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Bupivacaine solutionPronunciation
Generic Name: bupivacaine (bue-PIV-a-kane)
Brand Name: Examples include Marcaine Spinal and Sensorcaine-MPF Spinal
Bupivacaine solution is used for:
Inducing spinal anesthesia for certain medical or surgical procedures.
Bupivacaine solution is an anesthetic. It works by blocking the generation and conduction of nerve impulses.
Do NOT use bupivacaine solution if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in bupivacaine solution or other similar medicines (eg, amide-type anesthetics, such as lidocaine)
- you have severe bleeding, severely low blood pressure or shock, irregular heartbeat, an infection in your bloodstream (eg, septicemia), or an infection at the injection site
Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.
Before using bupivacaine solution:
Some medical conditions may interact with bupivacaine solution. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances, especially sulfites
- if you have heart disease, liver or kidney problems, nervous system problems, pernicious anemia, polio, syphilis, unusual growths (tumors) in the brain or spine, blood or bleeding problems, blood pressure problems, persistent backache, spine problems (eg, arthritis, deformity), a mental illness (eg, psychosis), or a headache right before the procedure
Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with bupivacaine solution. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Anticoagulants (eg, warfarin, heparin), beta-blockers (eg, atenolol), or digoxin because the risk of side effects, such as abnormal heartbeat or bleeding, may be increased
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if bupivacaine solution may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use bupivacaine solution:
Use bupivacaine solution as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Bupivacaine solution is usually given as an injection at your doctor's office, hospital, or clinic.
- If you miss a dose of bupivacaine solution, contact your doctor right away.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use bupivacaine solution.
Important safety information:
- Bupivacaine solution may cause drowsiness, dizziness, or blurred vision. These effects may be worse if you take it with alcohol or certain medicines. Use bupivacaine solution with caution. Do not drive or perform other possibly unsafe tasks until you know how you react to it.
- If you are going home before the numbness wears off, protect the treated area from injury until you regain feeling. If you received bupivacaine solution for a dental procedure, do not chew gum or eat until the feeling comes back. Also be careful not to bite your tongue or the inside of your mouth.
- Some of these products contain sulfites. Sulfites may cause an allergic reaction in some patients (eg, asthma patients). If you have ever had an allergic reaction to sulfites, ask your pharmacist if your product has sulfites in it.
- Use bupivacaine solution with caution in the ELDERLY because they may be more sensitive to its effects, especially low blood pressure.
- Bupivacaine solution is not recommended for use in CHILDREN younger than 18 years old. Safety and effectiveness in this age group have not been confirmed.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: If you think you may be pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using bupivacaine solution while you are pregnant. Bupivacaine solution is found in breast milk. Do not breast-feed while using bupivacaine solution.
Possible side effects of bupivacaine solution:
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome:
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur:
Mild dizziness or drowsiness.
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, throat, or tongue; unusual hoarseness); anxiety; backache; blurred vision; changes in hearing; chest pain; confusion; depression; excitement; fainting; fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat; fever or chills; headache; inability to control bowels or urine; metallic taste; nausea; persistent numbness; paralysis; restlessness; ringing in the ears; seizures; severe or persistent dizziness, drowsiness, headache, or light-headedness; shivering; slow, fast, shallow, or difficult breathing; speech problems; tremors; trouble urinating; vomiting.
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. To report side effects to the appropriate agency, please read the Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA.
If OVERDOSE is suspected:
Contact 1-800-222-1222 (the American Association of Poison Control Centers), your local poison control center (http://www.aapcc.org ), or emergency room immediately. Symptoms may include seizures; shortness of breath; slow heartbeat.Proper storage of bupivacaine solution:
Bupivacaine solution is usually handled and stored by a health care provider. If you are using bupivacaine solution at home, store bupivacaine solution as directed by your pharmacist or health care provider. Keep bupivacaine solution out of the reach of children and away from pets.
General information:
- If you have any questions about bupivacaine solution, please talk with your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider.
- Bupivacaine solution is to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
- If your symptoms do not improve or if they become worse, check with your doctor.
- Check with your pharmacist about how to dispose of unused medicine.
This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take bupivacaine solution or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about bupivacaine solution. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to bupivacaine solution. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using bupivacaine solution.
Disclaimer: This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take this medicine or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about this medicine. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to this medicine. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using this medicine.
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Educating yourself on things like cleaning the air conditioning unit, having a professional service the air conditioning unit, and general maintenance are all the keys to success. One major component of clean air conditioning is that of duct cleaning—it is extremely important for health problems, a clean living space, and all around elimination of pollutants.
Clean Duct Systems
Cleaning duct systems hasn't ever shown a 100% prevention of health problems, but it has shown helped with dust particle levels in the home. When air ducts are dirty, they manifest things like mold and other pollutants into the home from indoors and as well as outdoors.
Contaminated air that moves throughout the ducts can become harmful to your health. So, how do you know if you need to clean your duct to improve the quality of clean air conditioning?
1. Growth of mold spores on the sheet metal or other portions of the unit.
a. You may not be able to access these places within your living space, a service professional is preferred in these circumstances.
2. If you see insects or other types of animals in the ducts, you should immediately call an air conditioning professional.
3. If notice that the ducts are clogged, that dust and debris are actually entering your home as opposed to escaping, call an air conditioning professional.
Over time, the air ducts get dirty and need to be cleaned—often times, you will be told to apply chemicals inside the ducts to kill and germs or mold to prevent growth. Make sure that if you do decide to use their chemicals, you use them with guidance and to the specific instructions, and you should know that no chemicals are registered with the Environmental Protection Agency for use within the ducts. Make sure you are seeking advice for the quality of clean air conditioning from an expert, and doing research accordingly. The negative effects the ducts may have on your health are just the same if you use a chemical the wrong way.
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Bluegill Family Fishing Tournament September 25 at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS, Texas—The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center's annual Bluegill Family Fishing Tournament will take place this year on Saturday, September 25.
The tournament awards prizes for the heaviest stringers of sunfish, but the event is really about adults and children having fun fishing together.
Numerous prize packages will be awarded, including an X-Box 360 with game, fishing equipment and gift cards from local businesses.
Sponsors of the event include the Lake Athens Property Owners Association, Aaron's Sales and Lease Ownership, Best Western Royal Mountain Inn, Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites – Athens, WalMart Supercenter of Athens, Cole Air Conditioning and Appliance, Chicken Express and First State Bank.
Teams must consist of one adult 18 years of age or older and one child under 18 years of age. Each team can weigh in a maximum of four fish. Multiple teams can fish from the same boat, making it possible for both parents to partner with different children and still fish as a family. Team members are not required to be related.
Teams may choose to fish either on Lake Athens, which is adjacent to TFFC, or in TFFC's ponds and streams, some of which have been stocked with bluegills.
All species of sunfish or bream (except largemouth bass) are allowed; for information on identifying them, see http://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/aquaticspecies/inland.phtml.
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Published: Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 12:15 a.m.
RICHMOND, Va. — RG3 wishes he had been the first to put a Roman numeral on the back of his uniform.
Not Robert Griffin III. The Washington Redskins' other RG3 — Rex Grossman III.
"It would have been cool to put it on my jersey as a rookie," said Grossman, a former UF standout. "I never thought about it."
Of course, NFL rules didn't permit suffixes on jerseys when Grossman entered the league in 2003. And, as he points out, he didn't have anything close to the marketing cachet of Griffin, who is essentially the reason the rule was changed.
But now that it's permissible, he does have the option of breaking out a "Grossman III" moniker above his No. 8.
"I could now," Grossman said. "But it seems a little bit ..."
"Yeah," he answered. "I'll stick with what I've been doing for 10 years."
