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Despite having alcoholism in my family history, I only found out that I had my own issues with addiction when I became a journalist. It never crossed my mind to drink before sunset when I was in university, but when I landed my first position as an editor, it suddenly became normal to drink champagne at 11am, and I liked it. A lot.
I mean, if you're at a morning cocktail party for the opening of the latest Chanel store and everyone else is doing it, then why the hell not?
I was a highly functional alcoholic, at least as far as work was concerned. I'd go to the office every day and somehow pump out reasonably good articles with a bottle of Gatorade mixed with vodka in my purse.
At home, though, my sink was full of dishes, my floors were dirty, and I didn't really care about anything else besides just making it through the day and getting back to my apartment where I could chase my pills with a bottle of wine and pass out.
I finally took a medical leave from work and checked myself into rehab last year. It worked for me, at least for seven months. It felt great to finally not rely on alcohol and benzos to calm my nerves. I went back to my old job as an editor at a media outlet whose name I won't mention, after being clean for three months.
Before that, I hadn't gone more than a week without alcohol in about 10 years, and there I was going to the office every day without a hangover or alcohol in my purse and hitting the gym every morning or at lunch.
I was even writing the kind of articles that I used to think required a great big glass, or sometimes bottle, of wine to get through and drinking Diet Coke and Perrier at press events instead of champagne.
Unfortunately for me, there was a new girl at the office who took an immediate dislike to me. Maybe it was because I was so open about coming back from rehab. I don't see the point in keeping things like that a secret, since, if your story can help someone else who might be afraid to ask for help, then why not just be honest about it?
Besides, what else could I have said: "Hey guys, sorry I've been gone so long, but I JUST got back from filming 'The Real World: Miami!'"
Or maybe it was just the fact that I looked fucking awesome. When you stop drinking for a long period of time, your eyes get brighter, your complexion evens out and you lose the weird beer belly you used to think was just a part of getting older.
"If Vicki loses another pound, we won't see her anymore," she once remarked aloud to the editorial department when I came back from pumping iron at the gym at lunch (and, by the way, I was actually gaining weight in muscle, so her remarks weren't even accurate).
Given that, pre-rehab, I used my lunch breaks to meet friends for drinks or run home to my apartment to chug a couple beers down, I took this as an insult to my newfound healthy lifestyle. It felt like she was insinuating that I had just replaced my addiction to alcohol and pills with anorexia. Whether or not that was really what she meant to imply, it pissed me off, nonetheless.
"You lose a lot of weight when you stop drinking a case of beer a night," I piped back, unashamed of the person I used to be, because I was so proud of the new person I had become.
If she wasn't making comments about my weight, she was pointing out my typos, as if they were some giant misfortune that couldn't be fixed by the copy editor. She did this to all the editors, but I took it personally, and the constant antagonizing eventually broke me, even though I should have been able to just laugh it off, given how ridiculous a person she was.
But despite how laughable it should have been to me, after seven months of sobriety and feeling good about myself, I started to feel sick on my subway ride to work each day, agonizing about how uncomfortable I knew I was going to feel for the 9-10 hours I spent in my cubicle across from her.
One morning, after I had finished working out at the gym before heading to the office, I was gurgling Scope while getting ready for work. As the 30 seconds of having it in the back of my throat went by, I started feeling anxious about the day, wondering what flaw she might try to point out about me or my work that day.
As I was about to spit it out, I swallowed it instead. It was gross. I mean, you'd never eat a toothpaste sandwich, so why would anyone ever drink Scope? The problem with addicts, though, is that it's not about the taste or the pain your addiction requires to take effect; it's about the high. Sometimes the pain is even part of the pleasure.
That's why you can't even bring perfume or nail polish remover to rehab; they're afraid you'll get desperate and drink it. I didn't understand it at the time, but when I swallowed that first mouthful of Scope, I understood.
Since I hadn't had a drink in seven months, it took only a few minutes before I had a buzz going. I took yet another swig.
"Fuck today!" I thought. "If she's going to harass me, I'd at least rather be in a state of mind where I don't really give a damn."
I convinced myself it wasn't a real drink. I mean, what's the alcohol content of mouthwash, anyway? Apparently enough.
I went to work kind of dopey, but it wasn't obvious I was buzzed, since everyone knew I had been so proudly sober for so long. I just pretended that I didn't get a lot of sleep the night before, and that seemed to cover up my Scope binge. Besides, I didn't smell like alcohol, just overly minty, like I had come back from the dentist.
I did it again the next morning, and then I started piling up on Scope at the drugstore, so I could have it at home too. I was too afraid to buy alcohol again, in part because I was worried that it would mean that I'd actually returned to the world of alcoholism, and also because I didn't want to accidentally run into anyone I knew while buying alcohol.
Scope seemed like a "normal person" thing to buy, and while it was gross, I started swigging a lot of it.
Eventually, having Scope in the morning before work and here and there at home in the evening wasn't enough for me. I wanted the option of having it all day, despite working in an open-concept office.
I switched brands to a yellow-colored Listerine, which I put in one of those Kombucha bottles you read so much about on xoJane. No one could really tell the difference, at least when it came to looking at the bottle. When it came to my behavior, that was another story.
One day I was so completely drunk at work, one of my coworkers sent me an email that said, "Dude, what's up? You're acting really strange."
Instead of telling her the truth — because who would ever want to admit that she was drinking mouthwash, even though I'm telling all of you right now — I blamed it on not sleeping.
She wrote an email to my boss, suggesting that she take me home, and she did.
When I got home, instead of hitting the drugstore for more mouthwash, I made an emergency appointment with the psychiatrist who got me into rehab in the first place and decided to it was time to leave my job.
I had no real savings, and no concrete plans for the future, except to deal with my relapse as soon as possible. After all the work I had done to sober up, I had gone back to having a puffy red face, as most alcoholics do, and the whites of my eyes looked almost transparent. In just a mere few weeks of binging on mouthwash, I was back to being a complete mess.
In the mirror, I only saw the ghost of my past self, one that I thought I had exorcized from my body and mind, but apparently it was still lingering there waiting for me to get weak. I felt like a failure, even more so than ever before, because I knew what I was doing this time, and I felt like I chose to fail.
Instead of harping on me for falling off track like I expected her to, my psychiatrist congratulated me on the seven months I managed to stay sober.
"Relapsing is pretty normal," she explained. "You can get to a point where you think you can test yourself again. They just don't tell you that in rehab because they don't want you to feel destined to fail.
I couldn't go back to my old rehab because, as government-funded things go, they had no room for me at the time. . Instead, my psychiatrist put me on Valium, a prescription that would lower in dose for three weeks until I finally got off of that too. She also insisted that I live with my parents for at least two weeks, and that I had to go to the pharmacy every day in person to pick up my daily Valium, in case I decided to overdose.
It was hell at first — night sweats, a palpitating heart, no appetite, a lack of desire to do anything but just lie there with my brain awake but mostly blank and my body unwilling to shut down. I would stare at the clock and just wish that someone could put me into a deep sleep for a week while the coming down part worked itself out.
But, having been through it before, I knew that after a week of lying on my parents' couch watching Dr. Oz, the withdrawal symptoms would be manageable.
I also knew that this time was different. When I first went into rehab after about eight years of alcohol and prescription pill abuse, the self-reconstruction phase was a lot like renovating an entire house; this time it was more like cleaning up after a really wild house party.
Today marks my 30th day re-sober. I may have relapsed in the most disgusting way imaginable (well, maybe nail polish remover would be grosser), but I put myself back together.
I can't blame the new girl for my relapse; it's my own fault for letting her get to me. In some ways, maybe I should thank her, for pushing me to leave a job I hated and a person I hated being around.
