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NEW BEDFORD — On Aug. 16, 2012, South End resident Vincent Coccoli Jr. made his first push in a one-man campaign to bring better Internet to New Bedford:
NEW BEDFORD — On Aug. 16, 2012, South End resident Vincent Coccoli Jr. made his first push in a one-man campaign to bring better Internet to New Bedford:
"@FiOSTV Need fios in new Bedford ma really badly. Will it happening the year 2013?" he wrote from his "VincethePrince5" Twitter account.
Since that day, Coccoli, 28, has sent out 100 more Tweets, sometimes two or three a day, in an effort to shame Verizon — or anyone else — into installing ultra-fast, fiber-optic service in the city.
"I can imagine that it's not on a lot of people's to-do list, but for me, I want it," said Coccoli, who has also sent tweets to AT&T, Google and the city's own Twitter account. "It's the future and the real message is that New Bedford deserves just as good Internet as anyone else."
Coccoli, a Rhode Island native, had Verizon's FiOS service while living there. He moved to New Bedford in June 2011.
As a FiOS customer, Coccoli said he could play video games and watch movies at the same time. In New Bedford, he subscribes to Comcast, and said the same activities are plagued with delays.
"The town is awesome ... My only problem has really been with my cable," he said. "I guess it's being spoiled. I was used to a service that was elite."
FiOS runs on fiberglass technology, which can transmit nearly unlimited amounts of data through pulses of light. Comcast also has a fiber optic network, but it relies on a hybrid-fiber coaxial network to connect to consumers' homes from network nodes. That forces neighbors to share and can cause Internet speeds to slow during periods of peak usage.
"The fundamental difference between FiOS and cable is that cable is a shared resource and FiOS is a dedicated resource," said Roger Entner, an analyst for Dedham-based Recon Analytics, a telecomm research and consulting firm. Verizon offers FiOS to 112 communities in Massachusetts, many of them located in the ring of wealthy suburbs around Boston. In SouthCoast, Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester and Wareham have access to the service, which costs hundreds of dollars per customer to install, according to Entner.
The company has said repeatedly it has no plans to expand its infrastructure.
"Our current focus is on those municipalities where we have a commitment to complete our build-out within a certain timeframe," said spokesman Phil Santoro. "I understand and appreciate the desire for FiOS. It truly is a phenomenal service."
This article was updated on Nov. 26, 2012, to correct the makeup of Comcast's fiber optic network. The connection to the homes run on a hybrid-fiber coax, not a copper-fiber hybrid as originally reported.


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Valkyria Chronicles is still the best game on ps3 for me next to MGS4.
I also LOVED Demon's souls and Dark souls. very deep immersive games.
That's a very tough question, but I personally for many reasons choose "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots".
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As far as hardcore RPGs I've yet to find anything that blew my socks off (unless you're into Elder Scrolls / Fallout).
I am surprised no one mentioned Dragon Age: Origins. It is my favorite RPG of this generation. It has a ton of lore (It is the game with the second most amount of text and dialog ever made, so there is A LOT of story to read and listen too)
I liked it so much I ended up buying it for the PC and the PS3.
DA:2 improved the combat and the graphics, but with it having a development cycle of less than a year (it actually took less than 12 months to make the game from the ground up) it was much shorter and lacked story as well as only allowing you to travel across one city instead of a country. And it wasn't even that big of a city either so quests got extremely repetitive as many quests took place in the same areas, over and over and over again. By the halfway point of the game you no longer needed to look at the map to know where to go for a new quest.
Unless you really want to continue the character stories from DA:O, I suggest skipping DA:2 and wait for DA:3 (Which should look awesome since it is going to use the Battlefield 3 Frostbite graphics engine).
Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning is in the number two spot (RIP ) followed by The Elder Scrolls series.
If you enjoy simulation racing, GT5 is a must have, but only if you can afford to get a decent wheel and you are a car nut. This game will not be fun if you do not enjoy driving in the real world. The game isn't worth it if you are planning on using the sixaxis. I dropped as many hours into GT5 as I have in DA:O and Skyrim, combined. (I am in the process of taking every single car in the game around the Nurburgring to set at least one clean hot lap.)
