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Greeneville, Tenn. - The Brevard College Women's Soccer team was defeated by Tusculum College, 5-1, Saturday in South Atlantic Conference action. The loss drops Brevard to 4-6, 0-3 in SAC play, while the Lady Pioneers improve to 5-3-1, 2-0 in conference action.
Tusculum waited until the 9th minute to unleash a scoring barrage on the Tornados. Danielle Tanner (Toronto, Ontario), executed a beautiful solo move, freeing herself from a BC defender and bending a shot past Tornado keeper Sydney Douglas (Houston, Tex.) to make the score 1-0. The goal was Tanner's 11th of the still-young season, and she wasn't done assaulting the scoreboard.
Kelly Barron (Cincinnati, Ohio) was the next Lady Pioneer to cross the scoring threshold. Barron possessed a through ball from Courtney Turner (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) in the 33rd minute and buried a shot into the upper left corner of the goal to push the lead to 2-0.
The final first-stanza goal came from Devan McIntyre (Greeneville, Tenn.), the first of the season for the hometown product. After teammate and fellow Michelle Meade (Greeneville, Tenn.) clanked a shot off the crossbar, McIntyre collected the rebound and calmly drilled a shot into the top third of the goal, sending the teams to the intermission with Tusculum up 3-0.
Barron poured in on in the 58th minute, scoring her second goal of the match after Tanner's shot bounced off the post. The goal was Barron's ninth of the year and made the score 4-0.
Tanner's 58th minute shot might have just missed, but she completed her brace in the 65th minute off another fantastic feed from Meade. The goal gave Tanner an even dozen in 2008, and bumped the tally to 5-0.
Brevard's consolation goal came in the 73rd minute from Kelly Harris (Hendersonville, N.C.). After a Tusculum clearance went over the end line, the Tornados were awarded a corner kick, which Harris elected to take. The perfectly-struck ball flew over the heads of the players in the box and bounced untouched into the goal, making the score 5-1, the final tally.
Harris' goal was the only one of Brevard's three shots to be on target. Tusculum launched 28 shots, 11 of which were on goal. Douglas made five saves in the first half, and substitute keeper Jordan Box (Hoover, Ala.) stopped one shot in the second.
The Lady Pioneers will travel to rival Carson-Newman on Wednesday for a 7 p.m. match. Brevard will try to avoid a third straight loss when they travel to Belmont Abbey Monday. First kick is set for 4 p.m.


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I have Oracle VirtualBox installed on my Windows 7 .. I installed Linux Backtrack 5 on it.
I gave it 1GB RAM and 20GB HDD ... Now I have a problem, I used ferret and hamster for sidejacking ( I use it for testing ) ..
When I run it, I'm able to sniff the traffic from the VirtualBox .. but nothing else. Sometimes ( rarely ) I can sniff traffic from the host ( Windows 7 PC ). I'm not sure what am I doing wrong here.
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another Android wanna be.
By the way in the description for dash tweet it says your not limited to 140 characters as you can use pastie or something...
With the new update, the clock will now update at all after I lock the phone and re-open it. Regardless of if I have the interaction slider on or off. Sad really, I'm missing that nice clock.
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Effectiveness of Atomoxetine in Treating ADHD Symptoms in Children and Adolescents With Autism
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|Drug: Atomoxetine Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Targeted Pharmacologic Interventions for Autism: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Atomoxetine in Children and Adolescents With Autism
- ADHD symptoms [ Time Frame: Measured at Weeks 2 and 4 and 6 and 8 ]
- Irritability and anxiety [ Time Frame: Measured at Weeks 2 and 4,and 6, and 8 ]
- Core autistic symptoms [ Time Frame: Measured at Weeks 2 and 4, and 6 and 8 ]
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: Measured at Weeks 2 and 4 and 6 and 8 ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Participants will receive flexibly dosed atomoxetine for 8 weeks. Dosage can be increased over the first 4 weeks of study participation and will then be held constant for the remainder of the 8-week trial.
Drug: Atomoxetine
Available tablet strengths of atomoxetine: 5 mg, 10 mg, 25 mg, 40 mg. Week 1 participant takes 0.5 mg/kg/day, Week 2: 0.8 mg/kg/day, Week 3: 1.2 mg/kg/day. Potential exists for dose increase at Week 4 to 1.8 mg/kg/day based on clinical global impression-improvement rating at Week 4.
Other Name: Strattera
Placebo Comparator: 2
Participants will receive blinded, matched placebo for 8 weeks. Dosage can be increased over the first 4 weeks of study participation and will then be held constant for the remainder of the 8-week trial.
Drug: Placebo
Placebo tablets dosages: 5 mg, 10 mg, 25 mg, 40 mg.
Detailed Description:
Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause severe and pervasive impairment in thinking, feeling, language, and the ability to relate to others. It is usually first diagnosed in early childhood. Children with autism demonstrate repetitive behaviors or interests and deficits in social interaction, verbal communication, and nonverbal communication. In addition, they often have unusual responses to sensory experiences, such as certain sounds or the way objects look. Some symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, are also associated with autism. Atomoxetine is a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor that is used to treat ADHD. It works differently, however, than stimulant drugs and may help to reduce ADHD symptoms in children with autism. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of atomoxetine in treating children with ADHD symptoms associated with autism.
Potential participants will first attend a screening visit, which will include a psychiatric diagnostic interview, a practice session for swallowing pill capsules, a physical exam, an electrocardiogram (ECG), a blood test, and an assessment of pubertal stage. Females of childbearing age will also undergo a urine pregnancy test. In an initial double-blind study phase, eligible participants will be randomly assigned to receive either atomoxetine or placebo for 8 weeks. A baseline visit will include several rating scales, observations, and an interview to assess adaptive functioning. These measures and procedures will be used to keep track of symptoms, side effects, and behavior that could change during the study. Children who are assigned to placebo and do not notice an improvement in their ADHD symptoms will be given the opportunity to receive atomoxetine at the end of 8 weeks. Study visits will occur once a week for 4 weeks, and then every other week for the remainder of the 8 weeks. During these visits, many of the baseline questionnaires and interviews will be repeated. At the Week 8 visit, the physical exam, ECG, blood tests, and some baseline questionnaires will also be repeated. All children who respond well to atomoxetine may continue taking the drug for an additional 10 months. During this time, participants will report to the clinic once a month for the first 4 months, then once at the end of 7 months, and finally once at the end of 10 months. The same measures and procedures that were done during the 8-week phase will be done during the 10-month phase of this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|5 Years to 15 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder (autistic disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified).
- Significant hyperactivity, inattention, or impulsivity as determined by a score on an investigator-administered ADHD Rating Scale (ADHDRS)-Home Version that is at least 1.5 standard deviations above the mean for age and sex
- Parent/caregiver's primary complaint about the child is inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity ("ADHD" symptoms)
- Symptoms present for 6 months prior to study entry
- Psychotropic drug-free for at least 2 weeks prior to starting study medication. This drug-free period will be 5 weeks for fluoxetine (Prozac).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Weighs less than 15 kg (about 33 pounds)
- Any another psychiatric disorder that may require a different treatment, including psychotic disorders, major affective disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, or substance-related disorders
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnosis of Rett's disorder or childhood disintegrative disorder
- Presence of extreme aggression or self-injury
- Currently taking an effective psychotropic drug
- Currently using other medications that may be unsafe to take with atomoxetine (e.g., potent CYP 2D6 inhibitors, intravenous albuterol, monoamine oxidase inhibitors[MAO])
- Inability to swallow study medication
- Presence of a medical condition that would make treatment with atomoxetine unsafe (e.g., unstable hypertension or cardiac disease, asthma requiring frequent treatment with albuterol, narrow angle glaucoma, pregnancy, etc.)