Sure, I wish I quit without the relapse as my justification, but I learned something from relapsing, too: It's OK to fall, as long as you are willing to get up and fight again.
This post originally appeared on XO Jane. Republished with permission.
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Will an exceptionally beautiful 2013 Tour de France help everyone forget an exceptionally ugly ride for cycling? Presented with great pomp in Paris on Wednesday, the route for the special 100th edition of the world's most famous—and more recently, infamous—bicycle race is a stunner. Only 48 hours after disgraced American hero Lance Armstrong, 41, was officially stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, the videos of sweeping Alpine and Pyrenean vistas on the big screen at a crowded Paris conference center were a dreamy pause from the fallout of the biggest scandal in the sport's history. In France, the downfall of Armstrong, who has repeatedly denied doping, was met with a mix of schadenfreude, soul-searching, and new calls to rescue cycling's holy grail, arguably the world's most arduous and spectacular sporting event, from drug-tainted infamy.
That ugly flipside weighed heavily at Wednesday's Paris ceremony. On Monday, the International Cycling Union (UCI), the sport's governing body, concurred with the findings of a landmark 1,000-page United States Anti-Doping Agency report that accused Armstrong, as head of the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, of "the most sophisticated, professionalized, and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
In stripping Armstrong of his Tour de France titles—seven consecutive victories from 1999 to 2005—and disqualifying all of his competitive results since August 1998, UCI president Pat McQuaid said he was "sickened" by USADA's findings. "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," McQuaid declared. French daily Le Figaro's next-day headline belonged on the obituary pages: "Lance Armstrong, l'Epitaphe," it read. "The end of a lie, a myth, a system, an era," noting his now best-ever tour finish was a 36th place in 1995, before his well-known bout with cancer."
Despite organizers' best efforts, Armstrong's specter won't be far out of mind when riders take on the epic 100th Tour de France's 3,479 km, 21-stage route on June 29, no matter how distracting the scenery. For the first time, the tour begins in the Mediterranean, in Corsica, nicknamed the "Island of Beauty." The 2013 route favors climbers—two ascents of the legendary Alpe d'Huez in a single day are a first—and touches 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the majestic Mont Saint-Michel off France's northern coast. The Château de Versailles opens the last ride to the Champs-Elysées. The 2013 winner will climb the podium, unusually, dramatically, around sunset on July 21.
Yet in a quirk of the calendar, the 2013 Tour de France was revealed even as the seven new winners of the 1999 to 2005 races have yet to be determined. In light of USADA's evidence, Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has pled for leaving the winner's name blank in the history books, to underline the dark years; current and former riders, too, have come out in favor of a victory vacuum. "In the USADA report, two things are called into question, a system and an era. That era must be marked by an absence of winners," Prudhomme told reporters on Monday. But the UCI will have the last word at a meeting in Geneva on Friday. Should the seven slots be left blank, the hiccup in the Tour de France winners chart would match its last hiatus, from 1940 to 1946, for World War II.
This may be the best course of action, as finding consensus winners for Armstrong's stripped years would be a surreal puzzle. Recently disqualified Tour de France champs—2006's Floyd Landis and 2010's Alberto Contador—have seen second-place finishers Oscar Pereiro and Andy Schleck, respectively, promoted after the fact. But as USADA's report argued, "The era in professional cycling in which [Armstrong] dominated as patron of the peloton was the dirtiest ever. Twenty of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 have been directly tied to doping, through admissions, sanctions, and public investigations or exceeding the UCI hematocrit threshold." (Trivia fiends will note that, of the 21 accused in that assessment, the last man standing is one Fernando Escartin, of Spain.) USADA added that 36 of the 45 podium finishers over the wider 1996 to 2010 period were similarly tainted.
Addressing a crowd of 4,000 including riders and media in Paris on Wednesday, Prudhomme addressed the tour's troubled history. "The enemy is doping. The enemy isn't cycling, and even less the Tour de France." Without naming names, but in evident reference to Armstrong, Prudhomme looked to offer hope for the race's future: "Those who might have been afraid in the past of some of their colleagues need no longer be afraid. The tour is on their side; the tour will be on their side." To a crowd that included Contador, the 2007 and 2009 Tour de France winner who was suspended six months after being stripped of his 2010 win, Prudhomme applauded one initiative to encourage teams not to rehire riders suspended more than six months. And he pointed an accusatory finger beyond riders to irresponsible managers and the shady doctors who enable a doping culture.
In France, after Armstrong's emphatic fall from grace, the media have been dominated by schadenfreude, detailing the American's meteoric decline one disenchanted sponsor at a time as his cycling-industrial complex topples. L'Equipe, the French sports newspaper that sparked controversy in 2005 when it claimed Armstrong's 1999 urine samples tested positive for the doping agent EPO, wrote of Armstrong's stripped victories, "In itself, it's huge. It's not surprising, just huge."
Others were primed for catharsis. "His nauseating prize chart: thief of dreams, cheat of rankings, falsifier of legend, intimidator of the peloton. Yellow jersey of EPO injections, ace of testosterone pills, the American, more godfather than boss, has sullied the glorious epic of the Tour de France," the regional daily L'Est Républicain opined. "The Mephisto of the bike will forever mark a black, dirty era made of lies, deception, and illusions. He wanted to be an example for the world; here he is reduced to the status of a pariah, a gangster under the threat of prison for perjury."
There were also the long-awaited declarations of I-told-you-so after years of unsanctioned allegations about America's cycling monolith. Pierre Bordry, the former head of a French anti-doping agency, applauded the UCI's decision; Armstrong, Bordry has said, boasted of asking for Bordry's "head," or at least his job, over lunch with then-president Nicolas Sarkozy. Pierre Ballester, who co-authored 2004's L.A. Confidentiel, was hotly solicited by the French press this week. His book with Sunday Times journalist David Walsh detailed doping allegations against Armstrong while the American was still winning the Tour de France. (The cyclist pocketed a large out-of-court defamation settlement—reportedly £1 million—from The Sunday Times after the British newspaper excerpted the book; the newspaper said this month it is now considering legal action to recover those funds.)
A handful of current and former riders have stepped up in Armstrong's defense, including Spanish champ Miguel Indurain, who now once again shares the Tour de France record with five wins. But others seem keen to let loose. "I raced with Armstrong before his illness," the former French rider Eric Boyer told Le Parisien. "He had ordinary talent. He never could get past a climb among the 50 to 80 best in the peloton. He didn't have the physiological qualities to win the tour."
But for all the focus on Armstrong's downfall, it is lost on no one that the 1999 Tour de France—the first of his seven straight wins—was supposed to be a "Tour of Renewal" after the 1998 race was marred by another doping disaster. That massive scandal was spurred only days before the race's first stage, when a cache of doping products including EPO was discovered in the trunk of a Festina team car. "There is something rotten in the way the entirety of the cycling world is stomping on the fallen star. Because Lance Armstrong was knowingly used to repolish the image of a sport tarnished by the Festina scandal that destroyed the 1998 Tour," the regional daily Le Républicain Lorrain argued this week. "As long as he dopes intelligently, without getting caught: that was the implicit order in the 2000s, during which time the leader of the U.S. Postal team was an awesome promotional tool and a formidable cash machine."
Indeed, despite its clear ruling Monday, the UCI itself has not been spared, accused in the USADA report and by a ream of commentators of turning a blind eye. "[The UCI] pretends to turn up its nose in reading the USADA report when the nauseating aroma that tickled its nostrils for a decade never spoiled its appetite," L'Equipe charged.
The idea is to get the renewal part right this time. "So that the sport can fully unshackle itself from the past," USADA has proposed a South Africa–style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to encourage offenders to come forward. The World Anti-Doping Agency's chief, meanwhile, has pitched an all-sports amnesty for contrite dopers. The UCI has promised to consider such options, although some critics are leery.
