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- Kidney Failure
(Renal Failure; Renal Insufficiency)
- Acute kidney failure —sudden loss of kidney function
- Chronic kidney failure —slow, gradual loss of kidney function
- Diabetes —high blood sugar can damage nephrons
- High blood pressure —severe high blood pressure can damage blood vessels in the kidneys
- Pyelonephritis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Birth defects
- Bilateral renal artery stenosis
- Poisoning
- Severe trauma
- Viral infections such as hepatitis B , hepatitis C , and HIV/AIDS
- Long-term use of medicines that contain aspirin, acetaminophen, or ibuprofen
- Abnormal build-up of substances within the kidneys such as amyloidosis and protein build-up
- Toxic reaction to drugs or x-ray dyes
- Systemic diseases such as lupus, polyarteritis , and Wegeners granulomatosis
- Conditions that severely decrease the amount of blood such as burns , pancreatitis , peritonitis , bleeding, and dehydration
- Conditions that make it difficult to urinate such as enlarged prostate , kidney stones , and tumors
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Risk Factors
- Diabetes
- Genetics: polycystic kidney disease and type 1 diabetes
- Race: African American
- High blood pressure
- Lupus or other autoimmune diseases
- Long-term use of pain medications containing aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in high doses
- Liver failure, jaundice
- Respiratory failure
- Cancer
- Recent open heart surgery
- Recent surgery on an abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Condition that obstructs urine flow
- Enlargement of the prostate gland
- Fluid retention
- Swollen and numb hands and feet, itchy skin
- Fatigue, insomnia
- Low urine output or no urine output in severe cases, frequent urination
- Altered consciousness
- Loss of appetite, malnutrition
- Sores , bad taste in the mouth
- Nausea, vomiting
- Muscle cramps and twitches
- Shortness of breath
- High blood pressure
- Low temperature
- Seizures , coma
- Breath smelling like urine
- Yellowish-brownish skin tone
- Blood tests
- Urine tests
- Biopsy
General Measures
- Restricting fluids
- Doing daily weight checks
- Eating a high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet
- Diuretics —to flush out the kidneys, increase urine flow, and rid the body of excess sodium
- Blood pressure medications
- Medicine to treat anemia
- Sodium polystyrene sulfonate or insulin in dextrose to control high potassium levels
- Medications to control high phosphorus levels
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Lifestyle Changes
- Have your blood pressure checked regularly. Take medication to control high blood pressure.
- If you have diabetes, control your blood sugar. Ask your doctor for help.
- Avoid the chronic use of pain medications.
- If you have chronic kidney disease, you may need to limit how much protein you eat. Talk to a dietician.
- Limit how much cholesterol and sodium you eat.
- If you have severe kidney disease, limit how much potassium you eat. If your kidneys are failing, get help from a dietician.
National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov
Canadian Diabetes Association http://www.diabetes.ca
The Kidney Foundation of Canada http://www.kidney.ca
Chronic kidney disease. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us. Updated April 22, 2013. Accessed July 8, 2013.
Johnson CA, Levey AS, et al. Glomerular filtration rate, proteinuria, and other markers. Am Fam Physician. 2004;70:1091-1097.
Johnson CA, Levey AS, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease in adults: part I. Definition, disease stages, evaluation, treatment, and risk factors. Am Fam Physician. 2004;70:869-876.
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2003;42:S1-201.
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines on hypertension and antihypertensive agents in chronic kidney disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2004;43:S1-S9.
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative. Kidney disease outcomes quality initiative (K/DOQI) clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification. Am J Kidney Dis. 2002;39:S1-266.
Snivel CS, Gutierrez C. Chronic kidney disease: prevention and treatment of common complications. Am Fam Physician. 2004;70:1921-1928.
Use of herbal supplements in chronic kidney disease. National Kidney Foundation website. Available at: http://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/herbalsupp.cfm. Accessed July 8, 2013.
The kidneys and how they work. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yourkidneys/#10. Updated March 23, 2012. Accessed July 8, 2013.
1/4/2011 DynaMed Systematic Literature Surveillance https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us : Deved V, Poyah P, James MT, et al. Ascorbic Acid for Anemia Management in Hemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 Sep 22.
10/10/2013 DynaMed Systematic Literature Surveillance https://dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us : Di lorio B, Molony D, Bell C, et al. Sevelamer versus calcium carbonate in incident hemodialysis patients: results of an open-label 24-month randomized clinical trial. Am J Kidney Dis. 2013 Oct;62(4):771-8.
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I consider the --adbr-stop behavior I mentioned a bug, because it's my strategy to favor short blocks in a situation of restricted available data space.
I corrected this, and you will get this behavior when downloading again. No need to test other --adbr_stop values (at least not for me) with this version. I also deleted the troublesome SSE2 version. This post has been edited by halb27: Feb 11 2013, 14:40 -------------------- lame3100m -V1 --insane-factor 0.75
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EDIT: I don't own a HD5000 card, but the devs have stated here that the driver should be on par with the HD4000 driver for the most part. They share much of the code anyway.
This article is from yesterday, not from 5 months ago, and yesterday, HD 5000 support was there and it worked.
There are a couple of games which won't work (ET:QW, for example, Amnesia, Quake4 and some others), most other things should work.
If my 4550 can handle Doom3 just fine, then the 5450 should be able to do so too.
So, for most people, doing normal things that normal people do, the OSS drivers ARE an option.
EDIT: I don't own a HD5000 card, but the devs have stated here that the driver should be on par with the HD4000 driver for the most part. They share much of the code anyway.
