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lovastatin-niacin Side Effects
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
- blurred vision
- breathing problems
- chest pain or palpitations
- dark yellow or brown urine
- decreased urination, difficulty passing urine
- dizziness that does not go away or fainting spells
- fever or chills
- increased blood sugar, especially if you have diabetes
- nausea, vomiting
- skin rash, hives, peeling or itching of the skin
- stomach pain, loss of appetite
- swelling of the body ( legs, ankles, arms)
- unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, cramps, or weakness
- unusual or severe tiredness or weakness
- yellowing of the skin or eyes
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
- decreased sexual function or desire
- diarrhea or constipation
- flushing, warmth, and burning or tingling of the skin
- headache
- stomach upset, discomfort, or bloating
lovastatin-niacin May Interact with Other Medications
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
- boceprevir
- certain antibiotics like erythromycin, clarithromycin, and telithromycin
- certain antiviral medicines for HIV or AIDS
- medicines for fungal infections like itraconazole, ketoconazole, or posaconazole
- mifepristone, RU-486
- nefazodone
- other niacin products
- red yeast rice
- telaprevir
- telithromycin
- troleandomycin
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
- amiodarone
- aspirin
- cholestyramine or colestipol
- colchicine
- cyclosporine
- danazol
- digoxin
- grapefruit juice
- medicines for diabetes
- medicines for high blood pressure or heart disease
- nitroglycerin or nitrates like amyl nitrate, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate
- other cholesterol medicines like gemfibrozil, fenofibrate or clofibrate
- ranolazine
- warfarin
How to Use lovastatin-niacin
Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Swallow whole. Do not crush, break, or chew the tablet. It should be taken in the evening with a low-fat snack. Do not take this medicine with grapefruit juice, hot beverages, or alcohol-containing beverages. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. If you also take cholestyramine or colestipol to lower your cholesterol, you should take this medicine at least 1 hour before or 4 hours after a dose of these medications. If skin flushing (skin warmth, redness) becomes a problem, ask your doctor for advice.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
- frequently drink alcoholic beverages
- kidney or liver disease
- low blood counts, low platelets, or bleeding problems
- muscle aches or weakness
- other medical condition
- ulcers of intestine or stomach
- an unusual or allergic reaction to lovastatin, niacin, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
- pregnant or trying to get pregnant
- breast-feeding
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. You will need to have regular tests to make sure your liver is working properly.
This medicine is only part of a total cholesterol-lowering program. Your physician or dietician can suggest a low-cholesterol and low-fat diet that will reduce your risk of getting heart and blood vessel disease. Avoid alcohol and smoking, and keep a proper exercise schedule.
Do not use this drug if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. Serious side effects to an unborn child or to an infant are possible. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Tell your doctor or health care professional as soon as you can if you get any unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, especially if you also have a fever and tiredness. Your doctor or health care professional may tell you to stop taking this medicine if you develop muscle problems. If your muscle problems do not go away after stopping this medicine, contact your health care professional.
This medicine may affect blood sugar levels. If you have diabetes, check with your doctor or health care professional before you change your diet or the dose of your diabetic medicine.
You may get drowsy or dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this drug affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells.
Do not drink hot drinks or alcohol at the same time you take your medicine. Hot drinks and alcohol can increase the flushing caused by niacin, which can be uncomfortable. Alcohol also can increase possible dizziness.
If you are going to have surgery tell your doctor or health care professional that you are taking this medicine.
You may notice the empty shell of the tablet in your stool. This is no cause for concern.
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St. Catharine, The City of Springfield, The Central Kentucky Community Theatre, and the National Guard are partnering to hold a day event for families everywhere Saturday, April 21.
First the event will hold a 5k located at Idle Hour Park in Springfield at 7 a.m. recognizing our troops. All are invited (even kids) to run or walk and can register at http://www.active.com/running/springfield-ky/military-appreciation-5k-fu...
Beam Global is looking to build up to 11 warehouses as part of an expansion for Maker's Mark, but the company is also seeking a long-term property tax abatement for part of that construction.
The Marion County Fiscal Court was divided over whether to approve the proposal during its March 15 meeting, but Marion County Judge/Executive John G. Mattingly was optimistic when discussing the situation Monday.
Congressman Brett Guthrie, perhaps in one of his last appearances representing Marion County, was the guest speaker at the Marion County Industrial Foundation's Friday Forum last week at the David R. Hourigan Government Building.
Guthrie, a Republican, opened by addressing the redistricting change that has moved Marion County from the Second District, which he represents, to the First District, which is represented by Congressman Ed Whitefield, another Republican.
Limestone Branch Distillery will celebrate its grand opening at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 14, at 1280 Veterans Memorial Highway in Lebanon.
The distillery will fill its first bourbon barrel at 2 p.m., and Kreekwater Koolaid will provide live entertainment from 3 to 7 p.m.
The Lebanon City Council has given its support, in principle, to assist Nally and Hayden with a planned housing development near Wal-mart.
Tony O'Daniel, a real estate broker, spoke with city officials Monday evening on behalf of Nally and Hayden. The development calls for around 86 residential lots to be built.
Lebanon city officials have received complaints about grass clippings being blown into the street, and Mayor Gary Crenshaw asked citizens to try to keep their clippings in their yards.
"One, it's a hazard, and two, it's detrimental to the finances of the city," he said.
The Marion County Knights varsity baseball team played two games during the Spring Break week, going on the road on Monday of last week to play Bethlehem and hosting LaRue County Wednesday night at Dave Hourigan Field. The Knights were able to defeat Bethlehem, but lost to LaRue to take their overall record to 6-6.