"There has to be a big clean-out," Patrice Clerc, who headed the Tour de France's organizing body from 2000 to 2008 and claims he fell out of favor for disagreeing with the UCI, told Le Monde. "Armstrong is dead, may he rest in peace. But today, we have to dismantle the system that allowed that. [Otherwise] cycling won't come out of it."
All eyes now will be on the sport's next major test, as investigators in Padua wrap up a two-year international investigation centered on Italian doctor Michele Ferrari, an Armstrong associate banned for life by USADA in July. "Before talking about amnesty, the dossiers in progress must be followed through," the outspoken FDJ-BigMat team manager Marc Madiot told Agence France Presse at Wednesday's tour ceremony.
In the meantime, Tour de France devotees will still have visions of Versailles and the Alpe d'Huez to sleep on. Or those long July hours picnicking in wait for a fleeting rainbow streak of jerseys to spill through a mountain pass. The 100th edition 2013 race, as mapped out to the world in Paris on Wednesday, is self-consciously a "heritage" edition, looking back at a glorious past as it struggles to move forward. Some critics complain the sport has little incentive to change as long as forgiving fans crowd the roadside, rain or shine. But to paraphrase the Tour de France's most infamous 36th-place finisher, "It's not entirely about the bikes."

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FDA approves first new weight loss pill in decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arena Pharmaceutical's anti-obesity pill Belviq, the first new prescription drug for long-term weight loss to enter the US market in more than a decade.
The agency cleared the pill for adults who are obese or are overweight with at least one medical complication, such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
The Food and Drug Administration denied approval for Arena's drug in 2010 after scientists raised concerns about tumors that developed in animals studied with the drug. The San Diego company resubmitted the drug with additional data earlier this year, and the FDA said there was little risk of tumors in humans.
With US obesity rates nearing 35 percent of the adult population, many doctors have called on the FDA to approve new weight loss treatments.
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Ancient art
Ancient art can be defined as art created by cultures in pre-history, and early history. The study of ancient art plays an important part in scholarly understanding both pre-historical peoples and in developing deeper understanding of all Ancient peoples. Art has not only helped historians understand more about superficial things such as the way ancient people dressed, what their homes looked like, what they treasured most, and their everyday living. It has also shed light upon ancient peoples various religions, systems of worship, and spirituality. Since there were no established styles or "schools" of art, and since each community tended to be isolated from other communities, ancient cultures tended to have their own creative take on art.
Though not always the case, most "ancient art" was directly related to the religion of a given people.
The Egyptians were one of the greatest lovers of architecture and sculpture, using art as a way to interact with their gods, with the dead, and with the afterlife. Art, combined with magical writing, adorned temple walls as well as the burial chambers of the dead. The City of the Dead is guarded by one of the most famous works of ancient art, the Sphinx. The Egyptians also excelled at using precious metals and semi-precious stones and gems to decorate their sculptures.
The Mesopotamians created a series of tiles that when placed together would form an image, generally displaying the link between the gods and their kings. The Babylonians practiced all the Mesopotamian arts and excelled in brightly colored glazed tiles, used to create relief sculptures.
The Sumerians made tiny carvings in lapis lazuli, ivory and limestone. A royal grave in Ur depicted a wheeled cart or chariot in bitumen, a sort of mosaic with engraved drawings.
The Ancient Aztec carved elaborate pictoglyphs into their temples in a cross between art and writing. They also carved statues of their gods into the temples and burial sites.
The Ancient Chinese created line art of ink and paprus; simplistic drawings in style - yet complex in meaning and abstractions. They carved figures into jade and soapstone of the gods, the ancestors, and animal spirits.
In ancient art there are many examples of great battles, celebrations, and how they mourned their dead. In the different ancient cultures they applied various media to tell their stories.


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Return to the United Kingdom: Scheme of Arrangement becomes effectiveThe order made by the Jersey Court on 18 December 2012 sanctioning the Scheme of Arrangement between WPP plc (now renamed WPP 2012 Limited, "WPP") and its share owners in relation to the introduction of a new Jersey incorporated and United Kingdom tax resident parent company ("New WPP"), as proposed in WPP's circular dated 13 November 2012 (the "Scheme Circular"), has today been delivered to the Jersey Registrar of Companies and registered by him.
The Scheme of Arrangement has, accordingly, become effective and New WPP, which has adopted the name WPP plc, has become the new parent company of the WPP Group.
As a result of the Scheme, 1,265,424,113 new ordinary shares of ten pence each in the capital of New WPP ("New WPP Shares") have been issued to former WPP Share Owners on a one-for-one basis.
The New WPP Shares have been admitted to the premium segment of the Official List maintained by the UKLA and dealings in New WPP Shares on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities commenced at 8.00 a.m. (London time) today, 2 January 2013. Dealings in New WPP ADSs are also expected to commence on NASDAQ at the opening of business (New York time) today.
The New WPP Shares to which former WPP Share Owners are entitled will:
(a) to the extent the entitlement arises as a result of having held WPP Shares in uncertificated form, be credited to the appropriate CREST accounts of such share owners with effect from today; and
(b) to the extent the entitlement arises as a result of having held WPP Shares in certificated form, be delivered in certificated form with the relevant new share certificates expected to be despatched by post, at such share owner's risk, by no later than 15 January 2013.
A further announcement will be made on or around 10 January 2013 in relation to the New WPP Reduction of Capital.
Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Scheme Circular.
Merrill Lynch International is acting as sponsor in relation to New WPP's application for listing and as corporate broker to WPP and New WPP. Merrill Lynch International is acting for WPP and New WPP and no one else in connection with the Scheme and will not be responsible to anyone other than WPP and New WPP for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the proposals or the contents of this announcement.
This announcement does not constitute an invitation or offer to sell or exchange or the solicitation of an invitation or offer to buy or exchange any security. None of the securities referred to in this announcement shall be sold, issued, subscribed for, purchased, exchanged or transferred in any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law.
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Board test plan
First, note that there are various different combinations of components (SKUs). Items such as the system RAM, the DCON SDRAM, the NAND flash, the BIOS SPI flash, etc. have multiple sources.
Ensure that each combination, or at least one of each major component with multiple sources, is tested. Bugs do slip through the cracks if you omit even one manufacturer's part from the testing.
Things in italics are things that should be scriptable and in the tinderbox
See fbtest.c for a DCON register-poking tool.
Hints on how to achieve the below tests can be found in the [http://www.laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Image:DCON_Specification%2C_V0.8.doc DCON Specification] or for the disinclined at http://david.woodhou.se/dcontest.txt
- Check DCON <-> VGA mode transitions. They should be glitchless and an IRQ should arrive promptly. Test with various intervals between the DCON and the VGA changes, to allow for different amounts of clock drift.
- Check sleep mode and auto-sleep mode.
- Check ECPWRRQST transition from sleep mode.
- Check blanking.
- Check dot-clock divider setting to request DCON mode refresh frequency
- Check colour, anti-aliasing, monochrome modes. Watch for setup/hold time problems on the display.
- Set backlight to each level 0-15. Check for noise and fluctuations.
- Check correctness of colours in colour mode
- Verify SDRAM self-refresh: Enter DCON mode, enter sleep mode, wait. Enter DCON mode again.inter
- Benchmark read/write access on each type of NAND part ("modprobe mtdchar; dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=100")
- Introduce 1-4 symbol errors in page and verify correct correction. (someday)
- Linux root filesystem on NAND
- Test insertion/detection, hotplug removal.
