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Like my last post, this one starts with a common question in the fly shop or during an instructional. The question is centered around how I gained an understanding of how fish behave. "How did you learn these things?" My answer, by fishing bait. It is an answer that often raises eyebrows or causes a smirk. Fishing bait is an extremely successful method. Shocking, I know. But the more successful you are when fishing, the more opportunities there are to learn about fish behavior. The more you know about fish behavior, the more you will be successful with other methods.
As a kid, I learned a lot about fish when using bait. I learned where fish liked to hold in a river. I learned where they like to sit in high water, or in low water. I learned how bass cruise shorelines in lakes. How pike used weed beds adjacent to deep water when they wanted to feed. They are many tactics that I apply when fly fishing that I learned fish fishing bait, and gear for that matter.
Bait gets a bad rap in the fly fishing world. It is often seen as the lowest level a fisherman can snoop to. I am guessing some will probably have stopped reading this post by now because of the topic, and thats just fine. I am not saying its the only way to learn about fish. It can be done with any method. But if you are struggling to crack the code on a local river or lake, don't be afraid to grab a spinning rod and can of worms. Red can. Hills Brothers.


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Bethel Presbyterian Church and the Kingston community have come together for the past three years to benefit area nonprofit organizations with the church's annual fall festival.
"This year's receipts saw an increase of 20 percent over last year due to the great turnout from the community," said Micki Anderson, one of the fall festival organizers.
The most recent fall festival started with a fellowship breakfast and a youth-led yard sale.
SUNDAY, DEC. 30 • New Midway Missionary Baptist Church, Kingston, will have its fifth Sunday night singing beginning at 6 p.m. The church is on New Midway Road. MONDAY, JAN. 7 • Kingston First Baptist Church's Young at Heart will meet at 10:30 a.m. in the church's family life center at 215 N. Kentucky St. Chuck and Diana Whaley will present the program on the Voice of Children-Haiti. Those attending are asked to bring soup, sandwiches or dessert for the meal following the program.
Members of Avery Trace Chapter NSDAR award Southwest Point Baptist Church Pastor Larry Bolden with a Certificate of Excellence for the Kingston church's proper use, correct display and patriotic preservation of the U.S. flag with the display honoring veterans of American wars on Veterans Day.
On hand for the presentation are, front row from left, Janice Black, Rosemary Alexander, Bolden, Avery Trace Regent Brenda Hall McDonald; second row, Annabelle Harvey, Shirley Smith; third row, Amanda Crumby; and back row, Jane McPherson.
The congregation of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Harriman welcomes the public to its significant Roane County tradition: the Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve celebrating the Nativity of Jesus.
A musical interlude will begin at 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, followed by the Eucharist at 11.
The Rev. Harry Howard, resident priest at St. Andrew's, will, for the first time, offici- ate at the Christmas Eve service.
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The event, planned from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 19 in Rockwood Community Center at 710 N. Chamberlain Ave., will be in memory of Rob Davison, Deidre Inman and Mechelle Hawkins, said the Rev. Bea Thomas of Speights Chapel.
She added that the health fair is planned for the benefit of families in the community.
A free concert in Harriman's Princess Theater today, Nov. 30, aims to put people in the Christmas spirit.
The concert, which starts at 7 p.m., will be given by a gospel homecoming choir from many churches in Roane and Morgan counties.
A love offering will be accepted to support Hands of Mercy in Kingston and Storehouse Ministries of Wartburg.
SATURDAY, NOV. 24 • Union Valley Baptist Church, Oliver Springs, will have a gospel singing beginning at 7 p.m. Featured singers include Walking by Faith, Hallelujah Praise and the Praise Him Youth Choir. The church is on Windrock Road. Call Pastor Wayne Morgan at 435-4150 for details.
• The Christmas Bazaar at Rockwood United Methodist Church will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with handmade gifts and crafts. The church is at 801 N. Kingston Ave. Call 354-0753 for details.
Post Oak Springs Christian Church has a rich history as a mother church for the denomination.
The Rockwood church celebrated its 200th anniversary during homecoming services earlier this month. Spencer Garner, who was pastor 31 years from 1968-99 and is now a missionary, was guest speaker.
The church's history spans through conflict, new styles of worship, new church buildings and changing congregations.
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From a Thai Woman to You -- All Farangs
From a Thai Woman to You -- All Farangs
I am sorry to learn that most of you, farangs, have had negative experiences with your wives' families in terms of money. Most of you here talk about paying a lot of money to support your in-laws. sounds very much like they are leeches that constantly \\ //// every pound or dollar out of your wallets.
I am sorry to learn that thai women marry you for only money for themselves and their families. and only to elevate themselves socially and financially. once they get what they want from you, they walk away from you.
sounds like these thai women give us a bad name.
I do not deny what i learn from your experiences. but i would like you to please not assume that we all Thai women are just like that because we are not.
my impression is that those of you who share your stories here all married to women from villages or rural areas where people are un- or low-educated and very poor. that's why what happened to you happened: she and her families wanted your money. you are viewed as a bucket of gold their daugthers just happen to fall into, so can get as much gold out of the bucket as possible. they do that because they are poor, because they have a golden opportunity, because they can, because you allow them to, and because you love your women.