LaRue County 6, Marion County 1
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Freshman Knights vs. Washington County (H)
Track and field
Knights and Lady Knights at Green County (A)
April 13
Knights vs. Danville (H)
April 14
Knights vs. Mercer County (A)
April 16
Freshman Knights vs. Nelson County (H)
The city council unanimously approved the health insurance plan for city employees on Monday evening, electing to go with a proposal from Humana.
United Healthcare offered a renewal rate 29 percent higher than the city's current plan. The Humana offer is 8.6 percent less than the city's current plan.
Under the Humana plan, the city will pay a monthly premium of $29,717.62.
Okay, so I know you see by the title of this column that I am going to write about the Kentucky Wildcats. Yes, it will be the last time I write about them, at least until next basketball season.
Last Monday night was a wonderful night for all fans of the Kentucky Wildcats. The Cats brought home a national championship to Lexington, the eighth championship in school history, and the first one since 1998, the year I graduated high school.
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Eagle Scout comes out, gets kicked out
"I wanted to become an Eagle Scout," he explained, "and I didn't want to endanger that. So I kept my personal life very careful from my Scouting life."
But even after earning his Eagle rank, Chance hesitated to go public. What was the point?
"Really, sexuality has nothing to do with Scouts," he said. "Sexual activity of any type is not tolerated within Scouts."
A moral life
Some, though, believe that the admission of gay Scouts will lead to Scouts engaging in gay sex.
In a recent USA Today op-ed article, OnMyHonor.Net's founder noted that the Scouts are already dealing with allegations that more than 1,800 boys have been sexually abused by adult Scout leaders.
"It's sheer fantasy for the BSA board to think this will not multiply its problems exponentially," John Stemberger wrote. "The biggest problem will be a wave of boy-on-boy sexual activity on campouts and other overnight activities."
Zach Wahls, a former Eagle Scout from Iowa and co-founder of Scouts for Equality, countered that Scouting already has strict policies against sexual activity during Scouting events. The straight son of a same-sex couple, Wahls recited the Scout Law: "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous …"
"The exclusion of Scouts because they are gay is neither courteous nor friendly," he said.
A year after he became an Eagle, Chance decided that his silence violated the Scout Oath's admonition to live a moral life. He wrote about this for an AP English assignment at Patrick Henry High School. He later submitted the essay to U-T San Diego, where it was published on Feb. 22.
"Even now," he wrote, "I am unable to be honest with my Boy Scout troop. I justify this lie by telling myself my sexuality does not define me as an individual, but I often wonder if pretending to be someone I am not is 'morally straight.' "
At 18, Chance was already in his last year of Scouting. This fall, he'll attend Pitzer College in Claremont. He's not sure what the future will bring — a career in politics, perhaps, or another form of public service.
He'd also like to see a future where other boys will not face the same situation Chance did.
"My being gay really didn't have any impact on the kind of Scout I was," he said. "I was still able to tie knots and cook and tell campfire stories as well as the Scout next to me, who was straight."


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Electrifying Research Destroys Pollutants That Cause Smog
Belsie, Laurent, The Christian Science Monitor
Cars aren't the only things that cause smog and urban pollution. So do industrial plants and hazardous-waste dumps.
For years, researchers have worked on ways to reduce the smog-inducing gases spewing from plants and dumps. They've burned them, filtered them, even used platinum and other expensive catalysts to turn them into more benign substances. Louis Rosocha of the Los Alamos National Laboratory thinks he has a better idea.
He electrifies them.
If he's right, engineers could soon have a new way to handle problematic gases that is cheaper than filtering or catalytic conversion and creates fewer environmental problems than incineration. The process is called plasma technology. This plasma is an electrically charged gas cloud, not the gooey stuff of science fiction movies.
Actually, its formal name is nonthermal plasma technology, because it uses electricity instead of heat to work its magic. Similar processes are being tested abroad to control sulfur- and nitrogen-oxide emissions from industrial plants, the gases that can lead to smog and acid rain. At Los Alamos, Dr. Rosocha is using it on volatile organic compounds or VOCs, which are hazardous air pollutants in their own right and can lead to smog and acid rain.
Last November, scientists at the lab and their industrial partner, High Mesa Technologies in Santa Fe, N.M., set up an instrument-filled trailer at a contaminated site at McClellan Air Force Base in California. The 40-year-old site had been a dumping ground for gasoline and various industrial solvents.
For two months, the Los Alamos scientists used their plasma technology to see how well it could clean up the fumes.
The results were impressive. Their system destroyed 95 percent of the average VOC gas. The level of destruction reached 99.9 percent for trichloroethelyne (or TCE, a dry-cleaning fluid).
In March, the researchers moved their system to another contaminated site at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. …


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and you would pick a GPX over an M1? Straight line performance is good, but if you cant make the tires last or get good grip in the turns, it means nothing. Sam's pace is good enough to win by 10+ seconds a race. Hes only sticking around for the 'fans'/cameras, he said as much during the post race interview if you were paying attention.


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Riverside proposes tax hike
School board OKs preliminary budget with a 2.69 percent rate increase.
The Riverside Board of Education included a slight tax increase in its 2014-15 preliminary budget unanimously approved at a special meeting Tuesday night.
The preliminary budget of $22.8 million raises property taxes to 106.86 mills, up 2.8 mills from last year's rate of 104.06 — an increase of 2.69 percent.
For a home with the district's average assessed value of $13,030, residents will pay about $37 more, or $1,392 annually in taxes. A mill is a $1 tax on every $1,000 of assessed value.
"This is only the second time we've raised taxes in seven years," board Vice President Robert Bennie said.
The district previously raised taxes by 2.14 percent in the 2013-14 budget. Mr. Bennie said greater pension contributions and operating costs have led to taxes increasing.