- Test high-speed mode
- Benchmark read/write speed on low-speed and high-speed devices
- Test MMC and SD devices
- Test headphone output and speakers, verify unclipped output at volume on each.
- Test internal and external microphone input; check for good input levels without noise.
- Analogue input test
- Verify correct image in both overlay and capture modes
- Once we have test program, that contrast, chroma, flip all work.
You can use "xev" for this testing.
- Verify scancodes from main keyboard keys (and that all keys are reported)
- Verify scancodes of additional keys on unit -- joypad, game buttons, mode
- Verify power button input functional
- Verify multiple-key-press functional with no 'ghost' keys
- Verify capacitive<->resistive mode switching
- Verify noiseless operation in capacitive mode, especially on first touch
- Verify operation in resistive mode across whole area of pad
- Check (rough) calibration by edge of screen matching marks on the touch pad.
- Verify EC functionality after battery overdrain (low voltage). It should reset and battery should charge correctly.
- Verify full Battery Management System operation with full, low and absent batteries. Check especially for overcharge and undercharge behavior
- Correct operation of battery LED
- Battery status reporting to Linux
- Process
- Check that the battery shows charging or charged
- Unplug the machine
- Check that the battery shows present and
- Check that the machine does not show it is plugged in
- Plug in the machine
- Check that the battery shows charging
- Unplug the battery
- See that the battery shows not present
- Reinsert the battery
- Check that the battery shows present and charging again
- Verify correct poweroff and soft-reboot behaviour, including subsequent power-on.
- Verify full power domain switching -- each circuit which should be individually controlled should be able to be turned off and on by power management code without functionality problems. Lilian is working on code for
this testing.
- Verify correct operation temperature sensors, lid switch.
- Observe correct operation of power LED.
- Check manufacturing data in BIOS flash
- OpenFirmware self-update
- Set system date. Remove all power (battery and AC). Reapply power and check date is still set
- Test system suspend-to-ram and resume.
- Test keyboard light
- Verify ability to upgrade/downgrade Boot2 code
- Verify association in standard 802.11 mode
- Verify WEP/WPA encryption
- Verify connection in mesh mode
- Obtain Legacy IP address by DHCP, verify connectivity.
- IPv6 connectivity with link-local addresses (no setup required)
- Obtain IPv6 address with RA, verify connectivity.
- Antenna switch
- Verify correct power-up with high USB power draw
- Verify Open_Firmware and Linux correct operation with various hub/storage/ethernet/hid/other devices
- Make sure all three ports are functional!
- Verify correct operation with USB over-current situation. The USB should shut down; the system should not.
- Open_Firmware boot from USB
- Open_Firmware boot from Ethernet
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What if just one model from one brand were opened up to collaborative design? I don't suggest that design should be a democracy. But shouldn't design at least be a conversation? Designers can put their ideas on the Web. Customers can make suggestions and discuss them. Designers can take the best ideas and adapt them, giving credit where it is due. I don't imagine customers would collaborate on transmission design—though a few might have good suggestions if given a chance. But they would have a lot to contribute on the passenger compartment, the look of the car, the features, and the options. They could even get involved in economic decisions: Would you be willing to give up power windows if it got you a lower price or a nicer radio? This collaboration would invest customers in the product. It would build excitement. It would get the product talked about on the Web and linked to and boost its popularity in Google searches. The approach could change the relationship of customers to the brand and that would change the brand itself. Imagine that, the collaborative community car: our car.
A car company could take an existing brand and work with the community that already exists around it. Go to Facebook and you'll find communities of greater or lesser involvement and affection devoted to many car brands. I stopped counting the Facebook groups for BMW when I hit 500—including the "If the BMW M5 was a woman I would marry it" group, with more than 800 members. The online gatherings site Meetup has six clubs where people organize get-togethers for drives in their Beemers. BMW also has an official car club offering 75,000 members rebates on cars and discounts on Brooks Brothers clothes. (Do they see the demographic humor in that?) These are the company's best customers—its partners. BMW should solicit their help in designing cars, in giving advice to fellow customers (there's a little of that in the club forums), even in selling cars.
On Facebook, BMW invited customers to color pictures of its car. It's hard to imagine something more children's museum-like than a company enticing adults to color cars. But more than 9,000 people submitted their designs in only a few days. What that tells me is not just that they love their BMWs but that they would love BMWs that look different—BMWs that express their muses as well as their libidos.
What an opportunity the industry has to bring humanity and personality back to cars. If so many of us like to express ourselves in blogs, YouTube videos, Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, and Flickr—if, as Google understands, many of us want to have a strong identity online through self-expression—why wouldn't we want to express ourselves through our cars? Companies have turned their products into commodities by imposing such sameness on them. I know, it's about efficiency: four models built under four brands on the same body with the same parts, making them cheaper. But the joy of customizing our own cars was taken away by factory efficiencies and dealer economics: We buy off the lot, not out of the factory, and we buy cars that are often loaded, like cable subscriptions, with things we don't want.
: And more: Here's a Q&A with me by Dave Kansas at The Daily Beast.
: A kind reader told me that this story on WWGD? took up a whole page in today's Volkskrant.


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Hi, my site allows users (buyers) to buy e-learning courses for other users (receivers). The buyer completes a form, entering in the receivers email address along with choosing an e-learning course for the receiver. These e-learning courses are presents (mostly surprises) and the majority of the time a buyer will not know if a receiver is already a member or not.
When payment is processed and the form is submitted, the site checks if the receiver is already a member, by checking if their email address is already associated with a user account, and therefore the site sends out 1 of 2 emails to the receiver:
A (receiver is already a member) - "you have received a new e-learning course from $buyer"
B (receiver is not a member) - "you have received a new e-learing course from $buyer, please click on the following link to complete your account"
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What is the best way to do this… i think it would be illegal to add a "search receiver by email" to the site, as this would allow users to enter in an email address and then if an email address is found, the site will auto display the user's first name and last name and username. I was then thinking maybe it is best to search for user by username… so if there is a result the site will auto display the usernames first name and last name only. Buyers can then focus on finding out the receivers username from them instead of the email address they signed up with… what do you think is the best approach… thanks in advance for your help…


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"I understand people have political opinions but I don't care to see you rant about them on your facebook status."
"Obama rules mit u lying ass he don't care for us only rich white people obama won that debate hands down give mit a lie detector test and ask him if he likes or cares for black or middle class or low income he would fail please hd may have all the white washed racist fooled not me obama is the man."
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Apprenticeship Records, Sharing a Birth Certificate, Which Tree to Use, Recording Female Names
Rhonda's Tips, September 05, 2002
Apprenticeship Records
Q: Is there anyway to find information on apprenticeship records? I'm trying to find information on a Uriah Perkins (b. July 1812 in Kentucky), who served as an apprentice for a cabinet maker. He was orphaned as a child and raised by the cabinet maker's family. Unfortunately, that's all the information that I have been able to find. Do apprenticeship records exist? If so, how can I go about locating them? -- Letitia
A: First, yes, apprenticeship records exist but they are sometimes included in other records (most often the guardianship records).
When searching for either kind of record you will need to know at least the county where the guardianship or apprenticeship was established. This is true in Kentucky. You know that Uriah Perkins was born in Kentucky in 1812. Where is he in 1850? While he would be 38 years old it is possible he is still in the same county in which he was born. It is certainly a place to start. If he owned land in that county, you may want to see if the land records give you any indication as to when he arrived in the county and where he came from.
Tax records are another way to try to establish if he was living in that county all along. Usually a male will appear in the tax lists as soon as he reached the age of majority. I suspect that in your case that Uriah should begin to show up in the tax lists in 1833. Usually the first few entries of a male are for a horse rather than any land or dwellings. Men were usually still single and only owned a horse, if that much. That is another good indication that the tax entry is for someone just reaching the age of majority.
