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Thompson, Brown shine in basketball openers
Published: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 5:36 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 6:02 p.m.
Turtle Mountain Community College sophomore men's college basketball player Joseph Thompson, a former South Terrebonne High standout, opened up the regular season with a bang last week.
Thompson scored 27 points with six rebounds and assists each in a 75-68 win over Northland College on Nov. 3, and he added a career-high 39 points, seven rebounds and five assists in a 93-83 win against Trinity Bible College on Nov. 9.
Turtle Mountain is 2-0 overall and will host Fort Peck Community College on Saturday.
Another local men's college basketball standout started his season in impressive fashion last week.
Clarke University junior forward Jerrodd Brown, a former Terrebonne High standout, had 12 points, five rebounds and two assists in a 78-70 loss to Olivet Nazarene University on Nov. 2, 10 points and two rebounds in a 85-73 win over Indiana University Northwest on Nov. 7, three rebounds against Briar Cliff University on Nov. 9 and eight points in a 65-32 loss to Mount Marty College on Nov. 10.
Clarke (1-3) will continue its season at Association Free Lutheran Bible School on Friday.
Northern Virginia Community College freshman Tevin Jackson, a former H.L. Bourgeois standout, averaged 16.5 points in the first two games of his college career last week.
Louisiana-Lafayette freshman Jasmin Mills, a former Assumption product, opened her college career with four points and nine rebounds in a 83-42 win over LSU-Shreveport on Nov. 12.
The Lady Cajuns will play at Nebraska on Friday.
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'Gangnam Style' Rapper Psy Apologizes For Lyrics About Killing Americans
Today, the news broke that South Korea's most enigmatically successful export, horse-dancing rapper/raconteur PSY, has anti-American skeletons in his closet — leading him to issue a statement of apology for two separate incidents during the early 2000s in which he publicly attacked the U.S. and its military policies.
The scandal comes as PSY nears an imminent milestone — the staggering one billionth viewing of the video for his goofy earworm "Gangnam Style" — and as he prepares to perform at a December 21 charity concert in Washington, DC before an audience that is scheduled to include President Obama.
News of the incidents first broke in the form of a posting on CNN's citizen-journalism platform iReport on October 6. The pseudonymous post, accusing PSY of being "the worst anti-Americanist and opportunist," went largely ignored, until Bobby McGill, a former San Francisco Chronicle staff writer, picked up the story for an extensive feature in his Busan, South Korea-based English-language magazine, Busan Haps.
According to McGill, the singer's first anti-American flareup occurred in 2002, shortly after two 13-year-old girls were tragically run over and killed by a U.S. Army vehicle in a rural area north of Seoul. The event led an enraged Korean populace to take to the streets, demanding justice for the girls' families and a wind-down of U.S. military presence in the nation.
PSY, then 25, was already notorious in the Korean entertainment industry: He'd dropped out of not one but two colleges and both of his albums had been censured by pundits for including "inappropriate" lyrics and serving as "negative influences" on youth. PSY's shady record, unusual wardrobe choices and on-stage antics had led to his being dubbed the "Bizarre Singer" — essentially, as close to a bad-boy punk as K-Pop gets.
It might not be too surprising, then, that as public outrage intensified, PSY became one of the most vocal and high-profile Korean celebrities to join the protests — strolling onstage for one concert performance holding a large mockup of a tank, which he slammed to the ground and beat to smithereens with his mic stand, as the crowd chanted anti-American slogans.
The second episode occurred two years later, in 2004, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In May of that year, a jihadist faction led by al-Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had captured a Christian missionary named Kim Sun-il, holding him hostage and demanding that South Korea withdraw its pledge to send 3,000 troops to Iraq as part of the occupying forces. When the South Korean government refused to negotiate, the terrorists released a tape of Kim's brutal execution, telling Koreans that they should "blame America" for their countryman's death.
Once again, South Koreans took to the streets, initially protesting the actions of the extremists, and later, as anti-American activists took control of the mobs, the U.S.-led occupation itself. As Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reports, during this period, PSY participated in a protest concert, where he joined South Korean rappers JP, Prhyme and MC Sniper in a performance with the hard-rock band N.EX.T, delivering a live rendition of an angry rant titled "Dear American," written by N.EX.T.'s lead singer, Shin HaeChul. As has been widely reported, the words from the verse PSY delivers declare that the "f—— Westerner bastards" responsible for the torture of Iraqi POWs should be killed, "slowly and painfully," along with their families.
Though shockingly over-the-top, the rest of the song, which refers to "naked prisoners of war," "reality trash porn," and a "contemporary crisis that has devastated the world, religion and human dignity," contextualize the verse as part of a bitter commentary on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention facility — a scandal that had just unfurled publicly the month before, and that was widely believed to have provoked al-Zarqawi to begin his campaign of abductions and executions. Meanwhile, the song's chorus calls for America to "Stop the War!" and "Stop the Crime!" — sentiments that were as common on protest signs in major U.S. cities as in Seoul.
Early this evening, with backlash beginning to rage out of control, PSY released the following public statement:
"As a proud South Korean who was educated in the United States and lived there for a very significant part of my life, I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world. The song I featured on in question from eight years ago — was part of a deeply emotional reaction to the war in Iraq and the killing of two Korean schoolgirls that was part of the overall antiwar sentiment shared by others around the world at that time. While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words.
"I have been honored to perform in front of American soldiers in recent months — including an appearance on the Jay Leno show specifically for them — and I hope they and all Americans can accept my apology. While it's important that we express our opinions, I deeply regret the inflammatory and inappropriate language I used to do so. In my music, I try to give people a release, a reason to smile. I have learned that thru music, our universal language we can all come together as a culture of humanity and I hope that you will accept my apology."