Mr. Bennie said the district contributed 16.93 percent of its payroll to the Public School Employees Retirement System in the 2013-14 year.
That contribution jumps by more than 4 percent in the 2014-15 budget, obligating the district to contribute 21.4 percent, Mr. Bennie said.
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It's not every time Seb passes Mark, Seb has made passes on Mark in full engine map and that was fair and square. Those 2 seperate occasions "were" on sucker punch terms. Big difference.
While multi 21 might mean hold postion, both drivers were also told to wind down their engines to be within fuel limit at the end of the race.
At Silverstone, both drivers were still racing and RB told Mark not to pass in fear of another Turkey, and there was no pre agreement of team orders. In Malaysia there was a pre agreement and Seb broke it.
Another difference is Mark wasn't trying stealing a win as Ferdi won.
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Johnny Depp's generous drinks roundJohnny Depp shocked punters in a London pub by buying them all a drink.
The actor - in the capital for the UK premiere of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' - bought a round for more than 50 members of the public when he stopped into Waxy O' Connors for a drink.
An onlooker told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "We were just enjoying a pint and all of a sudden people started whispering they thought Johnny Depp had just walked in.
"He spoke to his entourage and said this one was going to be on him. He also added the fact that he may be a Hollywood actor but he was a good guy. And with that he bought more than 50 people a drink."
Meanwhile, the star insists his two children with partner Vanessa Paradis are nothing like the spoilt brats in his new movie.
The film, in which Depp plays sweet maker Willy Wonka, features five children who visit Wonka's candy factory. Four are brats who break the rules, with only Charlie Buckett resisting the temptations of the delicious treats.
Depp claims Lily-Rose Melody, six, and three-year-old Jack are well-behaved just like Charlie.
He said: "My children are not spoiled like these kids in the movie. We're very careful about that kind of thing. I think they are both closer to Charlie's character. The kids are pretty well balanced, well grounded and not monster-like at all."
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Looking for some insight on an speed issues with my desktop.
I have a modem and wireless router in the basement while my desk top is upstairs. The speeds coming out of my modem and router are 20-25 which is really good.
However, my speeds at my desktop are only between 2-5, upload and download. My desktop is connecting to the router via a system in which you plug into the AC outlet and hooks to the computer via an Ethernet cable. Best Buy told me that this would be the fastest option over a wireless thumb drive.
Anyone have experience with the plug/Ethernet system vs a wireless thumb drive system? Any thoughts on why this plug and play system is so slow?
Product is similar to this: XAVB2101
The grass always looks greener, on the other side of the fence, but the dog over there might be meaner, on the other side of the fence
Stay in your own yard, play in your own yard!
Go to Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test, and post up the stats that they give you (you can copy and paste them as an image I believe.
How old is your home? I think some of the powerline adapters in the past have really sucked, but I recently bought a set for an upstairs BD player and it works great. I've heard if you have an older home the wiring isn't very good and they don't work well. If that is the case you MAY be better off going wireless.
12 year old home.
I haven't looked at Powerline stuff in a while but what ruxCYtable said definitely used to be true. There was a lot of variability in speeds and compatibility issues too. If the router and the powerline adapter are different vendors they may not work well together. I will say that this was 4-5 years ago and I have heard that most of these issues have been addressed. But if you just got it from BB that may not be your issue.
I have seen another issue that may or may not be applicable so I will throw it out there. I once saw someone who had a cable box (mediacom) which offered both ethernet and usb interfaces; since so many things are usb today she used that. Her performance was crap even though her Mediacom connection was fast. The culpret? The usb connection for some reason was running in 1.1 mode and was limiting transfer speeds. Sometimes there is a bottleneck like that effecting things: you just need to find it.
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12 year old home.
Hmmm, that's not too old so I wouldn't think the wiring would be the problem. It could be the line has a lot of noise on it and the adapter isn't filtering it all out.
Do you still have your receipt? If so, you could return it and try a different one. I bought a Trendnet pair from newegg and I'm getting the same speeds upstairs in my house as I am at the point of entry, so obviously I've been real happy with it.
Sorry you're having a problem and wish I could be of more help.
Whomever told you home wiring would be faster than wireless -- especially if you only care about internet -- was simply -- let's just say "incorrect".
May my posts be polite and not misunderstood. (And hopefully funny on occasion.)
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Whomever told you home wiring would be faster than wireless -- especially if you only care about internet -- was simply -- let's just say "incorrect".
Ted, there was a time your statement would have been correct, but it is no longer. The technology has improved. I'm getting twice as fast an internet connection in my upstairs family room over powerline than I was via wireless.
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Hey guys, I'm starting this thread as a place for us to post some pictures of bikes we have built, or works in progress. Unfortunatly, I havent built any frames yet, so I have nothing to post .
Hey guys, I'm starting this thread as a place for us to post some pictures of bikes we have built, or works in progress. Unfortunatly, I havent built any frames yet, so I have nothing to post .
still no frames for me to post, but anyone else want to share?
Here's the frame I made w/Joe Bringheli. It was painted by John Hodgkins in Alabama. I'm partway through collecting all the parts so I can FINALLY ride it (built in 1999!!!).
1966 Schwinn Paramount P-13
1999 Bringheli Custom Road Bike
2010 Specialized Tricross Sport
I previously posted my latest stuff .Nothing new going on in my basement other than finishing up my wife's new townie/ commuter bike. I wasn't planning on building any more bikes for awhile so I could do some boat work. But my wife has been talking about this Ryan Duplex someone loaned us last spring I am not a fan of recumbents but my wife loved it and has been hinting she might like having one.
So I have been doing some doodling. The only thing I didn't like about the Ryan was the 20" front wheel , so I took this photo I found of a Ryan (top photo)and made the front wheel 26"( bottom photo) This is what I came up with.