If you are looking for great games that you can get for cheap, check out Valkyria Chronicles (My Favorite Strategy game), Just Cause 2 (Better than GTA), Batman Arkham Asylum (My favorite action game, haven't played Arkham City yet), and the Assasin's Creed series (You get the first game free if you buy AC2, although it plays like crap so I recommend getting a copy for the PC).
I highly recommend Valkyria chronicles if that hasn't been mentioned
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Wanted to let you know that Ubisoft is about to release the Ezio Trilogy for Assassin's Creed. You will get three games(AC2, Brotherhood, and Revelations), and dlc, for $40. Although they haven't said if AC1 is still include in Revelations. (I said AC2 in my previous post, but I was mistaken. AC1 was included with Revelations) Although I still recommend getting it for the PC if you can as AC1 becomes close to unplayable near the end of the main story. (Imagine how bad Oblivion was on the PS3 if you ever played that)
EA has also announced the Mass Effect Trilogy where all three games are going to be released on one disc for the PS3. If you never had a chance to play the first Mass Effect game because it never came out for the PS3, now is your chance. This will be the first time Mass Effect is available on the PS3.
the best PS3 game is Skyrim.
If you love adventure, I always reccommend Uncharted, Arkham Asylum and City
Shooter-RPG, Borderlands 1 & 2
Puzzles, Portal 2
Portal 2 got me into buying my own PS3.
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Red Dead Redemption and Uncharted series
Skyrim, Demon's soul, Dark souls and sid meier's civilization revolution
For me Killzone 3 and Journey.
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Jan, My heart breaks for you. It IS terrible that our country's medical professionals still are so clueless about this. And I am guessing our "normal" range hasn't been changed because drug companies cannot make money off B12 deficiency. It disgusts me. I was lucky enough to have caught mine before, hopefully, any long term damage was done. I take cyanocobalamin shots too and it helped me and made my levels rise. I think if that works for you then don't sweat it right away. You could try the sublingual methycobalamin in addition to it. I did that for a few months and I did not notice any great difference in how i felt. I had to add B-6 to get my foot numbness/pins and needles to get better. I only take 50 mg every night at bedtime for that and it worked well. I think the best thing we can do is be as vocal as possible both online and in person to spread awareness so that more and more people are educated and hopefully at some point someone will fund a study and prove that methyl is better than cyano and change the normal range as well.
At any rate, you are not alone and I hope things get better for you.
Thanks Mary. The really bad part of getting sick for me has been being my own Dr. I had to fight for the core needle biopsy, it could not be cancer, cancer does not look like that, and I lost both breasts, it was really aggressive. I had to fight for everything that has been done, do my own research, and now I will have to continue to do so. No one would listen about my heart. I had to fight to get the holter monitor, they treated it like it was nothing, but when my spouse turned the monitor in at noon, they called me and me in CCU by 2, and told me not to drive. I should have died. And, I have no heart disease, just electrical issues. Same for the brain tumor. Fight fight fight. What is wrong in this world? Sometimes, I just get tired and want to stop it all.
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The Confluent Platform ships with the standard Java consumer first released in Kafka 0.9.0.0, the high-performance C/C++ client librdkafka , and clients for Python , and
The older Scala consumers are still supported for now, but they are not covered in this documentation, and we encourage users to migrate away from them. In particular, Kafka security extensions and the new broker based balanced consumer groups are not supported with the old consumers.
A consumer group is a set of consumers which cooperate to consume data from some topics. The partitions of all the topics are divided among the consumers in the group. As new group members arrive and old members leave, the partitions are re-assigned so that each member receives a proportional share of the partitions. This is known as the group.
The main difference between the older "high-level" consumer and the new consumer is that the former depended on Zookeeper for group management, while the latter uses a group protocol built into Kafka itself. In this protocol, one of the brokers is designated as the group's coordinator and is responsible for managing the members of the group as well as their partition assignments.
The coordinator of each group is chosen from the leaders of the internal offsets topic , which is used to store committed offsets. Basically the group's ID is hashed to one of the partitions for this topic and the leader of that partition is selected as the coordinator. In this way, management of consumer groups is divided roughly equally across all the brokers in the cluster, which allows the number of groups to scale by increasing the number of brokers.
When the consumer starts up, it finds the coordinator for its group and sends a request to join the group. The coordinator then begins a group rebalance so that the new member is assigned its fair share of the group's partitions. Every rebalance results in a new generation of the group.
