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As the old movie song goes about ghost....who you going to call? Of course, Go Smokies members to come help you find them. It's day two (this past Wed) and I awake to find in my surprise clear skies. After the storms of late evening the day before and steady rains during the night with a 70% chance of rain, it wasn't what I planned on seeing that morning. So, I quickly call Mike Gourley and say....hey wake up and get yourself up 321 and let's go hiking.
It was a morning where I was meeting another GoSmokies member for the first time. Diane Mason (a lady from Cosby who has hiked the mountains alot with other friends of mine) who got a hand drawn Greenbrier map from me. We meet her at Jack's Market and exchange some hiking stories. But, sadly Diane couldn't go hiking with us on this day. We will see her at the first ever GoSmokies group hike on April 29th. I hope I can make it that day, lol. Oh, wait..April 1st is over..to late for that one.
Mike "Tombstone", Sharon and myself are talking with Diane at Jack's like we've known each other for years. I also saw a dear friend here just a little earlier who had lost bunch of weight (after a heart attack) who has been walking several years now along the Brier roads with his dog. The leaves didn't look to wet from the rain and we decided to go up Noisy Creek along the Old Settlers Trail to search for the lost Thomas Fox cemetery. I've been searching for years and been up this area many times. But, now with many more searching eyes to help....maybe this is the time. The "force" is strong with this group of hikers.
We drive down and start across the road when another car pulls in behind us to take a picture of the little Noisy Cascades you can see right at 321. They walk across the road looking at me, but I don't know them. They ask, "Where you going as we start to walk into the woods?" I tell them we're taking a old man-way up to the OST. He thought maybe we had seen a bear or wondered if anything was just a few feet inside the park for photos. We wished them a good day and headed into the Park. Little did he know, he had just seen a mountain angel, mountain jedi and a walking tombstone of the Smokies.
The views up this little creek were great this day (after the rains) and wild flowers abound.
Mike hadn't been to the William "Anse" Ramsey place so we crossed the creek to explore that old home place. The chimney still stands and so does part of the originial log chimney nearby. The barn is all but gone at the lower end of the old road. We cross the creek back again and head up hill to the Old Settlers Trial. I show them a rock that use to have the four initials of the Ramsey boys who owned different sections of this land. We come to the old Norm Ramsey ford (brown book calls this someone's else home, but it's wrong) where the OST fords the creek. Here at night for those who are brave and not afraid of "no ghost" can sit on the big creek rock and listen for the Ramsey child to cry at night who died so very young at this home place. Maybe, this is the ghost that can show me the old graves?
We three all take a different approach to cross the creek. I jump from one large rock to another across the creek as I always do at this place. Sharon (just call her fallen tree walker) uses her country girl skills to easly walk across a moss slick covered tree as if it was nothing, while Mike rock skipped across above us both.
We come to a rock wall and a very old home and large home place that had two chimneys where the trail forks the creek again. One of my favorite old places in the park. Some pretty old family flowers here too.
I had the sense someone was watching us here. Oh, that old Thomas...he sure likes to tease me. We cross the creek again and head up along a pretty rock wall. Then, leaving the OST we head up a right field where the Phillips lived. He had married one of Thomas's daughters. Big rock cairnes are also in this old mountain field. This is just below where Thomas had a trail that climbed a spine all the way to the top of the Pinnacle (about mile down from the old tower going towards Cosby). Find a old farm road that crossed the creek and just dead-ends after a 100 yards to several small flat spots along the ridge. Is one of these a grave yard or is it just small potatoe patches? We search up to a spine of the side ridge where the plane crash was so many years ago. We find a few more interesting spots, but they have no trail or road leading to them. At least none that can be noticed today.
We sit in the woods and take a snack break as again the warmth is turning into hot sticky weather. We make our way back down to the creek and I show them the old Thomas Fox place.
This old, old home place doesn't show up on any topo map I've ever seen. It's one that is hard to find if you don't know where it is in this section of the park. Sharon stays here to cross more logs along the creek and to explore for some water cascades as Mike and I make a climb up the ridge in a new area that I've not checked yet. It's very steep and hard to imagine anyone carrying a casket up into a place like this one. But, I've found several over the years in high points just like this area where the old timer might have enjoyed a view of his lands and mountain peaks. Old Thomas was a bear hunter, sap fur trees and was a true mountain master. He is the ghost we seek.
I take Mike up to a small flat bench about 120 yards from the home that is idea for a small cemetery, but huge trees have fallen across the entire area which means that it might be 50 years before they fade away to maybe show a marked mountain stone. It's so hard when you're only looking for a few graves compared to many. The story goes that there is only about 3 or 4 graves here and we're going back 120 to 130 years too. If it was small flint stones that could have been broken to bits by now. We cross a small wet branch (nice flowers here too) and begin a climb up a old trail or where they had drug trees off the mountain tops. Again, came to a perfect place for a grave yard. Flat 50 yard square piece of land with great views and soft soil. One large tree left standing in the middle with young spring blossoms of trees beginning to take over the area. Mike found a couple of maybe grave inditions in the back of the field. Is this the graves? Is this where a tree had fallen 80 years ago and faded away? I forgot my wires to douse with so this will have to be a return hike in cooler weather. No reason to go further up the mountain. Who would turn down a final resting place as nice as this one?