For the second straight year, Grossman is the veteran tutor for young quarterbacks Griffin and Kirk Cousins. He's a third-stringer who didn't play last year and is unlikely to do so again this season.
He's not even a lock to make the team because coach Mike Shanahan might decide to keep only two quarterbacks, although that would be dicey if there is any serious concern about the status of Griffin's surgically reconstructed right knee.
For a quarterback who once started a Super Bowl with the Chicago Bears, it's a role that's a bit humbling.
"It's not satisfying," Grossman said. "It's not where you want to be. Every situation's different. My mindset my whole career has been to take advantage of every opportunity you get and go from there."
Grossman was a free agent in the offseason, but there's only so much demand for a 32-year-old quarterback with more career interceptions (60) than touchdown passes (56). He opted to re-sign with reigning NFC East champion Washington, where he's familiar with the offensive schemes and has a front-row seat for the phenomenon that Griffin has become.
"Rex is a true pro," Shanahan said. "He handles himself just like you would hope that any experienced quarterback would handle it. He understands his role. He's very, very good with our young quarterbacks, and he's a big plus for our football team."
When Griffin walked onto the field Saturday for the annual Fan Appreciation Day at training camp, the people roared. He held up his helmet to the fans, then waved his arms to encourage them to cheer more.
When Grossman walked onto field, there wasn't so much as a ripple from the crowd.
Still, it's hard to complain about having a job in the NFL.
"They'll have to kick me out of the league," Grossman said. "If they want me when I'm 50, I'll be here. I'm not a 'retire' guy, so I take every situation given and try to make the best career choice I can."
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There's a mineral hot spring just up the road from Ronnies Sex Shop called Warmwaterberg (hot water mountain).
If you adore the good things in life, South Africa is the perfect incentive destination for you. South Africa's food and wine is renowned, as is our desire to have as much fun as possible.
You'll find a wide range of restaurants in our major cities, specializing in anything from Italian and Indian to Thai and Chinese and everything else in-between.
But, you'd be missing out if you didn't try our homegrown cuisine – we're talking about a good old fashioned braaivleis (barbeque) with all the trimmings, a Cape Malay curry to make your heart sing, an enormous platter of piri piri prawns served up with a view of the ocean and a groaning table of Afrikaner specialities including of course, boerewors (sausage).
You'll find a number of township restaurants serving up chisa nyama (barbequed meat), chakalaka (spicy African vegetable relish) and home-brewed beer. African restaurants are also popular - where you'll find dishes from the Cape to Cairo. We also love to eat in great locations – whether it's with our feet in the sand, alfresco on the pavements or in the middle of the bush with only the cry of the fish eagle as an accompaniment.
When it comes to good wines, look no further than the Cape winelands. Head off to Stellenbosch, Paarl or Franschhoek on a wine-tasting safari and buy spectacular bottles of local Pinotage, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay to take back home.
Many of the wine estates boast spectacular restaurants where you can taste home-grown cuisine, or book a picnic basket and enjoy feasting in the winelands as you watch the grapes grow.
And when it comes to song, you'd be hard pressed not to feel the rhythm of Africa when you visit our shores. Wherever you go, the beat of the continent follows – whether it's a nightclub in Cape Town's Long Street, an African jazz concert in a beautiful botanical garden or the thump of a township ghetto blaster – we South Africans can't live without some kind of catchy beat in the background.
Food, wine and song highlights:
- A good old South African braai
- Cape Malay cuisine
- Chisa Nyama at a township tavern
- A gourmet safari in Franschhoek
- A wine tasting sojourn along Route 62
- An all-nighter at the clubs and pubs of Newtown
- Dancing the night away in Long Street, Cape Town
- Jiving in Soweto – no matter what time of day it is
- Biltong, boerewors and bobotie
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MONTREAL -- There are all kinds of factors -- and people -- to blame when you're dissecting what went wrong in a 3-10 season.
And the remaining five weeks of this CFL regular season -- and long into the off-season -- will undoubtedly be devoted to a long and brutal postmortem of how things went so wrong with the 2012 edition of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
But this is probably as good a place as any to begin that discussion:
This weekend's visit to Montreal marks the fourth time the Bombers have changed their starting quarterback from week to week, which is two more changes than B.C., Montreal, Hamilton, Calgary and Toronto have made this season -- combined.
Ponder that for a moment: Those five teams, or 62.5 per cent of the CFL, have collectively changed their starting quarterbacks just twice all season long. And with Joey Elliott going in this weekend for a once again injured Buck Pierce, the Bombers alone have now changed theirs four times.
That's crazy, of course, and it is exactly why at least four of those five teams are going to the post-season next month and Winnipeg isn't.
In a quarterback-dominated league, the Bombers simply never found any consistency this season. And while you can blame rookie offensive co-ordinator Gary Crowton for a lot of things, you cannot blame him for the fact Pierce simply isn't very healthy and backups Elliott and Alex Brink simply aren't very good.
"It's a unique year," said Crowton at Canad Inns Stadium on Saturday as his team held its last full practice before traveling here to face the Alouettes on Monday.
"I think the young guys (Brink and Elliott) are growing. Hopefully they'll continue to grow. At the same time, when Buck came back, I love the way he played. And I feel very confident when he comes back again that good things are going to happen."
Crowton was asked if the revolving door at quarterback this season makes it unfair to judge whether the offensive scheme he was trying to implement was any good or has any future.
"I'm judging what we're doing and I've been very disappointed in some of the results -- angry at myself for taking some time to learn the league," said Crowton, "I feel like I'm like the young quarterback, as soon as I get a good feel for it, the next week something new happens. And I'm like, 'Dang.'
"I feel like we're getting better. But we're not getting better on a consistent note. And what we have to do is we have to be consistent."
And there have been elements of this offence that actually have been consistent. For starters, slotback Terrence Edwards and wide receiver Chris Matthews have a combined 1,608 yards -- 831 for Matthews and 777 for Edwards -- making them the fifth-ranked receiving tandem in the league, just 131 yards behind the top-ranked duo, Toronto's Chad Owens and Dontrelle Inman.
That's pretty good company and that's something you can build on, particularly if you can marry it with an effective running game.
Now, that kind of balanced attack has been something that has eluded Winnipeg all season, but not because the raw material hasn't been there in the form of tailback Chad Simpson.
Although he missed the first three games of the season with injury, Simpson has still managed to accumulate 721 yards so far and remains on pace to top 1,000 yards. That ranks him third in the league on a per-game average, while his 6.0 yards per carry rank him fourth in that category.
The only three backs with a better per-carry average this season are Calgary's Jon Cornish, B.C.'s Andrew Harris and Toronto's Chad Kackert -- again, some pretty good company.
Put those two elements together -- a dangerous receiving tandem and an effective feature tailback -- and Winnipeg would appear to have at least the start of a decent offence when -- and if -- they ever get an effective and reliable starting quarterback.
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The Australian dollar briefly rose against the yen on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan delivered its most radical action yet to beat years of economic stagnation.
But the currency quickly fell prey to profit taking as markets digested the bold moves that had pretty much been leaked to the media over the past few days.
The BOJ doubled its inflation target to 2 per cent, to be achieved as soon as possible, and adopted an open-ended commitment to buy assets.
The Aussie hit a high of 94.87 yen in immediate reaction to the BOJ's decision, coming within reach of a 4-1/2 year high of 95.02 set Friday. But that was swiftly followed by a vicious reversal that saw it fall 0.5 percent to 93.88.
Traders said the wild swings had to do with position adjustments as the market had been heavily short of yen into the announcement. However, many suspected any short-term rise in the yen could represent selling opportunities.
