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Signs abound that the end of the republic is near (queue Star Wars Empire theme).
But seriously, there are many signs that this once great republic could go belly up in the not to distant future. In one way or another, either financially or politically it is indeed a possibility.
With the government spending way more money that it brings in as revenue, and has been doing so for many years, this could spell the death of the republic's ability to operate. Effectively, it would be bankrupt (as if it's not currently) and unable to pay it's bills.
Politically, it could be that forces within and without the country are chipping away at the liberties that we've enjoyed up to this point. The socialist/communist leaning politicians (no, they won't come out and say so, but they are), are working at it, as well as those from outside the country, that are envious of our freedoms and liberties.
Should be be concerned? Of course. Should we be fearful? As Christians, no. After all, as Christians, we have not be given a spirit of fear, but of confidence. We have placed our confidence in the maker of the Universe, the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. And He is still on the throne. Therefore, we shall not fear.
In other news, having stumbled upon Radio Free Redoubt, I am going to start promoting them on the site. They have a number of great resources for news and support Americanism, and the Judeo-Christian principles on which this once great republic was founded. Please click through and visit their site.
Last modified on 2012-08-01 by jhasz
March 14th, 2012
We're getting there, slowly but surely...
Grand Opening!
Well, it's time to make the announcement that The Christian Prepper will be "open for business" on the first of May!
Development of the site has come to a point where it's ready enough to open the doors and see if there is interest in what we're offering.
The challenge for us as sitemasters will be to keep generating enough content so that you, the visitor will want to return time and again. Interesting stories, commentary, reviews, and just general fun!
Come join us on May 1! (Sorry, no prizes or gifts to give away - at least not yet!)
Grand Opening! Really!
Yes, I reallize that it's a little later than the first of May, as I had hoped... However, in ,my defense, we've been busy here getting ready to head up to the BOL an finish work on a shed/cabin. Granted it's only 12' x 12' but it does have a loft for sleeping in, and will provide a place to shelter in the cold months.
Currently, we are working on getting the roof on. More on that in the blog section in June.
With the election cycle heating up, we aren't counting our chickens before they are hatched, and are planning on the usual - 'prepare for the worst, hope for the best'
While simply hoping for the best, isn't completely enough - we all should be working for the best outcome, and the best for the country - we all should be prepared in case the worst happens. That remains the same regardless of the event, be it elections, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, or what-have-you.
So, welcome to the new site! I hope you will find it informative, and while it may bea bit slow starting out, we hope to fill it with lots of good info and even some fun!
And now for something completely different...
Ok, maybe that got your attention. Maybe not.
But is there anything really different going on in the world? Greece is still insolvent with Spain following close behind.
And those are just the current headlines.
What might be a bit disconcerting is the news that isn't being printed (or broadcast). News about what is happening here in the US. News about our own economy and where that is really headed.
Everyone that thinks the government is publishing the unvarnished truth about inflation, unemployment, the budget, and a myriad of other items, please leave the room. May your chains rest lightly upon you as you leave.
I can't imagine that the numbers are correct. Sure, the price of gasoline is down again (I'm hazzarding a guess that it's still more expensive here than the rest of the country). But the taxes on my empty land went up (again) by about 17% over last year! And of course the road in is actually worse than it was the last time I was there. Effectively making my property worth less than when I purchased it simply because access is becoming limited - more than it already was.
Rumor has it that certain people that live in a big house in the east have an unhealthy obsession with UAV films. Furthermore, it has been commented that this election cycle could become quite 'dangerous' - ok, well, not the cycle itself, but rather one of the cadidates that is seeking re-election. Sad. Some people just don't know when it's time to leave.
In keeping with the news from around the globe, and especially that from within this once proud country of mine, Beautiful and I are going to redouble our efforts at being prepared. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
To that effort, we are treating the redoubt as a priority - at least as much as we can. Getting the toehold building finished is job #1 (to borrow a phrase from FMC). Of course, this doesn't address the issue of water. I'll be working on that as well. Life could become complicated within a year, and we need to be ready.
Of course, in positive news, our "wheat field" is producing! We've got plenty coming up on the small plot that I "test" planted and once harvested - probably in late July - we'll be giving the berries a grind and trying our hand at real whole wheat bread.
I can't wait
Just remember, keep your head down and your powder dry!
Preparations of a different sort...
Phil 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Today, one of the kids wanted mom to buy them a t-shirt for a particular rock band.
Now, I have nothing against rock music. I grew up listening to the likes of Yes, ELP, Moody Blues, and yes, even
Thankfully, in my ignorance, Christ and the Holy Spirit protected me. That isn't to say that there haven't been "issues", but they have been few and far between - except when it comes to the music of our kids.
Wayne Watson has a song titled, appropriately, "Maybe you're putting the wrong stuff in" - and I was. Some of these things simply didn't meet the test of Phil 4:8.
Now, I and Beautiful are attempting to teach our kids this criteria - that anything you listen to, watch, or read should pass this test. That isn't to say that you should only watch/read/listen to pollyanna stuff. It doesn't mean you can't watch the news! But it does mean that you shouldn't go out of your way to input the garbage of this world and it's philosphy.
I know we will hear complaints from our kids. So be it. As my dad would say, "I'm not here to win a popularity contest". It took me a while but I finally understood what he meant. Just because the neighbors kids do it (watch/listen/read ... do drugs) doesn't mean I have to allow my kids to do it - whatever "it" is.
Thankfully, we are prepared to "give an answer" for the reasons we believe the way we do.
Someone has to be the adult.
Something wicked this way comes.
US Supreme Court rules on Obamacare.
Can't say I'm all that surprised. But in reality, I am a bit. I thought for certain that they would have ruled it unconstitutional to force us to purchase insurance. Apparently they think this is akin to taxation...
Then again, when pressuring congress and the american people to pass the act, the President stated that this was categorically NOT a tax.
I'm sorry Mr. President, you really can't have it both ways.
Repeal this travesty now, and start over. We have the time to do health care the right way. We have time to put something in place that ensures coverage for everyone that wants coverage, and pushes the responsibility for health care onto those that should be responsible, the "customer", not the federal government!