Was Thomas laying here long forgotten? Are was he hiding behind a tree laughing at Tombstone and myself saying, "Hey, you guys....you just missed the cemetery over there on the next knob. hahahaha".
Oh, Thomas I will be back. Count on it. Even if one day it's my ghost that comes back in time. I'll be here.
We find Sharon exploring the lower areas and make our way down the mountain checking even other old farm fields and side hollows. We run into a place with about 100 lady slippers of all sizes and colors. I'll kept this a jedi secret place, but you won't find it anyway without one of us showing you.
Sharon talks Mike into crossing the log this time.
The hike turned into a beautiful non-weather problem day. I even took Mike on another short 200 yard hike just off 321 and showed him a special rock wall and chimney. I'm sure he'll cover that in his blogs.
Now, I'm back to walking along the old country roads till the GoSmokies group hike. Looks like plan One is what's in store that day. A history hike before lunch and the walk to the Big Tree afterwards. If the weather is bad, we'll still party at the Pavillion and Tombstone can bring his guitar to entertain us. I'll tell stories and we'll all have great food.
Thomas Fox....you can come too.
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Thanks for sharing Mike! Sorry I missed yall, maybe next time..
Nice hike and ghost story.
It did turn out to be a beautiful day in the mountains, spring wildflowers were everywhere, my favorites are the ladyslippers, hiking with these two is a barrell of laughs,thanks guys for letting me tag along. Another great blog Mike.
It did turn out to be a great day for hiking. In fact I did some more hiking over in the Sugarlands / Fighting Creek area after our hike. What a gluten for punishment! LOL! Great blog!

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EarthLink announced last week that it is teaming with DirecPC to offer users across the U.S. high-speed Internet access service.
The ISP launched EarthLink Satellite Powered by DirecPC service in a number of cities on the East Coast. EarthLink expects to offer the satellite service nationwide by the end of the month.
The service supports 400K bit/sec downstream and 144K bit/sec upstream Internet access. Customers use a 2-by-3 foot dish to connect to the Internet. The two-way dish lets users download and upload Internet traffic while working from home or a remote office.
As the service first rolls out, customers are issued a single IP address. That means a small office that signs up for the service would have to connect one PC to the receiver, which would then act as a server. Other users can connect to the server via a LAN in a small-office environment.
EarthLink plans to introduce a multiple-IP-address version of the service that will let many users more easily connect to the service. The ISP is also evaluating fixed wireless Internet access offerings that it would gear toward business users.
Also, Sprint is connecting its fixed wireless multipoint, multichannel distribution service customers to the Internet using EarthLink's network. But the ISP did not say if it expects to expand that relationship to build on its broadband user base and service offerings.
"EarthLink has 288,000 broadband customers," according to Tom Andrus, vice president of emerging technology at the ISP. The majority of those customers are using EarthLink's DSL Internet access service. EarthLink partners with incumbent local exchange carriers and Covad Communications to locally provision DSL Internet access service customers.
EarthLink is in the midst of a handful of open access cable Internet trials with service providers such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. It's also offering service over Charter Communications' cable network, Andrus says. But these broadband services don't reach all customers.
Unlike DSL or cable modem service, the satellite service is available anywhere in the U.S. that offers an unobstructed view of the southern sky. This makes the service more attractive to users who do not have access to land line broadband services.
EarthLink Satellite service costs $70 per month in addition to a one-time installation cost of $900. The fee includes $650 for the dish and $250 to have the system installed.
EarthLink's business DSL service is available in about 50 markets, the company says. It includes eight IP addresses, with the option for more, and includes a router. The offer ranges from $140 to $400 per month for 144K bit/sec to 1.5M bit/sec DSL connectivity.
While the ISP has focused exclusively on residential customers and companies with fewer than 100 employees, it says it will offer services for large businesses before the end of September.
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Spanish authorities say they have arrested the ring leaders of a 'bot-net,' or network of millions of hacked computers all over the world. The group was planning to siphon financial and other sensitive information from companies, several of which are American, according to officials.
BBC technology correspondent Mark Ward explains how the network targets computers that appear otherwise normal. Authorities say the computers used peer-to-peer file sharing software to spread a malicious code, and that the group, called Mariposa, has used the network to gather everything from email passwords to credit card numbers.


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The Computing Center at Cox Hall offers a variety of resources for students including computer workstations, printers, gaming consoles, and supportive technologies for students' own devices. Use the links below for more information about the services we provide.
