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I THINK it's fair to say that 2013 is set to be the most significant in the history of Worcester Wolves.
Not only do we have a great chance of again finishing in the British Basketball League top four, we also make the move into the new Worcester Arena.
I am looking forward to the second half of the season to see what push we can make in the league.
We want to have a really competitive and successful team for when we move into our new home, hopefully by March.
There's a lot of added incentive for us to focus on what we have to do because I think we have got a really great future ahead of us.
In 12 months time, the club will look a lot different to how it does now.
It's going to be a shame to move out of the University of Worcester's sports hall because it's been a fantastic home for us but we hope to build another headquarters which is also going to be a fortress.
The arena was at the planning stage long before I got here but it was fantastic foresight from Mick Donovan, head of the university's institute of sports and exercise science, and vice-chancellor David Green to go build something like this.
Basketball in general at the university has been massive and the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) teams have been successful over the years, winning many championships.
The arena is a university facility and we hope to continue recruiting many students who want to learn and play basketball so there's a lot of great things happening and incentives to be here right now.
We are all really excited about that but we also know the importance of Wolves having a successful second half of the season and moving forward in a really positive light.
I am delighted with the way we've been playing.
The last three games could not have been tougher against Newcastle Eagles, Glasgow Rocks and Plymouth Raiders and we've managed to come through all those.
We played really well against Newcastle, OK against Glasgow and although we weren't great against Plymouth, still found a way to win.
We are starting to do things now that I expected from this team so I am really looking to make a fantastic run in the league.
With Sherrad Prezzie-Blue on board and Kai Williams joining, I don't think we have any excuses now.
The team is as I wanted it so now it's a matter of getting the work done on the court, having the right frame of mind and being competitive regardless of who we play.
Hopefully, we can keep on improving the way we have been. Finishing in the top four is still certainly within our sights and we haven't lost a head-to-head with anybody at this moment in time.
We've still got a great chance of finishing in one of those places. To do that for the second year running would be fantastic for the club.


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Firehouse Theatre Extends HAIR Through 8/2
Celebrating a series of sell-out performances, Firehouse Theatre is thrilled to announce the extension of its sensational summer musical HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical! HAIR will play at Firehouse Theatre an additional nine performances through Saturday, August 2, 2014. The following performances have been added:
Sunday, July 20 at 2pm
Thursday, July 24 at 8pm
Friday, July 25 at 8pm
Saturday, July 26 at 8pm
Sunday, July 27 at 2pm
Wednesday, July 30 at 8pm
Thursday, July 31 at 8pm
Friday, August 1 at 8pm
Saturday, August 2 at 8pm
With lyrics by James Rado & Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical celebrates peace, love and the '60s when youthful rebellion and optimism stood proud in the face of a war-torn establishment. HAIR exploded on Broadway and defined the counter-culture movement of the era. One of the most influential musicals of all time, HAIR still resonates with the divided America of the 21st Century. "Aquarius," "Let the Sunshine In," "Easy to Be Hard" ... the songs and optimism of HAIR triumph. HAIR is directed by Firehouse Theatre Artistic Director Jase Smith (The Wild Party, POP!, The Rocky Horror Show) with music direction by Leilani Giles (POP!, The Rocky Horror Show) and choreography by Starrene Foster (Levitate, The Wild Party, POP!).
Tickets for HAIR are $35 and are available online at www.firehousetheatre.org, by phone at (804) 355-2001, and in person at the Firehouse Theatre Box Office (1609 W. Broad Street). Student, senior, military, RAPT and group rates are also available. Seating is based on availability. Firehouse Theatre Project cannot guarantee availability without advance reservations.
Photography by Laura Cliburn

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ASUS U30Jc: Refining Thin and Light Performanceby Jarred Walton on 5/18/2010 11:23 PM EST
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solipsism - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI'd like to see this machine compared with latest MacBook. There seems to be some evidence to suggest Apple did the right thing withs sticking with C2D this time around in their 13" machines. This machine seems to be a great machine which to compare. Reply
Daeros - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI agree completely. For the extra hundred bucks, you get similar specs, even better battery life (and Bluetooth), as well as somewhat faster graphics. For all the bashing Apple takes for its pricing, it seems that whenever a pc company like ASUS or HP or Dell attempt to get to that level of size & performance, it winds up being very close in price.
I second a request for this to go head-to head with the 13" Macbook. Reply
anandtechrocks - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI disagree completely. if you go by apple's claims you get less than 50 minutes more battery life, a processor that is anywhere from 15-40% slower, half the ram, a smaller hard drive, and a plastic case for $100 dollars more. I know what I'd pick... Reply
FATCamaro - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkPlease note that the Asus doesn't appear to come with abgn networking instead just bgn. So it only has a 2.4Ghz radio it seems, not a 5 Ghz. one. I could be wrong. Other than that and the shit LCD it is a fine MBP alternative for Windows users. Reply
anandtechrocks - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkmbp is like $300 more than this isn't it? I think the regular MB is a better competitor, which also doesn't have the best LCD. don't forget apple offers half the warranty of this Asus too Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkDepending on the application, you'd need about a Core 2 P9700 (2.8GHz) to equal a 2.26GHz Core i3-350M. In highly threaded workloads, the only way you'd com anywhere near the faster Core i5 processors is by getting a Core 2 Quad, but with the lower clock speeds on quad-core you'll be slower in lightly threaded tasks (i.e. the i3-350M is as fast as Q9000 in PCMark Vantage). It all depends on the app, but when you consider Core 2 Quad also consumes quite a bit more power in testing (i3/i5 idle far better than C2Q), there really aren't too many areas where I'd recommend Core 2 over Core i3/i5.
I think Apple went with Core 2 Duo (P8600) for the MacBook because they could reuse some old tech and got a good price more than anything. (Maybe NVIDIA gave them a good deal on the chipset as well.) It also keeps the standard MacBook a decent step down from the MacBook Pro.
The Macbook has a 320M IGP GPU, so it has 3x as many shaders as 310M but it has to share system memory. (48 shaders at 950 vs. 16 shaders at 1530 means the 320M has 85% more shader performance but has to make do with about half the memory bandwidth.) That might mean it ends up with the same relative performance as the 310M in a lot of situations, depending on whether the particular game is bandwidth or shader limited.
Other than slightly better battery life I'd say the U30Jc beats the MacBook in most other area. The size and weight are pretty much the same (MB is slightly thinner but not enough that I'd worry about it), ASUS gives you 4GB vs. 2GB, and a 320GB vs. 250GB hard drive. It's $100 cheaper and has aluminum surfaces as well. I'm curious about the LCD, though... MBPs have good LCDs, but the standard MacBooks have usually skimped there. 1280x800 vs. 1366x768 is a wash in my book but I'm sure some would prefer the 16:10 AR of the MacBook.
Of course, if you prefer OS X over Windows 7 the choice is clear. Similarly, if you prefer Windows 7 there's no point in buying a MacBook. MacBooks booting Windows have never reached the same battery life as under OS X. Anyway, we'll see if we can get a MacBook for testing, but I won't be the one doing the review. Reply
VivekGowri - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThe 13" MacBook Pro also has a Core 2 Duo, suggesting more that Apple didn't want to put Core i5 processors into the smaller/cheaper models. Whether this is because they wanted to differentiate the larger/more expensive 15" model, or because they wanted to maximize profit margins (C2D's must be dirt cheap right now...) we don't know.
