Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter

Apple and Intel's Thunderbolt interface finally has a drive you can afford. The Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter ($99 list) is an add-on accessory for Seagate's successful GoFlex portable hard drive line. The Thunderbolt adapter lets you make the most of the speedy 10Gbps (theoretical) interface found on new iMacs, Macbooks, and Mac minis. Grab a high-capacity Seagate GoFlex drive and one of these sleds, and you'll have the fastest hard drive you can buy for under $1,000. Photo editors, large file copiers, video producers, and rabid Mac enthusiasts, rejoice!

Design and Features
The GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter is essentially a black plastic sled that clips onto your Seagate Goflex portable drive. It will work equally well with the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable ($99.99 list, 4.5 stars), Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable for Mac ($219.99 list, 3.5 stars), and Seagate GoFlex Pro, which we used to test the adapter. It will connect to the Seagate GoFlex Slim ($99.99 list, 4 stars), but since that drive is slimmer than the others, it will hang less securely in the sled. The other GoFlex drives fastened securely to the Thunderbolt adapter. Unlike the basic GoFlex USB and FireWire adapters, the Thunderbolt Adapter has its own little logic board in it, necessitating a full-length chassis (about five inches long) that's perforated for cooling. The sled adds about a centimeter to the drives' thickness. There is a single Thunderbolt port on the adapter, so you can't daisy chain the adapter to another drive: this has to be the last device on the chain. Another nit is that the Thunderbolt cable itself isn't included; you'll have to buy Apple's $49 Thunderbolt cable to use the adapter. Seagate says it's working with suppliers to source another Thunderbolt cable in the future. That said, the GoFlex Pro clipped to the drive securely; I wouldn't worry about leaving it clipped to the adapter while in my travel bag.

The adapter will work with the drive formatted to any format (FAT32, NTFS, HFS+), but for testing purposes we reformatted the drive from NTFS to HFS+, the native Mac file format. The Thunderbolt Adapter has two status lights on it, letting you know that the drive is successfully connected to the computer, as well as letting you know about drive activity. It's best to use a 7,200 rpm or faster drive with the adapter, since Thunderbolt is such a fast interface.

Performance
The Thunderbolt interface gives any drive added performance, but this is the first time we've looked at a relatively pedestrian drive, one that doesn't cost upwards of $1,000 (or more) like the Promise Pegasus R6 ($1,999 list, 3.5 stars) and the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (240GB SSD) ($899.99 list, 4 stars). The GoFlex Pro with the Thunderbolt interface took a brisk 13 seconds to transfer our 1.2GB test folder, which smokes the USB 2.0 interface on the same MacBook Pro (43 seconds). For kicks, we hooked the GoFlex Pro up to our Windows 7 testbed via the drive's USB 3.0 port, and it was slower (17 sec). To put this into perspective, the LaCie drive took 11 seconds to transfer the same folder, using two internal hard drives to share the load over the Thunderbolt interface. Pure throughput was a little slower on the drive; it returned good numbers on the AJA System test (100MBps Read; 90MBps Write), though they were quite a bit slower than the LaCie (476MB/sec Read, 252MB/sec Write). To put that into perspective, the GoFlex Pro returned a third of the performance under USB 2.0 (37MBps Read, 30 MBps write). Essentially, you will notice a speed increase using the Thunderbolt adapter for normal operations, but if you're a video editor on an up-to-the-minute deadline, the more expensive drives will pay off.

If you're a new Mac user who wants to use that speedy port marked with a lightning bolt, then get a Seagate GoFlex drive with the Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter. It'll give you a speed boost far over the USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 you're used to. It's a lot cheaper than the LaCie and Promise drives that have the interface built in, though those drives have their place, (like for users who need to edit Peter Jackson's latest Middle Earth adventure in real time). For everyone else, be they photo professionals or the budding video auteur working on a student project or just hardcore Mac enthusiasts, a GoFlex drive with this adapter is more than enough to keep them happy. It's fast.

COMPARISON TABLE
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Obama holds private fundraiser at Washington hotel (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is raising money for his re-election campaign from a small group of wealthy donors who each paid $35,800 to meet with him at a hotel near the White House.

Friday's fundraiser at the upscale Jefferson Hotel was closed to media coverage. Obama's campaign said about 20 people attended.

Obama has been raising money in preparation for a tough challenge against his eventual Republican opponent. Through the end of 2011, Obama had raised more than $220 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

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Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter

Apple and Intel's Thunderbolt interface finally has a drive you can afford. The Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter ($99 list) is an add-on accessory for Seagate's successful GoFlex portable hard drive line. The Thunderbolt adapter lets you make the most of the speedy 10Gbps (theoretical) interface found on new iMacs, Macbooks, and Mac minis. Grab a high-capacity Seagate GoFlex drive and one of these sleds, and you'll have the fastest hard drive you can buy for under $1,000. Photo editors, large file copiers, video producers, and rabid Mac enthusiasts, rejoice!

