There's no easy answer for HIV; the sly virus uses our own immune cells to its advantage and mutates readily to shrug off round after round of anti-retrovirals. But thanks to the efforts researchers from the University of Illinois and some heavy-duty number crunching from one of the world's fastest petaflop supercomputers, we may be able to stop HIV right in its tracks.
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Kindergarten brawl over spilled punch: Parents and teens at an Ohio kindergarten graduation fought using a hammer and pipe as weapons, police say.
A kindergarten graduation brawl at a Cleveland school May 31 started over spilled punch. Cleveland police take a woman into custody at Michael R. White Elementary.
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Two teenage girls apparently started hitting each other at Michael R. White Elementary School, and their families joined in, Cleveland police Cmdr. Wayne Drummond said. The fight involved adults and minors, he said.
"You had adults fighting adults, juvies fighting juvies, and so forth," he said as parents streamed into the building to pick up their children. "You just had a melee here."
No one was hurt, Drummond said. It wasn't clear whether the hammer and pipe were brought to the school or were grabbed during the fight from a janitor's supplies or elsewhere, police spokeswoman Detective Jennifer Ciaccia said.
No charges were immediately filed, but those arrested were being booked for aggravated rioting, Drummond said. By city practice, charges are filed after prosecutors review a case.
A parent of students at the school, Brianna Smith, was alerted by a neighbor about the fight and went to the school to get her 7- and 12-year-old sons. "It makes me not want to send them for the rest of the school year," she told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
City Councilman Jeff Johnson lives across the street from the school, which is in a blue-collar neighborhood overlooking the leafy University Circle arts and museum district. He said the spilled punch set off the fight, with one person pulling out a pipe and another a hammer, leading school security officers to call police.
"Mouthing off, one thing leads to another and it spills out here," Johnson said.
At least 10 patrol cars went to the scene.
"It was a very chaotic scene," according to Drummond, who said the fight erupted as the ceremony was ending about 11 a.m. and then moved outside.
Officers quickly restored order, Drummond said. More than the eight arrested were involved in the fight, and the initial heavy police response came amid a call, which turned out to be false, about shots fired, he said.
No students enrolled at the school were involved, school district communications officer Roseann Canfora said in an email.
The school was put on lockdown and parents began arriving to take their children home.
Johnson said the quick police response was important amid heightened concerns about school security.
"It is embarrassing that parents during a kindergarten promotion cannot control themselves, and what we tried to do was respond significantly," he said.
Any parent involved in the fight should be banned from the building, Johnson said. "We're not going to have people coming into our schools, being disrespectful, fighting," he said. "So I support them being hauled off."
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A new experiment buried deep underground in a South Dakota mine aims to detect rare particle decays that could explain the mystery of antimatter.
Scientists don't know why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter, but they hope to find differences in the way these two types of stuff behave that could explain the discrepancy. Antimatter particles have the same mass as their normal-matter counterparts, but opposite charge and spin.
The South Dakota effort, called the Majorana Demonstrator, aims to observe a theorized-but-never-seen process called neutrinoless double beta decay.
Unstable atomic nuclei (the cores of atoms containing protons and neutrons) will often let go of a neutron in a process known as beta decay. The neutron transforms into a proton by releasing an electron and a tiny particle called a neutrino. [5 Elusive?Particles Beyond?the?Higgs]
Sometimes, two neutrons are lost in a process called double beta decay, which usually releases two electrons and two?antineutrinos?(the?antimatter partner particles?of neutrinos). But scientists have also theorized that two neutrons could convert into two protons and two electrons, without producing any antineutrinos ? a process dubbed neutrinoless double beta decay.
If such a transformation were possible, it would mean that neutrinos and antineutrinos are the same particle. Scientists call particles like these, which are their own antimatter counterparts, Majorana particles.
Any new clues about the nature of antimatter could help elucidate why the universe contains so little of it.
"It might explain why we're here at all," David Radford, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who works on the Majorana Demonstrator project, said in a statement. "It could help explain why the matter that we are made of exists."
The Majorana Demonstrator, a collaboration between scientists from the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada, aims to search for evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay in atoms of germanium-76, a slightly radioactive version of germanium. The experiment will eventually include 30 germanium detectors, each weighing 2.2 lbs (1 kilogram).