While the entertainer's indiscretions certainly warranted a response, they can also be seen in the context of his youth and the prevailing sensibilities of the era in which they occurred. This was a period of South Korean history during which 60% of all Koreans and over 70% of Koreans under 25 had an unfavorable opinion of the U.S. (In fact, as the think-tank RAND noted in their 2004 study "Ambivalent Allies?," young South Korean adults of that time believed that America posed a greater existential threat to their nation and the world than their traditional nemesis to the North.)
Which suggests that, as outrageous as they were, his decade-old actions could be seen by some as a PSY of the times.


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Years ago, love letters were a way to share intimate feelings in a relationship. That has all changed in today's digital world.
Within seconds, someone can send a personal text or picture to the person they love. But what was once a flirtatious exchange can now be used as a tool for public humiliation.
ABC 17's Kristie Reeter looked into emerging cyber crime and found it is happening across the country and even here in Missouri.
Cybercrimes detectives said if you don't want a private, nude photos of yourself getting out, do not take one in the first place.
Officials say you have little chance of ever getting it back and it's a trend that current laws do not address.
Cybercrimes experts and victims are dubbing it, "revenge porn." There are even several websites that are dedicated to the effort of getting back at an ex.
"I clicked on the first picture and as I scrolled down it was almost a dream or a nightmare," said Hollie Toups, a victim of revenge porn.
Most of the illicit photos were originally sent consensually, but after a breakup, one ex wants to get revenge. Some victims don't even know their personal, sometimes nude, photos are out there.
Other victims are devastated that something so private has now become so public.
"I think for a lot of people they think the quick, easy answer is don't take a photo, but it's bigger than that because there are people who were posted on there that did not know they were being photographed," said Toups.
Toups told ABC 17 News that while she did send some photos of herself to an ex-boyfriend, investigators are still trying to find out who posted them to the website, texxxan.com.
She is one of dozens of women who are taking action against that website.
Kristie Reeter talked with Toups and her lawyer, John Morgan, via Skype.
"My first duty is to try and get these sites shut down and to make sure my clients' images and info is not sent to other sites," said Morgan.
Last week, they were able to do just that. If you head to texxxan.com, the site is no longer working.
Morgan is continuing to work on a class action lawsuit against the site's owner for invasion of privacy.
Revenge porn is not the only problem that can pop up when photos get into the wrong hands.
Cybercrimes detective Andy Anderson said they have seen several cases of what they call "sextortion."
"(This is) Where they got those sexually graphic photographs and then they extort the victim in those photographs with whatever they want out of them," explained Anderson. "It can be money, it can be 'do this for me.'"
Kristie Reeter headed to the University of Missouri campus and within ten minutes found two women whose friends had been through a similar situation.
"I've had a friend where she was threatened," said Kristine Dvorack. "And she actually had to contact the family and it just got really messy."
Another woman said her friend wasn't so lucky and the photos were made public.
"Through phones people would send it to each other and it just got really bad," Delaney Dougherty said. "One of my friends in particular, everyone in school got it and it was just a bad situation."
Most victims want to keep the situation quiet and are embarrassed more people will find out.
However, Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight said victims of revenge porn or "sextortion" can get justice.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Last weekend I took my intermediate self down a couple of black diamond runs at Diamond Peak. I spent an appropriate amount of time determining my readiness, including watching the level of other skiers making the same choices.
I've developed a reasonably accurate sense of my capabilities. When I see someone whose skills approximate my own making his or her way down with reasonable success, I push myself. My goal is to improve, not to kill myself trying to prove something. There are advantages to life experience (getting older).
Happily, my choices were appropriate. "Grace" would not be how I described my descents at all times, but I managed and was pleased with my progress. I recognized in advance what I would need to be able to do and figured I was ready.
I was horrified, therefore, to watch some well-meaning woman convince two very beginner skiers into attempting something for which they clearly were not ready. I wanted to say, "Why are you doing this?" but decided it was none of my business.
When I saw them, it was probably too late to turn back, anyway. In the first 20 yards or so, both had fallen, one perilously close to a tree. By the time I skied down and was taking the chair back up, one had "progressed" a hundred yards or so and was struggling to get out of the woods.
The second, covered with snow, had slid about 20 yards farther from where I first saw her. Their "friend," clearly a capable skier, was cheerfully shouting at both, "You can do it! Just turn! It's easy!" No, they couldn't do it, and they couldn't turn, and it clearly wasn't easy.
Teaching is an art and a science. The woman who convinced her friends they were ready to take on that for which they were not ready was not a teacher. Telling someone she "can do it" and "just turn" without providing careful instruction, reinforcement and feedback is not teaching.
I understood her enthusiasm and desire to introduce her friends to something she enjoys and at which she is good. Unfortunately, the experience she provided was as likely to make her friends hate skiing - or her - as anything else.
It's natural to want to share the things we love. There is nothing wrong with that. When we push too hard and too fast, however, we run the risk of undermining others' confidence and creating huge obstacles for the future.
Life takes readiness as well as certain predilections and talents. Because something is easy for an adult does not mean it is easy for others. I believe that is one of the hardest realities for parents to accept. It certainly was with our daughters.
The really good teachers in their lives recognized and respected each girl's talents and readiness. As parents, we say we don't want our kids to grow up "too fast," and yet, so often we try to push them ahead. Why?
- Ruth Glass is headmaster at Lake Tahoe School. She can be reached for comment through her blog at www.laketahoeschool.org.


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2013 DU Member Photo Contest
This year's winners include another stunning collection of waterfowl and hunting images from across the nation
By Gary Koehler
If records are indeed made to be broken, Ducks Unlimited magazine readers have taken that adage to heart. For the fourth consecutive year, the number of entries in our photo contest rose to new heights. This year's count surpassed 900, including nearly equal numbers in the waterfowl, retrievers, and waterfowl hunting categories. Combined, these images made for an intriguing collage framing just about all things common to duckdom. They serve to preserve special moments occurring in special places—all treasures in their own right.
