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All through the morning, we had carefully observed each exhibit, slowly making our way through dark halls of lost people and creatures. Karma Tashi seemed transfixed by each diorama, quietly commenting on the beauty and artistry of the painted backdrops and the realistic eyes of the people and animals. To him this was art, not the story of a diminished natural world. But the exhibits came unrelentingly, one after the other, and the real story of what this museum was telling us became evident. He quietly concluded, "but all the animals are dead.
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It was a simple and obvious truth that I had not been able to accept myself with equal frankness. I knew then that I especially didn't want Karma Tashi to see what was somewhere ahead, an exhibit of proud and richly adorned Tibetan people set against some exquisite backdrop of mountains and monasteries. The man and woman would be standing next to one another, each wearing colorful wool jackets, yak leather boots, and necklaces of ancient turquoise. I had been with people just like this, with Karma Tashi's people, except that they were alive and very much in their own living world. They laughed and cried, got married and bore children, worked through the seasons, and slept under the moon. They lived and breathed to tell their stories. I didn't want Karma Tashi to see his own people behind glass. I didn't want to hear him conclude, "but all the people are gone too," and begin to understand the nature of his own extinction. But here we were and my friend walked to the very edge of the display glass and stared for a long moment at the wax figures representing his own people.
As a child, thirty years earlier, Karma Tashi had fled in the middle of winter on foot across the mountains of Tibet. He was following an exodus of the Dalai Lama to live exiled in the Kingdom of Nepal. Now he had flown 12,000 miles to spend the summer in America. He had never before been inside a plane or ridden on a train or seen a skyscraper or touched the waters of an ocean. He didn't know electric lights or television or movies or computers. We walked beside him through this new world, down the streets of New York City, and into the American Museum of Natural History.
Wandering through the exhibits of the world's different peoples with Karma Tashi often felt more like walking through a hardware store than a museum. What seemed like interesting artifacts to me were alive and real to him. He explained how things worked. If it weren't for the glass, he would certainly have picked up the tools, lifted the bowls to his nose to tell him what these different people ate. The beadwork of the Dogon people of West Africa reminded him of things his grandmother had made. The body painting of the Xavante of Brazil reminded Karma of how his people prepared themselves for some Buddhist ceremonies. He stood transfixed by the handprints of both the Aborigines and the ancient Puebloans. The dramatic facemasks of the Wodabe of West Africa reminded him of a Tibetan shaman. He loved the feathered headdresses of the Huichol and told us how they reminded him of his own people's sky burials. We spoke in the present tense about ways of life that were previously rare or long gone.
And when Karma Tashi came to the Navajo, he paused for a long time and pointed out the turquoise jewelry and the silver hair and the deeply lined faces and saw himself, and in his recognition implied a sense of how these people, 20,000 years ago, had made the journey from Asia across the Bering Strait to North America.
They were like him, but not quite him. He looked upon the Navajo as one of Darwin's famous finches might have looked upon its cousin in the evolutionary journey. But when we came to the display of the Tibetan people dressed in their traditional mountain clothing, it startled me to realize that Karma Tashi was wearing western clothes: khakis, a button-down oxford shirt, and a thin sweater. Karma Tashi was looking more like us than like his own Tibetan people.
Who could blame him for wanting to eat our food, wear our clothes, enjoy what appeared to be our better lives? In coming to America, Karma Tashi believed he was improving his own life and, in a bigger sense, adding positively to the evolutionary journey of his people. Being with him in America, while knowing his history and the story of his people in Nepal and Tibet, made me face painful questions: To what extent is my way of life creating a world of refugees from the land? And what is being gained and lost in this exchange?
That day in the American Museum of Natural History, we spoke for hours about the natural beauty of the clothes and tools we saw. We expressed our awe for the diversity of ceremonies and skills. We marveled at how the people of the Northwest with their totems are so different from the people of the Southeast with their open armadas. We compared these ways of life with the people of the Northeast with their longhouses and wigwams. The unique beauty and richness of each people came from their communion with the weather, with the rivers, with the mountains, and with the forests in which they lived. They looked different, spoke different languages, built different houses, and evolved different mythologies, not solely from human artifice but because the world around them offered these different gifts. The heights of their creativity and humanity came from the depths of their communion with where they lived; their humanness emerged out of the way the mountains touched the skies, the way the trees died in the forest, and the different ways that the creatures cried out to them. The people evolved with their place. And the full implication of this long story is inescapable. What has happened to that diversity of life? Why do we all increasingly look the same today? What is shaping us today if not the land?
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More and more, we're shaped by a closed and artificial world of our own creation. We're told this smaller, shadow world is sufficient, yet we are rarely satisfied by it. In response, many seem to strive for wealth, thinking money will provide longed-for meaning and safety. Today, our sense of humanness comes from gazing upon ourselves and upon our own creations. Our most dominant creation is the technology that permeates all aspects of life and has people going faster and faster to the point where bodies and nervous systems have little physical connection to the world around them. The land is out of body, out of mind, out of sight. Is it any surprise that the average American today can recognize over one thousand corporate logos but can't recognize ten plants or animals native to his own region?
This ignorance frees us up to be what our culture most highly esteems: citizens of the marketplace, global consumers of goods and services. The Canadian social critic, David Suzuki, has written "consumerism has taken the place of citizenship as the chief way we contribute to the health of our society." This focus on what we own as the definition for who we are may have many positive economic results, but it has also helped to create a deeply personal crisis in how we view our potential and purpose as human beings. By accepting the daily advertisements and the "news" that tell us what to fear, what to desire, how to be in the world, we undermine our own bodies and our own potentials.
Consumerism is today's guiding story for much of the Unites States and, increasingly, much of the world. It's an age-old story of buying what we once earned for free or didn't think we needed in the first place. And in the process of swapping money for the promise of satisfaction, we remove ourselves one more step from what is real and true in the world. We take one more step toward swapping our lives for lifestyles. We all do it. For over a hundred years, the world's leading human psychologists have painted an increasingly clear picture of the impact of consumerism on our human progress, on our search for meaning. Abraham Maslow saw human development in terms of the process of moving from basic needs (food and shelter) to social needs (love and esteem) to the highest needs of "full humanness," a hierarchy that culminates in the ability to find the sacred in the ordinary. Maslow saw our human aspiration for compassion, truth, goodness, justice, and wholeness as true spiritual values, not the exclusive possession of organized churches but the general responsibility of all humankind for how to be in the world.