Building these detectors is a complex effort. For starters, the scientists had to obtain 93.7 lbs (42.5 kg) of 86-percent enriched white germanium oxide powder from a Russian enrichment facility ? a sample worth $4 million. This power had to be processed, purified and refined into metal germanium bars that could then be turned into the separate cylindrical detectors that make up the experiment.
Furthermore, the material has to be carefully stored and shielded to protect it against charged particles from space called cosmic rays. That's why the experiment is being built 4,850 feet (1,478 meters) underground in the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory (SURF) in Lead, S.D.
"Cosmic rays transmute germanium atoms into long-lived radioactive atoms, at the rate of about two atoms per day per kilogram of germanium," Radford said. "Even those two atoms a day will add to the background in our experiment. So we use underground storage to reduce the exposure to cosmic rays by a factor of 100."
So far, Radford and his Oak Ridge colleagues have delivered nine of the enriched detectors to the South Dakota facility. The full suite of 30 detectors is expected to be complete by 2015.
"The research effort is the first major step towards building a one-ton detector ? a potentially Nobel-Prize-worthy project," Radford said.
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Allergies seem to be a particularly vexing problem this spring. Every other commercial is about some magical antihistamine that will keep you sneeze-free while frolicking through fields of wildflowers.
You would probably have better luck in a spacesuit, although human interaction might be missed and it?s pretty hard to blow your nose in a spacesuit.
?Allergic rhinitis? is the medical term. Pollen triggers the production of antibodies in an unfortunate 25 percent of us. When these sensitized antibodies encounter pollen, this triggers mast cells to release histamine.
This chemical causes an inflammatory response: swollen, red, irritated and drippy. This occurs where the pollen-laden air comes in contact with the mucus membranes that line our respiratory system.
Mucus membranes are called that for a reason ? they have mucus. Mucus membranes irritated by histamine are miserable enough to have created two entire industries: antihistamines and tissue.
Human beings pay a lot of lip service to the idea that things are getting worse. In regards to allergies, this might just be the case.
Carbon dioxide has been increasing in the atmosphere since we invented fire or lightening-created forest fires. Plants like carbon dioxide because it makes them grow hardy and robust. And what do all these frisky plants do? They release great clouds of pollen.
Besides, carbon dioxide plants like warmth and sunshine. Many records for high temperatures have been broken this last decade. The scientific community is pretty united on predicting more of the same.
This will favor some plants, which particular ones will depend on the exact conditions and the plant?s reproductive fitness. One way for a plant to win this weather windfall is releasing billions of pollen spores to be blown far and wide. So we have increased growth of plants and probably much more pollen.
We are turning the place into a giant greenhouse. Probably a good time to invest in Kleenex!
Some of the most effective antihistamines ever invented have been in the last 20 years ? and most are sold over the counter. But antihistamines are only the first step in chemical warfare against pollen.
Rather than waiting for the histamine to be released and taking antihistamine, you can take medication that prevents the mast cells from ever releasing it. An elegant solution, and generally mast cell stabilizers don?t have the side effects that antihistamines do. There are several available by prescription for eye allergies as drops or inhalers for respiratory allergies.
Steroids are among the strongest medications discovered. They can help a number of illnesses, but often at a pretty high cost in general health. Steroid nose spray is particularly effective for nose, eye and throat allergies.
This approach of putting a very small amount of a steroid directly on the inflamed tissues avoids almost all of the steroid concerns. It works very well for most allergic symptoms.
And finally you can tinker with the immune apparatus itself. There is an eternal struggle between your immune system defending you from very real dangers, and not overreacting to every innocent pollen grain. Allergy shots, otherwise known as desensitization treatment, can often reset the immune system to a more normal response.
So while spring is one of the truly magical times to appreciate Mother Nature, those with allergic rhinitis can get some treatment and join the fun.
Take care, and gesundheit.
Dr. B.
Donald Bucklin, MD (Dr. B) is a Regional Medical Director for U.S. HealthWorks and has been practicing clinical occupational medicine for more than 25 years. Dr. B. works in our Scottsdale, Arizona clinic.
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HTC?s latest flagship Android phone, the HTC One, has been a big success for the struggling smartphone vendor. The company confirmed recently that it had sold approximately 5 million units into?sales?channels as of last week, and if it hadn?t been for component shortages, HTC likely would have sold even more handsets. Regarding component shortages, it?s not always a production issue that causes problems in HTC?s supply chain and an interesting tidbit emerged earlier this week as?HTC president for the North Asian region,?Jack Tong, spoke to members of the press in Taiwan.