I guess you could call that the editing equivalent of a "New York Reload"
And here we have the important part.
"the driver should be on par with the HD4000 driver for the most part."
So, for the most part it's on par with the HD4000 driver. Not quite, but mostly.
So assuming the open source HD4000 driver driving a HD4000 series card was sufficient, there's a chance that may be the case also with a HD5000 series card.
Two things.
1/ What about when a HD4000 series card driven by the open driver isn't enough and is only sufficient with the closed one.
2/ What about when a HD4000 series card driven by the open driver is sufficient but not in a particular case where a HD5000 via the open driver isn't.
If I said, "buy this fantastic nVidia card. And it'll usually work!"
I'd expect to be asked if there's a better functioning alternative and if I was aware of it I'd mention it. Just like Michael did.
I'm not saying a 5000 series card driven by the open driver never works, but I'm comparing it to what you can expect from the best solutions out there. If someone asks what's the best open source friendly video card manufacturer I'm going to say ATI. If someone asks what the best option for a video card that has the least amount of odd issues I'm likely to suggest nVidia at this stage.
With any luck in the future ATI will make that position obsolete.
If I removing all subjective comments from article, I see a card which is working fine, running all the test without crashing, runing firefox... so the card is working!! but without video accel. Did michael mention problems during installation or crahes? bad desktop behaviour?
The bad numbers on 3d is because this card is not for that, equivalent maybe to a GT210 and not a GT220. I don't understand why is a need to kick fglrx so hard.
I don't see fglrx being kicked so hard, just describing real world issues that it has.
If the objective is to point to the best behaving solution then I don't think that's fglrx at the moment. If the objective is to point to the most open source friendly product then that's obviously ATI but those who value that above all else are likely to be across the subject well enough themselves.
When fglrx is pointed to for having reliability issues those wanting ATI to be the best choice usually then want to turn the discussion away from it and onto the open source drivers as if they were completely sufficient on their own. I acknowledge that for some they may be though. When discussing which card is the best solution it shouldn't be about which manufacturer one wants to be "the bestest" but which cards are the least troublesome and most appropriate for a given scenario.
I have boxes with Intel, nVidia and ATI graphics hardware. My main machine is the ATI one so when fglrx stabilises I'll be quite pleased to say the least. My arguments aren't really which manufacturer I like best but it's which card will be the most trouble free.
If Michael wants to write an article about which is the most open source friendly manufacturer then we all know basically what it'll say. I don't think that was what the point of the article was, it's only one of the facets of the issue.
Maybe I am lucky, I used fglrx during the last year, and the only thing I need to do is select opengl for video playback to resolve tear. Perfect desktop solution to me! during last year.
I don't see Michael bashing fglrx. All he tells, is that if we look at the low level cards and want to use it as HTPC, nvidia might be the best choice due to vdpau.
Though in the overall tests, it seems like fglrx is beating nvidia in all the benchmarks (with 5750 and 5770). Especially the last one with cpu usage :| But maybe thats due to the better cards ;-)


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I didn't realize iPads aren't locked to a carrier. That's good to know. I was a little hesitant to buy an iPad Mini from T-Mobile in case their coverage doesn't work for me. So in other words, if I finance an iPad Mini and the coverage isn't good enough, I can pay off my iPad Mini, cancel my $20 service (I believe that's the minimum required for a financed iPad if you aren't currently a customer) and use an AT&T sim in it instead?
T-Mobile fumbles free iPad data deal, will they recover?
T-Mobile's calls itself the "Un-carrier" because it's tried to spend much of 2013 disrupting the U.S. wireless business. Its latest attempt to do that was last week: it's selling the new iPad Air and iPad mini with a deal that nets you 200 MB of free data each month. But the initial rollout was fraught with problems. Has T-Mobile burned its bridges with new iPad customers?
The Un-carrier
2013 has been a busy year for the nation's fourth-largest wireless company. After the FCC put the brakes on a merger with AT&T in 2011, T-Mobile spent 2012 regrouping and coming up with a new plan for moving their business forward. And move forward they did. The company has aggressively moved forward with network improvements, transitioning their service to 4G and LTE. They're still behind the other "big three" - Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, but they're moving forward.
T-Mobile's also done away with annual contracts, provided a way for customers financing their phones through T-Mobile to upgrade early and made international data roaming and texting free in more than 100 countries. Since April, they've added the iPhone to their stable of supported and sold devices.
Then there's the iPad. They had such a great chance with the iPad. But its rollout has been rocky, to say the least.
Free data
T-Mobile's brash and outspoken CEO John Legere made no secret of T-Mobile's plans to introduce iPads to its customers even before Apple introduced the new models at a special event in San Francisco last month. He dropped hints prior to the official announcement. In retrospect, it's not hard to understand why he could hardly contain himself - T-Mobile really shook things up.
Introducing the 4G iPad Air and iPad mini (sans Retina Display, until the new one ships later this month), T-Mobile is doing something that no other carrier is: they're giving away free data. Admittedly, it's not much - 200 MB per month - but that's enough to get you buy in a pinch if all you need to do is send some emails or load up a web page or two. (They're doing some other cool unique things, like on-demand daily and weekly plans for occasional users.)
And what's more, at least according to Legere, it's no strings attached. T-Mobile isn't requiring you to have a data plan with them or even a phone number. As long as you have a T-Mo SIM installed in your iPad, and it's provisioned, it'll work.
But here's where things went wrong.
Putting the cart before the horse
At least, that was the promise. Fact is, some customers ran into trouble - and are still running into trouble - when they try to put theory to practice.