"It's a significant improvement over the close-ended quantitative easing that the Bank of Japan has done in the past and has continued through this year," said Tim Condon, economist at ING in Singapore.
"Markets, I think, would reprice in anticipation of the more accommodative stance in 2014. I think that means dollar/yen moves higher."
Any boost to the Japanese economy should have a positive impact on Australia as it is the country's second largest export market. It would also tend to support global growth, commodity prices and risk appetite.
Against the greenback, the Aussie edged up 0.3 per cent to $US1.0553.
Australian bond futures were barely changed. The three-year bond contract was steady at 97.240, and the 10-year contract rose 0.005 points to 96.670.


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Midnight Cartel was founded as a Casual Raiding Guild, comprised of family members, and friends from all over the world. Founded on the ideals of Respect and Fair Play, Midnight Cartel is a friendly guild that welcomes all individuals of all playstyles and backgrounds. While Raiding is important, as a casual guild, it is not the be-all end-all, as we have an amazing crafting programme, guild banking programming, and top-notch tools to help you achieve you goals in the World. We know there is a lot of information on this page, but it all relates to who we are as a guild, and how we expect our guild members to act.
Guild History
The Midnight Cartel was founded by a group of friends and family that have played together since they began playing WoW. Originally as part of a much smaller guild, which then partially merged into one of the largest "casual" guilds on Elune, the founders learned many things about organizing guilds. Shaade was an officer through each of these guilds, and for the most part, the group was happy as part of the larger guild, until that the guild started to move in the direction that many guilds do -- towards elitism. Though a tough choice, the founders decided that they must go their own way to play the game that they wanted to play.
Vowing never to exclude people just because they can't make every raid time, or because they choose to play their character in an "alternative way", or because they want to play with friends outside their guild, the founders left the drama which was unfolding in that "uuber guild", and formed the Midnight Cartel. The founders vowed further to always seek out the opinions of the membership, to embrace openness over secrecy, inclusion over exclusion, and fun over drama. One example of these principals in action was the first major decision of the guild: Tabard design! All members were invited to participate and vote on this process, and the result of this early democratic approach is tabard enjoyed by many.
Founded in October of 2005, on the principles still enjoyed by the guild today, the Cartel quickly grew. People seemed to embrace the greater goals of MC, to simply work together and have fun in a drama-free environment. Several guilds merged into MC, as players found they could easily fit in to such a diverse and casual group. Within two weeks the membership was at 100, within three - 120, and within 2 months the guild was at over 200 accounts - the target size for a casual raiding guild. With the inclusion of a dedicated bunch from KAOS, the guild began moving towards "end game" raiding. The founders of the Cartel worked hard to create a web space with the technology and organization to help nourish a new thriving community outside the game.
While continuing the guild building process, the Midnight Cartel formed a multi-guild alliance began by Stan. The Alliance was hosted on the Cartel's forums, and with lots of energy and enthusiasm, the Alliance quickly achieved great success in Molten Core, with all bosses but Major Domo being taken down within 8 total nights (4 weekends). Yes, indeed a PUG can succeed in the Core! Over time a few of the member guilds decided to make their own way. The Cartel continues to enjoy great friendships on the server with such groups as the Art of War, and the Inquisition of Heresy.
This Alliance continued on until two guilds were left: The Midnight Cartel, and the Crimson Blades. Seeing it's membership swell, Shaade proposed that before MC hit their target membership numbers, that the two guilds which had achieved so much in Alliance, join together as a very natural fit. Waco and Balhala proceeded to make this happen, and the Midnight Cartel merged their last guild to become the single largest guild on Elune by January, 2006 — just 3 short months after their Charter was signed.
The Cartel is now composed of members from KAOS, Lethal Assassins, Sons of Warcraft, Shining Daggers, and Crimson Blades, as well as a few other lost souls who have found in the Midnight Cartel a home of acceptance. With "end game" and beyond in their sights, the Midnight Cartel has become one of the Elite powerhouse guilds, without being "elitist". It is a home for normal folk to log on and play in an exceptional manner. Indeed a "casual - friendly" guild truly can experience all that the World of Warcraft has to offer.
Rules & Policy Summary
This is the summary of Midnight Cartel Guild Policy. You are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to read our main Guild Rules page in the Policy Section for the complete text and examples of these rules.
This is the most important of the guild rules. Anything you may do to diminish the game play of other members is forbidden. You must respect other people's time, and chat. You DO NOT have unlimited free speech here, and you should read over the details on the rules page for more information.
Adventuring Conduct
When forming raids and parties the leader of the group should be chosen and all the rules for the run should be clearly stated. There is also no Ninja Looting. Please see more information on our Raid Policy page.
Helping Others
As a member of the Midnight Cartel, you are expected to help one fellow guild member once per week.
Inclusion & Recruitment
As a casual guild, we practice inclusion and friendliness not only within the guild, but also with others on the server. Regardless of Recruitment Status, family members or personal friends of any member will be granted automatic membership after an application has been filled out. Please see our applications section of the forums to see what our recruitment status is.
Officers & Discipline
All Guardians and Heroes are expected to display good manners and to respect the guild members when disciplining them.
Officers will never tell you how to "spec" your toon, or how to play it. You will be asked to fill a certain roll as a party member, however. Officers are also required to defend the members of Midnight Cartel from harassment both from outside the guild, and from within. Officers will also be assigned certain duties by the GM and members should respect the various areas of focus each officer oversees. Per this, no guild member may have any of the Officer Ranks (Guardians/Banker) on Ignore in the game as Officers need to be able to relate information to all members.
Democracy cannot work without participation. As a member of Midnight Cartel you are expected to sign up for the forums, and to participate in important elections and polls. Believe me.. this is a rare opportunity in WoW for you to shape YOUR GUILD.
→ 1. The GM will be, a tie-breaker on all Officer decisions.
→ 2. If the Officers determine that another officer is needed, the GM will open an election thread on the Forum, and elections will commence.
→ 3. At any time, a guild member may begin the process for Recalling an Officer. The member calling for the recall will be able to confidentially request that the GM open a thread with a poll to recall the Officer.
Blizzard Rules
We are bound by the user licenses, agreements and codes of conduct of Blizzard Entertainment. You can find more information by following these links:
In game policies:
Midnight Cartel will uphold Blizzard's policies, and would like to point out the following important ideals:
♦ No buying of gold from ebay or any similar site will be tolerated.
♦ There will be no 'hacking' of the game software, or cheating.
If caught buying gold, hacking or cheating You will be immediately removed from guild without exception.
See rule #1 about respect. Remember that this extends to the Blizzard forums, and to other players and guilds in the game.
Future Policy
From time to time the officers will create rules and policies to further enhance the effectiveness and fun of the guild. These changes will usualy be posted in the administrative section of the forums for either discussion or a general vote if needed. New Policy will eventually be posted here.
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There really is something about Marco Pierre White. I'm in the plush lobby of Melbourne's Park Hyatt, I've spent nearly three hours talking to the famous British chef and I'm simply not myself any more. I've entered a vortex, encircled by the 51-year-old's charisma, trapped by his stories, his slow, quiet sentences, pregnant ellipses and rhetorical questions, which he goes on to answer in a weighty, meaningful way that reels me in tighter. "Honesty is paramount," he says. "I bare myself." I somehow doubt it, but I can feel myself nonetheless being charmed by the restaurateur and television star, who is spending three months in Melbourne to film MasterChef: The Professionals.