[More from BGR: How to fix one of the Galaxy S4?s most infuriating problems]
Just two short years ago, HTC was a leading smartphone vendor. Samsung has since grown to dominate the industry alongside Apple, and the company seemingly isn?t afraid to step on a few toes in order to ensure that it stays on top.
[More from BGR: Video: Tim Cook talks iOS 7, Android apps from Apple, TV and more in 81-minute interview]
As HTC?s Jack Tong recounted his company?s troubles following the launch of the HTC Desire, he slipped in a pretty huge accusation. Tong said that the Desire initially launched with an AMOLED display supplied by Samsung. After the phone started gaining momentum and sales picked up, the executive says Samsung suddenly couldn?t supply it with panels anymore.
?We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon,? Tong told reporters, according to Focus Taiwan.?HTC ended up having to redesign the Desire and relaunch it without the Samsung-built AMOLED displays.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) ? Tamer Mosallam was supposed to get picked up on Memorial Day for a trip to the beach with friends, but his father had other ideas and the carload of teens left him behind.
It would be the last time the 17-year-old would see his friends alive. The five teens ? two boys and three girls ? died late Monday afternoon in a fiery wreck that left the car they were riding in split in two and engulfed in flames. Among the victims were two of Mosallam's closest friends and a pair of sisters who had performed in a high school dance extravaganza over the holiday weekend.
"I was supposed to be with them in the car, that's why there were three girls," Mosallam said, explaining that he was to have been the third boy for a three-way double date. "They came to my house but my dad wouldn't let me go out because I was studying for a test."
A visibly shaken Mosallam and several dozen other students from Irvine Unified School District, where all the victims were enrolled, gathered outside Irvine High School on Tuesday to try to make sense of the tragedy.
Police said speed was a factor in the single-car wreck on a busy, six-lane surface street and the investigation was ongoing.
The driver was identified as 17-year-old Abdulrahman Alyahyan, a senior at University High School.
The passengers included 17-year-old Robin Cabrera, a senior at Irvine High, and her 16-year-old sister Aurora, a sophomore at the same school.
Also killed in the Monday crash were Cecilia Zamora and Nozad Al Hamawendi, both 17-year-old juniors at Irvine High.
There was no class Tuesday because it was a teacher development day but counselors would be on hand Wednesday, said Ian Hanigan, a spokesman for the Irvine Unified School District.
"There are simply no words to convey the sorrow felt by our students and staff, nor are there sufficient answers to explain the loss of five vibrant teenagers from our schools and this community," Irvine Unified School District Superintendent Terry Walker said in a statement.
The families of Zamora and Alyahyan declined to comment when reached by the AP. Families of the other teens could not be reached for comment.
Friends who gathered Tuesday outside Irvine High said the five were headed to the beach for a fun Memorial Day when the tragedy unfolded on a busy thoroughfare that connects Orange County's interior network of freeways with the famed Pacific Coast Highway and its beaches.
Authorities said the wreck was one of the worst in Newport Beach in recent memory and left two of the victims' bodies so damaged the coroner had to rely on fingerprints to identify them. The car hit a tree in the median, shearing it of its bark and leaving deep gouges in the trunk.
The Cabrera sisters were their parents' only two children and were both accomplished dancers in the school's dance program, friends said. They had performed in a three-day recital over Memorial Day weekend, said Brie Martinez, 15.
"(Aurora Cabrera) was kind of nervous for her dance but I heard she did really good," said Martinez, as she began to cry.
"I saw something about the crash on the news last night, but I never would have guessed it was them," she added.
Zamora was also in the dance program and performed over the weekend, said her friend, Paloma Douglas, a junior at the school.
Douglas last saw Zamora on Friday afternoon, when the two attended the same history class ? the last course of their day.
"She was sitting next to me, so it's going to be tough seeing that empty seat," said Douglas.
Friends said Alyahyan, the driver, was obsessed with his Infiniti sedan, given to him by his older brother, and spent hours working on it and driving it around with his best friend, Al Hamawendi.
"Abdul loved cars. He took care of his car as if it was a human being," said Ibrahim Razzak, a junior.
The two boys were inseparable and were part of a larger group of about 10 close friends who were either first- or second-generation immigrants from various Middle Eastern countries, said Zach Darwish, an 18-year-old senior at University High who was also close friends with the two boys. The teens all spoke Arabic together when they hung out, which was constantly, he said.