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The consumer culture has greatly expanded our list of "wants" and leads us to believe that our highest development as humans means meeting these desires. It wants us to believe that our legitimate hunger for love, belonging, esteem, and recognition can be met through what we purchase and possess as opposed to how we relate with the world around us. By making this argument in over 30,000 advertisements that our children see every year, the culture highjacks our own human development, replacing our legitimate search for meaning with a yearning for what can never satisfy us. We all recognize this personality of craving and desire, but few of us want it to be the vessel that carries our soul and spirit through the world. We want instead to be defined by our sense of compassion and justice and wholeness with the rest of life. Human beings are both matter and spirit, body and soul. The consumer culture focuses on the matter and the body, confusing physical needs with spiritual objectives. We come to think of our identity in terms of short-lived perks we can give ourselves as opposed to the truly personal acts of our enduring human spirit.
How rarely we experience the truly meaningful; the peak experiences of inspired creativity or altruistic ideals that leave us feeling fulfilled and connected to the rest of life. It is no surprise that rates of clinical depression in Americans are ten times what they were prior to 1950? For many people, the "modern life" is a condition of alienation, loneliness, and unarticulated rage. We put no trespassing signs on our land and then upon our own souls.
The twentieth-century psychologist and philosopher R.D. Laing wrote, "Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves."
How and where do we get another story for ourselves? How do we find again that real experience that might restore ourselves? Today, what are the deeds of great men and women?
The story is here in our direct experience of the land. Thankfully, all we need is already at hand if we can only be strong enough, wise enough, to see it under our feet. The deeds of great men and women are the small, daily acts that preserve our human relationship with the rest of life. From the cities to suburbs to small towns, people are re-asserting their need to be connected again, to find more fulfillment in their lives, to restore beauty and to take responsibility.
Looking to the land for our health and meaning is not a nostalgic retreat from the insistent realities of our day. In fact, for most of us, there never has been a golden age when our ancestors lived in perfect ecological health. Most of human life over the last ten thousand years has not been a healthy integration with the land. Looking to the land does not mean going backward, as some would insist, but is the act of going forward differently by taking advantage of the best things our culture has to offer and the best things that the earth has to offer. We are seeking to create a thoroughly new relationship with the land that fully reflects our modern lives. It is the act of confronting life and making real choices about what sustains and what diminishes us.
For some, looking to the land might mean planting a vegetable plot on a city lot. For another it will mean supporting an open space bond referendum in her town. For others, it might mean spending more time with their families hiking and camping. And for someone else, looking to the land might be a quiet act of civil disobedience: simply saying "not me" to the culture that wants us to work, to buy, to conform. Looking to the land is going forward to that new future where we know where our food comes from, where we each take responsibility for creating more health in the world, where we re-assert that our character and our joy come from our relationships to the people and creatures around us. Looking to the land, no matter where one lives, is the personal act of returning to the values that the land has always taught: resilience, continuity, reliability, honesty, patience, tolerance, diversity, awe, connectivity, beauty, and love. Living by those values brings us back to the land, no matter where we live. Returning to them is our challenge, from our hearts and our bodies, to what this world would otherwise have us be.
Losing our connections to the land is not an "environmental" issue. It is first and foremost a human issue. We lose not just our respect for wild creatures; we lose the very wildness that is inside of us. We untether ourselves from the world of life, and we forget just how small an animal we really are. We sacrifice that part of ourselves that is rooted deeply in humility, fairness, and respect. Theologian Thomas Berry writes, "the forest can only become so many board feet of lumber when a certain part of the human mind goes dead. Humans couldn't kill the forest unless there was something already dead in the human intelligence, the human sensitivity, the human emotions. It's a killing of an inner experience."
The inner experience is our wildness. It is our ability to be truly self-willed, allowing the forces of a more-than-human world to shape the highest aspirations for our humanity. It is our ability to lead a unique life driven by our sense of compassion and fairness, our desire to belong, and our knowledge of being part of a story more important than ourselves. Our wildness is our ability to make moral decisions in an immoral world. Our wildness is our capacity to think and act in terms of relationship, kinship, and equity. Our wildness is our originality, our diversity, and our sensuality.
And our wildness is buried deep within us, buried deep in our language. Going back to our words helps us to see that we all once knew these truths. For example, to remember is to "connect physically with a place." To educate is "to be present." To respect is "to look again." To seduce is "to lead away." And apocalypse is the act of lifting a veil, to see the world as it truly is.
The extinction of this full range of human experience has led the acclaimed Canadian writer and naturalist, John Livingston, to suggest that human beings have become domesticated "with no sense of ecological or interspecies social place," akin to our cats, our dogs, our cows and sheep.
In many ways, we are increasingly domesticated, featureless, and homogenized. And this happened to us because we first did it to the land. Our growing disconnection from the land means far more than the loss of the beautiful places and ways of life that we are unable or unwilling to carry with us. It means more than the arrogance of our humanism. It is a death by alienation.
Is this evolution or is this extinction?
Julian Huxley wrote, "Man is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself." Perhaps so many people struggle with fear, alienation, and depression because we are conscious at some level that we have stopped evolving. The part of our humanity that is most vital—our diversity of experience, our awareness, our sense of purpose and optimism for the future—is closer to extinction than anytime in the history of our species.
Others argue that we can solve our environmental problems through technology, and this may be possible in the short term, bur what will solve the alienation and meaninglessness?
We are told we should be optimistic about our ever-growing ability to use science to maintain human prosperity. Bioengineering and nanotechnology are today's evidence of our determination to colonize and put under our will every level of the natural world. We replace natural DNA chains with human-created ones. We replace wild forests with domesticated forests or plantations. We replace wild fish with farm-raised fish. We replace wild animals with domesticated animals. We replace our wild, independent, self-willed selves with lesser, domesticated selves. As we increasingly domesticate wild communities, including ourselves, we create the kind of world our philosophy leads us to believe is right. We see fewer and fewer alternatives.
There is a middle path, a teaching for life that is as old as time and still the freshest antidote for what ails us. What is true for the grizzly bear is no less true for the human. We, too, need a natural habitat. All of life seeks the rest of life; we are tuned for relationship. We need wildness in the world and wildness in ourselves to continue a healthy evolutionary journey. The extinction of human experience is parallel and equal to the extinction of biodiversity. We cannot go it alone. We let the grizzly bear die, and we have killed a part of ourselves. We contribute to the homogenization of Karma Tashi and his people, and we have made ourselves less real, less aware, less stable.
Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist, physicist and philosopher, says:
It is a struggle to protect the freedom of diverse species to evolve; it is a struggle to protect the freedom of diverse cultures to evolve; it is a struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. It is a struggle against new and old forms of colonization.
The middle path, or the radical center, is our struggle to regain a relationship to the land, and to carry it with us in our modern lives as the lesson for how we might better live. In this light, the work of land conservation takes on a purpose and gravity as important as the greatest achievement of any culture; it becomes the noble effort of saving ourselves along with the life that still surrounds us.
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This is the renewed awareness of the critical need for refugia, seedbeds of life that survive the modern-day glaciers of destruction to enable life to begin anew. The purpose of land conservation is to create refugia, places where humans can re-learn where and how to be in healthy relationship with the rest of life. Refugia are the places that sustain all life, the places where humans and other species can continue to change and evolve together. Refugia contain land and people together.
Some say this is impossible to do, that people have become too destructive, too numerous, too focused on ourselves. I say we must do it. How are we ever going to curb our population, or restore in people some sense of their responsibility to the earth without a strong connection to the land? How will people know what is sacred and essential to a whole life? How can we possibly preserve biodiversity while simultaneously allowing our own human experience to become extinct? It is our relationship to land, in fact, which gives us our highest hope of survival, because it is our relationship to land that has developed our highest values: our sense of patience, commitment, generosity, and belief in a story that is larger than ourselves.
My friendship with Karma Tashi, my devotion to his people, and my own life work in land conservation comes from a passion for the diversity and wildness in this world. Re-thinking land conservation as the conservation of relationships is the rewilding of people and the land. Rewilding means restoring to both people and the land a sense of wholeness or connection to one another because it is only through our relationships with the rest of life that we find our capacity to be uniquely ourselves, or, in other words, to be untamed, self-willed, wild.
It is our radical interconnectedness with life that is the source of our capacity to suffer with our world. Take that away from us, and how do you expect us to act?
What most inspires me, what I know to be most true and worthwhile, are all the efforts to record and protect the beauty, value, realness, and interconnectedness of lives that are led in opposition to this mechanical, diminished world of ours. And what connects all of these efforts, large and small, urban and rural, is a love of the land and our embeddedness in it. This is what defeats the extinction of human experience and our death by alienation. Our love of land is the wildness inside of us, saving us and saving the land.
Peter Forbes is a former director of the Trust for Public Land's Center for Land and People, a farmer, photographer, and the author of The Great Remembering.
"Lifting the Veil," copyright © 2003 by Peter Forbes. Excerpted from Coming to Land in a Troubled World, copyright © 2003 by the Trust for Public Land. Reprinted by permission of the author.


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Denise Richards breaks her silence for the first time since her ex-husband Charlie Sheen's alleged domestic dispute that took place on Christmas day with his current wife Brooke Mueller.
Richards tells Oprah Winfrey that Sheen called her collect from jail, saying that he didn't want the day to go by without saying Merry Christmas to their daughters, Lola and Sam. "It's sad. It's a sad situation ... Their dad was in jail on Christmas," Richards says, adding that her daughter learned that her dad was in jail from a child in her kindergarten class.
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Though the actress details her tumultuous relationship with Sheen in the past, she's happy to report that they are now getting along. "Charlie and I are in a good place now ... It's taken a lot of work on our part."
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Vendors say there are ways to have ACOs working right
It is the kind of grade that students are afraid to show their parents – the dreaded D-minus. Barely a notch above flunking, the grade is emblematic of poor performance.
In this case, the "teacher" issuing the low grade is Scott Weingarten, MD, president and CEO of Los Angeles-based Zynx Health and the "students" are approximately 100 provider groups striving to become Accountable Care Organizations.
As part of an evaluation process designed to test their ACO readiness, Zynx audited selected provider groups on their use of key clinical processes when treating pneumonia and heart failure. The clinical processes are standardized clinical best practices accessed at the point of care via an electronic health record and are proven to reduce mortality, hospital readmissions and costs.
In demonstrating how the $36 billion in federal funds for EHR implementation have been utilized to date, the groups were given a collective grade of D-minus. Weingarten said he wasn't surprised by the low grade and offers a simple explanation of why the providers didn't do better:
"A lot of health systems focused on going live and mistakenly considered it to be the ultimate outcome," Weingarten said. "When some hospitals think about whether they have all the necessary clinical decision support built in, they acknowledge they may not, but they think they can go back and correct it. And they don't get back to it as quickly as they like. They focus on 'going live' as the end point and it takes a while to go back and focus on achieving the best results."
From September 2011 through February 2012, participating hospitals were rated by five EHR vendors and their scores fell squarely into what would commonly be recognized as D territory, ranging from a low of 55 percent for heart failure to a high of 73 percent for pneumonia.
The good news for those low-grade earners is that it's "a mid-term grade, not the final exam," Weingarten said. "There are concrete things they can do. We have given them feedback on how to improve things and the response has been positive."
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Greenwood, Colo.-based TriZetto has coined a term called "the smart middle" to describe the processes necessary to making an ACO function properly. Payment model changes are key, says Jeff Rideout, MD, senior vice president of cost and care management and chief medical officer for TriZetto, meaning that providers and their partners must coordinate and enable the workflow, care redesign, payment and revenue cycle process throughout the system across the healthcare continuum.


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Ranking all 32 Starting QBs and potential young guns in this league broken down by categories/tiers. Criticisim is highly expected and accepted :D
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-Eli Manning NYG
-Ben Roethlisbuerger PIT
-Peyton Manning DEN (In the Decline Stage)
-Tony Romo DAL
-Phillip Rivers SD
- Peyton Manning seems like the only one that's heading for a decline and is no longer top shelf. Eli Manning could take that next step to TOP SHELF QBs at the end of this year. Pushing that next level. I'll probably get some flack for having Romo hear, but the guy is ELITE. Just look at what he's done in BIG D. Remember, Peyton Manning, it took him 10 years to win a Super Bowl.
Knocking at the Door to the ELITE Level:
-Matt Ryan ATL
-Joe Flacco BAL
-Matthew Stafford DET
This is where I see it now, but more than likely, a 99% chance both Ryan and Flacco move into that Elite Category. Stafford can go either way to ELITE or drop into 2nd Tier.