- Mental age of less than 18 months
- Previous adequate trial of atomoxetine
- Previous evidence of hypersensitivity or an allergic reaction to atomoxetine
- Clinically significant abnormalities in laboratory measures indicating an undiagnosed medical condition as determined by the study physician in discussion with the participant's primary care physician
- Clinically significant abnormalities on ECG as determined by a pediatric cardiologist
- Pregnant
- Initiation of a new psychosocial intervention within 90 days prior to starting study medication. Participants who have recently had a significant change in their psychosocial interventions will not be eligible until this intervention has been stable for 90 days in order to avoid confounding results of the study. Stable interventions (e.g., speech and occupational therapy) will be allowed to continue during the course of the study. Minor changes in ongoing treatment (e.g., missed therapy sessions due to holiday/vacation planned break in therapy due to school holidays) will not be considered significant.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00498173
|United States, Indiana
|Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Riley Hospital for Children
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|United States, Massachusetts
|Lurie Center - MassGeneral Hospital
|Lexington, Massachusetts, United States, 02421
|Principal Investigator:
|Christopher J. McDougle, MD
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Christopher John McDougle, M.D., Director, Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00498173 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01MH077600 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
DDTR B2-NDA ( Other Identifier )
|Study First Received:
|July 6, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 7, 2016
Keywords provided by Christopher John McDougle, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital:
Autistic Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Autistic Disorder
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mental Disorders
Atomoxetine Hydrochloride
Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Have you noticed a sticky substance on the floor beneath your ficus or philodendron? Are there little scabs on the under side of the leaves of your orchid? Maybe you have noticed that your plants just look a little lack luster. Well, we can blame some plant puniness on being a tropical houseplant indoors in Kentuckiana during the winter.
Soon you'll be receiving seed catalogs for the 2011 vegetable-growing season. While listening to the cold wind blow outside, what a comfort it is to think about spring and summer and planning your garden.
The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture is once again teaming up with the University of Tennessee to offer the sixth-annual Mid-South Stocker Conference set for Feb. 21 and 22 in Bowling Green. This year's conference will provide cattle producers with innovative ideas.
Sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Services of the universities of Kentucky and Tennessee and each state's Cattlemen's Association, in partnership with Bayer Animal Health and BEEF magazine, this year's conference will offer information relative to a changing industry.
As I write, I am comforted by the snow that has accumulated on the boughs of my Nordmann fir and Serbian spruce. It is beautiful, yes, but more important, the snow serves as an insulator against desiccating winds and frigid temperatures. We must not forget that evergreens, particularly broadleaf evergreens like rhododendrons and American hollies, lose a great deal of moisture through their leaves in the winter.
Winter desiccation is not unusual but the effects are magnified coming out of a season of drought.
So what does The Old Farmer's Almanac say about 2011? Even if you don't follow this sort of prognostication, there are some interesting observations based in a little fact and a little myth. Here are a few of my favorites that may explain a bit more about nature as we enter into another year.
A nice landscape of a few trees and shrubs, some flowers and well-tended turf has value. Our landscapes help define our outdoor living space, provide shade and help screen unwanted views.
A well-maintained landscape may add as much as 5 to 10 percent to the value of our property.
But landscapes can provide another resource that we don't often consider – food. What if it were possible to introduce edible plants to your landscape?
It's not just the cost of transportation that can affect meat prices. Fuel — or more accurately, ethanol — plays a part on another level, according to a University of Kentucky agricultural economist. And it all goes back to corn.
I like a book that tells a story while teaching me a little something along the way; I like when the writer's personality is revealed in their prose; and I like when a book makes me feel like I am not the only one that marvels at what nature and people can do. Here are my 2010 picks for just this sort of thing.
I loved "Insectopedia" by Hugh Raffles (Random House 2010). This book is a collection of essays, experiences, musings, and some journalism. Raffles explores the natural world and our relationship to it (or our lack there of).
The Spencer County Cooperative Extension Service will be hosting a Fruit and Vegetable Production Field Day August 4 on the George and Sandi Deutsch Farm. The Deutschs have been using black plastic and drip irrigation to raise tomatoes and other vegetables and this field day will highlight that research.
There will also be other topics covered, including food preservation, lawn maintenance, pesticide use and safety, and other presentations. There will also be activities for kids as well.
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Who Are The Top Local Cosmetic Dentists In Salamanca NYC?
Find Best Cosmetic Dentists is an online resource and guide that helps our readers identify the top cosmetic dentists in New York City. We also strive to provide the best-in-class information on various topics pertaining to cosmetic dentistry, such as how to get perfect teeth like celebrities or how to find the best local cosmetic dental clinics or offices in NYC offering the most advanced aesthetic dentistry services as well as to schedule a dentist appointment. So whether you have stained teeth or a chipped tooth, take a look at our recommended experts in NYC for world-class cosmetic dental care.
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Top cosmetic dentists and general dentists are not necessarily one and the same. That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't many dentists out there who are both. Cosmetic dentistry may also be referred to as aesthetic dentistry. It's extremely common for professionals to specialize in cosmetic and general dentistry treatments alike. A cosmetic dentist, in short, is someone who focuses on treatments that enhance the looks of the gums, bite and teeth in general. A general dentist, on the other hand, is someone who concentrates on overall dental health. General dentists assist patients with all of their basic oral hygiene needs. People who want to achieve optimal tooth health rely on the assistance of general dentists.
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General dentistry treatments run the gamut. If a patient needs to get her teeth cleaned during a routine checkup, that's an example of a general dentistry treatment. Other key examples of general dentistry specialties are tooth fillings, dental crowns and root canals. These procedures can help people who are suffering from cavities, tooth decay and other assorted issues. They are not designed to enhanced the physical appearance of the teeth. They are designed to encourage the health of the teeth. Cavities can cause significant discomfort and pain in people. Common signs of cavities include intense toothaches, sensitivity of the teeth, conspicuous openings in the teeth, aching during eating and noticeable discoloration. If an individual looks at her teeth and observes the presence of unsightly white, brown or black stains, that could indicate the presence of cavities.
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If an individual feels upset about a chipped tooth, porcelain veneers may be able to help him appreciate his or her smile again. The potential advantages of cosmetic dentistry treatments are abundant. These procedures can drastically strengthen peoples' physical appearances. They can also be helpful for people who want to receive self-esteem boosts. People can depend on cosmetic dentistry treatments in so many ways. These procedures can be helpful to individuals who want increased success during job searches. They can be useful to people who want to enjoy better chances in the dating world as well.
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We'll be honest, there's no one-board solution that replaces a quiver of specialty boards for jibbing, hitting jumps, and floating through fresh powder. That being said, some boards are better suited as a do-it-all solution for ripping everything on the mountain, with the Rome Women's Heist Snowboard falling into this later classification quite nicely. Its flex is relatively forgiving when you're learning new tricks and rapidly progressing, but without compromising stability at higher speeds or feeling noodly like a true jib stick.
As a twin-shaped board with Rome's MtnPop Rocker 2.0, the Heist is a competent pilot for riding park laps and dabbling all over the mountain. The centered stance offers a well-balanced feel, helping you perfect those backside 180s off cat-tracks and switch landings in the park. MtnPop Rocker 2.0 places a generous rocker between the bindings, loosening up the board from catching on hardpack, while also improving float in the fresh stuff. Adding snap for boosting off hits and locked-in stability for carving, camber at the nose and tail alleviates the washy feel of many rockered boards.
Inside the Heist, the Pop Core Matrix blends two zones of ultra-light wood with poplar for a smooth-flexing feel. Biax fiberglass keeps things torsionally soft for easier turn initiation. Embedded carbon improves snap for sending jumps and popping off natural drops into fresh snow. Rome's QuickRip sidecut adds two extra contact points along the board's effective edge. This blended sidecut increases edgehold in variable conditions riders experience in geographies not blessed with huge snowfalls, such as the Midwest and East Coast.
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Siri will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad (3rd generation) and requires Internet access. Siri may not be available in all languages or all areas, and features may vary by area. Cellular data charges may apply.
ots at apple.com/ios/ios6 in the fine print at the bottom... no siri for iPad 2
shrug. some of these are no brainers.. facetime over cell? apple planned it long ago, blame the carriers for not permitting it. ios facebook integration? rumored long ago from apple, before their negotiations with facebook broke down. siri on the ipad, did someone actually not expect apple to do this?
it's hard to say some of these items were "borrowed" when they were rather obvious.