I would also want to simply construction and come up with something a little unusual so I am thinking of bending the top tube and the bottom tube to meet the headtube. I am also thinking of wrapping the seat tube( for lack of a better word) around the rear wheel and blending it into a rear rack.
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Nice Bikes guys! Nomad-you braze with mapp gas dont you?
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Ha I know your wife! she wants you to build a bike so her lawn doesn't turn into a
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Hey when are we gonna go and kick the planks again? check your email.
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A few weeks ago, we did a preview of a wedding Becky & I shot at the Sequoia Restaurant in Georgetown in DC. The Sequoia sits right on the waterfront, and you get a lovely view of the Kennedy Center from the boardwalk. It's a wonderful place to have a wedding!
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In our last Stellaris how-to we got the board working and set some registers to turn on the LED. This time we'll start using StellarisWare Driverlib, which provides drivers for the microcontroller's peripherals including GPIOs, UARTs, ADCs, and so on. These libraries make it easier to control the peripherals. We'll build the Driverlib project, create a project from scratch to use the library, and run a simple LED blinking example.
Stellaris Launchpad library to drive the TM1638 UI board
For those that grabbed one of these TM1638 UI boards you can now easily use it with your Stellaris Launchpad. [Dan O] took it upon himself to publish an ARM library for the UI board.
There's not a lot of new stuff to talk about here. We've already seen this being driven by an FPGA. [Dan] also links to both an Arduino and an MSP430 library for the board. The one thing that is good to know is that the board seems to run fine from the 3.3V supplied by the Stellaris Launchpad.
The ARM chip has four different hardware SPI modules which could have been used to drive this display. But [Dan] opted to bit bang instead. This give him more flexibility, like easily changing the pin mapping and foregoing the need for external components. All it takes is direct connections from three I/O pins which are used for clock, data in, and data out. We've embedded the obligatory demo video after the break.
Continue reading "Stellaris Launchpad library to drive the TM1638 UI board"
Getting Started with the Stellaris Launchpad
We've already given an overview of the Stellaris Launchpad, but lets look at the first steps to running code on the device. First we'll get the development software working, then we'll build and run a very simple example.
TI allows use of the full version of their IDE, Code Composer Studio, with the Launchpad's on-board debugger. To work with Stellaris microcontrollers, you'll also need to grab StellarisWare. This free software package contains support for the Stellaris devices including peripheral drivers, a USB library, and code examples. Finally, you'll need the ICDI drivers to communicate with the debugger. TI has all the required software for this board available here. See the TI getting started directions for a walk-through of how to install the required software.
Continue reading "Getting Started with the Stellaris Launchpad"
Hands on the Stellaris Launchpad
We just got our hands on a Stellaris Launchpad. We had placed an order when the preorder was originally announced, but the marketing folks at TI reached out an offered to send us one a bit sooner and took them up on it. We've embedded a quick unboxing video after the break but read on for some info that didn't make it into that clip.
The look and feel of the board and its packaging are almost exactly the same as the MSP430 version of the Launchpad. But why not? After all it worked so well the first time. This board hosts an ARM Cortex-M4 processor. The two buttons on the bottom are user buttons, the one on the upper right is a reset button. The top of the board is the programmer, with a micro USB port for connectivity. The kit also includes about a 2′ cable for this connection. Next to that jack is a switch that selects a power source. You'll also notice a USB port to the left, this because the processor includes USB functionality, with a free library available from TI. Power can come from the programmer/debugger USB port, or from this device USB port. There are dual pin headers to either side on the face of the board, and pin sockets on the back which break out pins of the processor. Just below the reset button is a RGB LED, and a clock crystal has also been populated just above the chip.
When plugged in via the programmer's USB port the PWR LED lights up as does the RGB LED. The firmware that ships on the device fades through a range of colors and the user buttons scroll through a set of predefined colors. The device enumerates as: "Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1cbe:00fd Luminary Micro Inc." on our machine. But if you connect it via the device USB jack it enumerates as: "Bus 001 Device 015: ID 04e8:689e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-S5670 [Galaxy Fit]". Interesting.
We have no idea if there are programming tools for flashing the board using a Linux box, but we'll be trying to figure it out. If you have some info please share it in the comments.
Regarding the development files that accompany TI's microcontroller offerings
We received a tip from [Fabien] that Texas Instruments had posted a set of IDEs for the Stellaris Launchpad on their download page. At first we skipped right over the link, but then decided to take a look and see if things had changed any since the MSP430 Launchpad had been released. As we expected, there's really no help on this page if you're looking to develop for the hardware without using one of these IDEs.
Why would we want to forego the preconfigured development environments TI supplies? For one thing, they offer only trial licenses. When you go to download one of the packages you have to wade through a eyebrow-raising non-export agreement. When we made it that far, the ~500 MB Sourcery package we downloaded was quite slow. And we don't see any option for installing any of these on a Linux machine. No matter what OS you choose, we think you should be able to develop for any architecture using the same development environment — be it Eclipse, GNU Emacs, Notepad, or whatever . We don't want to download a huge package just to try out a new chip.
We know you can develop for Stellaris ARM chips using a vanilla cross compiler like arm-none-eabi (we use Sourcery CodeBench Lite — formerly CodeSourcery G++ lite). We hope that TI is planning on adding a barebones package that supplies a simple Makefile, Linker Script, and base libraries for the hardware. But we won't hold our breath. After all, it is an industry standard to leave out Linux support.