Observations on prepping while on vacation
The TCP family went just returned from a 10 day vacation to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.
A good time was had by all. And I even got some "training" of the troops in.
How so you ask? Well, for one, we "prepped" for the drive. The only stops allowed were bathroom breaks and lunch (most days), and any of you with teenagers know, they eat between meals. So the prep was to have snacks, water, and other goodies along to keep the "natives" calm. Of course this included Mom and Dad.
One of the other ways we trained was on our hikes in bear country, I made us walk in what I call scouting formation. Separated by 10 feet (plus or minus), we walked along the paths to the various sights and scenery. On one of them we were approached by a young doe. Had we been all clumped together I think she would have jumped off the trail and we would have missed her walking right by us within inches. I had to give instructions not to reach out and touch her, she was that close.
The troops also learned a lesson in remembering the valuables that they are in charge of. Thankfully it was limited to a pair of swimming goggles that were left at one of the hotel swimming pools.
Ok, I hear you now, "A HOTEL?!? What kind of prep training is that?!"
Well, pitching a tent and striking it on a daily basis for a family of four, is not my (nor Beautiful's) idea of a family vacation. So, we stayed in Hotels/Motels.
We capped it all off with a raft trip down a river that bordered Glacier Nat'l Park through rapids with names like "Bone Crusher" and "Jaws". So, we did have some fun with it.
I will have additional thoughts and comments over the next week or two in the blog and on the front page of the site on the lessons learned and the activities that we did, so stay tuned!
And,yes, I know "The TCP" is redundant, but ah well...
This coming week, I will be trying to do a bit of cooking, prepper style.
That is, I am going to dig out the dutch oven, and (with the help of Beautiful) do a bit of practice cooking as if our lives depended on it. Well, ok, maybe not so much, but I figure I should figure out how to cook things like stews, chicken, and yes, even bread or biscuits in my dutch oven before I need to.
The worst possible thing would be to wait until an actual emergency occurred and then have to figure out how many coals I need on the top of the thing, or how much water to put in the stew, or what ever else I could possibly screw up! So, in an attempt to get a bit of training in an area usually left as the orphaned step-child of prepping (especially by we men), I am going to prepare a number of delicacies.
Maybe I'm throwing myself under the bus here, but what the heck. If we can't have a little bit of fun while learning the skills we need to survive the end of the world (or even the next earthquake, financial meltdown, or whatever), we're in a sad state of affairs. Life is too short and precious not to prepare, and it is way to short not to have fun doing so.
I plan on writing this up and posting it here, so that all can see, and have a laugh. Complete with pictures! So stay tuned!
First thing, I think will be either a loaf of bread or some biscuits
Signs abound that the end of the republic is near (queue Star Wars Empire theme).
But seriously, there are many signs that this once great republic could go belly up in the not to distant future. In one way or another, either financially or politically it is indeed a possibility.
With the government spending way more money that it brings in as revenue, and has been doing so for many years, this could spell the death of the republic's ability to operate. Effectively, it would be bankrupt (as if it's not currently) and unable to pay it's bills.
Politically, it could be that forces within and without the country are chipping away at the liberties that we've enjoyed up to this point. The socialist/communist leaning politicians (no, they won't come out and say so, but they are), are working at it, as well as those from outside the country, that are envious of our freedoms and liberties.
Should be be concerned? Of course. Should we be fearful? As Christians, no. After all, as Christians, we have not be given a spirit of fear, but of confidence. We have placed our confidence in the maker of the Universe, the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. And He is still on the throne. Therefore, we shall not fear.
In other news, having stumbled upon Radio Free Redoubt, I am going to start promoting them on the site. They have a number of great resources for news and support Americanism, and the Judeo-Christian principles on which this once great republic was founded. Please click through and visit their site.
Eternally Vigilant
Wow. Just wow.
I have to say that sometimes when I think I'm going overboard, when I fear I'm becoming one of those looney conspiracy nuts, or when I get concerned that I'm letting it all just get to me and my stress level is just too high for all of this stuff to be real and all I want is someone to tell me that either it's all not true, or confirm my research and thoughts on the situation, that's exactly what happens.
This time, though, it's not "Relief, it's false" but rather, "one of your more reliable sources seems to think there's truth in this!"
And "this" happens to be not just about a single issue.
In the last month or 6 weeks, I have been feeling a bit of motivation or "pressure" to get things completed at the retreat. Granted, it's not located in the most ideal section of the world, but it is what I have currently, so I'm working with it. But I digress.
As I mentioned, I have been feeling a sense that I need to complete the shelter there, and explore methods of obtaining water - both of which I've been doing - but I've been just one person, with this feeling (well, except for Beautiful) and sometimes I feel like I'm influencing myself, being in a "vacuum" like this. So imagine my surprise, when I happen upon some articles from other sites that have come to similar conclusions. Other Christian oriented sites. As well as sites that are not.
Then, recently, I have been moved to research a few other things that may be going on around the country and the globe. Sometimes it's difficult to discern just how much creedence to put into things you read, or hear on the internet, or from other sources. So I have developed a couple of places that I believe I can trust (based on their past history, record, or experience), and one of those is Jerry Pournelle.
Now, I've been seeing things about executive orders, and a state of emergency, etc... but of course, presidents in the past have signed EOs and some of them have even covered similar issues. Usually, these are discounted to some extent by the "trusted sources" I have. However, today, I find that Mr. Pournelle (over on "The View from Chaos Manor") has received some email about these EO's that the current administration has signed. He hasn't discounted the possible implications of the one that is specifically mentioned.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Whew, I guess I'm not going nuts.
As he states, I am thinking we haven't heard the last of it. Remember, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilence" We have to keep watching.
Oh yeah, do you feel safe now?
Seems that the TSA really has their hand on keeping us all safe from terror ... :
The American Redoubt
Recently, I received an email from a visitor to the site that was looking for a way to connect with like minded preppers without violating OPSEC and PERSEC. Specifically with connecting with Christian preppers.
