesn't plan to release a z/OS.e V1.9 OS, a cut-down version of the OS designed for e-commerce. Previous version, z/OS.e V1.8, can be ordered until October 2007 and will be supported until October 2009.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't have to hesitate for long when asked about his club's offensive identity.
"We're not a speed team, for sure," Gardenhire said. "We have a few guys who can run. We're more of a base-to-base team."
There's a reason Gardenhire could so emphatically say the Twins aren't going to wow anyone with their speed. They've stolen 29 bases this season, more than only the Tigers in the American League, and only three players have more than one steal. Brian Dozier and Pedro Florimon have swiped eight bases, and Aaron Hicks has stolen six. Beyond that, seven players have one stolen base -- and that's it.
They've been caught 17 times, and their 63 percent success rate is lowest in the AL.
"We have a lot of big guys in the middle that are base-to-base. We're not a hit-and-run team," Gardenhire said. "We've got a few guys that can, but we don't have enough speed to be able to do that to really make a lot of movement."
While that puts a limit on what the Twins can do offensively, it also makes them reliant on having a productive lineup, Nos. 1-9. If everyone's not clicking, or if everyone clicks at different times, they're probably going to struggle to consistently score runs. That happened again on Tuesday, as the Twins managed only three hits in the first eight innings and five total in a 4-1 loss to Tampa Bay.
"We rely on the big guys in the middle maybe to hit some balls off the wall or over the wall. We're definitely kind of in the middle," Gardenhire said. "We need production all the way up and down, absolutely.
"We have people. You have it up and down the lineup. We know we can score runs. But we haven't put it together. We haven't really had a run where we've put together five, six, seven runs a game, and our pitchers have gone deep into games. It's all about getting a group together and doing the same things."


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SAN DIEGO /PRNewswire/ -- Scripps Health announced that it has been awarded a $3.75 million grant from the Qualcomm Foundation, to be used for the Scripps Translational Science Institute, which was established by Scripps Health in collaboration with various parties to support the development of breakthrough digital technologies designed to revolutionize the practice of medicine.
The funding will advance clinical trials of cutting-edge wireless biosensor systems, the creation of rapid pharmacogenomic diagnostic tests that can be administered in retail stores, and the development of apps and embedded sensors for tracking and predicting heart attacks, Type 1 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
"The combination of wireless technologies, sensors, diagnostics, and DNA sequencing tools offers unparalleled opportunities to dramatically impact health care. The Qualcomm Foundation is proud to support this endeavor, bringing breakthrough technologies to the field of medicine to improve patient care," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, Qualcomm Inc.'s Chairman and CEO and Qualcomm Foundation Chair.
The Qualcomm Foundation was established in 2010 by Qualcomm Inc. to develop and strengthen communities worldwide through the philanthropic support of inspirational and innovative programs that serve diverse populations.
"Scripps Health and our Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) partners are at the forefront of the development of wireless and genomic medicine," said Chris Van Gorder, Scripps President and CEO. "The generous grant from the Qualcomm Foundation reinforces our efforts to translate innovative discoveries into transformative clinical therapies."
STSI is a National Institutes of Health-supported consortium led by Scripps Health in collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute and several other scientific partners.
"The support from the Qualcomm Foundation of our efforts at Scripps positions us to catalyze the future of digital medicine, a new form of health care that is remarkably precise, tailored to individual patients, and designed to engage them in their own care," said Scripps Chief Academic Officer and STSI Director Eric Topol, M.D.
Funding the Future of Medicine
The three-year program is designed to move promising discoveries and devices more quickly to hospitals and clinics where they can be used to more rapidly diagnose and treat patients. Scripps officials said the funding represented an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate the burgeoning wireless health sector through collaborations with other research centers and technology developers on a global scale.
One of the first projects to benefit from the grant will be a long-range clinical research study of a mobile health-care software platform created by AirStrip Technologies Inc. of San Antonio. The study, led by Dr. Topol, will determine how mobile monitoring of patients by physicians may improve clinical workflow and patient recovery rates, among other considerations.
"The interest of Dr. Topol and his team in studying the efficacy of AirStrip's mobile critical care solutions is in itself acknowledgement of the significance of medical information mobility as the mobile health revolution marches forward," said AirStrip Chief Executive Officer Alan Portela.
This new digital medicine effort, Scripps Digital Medicine, spearheaded by Scripps with funding from the Qualcomm Foundation, mirrors San Diego's role as a global center for wireless health care, with 3050 communications and information technology companies, including Qualcomm, and 625 life sciences and biotechnology companies in the region, according to the CONNECT Innovation Report First Quarter 2012. Combined with nationally recognized hospital systems, including Scripps Health and internationally renowned basic science research institutes such as STSI, San Diego's wireless health community continues to grow.
Qualcomm Relationships Expand
The grant builds upon an existing relationship between Scripps Health/STSI and Qualcomm Incorporated that has already supported the training of physician-scientists, or Qualcomm Wireless Health Scholars, through the Qualcomm Wireless Health Scholars Master's Degree Program.
STSI will use the Qualcomm Foundation grant to focus on three high-priority programs: Clinical trial validation of biosensor systems: Tiny sensors floating in the blood stream can serve as round-the-clock scouts for signs of health problems, such as heart disease, Type 1 diabetes and cancer. Clear evidence of the benefit and value of these technologies is critical for regulatory clearance, reimbursement approval and adoption by health-care providers.
Development of mobile apps for embedded sensors: These devices look for particular gene expressions, gene mutations, proteins or antibodies that provide the molecular signatures of medical conditions. Once trouble is detected, the sensor can send the data wirelessly to an app on a patient's smartphone, triggering a message to seek treatment. STSI is collaborating with Dr. Axel Scherer and his team at the California Institute of Technology Nanofabrication Group to build the embedded nanosensors.
Handheld genotyping for precisely prescribing medications: In collaboration with DNA Electronics and Dr. Chris Toumazou at the Imperial College London, STSI is testing a point-of-care chip genotyping platform that can determine within 20 minutes a patient's DNA compatibility with certain drugs such as Plavix, Metformin and Interferon. The project could help lead to a radical change in the way prescriptions are filled at pharmacies and help to eliminate the costly use of ineffective drugs.
Scripps Digital Medicine joins Scripps Genomic Medicine as Scripps programs that are focused on the two pivotal fields that are transforming medicine.
Don Jones, vice president of global strategy and market development at Qualcomm Life, the health and life science subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., will help support the newly created Scripps Digital Medicine in an unpaid position as chief digital officer.