Student Digital Life welcomes your comments and suggestions. To report an issue or request service enhancements, please use our feedback form.
37 iMac workstations
4 Dells running Windows 7, each connected to display screens (located in our 3 classrooms and at our "Blueberry" group study space)
A variety of productivity software is available for use in the Computing Center.
Saving Your Work
Computing Center workstations are configured for public use. Personal user files saved to Computing Center workstations may be deleted at any time. Saving your work to your own media/online storage (USB drive, external HD, Box, OneDrive, etc) before you log out is necessary to preserve your files.
When editing files on our workstations, please start by saving the files to a known location, such as the Desktop or My Documents folder. Saving all files to a known location on the computer's hard drive before you edit them, especially in the case of email attachments, is a good way to ensure modifications will not be lost.
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Items are for use in our Center only and may not leave the premises.
Loans are for one business day. Items may be checked out at opening and kept until closing as long as they stay in the facility.
Users must leave their EmoryCards with us during use.
Users will be charged the full replacement costs for lost or damaged items.
Items we loan:
For HDMI connections, found in our classrooms, the Fishbowl and most of our group study display screens, we offer:
VGA to HDMI (Windows laptops)
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For VGA connections, found in our classrooms, we offer:
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We offer headphones with 3.5mm stereo mini plugs.
USB SuperDrives
We have 2 SuperDrives available for playing or burning CDs and DVDs.
Console Games and Controllers for our Xbox One, PS4, and Wii U
We offer 4 controllers for each of our 3 consoles. For a list of our games, please see the "Gaming" tab on this page.
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We offer:
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3 classrooms equipped with projection screens and SMART technology, seating 16 - 18
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All open spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Classrooms and the Fishbowl conference space may be reserved through our Student Digital Life Resource Scheduler.
We also offer adapters to help you connect:
For HDMI connections, found in our classrooms, the Fishbowl and most of our group study display screens, we offer:
VGA to HDMI (Windows laptops)
Mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt to HDMI (Mac laptops)
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For VGA connections, found in our classrooms, we offer:
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Young, Energetic & Slender (YES) is a diet supplement made from natural extracts of the South American native plant cha de bugre. YES is both an appetite suppressant and fat burner, helping you lose weight quickly. It also helps to increase your energy. It offers many of the same positive benefits gained from ephedra, without all the negative and dangerous side effects. Young, Energetic & Slender is available for sale in the U.S.
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Broncs Picked Third
Broncs Picked Third in MAAC Preseason Poll
Lindsay, Wayman Preseason All-MAAC
The 2013 Rider University baseball team was picked to finish third in the nine-team Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in a preseason poll voted on by the league's head coaches.
"Being picked third means very little to me since it is preseason," said Rider head coach Barry Davis, who has guided Rider to MAAC Championships in 2008 and 2010, "but hopefully we will finish in the top four and make a run at the championship."
Rider finished fourth in the MAAC last year, qualifying for the MAAC Championship Tournament for the fifth consecutive year.
Two Broncs, senior Ian Lindsay (Oaklyn, NJ/Haddon Township) and senior Adam Wayman (Wilkes-Barre, PA/G.A.R. Memorial), were named to the Preseason All-MAAC team.
"Ian and Adam are primed to have solid years for us," Davis said. "They have improved every year and this is the year for both to have All-MAAC type seasons."
Last year Lindsay was a First Team All-MAAC selection as a designated hitter, while Wayman was named to the NJCBA All-New Jersey Second Team last year.
Wayman led the 2012 team in hits with 63, runs scored with 36 and doubles with 13 and was second on the team in runs batted in with 30.
Lindsay led the 2012 team in batting with a .339 average and batted .375 against MAAC pitchers.
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Dear Cardinal Mahony, Please Stop
As events in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles continue to unfold, Deacon Greg Kandra brings to our attention a post by Cardinal Roger Mahony published this morning on the cardinal's personal blog. In the immediate wake of Archbishop Jose Gomez's announcement that Cardinal Mahony had been relieved of all official archdiocesan duties as a result of his mishandling of the clergy abuse scandal in Los Angeles, Cardinal Mahony's blog post has, I am saddened to say, a particularly unpleasant note of … [Read more...]
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Over at The Deacon's Bench, Greg Kandra has shared a piece by John Cornwell from The Tablet on the decline of confession among Catholics worldwide. It's a fascinating article, reflecting the research Cornwell has done for a forthcoming book. For reverts of a certain age, like me, there's much that resonates.Among the reasons Cornwell posits for the decline (which in itself is more a presumption than a matter of fact, as statistics aren't tracked for confessions the way they are for Baptisms, … [Read more...]


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what battle was the turning point in the war of 1812?