Alyahyan came to Irvine from Saudi Arabia about three years ago, said Mohamad Abdul Razzak, a 16-year-old junior and close friend who also arrived in the U.S. last year from Lebanon.
He played excellent soccer, but wasn't on the school team, and planned to attend community college next fall.
Al Hamawendi came to Irvine two years ago with his family from Iraq, Abdul Razzak said.
He was obsessed with weight-lifting, worked out every day and had been on the wrestling team.
"We're all like one big group of friends. We all love each other, we're all like brothers. It seems like the circle has just broken apart," Darwish said.
"I still can't believe this actually happened to good friends of mine," he said. "It's the worst news you can possibly get."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-teen-misses-trip-5-friends-die-crash-075843545.html
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Ford's shares soared Tuesday.
Ford is in focus, and investors like what they see.
The American car manufacturer's stock rose 3% to a new 52-week high Tuesday, and is up 18% for the year.
Ford (F) recently told investors that it plans to roll out more vehicles?by expanding its U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Analysts at JPMorgan (JPM) told investors Tuesday that they think the stock has room to run to $16 from a little over $15 now.
The automaker is reaping the benefit of strong North American sales. Last month, Ford said a 20% jump in sales in North America helped offset weak European sales.
In fact, auto sales have been so robust that Ford is cutting back on its usual two-week plant shutdown that usually occurs around July 4.
The maker of the Escort, the Explorer and the Fusion elicited cheers from the trading community on StockTwits for its recent run.
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Ford isn't the only carmaker soaring today. Electric car maker Tesla (TSLA) jumped more than 7%.
So far at least, investors don't think that?wins for Tesla and Elon Musk translate into?losses for other major car companies.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A senior Afghan official said security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross on Wednesday after a two-hour-long gun battle with insurgents at a guest house in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said the three women and four men were safe after police killed an insurgent who had remained holed up inside the compound. He said one of the male aid workers was lightly wounded.
The other of the two assailants had detonated a suicide vest at the building's gate at the beginning of the attack, killing an Afghan security guard, Sediqi said.
Security forces were searching surrounding buildings in case any other attackers were involved and managed to escape, he added.
A spokesman for the Red Cross in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib Rahimi, said all organization's foreign staff that were inside the compound are safe. He said they were checking to see if any Afghan staffers were there at the time, but added that local employees had left for the day an hour before the attack. The foreigners live in the compound, he added.
A total of 35 Red Cross staff, including the seven foreigners, work at the facility, he said.
"We contacted our foreigners, they are safe. We are now contacting Afghan staff," Rahimi said.
Sediqi said Afghan forces arrived at the scene of the attack shortly after the suicide bombing at the door, which had cleared the way for the other attacker to enter.
"As a result of the shooting exchange the gunman was killed and all seven foreigners who were inside the building were rescued safely. Only one foreigner has minor injuries to his leg, but the six others are unharmed. Right now the security situation is under control," Sediqi said.
The attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad is the second major assault against an international organization in five days. Militants launched a similar operation against a U.N.-affiliated group in Kabul last week that killed three people.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and it is unclear why insurgents would want to target the Red Cross, which not only carries out humanitarian work around Afghanistan but also is the conduit for families to communicate with detainees taken off the battlefield, including the Taliban.
The Red Cross warned last month that security was deteriorating across Afghanistan as militants flood the battlefield and conduct attacks in what could be the most important spring fighting season of the nearly 12-year-old war.
The violence comes just five days after Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked the Kabul offices of the International Organization for Migration, killing two Afghan civilians and a police officer. The assault sparked an hours-long street battle and left another 17 wounded, including seven IOM staff members.
The IOM is a U.N.-affiliated agency assisting returning Afghan migrants as well as those displaced by fighting.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack on the IOM guest house in an upscale neighborhood of Kabul, a relatively uncommon operation by the group targeting an international aid organization.
The Taliban and other militants have unleashed a wave of bombings and assassinations around the country, testing the ability of the Afghan security forces to respond with reduced help from international forces, who have begun a withdrawal that will see most foreign troops gone by the end of 2014.
This year is crucial for Afghanistan as the U.S.-led coalition is expected to hand over most security responsibilities in the country to its own security forces, sometime in the late spring. Foreign military forces are then expected to begin a massive withdrawal of forces that will culminate at the end of next year.