2nd Tier:
-Jay Cutler CHI
-Matt Shaub HOU
Cutler seems to always be stuck in this category. Shaub needs to stay healthy. He could have made the jump if he performed in the playoffs last year.
Middle of the Pack:
-Alex Smith SF
-Michael Vick PHI
-Ryan Fitzpatrick BUF
Alex Smith seems like the best of the Bunch. Fitzpatrick is erratic but I put him in this category because he's average/above average QB. Vick might find himself in a new category after the season.
Jekyll and Hyde: Biggest Mysteries:
-Mark Sanchez NYJ
-Josh Freeman TB
-Sam Bradford STL
-Kevin Kolb ARZ
These guys are ones that get your hopes high than crush them with inconsistant performances. Bradford is in his 3rd year so I no longer consider him a young gun. Freeman is in a make or break season, same with Sanchez. Kolb is off to a good start, but history of inconsistancy is on his side. Basically, 3 of these guys could be in the next category. Bradford probably gets a 4th year.
The Replaceables:
-Carson Palmer OAK
-Matt Cassel KC
These QBs teams seem like they're heading in a different direction at the QB position moving forward.
The Young Guns:
-Andrew Luck IND
-Andy Dalton CIN
-Christian Pondner MIN
-Robert Griffin III WAS
-Cam Newton CAR
-Jake Locker TEN
-Blaine Gabbert JAC
-Russel Wilson SEA
-Brandon Weeden CLE
-Ryan Tanehill MIA
These guys, I really cannot rank them just yet, outside of this category. 1 year or less is not a good judgement (see Josh Freeman for example in 2010 LOLS). A lot of these guys have potential to hit ELITE, 2nd Tier, and Middle of the pack. In my opinion, Andrew Luck seems like the guy with the TOP SHELF potential.
Also, note that this category has nothing to do with them being better or worse than the others. It's just no enough film to place them.
Back ups with high potential:
-Ryan Mallett NE
-Matt Flynn SEA
Anxious to see how Mallett performs when he gets on the field. I had him as my #1 QB prospect in 2011. Flynn should get a shot elsewhere in 2013.
Have at it folks.
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Walk21 is pleased to announce that the Mayor of Stuttgart has signed the International Charter for Walking. The Mayor signed the Charter to launch the Cities for Mobility World Congress 2011. The congress is hosted each year by the City of Stuttgart and attracts delegates from around the world.
By signing the Charter, the Mayor has demonstrated Stuttgart's ongoing success in delivering walkable communities and underpinned future projects to extend this success throughout the city.
Celebrating their 5th anniversary, the Cities for Mobility World Congress, this year focussed on Urban Mobility and the Social Space Challenge. WIth 350 delegates from 40 countries, the forum was a vibrant, eclectic discussion about the demands on our cities for better public space and better mobility for people. Walking was central to many of these discussions, with projects from Eastern Europe to South America demonstrating the creative approaches being developed and successful ideas implemented.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011
What would Wilhelmina Slater say? Ugly Betty star America Ferrera is to lead the cast when Chicago moves to its new home at the Garrick Theatre from 7th November.
She will play manipulative killer with a thirst for the spotlight Roxie Hart, while the role of rival jailbird Velma Kelly is to be played by Amra-Faye Wright who is currently starring in the Broadway production. Chicago originally played at the Cambridge Theatre in 1979 for 603 performances. It enjoyed a successful revival at the Adelphi Theatre in 1997 where it played until it transferred to the Cambridge in 2006. It remained there ever since until it closed on 27th August this year to make way for Matilda, the hotly anticipated musical based on the Roald Dahl classic. The show will re-open at its new home at the Garrick Theatre.
The longevity of its second incarnation was helped in no small part by the success of the multiple Oscar-winning 2002 film version directed by Rob Marshall. Catherine Zeta-Jones took home a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role of Velma Kelly, while Renee Zellweger's Roxie and Richard Gere's Billy Flynn both won rave reviews. The film took home six Oscars in total including one for best film. Over the years the London stage version has seen numerous stars in the leading roles including Denise Van Outen, Jill Halfpenny, Brooke Shields, Jennifer Ellison, Ruthie Henshall, Ute Lemper, Bonnie Langford, Claire Sweeney, Jerry Springer, Tony Hadley, Ian Kelsey and David Hasselhoff.
America Ferrera shot to public attention with the title role in 2006 American TV hit Ugly Betty about a plain girl with dreams of entering the cut-throat fashion industry. She won a Golden Globe as Best Actress In A Comedy Series as well as a SAG award and an Emmy. Ugly Betty ran for four seasons, with Betty's arch enemy and larger than life villain Wilhelmina Slater feistily played by singer Vanessa Williams. Williams has recently joined the cast of Desperate Housewives, currently in its final season. London Theatre Direct thinks the Save The Best For Last singer would make the perfect Velma Kelly when Housewives wraps as Williams is no stranger to Broadway with leading roles in Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and Bye Bye Birdie. Betty and Wilhelmina locking horns on the West End stage? Fingers crossed for the future!
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ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - A water main break in Ashland has left thousands of residents without running water.
The break on Monday night on Carter Avenue drained the city's storage tanks, leaving up to 7,000 customers without water.
Ryan Eastwood, Ashland's director of engineering and utilities, told WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W.Va.,that it could be Wednesday before service is fully restored.
Residents in Ashland, Catlettsburg, Westwood and parts of Summit were affected by the water main break. Eastwood says when service is restored, it will be a slow trickle as tanks are refilled.
Officials have set up water distributions sites at Ashland Community and Technical College, Central Park and Oakview Elementary. Customers can also bring containers to the water company on Winchester to have them filled.
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The XstreamHD service has been in the works for a few years and is finally due for public release later this year. It essentially offers DVR functionality, on-demand video and sharing of video across your home network.
When you buy an XstreamHD you would get a HD Media Server unit which will store your video content on a hard drive, and a HD Media receiver which hooks up to your TV.
A remote control would also be provided to use the XstreamHD interface on your TV. As you can see from the pics below the GUI looks well designed and intuitive.
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Main Features
Video on demand will be delivered via satellite which seems odd given the move by most Set Top Boxes to IPTV based services. Video will be available in full 1080p HD and audio will be DTS-HD.