The United States took the initiative in declaring war for multiple reasons. In 1807, Britain introduced a series of trade restrictions to impede ongoing American trade with France, Britain's longtime rival. The U.S. contested these restrictions as illegal under international law.[4] Both the impressment of American citizens into the Royal Navy, and Britain's military support of American Indians who were attacking American settlers moving into the Northwest further aggravated tensions. Indian raids hindered the expansion of U.S. into potentially valuable farmlands in the Northwest Territory, comprising the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.[5] Some British officials – and some dissident Americans – charged that the goal was to annex part of Canada, but they did not specify which part. The states nearest Canada strongly opposed the war.[6]
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I'm poor so I bought an old NEC LT380 1024x768 LCD projector off Craigslist for cheap until I can get a modern 1080p projector. Being a novice, I didn't notice some things while speedily checking the thing out.
1) If I focus towards the top, the bottom becomes unfocused. Eventually I realized the top-left seemed to oppose the bottom-right corner. If I focus toward the center, the picture blurs outward and moreso towards those directions than the other corners. It has me imagining something angled diagonally so that one corner is further while the other is nearer.
2) Slight yellow tint. Came here and learned about LCD projectors and the faster degradation of blue polarizers that seem to typically become noticeable after about 5000 hours of usage (which mine happens to be at).
3) Slight red-ish edge on picture appeared first at the top, then moved to the right side of the picture. EDIT: I did my homework there, too, and learned this is very likely dust on the polarizers or lcd panels and has been remedied by many with a compressed air cleaning.
So, I decided to open up the projector and clean everything. I'm unwilling to invest more money into an outdated projector not even ideal for movies, and buying one for parts seems pointless as it would likely be just as used up. Whatever is the picture I can get with a cleaning is what will do until the day I can get a new one.
Unfortunately, as seasoned people may see, I messed with the LCD panels on the optical block. So, after doing some video watching and forum reading, I have determined I'll employ forceps to tediously rectify my error and get the red, green, and blue back in place since unfortunately, the LT380 does not let me have easy access to the panels while it's out. I haven't gotten to test it out as its colors are all zonked out, but I think I haven't noticed a red-ish edge...
Now, since I have it open, the last thing I can't figure out, is what the hell could be causing the uneven focus, and if there is any way for me to fix that. I found a couple threads here on the issue. First order of advice is to make sure the projector is completely perpendicular and centered and all that to your surface. I have tried tilting and angling every which way and I see no change in the uneven focus. I followed the next advice and held up a paper and brought it closer to see if there was actually an uneven focal point. Unfortunately, it seems so (see pics). I recall someone saying that it could be something situated incorrectly with the optical block. In my pics, the picture is focused to the bottom-right corner while the paper is a few feet closer, - about 75cm/29.5in from the projector.
Can someone offer any ideas of what would cause this and how to fix it? So far, I've been unable to spot anything on my own. It's really the last blemish to this purchase and of course it would be nice to get to watch a sharp picture and not a hazy one. I don't even mind the possible slight yellow tint as it seems like I could correct that with the video card settings on my computer.
In my cleaning, I opened up the compartment with all the mirrors and color filters, wiped all of that, blew compressed air at all of it, cleaned every lens, filter, or similar type thing. I separated the optical block from the lens and was only able to open one layer of the projector lens and cleaned it but couldn't figure out how to go further (and was wary to).
Help a ripped-off poor guy out. Please!
Sorry dude but messing with the Panels was the wrong thing to do. Looks like your convergence is off big time. The reason for the uneven focus could be the front lens was bashed and it won't track evenly. it could be a matter of pulling it into place. Try moving the lens in and out and see if it moves freely. My guess is the Blue screen is an issue since you mentioned it already This presents itself as a yellow ting to a yellow spot so you are already fighting a loosing battle. As far as the convergence goes,, if there is one panel that you haven't moved or touched yet try working off that one and align the panels one at a time while blocking the panel you are not working on or you will go crazy trying to make all three converge at the same time. For example. work off the rear center to the panel on the right and put up a grid align the right panel and block it off with a cut up match book or Business card then work on the left panel. Once it lines up with the rear panel remove the light block and see how the overall convergence is. BTW Do this from a distance of five or six feet or project a 40 to 50 inch image Don't use a huge screen it will only confuse you.
Thanks for the response Bohanna.
I'm not too worried about the convergence issue. I got some forceps in to help me re-align everything. It'll be a pain, but I'm okay fidgeting with it until I get it right.
I couldn't spot anything wrong with the lens so I removed the optical block to look at it and I think I found the culprit (thankfully)! Take a look:
It looks like the right side is raised above that black ridge, with the bottom-right sticking up furthest. That seems to match up with the projected images manner of uneveness. The problem is, I can't figure out how to push it down. I tried just shoving it down hoping it was something merely hanging out of whack, but it's firmly sprung up like this. I can't figure out how to remove it from the black frame to re-situate it.