Earlier, seven insurgents wearing police uniforms and bomb-laden vests attacked a government compound in Panjshir, a usually secure province in eastern Afghanistan. One police officer was killed and another was wounded.
The Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack, has ramped up its assaults on government forces and officials since launching its spring fighting campaign earlier this month. While the attacks have grown more frequent in many parts of Afghanistan, Wednesday's violence was of note because it took place in in eastern Panjshir province, a normally peaceful area in a valley that was the heart of the anti-Taliban resistance until the U.S. invasion in late 2001.
Governor Kramuddin Karim said the attackers targeted the government complex in the provincial capital of Bazarak, and that all seven militants were killed.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in an email to journalists.
Provincial police chief Qasim Jangalbagh said the insurgents were wearing police uniforms, and that three of the attackers blew themselves up and four were killed by police during the assault. The government complex was empty because of the early hour, Jangalbagh said.
Jangalbagh said a station wagon with 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of explosives that the insurgents were driving did not blow up. He added that one of the seven insurgents managed to flee the scene, but later blew himself up.
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Associated Press writers Rahmat Gul in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and Patrick Quinn in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-security-rescues-red-cross-staff-152752286.html
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ? Chelsea Clinton said Tuesday she plans to become increasingly involved in the international health projects of her father's foundation and to speak out for gay rights.
The only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton told The Associated Press during a visit to Malaysia that her focus will be on the Clinton Foundation's work, especially "related to health, not just in the United States but also around the world."
Clinton said on the sidelines of a women's conference in Malaysia's main city that she hopes to return to Southeast Asia, specifically Myanmar, where the foundation will work with authorities to distribute medicine and health products, including HIV drugs and child vaccines, at cheaper prices.
Clinton visited Myanmar earlier this week at the start of initiative to provide water purification packets to areas with unsafe water supplies. Her mother, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, made a groundbreaking visit to Myanmar in 2011 and helped nudge an elected government toward democratic reforms.
"I hope to go back soon" to Myanmar, Clinton said. "My father and my husband are quite jealous now because my mother and I both have been to the country, and they have not."
From Malaysia, Clinton travels to Cambodia to launch an effort to slash HIV-related infections and deaths.
"My goal is always to do as much as I can in whatever area I'm working in," she said.
She added that besides the Clinton Foundation's initiatives, she was committed to supporting gay rights, including marriage equality.
"It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry," Clinton said. "That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others."
Clinton often tweets messages supportive of gay rights. Earlier this month, she called it "progress" when France's new gay marriage law came into force and urged her followers to help build "an equitable world for all" while marking International Day Against Homophobia.
Clinton laughed off a question about whether all the work would leave her time to start a family with her husband.
"My mother asks me that all the time, and anything my mother asks me is fair game," she said.
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Associated Press writer Sean Yoong contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chelsea-clinton-eyes-global-projects-gay-rights-122832693.html
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Given the success of the original Galaxy Note and its sequel, there's little doubt a third installment of the super-sized handset line is on Samsung's to-launch list. Korean site ETNews claims to have heard the first legitimate confirmation of the Note III's existence, however, citing a Samsung official as its source. The insider apparently had much to say on plans for the camera, too. It's expected to be a 13-megapixel affair and could see other upgrades over its predecessor, including optical image stabilization and 3x optical zoom. According to the official, no final decisions on the camera have been made yet, but with less than four months to go until IFA (where the previous Notes have debuted), it's probably time to start nailing those specs down.
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Okay, its been a while, and I'm back - and looking for a suitable 98 machine. The Celeron PC that I've used for this is unstable (being from 2004), even with 98 drivers for its components and very slow, is equally slow on XP for whatever reason.I'm scouring the likes of eBay for computers that are compatible with Windows 98SE or Me. The HP DC7100u that I got in January for my Home-Server (on XP Pro) actually has chipset drivers for Windows 98, Me, 2000 and XP. Though I'm not going to try putting 98 on that (The server will instead be downgraded to Windows 2000 Pro or Server next year).
Basically, I'm looking for an older Big-Brand box, capable of playing older games (Pre-2003 or so) - so I suppose a P3 or better is advisable. What models would be capable of this, and aren't giant Pizza-Box (SFF) style models or are mini-towers?