Each member in the group must send heartbeats to the coordinator in order to remain a member of the group. If no hearbeat is received before expiration of the configured session timeout , then the coordinator will kick the member out of the group and reassign its partitions to another member.
Offset Management : After the consumer receives its assignment from the coordinator, it must determine the initial position for each assigned partition. When the group is first created, before any messages have been consumed, the position is set according to a configurable offset reset policy (). Typically, consumption starts either at the earliest offset or the latest offset.
As a consumer in the group reads messages from the partitions assigned by the coordinator, it must commit the offsets corresponding to the messages it has read. If the consumer crashes or is shutdown, its partitions will be re-assigned to another member, which will begin consumption from the last committed offset of each partition. If the consumer crashes before any offset has been committed, then the consumer which takes over its partitions will use the reset policy.
The offset commit policy is crucial to providing the message delivery guarantees needed by your application. By default, the consumer is configured to use an automatic commit policy, which triggers a commit on a periodic interval. The consumer also supports a commit API which can be used for manual offset management. In the examples below, we show several detailed examples of the commit API and discuss the tradeoffs in terms of performance and reliability.
When writing to an external system, the consumer's position must be coordinated with what is stored as output. That is why the consumer stores its offset in the same place as its output. For example, a Kafka Connect connector populates data in HDFS along with the offsets of the data it reads so that it is guaranteed that either data and offsets are both updated, or neither is. A similar pattern is followed for many other data systems that require these stronger semantics, and for which the messages do not have a primary key to allow for deduplication.
This is how Kafka supports exactly-once processing in Kafka Streams, and the transactional producer or consumer can be used generally to provide exactly-once delivery when transferring and processing data between Kafka topics. Otherwise, Kafka guarantees at-least-once delivery by default, and you can implement at-most-once delivery by disabling retries on the producer and committing offsets in the consumer prior to processing a batch of messages.
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Core Configuration : The only required setting is , but we recommend always setting a since this allows you to easily correlate requests on the broker with the client instance which made it. Typically, all consumers within the same group will share the same client ID in order to enforce client quotas .
Group Configuration : You should always configure unless you are using the simple assignment API and you don't need to store offsets in Kafka.
You can control the session timeout by overriding the value. The default is 30 seconds, but you can safely increase it to avoid excessive rebalances if you find that your application needs more time to process messages. This concern is mainly relevant if you are using the Java consumer and handling messages in the same thread. In that case, you may also want to adjust to tune the number of records that must be handled on every loop iteration. See basic usage below for more detail on this issue.
The main drawback to using a larger session timeout is that it will take longer for the coordinator to detect when a consumer instance has crashed, which means it will also take longer for another consumer in the group to take over its partitions. For normal shutdowns, however, the consumer sends an explicit request to the coordinator to leave the group which triggers an immediate rebalance.
The other setting which affects rebalance behavior is . This controls how often the consumer will send heartbeats to the coordinator. It is also the way that the consumer detects when a rebalance is needed, so a lower heartbeat interval will generally mean faster rebalances. The default setting is three seconds. For larger groups, it may be wise to increase this setting.
Offset Management : The two main settings affecting offset management are whether auto-commit is enabled and the offset reset policy. First, if you set (which is the default), then the consumer will automatically commit offsets periodically at the interval set by . The default is 5 seconds.
Second, use to define the behavior of the consumer when there is no committed position (which would be the case when the group is first initialized) or when an offset is out of range. You can choose either to reset the position to the "earliest" offset or the "latest" offset (the default). You can also select "none" if you would rather set the initial offset yourself and you are willing to handle out of range errors manually.
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The outcome of the struggle against impunity depends, above all, on the will of the Congolese authorities. Educating people to oppose all forms of violence with every means at their disposal is a concrete goal that can be achieved with daily commitment, nourished by passion and hope. JRS is firmly convinced of this, and will continue to stand by the populations of this increasingly neglected part of Africa.
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The WFP Deputy Regional Director and Officer in Charge, Alzira Ferreira, and the Regional Director of Plan in the Americas, Roland Angerer, signed an agreement to work together to fight food insecurity to help the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in Latin America and the Caribbean.