At first there were problems processing orders correctly on T-Mobile's web site - customers were charged $10 per month when they shouldn't have been charged anything. Customers who went in to T-Mobile retail stores were given the wrong information, too.
T-Mobile, for its part, says it's corrected the web site issue and that it's getting the right information out to its sales reps. But the damage has already been done for early adopters who wanted to give T-Mobile a try but were given a bum steer at first.
Speaking to AllThingsD, T-Mobile chief marketing officer Mike Sievert underscored the company's no strings attached plan. "Every single customer gets free data for life if they have a tablet on our network. You don't need to have any paying relationship with us whatsoever."
That's true as long as you buy the iPad up front. But iPads with 4G capability are expensive, and not everyone's ready to plunk down the $429 - $929 a 4G-equipped iPad mini or iPad Air costs. So if you want to finance the iPad through T-Mobile, you'll need to be a postpaid customer of theirs unless you want pay for a separate tablet data plan - to the tune of $20 per month.
In the end, T-Mobile is still doing something no one else is - giving 4G iPad users the ability to get online for free. That's a good thing, and that's truly a difference from the way the other wireless service providers are operating.
It's just a shame that T-Mobile wasn't better ready for the rollout, because their disorganization and some of the fine print involved is bound to make some consumers decide that it isn't worth the trouble. But they have apologized for the snafu, and promised to make right for customers who were wrongly charged.
T-Mobile has another chance to redeem itself later this month with the iPad mini with Retina Display ships. That's the one I'm waiting for. And I'm going to buy a 4G model and get a T-Mobile SIM for it, because the 200 MB is too good a deal for me to let pass by. I better not see any extra surcharges, though, because iPads are unlocked, and it's very easy to pop out a SIM and replace it with someone else's.
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T-Mobile fumbles free iPad data deal, will they recover?
That is correct. Unlike iPhones, iPads have been unlocked from day one. However, it's only been until this release of the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display that Apple's consolidated all of the various radio frequencies needed to support various carriers into a single unit.
So I guess I wouldn't be able to take advantage of this with a Verizon iPad mini even if I bought a t-mobile SIM card?
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> T-Mobile is doing something that no other carrier is: they're giving away free data
something similar in Austria - Hudgison/Drei is offering a free dataplan for everyone, no contract - just registration with your name und you get 20 mb free each day. You can buy more data per week/month if you need.
Best Robert
What I am still confused about is whether you have the buy a "T-Mobile earmarked" iPad. Could you, for instance, buy a Verizon iPad and grab a T-Mo SIM to use the 200 MB free data? If so, I would be willing to pay the extra $129 for a cellular model and use a T-Mo SIM in the off chance I need data (and don't want to drop my 5S SIM in my iPad). Similarly, does Verizon have the same restriction for iPads they do on iPhones -- "We will not provision a SIM to any IMEI that was not sold explicitly for our network", but won't stop you from using an already provisioned SIM into an LTE device.
I bought a verizon ipad air and am using it with a tmobile SIM card. It all works perfectly well on t-mobile, but I CAN go back to using verizon any time I pop the verizon SIM card back in... I don't know if you can use a "AT&T iPad Air" on VZW if it shipped with an AT&T sim for instance...
The one thing about the iPad Air is that it seems to be a "Universal" LTE device. After doing a quick 5-min research, it seems all of the "big 4" carriers LTE Bands are supported. So yes, Buy a AT&T iPad, use it on Verizon. I got a T-mobile iPad direct from Apple, poped out the SIM for an AT&T one and worked just fine. Hell, I even used my AIO wireless (AT&T), from my iPhone 5 just to check and even a Cell phone SIM worked (Not recommended).
Yes, the hardware is physically the same. But just as the TMo/AT&T/VZW iPhone 5S is physically the same, VZW will NOT provision a new SIM with an iPhone 5S's IMEI if the 5S was not explicitly sold for VZW originally. You can however, take a VZW SIM that is already active (based on some other device's IMEI) and put it into a TMo or AT&T iPhone 5S and it will work perfectly.
So I am wondering if VZW will allow any iPad Air IMEI to provision a SIM or if I need a donor IMEI from Verizon to activate the SIM first, and then pop it into an iPad from any carrier.
I wanted to finance the iPad mini with Retina, since I'd likely switch to TMo after having such a sporadic experience with Verizon, AT&T, and most especially Sprint.
With smartphones still costing more than tablets when it comes to cellular data, I'm heavily considering dropping phones altogether. I can currently add a tablet to my VzW shared family plan for $10 per month, but a smartphone for $30 per month (not to mention plus mandatory phone service), and they're using the same allotment of data!
For the few customers that were just looking for something for nothing I don't think it will hurt T-Mobile at all. They are still doing what no other Carrier is doing. If you are looking for a tablet and you don't check out T-Mobile's plans and service you are only hurting yourself. You should at least see if you are getting good with T-Mobile because they are adding towers everywhere and refarming many of their towers to the 1900 frequency. Where I live I get on average during the day 15-20mb down on the HSPA+ network and over 25mb down on their LTE network. Also they have my area refarmed to the 1900 frequency, I have an older unlocked AT&T phone with a T-Mobile sim card in it and getting very fast HSPA+ and LTE on it. Their plans are the best, real unlimited data that isn't throttled. I have tried all the Carriers and T-Mobile has been the best for me, been with them for a long time but have always tried others seeing if I was missing something. Conclusion was if you are in a T-Mobile area with good coverage you are crazy not to give them a try.