I believe that there are a lot of thai women who never want to take advantage of you financially, me included. i believe there are a lot of thai women who value love more than money. I am from a very humble background. my family and I never ask for money from my American fiance. If he wants to help us financially, we appreciate that. If not, we continue living without asking. He asked my dad about the dowry he was supposed to give him. he told him he wanted nothing; he did not have me for sale. and let me repeat, my dad is poor and low-educated. we are a poor family who doesn't have a savings account. all my dad wants form him is his love and respect for me.
Again, I am sorry for your bad experience. But for those who are seeking true love with thai women, have faith that you will find one who just doesn't only crave for your money. you just have to look carefully. whether rich or poor, good thai women still exist.
Thank you for reading until thisline. I just felt a need to say something here. I am done now. :)
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Her name is Panne, I only have her address
56/86 Moo1
Soi Bunsarnorng soi 2 (Off Sukhumyit 119)
Bangmuang Mai, Amphur Muang,
Samutprakarn 10270
The letters that I sent to her, I haven´t having answer.
Maybe some can help me to find her. Many many thanks, Lupe
Lupe Monge
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I have to thank to US. I do not ever want to go back to Thailand which I am ashamed of. Last time my mom took me there, her relatives are nother but money sucker. I am very pround of my mother who works very hard for all her life. I just graduated from college which I got whole finacial aid. And I have a job. Yes, there is racist going on in US. Just like anywhere else on earth. But all I know was US gave me all the knowledge I need to land the job I have now.
You owe nothing to any farang
And you don't need to feel bad toward Thailand or Thais, also, you don't need to think or feel you owe something to any farang. You should ONLY be proud of your mother and yourself.
Go on , make your own family and future.
Best Wishes
A Farang
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This is the third writing to you, the last two tries was not posted in this forum. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to praise you for what an outstanding job that your mom had done on raising a fine youn lady like you.
Most Thais are raised to be grateful and respectful to their parents, teachers, bosses and also to a person or place (in your case - the US ) who have done a good deed on your life.
Not surprisingly that you're grateful to this great country. The US had given you and your mom a good life to live and an opportunity to pursue your dreams.
I'm saying this because I feel the same as you. I have lived my life long enough to see that grateful person are always be blessed wtth good health and good fortunes later on in their lives. You're on that path too.
Good luck to your future, Lisa
Duang Dao
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seems the bulk of the westerners are lonely, codependant and may be easy prey. many of the westerners more resemble their respective nation's prison population and don't seem to network with educated thai's. bar girls ARE very easy to conquer. it does not require tact, skill, romance,or wit, but simply a wallet.
Thai people have referred to western geared bar girls as "sumong yun" or mosquito brain. again not their fault as lack of education can do that. despite government loans for university, many simply do not want to study as they perceive the fast cash from entertainment as a better option, albeit a "thinking for today only" mentality.
a friend new to thailand asked me why thai men are not upset with all the farang taking their women. I told him to go to emporium and siam paragon, look around at the distinctly different type of women to be seen there, then return to the soi 7 beer garden, revisit those women, then look around at the men there and ask yourself if they pose a "dating threat" to the upsale women.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Friday threatened to bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, raising its rhetoric after the United States warned of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang.
Kim Kwan-jin, a retired general, was speaking at a parliamentary meeting confirming him as new defense minister, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said North Korea threatened the region and the world.
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It's just 7:30 on a September morning, but already hundreds of surfers line San Diego's Ocean Beach, stretching, grinning, and downing orange juice and Pop-Tarts. TV trucks with microwave masts raised for live morning-news feeds and traffic cops in patrol cars and on mountain bikes jam the foot of Newport Avenue, the palm-lined main street leading to the beach.
It's Clean Water Day, and time for the annual "paddle out" organized by Surfrider Foundation, the ocean-protection group made up of surfers and others tired of having their recreational stoke ruined by pollution-borne infections. In the middle of it all are Donna and Skip Frye. Donna is slim with straight, dark blond hair, aquiline features, and a calm blue gaze that belies a hyperkinetic activism.
Surfers, male and female, keep coming up to hug her or say hi. Skip, a stocky, sun-reddened, curly-haired grandfather, has his wetsuit top unzipped and hanging at his waist, his signature egg-shaped longboard under one arm. He places a lei made of braided green ti leaves around his wife's neck before he and some 500 other surfers paddle out into the water, forming a sinuous broken line around the quarter-mile-long pier.
Donna, an occasional surfer herself, stays on the beach to talk clean-water politics with various wonkish types. The surfers are observed from the pier by scores of anglers, mostly Hispanic and Vietnamese, here to fish for mackerel, bass, and queenfish. Gulls and pelicans perch on the scarred wooden rails, waiting for a handout or fumbled fish. The sky is quilting over with clouds; the air tastes of salt and iodine. This is the ocean at its finest, and if you were to ask the diverse crowd enjoying it who best represents its cause, many would answer "Donna Frye."