"Qualcomm sees the value in combining digital wireless technologies, global networks, genetics and consumer electronics at scale to lower the cost of health care while increasing quality, access and convenience," Jones said. "Never before has the convergence of technology and medicine brought forth so many possibilities to improve people's lives on a global scale, with the San Diego wireless health community leading the effort."
About the Qualcomm Foundation
Established in 2010 by Qualcomm Inc., the Qualcomm Foundation is dedicated to developing and strengthening communities worldwide. Specifically, the Qualcomm Foundation focuses its philanthropic efforts on helping create and sustain educated, healthy, culturally vibrant communities in regions around the globe. For more information about the Qualcomm Foundation and Qualcomm Incorporated's global social responsibility programs, visit the company's Web site.
About Scripps Health
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $2.5 billion nonprofit, integrated health system, based in San Diego, CA. Scripps treats a half-million patients annually through the dedication of 2600 affiliated physicians and 13,500 employees among its five acute-care hospital campuses, home health care services, ambulatory care network of physician offices, and 23 outpatient centers and clinics.
Recognized as a leader in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, Scripps is also at the forefront of clinical research, genomic medicine, wireless health care, and graduate medical education. With three highly respected graduate medical education programs, Scripps is a longstanding member of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Scripps has been consistently recognized by Fortune, Working Mother magazine, and AARP as one of the best places in the nation to work.
About the STSI
The Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) is a unique community collaboration that initiates research that moves basic science from the lab to the patient bedside. STSI is supported by the NIH flagship program, Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Collaborators in the STSI consortium include Scripps Health; The Scripps Research Institute; the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; The J. Craig Venter Institute; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; San Diego State University; San Diego Supercomputer Center; and The Neurosciences Institute.


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The gulf widens, between the secular culture and the Catholic faith: and as it does so, committed secularists are becoming more and more inclined (especially where some aspect of Catholic belief to do with sexuality or "sexual identity" is concerned) aggressively to attack the faith and – where the secular law can plausibly be invoked – attempt to have this aspect of faith declared actually illegal.
I have two current stories, one on either side of the great pond. On this side of the Atlantic, no less a person than Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has written to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, complaining that a booklet containing "homophobic material" had been distributed at Roman Catholic schools in the Lancaster diocese.
The booklet concerned – "Pure Manhood: How to become the man God wants you to be" by the American Catholic apologist Jason Evert, who spoke recently in Catholic schools throughout the diocese promoting chastity in accordance with Church teaching – claims that "scientifically speaking, safe sex is a joke" (this is true: condoms rupture: all that can be claimed is that sex using condoms is "safer"). The booklet also expounds what you may find explained in any number of Catholic books and document including the Catechism of the Catholic Church (does Mr Barber want to ban teaching from that in schools, I wonder?) – that "the homosexual act is disordered, much like contraceptive sex between heterosexuals. Both acts are directed against God's natural purpose for sex – babies and bonding."
Invoking the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination against individuals, Barber wrote to Mr Gove in December insisting that "schools now have a legal duty to challenge all forms of prejudice. Such literature undermines this completely." Michael Gove replied: "The education provisions of the Equality Act 2010 which prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their protected characteristics (including their sexual orientation) do not extend to the content of the curriculum. Any materials used in sex and relationship education lessons, therefore, will not be subject to the discrimination provisions of the act."
So, for the time being, our schools are safe from the likes of Mr Barber. But we have not heard the end of this one. One day, there will be another Labour government: and those who remember Ed Balls's appalling Education Bill, (which would have required Catholic schools to teach children how to "access" contraception and abortion) – a Bill which fell at the election, having been opposed by the Tories but, shamefully, not by our own bishops – will not be confident that we are safe for the future. Those who form public opinion in these areas are already sharpening their knives. The quangocrat Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said that religious rules should be left "at the door of the temple" and that religious institutions should give way to the "public law" laid down by Parliament. "Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules," he said, "then it has to go with public law."
The latest American secularist onslaught against the Church, of course, is Obama's recent edict that under his administration's healthcare reform any provider of health care (including Catholic institutions) must be prepared to supply artificial contraception (including drugs which, though labelled contraceptive, are in fact abortifacient). I have recently written about this more than once. I now do so again to bring up to date anyone who has missed it, with one particular skirmish in the US Catholic fightback, that led by the redoubtable (and entirely admirable) Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, who is now taking the fight against Obama to the courts.
You will remember that Obama tried to pacify Catholic resistance by saying that it won't now be the Catholic institution involved who has to provide contraception: it will be their insurers. Yes, but who pays the insurer? It just won't wash. Michael Warsaw, the chief executive officer of EWTN, was allowed an opinion piece slot in the New York Times to explain why EWTN was going to fight this in the courts on constitutional grounds:
Earlier this month, in response to widespread opposition to the mandate, the president announced an "accommodation" for some religious organisations – like, potentially, EWTN – that would shift the responsibility for the coverage from the employer to the employer's insurance carrier.
But this would do nothing to solve the problem. First, EWTN self-insures, so we are the insurer. Second, even if we had an outside insurer, we would still be in the untenable position of facilitating access to drugs that go against our beliefs. And if we refused to comply with the directive, we could be hit with annual fines starting at around $600,000.
The administration's supporters say that by opposing the rule, religious employers like EWTN are guilty of trying to coerce our employees and impose our values on them. But we are simply choosing not to participate in the use of these drugs. Our 350 employees, many of whom are not Catholic, freely choose to work here and can purchase and use contraception if they want to….
Instead, it is the government – which does not accept EWTN's religious choice and can punish that choice by imposing fines – that is coercing us. But under the Constitution and federal religious liberties law, we cannot be forced to give up our beliefs as the price of participation in the public square. That is why the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has filed a lawsuit on our behalf seeking to overturn this illegal mandate.
Watch this space, and how. This one is going to run and run. And with a bit of luck, Obama is going to lose. I have an interest to declare here: I have more than once appeared on EWTN and been deeply impressed by the whole dynamic set up. It's from institutions like this that the renewal and future growth of the Catholic Church will come, and I don't just mean in the US.
And now this splendid institution has declared war on the President. Mother Angelica versus Barack Obama: an epic struggle, or what? And this isn't just a battle for the survival of a particular Catholic institution. It's a battle for the faith against everything that is corrupt and bullying in the modern world. We mustn't just hope that EWTN wins; we must earnestly pray for it; for, this is our battle too.