PS Also LTE advanced hardware has been used in their LTE roll out, the latest and greatest for sick speeds, LTE Advanced on T-Mobile is right around the corner, T-Mobile may be the first Carrier to implement that technology simply because that hardware wasn't available when the other Carriers rolled their LTE service out so being the last Carrier to roll LTE out they were lucky enough to have that technology available. Try T-Mobile out they have come a very long way.
I'll concur. They are the underdog that deserves to be tried.
T-Mobile is the only carrier that offers unlimited data. I'd say the same for Sprint, but that's like being offered all the water you can find in the desert. And, if I was to haphazardly use up my high-speed data, I can rest assured that I can still pick up a web page or an email at 2G speeds if I had to. It won't be cut off like a pre-paid plan, and I won't have to worry about an explosive bill full of overages.
I don't see how they fumbled. I purchased a tmobile ipad air on launch day. I'm a tmobile customer and actually received 500mb free. If your not a tmobile customer and either bring a tablet or buy a tablet outright, you get 200mb free. If you purchase the tablet on the INTEREST FREE installment plan, it's not unreasonable to expect to pay a monthly rate plan. Otherwise people can buy the unlocked tablet for zero interest and take it to another carrier. Not a very good deal for tmobile. They are in the business of making a profit.
It could be viewed as a fumble (with the offense recovering) because such a big deal was made about it, and they really could have used this to attract new phone customers
I may still pick one up, but if I could have done the finance plan with the free data, if gives me a chance to test their network before the next iPhone comes out.
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i don't think that it's a matter of people complaining too much, or the like. i think that people felt misled based on the CEO's "no strings attached" tweet; that is, people realized that TMo offered a 24-month 0% financing plan for the iPad Air, and concluded that 200Mb of data was included "free". that seems like a fair reading/reasoning to me.
in my case, a TMo rep assured me that the $26.XX monthly payment for 24 months was all that i would be responsible for...that's it...no data fee or the like. however, after a hard pull on my credit report and me signing a purchase agreement, i received an email indicating that in addition to the $26.XX/month "device charge" i'd be responsible for a $10/month ondemand data fee. i called a second TMo rep and explained what i'd been told. the second rep was forthcoming and explained that there was confusion on TMo's end. i asked the second rep to cancel my order as i wasn't interested in paying $240 on top of the purchase price of the iPad, and the rep did so...no questions asked...all very civil, polite and efficient.
i had a good experience with the second rep, and i only wish the first rep who i spoke with wasn't "confused". regardless, the cancellation was easy enough...i wasn't miffed (though others who posted on macrumors were...really miffed).
in sum, at $26.XX/month for 24 months the iPad Air became an impulse buy...upon notification that an additional $240 would be spent over the course of the next 24 months, the iPad Air lost its 'impulse buy' allure.
p.s.: good article, Peter.
It works on my Verizon iPad 3. I went to T-Mobile site and added data line on my account. Paid $0.99 for a sim card and activated $0 on demand plan. Sim came in the mail, popped it in Verizon iPad and Hspa+ works as well as Edge. LTE of course doesn't work, but it would work on ATT iPad 3/4. So far data works and costs me no money.
I just bought a Verizon ipad air 16gb today for the apple store. Then I stopped by my tmobile store to get a sim because the ipad air came with a verizon sim. Got home called tmobile activated my SIM card and I get 200mb free just like that. They put all the radios in one ipad they are all the same the only difference is what sim it comes with.
I'm so glad I found this article. I have a Nexus 7 that came with T-Mobile service for a month, but it expired. Today I tried to get a new micro-sim at a T-Mobile store and was told it would cost $20, when I swear I saw it online for $0.99 . When I got home I tried to order a sim online and they wanted $10. Then I tried using the expired sim and adding prepaid funds, but the website was down. Who takes their website down in the middle of the day on a Wednesday if they aren't selling health insurance? Now I see they have had issues and are working on it, so I'll try again in a few days. Then I'll buy a month's worth of prepaid data to try it out, and live with the free 0.2Gb/month until I go on a trip.
Incorrect. T-Mobile does not charge overage fees. I'm not sure how they will handle the people on the free plan, but other plans limit you to 2G speeds once you reach your high-speed data allowance.
"No overages. You will never have overage charges on our network. If you exceed your allotment of up to 500MB of high-speed data, your data speed will simply be slowed until your next billing cycle."
For the free 200MB tablet plan, after u reach the 200mb limit, the speed will not slow down (throttled) it will be capped off (unlike the post payed voice/data plan u mentioned). You won't be able to transfer any data after that until the start of the next month or pay for more.
That's what it says on their website.
I've talked with 5 T-Mobile reps and have yet to find one that can set me up with the free 200mb plan <<< Sigh >>> I'll try again tomorrow...
Really? I bought an AT&T iPad Air and popped-in an unactivated T-Mobile nano sim card. I turned off Wifi and went to Cellular Data under Settings. After that, I clicked on View Account, created a new account with my email. A few seconds later, I received two emails from T-Mobile, indicating my 200mb is good to go! I did, however, restart iPad Air to get Personal Hotspot going.
Good luck!
I don't make excuses for myself and I won't for T-Mobile. They are the fourth largest cellular provider in the United States. They are really trying to obtain new customers and grow as a business. Promotions like this and JUMP (Just Upgrade My Phone) show they are trying to compete with other carriers and do things differently.
However, T-Mobile really messed up the iPad Air launching on their network. Their press release detailing the 200 MB of free data promotion and the tweets from T-Mobile CEO, John Legere were misleading. It was not clear that you were required to pay monthly for a plan in some fashion (voice line or data plan) if you took advantage of the $0 down deal.