"In the sur�ng world she's a stone-cold hero," says Rory Wicks, a San Diego surfer and attorney. "Now she's an international hero, but she's always been a hero to us." Wicks has represented Frye and others to make sure that all the ballots cast in San Diego's November 2004 mayoral election are counted. If they are, then write-in candidate Donna Frye will become the mayor of America's seventh-largest city.
San Diego has a reputation as a conservative Navy town with great weather. But 30 years of rapid growth have changed the dynamics. The southern white migrants who came for defense jobs during and after World War II have been joined by more liberal northern snowbirds and Hispanic workers drawn by new jobs in high-tech industries, education, and tourism. San Diego also has a strong environmental ethic, going back to the early 1900s when the city was divided between "Smokestacks and Geraniums": those who favored rapid industrialization, and those who wanted to preserve the city's Mediterranean charms.
Today San Diego's remaining charms mask troubling environmental problems. Since the 1970s, the EPA has filed numerous complaints about the city's scandalously lax sewage treatment. San Diego is the last major coastal city in the country still dumping minimally treated human waste into the ocean. In addition, numerous breaks in its 3,000 miles of sewer lines have resulted in fines, beach closures, and sick surfers.
Enter Donna and Skip. Her family moved here from Pennsylvania in 1957 when she was six. Her father was a Navy civilian employee, her mom a nurse. She had few ambitions growing up: "I just wanted to be an adult, maybe a dancer, a ballerina. I never thought of growing up to be a politician," she says, breaking into a throaty smoker's laugh. She graduated early from high school, worked as a maid, a cook, and a heavy-equipment renter. She married young and moved to Sacramento, where she drank too much and took too much physical abuse. Divorced and back in San Diego in 1980, she walked into Pancho Villa's bar in Pacific Beach and won a bet on a Rams game with Skip. "Did you know who he was?"
She looks at me as if I were daft. "Of course!" Skip was part of the Windansea surf crew of the early 1960s made famous (even to non-surfers) by Tom Wolfe in The Pump House Gang. A one-time top competitor, Skip's also a renowned surfboard shaper, using a sander and a keen sense of flow to turn polyurethane blanks into high-value fiberglassed boards that are hugely popular on the international surfing scene.
But when he met Donna he was on the skids. "I was a mess," he confessed to Surfer magazine. "Drugs, alcohol, the whole thing. She gave me some self-confidence, you know? We had both come out of bad marriages and just grew together." Donna also quit drinking and got a job at a gas station. Later she became a technical writer while studying nights for a business degree. She tried to organize a union at her workplace, but "it was like that movie Norma Rae, with a bad ending." She worked on job discrimination for the National Organization for Women, helped Skip get his surf business organized, and was soon lured into environmental politics.
For years, Donna and Skip ran Harry's Surf Shop in Pacific Beach, just up the coast from Ocean Beach. On the low bluff outside Harry's, I watched sunbathers and surfers scattered across the sand and water beyond a bilingual sign reading "CAUTION: Storm drain water may pose an increased risk of illness. Avoid contact near outlet." This warning, as well as many like it up and down the state, is a direct result of Donna's efforts.
"Around 1994 I got very active because I was dealing with a lot of sick surfers, Skip being one of them," she recalls. "It didn't make sense. These healthy, athletic people were getting sick from pollution. What was doubly insulting is that [former Republican representative] Brian Bilbray was running for Congress against [Democratic challenger] Lynn Schenk, saying, 'Vote for me 'cause Schenk don't surf' — the implication being that Schenk didn't care about the ocean. Bilbray used the surf community to promote his own political agenda, which included working with Newt Gingrich to try to gut the Clean Water Act."
Gingrich's (ultimately failed) 1995 "reform" was written by lawyers for the oil and chemical industries with help from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Among much else, it would have suspended programs to control storm-drain runoff and waived secondary sewage treatment to eliminate fecal bacteria if the waste was discharged directly into the deep ocean. Bilbray explained his support as purely financial: "to save a billion dollars" in sewer upgrades for San Diego.
Bilbray's vote made him a target for Donna, who formed STOP: Surfers Tired of Pollution. Soon bumper stickers for STOP reading "Another Surfer Against Bilbray & For Clean Waters" started showing up on cars at area surf spots. Bilbray's pals responded with stickers reading "STOD: Surfers Tired of Donna — Truth was her first victim." Their debate played out in the PBS documentary Fender Philosophers, in the pages of Surfer magazine, and in the San Diego media. All the while Donna was lobbying city hall and attending wastewater-management classes.
"I was running for state assembly in 1996 and heard Donna was an environmental activist and owned a surf shop, so I went to meet her," recalls former assemblyman Howard Wayne. "She took me behind the store and pointed to these storm drains pouring into the surf and told me her husband and friends and customers were bathing in this toxic soup." He agreed to do something if elected; Donna campaigned for him, and after he won he invited her to Sacramento and asked her to take a crack at creating a bill. With support from her surfer/ lawyer friends, she crafted a bill that set statewide standards for water quality, required weekly testing of recreational beaches, and ordered warning signs and hotlines to inform the public if their coastal waters were polluted. It passed into law in 1997.
