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In an Oct. 17 "Slatest" post, Josh Voorhees misstated the percentage of respondents in a CNN survey who scored the town hall debate for Mitt Romney. Thirty-nine percent said the GOP challenger gave the stronger performance, not 36 percent.

An Oct. 15 "Culturebox," by Holly Allen, David Haglund, Katie Kilkenny, Chris Kirk, and Forrest Wickman, misspelled the surname of fictional president Josiah Bartlet.

In an Oct. 15 "Explainer," Brian Palmer wrote that the red panda is the giant panda's closest living relative. They are not directly related.

In an Oct. 15 ?Hive,? S.T. VanAirsdale incorrectly identified Jason Scott as a backer of the Open Locksport Kickstarter. He also stated that Schuyler Towne edited his own Wikipedia entry; Towne says that friends edited it but he did not.

In an Oct. 15 ?Politics,? David Weigel misspelled the name of the town of Tomah, Wis.

In an Oct. 15 ?XX Factor? blog post, Amanda Hess misattributed two quotes to Christopher Bailey. It was Jason Fetner who said, ?Until the laws in this country catch up to technology, we?re going to continue to see these types of problems.? Fetner also said that police will continue to rely on members of Internet forums ?looking out? for offenders.

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Exploring the Vermillion River Bottoms By Mountain Bike or Fat Bike

I recently took a bike trip back to one of my favorite areas to fish and hunt when I was a kid.? This area known as the Vermillion River Bottoms located in Ravennah Township near the abandoned town of Etter.? It is part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and is very reminiscent of a southern bayou with its vast floodplain forests.? I've always wanted to get back here and do some mountain biking and venture through the woods like I used to do years ago.? So I took some of the country gravel roads from Hastings down to the Vermillion River South Public Water Access just off the Ravennah Trail and started exploring.? Refer to the map for access location.
I headed north near the boat launch on an ATV trail that starts here and proceeds into the woods along the river bank.? The trail quickly disappears amongst all of the fallen leaves on the ground.? From here it is up to you to blaze your own trail, but as long as the ground is not frozen beware of deep mud along some of the small creeks leading into the river.?
I backtracked back to the boat launch and went up to the road to cross the bridge to the east side of the river.? Just past the bridge on the north side of the road is a dirt access road that leads down to the riverbank.

I followed this rutted and sometimes muddy path north and east along the narrow river channel off of the main part of the river.? The trail soon became wider from 4-wheeler and ATV use.

Eventually I came to Spring Banks Lake where I passed a beaver dam at the south end of the lake.


If you are feeling adventurous or you have a fat bike, you can cross the narrow shallow channel just south of the beaver dam on Spring Banks Lake and venture into more bayou like floodplain woods.? A frozen river channel as winter approaches will make this crossing much easier without getting wet in the process.
I pressed on northward along the border of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area on the east side of the lake through an area ripe with fallen logs to cross and trees to dodge.? If you are moving through this area with any speed it will test your sightline decision making skills.?
Once through this area I came upon a trail in the woods that started out wide and narrowed the further I went along until it was heavy with trees.? I meandered around the area for a little while looking for the best possible travel paths through the thick trees dodging branches, thickets and logs.
Eventually I worked my way back to the bridge and passed under it to check out the area on the other side.? There was a small hill to climb and once over it I entered a sparsely wooded area that contained fine sand covered with leaves.? Most of the sand was well packed and travel through here was quite easy with very few downed trees.
After about 300 yards I came to the eastern border of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and the woods turned to a grassy field area along the river bank.??
I turned back at the border and rode around for a bit in woods I had just come from and saw border markings and No Trespassing signs along an old fence.? I made sure to stay to the west of this line to stay in public lands.


Heading back to the bridge, I took this photo to show the large island area that will remain unexplored until the eastern channel freezes over allowing dry passage onto it.
If you don't know the area it can be easy to get turned around and not know where you are at.? I recommend exploring with a GPS or GPS enabled smartphone using apps such as My Trails, Endomondo Sport Tracker Pro, MapMyRide or any iPhone app that allows you to track your ride.? Use these to find your way back in the event you get lost or aid you to head the right direction.? I used My Trails to map out and track where I explored and it was very helpful in getting my orientation a couple of times.? Saved tracks will let you reference where you have been so the next time you come here you can go right to unexplored areas of this vast forest floodplain.?

I had a great time riding in the Vermillion River Bottoms and plan on coming back again soon.? I like the fact that there is not really any set trails and it allows a rider to make their own while exploring this beautiful area.? Fat bike riders will have a field day here with all of the route possibilities available.

Source: http://mnbiketrailnavigator.blogspot.com/2012/10/exploring-vermillion-river-bottoms-by.html

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What's the single biggest source of calories for Americans? White bread? Big Macs? Actually, try soda. The average American drinks about two cans of the stuff daily. Diet soda may have no calories, but it can come with its own set of side effects.

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Forrester survey finds first ever decline in people 'using the internet,' but a changing notion of 'being online'

A survey measuring people's internet use used to be a fairly simple thing. If you dialed up to your ISP and logged onto CompuServe or AOL, you were "online" until you disconnected. Even in more recent years, you were "online" for as long as you were looking at a web browser or a chat window. But things have gotten more complicated as we've grown more mobile and connected than ever, and that's now resulted in the first ever decline of people "using the internet" in Forrester's annual survey since it began asking the question in 1997. As AllThingsD reports, this year's survey found that people spent an average of 19.6 hours per week using the internet, compared to 21.9 hours in 2011. According to Forrester's Gina Sverdlov, however, that's not due to a shift back towards TV or other activities, but to a changing notion of what "being online" means to individuals. As she puts it, "given the various types of connected devices that US consumers own, many people are connected and logged on (automatically) at all times," and that "the internet has become such a normal part of their lives that consumers don't register that they are using the internet when they're on Facebook, for example." The full report isn't available to the public, but you can find a few more details from it at the links below.

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Bangladesh father denies son involved in New York bomb plot

DHAKA (Reuters) - The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank denied on Thursday that his son was involved and said he was the victim of a "racist conspiracy".

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda.

"This is nothing but a conspiracy. There is still a racist conspiracy there," his father Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah told reporters in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

"The intelligence of the USA is playing with a mere boy whom we sent for higher study. The allegation against my son is not true at all. He could not even drive a car. How was he caught with a van?"

Nafis appeared in a Brooklyn court on Wednesday. The criminal complaint against him said he had entered the United States in January and that he had said he was in contact with members of al Qaeda overseas.

The complaint said he had travelled by van with a man to a New York warehouse where Nafis assembled what he thought was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb.

The man he believed to be an accomplice was in fact an undercover agent working for the FBI and the explosives were not in working condition. He was arrested later in a hotel near the bank.

Nafis had been a business student at North South University, a prestigious private institution in Bangladesh, before leaving to study computer science in the United States.

His father, a senior vice president of a private bank, said Nafis was the more religious of his two children, but in no way a fanatic. He told reporters he had asked the government for help "so that our son will not fall victim to an arranged story".

"He fell into trap," he said. "We talked with him 24 hours before he was arrested."

(Reporting By Serajul Quadir; Editing by Ron Popeski and Pravin Char)

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