The other issue I face is whether to go Windows Me or not. Almost 10 years ago, my 2nd computer ran that OS longer than the previous 98 installations, but I understand that I may not be able to get user created content/old updates on this site, with the OS being "jumped on" by Windows XP 10 months later... So 98 is really a first choice for me.
Thanks for any help guys: It is very appreciated!
? Posted Yesterday, 04:19 AM
Win98se and WinME are pretty much interchangeable at the chipset level but device drivers for things like modems and things may have different packages.You definitely do not have to go all the way back to 2003 because there are boards made into 2005 that are fine, and quite possibly even later. There are two main steps to take: get a supported motherboard, and then the CPU.
[1] You will want to start by targeting the motherboard by chipset, not the CPU. For Intel I believe the last fully supported chipset is i865, and for AMD on nVidia the last is nForce 2. I don't know what the last Via chipset is. There may be sketchy or modded support for Intel boards beyond i865 also and this forum is definitely the one to ask about them. You will soon have all the answers you need. "Fully Supported" means there are chipset drivers ( for Intel that is the so-called INF Installer ) that enable all the onboard functions in Windows 9x. There are ways to dodge this somewhat by using add-in graphics and sound cards that have native Win9x support thereby obviating the need for that component of the chipset drivers ( you will have no onboard video or audio capability ). But this gets into the esoteric and nitty gritty so you may not want to be in on that level of detail. I'll let others mention the newer chipsets but if you want safe i865 is the one.
[2] After you find a supported board, then you need to get the official specifications for that exact model, usually a PDF, and find the supported CPU list and find the best ones (single core is all that will ever work in Win9x though I think multi-cores might run but with obviously only one core utilized). By "best" I mean shorthand for non-Celeron, highest frequency with biggest L2 cache. For Intel these will invariably be a Pentium 4 from the earlier Northwood era or the later, faster and hotter Prescott era. You can actually get the 3+ GHz 2 MB L2 Prescotts working for Win9x.
Remember that the CPU comes after the motherboard! It is completely dependent on the motherboard specs. Just because you have a socket 478 board does NOT mean it is capable of using any 478 CPU. I actually have a few by Dell here that can only use chips before the later Prescott steppings limiting their boards to the 3+ GHz with only 1 MB L2 cache models, but other boards support all the steppings. So you shouldn't limit yourself to "big box" boards at all! They might actually limit your CPU choices. After you get a motherboard and research the maximum CPU possible then you head off to eBay and PriceWatch and find a single CPU for sale which will doubtlessly cost almost nothing these days ( unlike 10 years ago! ).
Also keep in mind that if you locate a great Win9x board with full chipset support, but say it comes with a crappy Celeron or too early non-Celeron ( 2.0 GHz rather than 2.6 GHz or 3.2 GHz ), as long as that board supports it there is nothing to stop you from pulling that CPU and replacing it with the maximum CPU allowed by the specs. This is probably a good plan actually. There are probably tons of retiring boards like this that the owners never considered upgrading the CPU. You're in luck because it is a buyers market! 3.4 GHz Prescott for $10 to $20 on this list. 
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CharlotteTheHarlot, on Yesterday, 04:19 AM, said:
...For Intel I believe the last fully supported chipset is i865...
i875. 
It's just that there seem to be very few boards actually using this chipset. But I can verify that the Intel D875PBZ (the REAL Intel version, NOT the "WASP" ones used by OEM's, they seem to be unpredictable) works 100% with 98SE.
(Note that the D875PBZ does not have integrated sound, which I thought was very odd for a "modern" motherboard. 
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Searching for i865 boards will give a much wider range of choices though.
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? Posted Yesterday, 09:43 AM
When it comes to the VIA chipsets, I imagine that the VIA PT880 Pro/Ultra is the highest / last chipset with win-9x/me drivers. A popular (and probably one of the last) motherboards based on that chipset is several ASROCK Dual boards, in particular the Dual VSTA. There is one on ebay for sale for $30. It has AGP and PCIe slots, and also has both DDR and DDR2 ram slots. It takes Intel socket 775 CPU. If you can find any 775's still NOS (new, old stock) then great, but most likely the ram and CPU will be e-bay purchases as well.When it comes to intel chipsets, there is i845 - i875 (and the older P4 CPU's), and I keep thinking that some version of the 910 or 915 chipset might have 9x/me drivers.