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@Newdeath: Yea.. That does kinda suck, when in the first season there was only a few who could use the lightning and now we have just about every fire benders doing it. :l
@Newdeath: What?! That is so BS I know there was something like that going on :P Just goes to show being a vegetarian is bad for you he should have ate meat XD
I don't think it a bad Lightning is more common I was just hoping it would be something special like the metal benders are now the cops I was hoping Lightning benders were a special fire benders unit. Yes that would be a good fight I see Azula winning but only if she fought at her prime not the crazy, psycho Azula that appears at the end of Last Airbender.
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By: MayRiverMudder on May 4, 2005 - 9:31am - Add new comment
Does anyone know what you need to do or who to contact about being able to drive a golf cart in Bluffton. I have been told you had to have a $5 sticker and headlights, but can't seem to get an answer. The Town was unsure and calls to DMV have not been directed. Any suggestions on who to contact or what to do?
By: MayRiverMudder on May 5, 2005 - 12:31pm - Add new comment
I read this article today in the Island Packet. Yes, I'm still reading it but not nearly as much now that we have the Bluffton Today. The link is listed below for the article. It's interesting that with the experiences people have had at the intersection of the Parkway and SC 46, that we can't get some sort of changes made. There have been 6 recorded accidents from Jan 1, 05 until Mar 10th!! And 5 accidents in 2004, keep in mind how long it was open in 2004.
The parkway has been a dissapointment for many. I personally refuse to drive on any part if it until they fix the interesction.
By: MayRiverMudder on May 6, 2005 - 8:29am - Add new comment
I'm concerned about many of the recent posts concerning the BHS Lax article.While I myself did not personally see any of the lacrosse games, through reading the articles am very proud of our team. In our first year of having our "own" team in Bluffton, all of the records, efforts and accomplishments of our young athletes are more than impressive. So with that said, I've been reading the blogs in order to keep informed about what is going on.
I am now very dissapointed about many of the recent blog responses. Many from players on the team, given the blog content.
By: MayRiverMudder on June 14, 2005 - 8:30am - Add new comment
I read in the paper, the Packet I think, that Daufuskie Island was starting again their annual Daufuskie Day. I think I read it was in June. Does anyone know anything about this event?
By: MayRiverMudder on July 18, 2005 - 2:21pm - Add new comment
I ate lunch at Wendy's today. In an effort to try and be a little more health conscience, but I have to admit not totally, instead of the fries I went for the baked potato instead of the salad. Although it is way off my no/low carb list. Anyway, as I was adding my 1 packet of sour cream since they didn't give me the two I requested and the line was far too long to go back for more, I read the packaging. It said Low Fat Acidified Sour Cream. Now with a name like that, is that good for you and what does it mean?
By: MayRiverMudder on July 20, 2005 - 10:08am - Add new comment
I had the fortune of trying leave early yesterday to beat the traffic. Well I got home in record time, 6:oo pm. 1 1/2 hours, not too shabby considering. But at 4:30 pm they were starting construction? Not only the speed bumps were slowing down traffic, the lane closure signs telling people to merge are a HUGE problem as were the workers in the road COMPLETELY stopping traffic to let heavy equipment pass.
So why are those signs being put up so early? Are we just to ignore them because they are left up all the time.
By: MayRiverMudder on July 22, 2005 - 10:36am - Add new comment
I have to say that after the week we've all had in traffic, the real world, and blog land I really needed a good laugh.
So I revisited the "You're and Idiot". Well it sure brightened my day and put things in perspective. Sadly I think there were times this week when I sounded close to that guy or felt like sounding like him anyway!!!
But a couple of plays of that and I'm back to my chipper self.
By: MayRiverMudder on July 26, 2005 - 9:13am - Add new comment
I'm just asking for help
I have a question, probably a stupid one but how does everyone keep track of what blogs they are participating in? I know if you go to "Your Blog" it takes you to the ones you have created. But that's not what I'm looking for. I'm having a hard time with this, any suggestions? Once it moves off the recent posts side I just have a terrible time finding the blog I was participating in. Help only please, no insults.
By: MayRiverMudder on July 27, 2005 - 8:21am - Add new comment
Does anyone know exactly what the helicopters were doing last night in Bluffton?
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Sunday while sitting in my yard I was greeted with the very unexpected surprise of a hummingbird. They have always fascinated me but I have never hung a feeder. I happened to have had one from the junk store, so I hung it.
How long does it usually take for them to come to a feeder? Where is the best place to hang one? The picture in today's paper made me very excited about my new project.


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EUGENE, Ore. — Lane County is stepping up efforts to keep tires out of the landfill. Instead, you can drop tires off at any one of the county's 16 waste transfer stations.
There's a small fee–$2 per tire or $3 if the tire is still attached to the rim. It's a small price to pay instead of the fine you'd get for dumping the tires in the landfill illegally.
"Certainly we don't want them disposed illegally as an illegal dump because moisture gathering in tires can attract and foster mosquitoes and other pests," said Sarah Grimm, Lane County Waste Reduction Specialist.
Lane County recycles the tires into things like highway safety cones, parking lot bumpers and rubber mats for restaurants.


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Russel girls pull away for win against TMP
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RUSSELL -- It was the "same old story, different game."