Thankfully, T-Mobile has made their advertising much more clear on the deal. Unfortunately, they never made it up to people like me that purchased the iPad Air within the first couple of days when all of T-Mobile's customer support representatives were confused. In good faith, T-Mobile should make it up to those customers some how. After speaking to the manager at my local T-Mobile store, he was very nice and gave me a credit towards my first two bills.
Yes, T-Mobile is doing things different with giving away 200 MB of data per month to tablet users. It is also nice that there is no overages on your data. So if you go over the 200 MB or however much you pay for on a monthly basis, your data will be throttled, but you will not pay overage charges like you do with other carriers.
I guess you from the previous message you must be buy the iPad Air from a competing carrier in order to get the 200mb free. I was planning on buying the iPad Air from tmobile directly but I going to switch and buy the Air from AT&T and take it to tmobile to get the free 200mbs. Thanks for the info!
This was completely misleading, staff was clueless and tweet from John Legere were complete opposite of the actual policy.
With all that confusion they should had waived the $10 for the early customers who purchased ipad as it was rolled out.
The staff at the store where I purchased was nice and were willing to refund my money for the ipad and thats what I did... returned the ipad back. When John tweets NO STRINGS attached than he should stick to it.
If u want to order a data sim from t-mobile for ur ipad, it's for $10. Whereas they have an offer now that a voice/data sim for ur phone is free!
I'm wondering if I can order a voice/data nano sim and use it with my ipad mini to avail the 200mb free.
I'm a regular t-mobile customer with a family plan + iPhone 5s installment plan (JUMP)


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The last pair of skis I wore were short, white and had Rainbow Brite stickers at the tips. That was more than 20 years ago; on Thursday I found myself with skis once more, on the gondola at Keystone Resort, trying not to look down.
It all started when our sports editor suggested I take a ski lesson for January's "Learn to Ski and Ride Month" and write about it from a beginner's perspective.
The first step was gathering gear, because apparently you can't go skiing in jeans and a sweatshirt, despite the stories my dad told me about his college years in Wyoming. We started making a list of what I had already and a list of what I needed. Hat? Yes. Gloves? Got 'em. This is going well. A gaiter?
"What is that?" I asked, not entirely certain it wasn't a slang reference to a swamp reptile.
Janice sighed and wrote 'gaiter' down on the 'needs' list. It took several days but I eventually gathered an eclectic mismatched outfit to ensure I wouldn't freeze to death. The rest of the surviving, however, was up to me.
At the Ski and Ride School tent, I was provided with skis, poles, a helmet and strapped into boots in a process that felt more like suiting up as an astronaut rather than a leisurely day of ski lessons. Clumping toward the group meeting point, I wondered how anyone in such bulky gear could manage to get around anywhere, much less be graceful about it.
Instructor Cathy Spierling took charge of our group of wide-eyed beginners with ease and confidence, shepherding us like a gaggle of baby geese through the crowd, onto the gondola and off at the midway station without incident.
First, we reviewed the basics of putting skis on and off and getting the feel of moving on them. That part was easier than I'd expected. Even with my terrible balance I was able to move with a minimal amount of arm wind-milling. We learned the exhausting art of sidestepping up the hill, which I did mostly successfully, until I found myself slowly sliding backward, unable to stop. Before I could panic, Cathy laughed, told me it was too early to start trick skiing and to turn my skis perpendicular to the hill. My heartbeat returned to normal and I was able to unclench my jaw and even laugh a little myself.
We moved on to a nearby slope, where children were skiing.
"OK," I thought, watching a little one navigate down the slope. "If the kids can do it, so can I."
What followed was a series of short descents with jerky stops and flailing arms. But it was fun, and mixed in there were also a few well-executed turns and intentional movements. I was intrigued by how smoothly the skis slid over the packed snow and started to get a sense of how someone skilled could move very swiftly and accurately on top of it. My last little run went well as I turned where I meant to turn, completing a little "S" movement at the bottom.
"Woo!" I shouted, raising up my arms and managing to stop before hitting anything.
The hardest part of the lesson was leaving it. I wanted to stay, to ski farther, faster, to discover what more those two sticks strapped to my feet could do. My lesson with Cathy left me excited, ready to go out and try it again as soon as possible.
"Is this a cult?" a passing skier jokingly called out during a drill in which we circled around our upright poles.
Yes, it is. It is the religion of the mountain, the worship of snow, the cult of Ullr. And now, I am a part of it.


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Deduno aims to keep up success vs. rival Royals
KC counters with Guthrie as division foes begin four-game series
The Twins wouldn't mind seeing history repeat itself when Samuel Deduno takes the mound against the Royals on Thursday night.
Deduno enjoyed perhaps his best start of the season in Kansas City on June 4, pitching six scoreless innings with four hits, two walks and five strikeouts. He held the Royals to just one run last year in his only other start Kansas City, giving him a 2-0 record and 0.73 ERA against Minnesota's American League Central rival.
Deduno will face Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie in Thursday's series opener at Target Field. Before giving up four runs to the Indians on Friday, Deduno's last four starts had been quality outings. He's pitched at least six innings in his last five starts, an encouraging sign for Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
"He's been throwing pretty well for us, getting us deeper into second half of games and using all of his pitches. He's in control a lot better now than he was before," Gardenhire said. "His command, he's able to throw his fastball just about any time he wants now. He's going to have his moments where he's going to flying, which is good. It keeps the hitters off balance and keeps them guessing."