? Posted Yesterday, 10:05 AM
My idea on this topic.If you are a programmer, unlike me, then you should be able to alter the device drivers, ( like I have a AGP graphics card I want to install in my 9X machine but I do not have the right drivers ). So you have to understand, how to understand, how to edit device drivers. Not just add, the driver but update it correctly, so it can work 100% not Something that few people on this board knows how to.
The main problem with 9x/NT/OS9/OSX or any other system is the requirements, as somebody mentioned, is drivers that can identify the hardware and will run on it. Like their is distubutions of Apple OS that can run on what Windows runs on.
Again, as far as I know a person could pop any windows inside a PC type machine ( whatever thet term is i386 i582 ??? ) but once you get to drivers,
Source: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163089-big-brand-computers-and-windows-9x/
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On this quiet Monday, Samsung decided to do a little teaser for its upcoming "Premiere 2013" roadshow event in London on June 20th. The above poster only mentions "Galaxy & ATIV," which suggest the event will mainly feature Android and Windows-based devices. The remaining tiles show partial shots of three mysterious devices -- possibly a tablet or phone, a convertible laptop (à la Sony VAIO Duo 11) and a camera (maybe the rumored Galaxy S 4 Zoom?). Obviously, we'll be at the event to solve this mystery, so stay tuned for more.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Samsung
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I'm a married woman, but there's a guy I've been chasing after for months: the Sandman. I want him desperately some nights -- and then other evenings I push him away. It's completely my fault that he's turned his back on me in bed. Our always-too-short encounters are rarely satisfying because I'm constantly thinking about an errand I forgot to run or a form I need to fill out for my son's school. (Even Overstock.com and Candy Crush Saga come between us.) Yes, in terms of sleep time, I could -- and should -- do better.
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More people are untethering from their electronic devices and frenetic lifestyles to take vacations this summer that revel in the pursuit of doing ... nothing.
A woman relaxes in London's Hyde Park. This is the cover story in the May 27 issue of The Christian Science MonitorWeekly.
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EnlargeMichael Ray Smith and his wife, Barbara Jean, are exceedingly pleased about what they are not going to do on their coming vacation: travel or sightsee; visit museums; go to plays, movies, or amusement parks; window-shop; gamble. The list goes on: They will not visit family or friends, play cards, hike, water-ski, sky-dive, or go bungee jumping.
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Instead, the college professor and his wife, an elementary school teacher, have chosen to fill their daily activity schedule for four weeks straight with just two agenda items:
(1) diddly, and (2) squat.
"We do read, but the main event is to do absolutely nothing," says Mr. Smith, a communication studies professor at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C. "Our goal is to recharge, reboot, disconnect, mentally let go." He says they still have to water the plants and cut the grass, "but mostly we practice the fine art of porch- or gazebo-sitting."
The North Carolina couple has a 20-by-30-foot wooden deck facing a stand of trees that blocks sight of the neighboring house. They have an electric fan to foil mosquitoes, and several sofas and deck chairs arranged for relaxation ? and nothing else. This will be their third year in a row in which they have spent a month exploring the virtues of idleness over activity. "I think this is what everyone needs, especially educators," says Smith. "Time off is not just time off, but time to recharge."
The Smiths represent a growing trend in America. Evidence is mounting that as people eye the beckoning barn door signaling "summer" ? Memorial Day weekend ? most don't seem able to disconnect from the workplace like they did in the old days. The word "vacation" originates from the Latin "vacatio," meaning freedom from occupation. Yet, despite all the wistfulness that term might evoke ? for Arcadian days of youth frolicking at beaches, lakes, or mountain cabins ? more and more people can't free themselves from their laptops or daily lives that have become as frenetic as a food processor.
Here is some of the mounting evidence from a 2012 survey from Fierce, Inc., a Seattle-based leadership development and training firm, that queried more than 1,000 executives and employees in multiple fields about their vacations:
? 58 percent said they received no stress relief from their time off.
? 27.3 percent of employees, in fact, felt more stressed after vacations.
? 41.6 percent of workers checked in with the office at least every other day.
? Only 8.9 percent of respondents achieved what they considered a state of complete relaxation while on vacation.
If all this lack of letting go smacks of hired consultants defining a problem so they can sell you a solution (more on this later), consider the growing lexicon being born before our eyes. In just the past few years, several terms have popped up and become commonplace to describe an America that is too plugged-in and overactive, including "nomophobia" (fear of being out of mobile phone contact), "attention fragmentation disorder" (focus flitting incessantly from one medium to the next), and "FOMO" (fear of missing out on any social media missive, from an iguana video to a recipe for lutefisk).