It just doesn't seem entirely likely to me that they couldn't do it or couldn't fit both the larger i5 processor package and the secondary IGP into the MB/MBP case (there are enough other laptops with Core iX and dedicated graphics out there in small chassis; the U30Jc is just one example). Also, I'm not buying Steve's comment that Apple couldn't justify the "very small CPU speed increase".
I may (*may*) end up with one of the newly updated MacBooks sometime soon, but as Jarred says, we'll see if we can get one and who does the review. Reply
Penti - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkHardly, a Core i5-520M costs $225 and a P8600 costs $209 (listed price), there no price difference in the processor/chipset platform. It's $265 with chipset for 520M + HM55. Apple might get an rebate, but they might get one or the newer platform too. It's probably the same cost as the old hardware any way. Overpriced as usual. Reply
Penti - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI think more then likely it's just space concerns that has them using C2D + NVIDIA chipset, they do the same in the MBP 13" for the same reason. Switching to Core i5 + HM55 + GPU / Memory takes up more space on the circuit board. Something there aren't a lot of on Macbooks. Of course this is essentially the old Macbook so they could reuse pretty much everything anyway. The chipset is probably even pin-compatible. But they appear to have tweaked the battery though, although the case itself is exactly the same.
Of course something like adding to the size of the PCB would dictate a case redesign and the removal of the dvd-drive possibly. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkAs I pointed out in the MacBook posting comments, there's no problem with getting all of the components with a discrete GPU into the MacBook. It's .1" narrower and .4" less deep, but ASUS has a removable battery that accounts for much of the extra depth. Apple chose the old platform for cost savings--both for the lower prices on the CPU+chipset as well as the ability to reuse the old design without having to spend a lot of time on accommodating a new chipset, CPU, etc. The sad thing is that Apple doesn't pass any of those savings on to the customer: a MacBook still costs $1000, even if it has two year old technology--outside of the chipset, which you could argue is "new". Too bad we never got a chance to have that chipset back when it would have been useful; now it's relegated to Core 2 platforms that are going away. Reply
jconan - Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - linkhopefully in the comparison it's compared using apples to apples os with proper drivers Reply
Lunyone - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI would like to have a laptop with better resolution than the 13x768 for a 15"+ laptop. Even my 1280x800 current resolution is fine for the most part. I just don't like the limitation of 1366 x 768. It's wide enough, but the vertical real estate isn't as web page friendly as I would like.
I also would like better GPU's in this category. Even the 3670 listed on the charts does quite well against the 310m on this laptop. Your right that the 5650 is about as minimum that I might consider for a budget friendly "gaming" laptop. Much less than that an you start to compromise your gaming options.
So here is what I'd buy right now from Asus if they had it:
* Dual core CPU (~2.2-2.6 gHz)
* Dedicated GPU (~5650 or equivalent)
* 4 gb's of RAM
* 7200 rpm HD (~250 gb's would be good, I'd even take 160 gb's to keep costs down if needed)
* 15" or larger LCD w/at least 1400 x 900 or better resolution.
Bundle that all into a laptop for ~$800-900 and I'm there. I know that this is asking for a bit, but that is the price range that I'll be shopping for. Reply
acsa - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkManufacturers are still having a marketing department with sound fundaments of microeconomics and game theory ;) If your desire is strong, they find a way to milk you. So,you can either pay for that desire; or loose 132 pixel rows and buy a cheap timelineX 5820T with ATI 5650 with an introductionary guarantee of 3 years and spend the saved bucks on your family or on whatever is _really_ improving your life. Anyway, did these timelinex series arrive in the US? Reply
Lunyone - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThey aren't going to milk me. I just do research and buy what I need/want within my budget. I bought a Dell e1505 over 4 years ago with the best GPU that they had (ATI x1400). It has done very well for the 4 years that I've had it. It was about $900 and I've only had to replace the battery. I upgraded the RAM to 2 gb's (max supported) and also the HD to a 7200 rpm one. These were only in the last year, so I'd say I've been lucky and have had a very good experience in the $900 price range, for a budget gaming laptop :) Reply
acsa - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkWas a smart buy. I also take care about longevity and upgradeability when buying something. With "milking" I meant that when a model&configuration is designed, it is very carefully decided how to make really tricky deficiencies which are motivating to buy a 20% more expensive config. Reply
arnavvdesai - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI believe ME2 uses the Unreal Engine whereas Dragon Age is a completely in house engine built by BioWare. Dragon Age engine was designed to be made for the PC initially and later ported to the consoles(PS3 last actually). Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkSorry, you're right. I just figured with such similar performance and coming from Bioware, they would use the same tech. DAO uses the Eclipse engine while ME2 uses Unreal Engine 3.5. (The original ME was UE3.) Anyway, neither game runs particularly well at minimum detail and 1366x768. I'll update the text.... Reply
RAGETRON - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkMy concern is about how loud typical actions done on this Asus would sound in a quiet environment such as a classroom or a library study area. Even though these actions might not be of concern in a normal environment, a quiet environment amplifies the sound and can be especially irritating to others around you and make one self conscious about how they are using their machine. So, how loud is a mouse click in such a very quiet environment (Library, classroom)? I imagine that the rocker button would be louder than laptops with two discrete buttons. Thinkpads seem to be very quiet in this regard. How loud can fast typing get on the chiclet style keyboard? And how about the sound level when the fan kicks in or hard drive churns? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkNoise levels are listed on page two: 33.5 dB at idle and 35.5dB at full load. Most of the time the laptop runs at ~33 dB. (My testing environment bottoms out my SPL meter at 30 dB.) The keyboard is about average... the Dell XPS 16 as an example has a softer, quieter key action, but most other laptops sound the same. The touchpad buttons aren't particularly loud, though they're a bit more clicky than some other touchpads. I think it has more to do with the specific design of a touchpad than it does with the rocker style. I figure as long as you're doing normal activities like taking notes no one will care about the noise the U30Jc makes. If you're playing games, though.... ;-) Reply
killerclick - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkSmall screen, too expensive, yet too thick and too heavy. Might as well go for a full-sized laptop. Reply
zac206 - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThis laptop seems interesting. I would wonder how the MSI X360 would do against it, as it seems to have similar specs. Reply
GullLars - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkA good review here, seems like a decent laptop for some uses.
I would love to see how it does if you swap the HDD for a SSD.
Jarred, If you still have the U30Jc in house an Intel SSD (or SandForce), would you consider swapping the drive and repeating the test suite? It would be much appreciated.
Doing so would likely increase productivity noticably, and increase typical battrey life through the "hurry up and go idle" principle.
A $100-200 SSD like x25-V/M would likely double (or more?) the PCmark Vantage total score, putting it firmly in the lead ahead of the Lenovo T410, with a good lead, possibly even in first place with double the score of second place. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkDoes it need to be an Intel SSD? Because I have a Vertex I can slap in there if that's okay.... Reply
GullLars - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkSure, go ahead and put in the vertex. Remember to set AHCI mode.