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text: immo 69 Posted October 6, 2009 Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730October 5, 2009 Modified October 11, 2017 -> @fusion71au never disappoints. He's gotten High Sierra working on our dinosaurs. It amazes me how long these machines have been going with every OS-X release since Tiger. 8 years since I made this original post! http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=2500694 Modified September 26, 2016 -> fusion71au has gotten Mac OS Sierra working since the betas, and the GM is also working. Refer to his post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/page-99?do=findComment&comment=2243207 I have not tried it myself. Modified October 7, 2015 -> Got El Capitan running on my M1330 and loving it! fusion71au had it all figured out long before release and has put a mini install guide here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=2169368 Included in his post is where to find everything you need for M1530. MacGirl proved it can be done with M1330 just as easily. Use the latest DSDT from this first post (dated Sept 29, 2012) and FakeSMC posted by fusion71au here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=2173352 fusion71au gives alternate options for how to do the install. I personally got Clover 2.3k r3270 working on my Mavericks install (I didn't like Yosemite) and installed it using the Install El Capitan app: no USB key necessary! fusion71au reports that it is also possible to do this using Chameleon Enoch F2773. Note on mine and other machines you have to manually set the BusSpeedkHz parameter in config.plist as it detects double what it should be, causing animations to go half speed and sound to stutter. I got the number to use by taking my top speed divided by the multiplier when using Chameleon as reported by HWMonitor and then multiply by 1000 (2388/12*1000=199000). Take care when using fusion71au's guides that kexts are installed in the correct location (in bootloader folders, not /System/Library/Extensions) for installer app and vanilla USB key install methods to work. Also make sure to configure SMBios Mac model to MacBookPro5,1. Modified October 18, 2014 -> fusion71au has been busy getting our rigs working with Yosemite using Clover (and has been using pre-releases since June). See his post here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=2023821 Reportedly working as well as 10.9.5 on M1530 (including an issue where the computer reboots on wake after sleeping the second time), and I haven't heard anything on how it works on M1330 (but M1330 does not have the sleep issue on 10.9.5 so I'm hopeful...) Anyone who gets it working on M1330 please share your experiences. Thanks fusion71au! Modified October 20, 2014 -> indiandragon got Yosemite working on his Inspiron 1520. He posted a guide here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=2072275 He notes that there are no sleep issues. Thanks indiandragon! Also, one of these days I have to fix the DSDT code in this first post. It all still works as is presented but the formatting got ruined at some point somehow. Modified February 2nd, 2014 -> I finally upgraded my M1330 to Mavericks this weekend. I know I'm too late to help many of you since you are already happily using it with the help of the always helpful DarwinX (thanks yet again) and others, but I got it working a little different than some of you. I posted my method to upgrade Mountain Lion to Mavericks here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=1990876 I am still using the same DSDT that I've been using since September 2012 on the bottom of this post, and newer FakeSMC.kext and others posted by DarwinX (link in the guide). As mentioned in my mini guide, I think the key to avoiding heat issues is to use MacBook5,2 in smbios. I managed to get it to work by upgrading the existing installation; I did not have to do a clean install. There is no need to roll back AppleACPIPlatform.kext as was necessary in the past, however if you have an M1530, you might want to roll back to an alternate version of it to solve sleep issues as mentioned in fusion71au's mini guide linked below: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190780-guide-making-a-dsdtaml-for-dell-xps-m1330-xps-m1530-and-xps-m1730/?p=1966524 The method in his guide has worked well for others, and for all I know it may be the only way to get it to work on M1530. Thanks fusion71au. Modified October 10, 2012 -> The last DSDTs from 2011 worked well for Mountain Lion up to 10.8.1. As with 10.7.4, AppleACPIPlatform.kext has to be downgraded to 1.3.5 to prevent KPs on boot. Use Champlist to upgrade Chameleon to a recent version. For 10.8.2, crashes occur in VoodooHDA unless the HDEF section of the DSDT is stripped out (thanks for pointing this out LatinMcG). I've done this on the latest DSDTs posted below. I've also posted a very quick guide to installing Mountain Lion in MacGirl's thread here:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83039-compilation-dell-xps-m1330-m1530-vostro-1400-1700-inspiron-1420-1520-1720/page__st__4300?do=findComment&comment=1844454Modified July 7, 2012 -> The M1530 and M1330 are not compatible with AppleACPIPlatform.kext that ships with 10.7.4. However it has been discovered that replacing AppleACPIPlatform.kext with the older version 1.3.5 (from Snow Leopard) makes everything appear to work fine. See the always helpful DarwinX's post here: http://www.insanelym...post&p=1820079. If you use the combo updater to do the upgrade you have an opportunity to swap the kext (and remove AppleHDA.kext) after the installer is finished and before you press restart (I didn't swap the kext out this way so if it doesn't work for you sorry!)It has been suggested that the "darkwake=0" boot flag in org.chameleon.Boot.plist is necessary for working sleep. I can tell you that I have this flag and sleep works so long as hibernatemode is set to 0.Also, I've successfully used Chameleon 2.1 svn r1996 (packaged by Ermac) and an SMBios.plist generated by Champlist to get iCloud working. I used MacBook 5,2 for both the serial and database parameters. I imagine a number of you already have this working but for anyone who is still using the SMBios.plist below here is a much better option.Modified October 29 2011 -> After discussion in this topic I've decided to drop the NVidia patch altogether. It's not needed if GraphicsEnabler=Yes is in org.chameleon.Boot.plist, and the patch was the source of all the 10.7.2 issues. New M1330 and M1530 DSDTs with no video patch are now posted. If you are happy with last week's DSDT you don't really have to change it.Modified October 23 2011 -> Changed NVidia patch to be compatible with 10.7.2. The original would cause a black screen on boot. Also in the kext section moved VoodooPS2Controller.kext from /Extra/Extensions to /System/Library/Extensions (the trackpad kext