Our allotted time was 90 minutes but when it elapsed and the publicist loomed, White waved him away. "I'm always suspicious of chefs with watches," he proclaims, in one of possibly a thousand pronouncements I hear from him. "For one, you should never cook with a watch. Time should just be a guide. And two, if you've got a watch you're always looking at it. Interesting, isn't it?" Is it? It doesn't really seem that interesting, but I am hanging on every word. White orates for another 90 minutes. Finally, I have nothing more to ask and he has said it all. He visits "the little boys' room" and comes back to inquire if I would like lunch.
I can't and I don't and I won't - life, you see, is calling me from outside this hushed and high-ceilinged lobby, the real world, my actual life. "Just a little something to eat," he intones. No, I couldn't possibly, but how kind, and I have already taken up so much of your time. "Just one very small sandwich?" he concludes with charming menace. Thank you, that would be lovely, I hear myself say.
Three days later I'm at the Melbourne Showgrounds on the stifling set of MasterChef: The Professionals, watching White in action. Two teams of young cooks must prepare dishes for 120 diners. White is their chief mentor and haranguer, their coach and drill sergeant. The chefs potter nervously at their stations and White puts his apron on with savage withheld force, like a boxer punching into his gloves. A make-up lady pats an unruly strand of curly hair into his neat mane and White steps into the kitchen across an invisible white line.
"He's like a panther in a cage," whispers host Matt Preston in my ear, as a second make-up artist adjusts his cravat. Indeed, White stalks the spacious kitchen, pacing, muttering, tense and unsmiling.
The challenge begins and suddenly it smells like food. White slaps the bench. "How long for my linguine?" he yells. Orders roll in and he growls, "Table 37, 35, 37, 35," like a bingo caller taking it all a bit seriously. "Linguine!" The contestants, all qualified chefs, keep their heads down and hands moving, flashes of steel and terror and excitement in their eyes. "Yes, Marco," they say, over and again. They are competing for tangible prizes but, whatever the results, impressing Marco Pierre White would be a huge win for any of them. "Four lamb, four mulloway, four lamb, four mulloway!" he roars. "Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!"
Service continues for nearly two hours, during which time White sweats and rants and chants. Twice he stuffs a bunch of dockets in his teeth as though to stop himself screaming or eating someone. "How long for those prawns?" he bellows, despairing. And then, from the belly, a booming "HOW LONG?" Plates are filled, wiped, inspected and sent to diners. Occasionally, they fail muster and are sent back for a hapless chef to cook again.
At the end of it, 360 dishes have been ferried to tables and White pounds off stage, drained, dripping. He grabs a leftover soufflé and wolfs the lot in five heaped spoonfuls. He calls for a Diet Coke, disappears for five minutes and returns, smelling like damp cigarette smoke, to debrief the contestants. "We fed them all," he says, announcing every chef's victory, played out in restaurants around the world, breakfast, lunch and dinner. "We fed them."
The words "Marco Pierre White" are often affixed with other words: "the first British chef to win three Michelin stars" and "the youngest ever chef to win three Michelin stars" (he was 33). In the culinary world, that's "great step for mankind" territory. White is also known for the other chefs who have worked in his kitchens: Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and, closer to home, Melbourne chefs Curtis Stone, Shannon Bennett and UK imports Donovan Cooke and Michael Lambie. But he is just as famous for his bad-boy antics: for smashing plates, intimidating staff, making his protégé Ramsay cry, throwing out customers or, tout au contraire, having them throw themselves at him. He once invited a woman into his restaurant office for zip-down shenanigans while her husband trusted she was (slowly) powdering her nose.
White's gaunt, pale presence stalks his 1990 cookbook White Heat, a slender but game-changing volume featuring black-and-white portraits of the chef by photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, known for his arty erotica. It was arguably the first celebrity-chef cookbook, certainly the first that positioned the chef as a rock-star-style idol.
It was crucial, of course, that White was a brilliant cook. He had trained with the best chefs in Britain, luminaries such as Albert Roux, Pierre Koffman, Nico Ladenis and Raymond Blanc, all of whom built on classical French foundations: a lot of lobster, butter and turned vegetables. He threw himself into kitchen life. "I went to work to learn my craft," he says. "If you had to work 25 days on the trot, start at five in the morning, you did it, you didn't question it." It wasn't just the hours that were brutal. "My head chefs drove me, pushed me to extremes to the point of almost breaking," he says. "It may sound cruel, but if I hadn't been pushed as a young man I would never have seen what was in me." As a student, White was diligent but infuriating, industrious but arrogant, talented but in an awful hurry. In 1986, aged 24, he took over Harveys, in Wandsworth, in south-west London. It became a fine-dining darling because the food was exceptional, but the crowds also came to chance their luck with the volatile chef proprietor.
White's kitchen revolution was in the process, not in crazy flavour combinations or way-out techniques. He insisted on consistency, believing that was the key to winning the Michelin stars he craved. He was fanatical about produce and freshness: fish stock was made daily, ravioli was rolled and filled to order. Every day was like starting the restaurant anew. The flavours were delicate but portions were hefty and prestige ingredients such as lobster, foie gras and truffles were used liberally. ("If you're going to use it, use it," says White.) Other trappings of fine dining - embossed menus, lavish flower displays, stools for ladies' handbags - were an important part of the fantasy that he built. "A great restaurant should be an illusion you step into," he says. "It should be magical, beautiful, rare, dreamy with that element of luxury and richness." Fuelled by adrenalin, coffee and cigarettes, Harveys received its first star in 1988 and its second in 1990.
Melbourne chef Donovan Cooke worked as White's head chef for three-and-a-half years from 1991. The attention to detail impressed him. "We'd get there in the morning at stupid o'clock and when the veg arrived we'd have to go through each bunch of baby carrots and check they were all the same," says Cooke. "If one was a different size, we'd send it back." Cooke believes White's motivation was always to seek perfection on the plate, but it meant staff lived on a knife's edge. "He could switch from charming to evil in a second," he says. One day Cooke took a short cut: restaurant rules demanded that the sauce for each beef dish be reduced in its own pan, but Cooke had three beef on order and decided to tip the sauces into one pan to consolidate his efforts. No dice. "Marco saw me, poured the whole pan onto a plate, threw the plate onto the floor and gave me a horrible bollocking." Another time, White spotted a waiter tilting a tray of plates so the sauce spilled onto their rims. "He grabbed the waiter by the scruff of the neck and threw all the plates onto the floor," says Cooke.
Cooke brought his flatmate, Michael Lambie, into the Harveys kitchen. "When I went for my interview Marco didn't speak, he just looked at me and started whistling the theme from The Godfather," says Lambie. "It scared the shit out of me." But Lambie speaks of his three years with White as a great experience, despite the dramas and the bullying. Memorable events included White punching a waiter, White ripping the kitchen telephone off the wall and smashing it with a meat cleaver to make a point about staff receiving calls, White throwing customers out for being drunk and niggly. "It was horrific but exciting and I was a boy, I kind of liked it," says Lambie. "We were working for the hottest chef in the world."
The grander premises of The Restaurant Marco Pierre White at the Hyde Park Hotel took White to three stars in 1995. A subsequent move, to the even more lavish Oak Room at Le Meridien Piccadilly, where meals cost about £300, saw the Michelin guide grant the extra honour of five red couverts (knife and fork symbols, representing the best in comfort and service) in 1998. White had soared high, but happiness had not joined him on the mad rush to success. "All your energy is going into your food, your dream, not into you as a person," he says. He had trashed two brief marriages and he barely saw his third wife or children. Chef Shannon Bennett, from Melbourne's Vue de Monde, worked for White at the Oak Room. "Marco didn't ever enjoy what he was doing," he says. "None of us did. You didn't realise how much you were enjoying it until you took a breather and realised it was such a brilliant time." Reflecting now, White says, "Winning three stars was the most exciting journey, but it didn't mean I'd dealt with my demons and myself. The top is a very lonely place."