It will give a bit lower scores, but should still give a decent points boost.
Looking forward to it.
Will you post it as an extension/edit to the article, or maybe a new short one? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI'll post it as a separate follow-up I think, as it's going to take a few days to rerun some of these tests. Reply
Kegetys - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkToo bad they didn't improve the screen at all, I have an UL30VT and the machine is fantastic except the poor quality display ruins it. Very bad viewing angles, poor contrast and entirely useless outdoors. The machine could also fit a 16:10 screen fine (huge bezels on top and bottom) and the added vertical space would be welcomed for desktop use. You wont enjoy movies with the screen anyway so 16:9 has very little use in my opinion. Reply
teohhanhui - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThe glossy screen is a major deal breaker for me :(
Looking at Dell Vostro 3300/3400 instead. Reply
Modeverything - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI was just curious as to why a few of the laptops change between benchmarks? Doesn't this make some of the testing inconsistent? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI'm guessing you're referring to the previously missing Studio XPS 16 and Acer 5740G results on the application and 3DMark pages. Sorry about that. I added them in as they somehow got left off my spreadsheet. Mea culpa. If there are any others missing, let me know. Reply
blyndy - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkWhat about the Dell Vostro 3300?
Same size, same RAM/GPU, better cpu (i5-520M), 500 GB HDD, bluetooth. No HDMI (it's available on the 14", 15" and 17" models) and ships with only a 4-cell battert (an 8-cell is available), but it picks up eSATA and express-card, fingerprint reader and double mouse trackpad buttons (and it looks ten times better!) for $933.
I think that its miles ahead for the money, and the 17" model has the option for a GT 330M (although the 17" display show an unnerving amount of flex in this video at 44 secs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HW0yMzbG8)
These Dells 3x00's are 8/10, they would be a 9/10 if the screens where matte, and the 17" would be a 10/10 if it offered a GTS 350M with GDDR5 :)
It would be great if Anandtech could do a review of one of them. Reply
rootheday - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkIs your data on gaming issues on Intel based on testing with recent drivers? If not, can you check these titles with an updated driver and confirm? From my own experience, most of the titles listed are not a problem any more.
GRID, Mass Effect (and Mass Effect 2) are fixed in most recent Intel drivers; Referring back to an earlier article (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2818/8), Dark Athena was fixed in Intel drivers last fall.
Dirt 2 is fixed with latest game patch.
Fallout 3 is a bit trickier - it looks like the ISV assumed Intel was below min spec and hardcoded anti-Intel bias into the app. The proof/workaround is here: http://forums.techgage.com/showthread.php?t=5052 - if you get use this modified version of the d3d runtime dll to tell the app that it is running on NVidia, the game runs just fine on Intel HD graphics.
Dragon Age: Origins - I'm not sure what you are referring to here - other Anandtech articles say that it runs on Intel HD graphics at least as well as AMD integrated - see for example http://www.anandtech.com/show/2921/3 or http://www.anandtech.com/show/2901/4.
In a similar vein, is the comment about Flash 10.1 based on recent drivers/Flash releases? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI'll check with the latest drivers. The last I tested on laptops was a couple weeks ago, and all of the games I mentioned failed. Interesting Fallout 3 note; Oblivion appears to have the same hard coding of Intel bias. I'll be working on an article with an i3 + IGP setup, so I'll be sure to try everything I can to make it work this time. :-) Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkI checked and you're right: the very latest driver finally fixes DiRT 2 and GRID (and actually provides decent performance all told, provided you run at a lower resolution than 1366x768). Fallout 3 I can get to load and start benchmarking with the hacked d3d.dll, but it crashes after 20-40 seconds and the only way to recover is to open task manager and force-kill the Fallout 3 executable. Perhaps I just need to start a new save, though? I'll try that and see if it helps at all.... Reply
rootheday - Friday, May 21, 2010 - linkGoogle search shows lots of people have suggestions for crashes with Fallout; this one looked promising...Try adding these 2 lines to Fallout.ini in Documents\My Games\Fallout3 under [General]
Seems like there is a threading bug in the game engine that shows up on quad core systems - since Core i3/i5 have hyperthreading, they look like quad core...
Worth a try? Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 21, 2010 - linkSo the INI tweaks worked... at least the game doesn't crash while playing it for 30+ minutes. It does crash when you exit, but in my experience that has always been the case when enabling threading on Fallout 3/Oblivion... though perhaps it was just the threaded audio with Oblivion? I may need to check that as well. LOL. It's "playable" if you don't mind some choppiness. I find FO3 needs around 40 FPS to really run well, and with all the LOD scaling it's hard to determine exactly if two PCs render things the same. They appear to, in which case the Intel HD Graphics (plus DLL hack) gives performance about equal to the HD 4200. Reply
aguilpa1 - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linknothing to see here..., move along Reply
ajp_anton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI've never understood your x264 playback test for battery life. Is it x264 (= encoding) or is it playback (= decoding)?
If it's playback, are you using a software decoder or DXVA? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThe x264 battery life test is playing back a 720p ~6.8Mbit video using Media Player Classic Home Cinema, with DXVA enabled (unless we're using Atom, in which case we use the CoreAVC decoder). So it's sort of a Blu-ray-without-the-disc test. FWIW, I've done the same test with a 1080p 10Mbit video and the battery life was about the same (with a couple percent). Reply
ajp_anton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThank you. I've seen the x264/h.264 mistake made in many places, the description of the x264 test in your CPU reviews comes to mind.
x264 is one of many h.264 encoders. Reply
crydee - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI wanted one of those UL or U laptops form asus. But the price just isn't right. For 850 I can get a studio 15 with a full 1080p screen, led keyboard, ati 4850 512mb, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd, a 9 cell battery and a core i5 processor.
The only thing I'm going to miss is the ability to turn off second gpu at ease to save battery. Reply
GoodRevrnd - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkIsn't 4.8lbs a bit heavy for a 13" laptop?? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkMacBook 13.3" is 4.7 pounds, so I'd say no. Then again, I regularly travel with a 5+ pound laptop (or three). LOL Reply
GoodRevrnd - Saturday, May 22, 2010 - linkWeren't there Acer 14" Timelines that came in at ~ 4.2lbs? I guess I'm just spoiled by my 3.5lb Vaio Z (overpriced though it was). Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, May 23, 2010 - linkYes, you can find lighter laptops, even laptops that have a slightly larger display. The difference is they don't have the same level of performance -- no discrete GPU and usually a very low power CULV processor. The Timeline series is exactly that, which is fine for many, but moving to a Core i3 CPU means you need a much larger battery to get roughly the same battery life, plus a larger heatsink to deal with the CPU+GPU heat. An extra .6 pounds seems pretty reasonable in that light, and I doubt you can find anything lighter while keeping relatively equal specs.