It was suggested that it would meet a need, and that I could fill the void by providing such a service.
I found it interesting that this request should appear at this point in time. Why? Because I have recently come across the concept of the American Redoubt. This is a geographic area that is roughly defined as Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. But the question still remains - how do you make contact with Christian preppers, either inside the American Redoubt, or outside?
Well, enter Radio Free Redoubt.
They have put together a site and a network that will connect preppers together. The philosophy of the American Redoubt (and that of Radio Free Redoubt) is that of Americanism - a culture founded on Judeo-Christian values. This means that those that sign up for the ARN (American Redoubt Network) are very likely to be Christians, or hold to Christian morals and ideals.
My suggestion, even though I would like to personally provide such a service, is to head over to Radio Free Redoubt and sign up with them for the ARN. They have a category of participants for those that are outside of the redoubt area - they are called O.A.R (Outside the American Redoubt).
One of the reasons I started this site is to provide information to the Christian Prepper community on resources to use for preparing for the coming difficulties (what an understatement, huh?). This, is one of those resources. Let's go use it!
Prepping on $50 a paycheck - Period 2
My apologies for running a bit behind on this installment. No excuses, time simply got away on me this last week.
So, did you all get your "Operation TEOTWAWKI" binders started? I know I did a few refinements on my OpPlan that goes in to mine. One of those things was to include maps and directions to the retreat location, including a secondary route. I hope to come up with a secondary retreat, as well.
We also left off with $40 left in the kitty. Combining this with the $50 for this period, and we've got $90 for preparations.
In keeping with the idea that we may have to Get Out Of Dodge (G.O.O.D.), we are going to be purchasing a BOB (Bug Out Bag), sometimes referred to as a 3-day bag, or Get Home Bag.
Next time we will also be purchasing supplies to carry in this bag.
My goal in purchasing a bag for this purpose was to find one that would hold the items that I wanted to carry, including (but not limited to), food supplies, fire starter, rain gear, and other items necessary to travel by whatever mode for 3 days.
To do so I had set a goal originally of $50 for the bag. However, after investigation it doesn't look like there is a bag out there that meets my own criteria for such an application. Most of them are in the $60-$80 range. the bag I choose was this one: http://www.campingsurvival.com/thdaypabacob.html. It is also available in ACU camo pattern, but is $25 more expensive, just for that! Since this was going to be my BOB, and I would be carrying it nearly every day, in an urban area, I opted not to go tactical.
Currently on sale at Camping Survival for $53.95, you might be able to find it for less elsewhere (Amazon has them from 52.95 up to 99.95 in carious colors and camo patterns).
Look around and find a good one that is constructed well, that you like.
Now, why did I pick this one, you ask, besides the wonderful color!?
One of the main reasons was the ability to add hydration to it (camelback style). It has a pocket for that and since I have the bladder already from another pack I have, I figure, that might save me a couple dollars. Eventually, I will pass the other pack down to one of the kids, and then I'll probably go get a bladder so they will have hydration, as well.
Add to this a few protien bars and some other foodstuff for a three day bag and you are getting close to spending our $90!
My figures show that you should be able to fill the back with what you need for three days (waterproof matches and a magnesium fire starter, protien bars, water bottle(s), a couple canned meals (think noodle-roni or Dinty Moore stew) for the three days out, and have some change left over.
Of course, you're going to want a change or two of socks and underwear, parhaps a change of shirt and jeans, a poncho (raingear), knife/hatchet, and maybe a thermal blanket (or two).
We'll add to this list in the next installment, and in fact, the hatchet and knife, are probably acquisitions that will exceed the budget for this week and warrant a closer look for quality, and convienience.
My suggestion is that with what it left from the budget, you start procuring the foodstuff that you would want in the pack, along with a few smaller tools, such as waterproof matches/fire starter, folding saw, etc...
Next time we'll cover a couple larger items to include in the pack, and determine if we can afford them in a single period or if we need to spread them out over a couple periods.
Until then, keep your OpPlans updated, and your powder dry.
News from far and near...
Some of you might notice that there is a new feature in the right column on the site. It is a set of "indexes", informal though they might be, these are indices that I use in a general sense to guage what direction the economy is going - at least the local economy. And isn't that the economy that matters most to each of us?
Granted, these are reflections of the larger economy, and in their own way indicate the direction the macro economy of the nation and world are headed. When gas prices rise, the cost of everything tends to rise with it. When food commodity prices rise, and gas prices rise, you can bet things are going to get pricey at the local supermarket.
Fortunately, it looks like wheat as dropped a bit in the last few days.
I will be adding more commodities to this in the near future, along with links to various pricing sites.
In other news...
Looks like things are about to get worse in Greece
Is it finally time to get worried?
Well, I am hearing rumblings that QE3 is underway as of early this last weekend.
Banks being told to provide plans to sell off non-core assets to ensure their liquidity without dependency on "the public sector", etc...
The question really is, if the ship of a bank is foundering will the FDIC step in and protect the depositors as the contract states or, is it all become null and void because of recent rulings about depositors funds and bank funds?
I think we'd better fasten our seat belts...
It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Thoughts on Prepping - a guest comments
I received the following email with permission to post it to the site. It has some very interesting thoughts on prepping, why we prepare and how to prepare.
Hi Java,
Thought I would pop in and share this....
I was laid off from my job on Monday and after the initial shock set in (was
totally taken by surprise) I realized that my family would be ok for at
least a year. Why? We're preppers that's why.
But what's more is that we invested in Gold and Silver when it was a little
cheaper to do so (Gold was around $970 or less an ounce at the time and
silver around $15) and we bought enough that the investment could now
sustain us (along with UI since I'm forced to pay it I might as well collect
it) for at least a year or longer without reducing our standard of living.
So, while many poo-poo buying Gold as a prepper I have to admit I'm glad we
did. However, we bought something like 80 oz of silver to 2 oz of gold --
the silver paid off more but doesn't matter from our perspective because
either way we've stored enough wealth to give ourselves a long cushion of
time to find work and continue our preps.