If the county in which he is living in 1850 does not appear to be the one in which he grew up, you might want to look at the surrounding counties and do similar searches to see if you can pick him up as he is becoming a man. It may require that you search tax and land records for each county that surrounds the county you found him in the 1850 census.
Once you have established the county, then your first step should be the Family History Library Catalog. A keyword search on the terms "apprentice" and "Kentucky" I discovered that there are apprenticeship records for just a few counties that are available on microfilm, and of those most of the records started much later than what you would want. However, you might want to also search any Occupation sub-heading for the county in question as they are often found there, using the Place search rather than the Keyword search.
It is more likely that you will find Uriah Perkins in the guardianship records. Based on what you described, it sounds like the cabinet maker was made responsible for the boy until he was of age. This would require that the cabinet maker be made his guardian. Guardianship records are available on microfilm through the Family History Library for almost every county in Kentucky.
Depending on what has been microfilmed, you are likely to not only find the bond for the cabinet maker (usually all you will find in the apprenticeship records) but you may also find accountings of how the guardian is doing by the child.
Sharing a Birth Certificate
Q: I have an original birth certificate of a relative (by marriage ) in my family. Since no one can really remember who this person is, I am unsure of what to do with this old document. Do you know of any place I might be able to donate this to so it might be of use to somebody? Hope you can help me. -- Rozanne
A: It is nice of you to want to share such a precious document with those to whom it might mean more. The thing I would suggest you do is to post queries. You might also want to think about sharing it online as a digitized image, if you can prove that the individual is deceased. While it is most likely that he or she is, it is always a good idea to know for sure where vital records are concerned. There are some laws that protect such records that may cause you some trouble if the person was indeed still alive.
For the queries, I would post a query on the a genealogy message board, like the Ancestry forum, for both the state and the surname in question. Be sure to list enough identifying information for descendants to recognize that the record is of their ancestor. You may also want to seek out other mailing lists and other places of communication to share what you have.
Many of the USGenWeb Project pages offer different features including bulletin boards and sometimes files that can be downloaded. If the county in question for the birth certificate offers such a place for a digitized image, you might think of scanning it and sharing it so that many can view it. Then hold onto the original until someone contacts you.
By having a digitized image as well, once you have given the original away, if someone should come along later on who is also a descendant you could send them either the file or a printout of the file. It would never be permanently gone, especially if you place queries. You never know when someone will read a query and this way since you would be the contact person on the query you could still help the person contacting you.
Which Tree to Use
Q: I need to do a family tree for school and can't figure out how to reflect siblings of my direct ancestors, step-family members, etc. Is there any help you can provide? -- Melissa
A: Actually a true tree, as in a pedigree, is usually just the direct lineage from yourself back each generation, doubling with each generation. For instance, there is you, your two parents, your four grandparents, your eight great-grandparents, and so on. It sounds though as if your teacher is wanting more from you than this.
If you are doing this in a genealogy program, you will need to see if the program offers a way to add siblings on the Pedigree or Ancestor tree. Family Tree Maker does offer such an ability. This allows you to show the siblings of just yourself or of each person on the tree. Of course it creates a large and sometimes unwieldy chart.
If you are putting this on some sort of poster board then I fear you will meet with frustration. Plotting out a standard pedigree chart and assuring that you have left room for each subsequent generation is tricky enough. When you add siblings this can get more difficult.
If you are doing the chart by hand, while not completely accepted, you might consider creating a box under each direct ancestor, below his or her own life events, where you write the name of the siblings, and perhaps their year of birth so that the person looking at the chart can get an idea of where in the list of siblings your direct ancestor fit.
If you are doing this using a computer, then I would suggest you limit your chart to four or five generations at the most. As it is, you will find that the tree when created probably requires more than one page be put together to display the entire tree. In Family Tree Maker the program lists your direct ancestor on top and then in each box for the ancestor tree it lists the names and events of each sibling below, divided by a less prominent line. As a result the boxes can be quite long, and few generations can fit on a single 8x11 inch sheet of paper.
Recording Female Names
Q: When making a family tree, do you put the woman's maiden name in parenthesis, or her married name? For instance, my married name is Smith, and my maiden name is Jones. Do I write my name on the family tree as Susan Gwen Smith (Jones), or Susan Gwen Jones (Smith)? -- Susan
A: When recording women on any type of genealogical chart or when entering them into any genealogy software you use just the maiden name.
In your example the entry would be Susan Gwen Jones.
It is as you view the pedigree, or ancestor, tree or the family group sheet that you see the surname of the husband and thus know what name to search when looking for the records of the woman after she was married.
You will find in some books, especially indexes of early marriages, such as Clarence Almon Torrey'sNew England Marriages Before 1700that the book has included the maiden name of a woman in parenthesis if she was married once before the marriage being recorded. Generally though such entries just serve to confuse researchers.
As your example above shows, the person is left to wonder was the surname in parenthesis the maiden name or the married name, especially if they are seeing the female's name listed by itself without the identifying husband's name.
Rhonda R. McClure is a professional genealogist specializing in celebrity trees and computerized genealogy. She has been involved in online genealogy for fifteen years. She is an award-winning author of several genealogy how-to books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy, The Genealogist's Computer Companion, and Finding Your Famous and Infamous Ancestors. She may be contacted at [email protected].
See more advice from Rhonda in her columns Expert Tips, Tigs and Trees, and Overheard in the Message Boards.


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EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ThingWorx™ today announced an integration partnership with Industrial Networking Solutions (INS), a leading provider of network products and engineering services for the industrial marketplace. This partnership will allow INS to offer Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions at minimized cost, risk, and time to market for its customers by utilizing the ThingWorx Platform—the industry's first application development platform designed to reduce the effort required to build M2M and network applications for the emerging connected world.
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Edmunds: These 6 new SUVs are worth the wait
If you're in the market for a new SUV, it's important to know not only what's available now but also what's coming. Here are six SUVs going on sale in the next several months that we at Edmunds think are worth waiting for.
Why these six? One thing they have in common is the latest technology. On top of updated infotainment systems, every vehicle on this list offers a full suite of advanced safety features. Some have a few more tricks up their sleeves, and all offer something unique in the hopes of winning your hard-earned dollar.
Volvo's newest SUV is the subcompact 2019 XC40. It offers plenty of safety and technology features, and it's been built to make the most of its available space. Some useful highlights include an integrated trash bin, a hook for holding takeout food, and door pockets that can fit a 15-inch laptop. Acceleration comes from a punchy 248-horsepower turbocharged engine. And a hybrid model is coming.
Volvo is also using the XC40 to pioneer its new subscription-based Care By Volvo service. Similar to a pay-as-you-go phone plan, consumers pay a fixed monthly fee to get the XC40 with nearly everything covered, including insurance, and the option to change to another vehicle in as little as one year.
The XC40 Momentum — the only trim available at launch — comes with a price tag of $35,200. Future base pricing starts at $33,200.
We have high hopes for the redesigned 2019 Santa Fe. The lineup includes a two-row compact SUV and the larger three-row Santa Fe XL. Both look modern and upscale inside and out and should be very competitive with SUVs from Honda and Toyota.
Three engines will be available, including a 232-horsepower turbocharged gas engine and a 200-horsepower turbodiesel. The latter, along with optional load-leveling suspension, should make the Santa Fe a capable tow vehicle. The Santa Fe also offers a new Safe Exit Assist feature that can lock a door if it senses a passenger is about to swing it open in the path of an oncoming vehicle.
Pricing on either SUV is not yet available. The Santa Fe Sport currently goes for about $25,000 while the Santa Fe is $31,000.