For example, the 11.6" Alienware M11x weighs 4.4 pounds; the Sony VAIO Z VPCZ112GX packs an i5-520M and GT 330M GPU into a 3 pound chassis... but it has a smallish battery with only ~4 hours Internet (according to some), it lacks Optimus I think (but does switchable), the fan noise is apparently very loud, it doesn't have a DVD, and it costs twice as much as the U30Jc. So yeah, there are ways to get lighter laptops with a decent amount of performance, but there are usually issues going that route as well. Reply
vicbdn - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI was debating between the UL30VT and the U30JC. In the end I still couldn't get over the the DVD-Rom drive, thicker frame, and lower battery life and went with the UL30VT. If you compare the two aesthetically, the UL30VT looks a lot sleeker IMO and other reviews have called the U30JC bulky in comparison. It's almost a ultraportable but not quite from my perspective.
Too bad Asus is slow on releasing the UL30JT, and who knows how long before the ship a silver version.
I don't do anything that requires the extra processing power though. Just my 2c. Reply
Ipatinga - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkI would love to see Asus, on this notebook, offer an adaptor where you could remove the optical drive and put a hdd/ssd.
This notebook is great for a friend of mine, but optical drive is useless... a second hard drive (actually, an SSD as primary and an HDD for big storage purposes) is kickass.
Please Asus... show us some love :) Reply
jasperjones - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkJust wanted to say thanks for the review. Jarred, your reviews are the best in the business, period. Keep 'em coming! Anything interesting in the pipeline? Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - linkThanks! Kind words are always appreciated. :-)
I'm waiting on the ASUS N82J, which will be similar to this but 14" with a GT335M I think. That would be sweet! I've also got an MSI GX640 I'm beating up. It's fast, but the build quality is nowhere near as good as the ASUS G73Jh. The LCD is an old WSXGA+ CCFL unit, but at least it has a 500:1 contrast ratio.
Other than that, I have an updated Intel vs. AMD mobile platform comparison I'm trying to get done. (Things haven't changed much, in case you're wondering.) Now if I can just find more hours in a day.... Reply
Hrel - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - link1366x768... no need to keep reading. Useless screen resolution. 1600x900 or more or I don't wanna see it. Reply
Furuno - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkGreat article! I've been keeping my eye on ASUS's PL80JT with it's CULV i5 as battery life is my main concern when purchasing a laptop, but since this one cost almost half of th PL80JT, I might start looking on this one...
I have one request for your laptop review thought, can you please include a battery life for presentation? I know it will be close to idle, but since I usually use my laptop as a presentation tool with the monitor switched off (only outputting to the projector), I'd like to see the battery life in this situation.
Best regards,
Furuno Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkI'll try running that once as a reference point. Is there a way to loop a PowerPoint slide? I'm guessing that's what you mean: external display, PowerPoint, and battery power right? Reply
Furuno - Friday, May 21, 2010 - linkYes. And for looping the slide, you can set it by going to the Slide Show menu and pressing the Set Up Slide Show Button, and there's should be a loop continuosly checkbox in the dialogue box. Oh, and you'll need to adjust the Advance Slide option under Transition Menu.
Best regards,
Furuno Reply
MacGyver85 - Thursday, May 20, 2010 - linkExcellent article, thanks for the thorough and honest review.
The only thing that keeps me away from buying these (or any) laptops is the abysmal display quality.
Maybe you guys could literally set the bar for the manufacturers ?!
You could add bars to the display graphs that would say: abysmal, decent, good, industry leading quality or something similar.
That way we'd see at a glimpse what is worth buying and what is not in this category.
Hopefully it will encourage more manufacturers to give higher priority to a good panel instead of those extra few percentages of processor performance. Reply
Setsunayaki - Friday, May 21, 2010 - link4 hours of DVD playback time isn't so bad, though the idle state gives us a 550 minute battery life.
The important thing with a laptop, which is being challenged lately by the latest cell phones is application speed.
An example:
Task: Taking an image on site and sending it to all your friends.
I used to use laptops for this, way before cell phones had cameras....I used to take a picture on a digital camera, then upload them to my laptop by USB. I then would have to find some Wireless Network out there...or Wired Connection to deal with the internet...and then send an email to everyone with Attachment. This takes forever on a laptop....
Today I can just get to the site or target location.....I can sneak around and take an image with a phone....and then I can use the 3G coverage of an area and send an email with that attachment to everyone to everyone in my list...All in the time it takes for a laptop to start up and set up.
The more laptops try to take the role of mobile-desktops, the farther they will drift from the concepts of what mobility (and stealth) brings to the table, and the slower they will become each generation against cell phones.
There is a reason why more people today buy an iPhone or GooglePhone these days....
Specially the idea that voice recognition software is becoming more and more common....Its fun to be able to say something and have it record a note, or dial a number....
I can say "I need to buy eggs and bread" and walk into a store and play it back.....than having to type it.
The more they try to make a laptop into a mobile-desktop, the more mobility it actually loses and the slower it becomes vs the cell phone craze...Yes, its amazing how a $3000 laptop doesnt hold a candle to the speed one can do things on the IPhones and other Phones out there that compete against it. Reply
T2k - Monday, May 24, 2010 - linkSeriously: LIGHT at almost 5lbs?
I hope Asus paid a lot for this piece - it would be awful to realize you just made a complete fool of yourself publicly for chump change... Reply
Alexo - Saturday, July 10, 2010 - linkCan you get your hands on a PL30JT?
Supposed to have an i5 processor and a matte screen, maybe a little better battery life as well.
I would love for you to review it (or even a quick comparison with the U30JC).
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mrmbmh - Saturday, September 04, 2010 - linkvery very useful article for me!
I've found Vaio S Series a good competitor against this laptop...same weight...same processor...same graphic chip... but there are a few articles about S series.. and seriously... This website is one of the few websites I can trust :)
So can you read an article about S series? I love U30jc but as you mentioned it has a poor screen... I think vaio makes better displays...
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In an interview with Broadcasting & Cable, Bill Moyers claims that while he was at the helm of PBS's Now, the show was guilty of "aggressive reporting," but not liberal bias. (Hat tip: Romenesko.)
Following is the relevant portion of the interview. The questioner is B&C's John Eggerton.
You are the exemplar of liberal PBS bias, according to Ken Tomlinson. Was your show liberally biased?
Right-wing partisans like Tomlinson have always attacked aggressive reporting as liberal.
We were biased, all right—in favor of uncovering the news that powerful people wanted to keep hidden: conflicts of interest at the Department of Interior, secret meetings between Vice President Cheney and the oil industry, backdoor shenanigans by lobbyists at the FCC, corruption in Congress, neglect of wounded veterans returning from Iraq, Pentagon cost overruns, the manipulation of intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq.
We were way ahead of the news curve on these stories, and the administration turned its hit men loose on us.
Tomlinson actually told The Washington Post that he was irate over one of our documentary reports from a small town in Pennsylvania hard-hit by outsourcing.
If reporting on what's happening to ordinary people thrown overboard by circumstances beyond their control and betrayed by Washington officials is liberalism, I stand convicted.
It is an old canard of right-wing ideologues like Tomlinson to equate tough journalism with liberalism. They hope to distract people from the message by trying to discredit the messenger.
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Ted Welch, the preeminent fund-raiser in Tennessee Republican politics for four decades, whose unmatched ability to turn phone calls into big bucks for governors, senators and U.S. presidents made him a giant in the GOP, died on Saturday.
He was 80.