Sure selling the coins is a last resort, but if we have to we can and it's
basically hidden money on top of all that.
My advice to anyone considering this is to NOT watch the spot prices because
you're not investing to 'make money' but rather to protect yourself and
knowing that you have a small stock of precious metal coins as a backup is a
comfortable feeling indeed.
Just don't put all your eggs in one basket! Pay off bills, have a savings
(no matter how hard you think that is to do! Do you really need cable TV?),
invest in land (only tangibles! No paper investments) and FOOD! Check out
Pleasant Hill Grains (their prices are the best from my research and the
food is excellent) and get back to basics (mill your own flour, raise
chickens, garden etc)....
Hope this helps someone.
Prepping on $50 a paycheck - Period 1
I know I am going to be assuming that we all get paid every 2 weeks, and I know some are on a monthly schedule, and some on a weekly schedule. Simply adjust your budgeting accordingly (examples later)
Setting aside $50 every 2 weeks for prepping might be a bit of a struggle for some of us, but it is something we need to do. If you can't do $50 each pay period, then do $25. It simply means you will take twice the amount of time to cover all that we'll be talking about here.
If you can't do $25 per period, then do what you can - and adjust the timing accordingly.
Also, if you are paid once a week, or once a month, simply adjust the amounts. Once a week, would be $25 per period... and you simply wait until you've accumulated the $50 for the item that we're talking about. If it's once a month, simply take the $50 multiply by 26 (26 periods in a year) and divide by 12 (12 month in a year). that's the amount that you want to budget every month for this project. Yes, it actually comes to over $100 per month. Trust me on this. This is the way it will work.
For our first purchases, we are going to buy some page protectors, a 3 ring binder, and a Sharpie (or generic felt tip marker). We'll get to why and what to do with them in a bit. A total expense of about $10.
What, pray tell, are we going to spend the left over $40 on?
Well, we're going to put it into our prepping cash envelope for the next period. This is because what is coming up is going to require more than $40. So save that until the next paycheck.
As for our page protectors and binder... Your homework assignment for the next two weeks is to inventory your pantry, writing down everything you can on sheets of paper divided into 3 columns.
At the top of the first column put the label "Description", the second column, "Expires", and the third column, "Quantity."
Yes, I know you might have multiples of the same item that expire on different dates - the idea here is to order them so that the ones that have the earliest expiration dates are first in the list, and later ones follow it. That way you can mark them differently if you'd like.
This works really well if you take list, in no particular order, and then enter it into a spreadsheet, like Excel. Then you can sort them based on the item Description, and secondarily on the Expires column. Once that's done you can print it out, which means it's very readable, and place it in page protectors in the binder. When you use one of the items, be sure to adjust the "Quantity" on the sheet.
When you go shopping, you can use this to determine what you used (and need to replace) and what you want to add to your pantry of supplies. Also, enter it back into the spreadsheet (if that's how you're doing it) and re-print and replace the ones you have.
Yes, you'll use more paper this way, but it does make keeping your list updated a bit easier. If you REALLY want to go all out, use the spreadsheet for "marking off" the items you've used (adjusting quantities), but, the hard copy will be handy in a grid down, power lost scenario.
The other item to put in the binder during this period is your emergency plan.
I work on ours using a word processor (like Word), so that as I think of things I can add them or update the document with some additional info, and then reprint, if needed. It took me about a week to get mine to the point that I felt it wasn't going to change every other day and I could print it out.
This document covers things like, what the plan is if you are apart from your loved ones when "The Event" happens (do you all head for the BOL? or they stay put and you try to get to them, and then bug out?, etc...). It also covers other scenarios, and has things like who to contact outside of the emergency area, if need be; what things are absolutely necessary in the event you need to get out of dodge, etc...
This way, when the SHTF happens, and everyone is running around in a panic, fogetting what to do, all you have to remember is "go look at the binder"
Pay no attention to the inflation behind the curtain...
Gasoline is up, nearly 50 cents per gallon since the beginning of the summer.
The cost of a 2 x 4 x 8' stud is up around 50 cents per.
The cost of a 4 x 8 x 7/16 sheet of OSB is up about $2.50 per
And the cost of a 4 x 8 x 19/32 sheet of OSB is up $4.50 per
And yet, there is no inflation? Seriously?
Insanity, in some defenitions, is "Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results"
Based on that defenition, I humbly suggest that Bernanke, et al, are insane. QE1, QE2, and now QE3? And now I'm hearing that they want to do this same thing in Europe?
As I've stated before... "Hang on to your seats, it's going to be a bumpy ride..."

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Larissochka just registered, but the same profile information was entered (along with same URL for home page) less than a week ago on another name. Even the same misspelling of music as "musiv" in profile.
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Google maps are great for basic directions but for the directionally challenged, it's not so easy to use while driving. Enter G-Map, the first application for the iPhone that gives users turn by turn directions to any place in the US.
Unlike Google Maps, G-Map is designed with a driver in mind giving users real time prompts and a driver's perspective of the road as you go. Our friends over at KickingTires took the app out for a test drive and gave it top marks.
G-Map works like most GPS devices you've seen. A basic menu guides you through the process of locating addresses, services, and getting directions. No Wi-Fi connection is needed so you're able to get fast directions in remote areas with no cell service. The software contains a large database of popular points of interest based on Navteq data. It's divided and sold in two parts: Eastern and Western US. You'll definitely need to clear some space as each takes around 900MB or over 1.6GB for both.
Once you've entered your start point and destination, G-Map calculates the directions and begins guiding you turn by turn until you arrive. The software provides different perspectives while moving including North-up, Heading-up and 3D views. Additional photo-like graphics help you navigate through tricky intersections.
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The Irish woman who was convicted of raping a married woman in Australia has had the criminal charges against her dropped and is expected to return to Ireland later this week.
Anne Marie O'Loughlin (26) originally from Edenderry, Co Offaly, was found guilty in 2010 and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for the digital rape of a 34-year-old woman in the toilet of a Brisbane hotel.
Earlier this month a court ordered a retrial and released the Offaly woman from prison after she successfully won her appeal.