The device will also have 3 tuners allowing record and watch up to 3 ATSC over the air (OTA) channels with typical DVR functions.
DLNA capable devices will also be able pull video from the HD Media Server, but from what I gather if you had a DLNA TV you'd still probably want to hook it up to the Media Receiver to get the XstreamHD user interface.
You will also be able to manage media on your home network including videos, images and music.
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XStreamHD Invites You to Join the HD Revolution
XStreamHD invites you to enjoy a revolutionary in-home digital entertainment experience. Step up to unparalleled HD entertainment living with
XStreamHD's whole home entertainment solution. Enjoy Full HD (1080p) video and up to 7.1 channels of lossless DTS-HD Master Audio™ content – including movies, music and games – at the highest level of quality that today's advanced digital consumer electronics and home theaters were designed to support.
How XStreamHD Works – No-Hassle HD
Using a small outdoor satellite antennae, your XStreamHD system collects multiple streams of studio master quality HD entertainment at lightening fast speed. The content is streamed directly into one sophisticated XStreamHD Media Server in your home that collects, stores and organizes your pre-fetched movies, music and games in your Virtual Personal Library.
The HD Server is loaded with up to 4TB of removable internal storage, and additional access to external storage via an eSATA connection. Further, the XStreamHD Media Server includes a built-in Network Video Recorder that uses three HDTV (ATSC) tuners to capture all of your favorite off-air HDTV programs from start-to-finish – regardless of schedule changes – thanks to a unique patent-pending Adaptive Recording feature.
XStreamHD Whole Home Entertainment Solution
As a whole home solution, the XStreamHD Media Server can deliver multiple streams of content throughout your home to any television equipped with a compact XStreamHD Media Receiver or any DLNA Certified™ device – from computers, to next-generation televisions and game consoles.
With every XStreamHD Media Receiver you get an ergonomic, state-of-the-art XStreamHD RF One Remote Control that requires no line-of-site and integrates with most home A/V equipment. Additionally, XStreamHD has just released an audiophile-class PRO Media Receiver that permits you to leverage your
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Only XStreamHD provides you with Pre-Fetched Entertainment (PFE). PFE automatically delivers just-released HD movies, music and electronic games
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Leap forward to a world in which you can enjoy immediate access to the highest quality content sent directly to your home, without the wait times and hassles associated with in-store shopping, mail order programs, and slow Internet content downloads. Never be denied any of the latest titles.
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XStreamHD is a simple-to-install solution and operates with many existing home electronic components. XStreamHD integrates with DLNA Certified™ devices that include advanced flat-screen televisions, Blu-ray players, computers and game consoles.
The system promises to deliver unmatched quality, convenience and value to everyone who chooses to improve their in-home entertainment standard of living!
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The introductory model will contain a modest 500GB drive in the Xstream Media Server and come with HD Media Receiver for a relatively steep $399. 1TB and 2TB models will cost more.
The XstreamHD will also have an undisclosed monthly service as Dave Zatz pointed out. This will be for service, guide data, and VoIP calling to fellow customers
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It is often said that timing is everything. When it comes to applying to MBA programs, this adage certainly rings true. The timing of your applications (e.g. which application round you apply in) can make the difference between getting in and not getting in. Poor timing of your applications can also cost you a lot of extra money in deposits or application fees while you wait to hear from your other choices.
Apply As Early As Possible, But Don't Sacrifice Quality
Schools with rolling admissions assess each application when they receive it and typically promise a response within a certain number of weeks. Like the business schools with admissions rounds, business schools with rolling admission advise applicants to apply as early as possible. Again, the considerations discussed above apply.
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We recommend using a spreadsheet to help you keep track of and coordinate the deadlines. You may need to call the admissions office to find out when deposits are due as this information is not usually published on the school's website. The application deadlines and dates by which you will be informed of their decisions should both appear on the school's website or in the prospective brochure.
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With the conclusion of another 1 vs. 100 season on Xbox Live, it appears Microsoft still has some kinks to work out of its grand (and fun) online game show experiment. After receiving several tips and reviewing forums, it was made clear that some players were having problems obtaining their awards.
Joystiq followed up with Microsoft and was told, "We are aware that some people have experienced delays in receiving 1 vs. 100 prizes. We apologize for the delay and are actively working to improve the prize fulfillment process. We encourage Xbox LIVE members to ensure all of their account personal information is up to date so Microsoft can determine prizing eligibility. If you have any further questions, please contact your local customer support."
A major issue with the 1 vs. 100 prizing seems to be the number of minor details of which players may be unaware. For starters, prize winners should wait up to six weeks before hitting the panic button. There's also the issue of location: Remember that residents of Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Vermont, and Quebec can't receive prizes (and shouldn't even participate in the live shows). Prize winners (actually, all Xbox Live users) should also make sure their email and contact information is current. It also helps to review the game's Mini FAQ. Before the next season of 1 vs. 100 starts we'll follow up with Microsoft to see what improvements it has made to the process. Just letting players know if they are even eligible for prizes -- before starting them off in their first 1 vs. 100 Live show of the season -- would likely alleviate several issues.
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1. Laser-driven proton source for radiation therapy applications
My research activities in the past 10 years centered on the topic of production of proton and heavy ion beams using high-power lasers for radiation therapy applications. The emerging technology of laser-particle acceleration opens up a possibility for designing a proton therapy system that may significantly improve the patient care throughout the world. One of the goals of the project is to find the most optimal interaction parameters that would lead to production of ion beams in the therapeutic energy range. Through a series of research endeavors, we were able to ascertain the exact set of laser/target parameters that are favorable in the production of desired quality proton beams. In addition, a novel idea of multi-stage acceleration of proton beams was recently introduced by our group that promises high energy transfer efficiency between the laser light and protons. A recent experimental investigation by a group from Germany confirmed our theoretical predictions with a two-stage laser-acceleration scheme.