Welch died around 6:30 a.m. at Vanderbilt Medical Center Hospital in Nashville, his wife Colleen Conway-Welch said, due to complications from a December fall.
A one-time door-to-door Bible salesman and longtime Nashville real estate investor, Welch became the political money man of the South through his help of Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, Gov. Mitt Romney and others.
His career began in 1970 during Winfield Dunn's successful run for governor. It spanned to modern campaigns of U.S. Sen. Bob Corker and Gov. Bill Haslam. In between, he worked with senators Howard Baker, Bill Brock, Bill Frist and Fred Thompson, Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Republicans at the state level, such as House Speaker Beth Harwell, and even Nashville mayors.
He's perhaps most linked, though, to the campaigns of his friend Lamar Alexander, teaming with him during his first failed run for governor in 1974 before he won four years later during his famed "Walk Across Tennessee" sporting his trademark plaid shirt.
Welch helped with Alexander's re-election, subsequent runs for U.S. Senate and his failed run at U.S. president in a crowded field of GOP candidates in 1996.
"Ted Welch raised millions to support candidates for public office, symphonies and other charitable causes and, in my experience, never asked for one thing for himself in return," Alexander said in a statement. "He was tireless. As a volunteer, he traveled with me to 250 presidential campaign fundraising events during one year.
"The most feared seven words among those who knew him were, 'Ted Welch is holding on line one.' Honey and I will miss him greatly and extend our sympathies to Colleen and to his family."
Doctors diagnosed Welch with Alzheimer's disease in 2012. And when it came time for Alexander to reignite his run for a third term in the U.S. Senate, Welch wasn't able to make the phone calls and host fundraisers like he did in the past. He was instead named honorary finance chairman, and in April 2013 was honored during an Alexander fund-raising event called "A Salute to Ted."
In real estate, Welch was instrumental in the redevelopment of downtown Nashville, including the 1987 construction of the Nashville Convention Center. His office was atop the adjacent Renaissance Hotel.
The son of teachers at a one-room schoolhouse, Welch grew up on a farm near tiny Parsons, Tenn., in Decatur County. He attended the University of Tennessee at Martin on a football scholarship, and Indiana University for graduate school.
In his 20s, he worked as a salesman at the Southwestern Publishing House (today called Southwestern Advantage), where he sold Bibles on doorsteps all over the country. He outshined his peers, worked his way up the ladder and became the company's executive vice president.
His entry into politics came with Dunn's 1970 election, in which Republicans captured the governor's office for the first time in 50 years. He became Dunn's commissioner of Finance and Administration, but after one term he returned to campaigns.
He quickly found his favorite sport:
"Instead of playing golf, I raise money," he told The New York Times in 1995.
Welch lived in Belle Meade with his wife, the longtime dean of Vanderbilt University's School of Nursing and a powerhouse in her own field, who retired last spring after 29 years in that role.


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Welcome to the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Association website. This site is aimed at providing schools and school rowers with an easily accessed resource of information about schools rowing in New Zealand.
NZRA news Membership change
On Saturday 20 May 2017 the Members of NZRA resolved to change NZSSRA's status within NZRA from Affiliate Member to Local Association.
This change in status marks the successful completion of a long-standing project for closer integration between NZSSRA and NZRA. It began in 2010 with the creation and adoption of the School Rowing Integration Project Plan.
NZSSSC news Lightweight event de-sanctioning
At its April Board Meeting NZSSSC resolved it "will not provide a sanction for lightweight rowing events within the NISS, SISS and Maadi Cup Rowing Championship regattas".
The full effect of losing sanctioning for those events is not yet known. However, in the absence of a Special General Meeting, they will remain officially part of the programme of events until 2023 (because removing them requires a Rule-change and then a Programme-review). But if they are no longer viable events then setting an entry limit of zero crews-per-school-per-event would mean lightweight rowing ceases to be contested earlier than that.
Annual General Meeting Sunday 26 March, Lake Karapiro
The Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Association was held at lake Karapiro on Sunday 26 March 2017 in the Don Rowlands Centre. The DRAFT Minutes for the 2017 AGM are now available online.
Some items of note arising from the AGM include:
The Regulations, Rules, and Safety System have now all been updated online.
2017 Championships Regattas NISSC, SISSC, Maadi
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|Special Day : Anggara Kasih Kulantir in Tanah Lot
Today is special day for hindu people in Tanah Lot. Anggara Kasih, also known as Anggara Kliwon, is a reocccuring, auspicious cleansing day for the mind of the individual family members and for the physical world and all creatures that inhabit it. In Beraban village Tanah Lot, all society doing religious activity that is "ngerainin" in hinduism culture and "ngodalin" in each household. Some of balinese and javanese people assuming Anggara Kasih day is a sakral day. According to javanese folkfore, at anggara kasih day we may not travelling. And some of balinese people said, at anggara kasih, Bethara Siwa (God of Siwa) go down to earth.
When anggara kasih, all of balinese people submitting offerings to the God to required safety and healthy life. At Anggara Kliwon the Balinese Hindus meditate and pray to Dewa Ludra for support to cleanse one's mind and the physical world in which one is reincarnated. The following offerings are offered to Dewa Ludra, a canang reresik wangi-wangian, a canang puspa wangi-wangian, menyan astangi, asap harum.
Afterwards a special ceremony called metirtha gocara is held which is performed with a canang offering and wangi-wangian, sweet smelling incense and flowers at the sangga of the family temple and the plankiran (wall temple) of the bedroom. Anggara Kliwon occurs every 35 days when the day 'Anggara' (Tuesday) of the 7-day week (Saptawara) of the Balinese pawukon calendar system coincidences with the day 'Kliwon' of the 5-day week (Pancaware).


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Online Sources for Hard-to-find Handbag Hardware
I used to manufacture handbags, and I still make them for myself. I am often asked for sources for good handbag hardware. There are so many it's hard to narrow down the choices. Here are some of my personal favorites, ranging from stores that cater to the individual sewer, to suppliers who can handle orders for the largest manufacturers. This is by no means a comprehensive list:
Explore more bag projects:
M&J Trimming
M&J boasts a staggering assortment of trims for every need. They have a wonderful selection of handbag handles, chains, and buttons. They also carry all manner of buckles and a small assortment of swivel hooks and rings.
Strapworks is a great source for all kinds of webbing and hardware for bags. They carry a large variety of rings, swivel hooks (which they call snaps), and sliders, all in both metal and plastic. The site is geared to small (and larger) businesses, but they also sell to individuals.
UMX - Universal Mercantile Exchange
UMX has a very large selection of hardware for purses. From handles to clips to hooks to magnetic snaps and purse feet, you can find pretty much anything you need here. They sell both individual pieces and by the lot.
Ah Kwok Supplies
This site has an incredible array of handbag supplies. Everything you could need, including snaps, buckles, purse frames, feet, and other hardware. You must buy in lots, but the lot sizes are small and the prices are quite reasonable. They also have an eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Ah-Kwok-Supplies where you can score some real bargains.
Bag Fittings & Company
This site isn't for everyone, but if you are a small manufacturer or can buy in bulk, it's one of the best resources for all manner of handbag hardware. Here's a little secret: they were my hardware supplier when I was manufacturing. There are minimum orders, but shipping is very fast, service is very good, and the products are used by designers and manufacturers of all sizes.