When will they ever implement SMS quick reply?
quick reply would be nice too
So we need to keep developing things for our iPhones so that in hopes apple will use it for their software. I wonder what would happen if we stopped jail breaking. What would their ideas be then?
they said over 200 new features. I guess we will have to wait til developers get it so they can start listing the additional features.
Someone should keep a running tally of this going back to other iOS releases (like when WiFi sync was "poached" um, borrowed) and then attempt a guesstimate of the dollars that would be had by said Dev based on sales of devices that included "his/her" borrowed app/feature/function.
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Another cyclist fatality at Mission and Bay in Santa Cruz
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A cyclist was killed Tuesday morning
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The intersection of Mission Street and Bay Street in Santa Cruz is one of the busier intersections in town. Bay Street provides access to the University of California in Santa Cruz, and Mission Street is California State Route 1 and a major arterial through town.
Mission Street is too narrow to share
People Power
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People Power worked with the Santa Cruz City Council to put up signs on Mission that advise cyclists and drivers that cyclists are encouraged to use the full right lane. This is perfectly legal according to California Vehicle Code (which states that bicyclists can use the full right-hand lane when a lane is too narrow for "a bicycle and vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane") and was approved by the City Council.
Caltrans has refused to put up the signs, stating that they don't think it is safe for cyclists to ride in the lane, even after the Santa Cruz Police, the Traffic Safety Coalition, and others have pointed out that it is not safe to ride to the right of cars and trucks. The only safe way to do so is in the middle of the right lane. Caltrans refuses to put these signs up. In the meantime, cyclists, take the lane at this location for your own safety.
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...how bloody tragic...
...mission street, being hwy 1 is literally always busy...i know the area from driving the coast route so many times & around bay the road is extremely narrow considering the volume & nature of the traffic...
...i couldn't imagine riding that stretch on a bike & yet the grid pattern leaves no clear alternative...
...fritz, i know you can't live far from ucsc but do you have to ride that stretch of road ???...
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I ride it almost every time I'm headed to west Santa Cruz or points north. I take the lane at this location because of the high number of collisions here. Even then I've had motorists nearly hook me. Truck drivers are generally pretty good about staying back until it's safe to pass. LIke you mention, it's difficult to avoid that stretch because of the terrain and street layout.
Something I forgot to mention is that the speed limit on Mission from River Street until past Swift is 25 mph, but if traffic is clear enough noobdy ever does the speed limit.
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...that is a very real fact...if they don't get caught by the lights, people regularly drive that stretch at 40mph...i've worried about getting rear ended in my car when i stopped to buy an iced tea while headed up the coast on my way home...
...jeez, ride safe, bud...
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Notice that the article does not say that Mission Street is too narrow for bicycles. Mission Street is four full lanes, from end to end. There is plenty of room for four lanes and two bicycle lanes.
The problem is that the Santa Cruz City Council deliberately decided to not include bicycle lanes when this section of road was redeveloped. Therefore, bicyclists must take the right hand lane, as we can do legally and morally, whenever we ride on Mission Street.
Also, the early Sentinel article this morning did not report that the bicyclist, Christopher Rock, was deaf. This puts a different perspective on this accident. Part of the cause of the accident was due to the inability of the bicyclist to be aware of on-coming traffic, since he couldn't hear it coming.
Yes, Mission Street should have bike lanes. And bicyclists should be responsible for their own safety when riding in traffic.
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I know how dangerous Mission Street is, so would always just take King, Escalona, or Delaware. I would rather take an extra few minutes on a slight detour on a safer, prettier street than deal with the chaos of Mission Street. I don't even like to drive my car on Mission Street!
A friend of mine was hit by a car at Mission and Laurel and still has major physical problems from the injuries she sustained. I hope that more drivers will be continually more aware of bicyclists, but also that bicyclists make good judgments on the routes that they take in order to best ensure their safety.
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From what I read the man was riding along the curb. You always, unless the road is very wide (with ample room for a bike and car to be side by side and event then you want to be at least a few feet from the curb) you'll want to take the lane and wear a helmet. I don't see how a bike lane would've helped, wouldn't that go through the intersection meaning cars turning right will hit cyclists going straight forward? If the street is 25MPH, add some traffic calming; time the lights so that it is impossible to whiz through and extend the sidewalks and narrow the lanes so that bikes have to take the lane. It's sad that we as a society value soulless hunks of metal over people's safety.
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On top of what others have said, and going off on a bit of a tangent, I personally remember the bizarre feeling of security I used to get upon arriving at Cage Rage at Caesar's Palace in Streatham Hill, having just got off of the bus from Elephant and Castle. It was really weird. 'Aah, I've survived the journey here, thank %&$# - here's the nice, peaceful cage fighting at last!'
I have very fond memories of Chris Ballard we used to work the door together in Reading and I can assure you that he could do those spinning kicks equally as good in a pair of tight black trousers haha. RIP
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Black Sabbath unveils more North American tour dates
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Black Sabbath is adding more dates to its upcoming North American tour. The full itinerary will now take the band across 20 cities in the U.S. and Canada, including the previously announced four dates in Holmdel, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto.
Sabbath will kick off the outing July 25th in Houston, Texas. New stops include Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. Fans can RSVP for May 2nd presale tickets through Live Nation on Facebook. Tickets for the general public will go on sale next Saturday, May 4th.
Black Sabbath launched their world tour April 20th with two shows in Auckland, New Zealand. The lineup includes Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. The band is previewing music from their upcoming album, titled, 13, due out June 11th.
Here are the dates for Black Sabbath's North American tour:
+Thu- Jul 25 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
+Sat-Jul 27 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
~Fri-Aug 02 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
*Sun-Aug 04 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
+Tue-Aug 06 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
+Thu-Aug 08 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
+Sat-Aug 10 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
^Mon-Aug 12 Boston, MA Comcast Center
*Wed-Aug 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
+Fri Aug 16 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
+Sun-Aug 18 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
+Thu-Aug 22 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
*Sat-Aug 24 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
+Mon-Aug 26 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
+Wed-Aug 28 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
+Fri-Aug 30 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
+Sun-Sep 01 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
*Tue-Sep 03 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Sports Arena
*Previously announced date.
^On sale Friday, May 3
+On sale Saturday, May 4
~On sale, Friday May 10


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Thread: Vitamins and Medication
16th July 2014 04:38 PM #1
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Vitamins and Medication
I'm 18 weeks pregnant and I don't like taking vitamins and medications even if I have headache because I'm afraid of side effects. My husband is worried that I'm not giving the baby enough nutrition or might be overreacting when it comes to taking medicines. Does anyone here have the same mindset?
19th July 2014 04:09 AM #2
Dear Mum2be,
This is a great question!
In pregnancy, it is highly recommended to take the folic acid supplements particularly in the first trimester of pregnancy. I would say that there is now so much evidence backing this up that there is little reason not to do so (in terms of the advantages for the prevention of neural tube problems).
The other main recommendation is to take vitamin D supplements (throughout your pregnancy and if you breastfeed).
If you have a normal, low-risk pregnancy then all other vitamins and nutritional requirements can be obtained by eating a healthy, balanced diet.
Which medication in particular were you thinking of in your post above?
There are some useful articles here about What to Eat in Pregnancy.
Wishing you a happy, healthy pregnancy.
Warm wishes,
20th July 2014 03:23 AM #3
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I recently became aware of the use of folate enriched foods rather than synthetic folic acid. Several studies are forming on the need of whole food folate rather than folic acid supplements.
Here is a great article explaining the difference between the 2.
Hope this helps in future choices of supplements.
20th July 2014 06:47 AM #4
That's interesting sunnymumof5 - thanks for sharing. So this author seems to advocate that pregnant women should take folate supplements rather than folic acid, but he still shares the viewpoint that enough folate is difficult to obtain from diet alone in pregnancy. I think more research needs to be done on this subject.
