If you take prescription medications, it's possible that you could occasionally get the wrong pill. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices estimates 1 in 20 prescriptions can have an error. Help yourself avoid this by checking the list of commonly confused meds.
    
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I'm not the greatest interviewee. I get insanely nervous pre-meeting: heart pounding, palms sweating, frantic thoughts—the whole nine yards. Then, once I make it into the office, the real fun begins: I forget what I wanted to say, fumble my words, and let myself get intimidated by the person across the desk.
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When you set an oven to 350 degrees, for example, there's no guarantee the whole oven is 350 when it's finished preheating. Some parts are warmer, some are cooler. The only way to know where those hot and cold spots are is to make an oven map, and a little toasted coconut in a cookie sheet is perfect for the job.
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When we get defensive, we make it that much harder for our conversational counterparts to hear what we're saying. We also make it harder to really listen to what they have to say. Soon, we're shadow-boxing, defending ourselves against attacks that aren't real, and wasting energy—and relationship capital—on damage control instead of solving the problem at hand.
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Say hello to Mark LoCastro, public relations manager at DealNews. The DealNews team scours the web every day to find the best deals, sales, and prices on everything from gadgets and games to office supplies and clothing. They spend all year researching and preparing for Black Friday, so they know the best (and worst) deals. Have questions about what to look out for this year? Mark is here for the next hour, so ask away!
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Android: In a given year, you could probably amass a dozen or so warranties on various devices that you need to keep track of but probably won't. Warranty Tracker makes this much easier.
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Biking is a fun way to get outdoors, get some exercise, and get around town, if you do it safely. Part of doing it safely is choosing the right bike for the terrain you'll ride on, making sure you have the right gear for your ride, and learning some of the basic rules and lingo required for a safe ride. This graphic from Greatist will get you up to speed on all of it.
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Dryer sheets are pretty awesome, whether it's for detangling a thread or keeping basboards dust-free. And apparently they can also keep your trash cans from smelling.
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Writing things down helps you remember them later, but it's also a great way to keep yourself from getting distracted. If you often find your mind wandering when it should be focused on the task at hand, keep a "procrastination pad" to jot down those fleeting thoughts and look them up later.
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The three additives that they tested all performed well, though one
(Finish Power Up Booster Agent) required an adjustment to the directions, since it didn’t work very well in the pre-rinse cycle. Glisten Dishwasher Cleaner & Hard Water Spot Remover and Lemi Shine Original both performed admirably.
If you’re trying to shine up your dishes for use on the Thanksgiving table, remember that not all dishes and serving pieces can or should go through the dishwasher on a regular basis: be careful with china and crystal, for example. They won’t explode on the first washing, but repeated trips though the washer can damage the dishes.
How to remove white haze from your good dishes [Consumer Reports]
One proponent of this plan started a naturally simple website for it, Dollar Bill Savings Plan. They propose saving $1 bills and all of your change in a secure spot, then periodically depositing it all.
This seems so simple that you’re probably scoffing at it right now. “Anyone can do that,” you say. Yes, but does everyone? Do you, right now? How is your saving rate, anyway?
The Dollar Bill Savings Method page has a pickle jar full of testimonials. A few examples:
I do this and usually save an extra $150-$250 per month. I then take the money in each month to the bank and place it in a high interest money market account that I found at a local bank that pays over 4.01% APY.
I started using the DBSP at the end of January 2010. I was unemployed and barely getting by, and I had just spent the last of my savings. I knew I had to get something set aside, otherwise the next unexpected expense would sink me. I was fortunate to get a job about a month later, but I continued the plan. At the end of September 2010 I had over $800 in dollar bills alone!
Some people have found success with $1 bills, others with $10 bills. Dumping your change is also a good idea, especially if you use a bank that has low or no-cost change-counting machines for customer use.
The Dollar Bill Savings Plan [Official Site]
Back in 1995, the now-defunct discount chain Bradlees still existed. It was thriving, in fact. This 1995 commercial for the chain’s Black Friday sale, unearthed and shared through YouTube, shows that much more than hairstyles has changed in American commerce in the last 18 years.
Note that the mother in his ad is rushing her family through dinner, yanking food out of their hands, as if she needs to leave in order to storm the Best Buy gates at 6 P.M., or her local Simon mall or Macy’s at 8. That’s not it, though. She’s hurrying to get to the chain’s “After-Thanksgiving” sale, which didn’t start until the lazy mid-morning hour of 7 A.M. on Friday.
Maybe this is the kind of lazy retailing that put them out of business. Or maybe stores that aren’t essential used to actually open later on the country’s most important holidays!
Here’s the background for those late to the game: Aereo is a startup streaming service — currently only available in a handful of markets — that uses arrays of incredibly small antennae to capture networks’ over-the-air signals, sending them over the Internet to paying subscribers’ computers and wireless devices. Aereo claims that it does not need to pay retransmission fees to the networks because each individual antenna it uses is dedicated to a single subscriber. Thus, contends the company, it’s doing nothing more than providing subscribers’ with the equivalent of a rooftop antenna that picks up freely available network feeds.
The networks obviously disagree, calling it thievery and a violation of copyright. In each region Aereo has launched, it’s been sued in federal court, but so far the networks have been unable to convince any of the courts to issue a preliminary injunction stopping Aereo from offering service. The case seems destined to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Last week, Major League Baseball and the National Football League filed a brief with the Supremes to support the networks’ side of the case. The leagues claim that if Aereo wins in court, they will have to take their programming to basic cable.
“If copyright holders lose their exclusive retransmission licensing rights and the substantial benefits derived from those rights when they place programming on broadcast stations, those stations will become less attractive mediums for distributing copyrighted content,” reads the brief. “The option for copyright holders will be to move that content to paid cable networks (such as ESPN and TNT) where Aereo-like services cannot hijack and exploit their programming without authorization.”
The big risk, claim the leagues, is the precedent that an Aereo victory would send. As we recently wrote, several cable operators — DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Charter, among others — are currently developing their own Aereo-like technologies in the hopes of getting around the billions of dollars in retransmission fees paid to broadcasters each year. That would mean less money in the leagues’ coffers.
One specious argument made by the NFL states that Aereo or some similar service could create an NFL Sunday Ticket-like package simply by taking in all the various network feeds of live games and sending them on to subscribers without paying the league a dime. There’s a huge problem with that claim. Aereo’s success in the courtroom thus far has been tied to its one-antenna/one-subscriber setup, and the fact that this antenna is pulling in over-the-air feeds and providing them to a subscriber in the specific broadcast area they live in. Unless Aereo has developed a teeny antenna that can somehow gather every broadcast signal from Seattle to Miami, the described situation just isn’t going to happen.
NFL, MLB To Supremes: If Aereo Wins, Broadcasters Lose [Multichannel.com via DSL Reports]
Police say two people who stole a credit card and then purchased the puppy with it have been arrested months after the incident.
Police are investigating a possible explosive device in Manassas, Va.
The Sumatran tiger cubs will make their first public appearance Monday between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Starting next year, people living in the nation's capital who don't have legal permission to reside in the United States will be able to get driver's licenses.
The latest batch of cheetahs at the Richmond Zoo is getting a televised checkup
A New Mexico student started a social media campaign to celebrate Native American's and indigenous people's culture.
A student is dead after an altercation with an officer.
The latest batch of cheetahs at the Richmond Zoo is getting a televised checkup
Organization United for Respect is chastising Walmart for setting out storage containers to collect donations for employees who can't afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