Another goal of this project involves the hypothesis that the laser-driven proton bunches may have higher cell killing power due to their bunching effect, in which the protons come as a single cluster of several picoseconds duration and under certain conditions that are currently being investigated, a higher biological effectiveness of a proton cluster may ensue.Top
2. Absolute dose reconstruction in hadron therapy using PET imaging modality
Positron emitters are activated by proton beams during the course of hadron therapy. These short-lived radioisotopes, mainly 11C, 13N and 15O, allow the imaging of three-dimensional in vivo activity distribution using positron emission tomography, which can be ultimately implemented into quality assurance and treatment verification after proton therapy. The proposed PET imaging for treatment verification however, only exploits the possibility of using information contained in the spatial activity distribution to verify the field positioning and to gain insight into the beam penetration depth. The natural extension of these ideas would be to use the three dimensional activity to reconstruct the dose delivered to a patient. Since there is no direct correlation between the absorbed dose and activity (which is intrinsically due to the difference in the underlying physics behind the energy deposition process in a case of absorbed dose and nuclear processes involved in the positron activation in the case of induced activity), one cannot readily obtain one from the other once the treatment has been completed. Even though the indirect method is appealing and relatively easy to develop, it does not provide direct comparison between the planned and delivered doses, thus always bringing some uncertain (or unsatisfactory) aspect associated with it. This is why the development of the dose reconstruction method from the information stored in the spatial activity distribution presents a more desirable solution. In a recent investigation, we used an analytical approach to see if it would be possible to reconstruct the dose absorbed in a patient from the activity distribution. It is based on the solution of the inverse problem of activity de-convolution with the introduced positron emitters' species matrix or PESM. We showed that it is possible to reconstruct absolute dose from the information stored in the spatial activity distribution. In our future investigations we are planning to use the neural networks approach to solve the inverse problem for cases with many degrees of freedom encountered in spot scanning proton treatments.Top
3. Super-lensing technology for biological imaging
Recent developments in a field of nanophotonics and metamaterials opens up a way for the development of the so-called super-lens, a lens that can be used in imaging objects beyond the diffraction limit. This limit is universal and is due to the loss of fine-structure information about the imaged object. A metamaterials-based superlens offers a possibility of recovering the lost information, so that an object can be imaged with the light's wavelength many times longer than the object's dimensions. This may eventually offer a non-invasive method of imaging the fine details of cells with visible light, which is not possible with regular microscopes. In our recent work we looked at the fundamental aspects of information transmission and recording by the super-lens. The results of this project reveal that the recording device is an integral part of the imaging system and what the observer sees during the act of observation depends on the recording device's physical characteristics.Top
4. Photo-thermal cancer therapy using Gold nanoparticles
The existence of surface plasmon resonance of noble metal nanoparticles at optical frequencies makes them exceptional absorbers and scatterers of photons in a wide energy range. This fact, in conjunction with recent developments in nanoparticle synthesis and conjugation has paved the way for their possible utilization in biomedical applications. The surface plasma resonance dramatically increases the energy conversion efficiency between the external laser source and the nanoparticle, which in turn leads to very efficient heat generation and temperature increase in the space around the nanoparticle. It also allows for very specific geometric targeting of the heating dose, since only the area where the nanoparticle are present will experience dramatic heat deposition, whereas the area where the nanoparticles are absent will not be the subject to the heat treatment, even in the presence of a powerful laser source. In recent in-vitro studies we looked at the efficiency of the gold nanorods to induce thermal necrosis in A-1 ovarian cancer cells when exposed to infrared laser light. It was found that gold nanorods are extremely efficient agents in inducing cell necrosis, provided that proper nanoparticle concentrations are attained.Top


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Want some good ideas for airsoft wars? Well keep reading, because you have found the right page. The following are 7 primo airsoft wars that you can use to have a great match with all of your friends. Check it out:
- Capture the Flag
The classic for airsoft and paintball wars alike. There are two flags and two teams in this game. Each team has a base and tries to protect its flag, while organizing to capture the other team's flag. The object is to get the other teams flag back to your base, without getting shot. There are two styles of play, one rule is that when the flag carrier gets shot the flag automatically returns to base, and in the other scenario when the flag carrier is shot, another team member can pick up the flag and continue on.
- Capture the Flag – with Only One Flag
This variant of capture the flag has two teams and two bases, but only one flag in the center of play. The first team to grab the flag and return to their base is the winner.
- Assassination
This game is for just a few number of players. Two or more players are the assassins and must kill the other player(s) and get back to their insertion point before the time limit is reached to win.
- Last Man Standing
This game is usually played with manual spring air pistols. The game is every man for himself, and the object is to shoot all of your opponents. Once shot, you must exit the playing field until only one member is left, declaring himself the winner.
- Clearing House (SWAT style anti-terrorist)
Using a building that has been rigged with terrorist targets and friendly targets, a team must move through the building and kill all the terrorists without killing the innocents.
- Terrorist Elimination
Like the Clearing house, but with live players as the terrorists. In this game, a team will be designated as the terrorists, and will have buildings to hold up in, and the other team must move through and eliminate all of the terrorists.
- King of the Hill
Utilizing a heavily fortified hill, two teams should split up, and maybe only 20-30% of the players be housed in the fortified area. The other team of 70-80% of the players must march up and take the hill. At the end of the time limit, if the small team retains the hill, they win, but if the challengers take the hill, then they win.


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|Frequency of morning ketosis after overnight insulin suspension using an automated nocturnal predictive low glucose suspend system.
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|PMID: 24757229 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of overnight insulin pump suspension in an automated predictive low glucose suspend system on morning blood glucose and ketone levels in an attempt to determine whether routine measurement of ketone levels is useful when a closed-loop system that suspends insulin delivery overnight is being used. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data from an in-home randomized trial of 45 individuals with type 1 diabetes (age range 15-45 years) were analyzed, evaluating an automated predictive low glucose pump suspension system in which blood glucose, blood ketone, and urine ketone levels were measured on 1,954 mornings. RESULTS One or more pump suspensions occurred during 744 of the 977 intervention nights (76%). The morning blood ketone level was ≥0.6 mmol/L after 11 of the 744 nights (1.5%) during which a pump suspension occurred and 2 of the 233 nights (0.9%) during which there was no suspension compared with 11 of 977 control nights (1.1%). The morning blood ketone level was ≥0.6 mmol/L after only 2 of 159 nights (1.3%) with a pump suspension exceeding 2 h. Morning fasting blood glucose level was not a good predictor of the presence of blood ketones. CONCLUSIONS Routine measurement of blood or urine ketones during use of an automated pump suspension system using continuous glucose monitoring, whether threshold based or predictive, is not necessary. Recommendations for checking ketone levels should be no different when a patient is using a system with automated insulin suspension than it is for conventional diabetes self-management.
|Roy W Beck; Dan Raghinaru; R Paul Wadwa; H Peter Chase; David M Maahs; Bruce A Buckingham;
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|Title: Diabetes care Volume: 37 ISSN: 1935-5548 ISO Abbreviation: Diabetes Care Publication Date: 2014 May
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|Created Date: 2014-04-23 Completed Date: - Revised Date: -
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Presented by Matthew Wright.