However it has emerged that the charges have been "formally dropped" which means the Irish woman is free to leave Australia, where she had been working as nurse. It is understood the alleged victim withdrew the charges this past weekend.
Speaking from Ireland, her family spoke of the relief upon hearing the news.
"This was a terrible miscarriage of justice and we always knew that deep down," Seamus O'Loughlin told the Herald.
"Anne Marie is over the moon but also very emotional after weeks of absolute hell."
"She has a few things to sort out with Immigration and she has to make an appearance in court to formalise everything. But she is so excited about coming home. We have been receiving so many messages of support, it's unbelievable.
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There are a lot of things you should never do drunk - drive, text, walk, pretty much anything except "fall asleep and hope you wake up with a low-level headache." The list gets even longer when you're a videogame character, who should probably be saving the world or preparing for battle instead of trying to re-enact the SHOTS video. But that never stopped some virtual characters from takin' a few swigs too many at some inappropriate times. These are the 8 most irresponsible drinkers in videogame history.
While he's supposedly in a race against time to recruit a team to save the universe from the Reaper menace, Commander Shepard can sidle up to a bar and ask for a few drinks. And if he keeps asking for drinks, eventually the turian bartender will offer to make a special krogan drink for him, since Shepard's pretty sure he can handle it (having already come back from the dead once this game, odds are they can resurrect his liver once more, right?). It's a drink that's so strong that it's practically radioactive (which usually doesn't matter for krogans, given the whole "our entire race is dying out anyway" thing). If Shepard takes the drink, he instantly passes out and wakes up on a bathroom floor. Ignoring the nasty questions of how exactly he ended up there, it feels like maybe Shepard should get back to trying to stop those deep space-dwelling civilization-eaters instead of knocking back space-margaritas and passing out in front of urinals.
What's wrong with Soda Popinski, carbonated drink-lovin' Russian boxer? Well, the key is to check out his actual name, before he changed it - Vodka Drunkenski. Modified to avoid being super racist against Russians (even during the Cold War, when the world was on the brink of mutually-assured nuclear destruction, this was considered in especially poor taste), ol' Drunkenski (yes, adults came up with this name) would declare that he would drink to prepare for fights. Meaning, he was wasted when you fought him. Boxing, even to someone unfamiliar with sports, pretty clearly requires enormous focus and even-headedness, especially when going up against a contender who's moving up the ranks as quickly as you in the game. Being wasted out of your mind isn't the best idea, then again you probably had a pretty shitty childhood you're trying to forget if your parents named you "Vodka."


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The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law hosted its 10th Annual Voice for Justice Auction on Saturday, April 14, at the Detroit Golf Club. The theme for this year's auction was "Celebrating a Decade of Service to the Community" complete with live and silent auctions, cocktails, a strolling supper, desserts, and live entertainment.
Proceeds from the Voice for Justice Auction go to fund the UDM Law Public Interest Fellowship Program which provides summer fellowship opportunities in the public interest sector enabling students to fulfill their call to serve and work toward the public good of the community. Students selected to receive the fellowships will spend approximately eight weeks as summer interns for non-profit organizations, serving or advocating for the poor, disadvantaged, marginalized or under-represented of society.


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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Cover Art - "The Ghost King" by R.A. Salvatore
7 comments:
- Harry Markov: daydream said...
Oh, impressive. I am so swept away by the quality of the works involved in this series. Salvatore is quite lucky to get such breath taking art.
- April 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Dark Wolf said...
I love Todd Lockwood's covers too. And indeed he can make breath taking art :)
- April 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Fantasy Dreamer said...
I seen this cover the other day, impressive with the way the dragon skull blends in the background. Love Lockwood's art, have the Transition book of his art, just gorgeous. Seems each time you look at one of his drawings, you see something new.
- April 29, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- darkened_jade said...
The cover here is really ocming alive. Very cool.
- April 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Dark Wolf said...
Fantasy Dreamer, Lockwood's art is truly amazing. I don't have his art book, but I'll buy it when I'll have the chance :)
Darkened Jade, it is quite cool and I like the dragon head :)
- April 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- laurama0677 said...
I have always loved Todd's art. This really pops out of the book, with the head of the corrupted dragon from the first book of the Sell Swords...his name eludes me at the moment. I would very much like to see Dritzz and Artemis reunited. Mabye?
- July 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- Mihai (Dark Wolf) said...
Laurama, Todd Lockwood is a great artist and gave Drizzt a good face :)
I would like to see more of Artemis too.
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MIAMI (AP) -- With its beautiful beaches, luxury hotels, hot nightclubs and nightmarish traffic, it's easy to forget that South Florida was built on a giant swamp. But despite decades of urban expansion, that wilderness still pushes back -- particularly snakes, lizards and other reptiles, some of them dangerous.
That battle between humans and cold-blooded creatures will be the subject of "Swamp Wars," Animal Planet's series debuting at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday that will focus on Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom Response Team.
Commonly referred to as "Venom One," the paramedic firefighters remove poisonous snakes from neighborhoods and capture non-native, invasive species, such as pythons and tegu lizards. The team also maintains the largest anti-venom bank in the United States.
The genesis of Venom One came in March 1998, when a snake keeper was bit by a black mamba. Chief Al Cruz, who was still a lieutenant at the time, said he listened to his emergency radio in shock as 17 different agencies were contacted to help treat the man.
"I didn't know we didn't have the resources that are in place today," Cruz said.
Officials were frantically searching for anti-venom, eventually finding enough at the Jacksonville Zoo. The man survived, but the experience inspired Cruz to start Venom One.
"Prior to the existence of Venom One, it took 15 to 20 different agencies to save somebody's life," Cruz said. "Now they simply call 911 and the system works." Dispatchers call Venom One, the hospital is contacted and the right anti-venom is delivered.
In the beginning, Cruz was the sole member of Venom One, on call 24 hours a day. Since then, he has been promoted to lead Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Special Operations division, which includes Venom One. The team now has three full-time members, who alternate 24-hour shifts, as well as two relief members.