At least in the eyes of Thomas More Prep-Marian girls' basketball coach Rose McFarland.
A strong fourth quarter surge by the Monarchs wasn't enough as Russell scored 10 unanswered to close the game for a 53-45 win.
"We just didn't start off very good, so somehow we have to be more ready to start the game or maybe get a better warm up because I don't feel like we have been ready from the start of a game," McFarland said.
Neither team started out all that strong, but a 9-2 run to close the second quarter gave Russell (7-2) a 24-12 cushion.
The surge was led by senior guards Chantal Prester and Savanna Huff.
Huff had nine of her team-high 16 points in the second quarter on 4-of-5 shooting from the field, while Prester was a perfect 3-for-3 adding seven of her 13 in the quarter.
"I was very pleased with our guard play overall. We had some girls step up tonight and make plays, Savanna Huff and Chantal Prester specifically," said Russell head coach Frank Schulte.
Two 3s late in the third by TMP senior guard Annie Mindrup put TMP (1-8) within six before Russell's Prester hit a last-second jumper to put the Broncos up by eight going into the fourth.
TMP senior guard Heather Ruder then took the game into her hands in the Monarchs' rally attempt. She hit back-to-back 3s to start the fourth, followed by a steal and layup to tie the game at 38.
Ruder had 11 of her 17 points in the fourth quarter.
"The girls battled, we didn't have a very good offensive first half," McFarland said. "We got a little behind, but we still battled back. We didn't get the breaks at the end of the game, a couple things didn't go our way and they took advantage of it."
After a Russell timeout, the Broncos regrouped with a 5-0 run after Ruder's burst.
"We played very good defense on Heather Ruder for most of the game," Schulte said. "Then in the early part of the fourth quarter we forgot about her and she hit two 3s, then all of a sudden we had a game again."
Another Ruder trey and a Jenna Shuckman basket tied it again at 43 with four minutes left.
Shuckman gave TMP their first lead with a basket in the low post to put the Monarchs up 45-43 with 3:10 remaining. Russell though, scored 10 unanswered to finish the game and give the Monarchs their eighth loss.
"I was proud of our girls that they were able to re-gather themselves and get a win," Schulte said.
Rebounding troubled the Monarchs again with the Broncos grabbing 13 offensive boards.
"It goes back to the rebounding again," McFarland said. "That has hurt us in a lot of games. They got a lot of offensive rebounds. They were tough on the boards, but we have to do a better job of boxing out."
It was the Monarchs' fifth game this season decided by nine points or less.
"We just came up short again. I really thought we had this one," McFarland said. "We have had quite a few games were we have gotten behind then we battled hard to catch back and we just aren't able to finish games."
Russell continued its strong season with four players in double figures.
Junior Janna Schulte and senior Madison Beagley scored 12 and 10, respectively.
TMP had won the previous six meetings, including a defeat in last year's sub-state tournament.
"I was hoping to win. I haven't beat TMP since I've been here. I'm glad to get that done tonight," said coach Schulte, in his fourth year.
The two teams could possibly see each other again in the Class 3A sub-state tournament in Norton.
"The girls are keeping their heads up," McFarland said. "We know we can beat them, that is a positive. They are one of the better teams we will see in our sub-state."
TMP will travel to Hillsboro on Tuesday to play 9-1 Hillsboro at 8 p.m. in the opening round of the Trojan Classic.


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Giants WR Victor Cruz struggled to hang onto the ball in the team''s Week 1 loss to Dallas.
Second-year Giants CB Prince Amukamara missed Week 1 with an ankle injury.
New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw picks up short yardage before being wrapped up by Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Sean Lissemore and linebacker DeMarcus Ware during the first half at MetLife Stadium.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning prior to the game against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
General view of MetLife Stadium prior to the game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants are hoping rookie Rueben Randle can contribute as a receiver and maybe in the return game, too.
Cowboys QB Tony Romo (9) and Giants QB Eli Manning will begin the 2012 regular season the way they ended the 2011 regular season -- meeting on the field at MetLife Stadium.
Giants captains Eli Manning and Justin Tuck (91) celebrate their Super Bowl XLVI victory.
Giants LB Mathias Kiwanuka has 27 sacks in six NFL seasons.
Michael Strahan won a Super Bowl ring in his final game with the Giants in 2008.
Tom Coughlin needs five more wins to surpass Bill Parcells'' total (85) with the Giants.
Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul emerged as an all-pro in his second season.
QB Eli Manning and the Giants beat the Cowboys twice on the road to Super Bowl XLVI last season.
Giants CB Terrell Thomas (24) may not have the opportunity to line up next to S Antrel Rolle in 2012.
For now, at least, Hakeem Nicks is forced to watch from the sidelines as the Giants practice during training camp.
Before the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI, Victor Cruz had a team record 1,536 receiving yards in 2011.
Giants QB Eli Manning has won two Super Bowl MVP awards.
Giants DL Chris Canty (99) and Justin Tuck wore similar facemasks in 2011.
Giants DE Justin Tuck sports his new facemask last week in minicamp.
Giants WR Hakeem Nicks led all players with 444 receiving yards in the 2011 postseason.