To view an extensive collection of honorable mentions in our photo contest, visit
Best Overall Winner
Chris Knight
Sacramento, California
Chris Knight's job requires him to travel regularly all over northern California. He has made it a point to visit some of the state's most revered duck hunting venues, including Butte Sink and Suisun Marsh, among others. "I get up really early, hunt with a camera for a few hours, and then go to work," Knight says. "I've always been partial to waterfowl, and my job puts me in the middle of great duck country."
Knight photographed this pintail courtship flight in late December on the Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge near Chico. "I spend a lot of time out there. It's one of my favorite spots," Knight says. "You never know what you are going to get. Just like hunting, you have to be in the right place at the right time."
This remarkable shot was taken from an observation platform. "I like photographing birds in flight," Knight says. "At that particular spot, pintail courtship flights will swing right by you. There are at least a few thousand birds on that pond on any given day."
Best Overall Runner-Up
David Roberts
China, Texas
Waterfowl Winner
Steve Oehlenschlager
Elk River, Minnesota
Steve Oehlenschlager did not have to go far to find suitable subjects in his quest for dramatic waterfowl images. "I photographed this wood duck on a seven-acre pond right in my backyard," Oehlenschlager says. "Woodies are about the only ducks we get back there, but we have a lot of them. I'm literally surrounded by wood ducks."
This photo comes complete with a scintillating mirror image. "It just happened," Oehlenschlager says. "The pond was dead calm and that wood duck drake just kept swimming right at me. It was like he was a new duck in town. Normally, they stay away."
Oehlenschlager put up a blind for three weeks last spring. Each morning, after returning home from work, he'd head for the hide with his camera. "The pond is at the edge of a mature red oak forest. There are many natural cavities in the hollow trees—so many, in fact, that the wood ducks don't often use the houses I've put up for them. In the spring, the wood ducks fly from tree to tree. It's a lot of fun just to watch them."
Waterfowl Runner-Up
Paul Wendlick
Portland, Oregon
Waterfowl Hunting Winner
Cheryl Harrison
Edina, Minnesota
For the past five years, the Harrison family has ventured to western Manitoba to hunt waterfowl. Cheryl Harrison has become the official trip photographer. "It's a new hobby, actually," she says. "I'm going to school to learn more about photography. It's been a nice addition to our hunting trips."
While her husband Rick, son Duke, and daughter Ella were set up to hunt divers out of a boat blind on the lakeshore, Cheryl positioned herself in a stand of natural vegetation, camera in hand. "That flock of bluebills was enormous," she says. "From when the flight started until all the ducks passed it was well over a minute. We had never seen anything like that before. Everyone was really excited."
Cheryl shot dozens of frames to preserve the moment. "When I photograph a hunt, we get to go back and relive the experience over and over," she says. "Plus, they like having me with them. It's nice to have the whole family together doing something that we all enjoy."
Waterfowl Hunting Runner-Up
Wayne Muzzy
San Diego, California
Retrievers Winner
Paul Stumpf
Middle River, Maryland
While his family has always had gun dogs, Paul Stumpf was never in charge of the training. At least not until he acquired Hank, a chocolate Labrador retriever, a little more than a year ago. "This was the first dog I trained from scratch," Stumpf says. "My father and grandfather had always done the training. I wanted to train Hank on my own."
At age 10 months, Hank was officially introduced to waterfowl hunting in a marsh along the aptly named Bird River. The outing turned out to be one for the books. "It was opening day and his first-ever hunt," Stumpf says. "That drake wood duck was the second duck he retrieved—the first was a banded mallard. That made the day really special."
Stumpf hunts off and on from October through January. His camera is always close at hand. "I have always taken pictures while hunting, including photos of other people's dogs. They've been surprised how well they turn out," Stumpf says. "When people invite me to go hunting with them, they always tell me to bring along my camera."
Retrievers Runner-Up
Brent Ungar
Canton, Ohio
To view an extensive collection of honorable mentions in our photo contest, visit


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Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter announced appointments to the second Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission on Tuesday.
The mission of "LINE 2.0" is to implement and oversee progress on recommendations from its predecessor.
The original LINE Commission was given a year to assess and quantify the opportunities and challenges associated with hosting the Idaho National Laboratory and a significant nuclear manufacturing and services sector that has emerged as a result of the U.S. Department of Energy site. That commission wrapped up its initial scope of work at the end of January, submitting its final report to the governor.
One of the more prominent recommendations of the original LINE Commission was that the state consider helping the federal government solve its nuclear waste storage problem.
"Our goal is to fully explore Idaho's opportunities for leveraging the expertise and groundbreaking research of the premier U.S. Department of Energy lab toward creating new jobs and expanding our energy and technology sectors," Otter said in reference to LINE 2.0. "Amid fiscal and political uncertainty, we want to sustain and grow the Idaho National Laboratory's mission while helping our citizens realize the greatest economic benefit."