Okay, so I soon after learned what I was looking at was the prism that is unevenly set. After a while, I finally found that when I turned the prism portion in a certain direction, it was creaking, so I went for it and voila - it came off the frame. I don't know how these are assembled, but I'm guessing this is more like a lazy fixing attempt by someone in the past (I can see a sticker on the bottom of the projector from some repair shop in PA):
Looks like it was glued. I chipped off some and I have some 5 min. epoxy I'm guessing I could use to glue it back properly. You can see on the bottom that would face toward the lens that there is some sort of blemish on the edge. That's the edge toward the glued top. I'd seen it before when I was cleaning, and now I know what made it... Surprisingly, I don't have any defect in the picture from that as far as I have noticed so far.
I'll update this later, I guess. Not sure I want to glue the thing back together but I guess that's really the only solid way.
Gluing the prism so that both sides touch the black frame does fix the uneven focus! Hooray - but, that red right edge of the screen (see first post pics of the grid) is still there and I can't figure out what's causing it. I guess it's the red right edge I saw when I first got the projector, but after cleaning it, it's now a big bar. Before, it was just a slight glow/line of the edge itself. I was messing with the convergence earlier and moving any of the red, green, or blue panels doesn't affect that red right edge...
I got all the panels lined up pretty quick but then I guess the glue is still susceptible to the high heat and the whole optical block started moving as I pushed around the panels, so I will come back to it later once I've let it cure.
UPDATE: Have found this: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1458911/epson-8100-replaced-bulb-and-now-pink-blue-bands#post_22982807
Will investigate further.
It looks like that right side's green panel is dim, but still present. Is that side of the green being bounced off of something that's only partially reflective or is it possible there's something partially blocking or fogging just that green right side? I hope it isn't the green's LCD itself that has a partial block.
Hey, you now have a carefully hand-aligned PJ..that's something people pay good money for.
That's what I thought about it being the green panel, but when I move it around, the green grid pattern moves, but the shadow stays in place on the ride side. I'm guessing it's something else, somewhere else.
Tinman's post I linked to in my last post seemed promising, but now I've opened up that area and can't see anything out of place. Everything seems snugly in place with no way to move it... But there must be something outside of the LCD panels that are off-center...
Here's what I'm seeing:
The only thing I haven't touched is the little screens (don't know what they are - other polarizers?) between the LCD panels and the prism, but they look alright.
Like I said earlier the Main lens must have been pushed into the optical block. I have seen this type of damage several times when the person carrying it like a suitcase walks into a door or a wall and it gets smushed in . I think this is one of the reasons they try to recess the lens into the case so if it hits something the case will take the impact. Now that you have this solved. I would work on the LCD panels and stay away from the optical path. The colored glass is polarised and fits facing a certain direction. If you get it wrong your even more screwed!!- Bohanna
BTW the three little colored screens that are in front of the LCD panels are the Polarisers.
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On October 4-5, the first-ever Louder than Life festival will bring music, whiskey, and "gourmet man food" together in Louisville, Kentucky. We're counting down to the big weekend with recipes from some of the performing artists themselves, as well as band-inspired cocktails courtesy of one of our favorite rock-and-roll bars, Idle Hands at 25 Avenue B in New York City. We'll be posting these every week until the last week of September when all the recipes and cocktails will be compiled in a Louder than Life eBook that will be available free download.
We're also offering you, the fans, the chance to get your favorite band-inspired recipe or cocktail in the eBook. Email your recipe to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Here is Theory of a Deadman vocalist-guitarist Tyler Connolly's Savage Chicken Sandwich.
Very similar to a po boy, but we'll use chicken instead of shrimp or roast beef. Chicken tenders work best. You can buy the frozen pre-breaded ones which is easier, but I like to get raw tenders from the meat aisle and BBQ them. I have a lot of pool parties at my house and always try to cook up something a little different than the usual burgers and dawgs. That way, when everyone is trying to cut their steaks with plastic knives on their laps--you have something you can eat with your bare hands like the devil intended.
Ingredients (prep time: 15 minutes / cook time: 10 minutes):
- chicken tenders (1lb will suffice)
- Louisiana Hot Sauce
- flour
- Mrs. Dash
- mozzarella cheese
- french bread baguette
- tomato
- iceberg shredded lettuce
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How to cook:
Real simple. Preheat BBQ. Put tenders in a Ziploc bag with a little Mrs. Dash and some flour. Shake 'em up. Throw them on the grill. I like to toast up the buns a little as well--got to have that crackling crust!
Slice up the tomato and cheese, throw it on the bread as well as the shredded lettuce. Use hot sauce to taste. But over do it.....'cuz you're a man. The tenders will melt the cheese once you put them on the bread. Now fold over and make sure not to cut it in half. Now jam it down your throat and enjoy!
P.S. All good if you can't finish this bad boy. Save it for later when you're hammered with your shirt off and looking for something to snack on before you pass out.