PANAMA CITY- According to the memorandum of understanding, Plan International and the United Nations World Food Programme will work together addressing nutritional issues during emergency situations, as well as long term periods, with the purpose of reaching the most vulnerable Latin American populations.
Under this agreement, both organizations will conduct activities focused on food security of children during the first 1,000 days of life, children under the age of 5, pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers, and people living with HIV/AIDS in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
The signing of this agreement took place in Panama City at the WFP Regional Bureau with the presence of Roland Angerer, Regional Director of Plan in the Americas; Ingrid Kuhfeldt, Plan's Regional Director of Operations, and WFP Deputy Regional Director and Officer in Charge, Alzira Ferreira.
In terms of natural disasters, Plan International and WFP will work together in early warning systems, in emergency preparedness and response, and disaster risk reduction to diminish vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of the communities who are affected by climatic events, respond to their immediate and critical need, as well as support them in their longer-term recovery.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., said Wednesday it was "frightening" but she was not seriously hurt when a mugger hit her on the head and stole her handbag.
The first-term congresswoman was attacked and robbed Tuesday night near the Capitol in Washington as she headed to her apartment after dinner, Washington publication The Hill reported.
"While this was a frightening ordeal, I fortunately was not seriously injured," Meng said. "Obviously, things could have been much worse. I thank the U.S. Capitol Police and the District of Columbia Police for responding quickly and professionally."
Meng's injuries included a bruised chin. She underwent a CAT scan at George Washington University Hospital.
The incident meant she missed two votes Wednesday, but she was back at work later in the day.
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"The announcement that Nexus One users won't be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google's support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I've been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones and Nexus One users have fared much, much better than most Android buyers." I'm happy the modding community takes care of orphaned devices, but a solution it is not. I'm hoping the crop of Android phones released this past year - which were not included in this analysis - fair better. If there's one thing Google should steal from Apple, it's their iOS update support.


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With the NFL combine under way in Indianapolis, now seems like a good time to round up the latest mock drafts from around the country.
SI.com's Don Banks has the Eagles taking Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly at No. 15:
This should be the perfect first-round melding of team need and draft slot value for the Eagles, because one of their glaring deficiences for a while now has been for a player who possesses Keuchly's skill set. He's a smart and instinct tackler who has the ability to read and react and find the ballcarrier. He's a tough player and a natural leader, and he should fit perfectly in the hard-nosed NFC East.
Wes Bunting of the National Football Post also likes Kuechly for the Eagles:
A tackling machine with good size, natural instincts and knowledge to fend off blocks and find the football. Is the kind of talent the Eagles need inside to improve their struggling linebacking corps.
Chad Reuter of NFL.com has the Eagles taking Kuechly (sense a pattern here?):
The team's problems in the middle of the defense last season were well-documented. Kuechly's production and instincts could fill that gap, especially if he shows better-than-expected athleticism at the combine.
ESPN.com's Mel Kiper pegs Mississippi State defensive tackle Fletcher Cox for the Eagles:
No team was softer up the middle than Philly in 2011, and while linebacker is a bigger need, it wouldn't be a very good value here if the board lines up like this. In Cox, you get a player who should be great in the 3-4, a powerful bull-rusher who can collapse the pocket, but also a guy who does a good job against the run and plays with a really high motor. I have wide receiver as another potential need, but the Philly defense needs to be a bigger priority in the draft. The Eagles can target a linebacker in the next round.
Pat Kirwan of CBSSports.com has the Eagles going with (surprise!) Kuechly:
It's a little high in the draft for a middle linebacker, but unless the Eagles secure a player like Stephen Tulloch in free agency, this kid is too good to pass up.
Rob Rang of CBSSports.com thinks it'll be Kuechly too:
Juan Castillo was a convenient scapegoat for the fact that the Eagles didn't have a middle linebacker play with any kind of consistency in 2011. Philadelphia may be perfectly positioned to nab the most productive linebacker in recent college football history. More decorated than a wedding cake, Kuechly is the reigning Butkus, Nagurski, Lombardi and Lott Impact Trophy Award winner and has more career tackles (532) than any other linebacker in the country. That's saying something considering he's leaving after his junior season.
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The University of Memphis has filed a $43.5 million permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for a 285,300-square-foot residence hall on campus.