The newest generation of Acura's compact luxury SUV looks to be its biggest step forward. The 2019 RDX will feature Acura's agility-enhancing all-wheel-drive system, a new look, lots of interior storage space and a nicely appointed cabin. Acura has also replaced the RDX's dual-screen infotainment setup, which was clunky and outdated. The new system uses a clean, high-definition screen and a touchpad controller.
Further equipped with luxury features, such as a panoramic sunroof, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, a head-up display and a premium audio system, the RDX should be one of the best new Acuras in years.
No pricing information is available for the newest Acura RDX, but the current generation starts at $36,000.
Those in need of a capable family hauler will have a new choice to consider: the 2019 Ascent. Subaru's three-row SUV is packed with features to keep both driver and passengers happy. With up to eight USB ports available, the Ascent can keep everyone's devices charged. Three-zone climate control and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration are all standard, as are traffic-adaptive cruise control and a frontal collision mitigation system.
With a $31,995 base price, the Ascent can also be optioned with lots of luxury-oriented comforts, including cooled front seats, second-row sunshades, and a premium Harman Kardon sound system. With 260 horsepower, standard all-wheel drive and a 5,000-pound towing capacity, the Ascent should make a compelling midsize choice.
Another new subcompact luxury SUV, the 2019 Lexus UX takes a different approach to the segment with its overstated, aggressive styling. Inside, you'll find a sleek design reminiscent of Lexus' flagship LC 500 coupe, as well as a digital gauge cluster. Both a 168-horsepower gasoline engine and a 176-horsepower hybrid with all-wheel drive will be available.
The UX is a high-tech little SUV. It can use GPS information to adjust the vehicle to road conditions and maximize fuel efficiency. And it can be outfitted with an adaptive suspension to enhance ride comfort and handling precision.
Pricing is not yet available.
If you wanted an all-electric SUV, your only choice up until now was the Tesla Model X. But Jaguar will give you another option with its 2019 I-Pace. The I-Pace should provide about 240 miles of driving range on a fully charged battery and yield a sports-car-worthy 0-60 mph sprint of about 4.5 seconds.
The I-Pace doesn't offer a lot of cargo space, but it comes with a luxuriously appointed interior and a sleek-looking tech interface. Before incentives, the I-Pace should come in around $70,000, which also makes its price tag smaller than the Model X's.
EDMUNDS SAYS: Though there's no shortage of good SUVs available now, it's worth taking note of new models hitting dealer showrooms this summer and fall. One could end up suiting your needs the best.
This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds. Will Kaufman is an associate staff writer at Edmunds. Instagram: @didntreadthestyleguide.
Related links:
— 2019 Volvo XC40 Review http://edmu.in/2FmfkVd
— 2019 Lexus UX First Look http://edmu.in/2IfTOPW
— 2019 Acura RDX Prototype First Look http://edmu.in/2DaMtgN
— 2019 Subaru Ascent First Look http://edmu.in/2G6z506
— 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe First Look http://edmu.in/2FqU9gE
— 2019 Jaguar I-Pace Test Drive http://bit.ly/2G8IUuH


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On horizontal surfaces like decks, the Transparent Stain is guaranteed for three years, the Semi-Transparent Stain is guaranteed for four years and the Solid Stain is guaranteed for five years.
· Time-savings that start in the store! Pigment suspension technology keeps the color evenly dispersed in the container; there's no need to put the can on the paint shaker and no waiting at the paint counter. The customer can just "grab and go."
Back at home, the formula can be applied to damp wood so the project can begin soon after cleaning and be finished faster (most deck stains require a 48-hour wait between cleaning and staining the wood.)
· Latex-based formulas provide soap and water clean-up.
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Thompson's Water Seal Waterproofing Stain is available in the five most popular colors; colors are Acorn Brown, Harvest Gold, Maple Brown, Sequoia Red and Woodland Cedar. Each color is available in three opacities (Transparent, Semi-Transparent and Solid), and the packages feature a sliding-scale graphic with a marker that indicates if that particular formula will show "Most Grain," (Transparent), "Medium Grain" (Semi-Transparent) or "Least Grain" (Solid.) This provides the user with as much information in store as possible so that the right choice is made the first time. At The Home Depot, the five transparent colors come in one and five gallon sizes; the semi-transparent and solid colors are available in one-gallon containers.
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The recommendation that certain people take a daily low dose of aspirin to prevent a heart attack has been around for a while now. But it's still not entirely clear which people would benefit the most – or at all – from taking a daily aspirin and which may get no significant benefit.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) currently recommends a daily low dose of aspirin (75—162 milligrams) for the following groups:
- People with diabetes who have already had a heart attack or stroke or who have been diagnosed with some form of cardiovascular disease (such as atherosclerosis or peripheral arterial disease)
- People with diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2) who are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease because they are over 40, have a family history of heart disease, smoke, have high blood pressure or a blood lipid (cholesterol and triglyceride) disorder, or have albuminuria (protein in the urine). (Click here to learn about risk factors for heart disease.)
The ADA makes these recommendations because people with diabetes generally have a risk for cardiovascular disease that is two to four times greater than that of the rest of the American population. In addition, people with diabetes tend to have increased "platelet aggregation," which means that their blood is more likely to clot abnormally, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Aspirin decreases blood clot formation, therefore lowering these risks.
In all cases, however, a person should talk to his doctor before starting to take daily aspirin. Having certain medical conditions (besides diabetes) and/or taking certain medicines that interfere or interact with aspirin may make it unsafe for some individuals.
About aspirin
Aspirin belongs to the class of drugs known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. It is commonly used to relieve mild to moderate aches and pains, such as headache or sore throat, and to reduce fever.
Aspirin is sold over the counter as a generic product and under many brand names in a number of forms: tablets, caplets, gelcaps, chewable tablets, suppositories, enteric-coated tablets (which have a barrier applied to the outer surface that prevents the release of the drug until it reaches the small intestine), and buffered tablets (which contain ingredients to reduce stomach acid). (To learn about some commonly used low-dose aspirin products, click here.) Aspirin is also an ingredient in some combination medicines. The dose of aspirin per tablet, caplet, etc., can range from 75 milligrams (mg) to 650 mg.
Because the most common side effect of routine aspirin use is irritation of the stomach lining, some physicians prefer enteric-coated or buffered aspirin for daily aspirin therapy. Taking aspirin with food, milk, or a full glass of water can also help minimize stomach irritation.
When taking aspirin on a daily basis, it is generally best to take it at the same time each day. Avoid taking it with other NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen (brand name Advil and others), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), and diclofenac (Voltaren); doing so may make one or both of the drugs less effective or increase the risk of side effects. If you must take both aspirin and ibuprofen, either take ibuprofen 8 hours before aspirin or 30 minutes after non-enteric-coated aspirin. The NSAID celecoxib (Celebrex) can be used at the same time as low-dose aspirin, but doing so increases the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Aspirin does degrade over time, and it degrades faster if exposed to warm, humid air. If your bottle of aspirin has passed its expiration date or smells like vinegar, discard it. It may no longer be effective.
Preventing heart attack
Blood is made up of red and white blood cells, plasma (the liquid part), and small, sticky particles called platelets. Normally, platelets help to heal wounds by causing the blood to clot at the site of an injury. However, in people with diabetes, platelets tend to be too sticky and more likely to form clots that are not beneficial. Such clots can lead to heart attack or stroke. (Click here to find out what to do if you think you're having a heart attack.) Regular aspirin use "thins" the blood, so that platelets are less likely to stick together and form clots.
Some recent studies have questioned how well aspirin therapy prevents heart attack in people with diabetes.