Design and Features
The GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter is essentially a black plastic sled that clips onto your Seagate Goflex portable drive. It will work equally well with the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable ($99.99 list, 4.5 stars), Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable for Mac ($219.99 list, 3.5 stars), and Seagate GoFlex Pro, which we used to test the adapter. It will connect to the Seagate GoFlex Slim ($99.99 list, 4 stars), but since that drive is slimmer than the others, it will hang less securely in the sled. The other GoFlex drives fastened securely to the Thunderbolt adapter. Unlike the basic GoFlex USB and FireWire adapters, the Thunderbolt Adapter has its own little logic board in it, necessitating a full-length chassis (about five inches long) that's perforated for cooling. The sled adds about a centimeter to the drives' thickness. There is a single Thunderbolt port on the adapter, so you can't daisy chain the adapter to another drive: this has to be the last device on the chain. Another nit is that the Thunderbolt cable itself isn't included; you'll have to buy Apple's $49 Thunderbolt cable to use the adapter. Seagate says it's working with suppliers to source another Thunderbolt cable in the future. That said, the GoFlex Pro clipped to the drive securely; I wouldn't worry about leaving it clipped to the adapter while in my travel bag.

The adapter will work with the drive formatted to any format (FAT32, NTFS, HFS+), but for testing purposes we reformatted the drive from NTFS to HFS+, the native Mac file format. The Thunderbolt Adapter has two status lights on it, letting you know that the drive is successfully connected to the computer, as well as letting you know about drive activity. It's best to use a 7,200 rpm or faster drive with the adapter, since Thunderbolt is such a fast interface.

Performance
The Thunderbolt interface gives any drive added performance, but this is the first time we've looked at a relatively pedestrian drive, one that doesn't cost upwards of $1,000 (or more) like the Promise Pegasus R6 ($1,999 list, 3.5 stars) and the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (240GB SSD) ($899.99 list, 4 stars). The GoFlex Pro with the Thunderbolt interface took a brisk 13 seconds to transfer our 1.2GB test folder, which smokes the USB 2.0 interface on the same MacBook Pro (43 seconds). For kicks, we hooked the GoFlex Pro up to our Windows 7 testbed via the drive's USB 3.0 port, and it was slower (17 sec). To put this into perspective, the LaCie drive took 11 seconds to transfer the same folder, using two internal hard drives to share the load over the Thunderbolt interface. Pure throughput was a little slower on the drive; it returned good numbers on the AJA System test (100MBps Read; 90MBps Write), though they were quite a bit slower than the LaCie (476MB/sec Read, 252MB/sec Write). To put that into perspective, the GoFlex Pro returned a third of the performance under USB 2.0 (37MBps Read, 30 MBps write). Essentially, you will notice a speed increase using the Thunderbolt adapter for normal operations, but if you're a video editor on an up-to-the-minute deadline, the more expensive drives will pay off.

If you're a new Mac user who wants to use that speedy port marked with a lightning bolt, then get a Seagate GoFlex drive with the Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter. It'll give you a speed boost far over the USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 you're used to. It's a lot cheaper than the LaCie and Promise drives that have the interface built in, though those drives have their place, (like for users who need to edit Peter Jackson's latest Middle Earth adventure in real time). For everyone else, be they photo professionals or the budding video auteur working on a student project or just hardcore Mac enthusiasts, a GoFlex drive with this adapter is more than enough to keep them happy. It's fast.

COMPARISON TABLE
Compare the Buffalo MiniStation Cobalt USB 3.0 with several other hard drive side by side.

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Asthma For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness)) (Paperback)

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Axelrod defends administration birth control rule

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A political adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday the administration didn't intend to "abridge anyone's religious freedom" with its regulation requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their workers.

"This is an important issue. It's important for millions of women around the country," said Axelrod, the political adviser to Obama's re-election campaign. "We want to resolve it in an appropriate way and we're going to do that."

Roman Catholic leaders have assailed Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for the new rule, arguing that it tramples on their religious beliefs. Religious groups that oppose the regulation say that it forces people of faith to choose between upholding church doctrine and serving the broader society.

In an interview Tuesday broadcast on MSNBC, Axelrod said, "I'm less concerned about the messaging of this than finding a resolution that makes sense." He noted that these institutions have roughly a year and a half to comply with the new regulation, saying "I think we need to lower our voices and get together."

At the same time, Axelrod acknowledged the dispute has caused a rift between the White House and the Roman Catholic Church.