In perhaps his most stunning play of all, White stepped away from the stove in 1999 and handed back the Michelin stars that had given his life direction and meaning. "I retired from cooking because I realised my dream," he says. "It's as simple as that." Many chef proprietors stop cooking in their restaurants but keep the stars, status and profits; White decided that would be living a lie. "That's typical Marco," says Bennett. "Really dignified. It wasn't about money for him, it was about achievement." Part of the triumph was to sew up eternal victory. "I'll be three stars forever," White says. "Losing them would have bothered me for the rest of my life."
Marco Pierre White has always pointed to the death of his mother when he was six years old as a formative and driving influence. His family lived in a council estate in working-class Leeds. Marco was the third son of an Italian mother, Maria, and English father, Frank, a chef. While Maria was alive, holidays were taken in Italy, where White recalls picking fruit, fishing and collecting goat's milk. "I was a soft little Italian boy," he says. Then his mother died of a brain haemorrhage following the birth of her fourth son and White grew up hard and fast with his father and two elder brothers. The baby was sent to relatives in Italy. Frank White was a gambler who ran a tight, disciplined home, was often angry and rarely affectionate. There was also a long period when he thought he was dying of cancer.
"Softness was stripped from my life," says White. "I shut down." Then, to my astonishment, he cries. "I was brought up motherless," he says, pausing to sip water. "It's a pain that never leaves you." He had a hard time at school, suffering from dyspraxia that made reading and learning difficult, and teased for his Italian name. (His French middle name was a secret until the food critic Egon Ronay revealed it in Harveys' first review, dubbing the young chef "Marco Pierre White" and creating a brand in one fell swoop.) When he left school, White's headmaster waved him away with the encouraging statement that he would never amount to anything. "Had Mum not died I would have been a very different boy," he says. "I would never have had those great insecurities and those great fears that fuelled me to achieve what I achieved."
When he gave up his stars, White was 38, the same age his mother was when she died. The way he tells it, he then took a five-year break to discover himself. He spent time with his family, refashioning himself from enfant terrible into a world-weary elder statesman of the stove, disillusioned by the restaurant world that had made him and that he'd taken by the throat. Gastronomy has all gone wrong these days. He thinks the Michelin guide has lost its way. "They really made you work in my day. Now it's commercial." He thinks chefs look too healthy. "They don't look tired. They look like models. When I shake a chef's hand I want to feel calluses and cuts and I want to see fresh burns on his arms. When I cooked at [Albert Roux's] Gavroche, the kitchen was so small you used to have to cook with your hand in the oven." He pushes up his sleeves to show me his badges of courage. There's more. He doesn't like tricky food ("I want something real, something with roots"), he doesn't like degustation menus ("18 courses of tepid knick-knacks") and, generally, he wonders where the romance has gone. "A lot of restaurants today are quite soulless and hard-edged," he laments. "I want the old world of gastronomy."
So, lunch. Instead of a very small sandwich in the hard-edged hotel lobby, we walk to The European, a smart city bistro, where the food has roots and, hopefully, the chefs are covered in cuts, have their arms deep in flames, and have worked since yesterday morning without dozing or complaining. White opens the restaurant door for me, folds my jacket over his arm, stands when I leave the table and tips extravagantly, all of which is pleasant but slightly confusing, like he's playing at being a gentleman.
His favourite compliment is that someone is "kind". He spills with gratitude for simple things - "Just sitting down and having a cup of tea with a friend, walking along the pier ... My value for life is enormous." He almost speaks of himself in the past tense, an elder looking back from his perch.
You're not old, I tell him girlishly, wincing doubly when I later listen to my recording. "Oh, I am, I am," he insists loftily. "I just want to give back now."
And yet he has interests in about 30 restaurants and hotels, which he delights in decorating, and which employ about 800 people. He's a TV show regular. In England, he's also paparazzi bait: plenty of ink has been spilled over his messy separation from Mati Conejero, his third wife and the mother of three of his four children. His various feuds - with Gordon Ramsay; with Damien Hirst, with whom he owned a restaurant - are assiduously tracked, and when the chef is spotted with a woman his body language and wardrobe are dissected.
"Never order a single espresso," he commands. "You must order a double, even if you only drink half, because it stays warmer." I dutifully call for a double, drink the lot distractedly, then feel my heart speed as he expounds on a lobster dish that he considers a cooking pinnacle. The shellfish is briefly poached, butter is piped into the shell, the flesh is loosened, turned red side up, and gently roasted. He draws a lobster with his hands as though he might conjure one up. He waves truffle sauce on top. "And on the side, pommes purée." I am hungry again and I wish I had a stool for my handbag. "That was dinner. Nothing more. We had that much confidence," he says. "I invested all my life in every sense to be able to do that."


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|Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum Type 2 Diabetes Chronic Kidney Disease
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Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Arterial Wall Calcium Load and Preferential Sites in Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum Versus Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease.
- calcification score [ Time Frame: after inclusion ]the level of arterial wall calcification determined by a Ct-scan and computed by the Agatston score
- site of calcification [ Time Frame: after inclusion ]the anatomical site of arterial wall calcification determined by a Ct-scan and computed by the Agatston score
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
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|January 2012
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Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
Patients with genetically and clincally proven PXE
chronic kidney disease
Type 2 diabetic patients with mediacalcosis and matched to PXE patients for gender and age (+/- 5 yrs).
patients with chronic kidney disease and matched to PXE patients for gender and age (+/- 5 yrs).
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In a previous work we have observed that patients suffering from PXE, a soft-tissue calcifying inherited autosomal disease, exhibited specific structural and functionnal features within the peripheral arteries. We now want to quantify and determine the preferential sites of the arterial wall calcification (Agatston score) between these patients compared to diabetics and patients with chronic renal insufficiency with mediacalcosis.
All variables will be collected from a cohort of PXE monitored in our PXE Health and Care centre at the university hospital of Angers. Quantification of the arterial wall calcium load will be performed using helicoidal CT-scan. These variables will be compared to the same measurements performed in type 2 diabetic and chronic kidney disease patients paired by age and gender.
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- Patients with phenotypically and genotypically-proven PXE
- Type 2 diabetic patients with mediacalcosis (i.e. Ankle Brachial Index > 1.30)
- Patients with a chronic kidney disease (CKD), before kidney transplantation
- All patients should be affiliated to a Health care system
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- Patient with unproved PXE
- Patient under the age of 18 yrs
- Patient unwilling to participate to the study
- Pregnant women
- Patient not affiliated to a Health care system
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01731080
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|Contact: Ludovic MARTIN, MD, PhD
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|Principal Investigator: Yannick LE CORRE, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Ludovic MARTIN, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Georges LEFTHERIOTIS, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Pierre ABRAHAM, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Serge WILLOTEAUX, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Jean-Francois SUBRA, MD, PhD
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|Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Angers, France
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Kidney Diseases
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
Diabetes Mellitus
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Renal Insufficiency
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Skin Abnormalities
Congenital Abnormalities
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Connective Tissue Diseases
Skin Diseases
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Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
You just said it's empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless,
so that means empty and meaningless means nothing, and that would mean SOMETHING !
Dennis Mahar wrote:It means freedom.
absence of meaning.
Dennis Mahar wrote:there's nothing to get
Dennis Mahar wrote:why be enslaved?
Dennis Mahar wrote:I meant why be enslaved to convention when it is ultimately meaningless.
We have a notion of Absolute.
We are up shit creek without a paddle on that one.
No thing.
Tao can't be named.
Conventional reality (consensual agreements)
always moving,
ultimately meaningless.