The permit lists the Tennessee Board of Regents – the system that operates the U of M and other colleges throughout the state – as the owner of the property at 3615 Central Ave.
No contractor or architect is included on the permit application, but the State Building Commission last year awarded the construction and construction management contract to Knoxville-based Rentenbach Constructors.
The project calls for a $53 million, 754-bed, five-story residence hall that will replace the 40-year-old Richardson Towers when it opens in 2015.
The 10-story Richardson Towers includes two dormitory buildings – one for men and one for women – that house more than 1,000 students. The hall will be built on the site of an existing parking lot south of Richardson, which will be razed.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
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Memphis-based HopeWorks Inc. is hosting its fifth annual Morning of Hope breakfast and fundraising event next month at Woodland Hills Event Center in Cordova.
The event will be held March 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the center, at 10000 Woodland Hills Drive. Bill Courtney, former volunteer head football coach of the Manassas High School football team and the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary "Undefeated" will speak at the event.
Courtney, a Memphian and chief executive officer of Classic American Hardwoods, led the Manassas High School football team to their first winning season to date in 2009.
The event will feature a gourmet breakfast provided by Sysco and musical entertainment, including a performance by HopeWorks graduate Stephanie Needham. Tickets are $50 each or $500 per table of 10 and may be purchased online by visiting www.WhyHopeWorks.org or by calling 272-3700, ext. 107. The deadline for all ticket purchases is Feb. 25.
– Andy Meek
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties LLC has signed a lease for 12,000 square feet on the second floor of Triad Centre II, an 110,305-square-foot, Class A office building at 6060 Poplar Ave.
Fogelman Properties is relocating to Triad Centre II from its previous location at 5400 Poplar Ave., where the company has been headquartered since 1985. Founded in 1963, Fogelman Properties owns and/or manages more than 19,000 apartment communities in 14 states and is led by principals Rick Fogelman and Mark Fogelman.
Rick Fogelman said in a release that with 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Fogelman Properties, "the time was right to make this move," which will provide additional space and further growth capacity going forward.
Fogelman was represented by Kelly Truitt and Wendy Bell of the CB Richard Ellis Memphis tenant advisory group. The landlord, Highwoods Properties Inc., was represented by John Mercer.
Triad II was recently renovated, including a new entrance and lobby.
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Love Shack, a new healthy drive-thru restaurant at 2886 Walnut Grove Road near Tillman Street in Binghampton, will have a grand opening Thursday, March 7.
Owned by Chris Conner, Love Shack's motto is, "Love your body, love your mind, love your spirit." The menu is geared toward vegetarians and vegans and includes fresh wheatgrass juice, smoothies, soups, herbal detox teas, coffee and complimenting snacks.
Love Shack is now open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thousands of Tennessee homeowners have received more than $161 million in loan relief as part of a landmark multistate settlement with five U.S. banks over foreclosure abuses.
Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper's office said on Friday that the relief went to about 4,000 homeowners in the state between March 1 and Dec. 31. The announcement came after a report was released last week by an office monitoring the settlement.
Tennessee is among 49 states involved in the $25 billion National Mortgage Settlement. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Ally Financial entered the agreement last year with the states and the federal government.
Tennesseans who are eligible could ultimately receive more than $200 million in mortgage relief, the majority of it going to help avoid foreclosure.
– The Associated Press
The Obama administration is warning that automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1 will result in travel delays at major airports and require traffic-disrupting shutdowns of air traffic control towers at smaller facilities.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the across the board reductions will require trimming $600 million this year form the Federal Aviation Administration. LaHood says that will mean furloughing air traffic controllers, which in turn will reduce the ability to guide planes in and out of airports.
He says travelers could experience 90-minute delays or more in major cities.
The transportation reductions are part of broader cuts that will hit across government agencies that will begin to kick in at the end of next week.
LaHood's appearance in the White House briefing room was part of a continuing campaign by Cabinet members and other administration officials aimed at buttressing President Barack Obama's appeal to Congress to replace the cuts with tax increases and targeted reductions. Congressional Republicans oppose any additional tax increases.
Asked whether it appeared inevitable that the cuts would materialize, press secretary Jay Carney said: "We obviously are discouraged by the line that Republican leaders have taken, which is the book is closed on revenue. ... We remain hopeful and we will continue to engage with Congress."
LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, denied that he was simply describing a worst-case scenario that would scare the public and put pressure on Republican lawmakers. He said the effect of the cuts will begin to be felt around the beginning of April.
"What I'm trying to do is wake up members of the Congress with the idea that they need to come to the table so we don't have to have this kind of calamity in air services in America," he said.
LaHood said the main reason the White House had asked him to appear before White House-based reporters was because he is a Republican making the case for Obama with Republican lawmakers.
The price of oil was little changed Friday after a 5 percent fall over the last two days. The drop in crude showed signs of slowing the upward spiral of gas pump prices as well, at least temporarily.
Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 12 cents to $92.72 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price oil that many U.S. refineries use to make gasoline, rose 42 cents at $113.95 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
At the pump the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.78, about where it was on Thursday, but 14 cents higher than a week ago and almost half a dollar more than a month ago, according to AAA. Drivers in California, Florida, the Northeast and the Midwest are paying the most.
Encouraging news about the global economy helped oil prices stabilize. The European Commission said Friday that it expects the recession afflicting the economy of the 17 countries sharing the euro to bottom out during the first half of the year, with growth reaching an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter. The EC expects growth in the eurozone to accelerate to 1.4 percent next year.
A stronger global economy is likely to mean more demand for oil and gas, which points to higher prices for fuel.
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WaterChill systems are available as complete kits or you can buy just the individual components. The kit we will be reviewing today is the WaterChill CPU/VGA/Chipset Power Kit (KT12A-L30 ½') and supports Intel P4 and AMD Athlon XP, FX and 64 processors. The package includes a Black Ice Pro dual radiator, two 120mm Papst fans, Hydor L30 II pump, Asetek reservoir, control unit and waterblocks for the CPU, VGA and chipset.
The WaterChill kit came securely packaged in a sturdy plastic box with foam padding, all the way from Denmark. Asetek has done a good job of insuring the end user will have everything he or she needs to complete the installation. All of the mounting hardware comes bagged and labeled to help minimize any confusion.
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great test / review but i have a question. according to my research this pump require 240v and as far as i know a psu only give 12v so how does this work does it have a built in adapter or is that the controller you mentioned to transform the 12v to 240v? sorry if i misspelled and dont know the word for that thing,
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'The medicine is the easy part'
"This doesn't look much like a marketplace," Teri said. I was inclined to agree.
Our red pickup emblazoned with "Arusha Society for the Protection of Animals (ASPA)" had pulled to a stop in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere. To our left, a dusty, empty crossroads led off into the African bush. To the right, a handful of donkeys lackadaisically browsed the ground for something to eat. Teri and I jumped out of the pickup bed, wiped dust from our brows, and looked around for the Maasai we were expecting to meet us.
"Did we come on the wrong day?" we asked our host. Livingstone Masija, the ASPA director who'd arranged the week's mobile clinics, laughed. "It's early," he said.
I'd arrived in Tanzania earlier in the week along with seven other volunteers with World Vets, an international veterinary aid organization that sends more than 50 teams a year to places around the globe. While many World Vets trips focus on small animals, this project was all about donkeys.
When I'd applied, I'd made it clear I was a small animal practitioner with limited equine experience. I needn't have worried. As I was to learn, the medicine is often the easy part.
International volunteerism in both human and veterinary medicine can be a contentious topic, questions of motive and long-term impact dogging those who set out with their hearts in the right place but no idea of the intricacies of arranging a multinational medical mission. Can the supplies be legally exported from the U.S. and imported into the target country? Is there a local organization with a specific goal we can help with? Will local veterinarians resent the team's work? And most of all, do the locals even want us there?
To these ends, World Vets has always worked closely with local aid organizations that can provide direction on the work most needed. In this case, Masija had asked us to provide preventive care to the donkeys of the nomadic Maasai, who use the animals extensively as beasts of burden.
We'd arrived with boxes of vaccines, dewormers, medications and harnesses. But first we needed some patients.
As Masija promised, the road soon began to show signs of life. Maasai wrapped in bright colors strode behind donkeys loaded with barrels and sacks, setting them down along the side of the road to expose gallons of grains and beans. Before long an entire market had popped up around us. We looked at the donkeys wandering by and saw lots of skin lesions: abrasions caused by the friction of the twine holding barrels to their back. Masija, a gentle man with a generous smile, gestured for us to follow as he strode into the market. We slung our backpacks filled with supplies over our shoulders and followed him.