Part 1: Hellos & Menu
Parts 2 & 3: Who's Up For Another Falklands War?
For our first phone-in: Who's up for another Falklands war - other than David Cameron, that is. I still can't get over the PM's astonishing sabre-rattling moments in parliament yesterday, which the Argies slammed as totally offensive. Tensions are building out there fuelled by the discovery of Falkland oil. But a lot else has changed in the 30 years since the last war. Our navy's got weaker, the Aargies have got stronger. So what on earth is Cameron playing at - that's where your calls come in.
So we'll take plenty of calls on that before it's over to Nadia for the rest of today's headlines.
Part 4: Today's Papers
Part 5: Primary School Massages: Rub You Up The Wrong Way?
After that: does the notion of boys and girls aged 10 or 11 giving each other massages in class rub you up the wrong way? A Sheffield school's had complaints from parents over just this but scores of other primaries have been doing exactly the same for years. So what's the problem? It's just a bit of harmless, innocent fun that can help calm youngsters down. right?
Part 6: Diet Dilemma: Did I Look Better Fat?
After that a phone-in for the 2.6m of you currently on a diet - do any of you worry that losing weight will leave you looking drawn and haggard? Maybe there comes a point as we get old where a bit of meat on your bones suits you better, fills out the wrinkles and stuff like that? Anyone else wonder if all this pressure to be slim might ultimately work against us?
Part 7: Do Boxing Babes Need Skirts?
And finally: do boxing babes need skirts? A little later today the Amateur International Boxing Association will lay down the law for this summer's Olympics as far as female pugilists go: should contestants wear skirts to make them look more feminine? To help fans differentiate boy boxers from girls - seriously that's what the AIB is worried about.
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Matt Meis was voted in as the first new member of the Sentry Toastmasters for 2013 when the club met recently.
The regular meeting featured Joni Lodzinski as Toastmaster. Debbie Carcy inspired the audience with her speech titled, "The Right Thing to Do." Dick Hawley presented his speech, "A Tradition of Excellence," Deborah Ginsberg presented, "Toastmasters Educational Programs," and Brian Cychosz presented his speech titled, "And You Thought You Knew Toastmasters?"
John Cychosz was the Topic Master for the meeting, Dick Hawley was General Evaluator and his team featured the individual evaluators: Ciana Rose, John Cychosz, Leah Rose and Linda Hammerschmidt. Brenda Anderson-Yesse served as Ah Counter, Sid Siahpush served as Grammarian and Brian Cychosz served as Timer.
We welcome guests at our meetings to learn how you may commit to growing and developing your communication and leadership skills. Our next meeting is at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at Sentry Insurance, Stevens Point.
The next Speechcraft session begins March 14 and runs through April 18. This six-week program is designed to help you learn and practice public speaking and evaluation skills that will benefit you in all areas of your life.
People interested in Toastmasters or Speechcraft should call Dick Hawley at 715-341-6488 or email email@example.com.


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Young Jeannette boys soccer team struggling
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Jeannette boys soccer is not unlike other young teams long on raw talent but short on experience — they need to learn how to win.
Jeannette did seal one victory, a 4-3, Section 1-A win last Friday over Trinity Christian, but dropped three other games in a difficult two weeks of action that could benefit the team if they can use what they learned in losing to play better soccer moving forward.
"We definitely need to learn how to win," said Jeannette head coach Mitchell Steele. "We have to learn how to not let a bad goal disrupt what we are doing."
Bad goals, a recurring issue in Jeannette losses, surfaced early in two losses last week — a 5-1 section loss to Serra Catholic, and a 4-0 loss to section power Greensburg Central Catholic. Both losses stung, but none compare to a 3-2 section loss last Tuesday to Winchester Thurston, a game the Jayhawks feel like they should have won.
"We had that game," said Steele. "Even when we were down a goal late we had control of the game."
Helped by a pair of Bailey Chishko goals and solid goalkeeping by Shawn Poth, Jeannette held a 2-1 halftime advantage, but Winchester Thurston scored twice off of set pieces in the second half to take a lead they would not relinquish.
Despite the three losses, Steele has been mostly happy with his team's effort, but also knows that they are fortunate to have Poth playing at such a high level in goal.
"Shawn Poth has been amazing," said Steele. "He made more than 30 saves against Winchester Thurston, and had more than 30 in the win over Trinity."
Senior forward Anthony Ruane has missed the last game and a half after turning over on his ankle against Winchester Thurston. Steele is not sure when Ruane will return to the lineup. Jeannette has two section games this week, at Serra Catholic today, and they host Trinity on Saturday.
WPIAL Class A Section 1 standings:
Serra Catholic (4-0-1) (7-2-1)
South Allegheny (2-1-1) (5-1-1)
Winchester Thurston (3-2-0) (6-2-0)
Greensburg Central Catholic (3-2-0) (3-5-0)
Jeannette (1-3-0) (3-3-0)
Trinity Christian (0-5-0) (0-9-0)
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Exciting day here at WDAZ. Our new anchor, Rob Hudson, will be behind the news desk at 6 and 10:00 tonight! Rob will be taking over the position vacated by Charley Johnson on May 31st.
I think our viewers are going to love Rob. He's a good guy and it comes through on camera. Rob is originally from Elk River, Minnesota and he comes to us via Missoula, Montana. He loves hockey, fishing and hunting. Although I suspect his hockey allegiances might need some fine tuning. Nonetheless, please welcome him to our airwaves and to our area.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say three people were hospitalized after a collision involving a light-rail train and a truck hauling almonds in Sacramento Saturday evening.
KCRA-TV reports two passengers and the train's operator were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries after the collision at the intersection of 12th and North B Streets around 6 p.m.
The driver of the truck told the station that he didn't see the northbound train approaching when he started making a left turn.
It's not known how fast the light-rail train was going but transit officials say trains typically travel through the area where the accident took place at around 25 miles per hour.
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I have this and it is in a modified morex case. I can post pics if you are interested.