Dan Rowden wrote:Buddhism is not about making the world a better place. That's what a silly religion that goes by that name is about. In being that, it makes enlightenment less and less possible. Therefore, it ultimately makes the world a worse place. There's no such thing as harmless delusion.
Dennis Mahar wrote:Imagine Buddhism without rebirth and without a karmic system that guarantees justice ultimately will be served, without nirvana, without bodhisattvas flying on lotus leaves, without Buddha worlds, without nonphysical states of mind, without any deities, without heaven and hell realms, without oracles, and without lamas who are reincarnations of lamas.
What's left?
emptiness, impermanence, selflessness.
The guts.
Do the guts.
The rest takes care of itself.
Dennis Mahar wrote:You are free to generate any amount of Stories or opinions you care to hold sacrosanct as possibilities to live in to.
Do your own thing.
The fact is your subjective and objective is empty.
You are empty.
The task is not to become embroiled in Life as a confusion about it.
It is to see through it.
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MSI Megabook S271: a Look at AMD's Turion X2by Jarred Walton on 10/16/2006 12:05 AM EST
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Cehtna - Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - linkYou take one Acer Ferrari 5000 and a TravelMate 8210, and you benchmark them!
These are both made by Acer and the battery and chassis are exactly the same and other features should also be the same..
They both come in variants with:
ATIX1600 - 256MB/512MB HyperMemory GRAPHICS
15,4" TFT WSXGA+ (1680x1050) MONITR
Lithium 9 cells BATTERY
This way its;
LX.TEH06.017 TravelMate 8215WLMi with
Intel Centrino 2 Duo T7200 CPU
Mobile Intel® 945PM Express CHIPSET
LX.FR50J.016 Ferrari 5002WLMi with
Turion64 2X TL50 CPU
ATI Xpress 1150 CHIPSET Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - linkThanks... now just get Acer to send me both for review! Oh, wait... that's not as easy to accomplish, is it? I would love to review more laptops, with more variation among configurations. However, the simple fact of the matter is that we have to review what we are sent in most cases.
I certainly don't make enough money to go out and buy laptops that I want to review, and a lot of companies don't necessarily want to have us do a head-to-head among their computing laptops. What happens if laptop X seriously trounces laptop Y and they both cost about the same amount?
In the end, most people purchase laptops within their price range, so if AMD offers cheaper laptops, some people will buy those laptops whether or not they are faster. Those who want better performance are generally going to pay for more expensive laptops, and in that market that AMD laptops really don't compete very well right now. Reply
etee - Friday, November 24, 2006 - linkAMEN to that. I bet HP, MSI (or any other company that makes value notebooks) doesn't want to see a performance review between their $550 and $1000 notebooks whose only difference is +200Mhz CPU, +40GB HDD, +1GB RAM.... If the public saw the lack of perf. improvement for the money, they'd never buy the $1000 notebook. Too bad discrete graphics hasn't become standard on the mainstream midrange $1000 notebooks yet. That might actually would justify the price.
I also found that this review was all over the place and really didn't do a good job of isolating the variables that led to various performance indicators.
How do we quantify the value of the discrete GFX of the ASUS notebook? Certainly system perf. would be significantly improved just because we don't have UMA graphics hogging up the system memory bandwidth. I think the intel notebook should have featured UMA graphics for comparison.
I understand that the notebook makers won't hook you up with samples of all of their offerings. That doesn't mean that the only option is to cover the ASUS and MSI side by side. It would be better to compare a single system with various components upgraded. You can't get every model of notebook from MSI, but you can make your own "models" with upgraded CPUs, RAM, HDDs, batteries and try to generate an approximate price for such a model. If we did this separately for the MSI and ASUS, then the reader can be left to decide what suites them better for a given price. At the very least we wouldn't be trying to compare apples to oranges. Reply
abakshi - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - linkHonestly, I found this review pretty useless. Forgoing the fact that other sites have actually done comparisons of the 271 with its Core Duo couterpart (the S270, if I recall), it still doesn't offer much.
Obviously an IGP solution will be much slower than a Geforce Go 7700. I think most people who are going to read and interpret your graphs know that. But why must everyone have a a GF7700? Integrated graphics at the level of the current ATI chipsets are a good step up from what the vast majority of Intel-powered laptops come with, which is Intel's GMA junk.
The article constantly refers to the ATI IGP as a huge drawback to the machine, implying that the competition has something better. Which other 12" portable has discrete graphics, besides the (heavier, not quite ultraportable) Dell XPS M1210? In fact, I'd argue the widespread use of ATI IGPs is a strength of the AMD platform - the Radeon Xpress chips are far better for everyday usage (from multimedia playback to general performance) than the Intel GMA950 chips. And unlike the GMA chips, R-X200/1150 will run Win Vista's Aero Glass interface and most modern 3D apps very comfortably.
The other problem, related to the point on IGPs, is the focus on gaming. Who plays 3D games on a 12", <5 lbs. laptop? Aren't things like battery life and heat output far more important in this setting than how many FPS it can get in Half-Life 2? Why is there any stress at all on gaming? The almost nonexistent ultraportable gaming market is clearly not the target audience for this machine.
The review even goes to the point of suggesting that mid-level discrete graphics chips like the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 are inadequate. Something like an X1400 is more than adequate for the vast majority of users. It will run every common 3D function (like Aero Glass) and will even run relatively recent 3D games decently. Ever hear of battery life? Not everyone needs to get 60 FPS while playing Half-Life 2 on their miniscule screen in the train.
So for example, I play games -- but for that, I have my desktop rig at home, with a dual-core A64 X2 4400+ (ironically now probably outperformed by my laptop's Core 2 Duo @ 2.0) and an ATI Radeon X1800XT 512. I'm currently using a Dell E1705 as my primary laptop, with an ATI MR X1400 GPU, which is great - it's solid (with consistently updated and universally compatible ATI drivers, unlike Intel junk), currently running dual-boot Win XP MCE and Vista RC1, and gets far better battery life than versions with more powerful GPUs (NV 7900GS, GTX, etc.). Reply
IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - link
The other problem, related to the point on IGPs, is the focus on gaming. Who plays 3D games on a 12", <5 lbs. laptop? Aren't things like battery life and heat output far more important in this setting than how many FPS it can get in Half-Life 2? Why is there any stress at all on gaming? The almost nonexistent ultraportable gaming market is clearly not the target audience for this machine.
Exactly. Then who cares whether you have a slow integrated card or a SLOWER one. The point of most IGP reviews are to see whether any people who plays latest 3D games will bother with the IGP for their 3D games.
Integrated graphics at the level of the current ATI chipsets are a good step up from what the vast majority of Intel-powered laptops come with, which is Intel's GMA junk.
0.1 to 0.2. Nobody will care.
And unlike the GMA chips, R-X200/1150 will run Win Vista's Aero Glass interface and most modern 3D apps very comfortably.
There are no direct comparisons of GMA and R1150 testings on Win Vista's Aero Glass. They are both certified, so they can both run it that's for sure.
with consistently updated and universally compatible ATI drivers, unlike Intel junk
Intel also has unified drivers and updated drivers for their IGP. 845G to G965. Of course the drivers aren't up to par as ATI based ones, but considering ATI's specialty, its expected.
and gets far better battery life than versions with more powerful GPUs (NV 7900GS, GTX, etc.).
I'd say then having GMA950 will be more important for battery life than R1150 then. Because R1150 is more fully featured, and will waste unnecessary battery life.
Final point is: the review isn't perfect, but there aren't many better Turion X2 laptops either. Anandtech happened to review the ones they got in hand.
That's the problem with laptop reviews, it isn't as vast as the desktop ones, but that's little out of scope.