Where do you shop for handbag hardware?
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Have you wondered what it would be like to have dogs in your workplace? Or what it might be like to take a break and play with a cat during a long day? A pet-friendly workplace may be more attainable than you think. Just take the first step of drumming up enthusiasm for the idea among everyone at work. We've assembled facts, ideas and talking points that will make that easier for you.
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It takes effort to move forward. It takes courage and determination. Fortunately, you are filled with courage and determination. Yes, you may feel some fear and trepidation. But courage is not the lack of fear. Courage is the ability to feel your fear, to listen to what it has to say, to allow it to prepare you, and to move forward. Determination is surely yours. You know what you desire. You know why you desire it. Just keep those things in your mind and you'll have plenty of determination. It's not complicated. It's within your reach.
Yes, you have your limitations. Yet no limitation can hold you back when you're determined to transcend it. Everything you have ever accomplished has been done in spite of your limitations. Over and over again you've proven that the limitations, whatever they may be, need not stop you. They challenge you and make you stronger.
Are there obstacles? Yes, of course there are. Nothing worthwhile comes easy. In fact, it is precisely the challenge involved in reaching it that makes anything valuable.
What is the most positive, wonderful thing you can imagine for yourself, for your life, for the ones you love, for the world in which you live? When you can imagine it, you're well on the way to making it a reality. If it were impossible there would be no way you could even conceive of it. Live with the knowledge and the assurance that the best you can imagine is indeed available to you, is indeed possible for you.You are filled with valuable experience. The things you've done and learned and seen and lived through have left behind a unique and powerful substance of experience which is yours alone. It would be a shame for that to go to waste. It is yours to make use of, yours to build upon, yours from which to grow. By making this present moment count, by tapping into the value of your experience and doing something productive with it, you also make all the past moments count even more. You cannot live in the past, yet you can draw from the value you created there. Invest today's actions with the wealth of experience you've accumulated, and that investment will immediately begin to pay dividends.
You are just as good, just as worthy, just as valuable as anyone. No one is better than you. You are the best there is. Inside you is the potential to do, or be, or have anything you desire. No one has more than that. Some may have progressed farther down the path at this moment, but that doesn't make them any better than you. Your life is filled with possibility. You are worthy of reaching for the greatest of accomplishments. And you are worthy of achieving them, no matter what other people think of you, no matter what your job title is, no matter what you have done up to this point in life. You are worthy of the best.


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SaaS Competitive Advantage | SaaS Economics 101 e-Book
If your SaaS business is confronted with issues such as the following:
- Why is my SaaS business losing money?
- How do I grow my SaaS business faster?
- How does a SaaS vendor create a long term competitive advantage?
- When does it make sense to take a "SaaS hybrid" approach?
- Will SaaS displace on-premise software entirely?
- Are there applications for which the SaaS is simply not the right choice?
Then, there is a good chance you will find the principles laid out in this e-book on how to develop competitive advantage in SaaS of significant value in your decision making.
It provides a comprehensive overview of SaaS model economics and how to develop competitive advantage in software-as-a-service. The PDF consists of compiled and augmented posts from the last six months, so it should make a handy archive reference or pass-along for those that have read the original posts, and a fresh look for those who missed them. Enjoy.
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Anibal, 6. May 2009, 6:44
Hi Rob, I have one question about what really is a "pure" SaaS business.
I think It's worth to differentiate a traditional Software adapted to the Online Service model, against a Web 2.0 business.
For example, about Xignite, you provide Web Services about market data, a new business enabled by Internet. So there's no software provided as a service. Also, It was not possible to have a Web Service without Internet.
So a "pure" SaaS is related to the existence of offline software in the same subject.
In the your e-book terms, you have the broad SaaS definition, as all provided online. At the end, as all business are going to be enabled online, all business are going to be SaaS.
Lu, 24. September 2009, 15:01
Hi Joel,
Do you have any insights into pricing models for SaaS products?
In our business, most of our larger customers have not wanted to deal with the complexity and variable nature of the "pay as you go" / "pay only for what you use" model typical of SaaS products. So far, we have always been required to provide proposals with fixed-cost, multi-year agreements, followed by an MSA or SOW process.
Also, the customer ROI is highly variable because of the nature of our business. In some cases, the ROI is huge because the lack of our solution has resulted in quantifiable penalties that our prospects have had to pay. (Those are the easier sales.) In other cases, the prospect knows that a penalty is possible, but is unwilling to spend money to protect against the possibility.
I'd love to discuss ideas with you one day if you are ever in San Diego.
– Lu
Adam Bauer, 5. May 2010, 21:04
Thanks Joel. Learned a ton.
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[…] SaaS Model Economics 101 states that SaaS competitive advantage comes in two Internet-enabled flavors: network-based differentiation and lower cost from economies of scale. Cloud computing creates new opportunities for SaaS vendors to extend their competitive advantage by opening their applications to the cloud through Web services and further driving down costs by running on shared cloud infrastructure. […]
JR, 23. October 2012, 3:56
Hi Joel.,
I've just managed to go through some of the information on your blog and I'm already very impressed. Looking forward to covering this in more details in the upcoming days. In the meantime can you perhaps share some good sources on where I can find a typical organisation chart for a SaaS company. I have tried searching for this online but have not had much success so far.
Thanks a ton in advance!


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LAFAYETTE — The McNeese baseball team will step out of conference play Tuesday as it travels to take on in-state rival Louisiana-Lafayette. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m.
McNeese State (17-9, 5-1 Southland) swept Northwestern State over the weekend in the Cowboys' conference home opener. The Cowboys have eight wins in their past 10 games.
The Cajuns (19-8) lost two out of three to Western Kentucky in Sun Belt play over the weekend.
Senior left-hander Jason Gibson (1-0) will start for McNeese.
UL-Lafayette will counter with right-hander Chase Traffica (3-1), who has a 6.75 ERA and 20 strikeouts in seven appearances.
McNeese is batting .278 as a team with 10 home runs and 49 doubles. The Cowboys are led by junior left fielder Jackson Gooch, who is batting .349 with 10 doubles, a triple, three homers and 25 RBIs. Shortstop Connor Lloyd is batting .341 with three doubles and 12 RBIs.
The Cajuns are led by third baseman Tyler Girouard who is batting .434 with four doubles, three triples, four homers and 20 RBIs. Catcher Michael Strentz is batting .350 with 19 runs, 10 doubles, a triple, three homers and 19 RBIs.
The game can be heard in the Lafayette area on KPEL-AM, 1420.


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Garage punks Pussy Galore were an especially important band for me when I was in my late teens, so when their guitarist Neil Hagerty teamed up with his then girlfriend Jennifer Herrema to form dirtbag rock group Royal Trux, I was paying attention. Their 1988 self-titled debut blurred past; it was their second album, the sprawling 1990 double LP Twin Infinitives, that hit home. Those 63 minutes of music taught me about where you could go with noise and how you could treat excess as something low-key, like a riot that felt more like a whisper. Importantly, it also showed me how a couple of people without a lot of money (like me) could create their own fucked up musical universe. It deeply influenced my listening habits—I played the chaotic 15-minute psych implosion "(Edge of the) Ape Oven" on my college radio show more than just about anything else.


