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1) Diamox. 500mg a day. Beware, even at sea level you have to drink alot of water or this can dehydrate you, which will ruin you at altitude. Get this from your doctor. Start this the day before you fly to high altitude.

2) Ginkgo Biloba. This stuff makes me feel better too. I take 160mg twice a day. Some studies indicate that 60mg twice a day is effective, but why stop there? Start two days before you fly.

3) Force a gallon of water down your gullet a day. AMS reduces thirst, and so does Diamox. When you have to pee, before you go, drink another glass of water. This is key. I think. When you wake up, drink water. Before you go to sleep, drink water. Put a glass of water bedside for late night drinkage. Drink 2 glasses before each meal. Oh, and you should eat. Altitude kills your appetite.

4) Toradol. When the headaches come, this stuff woops their ass. Then again, so might Tylenol, without the risk of internal bleeding.

5) Coffee. I'm tired, so I drink a ton of caffiene. This may irritate the AMS. But I needs my energy.

This works at 10,000 feet, for me. I am not a doctor, but I like to think I could have been, so I play one in my head.

Jellorian Guide to Tolerating Acute Mountain Sickness When You Quickly Ascend to 10K Feet

NIGC Chairman Phil Hogen stated “The Commission is extremely appreciative of the great interest which tribes and gaming equipment manufacturers have taken in the effort to craft regulations for the equipment used by tribes to play bingo and other Class II games. An unprecedented level of communication and cooperation was demonstrated in the intense effort a working group of gaming manufacturers and gaming tribes devoted to drafting and presenting proposed technical standards to NIGC’s Tribal Advisory Committee, which that Advisory Committee delivered to the Commission today. While the Commission has not yet had the opportunity to fully review the recommendations which were received, we think the fresh approach reflected in this package—which focuses on the game system, not just “player boxes”-- has the potential of addressing many of the Commission’s concerns relating to insuring the integrity of Class II gaming played with technological aids.” Hogen continued “The need to have standards that protect the integrity of Class II technologic aids is as great today as it has ever been, and

hopefully these sincere efforts of the Indian gaming industry will assist the Commission in completing this task in the near future.”

The comment period for Class II technical regulations will come to an end on January 31, 2007. At that time, the NIGC will review the comments and determine what will be the next step in the process.

Hopefully this means they will not hamstring Class II gaming, and devastate tribal revenues, tomorrow.

NIGC Class II Meeting :: PR-55 01-2007

BOO YA!

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Research Tools - Stripe Snoop is THE tool for research. It includes a raw mode to allow for reading and attempted parsing of non-standard track information (such as NYC's Metrocard). It support for different readers is growing, allowing for different readers to use the same standard interface. It comes with extras tools that allow for the bitstreams to be captured, modified, and exported. This exported data can be analyzed on a different machine running Stripe Snoop, with no reader necessary! This allows for researchers around the world to trade magstripe data and research with each other without needing their own readers, or without shipping the actual card.

Stripe Snoop :: Why use it?

THE smallpox virus first became entangled with the human species somewhere between three thousand and twelve thousand years ago -- possibly in Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. Somewhere on earth at roughly that time, the virus jumped out of an unknown animal into its first human victim, and began to spread. Viruses are parasites that multiply inside the cells of their hosts, and they are the smallest life forms. Smallpox developed a deep affinity for human beings. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious disease, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages. It was declared eradicated from the human species in 1979, after a twelve-year effort by a team of doctors and health workers from the World Health Organization. Smallpox now exists only in laboratories.

The Demon In the Freezer

Conclusion:
Ginkgo Biloba taken five days prior to rapid ascent to 4300 m reduced both incidence and severity of AMS.

Ginkgo might help AMS.

Ginkgo Biloba, Altitude and Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)

The MT-85 is a LoCo manual swipe magstripe encoder-reader that allows financial cards, ID badges, or passbooks to be instantly encoded and issued to customers.

Its compact footprint and rugged design make it an ideal choice for magstripe card, badge, or passbook issuance at financial institutions, schools, businesses, and government environments. An RS-232 interface and simplified command set allow for quick integration with software applications. An LED provides clear status indications to the operator. Available in either Track-2 only, or Track 1, 2, 3 configurations, the MT-85 encodes and read-verifies magnetic data per the ISO 7810 low-coercivity magstripe standards.

These guys give C code driver examples. They ROCK.

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Description

Remote Call Forwarding (RCF) is an exchange service which allows incoming calls to be forwarded to a telephone number in a distant location.

The RCF number has one access path which allows only one call, at a time to be forwarded. Additional access paths can be ordered to allow additional calls to be forwarded, provided the distant location is equipped to receive them.

RCF requires neither a physical telephone set nor physical input by customer to get calls forwarded.

If you want to establish business credit, but have Vonage... you need to get a bellsouth remote call forwarding service. It is $18.50 a month. Otherwise you'll get denied all over the place.

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- If you believe in the cause of social justice, but keep your wealth, are you not a hypocrite?
- But I'm not wealthy. I'm actually in debt.
- So why are you in debt?
- Because I aspire to own more than I actually need.

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