21st July 2014 08:06 PM #5
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thanks mums... at the moment i'm taking folic acid supplement and nothing else and i'm thinking of changing it closer to giving birth to prepare for breastfeeding.. :0
22nd July 2014 07:06 AM #6
That's wonderful that you are planning on breastfeeding. Have a look at this previous thread entitled A Letter to My Pre-Breastfeeding Self. Here is some useful information and links on breastfeeding in the early days.
Please do post back with any further breastfeeding questions you may have. I'd also strongly recommend visiting your local breastfeeding peer support group when you are in the third trimester to help you to prepare for the wonderful breastfeeding journey ahead of you. It is normal for it to take a fair bit of time and support in the early days but so, so worth it.
Warm wishes,


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By John Boyle Herald Writer
RENTON — Stephen Williams was so good in last week's preseason opener, and has been so good throughout training camp, that Pete Carroll had to have a talk with the receiver.
In the locker room following the Seahawks' 31-10 victory over San Diego, Seattle's head coach had a simple question for Williams.
What happened with the Arizona Cardinals?
How does a receiver with so much size — Williams is listed at 6-foot-5 — and the speed to stretch the field, end up available in the offseason? How does a player with such a knack for catching the deep ball make so little impact three years into a career in a league that values big, playmaking receivers over just about anything other than top-flight quarterback and game-changing pass rushers?
"I've asked him," Carroll said. "Matter of fact, I sat him down after the game in the locker room and just asked him about it, because I was just curious to get at, 'What happened?' Because he looks like such a legit player and can be a factor."
According to Williams, there were a couple of factors, the biggest of which was the presence of Larry Fitzgerald, who is one of the best receivers in the game. Williams saw a little bit of playing time in 2010, starting three games and catching nine passes for 101 yards. But he didn't have a catch in 2011, then was injured last year before the Cardinals released him late in the season.
"The last three years I was playing behind Larry (Fitzgerald), one of the greatest receivers ever, so the only thing I can do is learn from him and continue to work hard," Williams said. "So when I came to another team, I had another opportunity to show my skill set, and I'm trying to take advantage of it."
In Seattle, Williams sees the opportunity to be a part of an organization that will allow him to earn a chance. There's no obvious path for significant playing time on a roster than already has Golden Tate, Sidney Rice and Doug Baldwin.But then again, Carroll does love big receivers, and besides that, who saw a clear path to playing time for Mike Williams back in 2010 before he eventually won a starting job? And for that matter, who saw Baldwin, an undrafted free agent in 2011, as a candidate to end up leading the team in receiving as a rookie?
"There's no politics over here on this team," Williams said. "If you come here and you work and you bust your ass, you'll get a job."
Williams had looked like a potential diamond in the rough early in camp, and he then backed it up with his play in San Diego, catching two passes for 83 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown.
"It's kind of exciting, because he did it here (in practice) and he did it in the game, so we'll see in the next couple of weeks," Carroll said. "We hope that he can continue to create for us. He's having a great camp, and I'm really excited for him."
Williams approaches the game with the mentality that he should "own the deep ball" and so far that's what he has done in practice and one preseason game. He may have to do more than that, however, to ultimately make the 53-man roster. The Seahawks will likely carry five or six receivers. And if he's battling for that fifth or sixth spot, Williams might need to find a way to contribute on special teams, something he did not do in Arizona and has done very little of in training camp. Williams has done a little bit of special teams work of late, particularly working as a gunner on punt coverage, in an attempt to strengthen his resume.
"It does affect him," Carroll said. "As a matter of fact, if you watch him you'll see that he's getting more work at stuff outside on the perimeter to try and help his cause. It is a factor, because some of the other guys are really good on special teams, and he has to catch up a little bit there."
At 6-5, 208 pounds, Williams hardly has the frame to bang around on kick coverage or to block on returns. And he admits special teams work isn't his favorite thing, but he's also willing to do it if it helps him earn a job.
"I don't mind it," he said. "It's not something I look forward to every day like, 'let's go out there and do this.' But to get the job done, I'll play anything. Put me at quarterback and I'll throw it."
But while showing something on special teams could help Williams earn a job, that's not what the Seahawks see in him that's so intriguing. Carroll has long been a fan of receivers he calls "touchdown makers," and while it's a small sample size, that's what Williams has been so far. NFL training camps are full of stories about guys who show potential, only to never be heard from again. But if Williams keeps playing well, Carroll will have a hard time letting go a player who has shown so much upside that he felt the need to chat with Williams after a game to understand how his career hasn't taken off already.
"I've always liked 6-5 guys," Carroll said. "It's worked out quite well in the past and we've got kind of a thought and a role for guys like that and he's the only guy that's kind of built like that. As always, his uniqueness catches my eye. I'm always looking for something that adds to the whole group. I'm really thinking positively about him having a chance to factor in for us."
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Now the federal government has joined a new high-stakes battle with St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson.
With a revised indictment on 86 charges as opposed to the previous single charge federal prosecutors have set the stage for a fresh round of legal skirmishes with the online sales entrepreneur.
This time, though, Johnson has company four of the men who helped him run his company called I Works, which was highly profitable until it was sunk by mounting problems with customers demanding their money back for charges some said were unauthorized.
The new indictment made public Wednesday essentially elaborates on the charges Johnson was set to plead guilty to in December when he sank a plea deal that would have netted him about 11 years in prison.
Now Johnson and the four I Works employees Loyd Johnston, Bryce Payne, Ryan Riddle and Scott Leavitt face up to 30 years in prison if convicted on charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering.
The indictment revolves around whether the five defrauded Wells Fargo Bank when things began to go sour at I Works, which had taken in $275 million from about 2000 to 2010, with Johnson's take about $50 million, according to legal documents.
I Works sold various products over the Internet, the most popular being access to websites about how to obtain government grants for personal expenses, make money at home using Google, and lose weight and stay healthy.
According to the new indictment, beginning sometime around 2006, an increasing number of customers started reversing credit card charges from I Works and affiliates. Consumers were unaware that when they ordered a CD or another product for a shipping and handling fee of about $1.99 or so, they also had agreed to be billed monthly for charges of up to $60 for a complementary service or product.
Some also were "upsold" additional services and products without their knowledge, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a 2010 lawsuit.
Johnson acknowledges disclosures of what's known as upsells on early I Works websites could have been better, but he disputes that the consumers were largely unaware of the charges. He points to the 3 million or so people who called to cancel before they were actually billed, citing that as proof that disclosures were adequate.
Still, federal prosecutors say that in 2009, banks began cutting off I Works credit- and debit-card processing accounts after the company's charge-backs began exceeding 1 percent of all its total charges, the maximum set by Visa and Mastercard.
That allegedly drove Johnson and the other four to start creating shell companies that disguised their relationship with Johnson and I Works. Otherwise they would not have been able to open new accounts and keep charging customers, prosecutors say.
According to the indictment, Johnson sent a text to Johnston on May 11, 2009, instructing him to set up new accounts "without my name on them."
It also cites other messages to Johnson about creating various companies using names other than Johnson's, and he replies: "I am OK with this but I still want back up merchant accounts [even if we just use them a tiny bit to keep them open] and I want many different corps so all the processing is broken out in many places and I want the ability to put shit processing in one of those corps not tied to us at all knowing full well it will blow up in a few months."
Johnson or his employees are accused of preparing applications for merchant accounts that had straw owners, false business histories, used drop boxes for mailing addresses and referred to fake websites set up only for banks or underwriters to verify they were in compliance with regulations but through which no actual sales were ever conducted, the indictment says.
Johnson and his co-defendants' story is at odds with that portrayal.
Johnson has said that I Works' charge-back problem largely came about because it was the victim of fraud by other companies with which it had contracted. I Works was paying $40 or so to outside companies when those companies sold I Works products. Some used stolen credit cards to make a sale, received their commission and then did a charge-back, he said in interviews before a judge warned him not to talk to the media.