Otter named the following people as members of LINE 2.0:
- Jeffery Sayer – Director, Idaho Department of Commerce (chairman)
- Dr. Steven Aumeier – Director, Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES)
- Larry Craig – Retired, United States Senate
- Bart Davis – Majority Leader, Idaho State Senate
- Jeff Feeler – President and CEO, U.S. Ecology
- Dr. Howard Grimes – Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Idaho State University
- John Grossenbacher – Director, Idaho National Laboratory
- John Kotek – Partner, Gallatin Public Affairs
- Dr. Mark Rudin – Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Boise State University
- Dr. Robert Smith – Associate Vice-President, University of Idaho
- Jeff Thompson – Member, Idaho House of Representatives
- Mike Virtue – Mayor, City of Blackfoot
- Nathan Small – Chairman, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
- Steve Laflin – President and CEO, International Isotopes
These are the ex-officio members:
- Scott Bedke – Speaker, Idaho House of Representatives
- Brian Whitlock – Idaho National Laboratory
- Tom Perry – Legal Counsel, Office of the Governor
- John Revier – Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Congressman Mike Simpson
LINE Commission 2.0 members will have full voting rights, with ex-officio members (associated with LINE 2.0 by virtue of their positions) serving in an advisory capacity. Several additional appointments to LINE 2.0 are being considered and may be announced in the coming weeks, according to a news release from the governor's office.


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There were 31 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,386 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Robbery: A 15-year-old boy told police he was walking in the 1100 block of Sutherland Drive about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday when a man demanded his gold necklace. The man took the boy's necklace and fled on a black mountain bike. The thief was described as a black man about 20 years old standing 5 feet 11 inches tall with a black shirt and an Oakland Raiders beanie. The victim said the man may have had a handgun in his waistband.
Auto theft arrest: Police arrested Salvador Mosqueda, 22, on suspicion of vehicle theft shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday near North El Dorado Street and West March Lane. Officers in the area spotted Mosqueda driving the stolen vehicle and took him into custody during a traffic stop, police reported.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 12 noninjury accidents and two injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. CHP officers also arrested three people on charges of driving under the influence and recovered two stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 116 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including three vehicle accidents and 100 medical calls.
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Finland, 2012, 123 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Drama, RomanceLanguage: Finnish English Sub-Titles
Director Aku Louhimies creates a series of parallel stories taking place in a popular Helsinki neighborhood during one week in winter. An episodic film featuring intertwined stories about families and individuals, children and adults, Naked Harbour is, at its base, a film about needing to be loved.
Louhimies has been called controversial because of his dark, hard-hitting depictions of Finnish society in a style that's more Cassavetes than Dogme. "Aki Kaurismaki's films are like fairy tales; mine are as realistic as possible" he has said. "I like to call them the illusion of truth."
With the focus on outsiders and on winter landscapes, the imperfect characters here are driven by the same need to be loved, seen, and touched. After building up a world of tension, the film comes into feelings of forgiveness and new beginnings—but only in the very last minutes.
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The family of Jahi McMath is attempting to raise money to help pay for the cost of airlifting the brain-dead 13-year-old from the Oakland hospital where she has been since Dec. 9 to one of two facilities that have offered to care for the teen indefinitely.
Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, said in a statement Saturday that "progress was being made" and that two facilities are being considered for Jahi: one in Southern California and one in New York.
"We are optimistic but are feeling ever anxious as the deadline of 5 p.m. on Monday approaches," he said in the joint statement by the family.
Sealey said that on Friday, the family; their attorney, Christopher Dolan; and the attorney for Children's Hospital Oakland had a conference call with one of the facilities to prove Jahi could be accepted there. The family said they are withholding identifying the facilities' names to ensure the privacy of patients and to not interfere with Jahi's potential transfer, and asked Children's Hospital to respect those wishes.
Sam Singer, a public relations expert hired by the hospital, said despite the family's reports, the hospital has not heard from either the McMath family or Dolan in more than 24 hours about any progress on transferring Jahi. He said the medical director of the Southern California facility was supposed to call the family back and Dolan would contact Children's Hospital, but that has not happened.
"Our hearts go out to the family, that is not what is in question," Singer said. "But it is wrong of (Dolan) to create false impressions that brain dead is not dead. It is dead.
"The family has been told by doctors and by a judge that Jahi McMath is dead. And that is very sad, but there has to be some recognition that the situation is not going to change."
On Friday, Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, created the "Jahi McMath Fund" on the fundraising website Go Fund Me.
On the site, Winkfield writes: "I am raising money for my daughter Jahi McMath so that she can be airlifted to a hospital out of state. Her insurance does not cover it and Children's Hospital is going to remove her off life support if can't get her out of this hospital."
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"Children recover every day from brain injury she just needs a chance! Praying for your family," read one post from Kathy Clark.
The family faces a court-ordered 5 p.m. Monday deadline to pull Jahi off her ventilator at Children's Hospital. Jahi's family does not accept that she is dead and has been scrambling to find a long-term care facility. But hospital officials said Friday while it would send the girl to such a facility it wouldn't install a trachea or gastric feeding tube necessary for most facilities to accept her.
Other experts say it might be hard for the family to find any doctor to perform the procedures on Jahi with her brain-dead status.
"We know the darkness that likely lays ahead for us, for Jahi. We have heard the criticisms that we are harming Jahi and we need to just let go," Sealey said. "We are working every minute to preserve our rights and Jahi's existence. It is our fundamental, constitutional right as it would be yours should this horror ever befall you; something I do not wish on anyone, ever."
To view the fundraising page visit www.gofundme.com/jahi-mcmath, or contact the family at Jahi McMath, P.O. Box 5128, Oakland, CA 94605-0128.
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WASHINGTON – April 26, 2012 – Ducks Unlimited announced its support and appreciation of the Senate Agricultural Committee today as it passed the 2012 Farm Bill out of committee. The bill now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote, although the timing is unclear. The bipartisan Farm Bill maintains a strong conservation title, including continuation of the Conservation Reserve Program, as well as the introduction of a new conservation easement program with a strong wetland component, a regional partnership program aimed at improving water quality and a Sodsaver provision.
"DU is very pleased with the cooperation and bipartisanship from Chairwoman Stabenow (MI) and Ranking Member Roberts (KS) in crafting a Farm Bill that maintains a strong conservation title," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "The committee has done an impressive job of putting forth a bill that ensures a strong agricultural economy and helps conserves soil, water and wildlife."