Giants DE Osi Umenyiora is a nine-year NFL veteran.
Tom Coughlin has led the Giants to Super Bowl wins in two of the past five seasons.
The ring the New York Giants will receive for winning Super Bowl XLVI following the 2011 season.
Eli Manning during a press conference at the last Super Bowl
Eli Manning at New York Giants Super Bowl parade
DE Osi Umenyiora''s entire nine-year NFL career has been spent with the Giants.
Giants QB Eli Manning has more Super Bowl rings, two, than the entire Jets franchise.
Archie Manning, right, looks forward to watching son Eli on ''Saturday Night Live'' next month.
The Giants and Patriots won''t meet in the 2012 season ... barring a rematch in Super Bowl XLVII.
Giants WR Hakeem Nicks has 24 TD catches in three NFL seasons.
Giants DE Osi Umenyiora has 69 career sacks.
OLB Keith Rivers played 35 games in four years with the Bengals.
Giants RB Brandon Jacobs prior to last Super Bowl
The Giants and Cowboys will renew their rivalry to kick off the 2012 NFL season.
Super Bowl XLVI hero Mario Manningham may have played his last game for the Giants.
QB Eli Manning and the Giants will open the 2012 NFL regular season on a Wednesday night at MetLife Stadium.
Giants WR Mario Manningham caught five passes for 73 yards in Super Bowl XLVI.
Jets HC Rex Ryan and Giants RB Brandon Jacobs jaw after the teams met in 2011.
Katy Perry gets her picture taken with Giants CB Prince Amukamara at Super Bowl XLVI.
Giants RB Brandon Jacobs knows how to play to a crowd.
Giants owner John Mara prior to Super Bowl XLVI last Sunday.
Giants TE Jake Ballard is carted off the field during Super Bowl XLVI.
Will the Giants and Patriots go head to head in Super Bowl XLVII?
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New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy aloft in celebration.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) walks off the field after being defeated by the New York Giants.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10). left, and defensive end Justin Tuck celebrate their victory.
New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin celebrates after winning Super Bowl XLVI.
New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker (83) makes a 19-yard grab in the first half.
New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks (88) tries to haul in a pass against New England Patriots free safety Patrick Chung in the second quarter.
New York Giants free safety Patrick Chung (25) and defensive tackle Gerard Warren (98) tackle New England Patriots strong safety James Ihedigbo during the second quarter.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) pitches the ball to running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis (42) during the first quarter.
New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin appears skeptical of an officiating decision during the second quarter.
Giants DL Chris Canty thinks his team will win Super Bowl XLVI by 11 points.
The Giants and Patriots are set to lock horns for all the marbles Sunday in Super Bowl XLVI.
Patriots QB Tom Brady and Giants QB Eli Manning (10) will meet for the second time this season in Super Bowl XLVI.
Quite a few sports books in Las Vegas will be rooting against Eli Manning and the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) during an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. The Carolina Panthers beat the New York Giants 20-10.
Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings (26) breaks up a pass to New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks (88) during the second quarter of an NFL preseason football game Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, in East Rutherford, N.J.
Plaxico Burress #17 of the New York Jets tries to elude the coverage of Corey Webster #23 of the New York Giants during their pre season game on August 29, 2011 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams (57) reaches in to grab New England Patriots quarterback Ryan Mallett (15) during the fourth quarter of their NFL preseason football game in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday night, Sept. 1, 2011. The Giants defeated the Patriots 18-17.
New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks is stopped by Washington Redskins defensive back DeAngelo Hall (23) and linebacker Rocky McIntosh (52) during the first half of an NFL football game in Landover, Md., on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10) prepares to catch the ball before the start of the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park.
Shonn Greene's three Touchdowns lifted the New York Jets over the Washington Redskins on Sunday in Landover, Md.
Giants RB Ahmad Bradshaw has averaged 4.7 yards per carry through his first 65 NFL games.
New York Giants 20, Buffalo Bills 19
The 47-yard field goal attempt of the Bills' Scott Norwood sailed wide right, and the Giants rode their churning rushing attack to a narrow victory. New York hogged possession for 40:33 as Anderson (24) rushed for 102 yards on 21 carries, including the go-ahead score in the third quarter.
Washington Redskins safety Kareem Moore (41) tackles New York Giants tight end Kevin Boss during the third quarter.
Brandon Jacobs, right, rushed for 103 yards and a pair of scores on eight carries and Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns as the New York Giants routed Washington at New Meadowlands Stadium.
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Using a fire alarm or smoke detectors to protect a home from fire is just as important as using a burglar alarm to protect against intruders. Your home security practices must cover all bases, which is why we do our very best to offer so many safety and avoidance tips on subjects like home invasions, environmental disasters and break-ins. Sadly, a number of recent fire-related deaths in the news prompt the writing of this post. We want to do our best to make sure that you have the tools needed to survive a fire should one ever break out in your home.
Do You Have the Right Equipment?
Most homes are already equipped with one or more smoke detectors. In fact, in most places throughout the United States these life-saving devices are legally required to be installed in public buildings as well as in private homes. While smoke detectors are commonplace, how many of you know what kinds of devices you have in your homes and why this information is so important?