will not load automatically in /Extra/Extensions since 10.7.2).This guide shows the steps necessary to dump, assemble, patch, and compile a DSDT.aml for your M1330, M1530, and M1730. This DSDT.aml will allow vanilla speed stepping, vanilla sleep, enable the clamshell lid, and inject NVidia graphics. The latest DSDTs are tested under Snow Leopard and Lion. The DSDT.aml will vary depending on your graphics option (NVidia or Intel).What Should Work with this Guide and Recommended KextsSleep (with hibernate mode set to zero, don't need any kexts if you use a patched DSDT)Speed Step (P-States) (make sure Mac model is set to MacBook5,1 in smbios.plist, you do not need GeneratePStates or GenerateCStates)NVidia Accelerated Graphics (make sure to use GraphicsEnabler in com.apple.Boot.plist)Wireless: Out of the box with TrueMobile 1505 Draft N. Others may need patching. If you have an Intel, do yourself a favor and buy a TrueMobile 1505 on Ebay.Ethernet: M1330 needs BCM5722D.kext. M1530 needs a hack?Bluetooth: Out of the box.Video Camera: Out of the box.Keyboard/Trackpad: Needs VoodooPS2Controller.kext. Note on M1530 the Trackpad settings panel is only available in 32bit mode! Two finger scrolling should work.Card Reader: Needs VoodooSDHC.kext. Unreliable for me.Shutdown on M1530: No luck with M1330.Restart: With EvoRestart.kext. Has never been reliable for me.What Will Not Work:C-States - Brilliant minds are still working on this one.HDMI - Broken since 10.6.2.Shutdown on M1330Prerequisits- A working Vanilla install of LeopardYou can use wingrunr's guide as a reference:http://www.insanelym...mp;#entry847294or Snow LeopardYou can use Superhai's guide as a reference:http://www.projectos...p?showtopic=561- Installed and working copy of Chamelleon RC1 or higher (RC3 required for Snow Leopard).Posting Rules:1. Please keep this topic specific to making custom DSDT.aml files for Dell XPS M1330/M1530. More general M1330/M1530 questions can be posted in MacGirl's topic:http://www.insanelym...showtopic=830392. If you'd like to request help about issues with a DSDT.aml that is known to work and you are running a distro, please try it on a vanilla install first. There is no reason to use a distro on these machines as vanilla works great, and there's a very good chance that issues are related to something non-standard about the distro. It is very hard to offer help on distros because it's near impossible to know what has been changed from vanilla on the distro.Contributing:- If you successfully use this guide on a configuration different from a DSDT.aml posted here, post it! This will help others with your configuration.- If you find a patch that works better or adds more functionality than what is shown here, share it!CreditsChrysaor for his DSDT.aml for M1530. This motivated me to figure out how to do it on my M1330, and I used his DSDT.aml as a reference.Wingrunr and MacGirl for their awesome threads.Superhai for his great kexts and snow leopard work.Zhell for his guide on dumping the ACPI tables.ApexDE for his work on the USB fix.I'm not sure who came up with the NVidia and HDEF fixes, but whoever did, thanks.The contributes in this thread.. There have been some great contributions which have been credited throughout the guide.2009/11/17Alternative to Step One and Step Two - Makes a CPU generic DSDT, is much easier, and No Linux BootCD Required!It's been found that it is possible to get Vanilla SpeedStep and sleep working without SSDT tables (thanks Brett Whinnen). The DSDT table can be dumped from OS-X, so a boot CD is not required. The only disadvantage is that you will be unable to customize your speed stepping. You will still need to apply the patches listed in Section 3.1. Download and unzip DSDT Patcher from this thread.http://www.insanelym...howtopic=1336832. Under the "Tools" subfolder, copy "iasl" and "getDSDT.sh" to the /sbin directory (this is the compiler/decompiler, and the DSDT dumping script respectively).3. In the folder where you want to work, execute the command:getDSDT.shA file called DSDT.dat will appear in the working folder.4. Decompile the DSDT.dat using the following command:iasl -d dsdt.datThe file will be decompiled to dsdt.dsl in the same folder.5. Open the dsdt.dsl file in TextEdit.6. In the DefinitionBlock line near the top of the file, replace the filename with the name "DSDT.aml" with no path. Otherwise it will overwrite the original.7. Continue on to Step 3: Patching the DSDT. When installing the finished DSDT (Step 4), do NOT use the DropSSDT=y flag.Step One: Dumping the ACPI TablesThe DSDT is built by assembling and compiling ACPI tables dumped from the computer's bios. This is best done from Linux as the complete tables cannot be dumped from OS-X. Don't worry you don't have to install linux, you can use an Ubuntu Live-CD (allows you to boot Ubuntu from your CD drive). After this step is done, we do the remainder in OS-X (although it is possible to do most of the remaining steps in Linux if you really wanted to). Here's the steps involved.1. Download an Ubuntu Live CD (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is the current version, I used the 64 bit version)http://www.ubuntu.co...ubuntu/downloadand burn it to CD.EDIT 2009/10/22 -> It's been reported that Ubuntu 9.10 beta did not work for this, but 9.04 definately does (thanks Jisare). 2. Boot from the CD, and choose the option "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer".3. Open a terminal window (under Accessories).4. Enable "Universe" repositories (this allows you to install the required software to do your dump)sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listUncomment the "Universe" lines, exit and save.5. Install the ACPIDump package.sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install acpidump6. Change to root (sudo su) and dump the tables and store them in ACPI-Tables.zip (thank you zhell)mkdir ACPI && dmesg | perl -we '$n=0; while (<>) { if (($t,$a,$l,$o) = (/^[^a-zA-Z]*ACPI: ([-._A-Z0-9]{4,4}) +([0-9A-F]{8,8}), ([0-9A-F]{4,4})+(?:\s*\(([^)]+))?/)) { $o && $o=~s/[^-._a-zA-Z0-9]+/-/g; ($cmd="acpidump -a $a -l $l > \"ACPI/${t}".($o?"