Deduno will be up against Guthrie, who's coming off an uncharacteristically poor outing on Friday against the White Sox. Guthrie pitched a season-low 2 1/3 innings -- his shortest start in nearly four years -- as he gave up six runs on five hits in the loss. He had pitched at least five innings in his previous 14 starts.
"He just didn't have it," Royals manager Ned Yost said on Friday. "It was just one of those nights when he just didn't have much going for him."
The good news for Guthrie is his strong track record against Minnesota, as he's gone 6-2 with a 3.36 ERA in 64 1/3 innings over 11 games, including nine starts.
The right-hander worked around three solo shots to win against the Twins on April 9 then held them to one run on six hits and three walks in a 4-1 victory on June 5. He also owns a perfect 3-0 record and a 2.31 ERA in four career road outings against Minnesota.
Royals: Hits with RISP go MIA
After Tuesday night's loss, the Royals were 3-6 over their past nine games with a paltry .182 (14-for-77) average with runners in scoring position during that stretch. Kansas City went 1-for-10 with RISP on Tuesday and 2-for-10 on Sunday.
Things got a little better on Wednesday, when the club went 3-for-7 in those situations. That includes Alex Gordon's walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning.
When the Royals won nine of 10 from June 5-14, they hit .356 (31-for-87) with runners in scoring position.
• The Royals will be represented by right-handers Yordano Ventura and Miguel Almonte in the Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game on July 14. Ventura also appeared in last year's game as the starting pitcher for the World Team. Almonte is 3-5 with a 3.82 ERA in 13 games this season for Class A Lexington.
Twins: Buxton, Sano heading to Futures Game
Highly touted prospects Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano will represent the Twins in the Futures Game in New York.
Buxton, who will play for the U.S. team, was recently promoted to Class A Advanced Fort Myers after hitting .341/.431/.559 with 55 RBIs in 68 games for Class A Cedar Rapids. Sano also moved up a level this season, jumping from Fort Myers to Double-A New Britain. The slugging third baseman put together a .330/.424/.655 batting line with 16 homers and 48 RBIs in 56 games for the Miracle.
• Lefty Caleb Thielbar has not allowed a run in 14 2/3 innings over 13 appearances this year, giving him the franchise record for most consecutive scoreless innings and most consecutive scoreless outings to start a Major League career.
"I've just got to go out there with the same mindset every time," he said. "You can't be pitching with that in your mind. Otherwise, that's when you maybe start getting a little timid out there. That's never a good thing. If I start doing that, I might walk a few guys and that [statistic] disappears pretty quickly."
Worth noting
• Guthrie is 9-2 with a 2.48 ERA against the AL Central since joining Kansas City. Friday's loss was his first in the division since last July 22 against the Twins.
• Joe Mauer passed Torii Hunter and moved into sole possession of seventh place on the Twins' all-time list in runs scored on Tuesday night. Mauer came home again on Wednesday afternoon, scoring his 674th run with Minnesota.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"I grew up on a block of nearly identical six-story apartment buildings in Queens, New York. In my elementary-school years, my friends and I spent a lot of afternoons playing cops and robbers in two interconnected apartment garages, after we discovered a door between them that we could pry open. Once, when I was about 9, my friend Kim and I "locked" a bunch of younger kids in an imaginary jail behind a low gate. Then Kim and I got hungry and walked over to Alba's pizzeria a few blocks away and forgot all about them. When we got back an hour later, they were still standing in the same spot. They never hopped over the gate, even though they easily could have; their parents never came looking for them, and no one expected them to. A couple of them were pretty upset, but back then, the code between kids ruled. We'd told them they were in jail, so they stayed in jail until we let them out."
My childhood summers
Rosin's story gave me flashbacks: Growing up, we spent a month every summer at our grandparents' house in Cornwall, England, where we spent our days running wild. My cousins ranged from just 4 to 10 years old, but our parents would have no idea where we were for hours and hours—and wouldn't care. We would swim next to jellyfish in the freezing ocean, we'd jump over jagged rocks with nothing below us but the crashing ocean waves, we'd teeter at the top of cliffs, we'd race around on boats with the local boys. Looking back, my cousins and I now sometimes joke, half-seriously, that we can't believe none of us died.
But, in the end, we all remember it as the best, happiest place of our lives. (In fact, I immediately pictured it when I was in labor with Toby, and the nurse told me to envision my "happy place.")
Kids need danger
"Children have a sensory need to taste danger and excitement," Ellen Sandseter, a professor of early-childhood education in Norway, told Rosin. "This doesn't mean that what they do has to actually be dangerous, only that they feel they are taking a great risk. That scares them, but then they overcome the fear."
Risky play takes six basic forms:
1. Exploring heights.
2. Handling dangerous tools—using sharp scissors or knives, or heavy hammers that at first seem unmanageable but that kids learn to master.
3. Being near dangerous elements—playing near vast bodies of water, or near a fire, so kids are aware that there is danger nearby.
4. Rough-and-tumble play—wrestling, play-fighting—so kids learn to negotiate aggression and cooperation.
5. Speed—cycling or skiing at a pace that feels too fast.
6. Exploring on one's own.
The last one is the most important, Sandseter told Rosin: "When [children] are left alone and can take full responsibility for their actions, and the consequences of their decisions, it's a thrilling experience."
But these days many parents don't often allow their kids to run off and play: "It's hard to absorb how much childhood norms have shifted in just one generation," writes Rosin. "Actions that would have been considered paranoid in the '70s—walking third-graders to school, forbidding your kid to play ball in the street, going down the slide with your child in your lap—are now routine. In fact, they are the markers of good, responsible parenting."