Frequency analyzer built from the new Stellaris Launchpad
Here's the first project we've seen for the new Stellaris Launchpad. It's a frequency analyzer which displays a graph on an 8×8 LED module. What's that you say? You haven't received your new Launchpad board yet? Neither have we since they don't start shipping until the end of the month. But [EuphonistiHack] works as a software dev for TI and snagged one of the early development units.
Hardware is rather simple. He uses an OpAmp to feed audio from his laptop to the ARM processor. The 8×8 LED module is an MSP430 booster pack that is addressed via SPI. On the software side of things he's really taking advantage of hardware peripherals to simplify his work. A timer triggers each ADC reading which in turn writes the values using uDMA. Digital Signal Processing (available as a CMSIS library for many ARM chips) is then used to translate the ADC value to one that can be displayed on the LEDs. Check out the video after the break to see the final version.
The Hackaday writers are looking for an easier name for this hardware than "Stellaris Launchpad". It doesn't seem to lend itself to a shorter name, like RPi or Raspi does for the Raspberry Pi. If you've got a catchy nick name for the new board please share it in the comments.
Preorder TI's ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad for $5 delivered
Texas Instruments just open preorders for the new Stellaris LaunchPad. The boards won't ship until the end of September, but if you don't mind the wait you can get one for $4.99 including delivery (
we'd wager non-U.S. addresses have to pay for delivery, but leave a comment if you know for sure several readers have reported that international shipping is free).
We routinely pay more in shipping for parts orders so we already jumped at the opportunity and put in our own order. Earlier in the month we heard the first murmurs about the device. We're glad to see they hit the $4.99 target price, but the TI website mentions that this is a promotional price that will be available for a limited time only. The board boasts an ARM Cortex-M4 processor, the Stellaris LM4F120H5QR. It includes 256 KB of flash memory, 32 KB of SRAM, and more peripherals than you can shake a stick at. To get you up and running quickly they've included two user buttons and an RGB LED. As with the 16-bit Launchpad, the board acts as its own programmer. It has a microUSB jack, but they've included a micro B to USB A cable in the kit to make sure you don't need to also put in a cable order.
We'll give a follow-up post once we finally get our hands on the board. We hope this will be easy to get working with a Linux box!
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The Week We Searched For- July 22, 2011
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Google AdWords: Call Metrics now widely available- On Tuesday, Google made Call Metrics widely available to marketers in the US and Canada. Availability of Call Metrics has been limited since the service was first release in November 2010. Call Metrics enables marketers to embed toll-free forwarding numbers into their Google ad text. When a customer clicks on the number, Google automatically registers the call and connects the customers directly to the business. In addition to making Call Metrics widely available, Google also released the following updates to the service:
- More detailed reporting. In March we enhanced Call Metrics reporting to show the time, duration, and caller area code for each call. Based on advertiser feedback, we're now making reporting available at the ad group and campaign level for manually-dialed calls (subject to minimum volume). And you'll still be able to segment reports to compare how many calls were received from mobile clicks-to-call and how many were manually dialed after the ad was shown on a desktop, notebook, or tablet computer.
- New pricing for certain calls. A $1 USD (or equivalent in CAD) charge applies to manually dialed calls completed to your Google forwarding numbers. These calls occur when a potential customer on a desktop, notebook or tablet computer sees your ad and dials the number shown. Pricing for mobile clicks-to-call remains unchanged, whether you use Call Metrics or not. They continue to be charged as regular mobile search ad clicks.
- Call Extensions replace Phone Extensions. To reduce possible ambiguity, we've renamed Phone Extensions to Call Extensions.
Google AdWords: Top vs. Side Ad Performance Segmentation- (Google actually introduced this new "Top vs. Side" report segment last week, but I seemed to have missed it and wanted to include it in this week's news stories.) The new "Top vs. Side" report enables marketers to view how their ads perform above and to the side of Google search results. Insight into ad position performance and its relationship to clicks and conversions will better enable marketers to optimize their paid search campaigns.
Microsoft 2011 Earnings- Microsoft released its fiscal Q4 and full year revenue report yesterday. Up 8.5 percent from 2010, Microsoft reported $17.37 billion in revenue. Bing and MSN properties were up 17% to $622 million for the year, but operating losses of $728 million. In a press release on search and online advertising, Microsoft reported:
Search revenue grew due to increased volumes reflecting general market growth, relative share gains in the U.S, and our Yahoo! alliance, offset in part by decreased revenue per search primarily related to challenges associated with optimizing the adCenter platform for the new mix and volume of traffic from the combined Yahoo! and Bing properties. As of June 30, 2011, according to third-party sources, Bing organic U.S. market share grew over 31% to approximately 14%, while Bing-powered U.S. market share, including Yahoo! properties, was approximately 27%.
Google Labs is closed- Google announced on Tuesday the upcoming closure of Google Labs. Google Labs has served as an experimental laboratory where several now popular Google products were born. In its announcement, Google states that the decision to close Google Labs is part of a plan to focus more energy on product development, "While we've learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we're to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead."
Google Tests AdWords Credit Card for small business advertisers- Google is reportedly testing its own credit card as part of an effort to attract more small business customers. According to a Google spokesperson, "We are beta testing the AdWords Business credit card with a small group of our U.S.-based advertisers. AdWords is a tremendous driver of growth for small businesses, so we think it makes sense to give them a more attractive way to pay for AdWords."
Blogs to check out:
- Google Plus' Antisocial Mobile Strategy- Tim Carmondy from Wired.com loves Google Plus, but has several criticisms about the new mobile product.
- Google Adds URL Parameter Options to Google Webmaster Tools- Vanessa Fox from Search Engine Land discusses an improvement in Google's URL parameter options in Google Webmaster Tools, which enables site owners to determine the relationship between parameter changes and page content.