Our group of scrub-clad mzungu drew plenty of attention, some curious, some mistrustful. Our endeavors would have been next to impossible without Masjia to translate and explain what we were doing. Dewormers were accepted almost universally. Vaccines were a tougher sell.
One of our group was looking at a lesion on the back of a donkey tied to a fence when a woman came up, waving her hands forcefully and yelling. We backed away. Masija went up to the woman and spoke to her, and she shook her head. A younger woman next to her also shook her head, the hoops on her ears swaying as she turned her back and walked away.
Masija then walked over to us. "She says the last time a veterinary group came through, they gave her animals bad vaccines and the animals died. Her husband beat her. She doesn't want that to happen again."
As a fixture in the area, Masija had a much deeper understanding than we did of this community. He rushed after a 12-year-old who was beating his donkey with a stick, prodding him to move down the road. The donkey was darting back and forth, dropping grain from his sack every time he changed directions.
Masija pulled him over to our alcove and, picking up a piece of twine, expertly tied it into a harness. Slipping it over the donkey's head, he demonstrated how much easier it was to direct the animal with this gentler approach. The boy's eyes lit up and he took more twine, enough for the rest of his donkeys.
"You see?" said Masija. "If they believe what we are doing makes the animals better workers, they agree to let us help them." By elevating the economic value of the animal, Masija says, he is more likely to get buy-in about the intrinsic worth of animal welfare. First a harness, then medical care. The building of trust, he told us, doesn't take hours. It takes years.
Bit by bit we worked our way through the market, weaving grain sacks into pads to cushion the donkeys' backs, drawing crowds of giggling children over to watch us for a minute, an hour. Masija blew up a basketball and tossed it into the road, laughing as the children chased it. Kyle, a member of our group who is also an avid runner, gave his shoes to a man who was wearing strips of leather tied to his feet. In an unusual show of emotion for a Maasai, the man gave Kyle a huge hug and asked me to take a picture.
As we piled our emptied syringes and bottles into the truck at the end of the day, I marveled at the challenges of the day. The medicine was simple. The trust building, however, was going to take some time. Watching the kids run after our truck, waving and smiling, I decided we were off to a good start.


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Mitchell Capitan points to a flock of sheep grazing in the shadow of a sandstone mesa. The sheep belong to Capitan's family, along with a few head of cattle and twelve quarter horses standing in a corral near his mother-in-law's house in Crownpoint, New Mexico.
"All of this area," Capitan says, gesturing to the valley of sage and shrub brush below, "there's a lot of uranium underneath there. That's what they're after."
Capitan and his Navajo neighbors are battling a license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Hydro Resources Inc. (HRI)–a subsidiary of a Texas company, Uranium Resources–one of several firms that have laid claim to the minerals beneath thousands of acres on and around the lands of the Navajo Nation and three American Indian pueblos in northwestern New Mexico. A group called the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining is suing the NRC to block mining in Crownpoint and another Navajo community. A panel of federal judges in Denver heard the case in May 2008 but has yet to issue a ruling.
A resurgence of interest in building nuclear power plants, touted as a nonpolluting alternative to carbon-fueled plants, has sparked a uranium rush. Since 2007 the NRC has received seventeen license applications for twenty-six new reactors, causing a flurry of applications for uranium mining permits across the Four Corners region, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet. In February Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Energy Department would expedite the approval process for $18.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for utilities that are building nuclear plants. The guarantees, along with other Bush-era incentives, are meant to spur construction of new plants.
The anticipated rise in demand for uranium has led the industry back to the very places it deserted three decades ago when it abandoned hundreds of mines, seven polluted uranium mills, billions of gallons of contaminated groundwater and mountains of radioactive waste. Congress is only now beginning to press agencies to clean up the mess, an undertaking that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Plenty of people in this economically distressed corner of New Mexico are thrilled about the 8,000 new jobs and $1 billion in economic benefits the uranium industry promises. They point to claims made by industry lobbyists in a concerted PR campaign that new technology will make mining safer and that cast doubt on the connection between uranium mining and the illnesses that plague people who worked in mines and mills or lived near them.