In fact, writes Rosin, "when my daughter was about 10, my husband suddenly realized that in her whole life, she had probably not spent more than 10 minutes unsupervised by an adult. Not 10 minutes in 10 years."
My little dudes
Now a mother myself, I've been trying to apply these lessons—both from Rosin's article; and from my parents, aunts and uncles—to my own parenting. Toby is three and Anton is eight months, so they're still too little for swimming alone in oceans or jumping over jagged rocks. But! I still try to give them space to explore, take risks and create imaginary worlds without interrupting them.
For now, I try to do this in small ways: If Toby's climbing up a ladder at the playground, I'll resist giving his bottom that last little boost. If Anton is trying desperately to pull up onto the coffeetable, I'll resist putting out a hand to help him. If Toby wanders off at the playground, I'll let him play out of sight for a while. Sometimes Anton will be playing with Toby and older kids, and they'll be running past him and stepping over him and bopping him on the head with pillows, but if he doesn't cry out, I'll leave him. He seems to love that rough-and-tumble play. Even if my heart is in my throat, as long as I know they're not in true danger, I'll resist stepping in.
(In fact, I resist even saying "Be careful," because I think it can interrupt their train of thought when exploring or pushing themselves—I just move a little bit closer if they seem a bit more at risk for falling/etc!)
I'm curious what will happen as they get older. New York City is a tricky place to let kids roam too freely, but maybe it's worth trying?
What do you think? Do you let your kids take risks and have unsupervised time? Did you have lots of freedom when you were growing up? Did you do spend lots of time away from your parents? Or do anything dangerous that seems crazy—or magical—in hindsight? I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts—I can't stop thinking about this article!
My twin sister and me hanging out in Cornwall when we were 8 or so...
And my cousins from a recent trip.
(Top photo of eight-month-old Anton heading boldly into the ball pit at the Children's Museum of Art:)


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No surprise there.
Shapiro, a 5-foot-3 junior attack, has been outstanding for the Bulldogs since she stepped on the field as a freshman.
She now has 204 goals and 49 assists.
"She's a competitor," said Bedford coach Christine Hodgdon. "She's tenacious and she's shifty. She does all the draws and leads us in all categories. She's a complete player. She's got the best footwork I've seen in a long time."
Shapiro scored 56 goals as a freshman and 79 as sophomore and is up to 69 this season with a pair of regular season games and the tournament to go.
Hanover 22, Bishop Guertin 12: At Nashua, the Marauders ran their record to 14-1, while the Cardinals dropped to 8-4. Kristin Cameron scored four goals, Callie Santos three and Averi Farhart a pair for Bishop Guertin. Caley Prunier, Nicole Pettiglio and Jess Lambert each added a goal.
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Pinkerton 3, Dover 1: In Derry, Nate Rossi provided a two-run first inning single and gave pitcher Chris Gerossie all he needed to chalk up the win. He scattered four hits and fanned five. Connor Donahue notched the save and contributed an RBI triple. Pinkerton is 6-11 and Dover fell to 10-7.
Alvirne 9, Memorial 3: The Broncos scored six runs in the fifth inning to power past visiting Manchester Memorial. Dakota Williams had two hits and two RBIs while Tyler Brown struck out 10.
Newmarket 5, Derryfield 2: In Manchester, Sean Fleming pitched a complete game five-hitter with 12 strikeouts for the 12-3 Mules. The lefthander issued no walks. Dom Cappadona and Nick Regan each drove in a run for the 8-6 Cougars.
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Following this morning's mobility speak by Intel, Ian Murdock took the stage in one of the small rooms at the Moscone Center West to talk about the OpenSolaris Binary Distribution that is currently known as Project Indiana. We captured all of the slides Ian had shown, and while most of the information he shared was just reiterated from his past talks, there was some interesting details worth sharing. Among the advantages of Project Indiana is that it will use Sun's ZFS as the default file-system, and Project Indiana will be taking full advantage of its abilities to create snapshots and perform rollbacks if something with the system's software goes wrong. With Sun's past work with the GNOME project, GNOME will be the desktop environment in Project Indiana said Ian Murdock. He had gone on to reiterate several other basic points such as the single CD installation with network-based package management (likely powered by apt). Project Indiana will also be easier to acquire, as it will be available through mirrors that do not need registration and will be distributed via Bit Torrent. Another goal of Ian's is also to modernize the command line.
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A Veteran's Standing Ovation, 70 Years In The Making
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When you reach a certain age, big life surprises tend to come few and far between, unless you're Harold Van Heuvelen. Van, as everyone calls him, has had a blockbuster week full of dreams fulfilled. The story of his dream starts more than 70 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941.
Van Heuvelen enlisted in the Army after Pearl Harbor. He was posted to a base in New Orleans as an instructor for recruits. He spent the war stateside, training men who were being shipped out to Europe and the South Pacific.
"When the peace came along in Europe in April of 1945, we just practically sat there without anything to do," he says. "Most of the gentlemen drew house plans because they were thinking they were going to get out of the service pretty soon. And I wrote a symphony."
Van Heuvelen started composing at age 8 and studied music in college, writing a violin concerto when he was only a junior. The symphony, though, was a huge undertaking: more than 200 pages of music, which he wrote thinking he might still be sent overseas.
"The rumor was that we were going to be shipped to Japan," he says. "And then Hiroshima/Nagasaki came along, and that ended the war completely."
Van Heuvelen finished the symphony and even got it in front of Leonard Bernstein a few years after the war. But he wound up getting a job teaching music in the public schools of Bismarck, N.D.