_$o":"").".aml\""); print "Running command: \"$cmd\"\n"; system($cmd); ++$n; } } die("No match") unless $n;' && zip -r ACPI-Tables.zip ACPI7. Copy the ACPI-Tables.zip to a USB drive or network share where you can access it later from OS-X.Step Two: Decompiling and Assembling the Tables Look at the contents of the ACPI-Tables.zip files. The ones that are needed are the DSDT table and the SSDT PmRef tables (there are five). These six have to be assembled into a single DSDT.aml file. Each one must be decompiled, assembled together.1. Download and unzip DSDT Patcher from this thread.http://www.insanelym...howtopic=1336832. Under the "Tools" subfolder, copy "iasl" to the /sbin directory (this is the compiler/decompiler)3. Decompile each of the required .aml files using the following command:iasl -d [file.asl]A [file].dsl file will be created in the same folder.4. Open the DSDT dsl file (called DSDT_r2-INT430-SYSFexxx-1001-INTL-20050624.aml on my computer) in TextEdit.5. In the DefinitionBlock line near the top of the file, replace the long unfriendly filename with the name "DSDT.aml" (this is so when you compile the file it will have the name DSDT.aml. Otherwise it will overwrite the original)6. Remove the last curly brace } at the bottom of the file.7. Open the first SSDT file in another TextEdit window (SSDT_r1-PmRef-Cpu0Cst-3001-INTL-20050624.dsl on my computer, I don't believe the order is important, but I did them in alphabetical order).8. Copy starting AFTER the first curly brace { (probably an "EXTERN" line) to the end of the file, and paste it to the end of the DSDT file.9. Repeat steps 6 to 8 for the remaining SSDT files.10. Save the DSDT file with the joined DSDT tables. We'll call it myDSDT.aml.You may also want to date code and/or version it. The DSDT's are specific not only to the model but to the CPU, and the NVidia graphics are optional.11. Attempt to compile the file with the following command. It will fail, but it will also tell us what we have to fix.iasl myDSDT.dsl12. All the errors at "External" lines e.g.: DSDT.dsl 6026: External (\_PR_.CPU0, DeviceObj) Error 4056 - Name already exists in scope ^ (\_PR_.CPU0) are there because the same external was specified in multiple tables, but should only be specified once. Simply delete the offending lines, leaving each external defined only once. A few cannot even be defined once, because they are defined elsewhere as code in the file (therefore they are not external).13. You will get an error like this on the M1330, and I'm pretty sure the M1530 as well: DSDT.dsl 5706: Name (_HID, "*pnp0c14") Error 4001 - ^ String must be entirely alphanumeric (*pnp0c14) I'm not sure why that asterisk is there, but simply remove the asterisk and it will compile fine.14. You will get a number of warnings that look like this: DSDT.dsl 5016: And (Local0, 0x0F) Warning 1105 - ^ Result is not used, operator has no effect Replace all of these with: And (Local0, 0x0F, Local0) 15. Try to compile again, and if it compiles, great! But it's not ready to be used yet. If it doesn't compile, you probably messed up a step (note to anyone not using an M1330 or M1530: some bioses actually ship with acpi tables with errors!)Step Three: Patching the DSDTRequired: DTGP MethodThis method is required for the USB fix and the NVidia injection to work. If you use don't use these you don't need it.Insert this method under the _WAK method. Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized) { If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10) { /* 0000 */ 0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44, /* 0008 */ 0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B })) { If (LEqual (Arg1, One)) { If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero)) { Store (Buffer (One) { 0x03 }, Arg4) Return (One) } If (LEqual (Arg2, One)) { Return (One) } } } Store (Buffer (One) { 0x00 }, Arg4) Return (One) } Required for Snow Leopard: Fix USB Devices Randomly Not Working - Added 2009/20/14Reportedly, some are having issues with USB randomly not working on startup, but then trying again will bring the USB back. I haven't actually experienced this. Perhaps it is Snow Leopard specific? Jkbuha and FMulder have come up with this fix (thanks!):EDIT 2009/10/22 -> I've now updated to Snow Leopard, and sure enough this is REQUIRED for proper USB function.Remove the following two lines from the Device (TMR) section: IRQNoFlags () {2} Optional: USB Drive Sleep FixReportedly this fix will allow M1530s to sleep and wake up without causing USB drives to disconnect, but it does not work on my M1330 Find the EHC2 and EHCI sections and insert this method before the _PWR method in both sections: Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x0B) { "AAPL,clock-id", Buffer (One) { 0x01 }, "device_type", Buffer (0x05) { "EHCI" }, "AAPL,current-available", 0x04B0, "AAPL,current-extra", 0x02BC, "AAPL,current-in-sleep", 0x03E8, Buffer (One) { 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } Optional: NVidia Injection EDIT October 23 2011 - Patched to work with 10.7.2 (thanks zoliky, luggi)EDIT October 29 2011 - Not required for anything if GraphicsEnabler=Yes is used in Chameleon:Insert this code under the Device (VID) section within the Device (AGP) section (not in the independent (VID) section) under Name (_ADR, 0x00) and above the _DOS section. The "8400M GS" is the card found within the M1330. M1530 users will want to replace this with "8600M GT". If you do not use this patch and you have a NVidia card you can use an injector instead. Name (_SUN, One) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x18) { "@0,built-in", Buffer (One) { 0x01 }, "@0,compatible", Buffer (0x0B) { "NVDA,NVMac" }, "@0,device_type", Buffer (0x08) { "display" }, "@0,name", Buffer (0x0F) { "NVDA,Display-A" }, "@1,compatible", Buffer (0x0B) { "NVDA,NVMac" }, "@1,device_type", Buffer (0x08) { "display" }, "@0,display-cfg", Buffer (0x04) { 0x03, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00 }, "@1,display-cfg", Buffer (0x04) { 0xFF, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x01 }, "@1,name", Buffer (0x0F) { "NVDA,Display-B" }, "NVCAP", Buffer (0x18) { /* 0000 */ 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, /* 0008 */ 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, /* 0010 */ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }, "device_type", Buffer (0x0C) { "NVDA,Parent" }, "model", Buffer (0x18) { "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS" } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } Optional: HD Audio Patching EDIT 2009/11/30: Recommended - Without it the computer may wake up instantly after sleep.EDIT 2012/10/10 - I now recommend stripping out the HDEF section completely to prevent compatibility problems with VoodooHDA. Remove the Device(AZAL) (or Device(HDEF)) and any lines that refer to them (Thanks LatinMcG).This patch allows the sound card to be detected as an HDEF audio card rather than an Azilla Audio card. Replace the Device (AZAL) section with this: Device (HDEF) { Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x04) { "codec-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x16, 0x76, 0x84, 0x83 }, "layout-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } You will also have to change any references to AZAL to HDEF. With either the AZAL or HDEF section, a patched AppleHDA.kext can be used without HDAEnabler.kext (Leopard only solution at this time I believe), or alternatively VoodooHDA can be used. If you use this patch and VoodooHDA.kext, AppleHDA.kext must be removed otherwise it will conflict. It seems that you need this patch for working sleep if you do not include the SSDT tables (2009/11/17). One user has found