- How Does Google Make the Big Bucks? An Infographic Answer- Ryan Singel from Wired.com posted a fun infographic earlier this week that looks at the Top-20 most expensive keywords in Google AdWords.
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Yes, I have conquered a fear, homemade pudding, now that I've made it I can't really remember what made me so wary. I asked my mom if she had ever made pudding NOT from a box, her answer was never. My grandmother probably made pudding from scratch as a young girl but my mom doesn't remember homemade pudding being made when she was growing. Except plum pudding but that's a completely different beast altogether right there.
There is a generational gap in our country, you want pudding you need a box of mix and some milk, voila pudding! My mother made pudding that way, her mother at some point switched to making pudding that way and the technique and know how is lost. This can actually be applied to many foods that come in convenient packages. Rice-a-Roni only broken spaghetti and rice. Mac and Cheese, uh yeah orange cheese sauce and noodles. Cocoa is unsweetened cocoa powder, milk and sugar. The convenience of the packages makes us forget there are other ways to go. We as a nation forgot we can cook without a box because we never learned. An entire generation, in some cases two, were raised without basic food preparation knowledge. I think everything you can buy in a handy package of instant goodness can be made from scratch. And if not do I really need it? Because if I can't whip up ____in my kitchen from conventional ingredients do I really need it? And yes I am talking about myself too because believe it or not I still buy food in boxes, just not chocolate pudding anymore.
Chocolate Pudding
1/2 cup cornstarch
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups cream
1 1/2 cups milk
5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
1 TBSP butter
mix the dry ingredients in a 4 quart pan
mix the cream and the milk together
add one cup of the cream mixture to the cornstarch mixture, stir to until the lumps disappear
add the rest of the cream mixture
place the pan over medium heat cook whisking constantly for 5 minutes
add the chopped chocolate, stir until melted
remove from heat stir in the butter until melted
cover with plastic wrap right on the pudding to keep it from getting a skin
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - ReviewGabriel Franco, posted on 29 July 2009 / 3,175 Views
In the world of videogames there are situations that gamers have come to recognize as inevitable.
The lack of quality of film adaptations is one of them - no matter how good the film is, most games end up being bad, bland interpretations that don't justify their existence. However, every now and then, we find a game that's really worth it. Of course, with every new experience that gets translated from the big screen to our living room we hope that it'll be one of those rare good film-based games. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, sadly, just prolongs the wait.
The game follows the plot of the film, so most of the characters that appear in the film also appear in the game. In the film, Ben Stiller plays main character Larry Daley, and while he provides the voiceover for the in-game counterpart, the character model bears very little resemblance. The story tells us how Larry discovers that his favorite exhibits (who happen to be some of the best friends he had at the Natural History Museum of New York) are going to be sent to the Smithsonian, so he decides to visit the museum to say goodbye.
And visit them he does, armed with his trusty keys and flashlight, which will become his main tools throughout the game. In the first level, which serves as a tutorial, we're shown how to use the map and how to control Larry in a simple way. Besides, we're presented with the tablet of Akmenrah (which contains nine magic ingots), a key element in the plot of the game. After experiencing the wonders he can perform with the tablet in a demo directed by Akmenrah himself, Larry leaves for home to rest. He then receives a call from the little cowboy, Jebediah, who informs him that the wicked Kahmunrah has stolen the Tablet, and with the help of Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon, and Al Capone he's planning to take control of the Smithsonian - and later the world. So our character flies to Washington to stop this group of villains.
Larry manages to part Kahmunrah from the Tablet, but in the process all the ingots are lost, and the real mission begins: to travel the museums to find all the lost ingots, which will give you new abilities and powers that will help you advance through the levels. It's a beginning akin to Metroid, where all your powers are stolen at the beginning and you must earn them back as you advance through the adventure. The premise, even though not original, is solid and could have been used in very interesting ways throughout the game, but sadly it's poorly executed and the linearity and incredible simplicity of the game makes the idea dilute into false promises.
The basic controls of the character include the abilities of walking (with the left stick) and jumping (with the A button). The special movements make use of your accessories; the first of which is the keychain (that you use with the Left Trigger), which can be turned quickly to reflect incoming projectiles. With the help of the snake ingot, you can use the keychain to swing from side to side and to reach faraway objects. Your second accessory is the flashlight, which is used with the right trigger, and has the most varied array of abilities, each determined by a different ingot of the Tablet. For example, the Paintbrush ingot allows you to give life to the paintings in the museum walls and to use them as teleportation portals, much like Mario 64; the Animal ingot allows you to control animals illuminated with your flashlight and the Gear ingot allows you to empower motorized objects.
The problem is that the use of those powers feels forced into the game, because far from offering interesting puzzles as you traverse through the levels, they feel almost like they were being thrown in your face, so much of the time it feels as if the game guided you, for example the games automatically shows you the ingot you need to use in every puzzle, this leaves you without many options to think. In the game's defense, it's worth noting that it's aimed to young children, and the difficulty level is according.
Maybe it is because the game is aimed to children, but it's incredibly linear and easy. Each level offers you the same outline: you obtain an ingot with a new power, you use it a few times, you advance to the next level, seldom using your old powers again. There are no alternate roads, save for a few times where you're forced to use your powers to take a detour for some seconds, just to return later to the same path again. The game offers an important educational side with the implementation of Audio Guides, located in front of the different exhibitions in the museums and offering you real and educational information of the historic character, painting, sculpture or artifact. Without a doubt, a very welcome addition
As for the presentation, the game has a cartoony style that doesn't do anything new or spectacular, despite having a colorful and fluid palette. The backgrounds and scenario elements are poorly detailed, though they accomplish their purpose adequately given the style of the game. The camera sits behind Larry without offering problems and helps the player not to lose ourselves in the middle of the action, something higher-budget games sometimes fail to offer. The enemies are meager, repetitive, and without charisma. The game also offers a lot of unnecessary cinematics (which are also too long) that often break the pace of the game in the middle of action.