Some companies put up blogs with fake testimonials and drove sales that way, while making it difficult for I Works to trace the source of those sales, he said. Ultimately the fraud helped sink the company, Johnson claims.
By 2009, it was apparent the I Works business model wasn't working. The company gradually ceased operations so that by end of the 2010, when the FTC sued, it was making no sales and barely functioning, Johnson said.
Now he and the other defendants are protesting loudly, saying they are the victims of a face-saving vendetta on the part of the U.S. Attorney's Office that wouldn't back down when it found it had no case. They based their protest on a previous indictment that named only Johnson on one count of mail fraud.
The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment.
Johnson has said the new companies created to continue processing cards were formed legally at the suggestion of card processors in an effort to try to isolate and then get rid of outside vendors who were causing the high charge-back rates or who were defrauding I Works.
"That was the idea," he said. "It never worked."
Riddle, once I Works general manager, also said there was no intent to defraud in setting up the new companies and getting new accounts.
"The laws for setting up companies and opening processing accounts were followed by I Works," Riddle said in an email. "It was never I Works' intention for anyone to not know Jeremy or I Works was involved in the processing."
While the indictment says false information was submitted to a California card processor called CardFlex and used to open Wells Fargo accounts, Johnson claims he fully disclosed I Works' charge-back problems to CardFlex President and Chief Executive Andrew Phillips.
"Before I did processing with them I sat down with Andy and told him everything that was going on and the issues we were having," Johnson said in a Dec. 5, 2012, interview.
He also claimed two CardFlex agents who met with Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Ward and IRS Special Agent Jaime Hipwell were told of that meeting and that CardFlex was fully aware of what I Works was doing.
Johnson also said he was never aware the processing was being done through Wells Fargo.
"We never filled out a Wells Fargo application," he said. "It was a CardFlex application and CardFlex could pick any bank they wanted."
CardFlex did not return an email and phone call seeking comment.
Riddle also said CardFlex and agents who set up accounts with processing companies directed I Works to form the new companies in order to obtain new accounts to continue processing but also to isolate affiliates and others who were defrauding the St. George companies. Company histories and profit-and-loss statements as well as number of employees put on account applications were from previous companies being absorbed into new ones as I Works tried to combat fraud, he said, describing a kind of wink-wink relationship between I Works, processors, their agents and banks.
"For brand-new companies with no 'history' it is rare to get a merchant account where you can process more than $50,000 per month," Riddle said in the email. "Because of the sheer volume it was obvious to all that everyone involved knew the processing was owned previously by I Works, and new daily sales would be under new companies with Jeremy as a guarantor."
His account of the relationship with agents of processors is in line with that of a former employee, though her version of the intent of the operation is at odds.
Tracey Kramm, in an affidavit that is part of the FTC lawsuit, said that it wasn't until about April 2009 after banks began to shut down card-processing accounts that I Works started to make changes to what she viewed as problematic marketing websites.
At the instruction of her bosses, Kramm said she began creating the new companies that did not appear to be associated with Johnson or I Works. Part of that process also involved creating dummy websites associated with the new companies that were reviewed by underwriters and processors for compliance with marketing standards.
"Mr. Johnston and the agents for CardFlex stated that the dummy [websites] could not include I Works upsells because CardFlex would not process sales for sites that included an upsell," Kramm said in the statement. "However, it was made clear to me that I Works' existing sales sites would not be changed and would continue to include upsells."
Kramm said she was fired in August 2009 supposedly for saying negative things about the company. She later filed a complaint with the FTC, according to her affidavit.
Kramm's statement says there was collusion between agents of some processors and I Works to hide the connection between the new companies and Johnson. Attached to her statement was an email in which an agent for a processor said he was moving ahead with opening an account but would only include Johnson's personal financial guarantee after approval in order to avoid having to disclose that I Works' accounts had previously been shut down.
That same agent was receiving $4,000 a month fromI Works as a consultant, Kramm said.
Arraignment for the five defendants is set for April 10.
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Charges and sentences
Below are the charges and possible prison sentences facing Jeremy Johnson, Loyd Johnston, Bryce Payne, Ryan Riddle and Scott Leavitt. The sentences upon conviction likely would take into account federal sentencing guidelines.
Conspiracy • Five years
False statements to a bank • 30 years
Wire fraud • 20 years
Bank fraud • 30 years
Fraudulent banking activities • 30 years
Money laundering • 10 years. The Swallow case
Indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson has alleged that Utah's new attorney general, John Swallow, helped broker payoffs to enlist the aid of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in derailing a Federal Trade Commission investigation of Johnson's I Works business.
Swallow and Reid have vehemently denied the allegations. The U.S. Attorney's Office has said it is investigating.


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No Objection Letter for Recycled Plastics #136
Return to inventory: Submissions on Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Plastics for Food-Contact Articles
See also Recycled Plastics in Food Packaging
May 11, 2010
Dr. Naeem Mady
Regulatory Services
Ciba Specialty Chemical Corporation
540 White Plains Road
PO Box 2005
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Re: Prenotification Consultation (PNC) 891
Dear Dr. Mady:
This letter is in response to your submission, received on February 17, 2010 (PNC 891) and amended on March 13, 2010, requesting on behalf of Nextlife Enterprises, LLC (NLE) an opinion letter from FDA confirming the capability of NLE's secondary recycling process to produce recycled polypropylene (PP) that is suitable for use at levels up to 100% recycled content in the manufacture of thermoformed or injection molded articles for contact with non-alcoholic foods under Conditions of Use B through H, as described in Tables 1 and 2, which can be accessed from the Internet in the Food Ingredients and Packaging section under the Food topic of www.fda.gov.
The information you have provided describes the proposed recycling process, which involves the collection, sorting, washing, drying, and extruding procedures for post-consumer PP. The recycled PP would be produced from cloth hangers collected from qualified retail stores in the U.S. You stated that the cloth hangers are made of food grade PP complaint with 21 CFR 177.1520 (Olefin polymers) and the adjuvants added to the PP are in compliance with 21 CFR 178.2010 (Antioxidants and/or stabilizers for polymers). You stated that the recycled PP will be blended with virgin, food grade PP or used "as is" to produce a finished food contact article. The finished article may be laminated with a barrier film on one or both surfaces. The food contact layer will be comprised of virgin, food-grade PP and may or may not contain the recycled PP. The recycled PP will not be used in food contact film applications.
We have reviewed the information you have provided, above, and found that because of strict source control, there is little likelihood of unacceptable contaminant levels in your recycled PP. Therefore, we have determined that NLE's secondary recycling process, as described in the subject submission, would produce recycled PP material that would be suitable for use at levels up to 100% recycled content in the manufacture of thermoformed or injection molded articles for contact with non-alcoholic foods under Conditions of Use B through H, as described in Tables 1 and 2, which can be accessed from the Internet in the Food Ingredients and Packaging section under the Food topic of www.fda.gov. If NLE's recycling process is modified, new data may need to be evaluated.
While the agency encourages the use of tight source control in the collection of products for recycling into food-contact articles, it remains the responsibility of the manufacturer to ensure that the final plastic article is free of possible chemical and microbiological contaminants. Furthermore, if any adjuvants are used in the blending of virgin and recycled resin to form the food-contact articles, those adjuvants and their levels must be appropriately regulated for the proposed use. The use of unregulated adjuvants or the use of regulated adjuvants at levels higher than are currently authorized would require further review by FDA.
Please note that the resultant recycled PP material must comply with all applicable authorizations including 21 CFR § 174.5 General provisions applicable to indirect food additives. For example, in accordance with section 402(a)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, use of the recycled PP material should not impart odor or taste to food rendering it unfit for human consumption.
If you have any further questions concerning this matter, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Vanee Komolprasert, Ph.D., P.E.