this patch is needed even with the SSDT tables included, however it worked for me without for some reason (2009/11/30). Perhaps someday this section can be improved to allow vanilla audio...Optional: Adding SBUS Device (Added 2009/10/22) (Edit 2010/04/12 -> SMBI Address was Wrong)jkbuha came up with this fix using a guide made by Master Chief (thank you). This allows the detection of the SBUS device, and it can be confirmed as detected using IORegistry Explorer by searching for SBUS. This device is required to get C-states working, however we still do not have working C-states even with this patch.Add this under the first curly brace under Scope (\_SB):Method (DBEN, 0, NotSerialized) { }And this under the DTGP method we added: OperationRegion (GPIO, SystemIO, 0x0500, 0x3C) Field (GPIO, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { GU00, 8, GU01, 8, GU02, 8, GU03, 8, GIO0, 8, GIO1, 8, GIO2, 8, GIO3, 8, Offset (0x0C), GL00, 8, GL01, 8, GL02, 8, GL03, 8, Offset (0x18), GB00, 8, GB01, 8, GB02, 8, GB03, 8, Offset (0x2C), GIV0, 8, GIV1, 7, GI15, 1, GIV2, 8, GIV3, 8, GU04, 8, GU05, 8, GU06, 8, GU07, 8, GIO4, 8, GIO5, 8, GIO6, 8, GIO7, 8, GL04, 8, GL05, 8, GL06, 8, GL07, 8 } OperationRegion (BSKU, SystemMemory, 0xFFBC0100, 0x01) Field (BSKU, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { , 1, BPHP, 3, Offset (0x01) } OperationRegion (GPE0, SystemIO, 0x042C, 0x04) Field (GPE0, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { , 1, GPEH, 1, , 7, PEEN, 1, , 1, PMEE, 1, Offset (0x03), PCIX, 1, Offset (0x04) } And finally this above the section Device (ISAB): Device (SBUS) { Name (_ADR, 0x001F0003) // pci8086,283e -> pci8086,3a30 Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x04) { "name", "pci8086,3a30", "device-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x30, 0x3a, 0x00, 0x00 } /* , "subsystem-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x70, 0x72, 0x00, 0x00 }, "subsystem-vendor-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x86, 0x80, 0x00, 0x00 } */ }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } OperationRegion (SMBP, PCI_Config, 0x40, 0xC0) Field (SMBP, DWordAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { , 2, I2CE, 1 } OperationRegion (SMBE, PCI_Config, 0x04, 0x02) Field (SMBE, AnyAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { IOSE, 1 } OperationRegion (SMBI, SystemIO, 0x10C0, 0x10) Field (SMBI, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { HSTS, 8, Offset (0x02), HCON, 8, HCOM, 8, TXSA, 8, DAT0, 8, DAT1, 8, HBDR, 8, PECR, 8, RXSA, 8, SDAT, 16 } Name (SBOK, 0x00) Method (ENAB, 0, NotSerialized) { Store (0x01, IOSE) Store (One, SBOK) } Method (DISB, 0, NotSerialized) { Store (Zero, SBOK) } Method (SSXB, 2, Serialized) { If (STRT ()) { Return (0x00) } Store (0x00, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Arg0, TXSA) Store (Arg1, HCOM) Store (0x48, HCON) If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (0x01) } Return (0x00) } Method (SRXB, 1, Serialized) { If (STRT ()) { Return (0xFFFF) } Store (0x00, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Or (Arg0, 0x01), TXSA) Store (0x44, HCON) If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (DAT0) } Return (0xFFFF) } Method (SWRB, 3, Serialized) { If (STRT ()) { Return (0x00) } Store (0x00, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Arg0, TXSA) Store (Arg1, HCOM) Store (Arg2, DAT0) Store (0x48, HCON) If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (0x01) } Return (0x00) } Method (SRDB, 2, Serialized) { If (STRT ()) { Return (0xFFFF) } Store (0x00, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Or (Arg0, 0x01), TXSA) Store (Arg1, HCOM) Store (0x48, HCON) If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (DAT0) } Return (0xFFFF) } Method (SBLW, 4, Serialized) { If (STRT ()) { Return (0x00) } Store (Arg3, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Arg0, TXSA) Store (Arg1, HCOM) Store (SizeOf (Arg2), DAT0) Store (0x00, Local1) Store (DerefOf (Index (Arg2, 0x00)), HBDR) Store (0x54, HCON) While (LGreater (SizeOf (Arg2), Local1)) { Store (0x0FA0, Local0) While (LAnd (LNot (And (HSTS, 0x80)), Local0)) { Decrement (Local0) Stall (0x32) } If (LNot (Local0)) { KILL () Return (0x00) } Store (0x80, HSTS) Increment (Local1) If (LGreater (SizeOf (Arg2), Local1)) { Store (DerefOf (Index (Arg2, Local1)), HBDR) } } If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (0x01) } Return (0x00) } Method (SBLR, 3, Serialized) { Name (TBUF, Buffer (0x0100) {}) If (STRT ()) { Return (0x00) } Store (Arg2, I2CE) Store (0xBF, HSTS) Store (Or (Arg0, 0x01), TXSA) Store (Arg1, HCOM) Store (0x54, HCON) Store (0x0FA0, Local0) While (LAnd (LNot (And (HSTS, 0x80)), Local0)) { Decrement (Local0) Stall (0x32) } If (LNot (Local0)) { KILL () Return (0x00) } Store (DAT0, Index (TBUF, 0x00)) Store (0x80, HSTS) Store (0x01, Local1) While (LLess (Local1, DerefOf (Index (TBUF, 0x00)))) { Store (0x0FA0, Local0) While (LAnd (LNot (And (HSTS, 0x80)), Local0)) { Decrement (Local0) Stall (0x32) } If (LNot (Local0)) { KILL () Return (0x00) } Store (HBDR, Index (TBUF, Local1)) Store (0x80, HSTS) Increment (Local1) } If (COMP ()) { Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) Return (TBUF) } Return (0x00) } Method (STRT, 0, Serialized) { Store (0xC8, Local0) While (Local0) { If (And (HSTS, 0x40)) { Decrement (Local0) Sleep (0x01) If (LEqual (Local0, 0x00)) { Return (0x01) } } Else { Store (0x00, Local0) } } Store (0x0FA0, Local0) While (Local0) { If (And (HSTS, 0x01)) { Decrement (Local0) Stall (0x32) If (LEqual (Local0, 0x00)) { KILL () } } Else { Return (0x00) } } Return (0x01) } Method (COMP, 0, Serialized) { Store (0x0FA0, Local0) While (Local0) { If (And (HSTS, 0x02)) { Return (0x01) } Else { Decrement (Local0) Stall (0x32) If (LEqual (Local0, 0x00)) { KILL () } } } Return (0x00) } Method (KILL, 0, Serialized) { Or (HCON, 0x02, HCON) Or (HSTS, 0xFF, HSTS) } Device (BUS0) { Name (_CID, "smbus") Name (_ADR, 0x00) Device (MKY0) { Name (_ADR, 0x00) Name (_CID, "mikey") Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x07) { "refnum", 0x00, "address", 0x39, "device-id", 0x0CCB, Buffer (0x01) { 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } Method (H1EN, 1, Serialized) { If (LLessEqual (Arg0, 0x01)) { If (LEqual (Arg0, 0x01)) { Or (GL04, 0x04, GL04) } Else { And (GL04, 0xFB, GL04) } } } Method (H1IL, 0, Serialized) { ShiftRight (And (GL00, 0x02), 0x01, Local0) Return (Local0) } Method (H1IP, 1, Serialized) { Store (Arg0, Local0) } Name (H1IN, 0x11) Scope (\_GPE) { Method (_L11, 0, NotSerialized) { Notify (\_SB.PCI0.SBUS.BUS0.MKY0, 0x80) } } Method (P1IL, 0, Serialized) { ShiftRight (And (GL00, 0x40), 0x06, Local0) Return (Local0) } Method (P1IP, 1, Serialized) { If (LLessEqual (Arg0, 0x01)) { Not (Arg0, Arg0) And (GIV1, 0x0B, Local0) ShiftLeft (Arg0, 0x02, Local1) Or (Local1, Local0, GIV1) } } Name (P1IN, 0x16) Scope (\_GPE) { Method (_L16, 0, NotSerialized) { XOr (GIV1, 