As "Swamp Wars" viewers will see, the members keep busy. In the first episode, they capture several Burmese pythons, including a 14-footer. The team received more than 100 calls last year for the non-native constrictors, Cruz said.
Another invasive species causing problems in South Florida is the tegu lizard. Some people keep them as pets, but the carnivorous reptiles -- which typically grow to 3 feet and 8 pounds -- can become aggressive in the wild. Such non-native reptiles can be dangerous not just to people, but can threaten native wildlife.
While capturing wayward animals makes for good TV, the program also showcases the team's primary function, which is to provide treatment for venomous snake bites. The unit keeps 45 different types of anti-venom in stock. Venom One has sent anti-venom to 17 states, Canada, several countries in Central and South America, and South Africa. The team has even provided anti-venom to the U.S. military to treat soldiers bitten by snakes. No one has died from a venomous snake bite in South Florida since the unit was formed, Cruz said.
Lt. Lisa Wood, a full-time team member, said it's important that viewers understand that Venom One members are professionals and they should never try to handle a venomous or non-venomous snake in the wild. All the team members are licensed by the state to handle venomous reptiles, which requires more than 1,000 hours of experience.
"Everybody has training, and we all keep our skills up," Wood said "I've been doing this a long time. All of us have."
Wood said she also hopes viewers realize that she and her teammates aren't hunting down snakes and other reptiles because the dislike them.
"All of us do this because we love the animals," Wood said.
Like most of the team members, Wood keeps several snakes at home as pets, including a venomous pygmy rattlesnake. She said while the squad's first priority is to protect humans, the members also want to protect the animals.
Animal Planet is heavily promoting the show, and producers are excited about the six-episode season, which will run this summer.
The local production company that films "Swamp Wars," 2C Media, learned about Venom One while doing another project on Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's marine unit. Executive producer Chris Sloan said he was immediately interested in doing a Venom One show.
"We were really inspired by the kind of work they did," Sloan said. "It was so different and nontraditional that it seemed really obvious to us."
Although Animal Planet has only ordered one season, network producer Erin Wanner said they're already considering a second.
"We're very happy with what we've been seeing," Wanner said. "We really hope we'll be doing more pretty quickly."
Like any television show, producers and Venom One team members want the show to be entertaining, but they also hope it can help people be safe.
"The main goal of the show is awareness," Cruz said. "Be aware of your surroundings, whether you're here in South Florida or anywhere else in the country or the world. Be cognizant that there are dangerous animals out there, but if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone."


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By Steve Horn • Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 11:14
There's an old German proverb that goes, "Whose bread I eat his song I sing."
Enter a recent spate of reportage by the Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) "Newshour." In a September 17 story titled, "Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message" (with a URL titled, "Why the Global Warming Crowd Oversells its Message") the Newshour "provided an unchecked platform for Anthony Watts, a virulent climate change denier funded by the Heartland Institute," as described by Forecast the Facts.
Forecast the Facts created a petition demanding that the "PBS ombudsman…immediately investigate how this segment came to be aired," stating that, "This is the kind of reporting we expect from Fox News, not PBS."
Very true, this is exactly the type of reporting we've come to expect out of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, a cable "news" network that provides a voice for right-wing propagandists on all policy issues, including climate change denial. But perhaps expectations are too high for PBS' "Newshour" and we should've expected exactly what we got: a friendly platform for the climate change denying merchants of doubt.
What's at play here goes above and beyond a single bad story by "Newshour." Rather, it's a small piece and the result of an aggressive campaign that's been going on for nearly two decades to destroy public television in the public interest.
Based on the shift in how the "Newshour" has funded itself over the years, it's evident that the once-esteemed "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" streamed on the Public Broadcasting System has transformed PBS into what investigative reporter Greg Palast calls the "Petroleum Broadcasting System."
"Petroleum Broadcasting System" Sponsored by Chevron, Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Et Al
In an October 2010 story, Palast pointed out that the "Newshour" is funded by Chevron in critiquing its softball coverage of the BP oil disaster. This led him to refer to PBS as the "Petroleum Broadcasting System."
Above and beyond funding from Chevron, "Newshour" also lists Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), owned by Warren Buffett under the auspices of Berkshire Hathaway, as a sponsor. As previously reported here on DeSmog, BNSF - the second largest freight rail company in the U.S. behind Union Pacific - is a major transporter of tar sands infrastucture to the Alberta tar sands. It's also a major mover of coal being sent to coastal terminals and exported to Asia.
BNSF also inked a deal in June 2012 with U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. to "build and run a major warehousing operation…to store sand destined for the Eagle Ford Shale." The Texas-based Eagle Ford Shale basin, like all shale basins, requires vast amounts of fracking sand (aka sillica sand) in order to tap into the gas located deep within the shale reservoir. This sand predominantly comes from western Wisconsin's "sand land," as we explained in a recent short documentary.
The San Antonio Business Journal explained the situation in-depth:
The proposed facility, scheduled to open in early 2013, will be constructed on 290 acres of land the railroad purchased late last year. It will be able to store up to 15,000 tons of sand used by drillers during the hydraulic fracturing process to release oil and gas from dense shale rock.
The Fort Worth-based railway will haul up to 40,000 tons of silica sand and other products per month to San Antonio from U.S. Silica operations in Ottawa, Ill., and Rochelle, Ill.
To top it off, Buffett himself has major personal investments in Big Oil, as we've written about on DeSmog. As of August 2011, he owned 29.1 million shares of stock in ConocoPhillips, 421,800 shares of stock in ExxonMobil, and 7.777 million shares of stock in General Electric, all three of which are involved in various aspects of the tar sands extraction industry and the shale gas extraction industry.
In sum, BNSF is cashing in big time from the shale gas boom, the tar sands boom, and the coal export boom.
Koch Industries - a major Heartland Institute funder and key behind its founding - has also funded PBS' "Nova" to the tune of $7 million. ExxonMobil has also provided funds to PBS' "Nova," "Nightly Business Report" and "Masterpiece Theatre." Both ExxonMobil and Koch Industries are among the top funders of the climate change denial machine.