"So I didn't have a lot of time to promote it," he says. "It pretty much sat on the shelf for 70 years."
The story could have ended there. Click the audio link on this page to learn how Van Heuvelen's opus was revived decades later and finally saw its debut.
As we look forward to Veterans Day, we turn now to the story of one veteran for whom this week was more than he ever dreamed. Tina Antolini has our story.
TINA ANTOLINI, BYLINE: When you reach a certain age, big life surprises tend to be few and far between. Unless you're Harold Van Heuvelen.
HAROLD VAN HEUVELEN: I'm a 93-year-old codger. Still kicking.
ANTOLINI: Van, as everyone calls him, has had a pretty blockbuster week. A week of dreams fulfilled. The story of Van's dream starts more than 70 years ago.
HEUVELEN: December 7, 1941.
ANTOLINI: Pearl Harbor. Van enlisted. He was posted to a base in New Orleans as an instructor for recruits, training men who were being shipped out to Europe and the South Pacific.
HEUVELEN: When the peace came along in Europe in April of 1945, we just practically sat there without anything to do. Most of the gentlemen drew house plans, because they were thinking they were going to get out of the service pretty soon. And I wrote a symphony.
ANTOLINI: Van started composing at age eight, and studied music in college, writing a violin concerto when he was only a junior. But the symphony was a huge undertaking - more than 200 pages of music, which he wrote thinking he still might be sent overseas.
HEUVELEN: The rumor was that we were going to be shipped to Japan. And then Hiroshima, Nagasaki came along and that ended the war completely.
ANTOLINI: Van finished the symphony, even showed it to Leonard Bernstein a few years after the war. But he wound up getting a job teaching music in the public schools in Bismarck, North Dakota.
HEUVELEN: And so I didn't have a lot of time to promote it, you know. So, it's pretty much sat on the shelf for 70 years.
ANTOLINI: Literally, on the shelf.
BOB VAN HEUVELEN: He had it on the bookshelf in our living room and I would see it. And, of course, as a kid you see a lot of books, and so you don't really take notice.
ANTOLINI: That's Bob Van Heuvelen, Van's son. It wasn't until 2003 when Bob was helping his dad go through the house after Van's wife died, that they stumbled on the symphony again.
HEUVELEN: So, I said when are you going to have this played? And he said, well, you know, maybe that's something you boys will have to do after I'm gone. And I said, well, that's not OK.
ANTOLINI: The first thing Bob did was find someone to create a computer music version of the symphony score.
ANTOLINI: Now, Bob Van Heuvelen is a lobbyist and consultant in Washington, D.C. And he happened to be in a meeting with Michigan Senator Carl Levin.
HEUVELEN: He said I'm a great classical music lover. Would you send me a disc?
ANTOLINI: The next thing Bob knew, Senator Levin had written to the Pentagon, asking if they'd get the symphony performed.
MAJOR TOD ADDISON: We're always grateful when people on the Hill think of us.
ANTOLINI: Major Tod Addison is the deputy commander for the United States Army Bands, and conducts its orchestra. When a senator asks you to perform something, you don't want to say no, but what if this music just wasn't any good?
ADDISON: I was pretty worried, to tell you the truth. And thankfully, as soon as I looked at it, it was tonal. It was accessible. It was very neo-romantic. And I think I said the word Brahms right away, because it was just so broad.
ANTOLINI: And so Bob Van Heuvelen got a letter back saying the concert was on, and asking...
HEUVELEN: Do you think your dad can make it? I said I don't think all the horses in the country could hold him back.
ADDISON: And now we will perform for you the world premiere of the Van Heuvelen Symphony No. 1.
ANTOLINI: Van is in the front row as the symphony begins in a concert hall on Fort Meyer in Northern Virginia. He's wearing his old World War II army uniform, which he insisted on resurrecting for the occasion.
ANTOLINI: Each movement of Van's symphony addresses a different era of the war: from Hitler's rise to power to America's entrance into the war, to the peace following Japan's surrender.
ANTOLINI: Major Addison says there are glorious, uplifting moments in the music.
ADDISON: But at the same time, right about the time you're getting used to the glorious full chords, he changes back to, yes, but it was uneasy. Even after the war, it might have been wonderful that we were finished, but there was a great uneasiness as to now what?
ANTOLINI: Van's expression is serious - until the theme of his favorite movement is played. Then his face is transformed by a wide-mouthed grin.
ANTOLINI: At the end, he gets a standing ovation, and is led to the front, leaning on his cane to address the audience.
HEUVELEN: Thank you for coming, and God bless you. And I hope that God will bless you as much as he's blessed me.
ANTOLINI: It was a day that Harold Van Heuvelen says is proof, your dreams can come true. It just might take - 70 years. For NPR News, I'm Tina Antolini.
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1992 Mercury Tracer Problem Reports
Newest 1992 Mercury Tracer Problem Reports
Failure to change the power steering fluid can cause the fluid to become gray with metal particles. The contaminated fluid can damage the power steering pump resulting in a growling noise when the wheel is turned; the damaged pump will require replacement to eliminate the noise.. Life of the power steering gearbox and pump will be shortened if the fluid is not serviced regularly.
An external Engine oil leak may develop from the distributor O-ring seal. A new O-ring seal will be needed to correct this leak.
While steering, if you hear a clunk or a rattle, or if you experience premature tire wear, this could indicate the inner tie rod ends are loose or worn and will require replacement.
Valve seats (components in the cylinder head that help seal the valve) can fall out. When this happens, it causes rough running and creates noise. Replacement of the cylinder head is commonly required to fix this problem.