0x04, GIV1) Notify (\_SB.PCI0.SBUS.BUS0.MKY0, 0x81) } } } Device (DVL0) { Name (_ADR, 0x57) Name (_CID, "diagsvault") Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x03) { "address", 0x57, Buffer (0x01) { 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } } } Optional: IDE Fix (added 2009/11/17)This fix allows you to use Snow Leopard with the vanilla IOATAFamily.kext (Thank you The King).Under the both the Device (IDE0) and Device (IDE1) sections under the first Name line the add: OperationRegion (IDET, PCI_Config, 0x40, 0x04) // IDE Timing RegisterField (IDET, WordAcc, NoLock, Preserve){ Offset (0x00), M1, 8, Offset (0x01), M2, 8, Offset (0x02), M3, 8, Offset (0x03), M4, 8}Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized){ Store (0x07, M1) Store (0xE3, M2) Store (Zero, M3) Store (0xC0, M4) Return (Zero)} Optional: Clamshell Fix (added 2010/04/12)This patch lets your computer sleep when you close the lid (thanks Brett Whinnen). Under _SB add the following: Device (PNLF) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("APP0002")) Name (_CID, "backlight") Name (_UID, 0x0A) Name (_STA, 0x0B) } Optional: Wait for it... SHUTDOWN FIX (YAY!) (added 2010/04/12)This patch allows the computer to shut down properly with NVidia graphics. Reportedly working on M1530s but unfortunately not M1330s yet. Our friends on the Gigabyte thread figured out how to get shutdown working (sorry don't know who to credit), and Dlach and MorLipf here applied it to the M1530. Above method PTS, add the following: OperationRegion (PMRS, SystemIO, 0x1030, One)Field (PMRS, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve){ , 4, SLPE, 1} and then replace the PTS method with the following: Method (_PTS, 1, NotSerialized) { If (LEqual (Arg0, 0x05)) { Store (Zero, SLPE) Sleep (0x10) } } Recommended for newer 10.6 releases: USB Patch to Fix Sleep (added 2011/05/30)Later 10.6.X releases (10.6.6+?) caused sleep to stop working when disconnected from the power supply. This patch fixes this. Under USB1, USB3, and USB4, remove the block that begins with _PSW. Do not touch the _PSW method under the other USBs or anywhere else. Thanks VMonHeros.Here is a sample USB1 after complete (note no _PSW method): Device (USB1) { Name (_ADR, 0x001D0000) Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized) { Store (UPRW (Zero, Zero), Local0) If (LEqual (Local0, 0x03)) { Return (Package (0x02) { 0x03, 0x03 }) } If (LEqual (Local0, One)) { Return (Package (0x02) { 0x03, One }) } Return (Package (0x02) { 0x03, Zero }) } Device (HUB0) { Name (_ADR, Zero) Device (CH00) { Name (_ADR, One) } Device (CH01) { Name (_ADR, 0x02) } } } Required for 10.6.8 and Lion: PCI Patch (added 2011/07/20)10.6.8 is much more Lion like. LatinMcG pointed out these patches that fix the DSDT for 10.6.8 (and I believe Lion but I haven't tested myself). Without these patches you will get beach balling and kernel panics. You may also need to change your Mac model in the smbios.plist to fix speed step and prevent kernel panics. MacBook5,1 works best for me.Replace: Device (PCI0) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0A03")) Name (_ADR, Zero) With: Device (PCI0) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0A08")) Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0A03")) Name (_UID, Zero) Required for 10.6.8 and Lion: RTC Patch (added 2011/07/20)This patch replaces the RTC with one from a Mac. Replace RTC with the below code: Device (RTC) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0B00")) Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () { IO (Decode16, 0x0070, // Range Minimum 0x0070, // Range Maximum 0x01, // Alignment 0x08, // Length ) }) } Required for 10.6.8 and Lion: SMBUS Patch (added 2011/07/20)This is a simplified SMBUS patch that fixes the SMBuspci error that you would get if you don't do it. Device (SBUS) { Name (_ADR, 0x001F0003) Device (BUS0) { Name (_CID, "smbus") Name (_ADR, Zero) Device (DVL0) { Name (_ADR, 0x57) Name (_CID, "diagsvault") } } Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x0A) { "built-in", Buffer (One) { 0x00 }, "name", "pci8086,283e", "device-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x3E, 0x28, 0x00, 0x00 }, "subsystem-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0xA0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }, "subsystem-vendor-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x6B, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00 } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } Required: HPET (added 2011/07/20)The HPET is required for power management. Earlier I suggested to use "DSDT Patcher" with the -newHPET option that would automatically write a new HPET, but here is an HPET recommened by LatinMcG. If you use this HPET and the RTC above, you will no longer need to use the patcher. Replace the HPET with the one below. Device (HPET) { Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0103")) Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0C01")) Name (BUF0, ResourceTemplate () { IRQNoFlags () {0} IRQNoFlags () {8} IRQNoFlags () {15} Memory32Fixed (ReadOnly, 0xFED00000, // Address Base 0x00000400, // Address Length ) }) Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized) { Return (0x0B) //researching if F or B is best } Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized) { Return (BUF0) } } Required: Compile the DSDT:Run the following command: iasl myDSDT.dsl In the current folder you will find myDSDT.aml (possibly a different name or folder: it uses the file name specified in the DSDT). This is the final product! If it works, congratulations!Step Four: Testing and Using the DSDTI use Chamelleon RC2 so that's what I will give instructions for (no reason to upgrade to RC3 yet because I'm still using Leopard). Chamelleon installs an /Extra folder that contains the configuration information and can also contain your finished DSDT.aml. I don't recommend installing it there yet however because it might not work!To prepare your machine to test/use the DSDT.aml1. Edit the file /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist. I use "sudo nano /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist"2. Under the key "Kernel Flags", add the flag "DropSSDT=Y" (flags are space separated if you already have another flag).EDIT 2009/10/22 -> I ran into an interesting problem here. I installed 10.6 Snow Leopard on a second partition leaving 10.5 intact on it's partition, and Snow Leopard was looking at the com.apple.Boot.plist on the 10.5 partition! This appears to be a Chameleon bug.3. Copy the attached smbios.plist file to the /Extra folder and edit it to match your hardware. Set SMmaximalclock to your processor speed in MHz, your SMexternalclock to your bus speed, and SMSerial to something unique but with the same number of characters. If you do not know the bus speed you can use the utility CPU-X to look it up.4. If you use SMBIOSResolver.kext