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An ionization smoke detector sounds an alert whenever it detects smoke which has originated from an actual flame. A photoelectric smoke detector, on the other hand, sounds an alert whenever smoke from a smoldering source has been detected. Of the two, a photoelectric alarm typically costs more, but is highly recommended in order to alert homeowners against dangers such as a cigarette smoldering on a mattress (which an ionization alarm may not detect soon enough to allow an occupant to extinguish the threat or escape).
While both types of alarms are important, if you inspect your smoke detectors and find that you've only got the ionization type (which are the most common types found in homes likely due to their cost), we strongly urge you to also install a photoelectric device such as the GE Interlogix Wireless Smoke Detector featured on our main page. Doing so helps increase your security against both types of threats.
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At least one smoke detector should be placed in the hallway near the bedrooms in your home. Remember to place a separate detector near bedrooms that are far apart or located on another floor. A detector should also be placed in common areas, such as a living room or dining room, too. Consult your local fire agency or state and federal resources for more advice on where detectors should be placed in your home.
For wireless devices, keep an adequate supply of batteries on hand. Smoke detectors will emit a warning sound (often a brief chirp) when a battery is losing power. Use a product like Smoke! In a Can Detector Test Spray once per month in order to ensure that your device is working properly. And never ever disable or disconnect an alarm unless you are changing its batteries.
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According to the United States Fire Administration, nearly 2,500 people were killed in residential fires in 2011 and more than 14,000 people suffered from house fire injuries. The material damage from these fires also resulted in losses totalling several billions of dollars. As disheartening as these figures are, the fact that most fires of this type can be prevented is even more frustrating. While most of our conversations about home security revolve around possible threats from the outside, these numbers help underscore the very real threats that smoke and fire present to our homes and our families.
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Chileans dislike a plan to build a 40-foot-tall statue of Pope John Paul II. Some have dubbed it "Popesaurus."
SANTIAGO, Chile — The neighbors couldn't help but notice the huge head of Pope John Paul II rising out of the sculptor's workshop next door.
Hidden behind the walls, the pope's left hand gripped Jesus on the cross while his right extended outward, an imitation of the gesture he had made during his visit to Santiago two decades earlier.
But this was no private religious homage — it was the makings of a 40-foot-tall bronze statue meant to tower over a bohemian neighborhood in this capital city.
The idea of installing the statue in such a public place has sparked outrage, not only over its enormity but also over the lack of transparency in urban planning.
Not even the Catholic Church supports the project.
"The size of this giant statue is proportional to the lack of delicacy of those who, having money, power and influence, feel they own the city," said Jesuit priest Felipe Berrios.
The statue was conceived by the privately owned San Sebastian University, which is headed by members of the right-wing, ultraconservative party UDI.
The university is building a campus in front of a park in the Recoleta municipality. In 2007, the mayor of the municipality, Gonzalo Cornejo, decided he wanted to remodel the park. He asked his longtime friend Luis Cordero, vice chancellor of the university and founder of the UDI, to present a proposal.
The $734,000 project involves wiping out the park and its trees to build an underground parking lot, relocating a craft fair that has been there for 20 years and installing a giant pope. Currently named after a young anarchist poet who died after being arrested in the 1920s, the park is to be renamed Park Pope John Paul II.
The statue would sit near the University of Chile's Law School, a 100-year old national monument that marks the entrance of the bohemian Bellavista neighborhood, full of bars, restaurants, small shops and street vendors, where hundreds of rowdy teenagers and young adults flock to party on weekends.
Cordero put the dean of the school's faculty of architecture, Cristian Boza, in charge of the project, and hired his own brother Daniel, a sculptor, to build it.
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A new dimension has been added to the ongoing battle between the county's board of commissioners and the sheriff's department. With the sheriff's department reportedly over budget by $9,000 by the year's end, the board of commissioners reportedly will not cover the overage and Elk County Sheriff Jeffrey C. Krieg filed a civil complaint on behalf of his department against the board.
JOHNSONBURG – After declaring a residence at the west end of Johnsonburg a public nuisance, the Johnsonburg Borough Council took further action during Monday's meeting to abate the property. On Aug. 22, a fire at 208 Church St. destroyed a single-stall garage, four residential structures and a vehicle. The residence, owned by Albert Lee Abplanalp, sustained the most damage, as the fire originated in a detached single-stall garage at the property and spread to the main residence situated several feet away.
Betty Jean Geer, 86, of Swedetown Road, Portland Mills, died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at DuBois Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 28, 1926, the daughter of Perry E. and Edith Ecklund Geer. Betty was a lifelong member of the Lake City United Methodist Church, where she loved teaching the youth in Sunday school and vacation bible school. Betty served as the tax collector for Spring Creek Township for 14 years. Betty served as a 4-H leader for more than 50 years.
In response to a civil complaint filed Dec. 6 by Elk County Sheriff Jeffrey C. Krieg against the county's board of commissioners, Tom Wagner, county solicitor acting on behalf of the board, has filed a response regarding the issues and has introduced new matters in the case. A hearing on Krieg's initial complaint will be held Friday, Dec. 14 at 1:30 p.m. in the main courtroom of the Elk County Courthouse.