While DU is pleased with this initial framework, the organization remains concerned about maintaining strong protections for critical wetlands, as well as advancing protections for native grasslands on continentally important landscapes, such as the Prairie Pothole Region in the Dakotas.
"Wetlands are critical not only as waterfowl and other wildlife habitat, but also to help improve water quality and reduce flooding for downstream residents," said DU Chief Conservation Officer Paul Schmidt. "As the world leader in wetlands conservation, DU and our more than 1 million supporters and partners stand ready to work with Congress to maintain strong wetland protections, which are critical to the future of continental waterfowl populations and our nation's hunting heritage."
DU is pleased that Stabenow and Roberts included a Sodsaver provision, authored by Sens. Thune (SD) and Johanns (NE). The provision is aimed at protecting native grassland on high-risk landscapes from being converted by reducing federal support on any new cropland acres that are put into production as a result of breaking grassland that had no previous cropping history.
"What Senators Thune and Bennet have proposed is more critical today than ever," Schmidt said. "The rate at which native grassland, particularly in our nation's prairies, is being converted rivals any in recent history. The results could be disastrous for this continent's waterfowl and wildlife. The bipartisan support for Sodsaver is encouraging, and we hope it becomes a permanent feature of the bill as it moves through the legislative process."
Agriculture is only part of the far-reaching legislation. The Farm Bill sets policies that dictate a wide array of programs including forestry, food assistance and conservation.
"The Farm Bill is 2 percent of the federal budget, and the conservation title is only 7 percent of that," Schmidt said. "As small as that portion of the budget is, it makes up some of our most important conservation programs, including easement programs and programs that support conscientious farming practices. The Conservation Reserve Program, for instance, allows farmers to take land out of production in order to plant grass or other erosion control. The impact on water quality is astounding, and the zones provide nesting habitat for an abundance of waterfowl and other species."
"DU looks forward to working with the full Senate and the House as the 2012 Farm Bill moves ahead," Schmidt continued. "DU remains committed to playing a critical and supportive role to ensure the Farm Bill conservation title gives agricultural producers the programs and tools they need to manage and maintain productive soil and water resources, while generating benefits for waterfowl, hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers."
Ducks Unlimited is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, DU is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, with special events, projects and promotions across the continent. Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 12 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information on our work, visit www.ducks.org. Connect with us on our Facebook page at facebook.com/ducksunlimited, follow our tweets at twitter.com/ducksunlimited and watch DU videos at youtube.com/ducksunlimitedinc.
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After mocking MSNBC's now infamous freakout over Obama's first debate performance, Jon Stewart turned the spotlight on Fox's latest attempts to spin the debate in Ryan's favor. Across the board, Fox News made some expected accusations: Biden's laughing was "hostile, aggressive, scornful"; some not so expected accusations: "Dementia"; and, of course, some all together laughable accusations courtesy of "Eskimo Annie Oakley" Sarah Palin: Biden "reminded me of a muskox running across the tundra with Ryan and [Raddatz] underfoot."
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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: 1Corinthians 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)
Observation: Some consider 1Corinthians 13 the greatest chapter ever written on the subject of love. In finishing this passage, Paul compares love to both faith and hope.
Faith is so important that without it one cannot please God. Yet love is greater than faith. Hope is so important that without it one finds it difficult to live. Yet love is greater than hope.
The greatest commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. The second greatest commandment is to love our neighbor as we love our self. The new commandment that Jesus gave was to love each other as He loved us!
Application: I am incapable of such love. If God wants me to love like that, He will have to come and live in me and love through me. Amazingly, He agrees with my assessment and that is exactly what He does. He lives in me and loves through me! Wow! And in so doing, He is making me more like Him!
Prayer: Lord, make me like you. Give me a heart that is filled with love! Amen
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Definition of broth in English:
1Soup consisting of meat or vegetable chunks, and often rice, cooked in stock.
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- Spoon the broth with vegetables into soup bowls.
- Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and let cook about 25 minutes, until vegetables are tender and broth smells lightly of the cheese.
- Professor Kidunae Ikeda comes home from the physics faculty at the Tokyo Imperial University and sits down to eat a broth of vegetables and tofu prepared by his wife.
1.1Meat or fish stock.
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- Clarify the cool broth by whisking the egg whites and stirring them and their shells into it, then heating over very low heat just to a simmer.
- Combine okra with reserved broth and remaining ingredients.
- You needn't brown the meat (so no spatters); just simmer it gently with a few herbs and spices in broth until it's tender.
2 Microbiology Liquid medium containing proteins and other nutrients for the culture of bacteria: [as modifier]: broth cultures of intestinal tissue
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- Respiratory specimens were examined with radiometric broth medium cultures and with the AMPLICOR assay for M tuberculosis.
- Depending on the chemical added to the bacterial broth, the proteins of one gene would effectively be deactivated, disabling that gene.
- By examining microscopically a drop of this broth culture the bacilli are seen in active movement, swarming at the margins of the drop, interspersed with the spiral threads, which are also apparently mobile.
2.1A liquid mixture for the preservation of tissue: tissue samples were frozen in a cryoprotective broth
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a broth of a boy
- informal, chiefly Irish Used approvingly to refer to a very lively boy.Example sentences
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Words that rhyme with brothcloth, froth, Goth, moth, Roth, wrath
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dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jan 17, 2013 22:23 Flag
Are Yanks better than Arabs (or any other rich oil tycoons)?
Well first off, of course they are not. It would be a racist statement to say they were and I'm not going down that path.
However what motivates an owner I think does make one better than another. So too does the size of his wallet and his willingness to part with his hard earned cash for our pleasure.