Consumer Safety Officer
Division of Food Contact Notifications, HFS-275
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition


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This weekend is a long one for my fellow Canadians and I, celebrating Canada's 144th birthday (and she doesn't look a day over one hundred and two!). Today slash tonight, businesses all over the country will be turning their signs, flicking their lights and closing their doors; people will flood into the streets ready to make haste, drink beer and celebrate the one true Canadian summer kick-off weekend.As we know, any quest worth its salt has perils and challenges to overcome along the path to victory, and long weekends are no exception. As a nation, we will face
|amazing cupcakes via here
|flavored balls of something with maple in it (that I think are yummy-looking) via here
|more cupcakes (this time with sprinkles!) via here
|classic via here
|still with the cupcake obsession via here
So clearly Canada Day to me means "food." Specifically, cupcakes. Wonder what that's all about? Let's try again for actual decor:
|splashy (and not at all cliched :) cake toppers via here
|casually patriotic throw pillows via here
|dinnerware that could totally pass for maple leaves via here
|sophisticated red and white flower arrangements via here
|celebratory table setting ideas via here
|festive red and white bunting via here
|some Canada Day adorableness via here
And for all our American friends who will be celebrating their own long weekend this July 4th (and may not be checking in with the blog [and rightly so!]), Happy Independence Day! These ones are for you:
|party pinwheels via here
|4th of July desserts via here
|picnic spread I'd like to dig into via here
|fireworks!! via here
See you next week, everybody!!


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bmp! still need help with this one.. anyone?
Hi! I have two laptops with BT2 installed.
One of them works perfectly and the other one not so perfectly.
I can't get my resolution high enough
I have checked the manufacturers description where it states that my LCD display handles a max res. of 1600x1200.
The problem is, with my nvidia configurator the resolution max out at 1400x1050.
Because of this, my desktop gets "tiled" Meaning i have my desktop repeated on the side and under.
It's very distracting and hard to work with.
I have tried to manually enter the resolution in the xorg.conf file but it doesn't change anything
Here is my xorg.conf file:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Sep 5 19:30:08 PD
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Nvidia Default Flat Panel"
HorizSync 29.0 - 65.0
VertRefresh 0.0 - 61.0
Option "DPMS"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce4 440 Go"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "metamodes" "DFP: 1600x1200 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
bmp! still need help with this one.. anyone?
Forget the part about my Dlink G630, finally figured out that I had to write "iwconfig mode monitor channel XX rate 1M" for the bloody thing to work...
So now my only problem is that i can't increase the resolution to 1600x1200... HELP!
after root then toor
just type .. xorgconfig ... just answer the questions ... when it ask you to search inside the driver database select ? y then enter
select 0 for VESA ..
then the i dont remember which step asking you about the resolution just select which resolution you want .
try al most all the modes you will lose nothing . i face this with my laptop
"15.4 ...
good luck


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Sth. like this:
http://www.neurofuzz.com/modules/wfd...hp?cid=2&lid=9 ??
Can anybody link me to (or possibly upload) some good fuzzing lists for SQL Injection or XSS testing?
I'm playing with web application testing at the moment, and would like some good, comprehensive, long, lists that I can feed into tools like Burp.
Don't eat yellow snow :rolleyes:
Yep, exactly like that
Managed to find that one yesterday, but that was the only one that I could find
Does BackTrack3 have Burp? What other software on BackTrack3 can these types of lists for SQL injections can you plug this into?
Doubt very much that BT3 would have burp, I wouldn't have thought that the licencing conditions would allow it.
It should run in BT3 though, provided that the Java version is sufficiently new.
Isn't Burp commercial? Or is that only Burp Pro?
You can do custom injections in Firefox using TamperData (though I don't think there's a way to do a list of them). Maybe w3af?
I'm a compulsive post editor, you might wanna wait until my post has been online for 5-10 mins before quoting it as it will likely change.
I know I seem harsh in some of my replies. SORRY! But if you're doing something illegal or posting something that seems to be obvious BS I'm going to call you on it.
Yep, Burp is a commercial product which is why I thought it unlikely to be distributed in BT3 (or 4, or 5, or whatever).
Anyway.....back to the sources of those lists


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After a long time away from surfing, I started again last year with my 15 year old son, and we've been having a blast. I was lucky to find Swell Info as we live 40 minuets from the coast and the swell reports are great. Today I have a story to share.
We got to Lavallette at about 5;30 this morning, and a fisherman let us know that he
had seen something large in the surf, but was unsure of what it was. We have been seeing lots of Dolphin over the last few months, so figured it for a Dolphin.
We were in the water for over an hour and the same fisherman kept waving his arms and pointing. I would look, unfortunately almost into the sun, didn't see anything, figured it for a Dolphin and kept surfing the best waves we've seen in weeks.
Finally I heard my son and his friend scream and head for shore in quite a hurry, just as they have done in the last couple of months when Dolphin have come close to us, so I figured it for a Dolphin.
After another ride I noticed my son, his friend, and the fisherman jumping up
and down on the beach and pointing to my right. I squinted into the sun and saw, about
20 yards away, a fairly large gray dorsal, followed by the gray tail-fin with a black tip going slowly
side to side...a Shark.
As I started to paddle in it circled around between me and the beach, and came up my
left side about 8' away heading in the opposite direction and I got a close look at a 6-7'
shark with a black tipped tail.
After making it in, the fisherman said that earlier he saw the shark head right for me, go under me, and then resurface on the other side, and I never saw a thing.
Afterward I suggested to the boys that we head down the coast to Seaside and try it there, but they were having none of that, I hope I can get them back in the water tomorrow.
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(Pub. L. 101–624, title XIII, § 1325, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3564.)
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Probably not a bug.
Thread moved.
If someone else can verify that this is indeed a bug we can move it back.
As any other week I do the following once a month. apt-get update and dist-upgrade.
After my last dist-upgrade my wireless card stopped working. I can not use it in Gerix.
I scratch my head a while. I even reinstalled BT4F fresh checked the card worked then proceeded to do apt-get update and dist-upgrade.
Here is what dist-upgrade applied.
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openvas-libnasl openvas-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alien bison cmake debhelper doxygen dvipdfmx firmware-ar9170 firmware-b43
firmware-ipw firmware-iwlwifi html2text libappconfig-perl libbeecrypt6
libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libclass-base-perl
libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-makemethods-perl libdate-calc-perl
libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgnutls-dev libgraph-perl libgraphviz-perl
libheap-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl libipc-shareable-perl
libjcode-pm-perl libkpathsea4 liblog-dispatch-perl liblog-log4perl-perl
libneon27 libole-storage-lite-perl libparams-validate-perl
libparse-recdescent-perl librpm4.4 libsmi2-common libsmi2ldbl
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl
libsql-translator-perl libtasn1-3-dev libtemplate-perl libunicode-map-perl
libxml-writer-perl linux-headers linux-headers-2.6.34 linux-image-2.6.34
linux-source-2.6.34 lmodern openvas-administrator openvas-cli
openvas-manager openvas-scanner rpm sqlfairy tex-common texlive-base
texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-common texlive-doc-base
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc uuid-dev xmltoman
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-image linux-source openvas-client openvas-libraries openvas-menu
wireshark wireshark-common
7 upgraded, 66 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 197MB of archives.
After this operation, 1601MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::radio
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::assoc
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::quality
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
rt73usb 1-7:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
rt73usb 1-7:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
device mon0 entered promiscuous mode
Linux bt 184.108.40.206 #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 21:51:08 EST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
I am using a DELL 6400 which is old but use this card for packet injection to study pentest.
Can anyone help in getting my card working again. I have searched the forums but did not find anything related to my situation.
Probably not a bug.
Thread moved.
If someone else can verify that this is indeed a bug we can move it back.
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
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Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
Well I can confirm that the WUSB54GC does not work as it used to under the previous BT4.
(same reported in the thread for the R1 release)
On release of the new version, still an issue using the rt73usb drivers for the WUSB54GC,
reportedly one should use the rt73 drivers, instead, however same do not seem to be
included in the standard way.
I would say it is a bug / driver issue with the new kernel.