FS socket 478 P4 ITX motherboard
I'm having some issues with my current mobo/processor (its an intel 2.0 celeron in shuttle style case). One of those Chyang-Fun boxes. I have SDRAM or DDR Ram in it can't remember. I also have a new HD and an Opus 150W already that I've been using.
Just wanted a new mobo/processor and small style case. Nothing too big. Anyone can help me out?
I have this and it is in a modified morex case. I can post pics if you are interested.
FS socket 478 P4 ITX motherboard
Do you have a case for it and incidentally did you use both the integrated video and audio on board? If so what did you do with the PCI slot then? I'm worried about video performance not being that good.
Yeah interested in seeing pics of the case. Would you be willing to not throw in the processor as my celeron 2.0 ghz and cooler is sitll working OK. Can I get a price with the processor/cooler and without it? Thanks!
I just took some pics and will post them in a minute. I will give you everything in the first for sale post and I will throw in the case for free for the $150.00 plus shipping. If you want to take out the cpu I think they are going on Ebay for about $35.00 so take off that for the case and Mobo package only.
OK sounds good I'll be awaiting the pics.
Hey, does this only take a slimline DVD drive? Do you happen to have one of those too? I'm sure I can pick one up pretty cheap on newegg say. Trying to get a whole package deal. Still debating whether I need the processor or not.
BTW the MoBo is new and was assembled for testing but never run in a car. The fan is brand new as well. The case is modofied for maximum airflow to the processor and there are 2 40mm fans in the case as well and are in good condition. The case will accept a 3.5 HD and a slimline cd rom. I am running this same case in my truck and it is great. The only problem is the reset button is missin the extension but the button is still there and works. I believe I have a spare PCI riser I will throm in as well.


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Seriously, I am getting so pissed off now. Acer blows! Do not buy any computer products from Acer! Since I bought the computer in August of 2005, I have had several problems with it.
The first problem was the DVD-Rom/CD-RW drive. When I first got the computer, I couldn't get it to read a CD. I thought it was a problem with the drivers, so I installed updated ones. Still not working. So I took the thing out of the computer and heard something rattling around inside the drive. I opened up the CD tray, tipped it up-side-down, and a tiny little chip fell out of it. All the contacts on one side of the chip were mishapen and too short. WTF! Now, it isn't really Acer's fault that the drive wasn't assembled properly, but they should still have tested the thing out or used a better quality drive in the first place. The drive still plays DVDs just fine, but I had to buy a new drive to play CDs.
Here's the most recent problem I've had with it. I recently bought Half Life 2 so that I could play Counter Strike: Source. Not suprisingly, the game ran extremely slowly using the stock integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900. I figured I'd just buy a mid-range video card and my problems would be solved. When I purchased the computer, it said it came with a PCI-Express expansion slot along with the 3 PCI's. Today, just to be positive before I purchased a video card, I opened up the PC and found out that the PCIe was a 1x. At the time when I purchased the computer, I didn't know the difference between PCIe slots, I figured they were all the same. I seriously doubt that I can find a good 1x PCIe video card, so my only alternative is to go with a PCI card. Do any of you more knowledgeable people think a PCI card will work well for a game like Counter Strike: Source?
Another problem I have is the monitor I got with the PC. It is a 17" LCD built by Acer. I know it's not the highest quality monitor, as I only paid $220 for it, but it still should not be this bad. The monitor has a terrible problem with image persistence. That is similar to screen burn with a CRT monitor, except that it is not permanent. Leaving the monitor off for a few hours usually helps, but it is still annoying as heck.
None of these problems would've been that bad if I could've gotten some decent customer service. However, I could not get in contact with Acer. I called every single phone number I could find, and the only one that sounded like it might help cost $35 for the call. They didn't respond to any of my emails either. Their website wouldn't even let me register the computer so I could use my 90 day warranty to get a new CD drive.
Right now, I'm kinda wishing I had gone with a Dell. I thought Dells were a rip-off, but at least they work and you get good customer service.
Well, that's enough babbling and ranting from me.


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Lake Fly Fun Run
Are you looking for a Fun Run for younger children? The Lake Fly Fun Run is a run for Kindergarten through 5th graders and is scheduled for Saturday, May 4. The Fun Run will be held at Lakeside Park with registration starting at 8:15 a.m. on Promen Dr., north side of Softball Island, and the races will be starting at 9 a.m. A half-mile run for K-2nd graders will start at 9 a.m. and the 3rd through 5th graders will start at 9:20 a.m. The cost is $2.00 without a Fun Run T-shirt and $8 with, and all runners will be entered into a drawing with prizes donated by Team Sports. Please register at the Recreation Department or get a form from your school office. Additional information, please call the Recreation Department - 929-2885.
Fondy Cardinals Girls Softball Clinic
The 5th Annual Girls Softball Clinic is scheduled for Saturday, May 18 at the FDL High School Varsity Diamond. The clinic is offered for girls in 4K through 8th grade; 4K through 2nd graders will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m., and 3rd through 8th graders from 10 a.m. - 12, noon.
The cost is $15 for the younger age group and $20 for 3rd through 8th graders. Registration forms are at the school offices or at the Recreation Department.
Springtime Splendor Craft Show
The Recreation Department sponsored Spring Craft Show will be held on Saturday, April 27 at the FDL Fairgrounds Recreation Center. Doors will open at 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. - Admission is $1.00 per person. Mark you Calendars and Come Out and Join us Saturday, April 27.
Youth Volleyball Camp
The 13U Fusion Volleyball Team is National Bound. Come join the 13U players and coaches by taking part in a Volleyball Clinic on Saturday, May 18th. The clinic is offered to 2nd through 5th graders who will be taught volleyball basics including, passing, setting, serving and team play.
Grades 2nd and 3rd will meet from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. and 4th and 5th graders from 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at Woodworth Middle School. Cost is $12 - Register at the FDL Recreation Department or forms are available at the schools.
Learn The Ropes
The Cardinal Skippers in conjunction with the FDL Recreation Department are offering a "Learn The Ropes" Clinic on Saturday, May 18. The clinic is open to boys and girls entering 1st through 6th grades and will be held at Riverside Elementary School. Clinic times are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a show for family members and guests at 2:30 p.m. Jumpers will learn single rope, double wheel, long rope and double dutch skills. Cost - $25 which includes a t-shirt, participants will need to bring a lunch. Register at the Recreation Department or forms are available at all schools.