Blanket statement I know but seem to me there are two kinds of owners out there. First those who see football as any other business. They may love their work, but they also run their clubs to make money. Some are more successful than others, but the motive is profit as it is with any company that wants to stay in business.
Second are those that are in it for the love of the game or a particular club. The benefactor if you like. They range from the one jumping up and down the other day when he thought his hard earned cash had won his club a replay at Anfield, to Roman A who sits in his box surveying everything he owns.
But which is better?
Now some might say the latter as someone in love will always do what it takes while the man watching the bottom line is willing to take 2nd place if it makes him more money. True statement I'd say, but what happens if someone falls out of love, or when the blind love empties the bank account?
Now I'm not saying that Roman or the Citizen Arabs are going to run out of money, or suddenly fall out of love, but who's to say people born and raised thousands of miles from their current sweethearts won't. So maybe the best situation is a local boy made good, but how many are there of those? Seems quite a few, but too many who have emptied their coffers in pursuit of true love, and are never heard from again.
So is that rich American who wants to make a buck or two really so bad then? He may not do it for love, but so long as he keeps turning a profit is well motivated to keep going, and so long as the business model is one where he can make more money the better the club does on the pitch, surely we are all happy.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jan 19, 2013 01:34 Flag
Well let's wait and see shall we. Maybe I'm just a little more of an optimist to your pessimism, but that is not something we did not know already. But the two things that make me think it will have an impact, even if it's not perfect and some do try to go around the regulations are 1) this is not something imposed from above, but something the majority of clubs in Europe want, and therefore are likely to complain about if it's not enforced, and 2) those clubs like City and Chelsea who do have the resources to ignore these new rules are in fact already making moves to try to comply: Chelsea by stating they want to turn a profit and actually achieving it in their last financial year reported, and City by slowing down their spending and reducing their losses.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 19, 2013 00:28 Flag
If we can get an owner that can buy in the best players without sweating.. Then it doesn't matter if they're arab or american.
Yet from what i've seen of american owners they promise one thing and deliver the exact opposite.
Dave...for all u try to emphasize that the bottom line is profit from sound long term financial management I cant understand why u cant see that FFP wont make ablind bit of difference to the game as it is right now? Ever heard of tax evasion ? Same animal u going to be dealing with when FFP is implemented....do u seriously doubt it?
No Im NOT happy Dave I want the kind of owners Citeh and Chelski have and to hell with FFP which wont make any difference at all its toothless and once the scammers get to work trust me it will be gumless too !
Any LFC fan says he would prefer FSG and their "business model" running our club as opposed to The Sheik or Roman just hasnt thought it through. Truth is we are all envious of those two clubs and te fact that all we have is these bottom line obsessed Yanks as owners. Give me the kind of owners who indulge their own passion for their clubs...everytime !
Look its FSG who continue to employ this Ian Ayre ? Whats all that about they sent Commoli doown the road maybe Ayre should have been sent with him and Kenny left in place to carry on th good work he was clearly doing and I might add bringing some passion back to the club instead of giving us all 101 in basic economics !
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 19, 2013 00:39 Flag
Hear hear Colin with you 100% on that..
I've had enough of these FSG penny pinchers at LFC..
Give us the Sheikh who wanted to buy LFC .. He'd have made us a huge club again.. We'd have had the players like Chelsea & Man City have.. rather than the players like Allen, Henderson, Downing etc..
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jan 18, 2013 21:54 Flag
To be honest I understand the jealousy some have for City and Chelsea because of the resources their owners bring. But after really thinking it through and looking at what I think is best not just right now, but long term I'm not sure that benefactor type ownership is best.
Actually while it's obvious the Glazers have milked Utd for as much as they can over the years to support their lifestyle and failing property business, I think I'd not mind the model Utd has had in place ever since the prem started. That is maximizing the profits, re-invest them into the club to generate even more success and profit, and keep the virtuous cycle going. Now that is great business, and it seems not bad for the supporters either.
Now of course someone coming from outside with a couple billion to throw around sounds nice, and will of course have an impact, just as it has at Chelsea and City, but is it sustainable? Well as Robert will tell you its still working so why complain, but really for how long? Robert has of course seen great glory from Roman's money, and I wish I could say the same about our club, however will his kids (assuming he raises them as Blues) see the same success, what about his grandkids? Is there a foundation, is there a virtuous cycle, and is there something bigger than one man that has created a platform for the club to sustain success?
We missed the boat back in the early 90s, not because we did not support the club enough, not because our owners were not rich enough (they were plenty rich enough) but because they were not business savvy enough. Let's not miss the boat again.
I know you're not attempting to go down any particular road, having come accustomed to speaking with you, and your style, but I'm a little surprised, or caught off guard by this topic and while I am responding (regardless of being American, really!), I'm actually not sure how to respond, or what you're saying outside of the money from foreigners (Yanks, Arab, Russian etc), and the few domestic owners remaining..
I suppose one question I have, which I can research but again, just a generality.. how many (assuming only epl) domestic owners/chairmen are there? Kenwright, Levy, Whelan are the first that come to mind, and I know there are others, but it seems not many like there was in the old days..
Another question is, is it due to the economics in UK (Europe) to where there just aren't that many millionaires/billionaires over there, and that many more around the world who are interested, love or care about football... of course aside from the ones Armchair knows, leading us to his answer that yes Arabs are the best (purely money based)..
The domestic owners and chairman that remain, really don't seem to have the means to secure the funds or finances to generate the funds and compete with you you're referring to..
So, while if you're looking for glory, and we already have the history, then I suppose in our case in this current state of time, wealthy Shieks or whatever you want to refer to them as to be politically correct, would be our quick route to the top. But, remember in those dark days when the 2 cancers H&G almost took the club into administration, it came down to Henry and FSG, and a wealthy man from Asia who was a fashion designer and known as a United Supporter.. So in that case, we probably got it right there..