The Plan: Cut Public Funding, Make PBS Rely on Fossil Fuel Industry Money
Looking at the situation more broadly, it's important to understand that PBS didn't always rely on fossil fuel industry largesse to keep itself afloat.
Rather, over the past two decades, PBS has been under attack by the Republican Party, with constant threats and a coordinated campaign to defund a network originally set up to be a public educational service via the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
As explained in a February 2011 ABC News story,
One of Newt Gingrich's first acts as speaker of the House in 1995 was to call for the elimination of federal funding for CPB, and for the privatization of public broadcasting. Neither attempt was successful, though it did keep the hot-button issue in the limelight for years.
During the early 2011 budget debates, ABC explained that "The House Republicans' budget would rescind any funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – which partially supports these two organizations – for the remainder of the year, and zero out millions in funds after that."
President Barack Obama joined in on the attack on public television with his "bipartisan deficit commission" – referred to as the "Catfood Commission" by FireDogLake – calling for "eliminating funding for the CPB, estimating that it would save the government $500 million in 2015," ABC explained. His Republican Party opponent for the 2012 presidential race, Mitt Romney, has also called for the defunding of PBS.
Private funding of what was originally supposed to be a publicly-funded television station comes with its own agenda. This agenda departs from the mission set out by the 1967 Act, which deemed it "in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public…television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes" and said it "should be created…to afford maximum protection from extraneous interference and control."
The New York Times said it best in a May 2008 story: benevolent corporate underwriting of public television is "increasingly out of step with the…needs of corporations" as they don't "sponsor public television programs for purely philanthropic reasons."
Plenty of Money for PSYOPs Campaigns Abroad
Even PBS President Paula Kerger has internalized the message that the U.S. government is "broke," stating after the latest attempt to defund NPR by House Republicans, "While we understand the many difficult decisions appropriators must make and that the nation is facing challenging economic times, if enacted, such drastic cuts in federal funding could have a devastating effect on public television stations."
Far from being strapped for cash, though, the U.S. government has plenty of money to spend on overseas psychological operations (PSYOPs) campaigns around the world of the sort covered by DeSmog during the shale gas industry's PSYOPs revelation of November 2011.
Media scholar Bob McChesney explained this phenomenon in a March 2011 Democracy Now! appearance, during the middle of the previous round of PBS funding cuts debate in the U.S. House of Representatives:
You know, currently the United States spends roughly twice as much money bankrolling international broadcasting — Voice of America and the various Radio Martís and things like that — than it does paying for domestic public broadcasting and community broadcasting, roughly twice as much — $750 million, roughly, last year. And the idea of raising that and putting more propaganda out to sort of enhance the view of the United States vis-à-vis other nations of the world is entirely the wrong way to go.
That $750 million is more than the $500 President Obama said the U.S. could save by slashing publicly-funded media. In leiu of public funding, American citizens are being shafted with fossil fuel-funded disinformation here at home, while subsidizing it with their tax dollars abroad.
Unless we see big changes in funding for public television, it'll continue to be a standard operating procedure for outlets like PBS to transform into iterations of the newfangled "Petroleum Broadcasting System" - and to end where we began - play the game of "Whose bread I eat his song I sing."
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chas rasper replied on Permalink
When the liberal green enviro types start trashing PBS, there are real problems ahead!
Do you guys really want to do that?
Steve Horn replied on Permalink
Wasn't Trashing PBS
I am showing what the costs and consequences are of cutting public funding to PBS. It's a criticism of those who are making the funding cuts, not PBS.
Keith MacDonald replied on Permalink
The BBC is under constant
The BBC is under constant attack from the right wing press in the UK - particularly Murdoch's rags - for the same reason. They have been successful in that its funding has been severely cut, but the damage would have been far worse had the phone hacking scandal not erupted. However, I'm sure the process of attrition will not let up.
BBC panders to deniers
Yeah, the BBC has been atrocious on climate. Still is. They've been scared in to false balance, false equivalence, he said / she said for a long time now.
If someone relies on the BBC, they are at best woefully uninformed about the severity of climate collapse.
"Whose bread I eat his song I sing."
Only works when there is plenty of bread.
Reality of global warming means less bread, more drought, fires, floods… gonna have to sing louder and louder.
Great posting. Thanks
chas rasper replied on Permalink
"Yes, we have some global
"Yes, we have some global warming. It's clear the temperature has gone up
in the last 100 years, but what percentage of that is from carbon
dioxide and what percentage of that is from the changes in the local and
measurement environment?" - A. Watts
As he said on WUWT yesterday, what is he denying? Only the actual amount of contribution to GW that is attributable to man.
Is the amount of governmental expenditure even going to make a dent in climate change? We don't know, because we don't know the natural variability. We don't know the optimum average temperature, or if there even is one, and if so, optimal to what? Animal life, plant life, the planet, or humans???
Until these and many more questions are answered definitively, spending, government regulation, and the making of energy and manufacturing into environmental boogeymen is not only unnecessary, it is foolish.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
More nonsense from chas rasper
Why do you believe what an uneducated (certainly some one who never finished post secondary education) has to say? You only show your own lack of intelligence and education by supporting such a fraudster as Watts. His theory that urban heat islands are causing the global warming is just laughable. Where are the concrete structures and trash burning barrels in the lower troposphere which satellites have shown to be warming? Where are the barbecues and airport runways in the Arctic which is warming at 2 to 3 times the global average?
Keep up the good work since unintelligent people like you are the show case for AGW deniers.
Steve Horn replied on Permalink
You Dodged my Comment
I was talking about how what was formerly public funding for PBS has been replaced with climate change denial funding in the form of Koch, ExxonMobil, and Friends' largesse, then you went off on a total tangent.
Re your tangent: climate change denial/skepticism, well, that's a non-starter and completely ridiculous. Study after study continues to come out by scientists, including this one today linked to below, showing that the crisis is only getting worse and quickly, too.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Sorry Steve.....
I didn't actually read the whole article and assumed it was more of the intense zealotry on display from the warmists' camp after the PBS segment. I almost never comment before reading, sorry.