On the evening of Jan. 2, 2011, an 89-year-old Johnsonburg man was home alone when two intruders forced their way into his home and held him to the ground while brandishing a knife and demanding money from him. "We don't want to hurt you," one of the intruders allegedly told Thomas G. Zelechoski as he was pinned to the kitchen floor.
St. Leo Catholic School students held a dress rehearsal for their annual Christmas play in front of a large audience Wednesday morning in the social hall of the St. Leo Magnus Roman Catholic Church in downtown Ridgway. This year's play, "The Christmas Shoe Tree," was chosen in conjunction with the students' service project that focuses on providing shoes to the less fortunate.
BROCKPORT – The Horton Township Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted the 2013 budget with no tax increase during their regular meeting Wednesday night. "The taxes will stay the same," said Dennis Thompson, township secretary. "It's been 15 or so years since we've raised taxes." The new budget allocates $292,570 for total expenses.


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Rex Hill Kings Ridge Pinot Noir 1999
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I agree that there should be some sports funding in schools. Especially in high school, it is one of the few things that can bring in money for the school. The unfortunate part is that most of that money goes right back into the sports fund instead of being put toward things that will actually benefit the majority of students who want to need to have successful careers.
Let's face it, the vast majority of high school students won't play professionally or even at the collegiate level, but everyone going through the system needs to be able to have the skills to get a good job. I'm not against sports, I just think the funds need to be distributed toward the things that will have the most impact on the students.


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The Link Between Conservation and Global Poverty
On a global scale, deforestation, carbon emissions, and loss of biodiversity are fueled by the consumptive appetites and economic demands of developed nations. However, in certain localities in developing countries, it's the poorer inhabitants – those who directly share space with critical ecosystems – who have a significant impact on habitat destruction and biodiversity loss.
Many of the world's richest, and most threatened biodiversity hotspots are located in least developed nations – areas where local human populations live largely below the poverty line. In these scenarios we see a continuous conflict between the immediate material needs of the poor, and the long term need to preserve biodiversity and habitats for the health of the planet.
Let's take great ape habitats in Africa as an example. Bonobos are found in only one ecosystem, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Estimates of their populations used to run at about 50,000 individuals, but numbers were decimated after the civil wars that wracked the country from 1998 to the early 2000's, and may now be as low as 10,000. Even now, after immense international efforts to restructure conservation projects that had been forced out during war, there's a deep tension between locals and protected land initiatives. Poaching and hunting for bush meat are also a continuous threat to the population. All of these detrimental factors – war, poaching, poor land use, habitat destruction, and local hostility towards national parks – are underpinned by poverty.
In general, poverty contributes to and correlates with governmental instability; even if this doesn't lead to outright civil war as in the DRC, it certainly means decreased ability to protect lands and biodiversity and regulate resource use. A lack of resources among the people of the DRC leads to hunting primates for bush meat, while hostility towards national parks comes from the feeling that the local community doesn't benefit from any wealth generated by these protected lands, and in fact, loses access to certain critical resources when the land is cordoned off. The only way to mitigate the plight of the bonobos is to address the poverty of the people who are their neighbors and the same holds true for biodiversity conservation efforts around the world.
It's not very difficult to understand the urgent need behind conservation efforts. Loss of habitat leads to loss of biodiversity which destabilizes the ecosystem, and deals a blow to human populations, whether it's through loss of jobs and food sources as fisheries collapse, contamination and shrinkage of groundwater supplies, or damage to local agriculture and infrastructure from soil erosion after deforestation.
How do you tell that to someone who has to choose between keeping his family fed and alive in the short term, and abiding by anti-slash and burn policies? What persuasive powers do the long terms interests of the planet and humanity as a whole have over a people or a government, struggling to fulfill immediate interests as dire as obtaining a continuous supply of food, fresh water, and income? The answer to the last question is probably none.
Threatened species and ecosystems around the world will only be guaranteed survival when their well-being is directly tied to the fortunes of the people who share land with them. NGO's and other external forces can't control the way natural resources are used in any given country, though they can influence the dialogue. The last word – especially as many of these countries in Africa and Asia escape their least developed statuses – will lie with the people and their endogenous governments. For this reason, conservation efforts should focus as much on "intangible" biodiversity like soil microbes and plant genetic resources, as they do on endangered animals and protected spaces. The former are not only necessary for the overall health of ecosystems, but directly impact agriculture. The conservation efforts of governments and international NGO's must be designed in such a way that local communities see returns from efforts to preserve habitats and biodiversity. Employees for national parks should be drawn from a local pool, and effort should be made to ensure that a significant portion of profits from ecotourism finds its way back into the community.
Too often, the wealth that comes from sustainable use initiatives in developing countries accumulates in the hands of the already wealthy, with very little trickle-down effect. This only serves to ensure that the majority of the people feel completely cut off from resources upon which they rely as they live on the edges of poverty, and it further marginalizes them economically. This is the reason there's often so much hostility towards national park creation in many developing nations, and we all know how critical such projects are to maintaining disappearing habitats and preserving biodiversity.
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