One study, published in October 2008 in the journal BMJ and called "The Prevention of Progression of Arterial Disease and Diabetes," was conducted at the University of Dundee in Scotland. It looked at 1,276 men and women who had never had a heart attack or stroke but were at high risk because they had either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, were age 40 or older, and had peripheral arterial disease. The researchers wanted to see if 100 mg of aspirin daily helped prevent "cardiovascular events" (such as heart attack or stroke) in the study participants. Some of the study participants took an aspirin a day, and some took a placebo (an inactive pill). After eight years, the researchers found that the number of heart attacks and strokes was about the same in the aspirin group as it was in the placebo group.
However, the researchers noted that several earlier studies have established the effectiveness of daily aspirin in reducing the risk of another heart attack or stroke among men and women with diabetes who have already had a heart attack or stroke. They concluded that aspirin should still be given for prevention of heart attacks in people with diabetes with diagnosed cardiovascular disease.
Another recent study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in November 2008 and called the "Japanese Primary Prevention of Atherosclerosis With Aspirin for Diabetes" trial, examined whether daily aspirin therapy prevented first cardiovascular events in Japanese people with Type 2 diabetes and no history of heart disease. In this study there were 2,539 participants, and the study lasted for about four years. At the end of the study, the re-searchers observed no significant difference in the number of first-time cardiovascular events in the two groups. But they did note that among study participants aged 65 and older, the risk of cardiovascular events decreased by 32%. Still, the researchers cautioned that the study results had to be looked at in context, and that the overall rate of initial cardiovascular events was relatively low.
The conclusions of these two studies are consistent with previous studies that have found little benefit to taking low-dose aspirin for people with diabetes who do not already have cardiovascular disease. However, some experts believe that larger studies of longer duration that use a higher dose of aspirin are needed to settle the question of whether aspirin can prevent new cardiovascular disease in people, and specifically Americans, with diabetes.
At present, two larger-scale studies of the effects of aspirin – one with locations in the United States – are recruiting individuals with diabetes to participate. It is hoped that these studies will better establish the risks and benefits of aspirin in people with diabetes at moderate to high risk of a first heart attack or stroke.
Who should not take aspirin?
While a daily low dose of aspirin is safe for many people, for some people it is not, and some may have a higher risk of stomach irritation than others. For these reasons, everyone should check with his doctor before starting daily aspirin use.
The more aspirin you take, the higher your risk of stomach ulceration or bleeding. That's why it's important to be aware of aspirin as an ingredient in combination medicines, so you can accurately assess your daily intake. Other NSAIDs can also cause gastrointestinal bleeding, so if you take other NSAIDs as well as aspirin, your risk of bleeding increases.
Drinking alcohol also raises the risk of stomach irritation and bleeding, so if you have a history of alcoholism or drink more than three servings of alcohol daily, your health-care provider may advise against daily aspirin use.
Your risk of stomach irritation and bleeding is also higher if you have a history of gastroesphageal reflux disease (GERD) or stomach ulcers, take steroids such as prednisone, smoke, or are over 60 years old. You may still be able to take aspirin, but your doctor may advise you to also take a drug called a proton-pump inhibitor to decrease the amount of acid in your stomach.
Aspirin is generally not recommended if you have gout.
Aspirin and other NSAIDs are not recommended if you have kidney disease.
Aspirin should not be taken if you have active liver disease.
Aspirin should not be given to children and teenagers who have a fever because of the associated risk of Reye syndrome (a serious disease). (Daily aspirin therapy is not recommended for anyone under 21 in any case.)
Always check with your health-care provider before using any product that contains aspirin if you are taking a blood thinner (also referred to as an anticoagulant or antiplatelet medicine). Anticoagulants include pills such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven) and injections such as heparin and low-molecular-weight heparins, which include enoxaparin (Lovenox), tinzaparin (Innohep), and dalteparin (Fragmin). Antiplatelet medicines include NSAIDs as well as clopidogrel (Plavix), ticlopidine (Ticlid), dipyridamole (Persantine), and combined dipyridamole and aspirin (Aggrenox).
You should also check with your doctor before using aspirin if you are pregnant or are breast feeding or if you have asthma, kidney problems, or a history of bleeding problems. In addition, let your physician know you are taking aspirin if you are scheduled for any type of medical, dental, or surgical procedure.
Last, if you notice any of the following symptoms, stop taking aspirin and call your doctor right away: severe stomach pain; coughing up blood; vomit that looks like coffee grounds; black, tarry, or bloody stools; skin rash or hives with intense itching; swelling of the face or eyelids; wheezing or trouble breathing; severe dizziness or drowsiness; any type of ringing in your ears.
One piece of the puzzle
If you are currently taking an aspirin a day under your doctor's orders, don't stop. It could be preventing a heart attack or stroke.
However, don't expect aspirin to protect your cardiovascular health single-handedly. It should be only one part of a coordinated effort that includes heart-healthy eating, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, keeping your blood glucose controlled, and not smoking. If, in spite of lifestyle measures, you have high blood pressure, high triglycerides, or high LDL cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol, taking appropriate medicines for these conditions will likely be a part of your heart attack and stroke prevention plan, as well.
The recommendations for who should take aspirin to reduce the risk of cardiovascular "events" has not changed; it just seems the evidence to support aspirin use in people who do not have cardiovascular disease is not as strong as once thought. For people who do have cardiovascular disease, aspirin can be beneficial in preventing heart attack.
Even though aspirin is readily available over the counter and is relatively low in cost, it's a powerful medicine. Be sure to review aspirin use with your diabetes care provider to be sure of the recommendation that is right for you.


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NEWS RELEASE 11/22/12: Portland Fire & Rescue Responds to a Residential Fire (2002 SE 101st Ave)
This afternoon, at 1:06 pm Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a house on fire at 2002 SE 101st Avenue. Firefighters arrived and found heavy fire in the basement of a single story house. The fire had also traveled up through the walls and into the attic. Firefighters from Station 7 (Mill Park) arrived, fought the fire and searched for occupants.
The homes occupant stated that everyone was safely out of the house and a thorough search by firefighters indicated the same. The fire was extinguished and recalled (declared under control) within 20 minutes. At that time firefighters began searching for hot spots. No injuries were associated with this fire.
Fire investigators are on scene and working to determine the cause of this fire and the amount of damage it caused. This release will be updated with this information when it becomes available.
Fast Facts-
Dispatched-1:06 pm
Recalled-1:26 pm
Response-24 firefighters
Contact info, for media use only:
Lt. Damon Simmons, Media Pager (503) 940-6003


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Ex-expat Elliott Holt's sly debut novel, You Are One of Them, follows Sarah Zuckerman, who travels to Moscow in 1995 to unravel a mystery from the Cold War years involving her childhood best friend.
The book is set in Washington, D.C. (your hometown), and in Moscow. Did you live in Moscow?
Yes, I lived in Moscow from 1997 to 1999. Moscow was wild then! There were all these crazy bars and nightclubs and there was a sense of lawlessness. I never felt unsafe, but it felt like the normal rules didn't apply. People bribed their way out of traffic tickets (and everything else). You could buy pirated movies at markets. Western businessmen acted like teenagers, drunk on the attention from much younger Russian women, who were attracted to their money.
When Sarah travels to Moscow for the first time, she realizes that Russians have a skewed view of Americans. Is that taken from your experience?
When I lived in Moscow, my Russian friends were always saying, "You Americans always do X" or "you Americans always think Y." They believed that Americans were naive philistines, not "kulturni" (cultured). Russians love conspiracy theories and tend to be suspicious of official reports (understandably, given their country's history). My friends were always telling me that Americans are too quick to believe what we're told.
Why set the book in the 1980s and 1990s?