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Last edited by TAPE; 07-16-2010 at 09:59 PM.
had the same issue as above with my WUSB54GC after updating
dmesg showed firmware was not working
copied rt73.bin from /lib/firmware-22.214.171.124/ to /lib/firmware-2.6.34
ie cp /lib/firmware-188.8.131.52/rt73.bin /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin
unplugged and replugged in WUSB54GC
and all seems to be working
root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan0
Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!
PID Name
5089 dhclient3
5283 dhclient3
Process with PID 5283 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy0]
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)
root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0
15:23:52 Trying broadcast probe requests...
15:23:52 Injection is working!
15:23:54 Found 1 AP
15:23:54 Trying directed probe requests...
15:23:54 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx - channel: 1 - 'SSID' ( replaced mac with xx's)
15:23:54 Ping (min/avg/max): 1.574ms/4.286ms/9.763ms Power: -60.73
15:23:54 30/30: 100%
Thanks yours, I did see your previous post mentioning this, however since it got removed, I figured
the info was not to the mods liking..
Seems strange that any action should be required at all really.
No problems , Not sure why previous post was removed, Did above work for you ?
I did what you mentioned and it did not resolve the issue.
cp /lib/firmware-184.108.40.206/rt73.bin /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin
What I did see is the physical file was not in those directories and the OS did not complain about the file not there during the copy.
I did a 'ls -l' on the directories and the file rt73.bin was not there.
After doing a locate rt73.bin located in the older kernel directory, but after diung the updatedb the rt73.bin was no where to be found on the drive.
Let me know your thoughts.
thx i will wait for the fix.
Last edited by unamed; 07-20-2010 at 04:02 PM.
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copied rt73.bin to /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin rebooted and worked for me
I confirmed that my HWUG1 ( rt73usb driver ) did not function anymore after a
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
Kernel: 184.108.40.206
I performed lizdainis' step and the adapter now works as it used to prior to update. Note: I copied it to the firmware-126.96.36.199 directory. So, the apt-get dist-upgrade not alone broke this driver but the update/upgrade does. Thanks!!!
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Honors College Dean accepts job in Massachusetts
Dr. Davis Baird, dean of the South Carolina Honors College since 2005, has accepted the top academic position at Clark University, where he will be vice president of academic affairs and provost.
Davis Baird
Clark, located in Worcester, Mass., bills itself as the smallest research university in the country. It was founded in 1887 as the nation's first graduate-only institution and began admitting undergraduates early in the 20th century.
"Clark has a strong focus on multi-disciplinary research, which is very close to my heart," Baird said.
Tayloe Harding
Dr. Tayloe Harding, who was recently reappointed as dean of the USC School of Music, will serve as the interim dean of the Honors College. A nationwide search will be conducted for a new dean.
Provost Michael Amiridis said Baird has had an enormous impact on Carolina and its students as a department chair and as dean of the Honors College.
"Dean Baird has been an outstanding leader for the Honors College and a distinguished member of the Carolina faculty," Amiridis said. "He served the university well for three decades -- as a dedicated teacher, mentor and scholar; as a very successful department chair; and as an excellent dean. During this period he had a strong positive impact on the lives of numerous students and for this we are grateful to him. I know he will be equally successful at Clark University and wish him the best."
During Baird's tenure, USC's Honors College grew from 1,100 students to an anticipated enrollment of 1,300 this fall. Plans are in place to expand to 1,600 students by 2015. Baird maintained an average class size of 14, doubled the number of minority students in the Honors College and created an internship program.
Among his innovations was a requirement for Honors College students called "Honors Beyond the Classroom," which aims to better connect students' classroom education with places where they can put it to work and get real-world experience. Students are required to earn three honors credit hours from undergraduate research, service learning, study abroad or an internship.
Baird said his biggest accomplishment as dean was the opening of the new Honors Residence in fall 2009. The 537-bed living and learning community earned a Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. Honors students who live there are given many opportunities to get involved in campus life. Classrooms and faculty offices are located in the main building to support students in their academic pursuits.
Before becoming Honors College dean, Baird was the chair of USC's philosophy department for 13 years. Under his leadership, the department was listed as an "up and coming department to watch" by the Philosophical Gourmet and was in the top 30 departments in philosophy of science and in the top five in the philosophy of physics.
Baird holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University, and master's and doctorate degrees in philosophy from Stanford.


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West Valley City • A beast from the Eastern Conference devoured the Grizzlies on Wednesday night.
Sacha Guimond scored two goals and the Gwinnett Gladiators rolled to an easy 5-1 victory over punchless Utah in front of 3,017 fans at the Maverik Center.
In their only game against an Eastern Conference opponent this season, the Grizzlies were overmatched.
The Gladiators improved to 36-24-2-1 and strengthened their grip on first place in the South Division. They are third in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
"They're a good team," Grizzly coach Kevin Colley said. "They have been playing together all year. There is a lot of chemistry out there, and they are well-coached."
Once again, Utah struggled in the offensive end.
Berkley Scott scored with 1:42 remaining to prevent the Grizzlies from being shut out for the third time in eight games. In that stretch, Utah has managed only eight goals in regulation.
"I think we have to shoot more," Colley said. "We're getting some good looks, but maybe we're trying to be too pretty."
In the first period, the Grizzlies used a pair of power plays to outshoot the Gladiators, 15-9.
Gwinnett grabbed a 1-0 lead, however, when Guimond fired a rebound past Utah goalie Adam Morrison only 4:15 into the game.
After Utah failed to convert a handful of scoring opportunities, it appeared the Gladiators would take their one-goal advantage to the locker room.
But Evan Bloodoff had other ideas.
On Gwinnett's final rush, he collected another rebound and poked it under Morrison with 1.3 seconds left in the period.
"That was a killer," Colley said. "That's a tough one to give up."
With 6:02 left in the second period, Gwinnett went on its first power play. Thirty-six seconds later, Utah failed to clear the puck when it had a chance and Guimond fired a wrist shot over Morrison's shoulder to make it 3-0.
In the third period, Gwinnett stretched its lead to 5-0 before Scott scored his fifth goal of the season.
O Gwinnett builds a two-goal lead in the first period and cruises past Utah.
• The Grizzlies' Berkley Scott scores with 1:42 remaining to prevent a shutout.
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If you are a government leader looking to cut costs, this might be the meeting for you. The Fund for Our Economic Future is sponsoring a day-long conference with speakers offering advice for how to save money.
One obstacle to collaboration is the learning curve for finding exactly how to accomplish efficiencies. Academic institutions don't are just starting to provide help, the state and county can only do so much. Here's a news release from Green showing how they shared How-To information with Warren:
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Here's a Plan Dealer story with the headline: "Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald asks mayors to sign anti-poaching agreement." Only one city has signed on so far and many reservations are expressed. Is this something Summit County's Russ Pry should consider? Would businesses be hurt by this deal? Would taxpayers be helped by fewer sweet deals?To read more or comment...
Here is a copy of proposed legislation to loosen requirements on mutual aid agreements. The most significant changes, according to sponsor John Patrick Carney, D-Columbus, is to add to groups that can join an agreement (universities, private ambulance companies, etc.) and let emergency crews take joint action without first getting approval from political leaders like mayors, township trustees, etc.To read more or comment...
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Im looking to sell my Firewire. I want to buy a summer type of board instead.
I bought it at the end of last summer, so it is still in great condition. And firewires keep their value for a long time.
Looking to sell it for 450 or best offer. They retail for at least 700.
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I'm trying to improve the quality of my code and am using classes/objects a lot more now. It has occurred to me there are a number of things I'm undecided about as to the best way to proceed. I know there's no right or wrong way but would be interested in your thoughts on:
I think it's OK for the class to do some value validation, such as checking that a number is non-negative or that it's within an appropriate range. I also think you're right that you shouldn't try to do type validation. It's never a good time when you're fighting the programming language, and PHP is loosely typed. Though, feel free to use type hinting liberally.
Throw an exception.
Static functions are probably OK. But static data can certainly make testing difficult.