JarredWalton - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - linkDid you get hung up on page 10? That was there merely to point out that the IGP solutions CAN'T play modern games. End of story. A couple quotes:
Simply put, if you want to run any games other than solitaire, minesweeper, or other casual gaming titles, you will quickly find the included graphics to be unsatisfactory. We don't really find that to be a terrible flaw, as for business and office tasks even slow integrated graphics work fine, and you will still be able to run the Windows Vista Aero Glass interface (although performance will likely suffer compared to discrete graphics solutions).
Basically, the system provides the bare minimum of 3D graphics support that we would recommend these days and not much else. A lot of people don't need 3D graphics, so that's okay, but there are certainly other options available that include better graphics for a small increase in price. Unlike desktop systems, there's no way to add better graphics to many laptop computers, so just make sure you are absolutely certain you will never need 3D graphics performance (Windows Vista) before you purchase a new laptop that only includes an anemic IGP solution.
If you're okay with avoiding 3D applications and sticking with Windows XP rather than upgrading to Windows Vista, then the MSI S271 should suffice. Then again, if you're okay with those limitations, just about any laptop is likely to "suffice".
The point of the article isn't comparing IGP performance; we took exactly one page to clearly show that IGP is inadequate for gaming, and if you don't play games it largely won't matter. A "focus on gaming" would be more what we had in the http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=274...">XPS M1710 review, where we did spend a lot of time on that subject as anyone buying a $3500 notebook with high-end graphics will probably want to make use of them! Oh yeah, I also talked about the advantages of an http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=276...">E1705 with X1400 in another article.
Most notebooks with GMA950 run everything they need to without problems. GMA950 will run Aero Glass I believed (slower than Xpress 1100 but again, that's probably not a concern of anyone looking at budget systems). To say that Xpress 1100 can "run Win Vista's Aero Glass interface and most modern 3D apps very comfortably" is simply not true. It can run them, and perhaps Aero Glass will be fine; modern 3D apps choke on X300SE type hardware. I will worry about fully benchmarking/testing Vista on laptops when it actually ships, but I've read that Aero Glass may kill battery life. :| Reply
hondaman - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkAfter upgrading to the new bios from MSI that made the laptop stable, did you try the generic ram again to see if it fixed it? Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkYup, still no POST. Should have known better than to buy Gigaram. Heh. Still, it will make for a nice "worst case" test of other notebooks. If a laptop can boot with the Gigaram, it can probably boot with just about anything! That or the SO-DIMM is just bad, which is always a possibility. Reply
Patrese - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkHave you guys seen a huge ANATEL sticker inside the notebook? It is from the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações, the regulatory agency of telecomunications here in Brazil. Kinda funny to see that on a notebook meant to be sold in the US market, as I have never seen one of these in any PC or notebooks sold in Brazil... :) Reply
randomas - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkI would really like to see a Linux test using 64bit distribution and a 32bit distribution on the same machine and then compare it to an Intel machine, which if I'm correct still doesn't support x86_64 instructions on its portable line of cpus.
Seeing the results of the 64 vs 32 bit Linux tests already published here on Anandtech it would make for interesting reading, especially as IMHO this machine has a strong appeal for Linux users who can take advantage of its full potential.
Personally I own a MSI M635 (turion mt34 atix700) which I'm very happy with.
ShapeGSX - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkThe Core 2 Duo mobile processors DO support 64 bit instructions!
Core Duo does not. Reply
randomas - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - linkDoh! I guess I should have checked then, but all the more reason to see them both pull their weight with a real OS! Reply
Wesleyrpg - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkhey all,
im eager to see a review of the a8js, thats the laptop that i got my eye on at the moment, if asus play their cards right, the a8js could become one VERY popular laptop.
Any idea on availability though on the A8JS? Reply
piesquared - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkGood review, but which system was being reviewed, the Asus C2D or the MSI X2? Reply
duploxxx - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkNice comment, whenever it fits there results, they will publish it.. (does remember me of the time you would test 2P wood-opty in windows, but probably the result was not as expected of your sponsor). Also the memory issues do question your results......
the core2duo is for sure the better performing one. Few months ago the X2 versus coreduo was a tight battle, but we all saw the core2duo outperforming the coreduo with glance, so the same thing happens with turion. Intel made his design for laptop and changed it up to desktop and server, AMD did it the other way around.... so for a 3year old design I think it was rather good against all those updating Mobile en core technologies from Intel.
Now from an other perspective. Most of the laptops are supplied with Intel internal graphics. How Will this perform against the ATi Graphics? that would be an interesting review....... Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkATI Xpress 1100 is about twice as fast as GMA950, plus it has full DX9 support (though not SM3.0). Problem is, it's pathetically slow still. I mean, what can you want that the Xpress 1100 can provide but the GMA950 can't? 20 FPS at minimum quality in HL2? If you want 3D performance, I'd say the 7700 in the A8JS is a good starting point. X1400 and GeForce 7400 are both substantially faster than Xpress 1100, buth still pretty sluggish for actual 3D work. X1400 is still okay for video playback and older games (as is 7400), but you can get 7600/7700 for about the same cost I think. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkMSI today, ASUS later this week. It's probably already clear which one we preferred, but there's more to say about the ASUS and putting out a 14000 word article seemed like overload. Reply
piesquared - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkYes, i know, and sorry for the sarcastic question. I guess i'm just wondering why so much content on the Asus solution, when as you say there will be a seperate review later this week. My overall picture of that article was that AMD's solution was a steaming pile of mess not really suitable for anyone. At least that's the impression i(and probably most visitors that read or will read it, so i guess it was successful that way) got, regardless of any conlusion throwing it a bone here and there. What i can't understand is why MSI would even offer up such an abomination for review!! ;)
BTW, i did think it was a very good article, aside from the above mentioned slant that seem to ooze from it..
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkIt's basically a case of getting an okay system, but we would say there are better options out there. If the MSI is cheaper, faster, has more battery life, or some other benefit than other competing laptops, great. It's basically at best equal to other ultraportable options.
The ASUS W5F with Core Duo is about as fast (with "slower" integrated graphics, though it doesn't matter much), but it costs more, so there you could say the S271 is "better". Unfortunately, there aren't many faster Turion X2 notebooks around, other than the MSI MS-171772 mentioned in the conclusion.
If all you're after is ultraportables, the MS-1058/S271 is about all I see for Turion X2. It does tend to be about $100-$200 cheaper than any Core 2 equipped ultraportables, or about the same cost as Core Duo equipped ultraportables. In that market, it has a place. I'm not a huge fan of ultraportables, but some people are. I'd personally rather carry an extra 2 pounds and get a 14" (or larger) display. Reply
aidanjm - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkyou rip apart a closed system not designed to be opened up by the consumer, fiddle around inside, then complain when things don't work? even the complaints on memeory compatability seem lame. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkFirst, the "closed system" as such is not something we would recommend. Dual core with only 512MB of RAM? I already covered that. Second, the system *is* available as a barebones (MSI MS-1058), as I mentioned in the review. Memory compatibility aside, this isn't a great laptop. It's okay.