For the sound department, Battle of the Smithsonian offers a lot of generic, uninspired tunes. These are often completely unassociated with the action. I had to recheck the game to see that the game had different tunes in the different levels. But, the most irritating aspect here are the voices. For some reason the game repeats the same instructions over and over again, even when you're following them. The game offers you the option to press the Y button if you get lost, at which point any of your partners will offer you a tip, but this seems almost unnecessary as the game is intent on giving you a hint every 5 seconds.
The game is brutally short. It can be finished easily in 4 hours, and if you want to obtain all the Gamerpoints and Awards you only need to invest 30 minutes more. Achievement lovers can add this game to their 1000-easy-points list, as you can raise your score in little time without problems. Besides the regular campaign, the game offers a trivia section about the game contents and two minigames that are single-player only and become boring in a couple of minutes. Thus the game offers very little replay value, making a rental the best choice in this case.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, aimed to the youngest of the house, is a game for those who loved the film and for parents to enjoy along with their children. The game offers a simple diversion, educational and without much action, that follows the goal of entertaining without having the ambition of going for more. Sadly, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is another point for the argument that games based on films aren't the best choice for your catalog. At least the experience here is not frustrating, and is over in less than the time it takes to blink of an eye.
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Does anyone have a tried & tested recipe for eggnog? Preferably a cooked one.
I can't find mine...
Thank you.
Step 1. Go to M & S
Step 2. Purchase carton of eggnog
Step 3. Drink
Originally Posted by MystikPiglit, post: 71930
this one has bourbon - i may try it this year. would it be a bit like runny alcoholic custard?
For those here in the states just replace M&S with the words "local grocery store" and then follow the rest of Dawn's directionsOriginally Posted by Dawn, post: 71906


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Oz' biggest car race (Bathurst1000) is usually a weekend or two prior to PI, it would be a big call if Casey plans to use this as his learning year as I've hard he is penned in to co-drive at a few of the edurance rounds such as this later in the year.
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Back on September 10, 2008, Brendan wrote about us being guided. I enjoyed what he wrote. He is a much better writer than I am. I would like to expand on what his writings with some thoughts of my own on growth.
I have come to realize as these experiences and dreams occur that we're in another growth process. It seems just when we think we're comfortable in our Twin Flame relationship the universe pushes us further to knock us off balance. Sometimes I think it's purposeful to keep us growing.
Our growth as a couple is tremendously wild and fast. We wanted to go slow but that's never happened in any way. We've been on a wonderful magical roller coaster. Sometimes we'd like to jump off, but we don't.
The best way I can describe the process is this. It feels like giving birth to a baby. You're happy you've gone into labor. It's such a relief to know you'll soon be much lighter and have an easier time getting around. The labor begins and at first, you feel small contractions. You think to yourself, "Wow, this is great!" The contractions become stronger and closer together. This is when you think, I don't know if I can do this. You know you must continue because there's no turning back. Now you're in pain. The baby is pushing itself out. You start screaming, "Get this thing out of me!" You want drugs or to be numbed. You'll do anything to stop the pain. Let's say you don't use them. The labor is so intense. You feel on the verge of death. Now the baby starts to crown. You're so excited, in excruciating pain, and have mixed feelings about loving and hating this experience simultaneously. When he's born, you feel blissful that a miracle just happened. Nothing is better than this. In a Twin Flame relationship, you may feel this birthing repeatedly.
Part of this guidance has taught me that if we stay in our comfort zone, growth doesn't occur as rapidly. Knocking us off balance pushes us further to seek out answers and ask more questions. I believe this growth helps us evolve into our full potential. Fear can sometimes make you want to run. Running is not the answer in our case. If we ran, it would mean our death. We feel this physically, mentally and spiritually. We've done this and nothing has ever felt worse. We just need to remember that God knows and we don't. We need to trust our inner wisdom and follow that. Our heart knows what our heads try to make us run from.
I've noticed another thing about being guided. When our hearts feel blissful and our intuition says, "Just do it," then that's what we do. What I mean is this. I've taken off to his home 900 miles away on the spur of the moment only to text him I was coming. We've planned a night before to meet half way to see each other. We've broken many of man's rules and our families opened up like no other's I've ever heard of in history. I wish I could expand on that but at this time I won't. That's something Brendan and I will write together when we're living with each other. This is a whole story in itself.
We're also being guided through our dreams, visions, intuition, and our works of art and poetry from the past. There have been so many nights where neither of us gets any real rest from dreaming. These dreams are one right after another. They don't make much sense sometimes and other times our dreams are like locks and keys to one another. I have one part and he has the other. When we share these dreams, we can figure it out. We are amazed this happens and it happens frequently these days.
Visions we've shared have also share the lock and key. Like Brendan stated in his article yesterday, he drew those twin symbols over a decade ago and I saw a vision in P-Town back in May that lead me to draw those twins in July. I drew them repeatedly until I felt as if they were right. When I emailed them to him, I did not think twice about it. Then when I was visiting him, I saw his art and I was humbled by the resemblance of his and mine. We both had visions as children playing together since we were young. When we shared this with one another, we found there were so many commonalities it was the same experience. Then there was the vision of the psi attacker. We both saw him the same night. Our visions are something we take seriously and pay attention to. They have showed us many things to let us know we are connected. They keep us knowing we're always one.