If a class is all instance-based, then when we create a new object, we know we're getting a clean slate, and any methods we call on that new object will behave in a predicable way. But if a class uses any static data, then even when we create a brand new object, it might still carry some state from other, past objects, and as a result, it might behave differently.
Those are OK, because you don't have to worry about their value changing from one instance to another.
I just wanted to add a caveat to Jeff's answer to this. They're good and very useful providing their value is only ever used internally within the class. This is good:
$ftp = new FTPConnection('server', 'username', 'password');
Whereas this is bad:
echo 'Total price: ' . Locale::CURRENCY . $total;
The difference is that due to encapsulation, the constant should only have meaning to the class which defined it. Using class constants outside the scope of the class which defined them is bad. The easiest way to see if you're breaking this is to answer the question: "If the value of the constant changes, will my code behave differently?" if you answer yes, then your code is breaking encapsulation and depending on the value of the constant. This is bad because the author of the class should be able to alter the value of the constant without breaking anyone else's code.
Amazing, I was going to ask a very similar question. I'm redoing old procedural scripts as OOP. Today I'm converting a script that configures and sends emails. My question was if the mailer should check the validity of email addresses or should the calling script be responsible for providing valid data. I would like to hear opinions about this issue.
As I was thinking about it I realized that other classes or scripts might also want to do the same kind of validation. I implemented the validation methods in an abstract class "ValidateEmails" (instead of static methods in the Email class itself) which allows any script to use them. I also made the ValidateEmails class a parent of the Email class (with the key word extends). Is there a better way to do this? If yes, why is it better?
Thinking about it I realized that both the class and the calling script should check for errors because they are doing so at different levels. The script is most likely interacting with a user and can give feedback so that the user can correct his input. The class itself does not know who or what the script is interacting with, it only knows what kind of problem the error can cause down the line (bounced or undelivered mail, etc.). Based on the kind of expected consequence, the class can either abort the php process and notify the administrator if it is a serious error or it can just log a warning if the error does not warrant aborting the php process.
My thinking is influenced by the error reporting code I have installed in all my production websites. Some time back I discovered that a website had been partly inoperative for months on account of an error reported only to website visitors who did not bother telling us about it. Who knows how much business was lost during that time! Aborting the script and notifying the administrator solves the problem of "silent" bugs by making the administrator aware of them.
For example, suppose that in a contact form the visitor enters a bad email address, the script should give feedback asking for a correct email address. If not done, if a faulty script sends the bad email address to the email class, it should abort the php process and notify the administrator because the underlying problem is not a bad email address but a faulty script that did not detect it.
Unfortunately the problem is even more complicated than that. Suppose you create a database with valid emails and one of them becomes inoperative because the MX DNS record disappears. You don't want to abort the script, you just want to skip that particular email and notify the administrator.
I think there are two main kinds of error checking - one is validating data input by the user and the other is checking correctness of data by application components (classes, methods, etc.). In my opinion the main difference between them is that the first type of checking needs to assume that it is perfectly okay for the data to be invalid, in other words the user is allowed to enter invalid data and this doesn't cause any errors in the application - but of course the user should be informed of the error. After this first part of validation passes as successful then the rest of the system should handle the data without errors so then if a specific class is fed with invalid data it is allowed to throw an exception, halt the application, etc. In other words, a validation error at the class level should be treated as an error in the application, something to be corrected. Of course, the administrator should be notified of such errors if possible.
Personally, I tend to keep error checking of the second type to a bare minimum, otherwise I might risk cluttering all of my code with endless error checking procedures. If a class is performing some security critical task, then of course I implement as much error checking as possible but in other cases I am happy to implement only data sanitisation where needed, which is much simpler and shorter than validation. By sanitisation I mean ensuring the application doesn't crash when a class is given bad data - but it is allowed to work incorrectly.
I have found that sometimes error checking can make a task require twice as much time to code than if I could afford not to bother with errors. Especially, when a system uses or contacts third-party components, then we can expect errors at any step.
Thanks for the replies, very useful.
Avoid using static properties and methods unless you have to, statics are poor OOP practices .
This is a good answer. When it comes to validating user supplied data always, without question. However, when it comes to anticipation of errors internally such as; third party vendor service or possible issues writing to the file system it comes down to picking your battles. My approach is to identify likely points of failure and implement strategies to handle them. That could be anything from a simple response code to sending an email to a admistrator dependent on the severity of the problem. However, assuming failure on every line of code you write is an overkill unless some intensive processing is occurring. Even than though that process would likely be isolated in it's own class or method where a simple exception and proper handling would be enough.


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Like birds and fishes, mankind has always been fascinated by the amphibious species. The ability to traverse on almost any terrain had caught the attention of many inventors, engineers and was regarded as a potent transportation tool by adventurous merchants and military generals alike. Centuries of fascination, engineering and ingenuity has resulted into the development of the modern day amphibious ACV (Air Cushion Vehicle), more commonly known as the hovercraft.
Historical and modern day development.
Throughout the industrial revolution, the concept of pressure was widely explored and studied upon and served as a basis for designs which used high air pressure to life objects from surface. Most of these designs however required the vehicle to in linear motion so that the required pressure could be generated. These vehicles were usually termed as 'water' effect vehicles and it was only in 1915 that the first successful vehicle was built. The vehicle, built by Austrian National Dagobert Muller, used 5 aero engines – four for underwater propellers and 1 for blowing air under the hull. The vehicle could successfully operate with a top speed of 32 knots and was benifited vastly due to the air pressure under the hull. However it couldn't make a transition to land like a mo0dern hovercraft and also required constant motion to be lifted slightly.
In 1929, the concept of blowing air under something to keep it aloft was introduced by Andrew Kutcher from Ford. His contraption, the Levapad, was a metal disk with a hole in its center through which air was blown to keep the disk aloft. Over the years of experimentation he also realized that the concept can be used to replace wheel in trains. One of the major flaw of the Levapad was the lack of proper system to contain the high pressure so that the disk hovers higher with lesser air being blown. Another design was conceived by a Finnish engineer Tobio J. Kaario, who proposed using an engine to blow air and life the vehicle among others.
However none of these developments match that of Sir Christopher Cockerell. Mr. Cockerell was the first to design and develop various components used in he present day hovercraft, including annular rings and skirts. He also discovered the effect of 'momentum curtain' wherein he observed that fast moving air proved as a barrier for air surrounding it. This effect ultimately resulted in hovercrafts using less airflow to gain the same amount of lift. Infact, a modern day hovercraft would use 1/4th times lesser airflow than a helicopter to gain lift. One of the first prototypes, the SR N1 was also built by Cockerell's group and demonstrated the power and applications of a modern the hovercraft. The SR N1 could travel over land and water with relative ease and could also perform the transition smoothly. Later developments allowed the SR N1 to climb over obstacles, move a=quickly and efficiently on both surfaces. As the concept and prototype gained popularity, many other companies started working on their own designs and commercialized the hovercraft as a ferry.
Working of a modern hovercraft.
A modern day hovercraft is powered by one or more engines, depending upon the size, to lift and drive it. The engines power large fans which suck air inside the skirts of the hovercraft, inflating them and crating an air cushion. The engines also power additional propellers which are used to move the now cushioned vehicles through the surface, whether land or water. Some designs however, omit the use of gearbox, and use some of the air sucked in the skirts while the rest and used to push the craft forward.
Major uses.
While an engineering marvel, hovercrafts were commercially viable to ferry people. It usually favored calm water surfaces, blew a lot of dust on ground and also consumed high amount of fuel. However the hovercraft still catches fascination of some people and there are a few commercial ferries available over the world.
Hovercrafts, instead found their niche is civilian search and rescue, support services and tactical military operations. Due to their ability to traverse on land and water quite easily many search and rescue teams have utilized them to rescue distressed civilians in coastal and other difficult terrains like mud, thin ice, swamps, etc. Its amphibious capability allows armies using them to tactically insert forces in an area without much hassle and little regard for the geographical terrain. This led to development and production of military hovercrafts across the globe with many models being in active service.


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