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Technical Abstract: Controlling erosion on and soil loss from irrigated lands is critical to sustain agricultural production. Protecting and stabilizing the soil surface will minimize sediment detachment. Slowing or reducing overland flow will minimize sediment transport. Reducing or managing runoff is the key to controlling soil loss wherever sprinkler irrigation or surface irrigation is practiced. Erosion caused by sprinkler irrigation is similar to that caused by rainfall, with many erosion control practices effective for both. Techniques that protect the soil surface from raindrop or sprinklerdrop impact are effective in maintaining infiltration rates, reducing overland flow, and controlling both detachment and transport. Erosion processes with surface irrigation are quite different from those with rainfall, due to the absence of droplet kinetic energy input to the soil surface, and thus require different control strategies. Controlling erosion from surface irrigation is a challenge, due to the requirement for overland flow and runoff and to varying flow regimes and soil infiltration rates. For both sprinkler and surface irrigation, off-site soil loss is often least where combinations of control practices are employed. For surface irrigation, PAM use is not only economical but likely offers the most promise for effective erosion control for most furrow-irrigated production systems.


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On Monday's Early Show on CBS, substitute news anchor Chris Wragge exaggerated Vice President Cheney's business resume. Instead of merely being CEO of Halliburton (and its then-subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root), he was said to be the owner of the entire company:
A report to be released as early as today finds that dozen of U.S. troops in Iraq got sick from contaminated water. The water was supplied by the military contractor KBR, once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney. The report said soldiers experienced skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, foul-smelling water.
To show how CBS script writers might have exaggerated the facts, here's the lead from the AP story on the same subject by Larry Margasak:
Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
Halliburton let go of KBR last year. Even AP didn't bother to list Cheney's term of service or his title. He was board chairman and CEO from 1995 to July 2000, when he accepted the vice-presidential nod from George W. Bush.The only other AP sentence mentioning Cheney merely said:
Halliburton is the oil services conglomerate that Cheney once led. Congressional Democrats long have complained that KBR has benefited from its former ties to Cheney.


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''Don't be creepy,'' R (Nicholas Hoult) keeps reminding himself while making small talk with his dream girl, Julie (Teresa Palmer). The big problem is that Julie is alive, while R is a zombie who spends his days staggering around an abandoned airport in search of human flesh.
Based on a novel by Isaac Marion, this post-apocalyptic love story initially looks like a parody of Twilight (Palmer suggests a blonde, more insouciant Kristen Stewart). Zombies, unlike vampires, aren't meant to be sexy: they're physically awkward and driven by instinct, with few signs of self-awareness beyond the occasional grunt.
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After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
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In short, they're a lot like teenage males - and so Warm Bodies proves to be an equal-opportunity fantasy of sorts. Boys who identify with R can share his dream of finding an attractive girlfriend who won't be turned off by a lack of social confidence or personal hygiene.
From Julie's point of view, R is the ultimate makeover subject - literally so when she and her friend Nora (Analeigh Tipton) use foundation to put some colour back in his cheeks.
Jonathan Levine is a shrewd writer-director, with an offbeat sensibility especially geared to male adolescent yearning. But here he seems bent on pleasing the same young crowd that lapped up The Perks of Being a Wallflower, balancing soulful romance with mildly gross humour while steering clear of anything too kinky or gruesome.
The winsomely gawky Hoult is the least-threatening zombie imaginable, resembling a shut-in who's just crawled out of bed after a three-day nap. He plays his big scenes in full emo mode, eyes wide and lips quivering as he struggles to express himself, while his voiceover reassures us that he's really a sensitive guy.
Yet this Romeo and Juliet revamp does indeed have its creepy side, which Levine (to his credit) makes little effort to erase. After killing and eating Julie's boyfriend Perry (Dave Franco), R essentially kidnaps her, forcing her to rely on him for protection.
Secretly, he keeps bits of Perry's brain in his pocket and nibbles on them from time to time - allowing him to assimilate Perry's thoughts and memories, which are visualised as lyrical fragments (fireworks, sun in the trees) in the manner of Terrence Malick.
Ever since his first feature, 2006 horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Levine has been drawn to a pastoral mood that combines romantic intensity with something raw and unresolved. He's fond of film grain, lens flare, anything suggesting the image has been shaped by human hands.
It's an approach that let him get in on the ground floor of the 1990s revival with his 2008 teen drama The Wackness, starring Josh Peck as an angsty New York pot dealer spouting hip-hop slang (''I'm mad depressed, yo'').
Here it's as if grunge never ended, with Palmer spending half the movie in a flannelette shirt and Hoult standing out from the horde in a red hoodie that recalls James Dean's jacket in Rebel without a Cause.
Zombies are unpolished by definition and so it makes a weird kind of sense that one of them should serve as a poster boy for the lo-fi aesthetic. R turns out to be a music collector, favouring vinyl over CDs: ''More … alive … '' he explains, playing Julie his favourite tracks by the likes of Bob Dylan.