Our intuition is something we have both had many challenges with lately. We are learning to trust one another's intuition. This is the most current phase of growth and being guided. I know when Brendan has told me something is not right with a person my radar doesn't seem to kick in. For instance, I thought this group of people who were our friends was to be trusted, only to find that there were a few in the group who only wanted to cause us trouble. This caused a big heartache in the end. I wanted to believe that all people have great intentions but sometimes they don't. I should know better since I'm a psychiatric nurse. I have my radar on at work but not much of the rest of the time. I especially don't have it on when I'm with him. I'm only focused on us. He then makes me aware of things to protect us. I know one day I'll listen. (LOL, the Leo in me is stubborn).
His challenge is equally as difficult in the area of intuition. For example, we were going to rent this place and we were all excited about it. We talked about it all evening. When we went to bed, I woke up in the middle of the night. I was terrified. Everything about the house I thought was so right initially was immediately so wrong. Brendan didn't understand and why would he after we both were so excited and definite on this place. We were at odds and this was definitely new to us since we've agreed on practically everything up to this point. For days we were not happy. He wanted it and I didn't. He liked the location and so did I. It was ripping me apart. Finally, a few days later I found a house before going to work. I emailed him. It was only a few blocks from the other house we looked at. It was perfect. Both of us agreed this was the one. It's roomy for our big families which is important. I wanted to have some place to grow as a family as well as have my family and friends are able to visit without paying the high price of hotel bills in a resort town. It was intuition that kicked in that night. We're renting starting 11/1. Imagine that! However, if you add that 1 to the 2 and 8 in the year 2008 - you get another 11 which equals 11 11. There's a set of numbers for you.
Many things guide us, including our spirit mother. I'm not sure if that's what she is. We've discussed her being a spirit mother but we've also wondered if there is such thing as a TRI-Flame. If anyone has experienced this, let us know. She has been showing me things through dreams. We've touched on this a little in the past. Our spirit mother is one entity who is such a comfort when she guides us. You know she keeps telling us both 11 is important and we are one. We're still figuring her out.
Being guided is a very difficult process. It's one of complete trust in what you feel, see and do. It's also learning to trust a person with whom your connected with and what they've been guided to also. When you're not used to fully trusting a person and you've found your Twin Flame (Tri-flame) it can feel like the whole birthing experience. We're at the time when the baby is crowning and it's all those mixed up emotions at once. Our birth is coming and the miracle is here. We know it's worth the pain to go through all we've been through. I'd be willing to do it again, knowing what I've experienced already. I can only imagine with eager anticipation of what has yet to come.


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Why I Love the Twelfth Doctor Casting
Guest contributor Noah Fischel shares his thoughts.
Welcome to the beginning of a new era, fellow Who fans. As we await the "Fall of the Eleventh" in December, we have a couple months to warm up to the newest man to play the good Doctor. I, personally, was at first appalled to see the casting of Peter Capaldi. Mainly due to him playing a character in Doctor Who already AND appearing as a major character in Torchwood: Children of Earth. However, after watching a few television shows and movies in which he was featured, I began to accept him as Doctor number 12. More recently, I have begun to absolutely delight in his casting. And here's why.
It will serve as chemotherapy
Wait… What? No, just hear me out. Here in America (I'm not too sure about all the other fans around the world) Doctor Who was quite "underground", in terms of popularity. For many of us, we'd mention a Dalek, the TARDIS, or Gallifrey and we'd get the crap beaten out of us for being extreme nerds. Now, everybody and their grandmothers (well, the grandmothers seemed more likely anyway) seems to know about Doctor Who. You can't walk into a store without seeing some kind of merchandise for the show. And now, out here, scene kids and the popular kids are starting to enjoy the show, or rather, seem to start liking the "cute guy in the bow tie."
In a recent conversation with my friends Billie and Austin, Billie brought up a good argument. She stated, "With the arrival of an older man for the new Doctor, it would act as chemotherapy and cleanse the fan base of the leeches that only adore the show because they think the Doctor is hot." And that is what began my appreciation of Capaldi. His casting will bring about the rise of the hardcore fans (like myself) that love the show for the true reasons like writing, character stories, monsters and all the things that make Who what it is.
Exhibit A:
More witty remarks and drama
Being only 16, my first Doctor was Matt Smith (I didn't start watching 'till later in my life) and I was instantly hooked. I began to realize that the show spanned much longer than just 2005 and decided to delve deeper into the history of Doctor Who. I watched as many classic episodes as I could, and found a love of the Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee Doctors. And it wasn't for their running around or anything like that. They had a way of making their enemies angry with words. They knew how to fight pen (or mouth/brain) to sword and that's what made them so great.
With Capaldi the same age as Hartnell when they each started (though Capaldi is looking much better for his time in life), I know that there will be a lot of more clever solutions and battles of wits with the Twelfth Doctor, which is something I really wished for more with Smith's Doctor. Don't get me wrong, Smith is my favourite Doctor so far, and he did have great moments of using mind over matter, but 11 summed it up himself in A Good Man Goes to War:
"It's all running about, sexy fish vampires, and blowing up stuff…"
With Capaldi's previous acting credits and other roles, he could pull off quite well, a more sarcastic and witty Doctor (harkening back, with less rage and patronizing, to the Sixth Doctor era).
Less romance
…Enough said
Just kidding. I do actually like the romance, but there's a point at which it gets overdone. Smith and Eccleston's portrayal of the romance was perfect. 9 almost always denied advances and 11 was a chaste, child of the universe (unless River was added into the mix). But even still, there were times when those two would get tripped up and into trouble, and I know that Moffat will tone it down with the new Doctor, more than likely making it feel that he's had his fun and is looking towards the future. Another "gentleman of the universe", if you will.
All in all, I am very excited to see Capaldi at the end of the Christmas special and can't wait to see Series 8 and everything that it holds. Any opinions? Let's talk in the comments!