Let's say City bottom out in 2-3 years.. and we find ourself amongst the top 2-3 in the table just about fighting for a title, was it worth it for City to end up falling apart, and us having struggled a bit, but ending up top notch in all aspects.. Winning, trophies, financially sound, and a future when they sell?
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You are One hundred percent right Dave, the owners out to make money out of the club are not that bad at all, Hicks and Gillett being the best examples. Two of the finest owners that we have ever had .........


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Cupertino remains one of the few places in Santa Clara County where you can watch a patriotic show in the sky on the Fourth of July. The city will once again hold its annual Independence Day activities, which will run from sun up well past sunset.
Morning events at Memorial Park will begin with a pancake breakfast for early risers. The breakfast, hosted by the De Anza Optimist Club, runs from 7 to 11 a.m. and will take place in the Quinlan Community Center, 10185 N. Stelling Road.
The cost for adults is $6, which includes three pancakes, two sausages and choice of coffee or tea. Children ages 12 and younger can attend for $3 for two pancakes and one sausage. Orange juice is $1.
A flag raising ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the Cupertino Veterans Memorial located in the park. At 10 a.m., a children's parade will run through the park beginning at the Memorial Park softball field.
Attendees are asked to wear red, white and blue outfits and decorate their bikes, scooters and strollers. The parade is typically led by "Uncle Sam," who bears a striking resemblance to a certain Cupertino mayor.
The parade will works its way through Memorial Park and end at the park amphitheater, where a concert by the Cocktail Monkeys will begin. The band plays music from the 1960s through today with a mix of rock, funk, disco and pop.
Afternoon events will be held at Blackberry Farm, 21979 San Fernando Ave. Residents are invited for free swimming in the Blackberry Farm pool from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The park closes at 5 p.m.
There will be a $5 per person barbecue lunch near the picnic ground. Advanced tickets for the barbecue are for sale at Blackberry Farm. Live music during the event will be provided from noon to 3 p.m. by the Dave Crimmen Band, a 1950s rock 'n' roll group.
Evening events will center around the fireworks show at 9:30 p.m., which can be seen from Creekside Park, 10455 Miller Ave., Hyde Middle School, 19325 Bollinger Road or Sedgwick Elementary School, 19200 Phil Lane.
In addition to the patriotic pyrotechnics, the pre-firework festivities will feature music and games at all three locations from 6:45 to 9:15 p.m. The firework show will begin at 9:30 p.m.
The event sees heavy crowds, and attendees are highly encouraged to arrive early and carpool as parking is extremely limited. Handicap parking will be available at Creekside Park.
For safety during the fireworks launch, street closures will be enforced on July 4, between 6 p.m. and midnight on Finch Avenue; Calle De Barcelona, between Miller and Finch avenues; Tilson Avenue, between Finch and S. Tantau avenues; Phil Lane, between Miller and S. Tantau avenues; and Stendhal Lane, between Shadygrove Drive and Phil Lane.
After 6 p.m., there will be no pedestrian or vehicle access and from 6 p.m. until midnight, there will be no parking on Finch Avenue and Tilson Avenue, between Finch and S. Tantau avenues, as well as no parking on Miller Avenue, between Greenwood Drive and Howard Court. Vehicles in violation will be towed.
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Crews anticipate burning three to 10 acres per day, for a total of 10 to 20 acres, conditions permitting, according to a USFS press release.
"Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from this prescribed fire project area. The Forest Service strives to minimize the impacts of smoke on local communities," officials said. "Smoke-sensitive residents should consider staying indoors and keeping doors, windows and outside vents closed."
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Community Unity's 'Take 30' campaign includes open microphone night Wednesday
Published: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | A community outreach group is taking action after a homicide, a shooting and a rape were reported over the weekend in Tuscaloosa.
Kerri Ash, a member of Community Unity, said that to stem violence in Tuscaloosa the group is inviting every resident in the city to take place in the "Take 30" movement that starts today.
"We had a roundtable discussion (about how to address the violence) and a lot of suggestions were put on the table," Ash said. "Ultimately, the best things we could come up with to combat these violent crimes was to take a community approach to it and personal accountability.
"We're asking people to take 30 seconds to think before they react to a situation for 30 days," she said. "We're asking people to take 30 seconds to pray. We know people don't always have the words, but prayer changes things. We're hoping people will cease fire in the city for 30 days or agree to not act violently in the city for 30 days, whether that be gun violence, physical fights or arguing."
In addition to the 30-day pledges, Community Unity will host a series of events as part of the "Take 30" movement. The first will be an open microphone night at Archibald & Woodrow's Bar-B-Q on U.S. Highway 82 near Superskate. The event will be from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday
Ash said there will be singing, poetry, comedy from local celebrity Steve Brown and other performances. Thirty-second prayer cards will also be handed out at the event so that people who don't know how to pray can pray.
The open microphone night is free and open to the public. Donations for the family of the 18-year-old who was killed Dec. 30 will be collected to help his family pay for his funeral.
"This movement is a beginning," she said. "It's not just 30 days and then we go back to normal. It'll be 30 days at a time."
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Child Deaths Have No Single Cause or Solution; Learn From All of Them
Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 12:36 a.m.
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When Robbie Parker, father of one of the child victims of Sandy Hook spoke, he wisely said, "Let's not let this tragedy define us." The tragedy, horrific and senseless, now has us embroiled in doing exactly that: creating a new world around the isolated insanity of this sorrowful event.
Let's add perspective. In 2007 statistics, Florida alone lost 451 children (ages 0-19) in vehicle accidents. Do we prohibit them from riding in cars? One hundred twenty-three Florida kids drowned. Do we outlaw pools? Ninety-five died from accidental poisonings. Do parents keep cleaning agents out of their homes? One hundred twelve died from accidental suffocation. The list goes on.