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IN FRONT of a good and knowledgeable crowd, including three winners of the Swindon Advertiser Sports Personality Awards, the Horseshoe ABC once again put on a terrific show at the Next Generation gym in Swindon on Saturday, writes Gary J Regan.
Opening the show was an absolute belter between Jake Stevens (Horseshoe ABC) and Jiley Lamb of Weston-Super-Mare ABC.
Both boxers showed great skill, heart and bags of determination with Lamb winning on a split decision. This bout was awarded the contest of the day by boxing promoter Keith Mayo.
Kayden Connolly (Horseshoe) once again showed his quality in a terrific contest against Scott Davis (Weston-Super-Mare).
Connolly used his superior footwork to cut down the ring and his accurate left jab kept Davis at bay. Connolly took a richly deserved unanimous decision.
George Richardson (Horseshoe) was once again involved in an excellent contest against the shorter but stockier Macaulay Macmillan, (Synwell ABC).
In the first round, Richardson threw good left-right combinations which Macmillan did well to block. In the second Macmillan came out determinedly but was picked off by Richardson as he rushed in and the Horseshoe fighter used his greater hand speed and footwork to confirm victory in the third.
The other Horseshoe boxers fared less well with Jorden Williams losing out to the excellent Jake Stevens (Synwell) and George White to Atit Khan (Birmingham).
There were also spilt-decision losses for Tom Gray and Sam Vallis against Cory Price and Max Smith, of Bridgend ABC and Birmingham ABC respectively.
The two boxers from the Fitzpatrick gym both suffered losses but Gary Kelly was unlucky to miss out on a split decision.
There was also a great bout between Wallace Atwell (Weston-Super-Mare) and Owen Penny (Shepton Mallet ABC).
After sharing two hard-fought rounds both boxers continued to throw heavy punches for the final two minutes with Penny winning on a split decision.
The prizes were handed out by Keith Mayo and IBO Inter-Continental super middleweight champion Kelvin Young.


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ST. PETERSBURG — After a series of unforeseen scenarios, Countryside made an unexpected appearance against Northeast in Friday's Pinellas County Athletic Conference softball title game.
The Cougars didn't secure its spot until Thursday, which didn't give coach Kaylyn Bayly much time to decide who would start on the mound. It was a difficult choice considering Countryside and Northeast also are the top seeds in next week's Class 7A, District 9 tournament.
In the end, Bayly figured two pitchers were better than one. And Alyssa Queen and Stella Preston were equally effective in a 4-1 victory.
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Tackle and techniques: Medium-heavy spinning tackle is adequate. Presenting a soft plastic jig rigged on a one-eighth- or quarter-ounce jighead will produce strikes. A mullet-style tail works well for the redfish and trout the last two hours before sundown. When darkness settles in, switch to a lure that resembles a shrimp or a longer jerkbait-style tail. Move these lures so they are skimmed just off the bottom. A "Texas rig" or other weedless option keeps your lure free of the floating weeds. Set the hook when you feel the solid "thump" of these fish eating the lure.
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March 22, 2012 by staff
Morphine Mix-Up, The company at the centre of a nationwide drug shortage is facing a new public relations crisis over a morphine mixup that had hospitals across the country pulling vials of drugs from pharmacy shelves Thursday.
The latest problem for Sandoz Canada Inc., occurred Wednesday after a Toronto hospital discovered a box labelled as containing morphine also contained vials of a different, adrenalin-like drug called isoproterenol hydrochloride, which is used in heart surgeries and cardiac arrests.
Health Canada called for an urgent quarantine of any supply of products from the affected lots. The quarantine involves 5,700 boxes of morphine sold to Canadian hospitals starting earlier this month.
On Thursday, tests results from Sandoz's lab confirmed the vials in the mislabelled package were labelled properly, meaning the drugs were not switched.
But it's not known what still needs to happen before the quarantine is lifted.
At a hastily called news conference Wednesday night, B.C. Health Minister Mike de Jong called the latest mishap a "troubling complication."
"We are advised, based on the preliminary investigations, that the ampoules themselves are clearly labelled with the correct information and it is the boxes that have been mislabelled," he said.
"We are not aware, nor has Health Canada alerted us to any other mislabelled products that have been packaged in this way. I do want to offer this reassurance that while we are, and I am providing this information (Wednesday night), we have not been made aware of any adverse events up until this point as a result of the mislabelling, nor have we even heard reports that health professionals in British Columbia have discovered any incorrectly packaged medication in any of the shipments that have been received here in B.C."
A Health Canada spokesman said there have been no reports of adverse reactions and that the drugs in the mislabelled package were not used.
Isoproterenol hydrochloride is a stimulant that mimics the action of adrenalin, and is used in cases of cardiac arrest until emergency defibrillation or pacemaker therapy can be deployed.
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text: Rock fans can go their entire lives without knowing or caring about which label their favorite acts record for, but in hip-hop, labels often take on a much more important role. Part social club, part gang, and part endlessly cross-marketed brand, a label with a strong identity can sell millions of albums on the strength of its image alone, as when Master P made a fortune by slapping his trademark tank insignia on a slew of listless sound-alikes. Best known for the crucial role he's played in the careers of DMX and Ja Rule, producer Irv Gotti understands the importance of image, and has spent the past few years trying to develop his vanity label, Murder Inc., into a hip-hop force. Gotti had enormous success both with Ja Rule and with pop-leaning R&B princess Ashanti, but fumbled with The Murderers, a supergroup of sorts whose 2000 debut met with scathingly negative reviews. The Murderers return individually on The Inc., Gotti's latest attempt to turn his label into the next Bad Boy or Cash Money. Gotti clearly perceives Murder Inc. as a stable of outlaws à la Death Row, but its hardcore aspirations seem sorely at odds with Ja Rule's teen-heartthrob appeal and Ashanti's squeaky-clean image. The Inc.'s sound reveals a similar identity crisis. One minute, Gotti and his co-producers are emulating the synthesizer acrobatics of Swizz Beatz; the next they're attempting the sort of low-riding funk perfected by Dr. Dre during his Death Row days. Gotti tries out of a number of different styles on Inc., but the only one that fits is the P. Diddy-style karaoke-rap of "Ain't It Funny," in which J. Lo borrows the beat of Craig Mack's "Flava In Ya Ear" to subtly dis a materialistic former lover. Murder Inc. may eventually emerge as a rap force, but The Inc. reveals its weaknesses rather than its strengths. When it comes to developing a label's image, Gotti has nothing on P. Diddy, who has made Bad Boy synonymous with a glossy pop sound and a materialistic lifestyle. Essentially That's What P. Diddy Calls Music!, We Invented The Remix remixes the best tracks from albums by P. Diddy, G. Dep, 112, and Notorious B.I.G. Ever the micro-manager, P. Diddy litters the disc with his distinctive vocal trademarks, and while he still makes marble-mouthed former sidekick Ma$e sound like Twista, he's thankfully learned to play to his strengths. The ridiculous gangsta fantasies and whiny self-pity of his first two solo albums are mostly gone, replaced by a far more appealing, if far from masterful, mixture of old-school braggadocio and lovelorn yearning. It may be P. Diddy's party, but Remix is stolen by its high-powered guests, particularly habitual track-stealer Ludacris (on a two-part remix of "Peaches And Cream") and the nostalgia-inducing trio of Ghostface Killah, Keith Murray, and Craig Mack, who overshadow a comparatively bland G. Dep on an irresistible remix of "Special Delivery." Not to be outdone, Busta Rhymes and M.O.P. burn up "Bad Boy For Life," which smartly retains Megahertz's earth-shaking electro-funk beat. Of course, it wouldn't be a proper Bad Boy album if it didn't raid P. Diddy's extensive new-wave record collection, so a remix of Faith Evans and G. Dep's "You Gets No Love" plunders the icy synths of The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams," to surprisingly palatable results. Populist to the core, P. Diddy has always prided himself on giving people what they want, and We Invented The Remix does so better than his filler-plagued solo albums. Like P. Diddy, fellow dance-floor populist Jermaine Dupri is a businessman first, a producer second, and a rapper third. Dupri's Definition Of A Remix takes P. Diddy's nothing-but-the-hits approach one step further by offering dance-floor and radio-friendly remixes of the label's most recent hits on a filler-free seven-track EP. Built around a remix of "Welcome To Atlanta" that finds Dupri, P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg, and the St. Lunatics' Murphy Lee playing tour guide to their respective cities, Definition raises demographic pandering to an art form. For the ladies, there's Jagged Edge's pro-monogamy anthem "Let's Get Married," joined, inexplicably, to the bare-bones boom-bap of Run DMC's "It's Like That." Jagged Edge's "Promise" shamelessly (though effectively) jacks the beat from the ultimate hip-hop love song, LL Cool J's "I Need Love." And, of course, there's the aforementioned "Welcome To Atlanta (Coast To Coast Radio Remix)," which is designed to appeal the sizable portion of the U.S. that lives in the South, West, Midwest, or East. It may not be art, but it is entertainment. Like P. Diddy, Dupri knows how to throw a sonic party, and has the good sense to wind it down before he wears out his welcome.