or something similar remove it. The smbios.plist takes the role of it.5. Copy your DSDT.aml to the /Extra folder, and rename it to something different such as "DSDT_Test.aml" This is so that it does not load by default, so if it doesn't work, it's not that big a deal.6. Correct all the permissions in the /Extra folder with the following commands:sudo chmod -R 755 /Extrasudo chown root:wheel /Extra7. If you use IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext (or NullCPUPowerManagement.kext), VoodooPower.kext, VoodooUSBEHCI.kext, and/or SleepEnabler.kext remove them. Also remove the patch necessary to make VoodooUSBEHCI.kext work. You can also remove HDAEnabler.kext if you have it, and if you did the NVidia patch you should remove your injector. Clear the kext cache if you removed any kexts. Repair permissions. Kext Utility comes in really helpful here.8. Reboot9. When the boot loader comes up, arrow over to the OS-X partition, and type:DSDT=/Extra/[testdsdt.aml]10. Press [ENTER] and cross your fingers!11. If you are happy with the results, rename your test DSDT file to DSDT.aml in the /Extra folder, and it will load by default from now on.Kexts I use for Lion and Snow Leopard (2011/08/25)In /Extra/ExtensionsFakeSMC.kext: Slice's version with hardware monitoring.NVClockX: FakeSMC plugin: Nvidia graphics specific hardware monitoring.IntelCPUMonitor: FakeSMC plugin.VoodooBattery.kext : From SuperHai's boot CD.*You do not need AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext with this version!VoodooSDHC.kext: from Voodoo Labs (note I sometimes get lockups when using this under Lion)EvoReboot.kext: Reboot fix.In /System/Library/ExtensionsBCM5722D.kext: Needed for M1330 Only! Ethernet. By Adlan here: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1638112VoodooHDA.kext: By Slice. Not compatible with stock AppleHDA.kext -> will cause KP if both present. I tried a disabler but it didn't work for me, so I just delete it.VoodooPS2Controller.kext: By Andy Vandijck patched by Brett Whinnen here: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1623714Kexts that must be removed if you have them:IntelCPUPMDisabler.kextNullCPUPowerManagement.kextSleepEnabler.kextSMBIOSResolver.kextAppleHDA (if you use the HDEF sound patch)Other Required and Useful Software:Chameleon 2 RC5: Not officially released but Ermak periodically packages builds here: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1543024 (I've always had best luck installing it manually: link to howto on Ermak's page)Kext Utility: Repairs permissions and rebuilds kext caches after installing or removing kexts.SMCMonitor: Monitor your current CPU speed. Useful for testing if SpeedStep is working. Your CPU frequency should change between a fraction of your CPU frequency (33% on mine) to the highest CPU frequency depending on what you are doing.iStat Pro Monitor your temps. When your video card goes close to 100 degrees C it means you will have to get another motherboard soon.Portal 2: For celebrating when you finally get your Hackintosh working!HintsTo see what other people of done, decompile other people's DSDT.aml files by using the same iasl command you used to decompile the dumped tables.FilesDSDT_M1330_T8300_NVIDIA_091014.zip - DSDT.aml for an M1330 with NVidia graphics and a T8300 (2.4GHz) CPU ONLY with USB fix, USB sleep fix, and audio fix. (2009/10/14).DSDT_M1330_T8300_NVIDIA_091022.zip - Above DSDT with SBUS added (2009/10/22)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20091117.zip - DSDT for M1330 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with all fixes listed in this guide (2009/11/17)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20091117.zip - DSDT for M1530 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with all fixes listed in this guide by Brett Whinnen. Details Here. (2009/11/17)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20100404.zip - DSDT for M1530 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with shutdown fix and SBUS fix by Brett Whinnen. Brett's Post Here. (2010/04/12)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20100411.zip - DSDT for M1330 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with shutdown fix (not working yet), clamshell fix, and USB storage device unsafe remove on sleep fix. (2010/04/12)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20110525.zip - DSDT for M1530 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with USB sleep fix and all other previous fixes. (2011/05/30)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20110525.zip - DSDT for M1330 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with USB sleep fix and all other previous fixes. (2011/05/30)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20110720.zip - DSDT for M1530 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with 10.6.8/Lion fixes. Confirmed working on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Lion. (2011/07/20)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20110720.zip - DSDT for M1330 with any CPU and NVidia graphics with 10.6.8/Lion fixes. Tested on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Lion. (2011/07/20)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20111023.zip - Same as above M1530 DSDT but with NVidia patch for 10.7.2 (2011/10/23)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20111023.zip - Same as above M1330 DSDT but with NVidia patch for 10.7.2 (2011/10/23)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20111029.zip - No NVidia injection patch. Use GraphicsEnabler=Yes in Chameleon. (2011/10/29)DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20111029.zip - No NVidia injection patch. Use GraphicsEnabler=Yes in Chameleon. (2011/10/29)DSDT_M1530_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20120929.zip - Strip out HDEF for Mountain Lion 10.8.2 compatibility with VoodooHDA (2012/10/10).DSDT_M1330_NVIDIA_ANYCPU_20120929.zip - Strip out HDEF for Mountain Lion 10.8.2 compatibility with VoodooHDA (2012/10/10).*You must use the DropSSDT=y boot flag if you use a DSDT meant for a specific CPU, and you must NOT use it if you use a DSDT meant for any CPU.smbios.plist.zip - smbios.plist. 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Sea sponges have been used to soak up menstrual blood for decades. Much like a tampon, a sea sponge is inserted into the vaginal canal, where its super absorbency slurps up what your uterus is shedding. In fact, according to the Museum Of Menstruation and Women's Health:
Women have probably used sponges to absorb menstrual discharge for thousands of years, but they have also used them as contraceptives and for putting medication into the vagina (as with tampons; see hieroglyphics from about 1550 BCE). Sometimes it's hard to say which sponge was used for what - but maybe women sometimes used them for all three purposes.
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