But as a rational thinking person, what do you honestly make of the incredibly severe backlash from the CAGW side? PBS produced a 'story' on the Climate debate, obviously not intended to be a judgemment on the 'science' of GW, and the Rooms and Huffposts and Desmogs of the world go ballistic. I mean really! If anyone here can step back and view this reaction as a neutral observer it has to be seen as totally off the reservation. How can one not see it that way?
Well Chas, it was because of shoddy workmanship....
If you bought a new pair of shoes that fell apart… wouldn't you complain about the workmanship?
The journalism in that piece was embarassingly shoddy. And no matter what the story - sports, or city hall, or man bites dog… PBS should do better work, and this was bad.
And the fact that most people think this is the most important story of all, makes their bad work more significant.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Yes, but......
While that may be true (shoddy work) the piece was totally representative of the Climate debate as it stands today. You must see that, no?
'Global Warming', especially the of anthropogenic variety, is under extreme scrutiny from all sides these days. Not just for the wild claims made by some scientists/activists but for the truly massive amounts of taxpayer dollars spent funding all manner of questionable 'studies' (Katherine Hayhoe just snagged $750,000. to study climate effects on bridges and infrastructure in Texas!) and on renewable energy boondoggles that are not yet proven and are more to do with making money for investors. This PBS story was trying to show both sides of that debate, not attack the science. And as Hank said in another thread, Watts comes across as a reasonable person, plainly stating his case for pragmatism in our estimate of the GW threat and in our (financial) response to it. The unatuned public will look at that, and the way overboard response from the climate faithful and really start to wonder.
Seriously, try to look at this from a neutral position.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
chas is right
chas rasper gets it right for once:
"the piece was totally representative of the Climate debate as it stands today".
yes, Watts' lies, misinterpretations, misrepresentations and smearing of climate science is exactly how the "debate" is represented by the dishonest AGW deniers.
Why do you support such dishonesty? Are you too ignorant and uneducated to see how dishonest they are?
No, but...
"climate debate as it stands today" ?? No, climate debate of about 5 or 10 years ago. The climate debate today seems to be about "How bad?" and "How soon?"
And as to mocking the "study climate effects on bridges and infrastructure in Texas" - Tell me have you ever driven on highways that buckle in the heat? It is dangerous. In Arizona, airplane tires will sink into overheated asphalt. The railroads know all about what happens to their steel track in the additional heat - it warps and twists. And bridges are crucial and don't last forever, they need constant attention. You don't want to under-maintain - and don't want to spend money over-maintaining. Do you chas?
I think it is money well spent, if you want to keep infrastructure - and that applies whether they are government roads and bridges or private roads and bridges.
You can be neutral all you want, but it has nothing to do with facing the issue.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Dude, we don't need to give $750,000 to some propagandist woman who knows nothing about infrastructure, but surely knows how to drink from the public teet. Sure, all infrastructure everywhere needs maintenance. We have engineers and public works departments staffed with people who are trained for that.
There is a huge gravy train rolling now for all who want to jump on. THAT is what I and many others emphatically do not support. Watts said it himself in that interview, but you wont hear Joe Romm or James Hansen talking about that. Whole departments have been built in colleges around the world. Governments have thrown BILLIONS of dollars at this thing and it has gotten us nowhere! Anyone who honestly believes we can buy back our .7C degrees or legislate our way to the mythical 'perfect' global temperature is a fool!
Our global econonomy is in the shitter and all you guys want to do is make it worse!
Gar highway replied on Permalink
You need to focus. Are you
You need to focus. Are you disagreeing that AGW is occurring or just arguing about the cost or efficacy of proposed solutions?
The post itself is about shoddy journalism. No media outlet should be approaching the climate change debate in the "GOP says Earth is flat, some Democrats disagree" mode. Facts matter, and treating those who disrespect reality as if they were on equal footing with real live scientists is bad journalism. PBS did that here.
Katharine Hayhoe replied on Permalink
I wonder if, rather than
I wonder if, rather than jumping to unfounded conclusions, anyone would be curious to know how much of our new NSF-funded project on climate impacts on infrastructure in New England is going into my pocket.
The answer is: zero dollars. Not even being used for any of my salary. Zip. Nada. Nothing.
Yes but your spiritual pocket must be filled and overflowing...
… because so many of us see and hear the good work you are doing Dr Hayhoe, We like what you are doing - delivering such important messages. Thank you for all that you do.
Those who follow Watts will make it worse.
'Our global econonomy is in the shitter and all you guys want to do is make it worse!'
Now this is rambling off topic again maybe but it is connected.
Sure, what do you think is going to happen to the price of grain based products following this dreadful year of droughts and floods? Grain crops of all types are down across the world because of a mix of damaging weather.
Why do you think this is? So you know about how a shift in the jetstream produces blocking weather pressure areas that cause a drought across one area whilst all that ice melt goes into the atmosphere and precipitates out in another area?
Another year like this and the economy world wide will tank further and then there will be many angry people who have lost their livelihoods, homes and have little to eat.
The global economy in trouble has nothing at all to do with scientists facing up to the reality of climate change and watching the fallout. Watts has never understood the basic truth that Richard Feynman offered in an Appendix to his Space Shuttle Challenger report:
'For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.'
Gar highway replied on Permalink
He understands. He just doesn
He understands. He just doesn't care.


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PRATT — As the old song goes, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine..." Well, no one's planning on eating Jeremiah, but he'd probably make some mighty fine fry. And for those who think viewing bullfrogs as drinking buddies is absurd, they're right. But hunting them is a great way to beat the summer heat in the cool of the night with a fun outdoor adventure for young and old alike. And the resulting table fare will make the most hardcore "oldies" fan get up and dance. So get ready to boogie; the season begins July 1.
Bullfrog hunting, or "frogging," as many people call it, is a great way to enjoy the outdoors after days have sweltered close to 100 degrees through much of June. The freedom of summer nights beckons with the call of the bullfrog in July. At this time, shorts and a T-shirt are all that's needed to cool off in the water and pursue this popular quarry.
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