The 1980s were the final years of the Cold War. In the 1990s, the Cold War had ended but 9/11 hadn't happened yet. The U.S. wasn't at war. Our economy was booming. And with the Internet came new notions of global connectivity and identity. In my book, Sarah is a child in the 1980s and a young woman in the 1990s, facing a very different world from the one she grew up in.
Who are your favorite Russian writers?
I love Chekhov, Gogol, and Tolstoy (if I had to choose, I'd take Tolstoy over Dostoyevsky, though I love Crime and Punishment). Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. And Nabokov, even though he left Russia and ended up writing most of his books in English. I'm just starting to read Platonov.
Did you intentionally leave the book's ending open to interpretation?
I crafted the book very carefully—with clues and details along the way—to make the ambiguity of the ending work. There are two possibilities, both supported by evidence. What matters ultimately is what Sarah decides has happened.
I bet you get this all the time, but is there a backstory to your first name?
Elliott was my great-grandmother's maiden name, my grandmother's middle name, and my mother's middle name. It's my middle name, too, but I've been called Elliott since the day I was born. I spent much my childhood wishing I had a "normal" girl's name, but now I'm grateful to my parents for giving me a good writer's name. I do get mail addressed to Mr. Elliott Holt, though!


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Park Bo Young admits she loved Park Hyung Sik for years, but kept it a secret
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon's Park Bo Young revealed that she had always had a soft spot for her costar Park Hyung Sik, and her confession was pretty adorable.
In an interview, Park Bo Young explained that she had always had an interest in Park Hyung Sik since he first debuted with ZE:A.
"I had my eye on Hyung Sik when he was an idol in ZE:A. I know all of the title tracks by heart, and Hyung Sik personally quizzed me to see my knowledge of the songs."
— Park Bo Young
The actress added that Park Hyung Sik continued making her heart beat fast with what he did during their spare time on set.
"During our spare time, while filming Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, Hyung Sik would often turn on some of ZE:A's songs and dance to the choreography."
— Park Bo Young
Park Bo Young wasn't the only one who felt something for her costar. During a different interview, Park Hyun Sik had confessed his true feelings for Park Bo Young. He claimed that he fell in love during the drama and that the kiss scenes between the two on-screen lovers were actually genuine!


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US missile strike kills 4 militants in Pakistan
Pakistani intelligence officials say a US drone has fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four suspected militants.
The officials say the attack took place Saturday in Mohammed Khel village in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
They say the identities and nationalities of the slain men was not immediately known and their agents are trying to get more details.
The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to reporters.
The latest attack comes despite Pakistani demands to halt the missile strikes.
It also comes at a time when Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar is visiting Washington to discuss a range of issues, including how to resolve differences over US drone attacks in Pakistan.


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DateTime::Format::Epoch - Convert DateTimes to/from epoch seconds
use DateTime::Format::Epoch;
my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 1970, month => 1, day => 1 );
my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch->new(
epoch => $dt,
unit => 'seconds',
type => 'int', # or 'float', 'bigint'
skip_leap_seconds => 1,
start_at => 0,
local_epoch => undef,
my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
# 1051488000
This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since a given epoch. It can also do the reverse.
new( ... )
Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It can take the following parameters: "epoch", "unit", "type", "skip_leap_seconds", "start_at", "local_epoch" and "dhms".
The epoch parameter is the only required parameter. It should be a DateTime object (or at least, it has to be convertible to a DateTime object). This datetime is the starting point of the day count, and is usually numbered 0. If you want to start at a different value, you can use the start_at parameter.
The unit parameter can be "seconds", "milliseconds, "microseconds" or "nanoseconds". The default is "seconds". If you need any other unit, you must specify the number of units per second. If you specify a number of units per second below 1, the unit will be longer than a second. In this way, you can count days: unit => 1/86_400.
The type parameter specifies the type of the return value. It can be "int" (returns integer value), "float" (returns floating point value), or "bigint" (returns Math::BigInt value). The default is either "int" (if the unit is "seconds"), or "bigint" (if the unit is nanoseconds).
The default behaviour of this module is to skip leap seconds. This is what (most versions of?) UNIX do. If you want to include leap seconds, set skip_leap_seconds to false.
Some operating systems use an epoch defined in the local timezone of the computer. If you want to use such an epoch in this module, you have two options. The first is to submit a DateTime object with the appropriate timezone. The second option is to set the local_epoch parameter to a true value. In this case, you should submit an epoch with a floating timezone. The exact epoch used in format_datetime will then depend on the timezone of the object you pass to format_datetime.
Most often, the time since an epoch is given in seconds. In some circumstances however it is expressed as a number of days, hours, minutes and seconds. This is done by NASA, for the so called Mission Elapsed Time. For example, 2/03:45:18 MET means it has been 2 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, and 18 seconds since liftoff. If you set the dhms parameter to true, format_datetime returns a four element list, containing the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds, and parse_datetime accepts the same four element list.
Given a DateTime object, this method returns the number of seconds since the epoch.
Given a number of seconds, this method returns the corresponding DateTime object.
I think there's a problem when you define a count that does not skip leap seconds, and uses the local timezone. Don't do that.
Support for this module is provided via the email@example.com email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.
Eugene van der Pijll <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Eugene van der Pijll. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
email@example.com mailing list
To install DateTime::Format::Epoch, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm DateTime::Format::Epoch
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install DateTime::Format::Epoch
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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The Site's publication Director is: Keith Lindsay
The Site is hosted by the company SAS No Blue Screen System, 140 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris; telephone number: +33 (0)1 58 56 60 87.
The Site is accessed and its content used in connection with the indications for use described below. The act of accessing and browsing on the Site constitute, on the part of the Web surfer, an acceptance without reserve of the following stipulations:


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24081 pilots 47105 working the 1225 Toddington-Gotherington service at Dixton on 19/10/2002.
In glorious late afternoon autumnal sunshine, 24081 makes a spirited departure from Winchcombe with the 1445 Toddington-Gotherington service during the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railways Autumn Diesel Gala on 19/10/2002.
D5061 restarts the 1750 Grosmont-Pickering service away from Goathland on 23/04/2004.
D5061 passes Fen Bog on 24/04/2004 whilst in charge of the 1020 Pickering-Grosmont.
D5061 arrives at Goathland on 24/04/2004 with the 1230 Grosmont-Goathland shuttle.
24081+73129 pass Hailes whilst in charge of the 1230 Toddington-Cheltenham Racecourse service on 27/12/2005.
24081+47105 await the road at Winchcombe on 27/12/2005 with the 1430 Toddington-Cheltenham Racecourse service.
24081 powers the 1240 Toddington-Cheltenham Racecourse service at Hailes on 02/04/2006.
D5054+D5061 pass Moorgates whilst working the 1645 Pickering-Grosmont on 05/05/2006.
24081 passes Longueville Jnct with a short mixed freight on 23/02/2008.
24081 crosses the River Nene at Wansford with a short mixed freight on 23/02/2008.
24081 passes the signal box at Wansford with a short mixed freight on 23/02/2008.
24081 stands at Wansford with a short mixed freight on 23/02/2008.
D5061 and the ECS to form 2A33 1210 Grosmont-Goathland are dragged into Grosmont by 20227 on 18/09/2010.
D5061 awaits departure from Grosmont with 2A33 1210 Grosmont-Goathland on 18/09/2010.
D5061 climbs the bank at Thomason Foss whilst working 1T11 1130 Grosmont-Pickering on 14/09/2012. The train was the 1100 Whitby-Pickering starting at Grosmont as a result of a gas leak at Ruswarp closing the Esk Valley line.
D5061 rolls down the bank at Thomason Foss whilst working 2G10 1400 Pickering-Grosmont on 14/09/2012.