The memory issues are something worth mentioning, even if we got them worked out. Even if everything had worked without issue, the laptop would have still only been okay - there are quite a few competing notebooks in the same price range, and this one fails to stand out from the crowd in any meaningful way. Reply
Furen - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkSounds like you had huge memory compatibility problems, though. Personally, I always buy Crucial because when I used to buy other RAM (Kingston, etc), more often than not, I had some sort of memory compatibility problems (probably because I mixed brands but I've never had ANY problems at all with Crucial stuff). Reply
DrMrLordX - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkI know the Core Duo is now an old product that is being replaced by the Core 2 Duo in the mobile sector, but it would have been nice to see the Turion X2 benchmarked against a Core Duo laptop as well. Surely a similarly-configured Core Duo machine exists out there somewhere. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkOne thing is the Core 2 Duo laptop has 7200RPM HDD while the Turion X2 has 5400RPM. It shouldn't impact is greatly but it'll make a difference. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, October 16, 2006 - link
This leads us to an interesting conclusion in regards to battery life and power requirements. As best we can tell, it appears that the Core 2 Duo processor actually requires less power than the equivalent Turion X2 processor when both are placed under full load.
Uhh. No. Clearly no. Explanation?? Turion X2 system uses integrated graphics, while Core 2 Duo system uses a powerful video card. Do you guys really think idle power of video card+chipset is equal to chipset alone?? Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkhttp://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/grafik...">http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hard...hnitt_le...
Integrated graphics power is clearly lower than even super low-end discrete. Now on this AT review we are talking about a mid-range part.
Sorry for triple post, but I must get my point across.
Two laptops, each possessed by one of my friends, both a Dell:
Pentium M 765 2.0GHz/533MHz FSB
Geforce Go 7800GTX 128MB
15.4 inch wide-screen
70WHr battery
2.5 hour battery life with internet surfing, usage
2. Pentium M 1.6GHz/400MHz FSB/Dothan
Intel GMA900
14 inch screen
45WHr battery
3.5 hour battery life with internet surfing, light usage
Is there a reason some high-end laptops are featured with integrated/discrete graphics card option?? You can turn one off?? Cause video cards in laptops suck huge amounts of power. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkThere are multiple issues involved with testing comparable laptops. Short of going out and purchasing a laptop, it's very difficult to pull off. At this point, there's not much reason to get a Core Duo notebook instead of a Core 2 Duo notebook, other than price. So we're doing our best to compare laptops that are similar, and we wanted to get this review out the door before it got any older. Obviously, we're still not recommending the MSI S271 over other laptops.
In regards to Inteluser2000, he makes several comments. I have now reworded the page on power consumption to clarify a few points. However, not all of his points are entirely valid either. For example:
No. Clearly no. Explanation?? Turion X2 system uses integrated graphics, while Core 2 Duo system uses a powerful video card. Do you guys really think idle power of video card+chipset is equal to chipset alone??
I don't think he was reading clearly, because I had just explained that at maximum CPU load MSI Turion X2 is consuming MORE power than ASUS Core 2 Duo. In other words, even with integrated graphics versus discrete graphics and with all of the other variables involved (7200 RPM hard drive versus 5400 RPM Drive, 14 inch LCD versus 12.1 inch LCD, etc.), without putting a load on the GPU one would expect the ASUS system to draw more power than the MSI system, and it doesn't. At idle, all of the variables can explain why the ASUS consumes more power, but when I put 100% load on just the CPU Turion X2 clearly requires more power.
I have no idea what he is trying to say with his comment about Dell laptops. Comparing a high-end system with a GeForce Go 7800 GTX to one that uses IGP is far worse than comparing something that uses GeForce Go 7700 to IGP. Different battery sizes, different display sizes, different processors, different hard drives, memory, etc. -- of course they're going to have different results. However, in this case are not drawing any final conclusions about idle power, other than to point out some interesting trends. What I am concluding is that if we were able to isolate just the CPU power use, a Turion X2 TL-60 at 100% load would require a lot more power than a Core 2 Duo T7200 at 100% load.
The ASUS system is there more as a frame of reference, particularly on the power requirements page. I really can't say for certain whether Turion X2 uses more power or less power at idle, but I am positive that it requires more power when it's placed under 100% load. Hope that explains things. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, October 16, 2006 - link
I don't think he was reading clearly, because I had just explained that at maximum CPU load MSI Turion X2 is consuming MORE power than ASUS Core 2 Duo. In other words, even with integrated graphics versus discrete graphics and with all of the other variables involved (7200 RPM hard drive versus 5400 RPM Drive, 14 inch LCD versus 12.1 inch LCD, etc.), without putting a load on the GPU one would expect the ASUS system to draw more power than the MSI system, and it doesn't.
Nonono. I don't care about the load power, I care about your conclusions regarding idle. Even if you don't put load on the GPU, it consumes power. In laptop standards, lots of power. Its not a coincidence some laptop manufacturers put dual video card solutions(integrated/discrete), because they realize discrete cards affect battery life in idle, not just load. What I don't like is the explanation that its the CPU and chipset that contributes to idle power consumption and less battery life at DVD playback, Mobilemark, etc.
Check this out: http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?page=50...">http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?page=50...
(Dual GPU machine)
DVD playback
IGP: 164 minutes
Nvidia Geforce Go 6600: 112 minutes
MobileMark 2005 general battery life test
IGP:128 minutes
Geforce Go 6600: 92 minutes
30-40% battery life difference. Looks like video card is quite a big drain on battery life. I bet significant battery life difference between my friend's two system lies in the video card.
This is really a laptop review rather than a CPU review. Of course, due to laptops peculiarity of outperforming one with what looks like similar specifications, the idea of a CPU comparison on a laptop is far-fetched. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 16, 2006 - linkI did reword the rest of the page in regards to power use. I have used an ASUS W5F and found that it used about the same amount of power as the S271 (at idle). It was slightly more, so the remaining conclusions (i.e. Turion X2 in low power mode uses a bit less power) seem to be consistent. Tough to say 100% without nearly identical laptops - and you still have chipset and mobo components that can have an impact. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Monday, October 16, 2006 - link
I did reword the rest of the page in regards to power use. I have used an ASUS W5F and found that it used about the same amount of power as the S271 (at idle). It was slightly more, so the remaining conclusions (i.e. Turion X2 in low power mode uses a bit less power) seem to be consistent. Tough to say 100% without nearly identical laptops - and you still have chipset and mobo components that can have an impact.
You can find otherwise similar looking laptops that have different power consumption. How did you test out the W5F?? Just dropped in a Core 2 Duo in replacement of Core Duo?
Otherwise nice test. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - linkI don't have it any more, but it was a 1.66 GHz Core Duo with 512MB RAM and IGP and an 80GB 5400 RPM HDD I believe. So at that speed it was still using aroung 18-19W at idle with minimum display brightness. I'm trying to get the owner of that laptop to run some power tests for me (our old Kristopher Kubicki has one now). Reply


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Ministry Night Presents Challenges and Opportunities of Parish Youth Work
27 November 2012 • On–Campus • Virginia Nieuwsma
The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) and the Orthodox Church in America's (OCA) Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry, co–sponsored a free and public forum in the Bashir Auditorium at St. Vladimir's Seminary, on Tuesday, November 27. Titled "Campus Ministry Night," the evening featured presentations by OCF Executive Director Jennifer Nahas, Regional OCF chaplain for New York and New Jersey The Rev. John Diamantis, and the Chair of the Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry, Andrew Boyd (Class of '12).
Presenters focused on practical skills and useable resources needed for campus and young adult ministry. Jennifer Nahas of OCF outlined the challenges for this generation of youth: college kids will not have what their parents had economically, today's college degree does not equal job security, it is now taking an average of six years to obtain a college degree, and the current moral climate makes it very difficult for Orthodox Christian young people to survive spiritually.
Father John Diamantis then shared ideas for establishing OCF chapters and campus–based ministries. "We are now identifying Orthodox students by soliciting names from parishes of who their college students are, and are developing a data base for that," he explained.
Finally, Andrew Boyd presented several specific resources available from the OCA, and shared strategies for incorporating young adults into the parish community. The evening concluded with a time of discussion and fellowship.