Mike Banner got his start in the Washington area through local recreational soccer.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

We have plenty of band with a long distance and thanks to local area networks like my own baby Ethernet, we have plenty of bandwidth in local area that was inside of buildings. But there is a gap, there is a gap between the LAN, the local area network, and the WAN, the Wide Area Network.

我们有大量长距离网带,多亏了局域网，就像我的宝贝,以太网，我们在本地有大量的带宽,那都在建筑物内部的，但是这儿有空白,在LAN之间有空白地带，即局域网,以及WAN，广域网。

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Residents and local intelligence officials in the area that borders Afghanistan say that a suspected U.S.unmanned aircraft fired the missiles near the town of Mir Ali.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

A majority of those surveyed expect the security situation in their local area to improve in the next year, although in regions where there is major conflict, respondents are less optimistic about future improvements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27