This is not an anti-gun-control letter. One hundred thirty-seven children in Florida were murdered with firearms in 2007 — just not in one place by one shooter.
Gun talk needs to occur. Laws can be strengthened to minimize risks.
Pervasive media hype, political agendas and constant pundit drivel has provoked mass hysteria and could be tempered. Locking classroom doors on gated school campuses, cleaning closet floors for hiding spaces and tripling lockdown drills only serves to create fear in our children, build a facade of increased safety and insert distractions from instruction.
The new school safety Band-Aids do not deal with the realities that, if someone wanted in, they'd get in, that class doors open 20 times a day allowing access regularly, that it's more likely that a school attacker is going to be somebody who already has access (student, parent, volunteer, teacher) — or especially, that our children are more likely to die in autos, from injuries outside of school or bad weather.
Let's honor those who died in this tragedy by learning from it, but not letting it contort a new America.
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With the high winds blowing drifts around fish houses over last weekend and the early predicted "significant winter storm" watch for Thursday and Friday of this week, most people have taken their permanent fish houses off of area lakes.
All houses will have to be removed from area lakes no later than midnight on March 4. If the shelters are not removed, the owners of the house will be prosecuted, and the structure and contents may be confiscated and removed by a conservation officer. A shelter may be left on the ice between midnight and one hour before sunrise only when it is occupied or attended.
Before major snow events or shelter removal dates we will commonly see shelters pulled up onto public access points and left over night. This is a violation. Storing or leaving shelters on a public access is prohibited. Please make arrangements before to bring the shelter home when you retrieve it.
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Over the weekend I received complaints of snowmobiles riding on cross country ski trails at Upper Sioux State Park and the Wegdahl Buffalo Run Trail.
If you see snowmobiles on either of the trails, please write down the registration or take a photo of them.
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flexoffset wrote:I live in the states.
Yeah. It's a decent setup but I didn't buy it to stream my movies. That is an added bonus.
Your internet connection shouldn't be an issue for streaming from one room to another.
I don't run Leopard and Tiger at the same time. I have to have a safety OS because I can't afford to be obsoleted out by a new OS. My other drive is what I use to test new OS's from Apple before I fully commit. I usually stay one OS behind. Long story and won't bore you with details.
Thanks for the advice on forcing transcodes. I'll try that. Are you any good ad scripting AVISynth? I need help with that.
Black Magic Intensity Pro is a HDMI and component PCIe capture card - good for bringing in home movies on HD camcorders and digitizing VHS, outputting Mac to HDMI tv sets sans Blu-Ray, etc.
Why the high IP address? Because I let my router assign dynamic IP's and locked them in with DHCP reservation. I could change it but I'm too lazy. I don't generally screw around with what works.
I run WPA Personal and have MAC Address filtering on. It makes my kids mad because their Nintendo DS are only WEP. Fixing to buy a WRT54GL, flash it with Tomato or DD-WRT and put them on a subnet so they will quit bugging me about it.
As far as streaming to a wireless PS3:
Here is what I experienced at my brother in law's house when setting him up. Like I said before, his iMac is downstairs. The iMac is downstairs and his Time Capsule is upstairs in a mechanical closet supporting his home theater. The dude has a huge house so distance is an issue. We could not stream 1080p 16mbps without stuttering until I built an ethernet cable to directly connect the time capsule to his PS3. Now, he's 16mbps all day and 40 - 50mpbs with only a little stuttering during high motion.
FWIW, his iMac has 2GB RAM and one hard drive but it appears to stream 1080p 5.1 surround .m2ts with absolutely no problem and virtually no CPU hit.
If you get an 8 core, the rule of thumb is 1GB of RAM per core. I use Crucial memory. Make absolutely sure to match up the correct processor to the RAM.
I don't have any experience with Airport Extreme or AirPort units from Apple other than the one that comes inside my latest Mac Pro. We liked to have never got my brother in law's Time Capsule to do right - it had something to do with his DSL modem.
I've been meaning to test my PS3 and see how it performs if wired direct to my computer. I may end up running some cable.
as far as avisynth goes MEGui is a great avisynth program and i heard it is pretty easy to use?
(have not tried it myself)
what did you use to build the ethernet cable for the bro-in law? Will it loose specs the longer the cable is?
and also are you actually streaming all your movies from the mac pro to the time capsule? I ask because all mine are going to be stored this way i will have 2 terrabytes in mine and 1 500 gig/ 1 320 gig/ 1 400 gig /1 firewire terra byte as well, and everything streams from computer wirelessly to ps3's, wich actually sucks and i have probs streaming good quality,
so i may want to hard wire in both ps3's (1 upstairs 1 dowbnstairs, may be hard to do? might have to route cables through attic and down through the walls?)
i will then have to move my AE basestation downstairs and my dsl modem as well? or leave it upstairs and set up a WDS and plug one into the cone shaped AE, route the dsl cables through the wall, up through attic and to living room, and master bedroom?
then everything else will run wirelessly?
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Unplugged: How to Justify a Totally Offline Vacation
I knew I had a problem with my Facebook addiction when I kept thinking of last weekend's camping trip as a series of status reports:
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… swore she would not camp in a tent in the rain again, and here she is.
… can't believe she spent the last two hours trying to get flames out of a smoking fire made with wet wood.
… thinks the finest aroma in the world is the scent of alpine firs.
… is amazed at the lush profusion of wildflowers in the meadow next to Long Lake.
Actually, by the time I went hiking to Long Lake, I had been away from digital technology altogether for 24 hours, and I wasn't thinking in terms of my Facebook status by that point. But all those moments offered a telling realization: My daily life — my very psyche — is tethered to mobile digital technology.