It's ridiculous but also a little moving. What does it mean, this nostalgia for authenticity in a blatantly unreal fantasy setting? As in practically every zombie film, it's broadly hinted that the undead are just like you and me - alienated, adrift, devoid of goals beyond simple survival.
In this context, even hipster posturing carries a certain charge. When Julie snaps a polaroid of R and he watches it take shape in his hands, it's both a symbol of his rebirth and a nod to a vaguely imagined past, when love meant something concrete and every image was precious.
■ Warm Bodies opens on Thursday.


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For example, if it is settled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, then what other types of speech are also not protected by the First Amendment? Are depictions of violence protected by the First Amendment? Are depictions of cruelty to animals protected by the First Amendment? Is opera protected by the First Amendment?
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Travel Guide Central America Guatemala Panajachel
Panajachel (Pana) is a town in the southwestern Guatemalan Highlands, less than 150 kilometres from Guatemala City, in the department of Sololá. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The town lies at an altitude of around 1,600 metres and has about 12,000 inhabitants. The town of Panajachel is located on the northeast shore of Lake Atitlán, and has become a centre for the tourist trade of the area as it provides a base for visitors crossing the lake to visit other towns and villages.
Internet access is widely available. Even most of the more remote areas have some type of internet access available. Many larger areas also have WiFi. All of the Camperos chicken/pizza restaurants (which are numerous) offer free WiFi, as well as many other restaurants and cafes. Some hotels may also offer computer banks with internet access. Just ask and you eventually will find some sort of free access.
If you have a smartphone such as iPhone, Google Android, you just need a local SIM card (roughly Q25) and can start enjoying the prepaid access plans, which generally come in lots of an hour, a day, or a week.
See also International Telephone Calls
Guatemala's emergency phone numbers include 110 (police), 120 (ambulance) and 123 (fire). Guatemala's international calling code is 502. There are no area codes. Phone numbers all have eight digits.
The phone system isn't great, but it works. Tourists can call abroad from call centers, where you pay by the minute. It is also easy to purchase a calling card to use at public pay phones. The phones there do not accept money, so to use a public phone on the street you must purchase a telephone card. Typically, the cost is around 8 quetzals for a 10-min call to North America, and slightly more to Europe. Cell phones are quite cheap and calling overseas through one can get as low as $0.08 a min. If you are planning to stay for a while and plan to use the phone, you should consider buying a cheap prepaid phone. Wireless nation-wide internet access for laptops is also available as a service from some companies. Telefónica has good coverage with their PCMCIA EV-DO cards.
El Correo is the national postal company in Guatemala. It offers a wide range of services, including sending cards and packages both domestically as well as internationally. Most Guatemalan towns have a post office, although your best bet is to send mail from a large city. Service at El Correo is improving, thanks to consultation and assistance from Canada Post. Most post offices open from 8:30am to 5:30pm. Airmail letters to North America and Europe cost from Q6.50 and take a week or two to arrive. High-end hotels can usually send your mail for you, too. Expect packages you send through the Guatemalan mail system to take a very long time to arrive. They usually get there in the end, but it's worth paying extra for recorded delivery (correo registrado). Many stores can ship your purchases for you, for a cost. Valuable items are best sent with private express services. Couriers operating in Guatemala include DHL, UPS, and FedEx. Delivery within two to three business days for a 1-kg package starts at about Q500.
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Canadian Stocks Have Biggest Gain of Year on U.S. Jobless Claims
Canadian stocks rose for a third day, giving the benchmark index the largest gain of the year, as initial jobless claims in the U.S. fell for the first time in three weeks.
Energy companies climbed 1.5 percent as NuVista Energy Ltd. and Trinidad Drilling Ltd. led gains. Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. rallied 13 percent as its fiscal third-quarter profit (CF) beat estimates. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. jumped 2.8 percent on predictions the price of potash will climb above $400 a metric ton. BlackBerry Ltd. increased 2.5 percent, boosting gains this week to 4.5 percent.
The Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index (SPTSX) increased 153.71 points, or 1.1 percent, to 13,713.40 at 4 p.m. in Toronto, for the largest advance since Dec. 18. The gauge erased its loss for the year, rising 0.7 percent for 2014. Trading in S&P/TSX stocks was 12 percent higher than the 30-day average at the close.
"There's not a lot of activity aside from optimism to buy ahead of tomorrow's job reports," Brian Huen, a fund manager with Red Sky Capital Management Ltd., which oversees C$230 million ($207 million), said by phone from Toronto. "The market has been somewhat volatile and Canada, like the U.S. market, was in a bit of an oversold position coming into today."
Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits dropped 20,000 to 331,000 in the period ended Feb. 1, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a decrease to 335,000.
Jobs Data
Canada and the U.S. report employment data tomorrow. Figures from the U.S. are projected to show a 180,000 increase in nonfarm payrolls, according to the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The unemployment rate probably held at 6.7 percent, the lowest since October 2008.
