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On spring break I did my english homework.
I went to the states to go to imagration.
I played video games.
I watched tv and rode my dirt bike.
I also did my chors

HOW TO RIDE A DIRT BIKE

1. Get a dirtbike. Avoid borrowing one from a friend, because as a first-time rider you risk damaging someone else’s property. A fourstroke would be great for your first bike, as they are easy and fun to ride and have great power. Talk to your local dealer for more information but do not buy right away. Every dealer will lie and scam on you for more than you’re worth! Always do research first.
2. Speed: When you are riding down a nice straight away and you feel like goosing it, try to start in a low gear and work that gear to its full potential, then shift up (if you have an automatic bike, don’t worry about this). Once you get up to your speed, slant your back at a 45 degree angle, bend your arms at a 90 degree angle and stand up. When standing up your legs and arms act as additional suspension when going over bumps. This keeps you in better control and will conserve energy.
3. Turning: The trick to getting maximum speed and the best set up in a turn is control. When coming into a turn, pick a good line that isn’t going to run you off the track. Stick with it and keep steady power. Keep your outside elbow up and your inside leg out. Have your leg straight and sticking straight out in front of you by the fender, this will help you keep your balance and you can dab your foot on the ground if you slide out. Once in the turn look where you want to go. Also keep your butt on the ouside of the seat and apply a little preassure to the outside footpeg, this helps put more weight on the outside of your bike, thus giving you more traction. Remember to finish your braking and shifting before you enter the corner so you can concentrate all of your attention on getting through it. Sometimes using the clutch while exiting a corner will give you a short burst of power.
4. Jumps: Hitting big jumps can be scary if you are not comfortable with your riding ability yet. Try little table tops at first; they are very easy and provide a steady landing almost everywere. Lift up your handlebars and stand up a little. Once you get skilled with that, try a double. Take off the bottom of the face sitting down, then by the time your front wheel is off the dirt you should be standing up. Once in the air, position yourself comfortably but sturdily for a landing. If your front end is straight up and down, don’t panic! Hit the back brake and it should lower gradually. Before you hit the ground, give a little gas so your bike will flow smoothly.
5. Whoops can be tricky and require lots of practice as all other things do. There are 3 main ways of hitting them: going slow and steady, doubling or tripling them (this can be very useful in a very technical track because you can get into a new line every time), or just blazing through them (very fast and hard to master; your back wheel skimms over the tip of the whoops giving you less control). Stand up over whoops and keep your weight towards the back of the bike and practice before you go crazy on them. More than 60 percent of all crashes on a track happen on the whoops! Hold on tight and flow with them.

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CREDIT: CNN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then “to basically keep my friends and family up to date” back home.

It just got tougher to do that for Zimmerman and a lot of other U.S. soldiers.

No more using the military’s computer system to socialize and trade videos on MySpace, YouTube and nine other Web sites, the Pentagon says.

Citing security concerns and technological limits, the Pentagon has cut off access to those sites for personnel using the Defense Department’s computer network.

The change limits use of the popular outlets for service members on the front lines, who regularly post videos and journals.

“I put my blog on there and my family reads it,” said Zimmerman, 29, a platoon leader with B Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment.

“It scares the crap out of them sometimes,” he said.

“I keep it as vague as possible,” he said. “I’m pretty responsible about it. It’s just basically to tell a little bit about my life over here” he said.

He’s regularly at a base where he doesn’t have Defense Department access to the Internet, but he has used it when he goes to bigger bases. He’ll have to rely on a private account all the time now.

Memos about the change went out in February, and it took effect last week. It does not affect the Internet cafes that soldiers in Iraq use that are not connected to the Defense Department’s network.

The cafe sites are run by a private vendor, FUBI (For US By Iraqis).

Also, the ban also does not affect other sites, such as Yahoo, and does not prevent soldiers from sending messages and photos to their families by e-mail.

Internet use has become a troublesome issue for the military as it struggles to balance security concerns with privacy rights. As blogs and video-sharing become more common, the military has voiced increasing concern about service members revealing details about military operations or other information about equipment or procedures that will aid the enemy.

At the same time, service members have used the Web sites to chronicle their time in battle, posting videos and writing journals that provide a powerful, personal glimpse into their days at war.

“These actions were taken to enhance and increase network security and protect the use of the bandwidth,” said Col. Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman.

The Pentagon said that use of the video sites in particular was putting a strain on the network, and also opening it to potential viruses or penetration by so-called “phishing” attacks in which scam artists try to steal sensitive data by mimicking legitimate Web sites.

“The U.S. Army’s not going to pay the bill for you to get on MySpace and YouTube,” said Maj. Bruce Mumford, of Chester, Nebraska, who is serving as the brigade communications officer for the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, in Iraq.

“Soldiers need to know what they can and cannot do, but we shouldn’t be facilitating it.”

Warnings of the shutdown went out in February, and allowed troops to seek waivers if the sites were necessary for their jobs. Often insurgent groups post videos, including ones of attacks or — in some high profile cases — of U.S. or coalition soldiers who have been captured or killed.

“I guess it’s a good general policy,” Zimmerman said about the ban on MySpace and YouTube.” If people could be trusted not to break operational security, then they wouldn’t need to have the policy.”

If the restrictions are intended to prevent soldiers from giving or receiving bad news, they could also prevent them from providing positive reports from the field, said Noah Shachtman, who runs a national security blog for Wired Magazine.

“This is as much an information war as it is bombs and bullets,” he said. “And they are muzzling their best voices.”

The sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos and FileCabi; social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5; music sites Pandora, MTV, 1.fm and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.

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