"We have great respect for the work that these institutions do, and we certainly don't want to abridge anyone's religious freedom," he said. But Axelrod also said the administration was struggling to strike a balance between a stance that "guarantees women the preventive care they need" and one which respects the prerogatives of religious institutions.

"There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women who work in these universities who are not Catholic," he said. "The question is whether they're going ... to have the same access to basic preventive care."

Axelrod said Sebelius had acted on a recommendation by the Institute of Medicine's recommendation and that she exempted churches themselves from the rule. Asked if the White House had consulted religious leaders before acting, he replied, "The bottom line is, this was a decision made with the interest of the health of millions around this country in mind."

Axelrod accused Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of seeking to "turn it into a kind of political football," saying he considered Romney's stance "ironic" because the former Massachusetts governor led a state that has a similar policy.

Associated Press

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The Fascinating History of Wine ? Article Directory

According to the fable, the woman lost to the King and wished to end her life by eating spoiled table grapes stored in a jar. The suicide attempt did not go as she planned; instead she got intoxicated and eventually passed out. When she woke up, she felt as if all her troubles had vanished and this event encouraged her to continue taking the spoiled grapes. So going by this pleasant story, one can say that wine is not an invention of man but was rather found by luck.

The history of wine is as old as the civilization, the agriculture and the man himself. Archeologists suggest that wine was discovered accidentally during 6000 and 5000 BC. in the Fertile Crescent area, a region in between the Nile and the Persian Gulf. Archeological evidence has uncovered the earliest European wine production from crushed grapevines in Macedonia 6500 years ago.

From the time of discovery of wine to this present date, wine has played a very crucial role in many rituals and customs of the society. . In the ancient Egyptian period, wine became an integral part of ceremonial life, mainly funerary ceremonies. Only the wealthiest Egyptians like the Pharaohs were able to enjoy wine. Wine was also common in ancient Greece and Rome and in many other Western European countries.

The Egyptian Era

Though scientists have identified a wine jar from Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Northern Zagros Mountains of Iran, the widespread knowledge of wine cultivation is believed to have come from ancient Egypt. The wine- making process was represented on tomb walls dating back to 2600 BC. Maria Rosa, a master in Egyptology says that wine in ancient Egypt was of great importance and only the upper class people and kings had access to wine. Rosa further points out that the ancient Egyptians labeled the wine jars with product, year, source and the vine grower?s name, but there is no mention about the color of the wines. A recent discovery has shown that the wines in ancient Egypt were predominantly red.

The Greeks

Arrival of wine making process in ancient Greece is not well documented; many believe that wine- making tradition was introduced to Crete by the Phoenician traders. Strong evidences of wine production have also been collected from Minoan Mycenaean cultures.

Wine was a very important trading article in Greece commerce. The Greeks were able to set up their colonies throughout the Mediterranean and this in turn eased the export of Greek wines in the region. The Greeks learned how to prevent wines from spoilage by adding different herbs and spices. Wine in ancient Greece was stirred in a bowl before drinking.

Apart from trading, the Greeks used wine in the field of medical sciences. One of the well known medicine practitioner, Hippocrates, also known as the ?Father of Medicine? studied wine extensively for its use in medical sciences, specially to cure fever, convalescence and as an antiseptic. It must be mentioned here that the Greeks were equally aware about the negative health effects produced by drinking wine.

The Roman Empire

The Romans developed the viticulture (cultivation and study of grape growing) and oenology (the science of wine and winemaking). In the Roman Empire, wine formed a vital part of their daily meals as water could not always be trusted to be safe and healthy. During this period, wine- making technology became more established with a significant impact on the Roman business. The Romans developed barrels to store and ship wine, while bottles were used for the first time in the history of the wine world. The Romans are also known to have dissolved pearls in wine for their better health.

With the expansion of Roman Empire, wine production expanded to all of its provinces. During the Dark Ages when Roman Empire fell and when Europe passed through social and political turmoil, wine production was kept alive by the efforts of monasteries. Churches are known to have developed some of the finest vineyards in Europe.

The Ancient China

Although wine was not much of a favorite of the ancient Chinese people, its production and consumption was popular in three different periods, mainly the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. In ancient China rice wine was not as much popular as the grape wine.

Wine in the Middle Ages and Modern Life

Wine became popular in the Middle Ages, it was considered as a social drink for all occasions. In the northern regions of the Europe where no grapes were grown, beer and ale were predominant and in the Eastern part Vodka was the preferred drink.

America, Chile, Argentine, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand that produce wide varieties of wines are considered as the New World Wine Producers. The products of these countries were not well known to the wine lovers until late in the 20th Century.

The industrial revolution in the 20th century has provided wine manufacturers with new technology and innovation that has made production much more efficient. Considerable R&D advances in viticulture and oenology have helped the present day manufacturers to produce more varieties of wines of much superior quality.

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