text: While we are enjoying a Dutch summer (Californians would refer to it as winter) Tenue de Nîmes prepares for the new season Autumn Winter season! There is no brand more capable to set the tone than our good friends at Acne Studios. Their first hit this season is immediately one to remember: The brand just released its mind-blowing Hava Jacket in off-white boiled wool. This signature piece comes with a dramatic 'bow' and has a beautiful notched collar. The second image shows the Sophia Jacquard padded bomber jacket that we revealed earlier this week on our Tenue de Nîmes Instagram. Winter is coming good people so we are back soon with more of those Tenue de Nîmes 'Good Things in Life'.


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WORKERS at a Saltney factory are today (Friday, January 25) staging a second day of strike action in a row over pay.
Employees at metalwork manufacturers Lion Deva in Saltney formed picket lines for the second time at their River Lane site.
They were joined in their protest by friends and family.
The workers claim pay falls below the national minimum wage and are additionally dissatisfied with bonus schemes currently in place.
Liz Lewis, regional industrial organiser for the union, Unite, said: "Our members at Lion Deva have been forced to strike again as a satisfactory outcome has not yet been reached.
"We are prepared to sit around the table to have further negotiations with the company whenever they choose to do so."
The firm, which had been negotiating over pay since last year, told the Leader last week that it was seeking advice from the Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service (ACAS) and had not closed the door on negotiations.
Ms Lewis added: "We are fully prepared to have a meeting with ACAS to help us reach a satisfactory conclusion."
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Alec Baldwin is mad as hell and can't take life in New York any more.
As reported by E! Online, the former 30 Rock star has penned an exhaustive New York magazine essay in which he states his "goodbye to public life" and announces his intention to move to California.
Baldwin, 55, appears on the cover of the Feb. 24 issue of New York magazine looking very serious beside the cover line "I Give Up, by Alec Baldwin."
And as anyone might have guessed, Baldwin is citing the tabloid media as the primary reason for his his planned relocation to the West Coast.
"I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible," Baldwin writes in the essay. "This is the last time I'm going to talk about my personal life in an American publication again."
In the essay, Baldwin says his ongoing confrontations with the paparazzi have soured him on life in the Big Apple.
"I find myself bitter, defensive and more misanthropic than I care to admit," he writes.
More specifically, Baldwin recounts the now-infamous incident from last November when he was accused of leveling an anti-gay slur toward a TMZ photographer attempting to take a picture of the actor and his new wife, Hilaria, and their infant daughter.
At the time, the incident prompted MSNBC to suspend Baldwin from his just-launched late-night talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin. The cable channel subsequently fired Baldwin and cancelled the show, which "came out of nowhere," according to Baldwin.
For the most part, the essay finds the Oscar-nominated actor trying to make sense of the incident from three months ago.
"I'm trying to understand what happened," Baldwin writes. "How an altercation on the street, in which I was accused – wrongly – of using a gay slur, could have cascaded like this. There's been a shift in my life. And it's caused me to step back and say, 'This is happening for a reason.'"
Baldwin also argues in his essay that he has a long track record in supporting gay causes.
"Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends. I'm doing Rock of Ages one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with [Modern Family's] Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality. I'm officiating at a gay friend's wedding."
Asserts Baldwin: "I'm not a homophobic person at all. But this is how the world now sees me."
Of course, it doesn't help Baldwin's argument that in the same essay he readily acknowledges referring to a Daily Mail correspondent as a "toxic little queen" after the reporter accused the actor's wife of tweeting during James Gandolfini's funeral.
In his essay, Baldwin also refers to the "Gay Department of Justice" and calls CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper "the self-appointed Jack Valenti of gay media culture."
Baldwin takes sharp aim at other targets in his 5284-word opus.
Targets such as: Openly gay MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, whom Baldwin accuses of masterminding his ejection from the news channel. Baldwin calls her "a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air."
Maddow responded to Baldwin's claims on Sunday by tweeting, "I have never met Mr. Baldwin, either on camera or off-camera. I wish him all the best."
Baldwin also describes TMZ founder Harvey Levin as "a cretinous barnacle on the press … Do you honestly believe that I would give someone like TMZ's Harvey Levin, of all people, another club to beat me with?"
And Baldwin even takes a shot at Transformers star Shia LaBeouf, with whom he worked fleetingly on the Broadway play Orphans, before LaBeouf was fired and replaced by Ben Foster.
"He [LaBeouf] had that card, that card you get when you make films that make a lot of money that gives you a certain kind of entitlement," Baldwin writes. "I think he was surprised that it didn't work in the theatre."
Bizarrely, in the very same essay Baldwin changes lanes and ends up empathizing with LaBeouf by stating, "Shia LaBeouf went to a film screening recently and wore a bag over his head and the bag says I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE. And there was truly a part of me that felt sorry for him, oddly enough."
But in the essay's final take, Baldwin insists that he's now a devoted family man and wants to start life all over again in Los Angeles.
"I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore," he writes. "I want the same thing everybody else wants. I want a happy home, and for the first time in my adult life, I have one."Report Typo/Error
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