Canada's merchandise trade deficit widened for a third month in December, exceeding all economist forecasts, as imports led by energy reached a record high. The deficit of C$1.66 billion followed a November shortfall that was revised to C$1.53 billion from C$940 million, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa.
Nine of 10 main industries in the S&P/TSX advanced. Phone companies jumped 1.7 percent. Industrial, financial and utilities shares gained at least 1.2 percent. Raw-materials producers rose 0.7 percent.
Energy companies added 1.5 percent. NuVista climbed 8.3 percent to C$9.05, the highest since August 2011. Trinidad rose 6.6 percent to C$9.90 and Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. jumped 6 percent to C$8.28.
Canaccord Results
Canaccord, Canada's largest non-bank brokerage, rallied 13 percent, the biggest gain since December 2008, to C$7.79. Profit for the period ended Dec. 31 rose 78 percent to C$18.3 million, or 14 cents a share, from a year earlier.
Chief Executive Officer Paul Reynolds said results were driven by record performance in the U.K. and Europe, and record contributions from its Australian business. Canaccord expanded beyond Canada with its 2012 takeover of U.K. stockbroker Collins Stewart Hawkpoint Plc.
Potash Corp. jumped 2.8 percent to C$36.78. OAO EuroChem, a Russian fertilizer maker building $7 billion of potash projects, expects prices to rebound above $400 a metric ton on mining costs and demand.
Prices of the material slumped after OAO Uralkali, the world's largest potash producer, plunged the $20 billion global market into turmoil in July by abandoning a marketing venture controlling 40 percent of exports.
BlackBerry Climbs
BlackBerry increased 2.5 percent to C$11.02. The smartphone maker has soared 9.3 percent over three days. CIBC analyst Todd Coupland wrote earlier this week that the company sees itself becoming cash-flow positive by the fourth quarter of 2015.
Detour Gold Corp. jumped 3.4 percent to C$7.01. Cormark Securities Inc. analyst Richard Gray gave the stock a new buy rating with a 12-month target price of C$13 a share.
Bombardier Inc. rose 2.4 percent to C$4.20. The Montreal-based rail equipment manufacturer won a 1 billion-pound ($1.63 billion) contract to build 65 trains for London's Crossrail route, securing work at Britain's last railcar factory after Siemens AG (SIE) withdrew from the bidding.
Bombardier's shares declined 11 percent this year through yesterday.
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I don't know of anyone that isn't sitting out there right now NOT thinking, "I want abundance in my life!" Even the rich and famous are wheeling and dealing at this very moment.
So what is one simple thing you can do to attract more?
Ask that on the social networks and you'll receive a myriad of answers.
I enjoyed reading a small suggestion from Dr. Wayne Dyer. There was a time in his life whereby he would thank the Universe for finding a penny in a parking lot. He may not have needed the penny because we know how much that can purchase. BUT, it was the thought, and the intention that counted.
He would pick up the penny and say something to effect of
"Thank you so much for this SIGN OF ABUNDANCE!",
tuck it in his pocket and continue on his way. I practice it often and today it wasn't a penny, it was 62 cents from nowhere! Thank you for this sign of abundance!
Will your abundance always come in money form? Not necessarily.
Last night it was the fact that after all my hard work, I must have finally discovered the leak source on the RV and it is fixed! THANK YOU! (I've saved $1,000 - $10,000).
This morning, my laptop is working after having spilled a cup of hot coffee on it Monday (I know, that's another good story just waiting to be told) – THANK YOU! (I've saved $400).
I found cans of delightful food stuffs I'd tucked away and forgotten. THANK YOU! (One of these is my favorite – I didn't know I had it and now today, I have a special treat).
TODAY, in this New Moon phase, begin thanking the Universe when you are pleasantly surprised. It doesn't have to mean anything to anyone else. The more you appreciate what you have, the more often it will rush in to produce more. It's that simple.


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I know it's on some of the people's mind. I got the contract already and have informed a few already of sending in the money to me. As always, we take the folks that have been at the last Fish-In first and fill in the empty beds after that.
If you got an email from me about sending in your money for me to hold your spot, then your good, as long as you sent in your money.....Don't wait around because I know of a few people that want those beds.
If you didn't hear from me and you were at last years Fish-In and stayed at the lodge, get in touch with me and get ready to write out a check. Contact me here or at my email email@example.com
Also, you should be making your plans for the apartments/campers at Happy Acres if your staying at the campgrounds. We will be --or I will be starting a list for people who want a meal plan for the week at the lodge.
If everyone remembers the dates that were chosen last year---May 22-27 2011. We move in on Sunday and leave on Friday. This way, we can go home and enjoy the Memorial Day festivities with the family.....and catch up on the sleep.
Consider this the opening thread to the PA Fish In of 2011.
Let's hear it --who's coming???