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May 25, 2013 ? An unusual kind of circuit fine-tunes the brain's control over movement and incoming sensory information, and without relying on conventional nerve pathways, according to a study published this week in the journal Neuron.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) discovered new details of a mechanism operating in the cerebellum, the brain region that processes nerve signals coming in from the spinal cord and cortex.
"Our results explain a second layer of nerve signal transmission that depends, not on whether a nerve cell is wired into a defined signaling pathway, but instead on how close it is to the pathway," said Jacques Wadiche, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology within the UAB School of Medicine, investigator in the Evelyn McKnight Brain Institute at UAB and senior study author. "It has become clear that this kind of nerve circuit is intimately linked with autism and movement disorders like ataxia, and we hope the mechanisms detailed here contribute to the design of new treatments."
Beyond nerve pathways Nerve cells are known to occur in defined pathways that transmit messages in one direction. This pathway-specific view of nerve signaling has been reinforced by high-tech imaging studies yielding detailed connectivity maps. Along these lines, the Obama Administration will soon ask Congress for $100 million in research funding to further improve such maps.
Within nerve pathways, each nerve cell sends an electric pulse down an extension of itself called an axon until it reaches a synapse, a gap between itself and the next cell in line. When it reaches an axon's end, the pulse triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters that float across the gap, where they either cause the downstream nerve cell to "fire" and pass on the message, or stop the message. In this way, each synapse between nerve cells in a pathway "decides" whether or not a message continues on.
In recent years, studies have found that neurotransmitters also spill into tissue surrounding axons in a type signaling not restricted to synaptic connections. With the term itself implying a mess, "spillover" was thought to degrade the capacity of nerve cells to precisely pass on signals.
The current study adds to recent evidence arguing that spillover may instead enhance message transmission, with the results revolving around three nerve cell types in the cerebellum: climbing fibers, Purkinje cells and interneurons.
Climbing fibers, which carry information from the brainstem into the cerebellum, play key roles in motor timing and sensory processing. Within these fibers, nerve cells release the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into synapses that then strive to pass messages deeper into the cerebellum. Purkinje cells are paired with climbing fibers and intent on inhibiting their signals.
When excited by glutamate from climbing fibers at one end, Purkinje cells release another neurotransmitter called GABA at their downstream synapse to stop the message. An excitatory signal triggers an inhibitory one as a counter-balance, a form of feedback critical to the function of the central nervous system. Lack of inhibition, for instance, causes circuits to seize, seizures and the death of Purkinje cells, the latter of which has been linked by post mortem studies to a higher incidence of autism spectrum disorders.
Previously, researchers thought that incoming signals from climbing fibers caused a single, strong response in the cerebellum: the activation of Purkinje cells that released GABA. The current study argues that such signals also trigger the firing of interneurons, nearby inhibitory middlemen that connect sets of nerve cells.
Interneurons within, and outside of, the glutamate spill zone around climbing fibers may have different effects on the other interneurons and Purkinje cells they connect to, according to the current finding. The interactions either inhibit or excite many Purkinje cells surrounding an active climbing fiber and refine its messages in a feedback system more sophisticated than once thought.
Glutamate has its effect by fitting into AMPA and NMDA receptor proteins, like a key into a lock, on the surfaces of nerve cells it signals to. The consensus has been that glutamate receptors occur only within synapses. Finding them on nerve cells outside of synapse-defined pathways represents "a fundamental shift in understanding," said Wadiche, and may result in longer-lasting inhibition within key signaling pathways.
"A 2007 study published in Nature Neuroscience found that many climbing fibers signal to interneurons in the outer layer of the cerebellum outside nerve pathways and exclusively through glutamate spillover," said Luke Coddington, a graduate student in Wadiche's lab and study author. "Our team built on that observation to show how spillover affects the function of interneurons, Purkinje cells, and ultimately, the entire cerebellum. Spillover-mediated signaling recruits local microcircuits to extend the reach and finesse of climbing fiber signaling."
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D., was also senior co-author of the study, with important contributions also coming from Stephanie Rudolph and Patrick Vande Lune, all within the Department of Neurobiology.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/A9AAxrGMJOU/130525143733.htm
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