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"Everybody's Grandpa" is turning 100.
Louis Marshall Jones isn't around to see his 100th birthday - he died Feb. 19, 1998, at age 84 - but his banjo-playing, wise-cracking, "Grand Ole Opry"-playing and "Hee Haw"-starring character of Grandpa Jones lives on in memory, on records and in some priceless internet videos.
His friend Minnie Pearl's Country Music Hall of Fame plaque doesn't have a death date, though Pearl's creator, Sarah Ophelia Colley, died in 1996: Colley's notion was people die, but characters don't have to. Kermit The Frog probably feels the same way. To be sure, Grandpa Jones was a character, and if characters don't die then he's about to turn 100.
Himself a Country Music Hall of Famer, Jones was devoted to a clattering brand of performing that preceded the term "country music." A "Grandpa" since the age of 22 - we'll get to that story in a moment - his heyday was spent traveling pothole-laden, two-lane highways for 12 and 13 hours at a stretch, to get to little schoolhouse dates that sometimes didn't cover the travel expenses. His was a country world where hits were measured not by SoundScan numbers and "Billboard" chart positions, but by the volume of mail that would flow into the radio stations where he set up camp and did live sets, or to the cards and letters that would come in his name, in care of the Grand Ole Opry.
Sometimes those cards and letters didn't supersede others': When Opry member Stoney Lee Cooper had a heart attack around the same time Jones had a gallstone operation, Cooper got hundreds of letters compared to Jones' dozens. Grandpa rationalized this by saying aloud, "I guess gallstones don't draw as good as heart attacks."
Born on Oct. 20, 1913, in Henderson County, Ky., Jones spent teen years in Akron, Ohio, where he began singing on local radio station WJW as a youngster after earning a green Gibson guitar and a radio slot from a talent competition victory. He was known as "Marshall Jones, the 'Young Singer of Old Songs,'" and this was back in the 1920s: New songs from back then are now old songs. The "Grandpa" moniker came along in 1935, when he was playing a Boston radio station for another old-time song collector and performer, Bradley Kincaid. After a long night out working, Kincaid and his charges had to rise early to go on air at Boston's WBZ.
As Jones would often tell in later years, Kincaid said to a groggy Jones, "Get up to the microphone, you look just like an old grandpa." Jones spoke in a brashly craggy voice even as a young man, and radio listeners assumed he was geriatric. He decided to play up the "Grandpa" thing, performing with a false mustache and pencilling lines into his face, and performing more often on the banjo than the guitar.
"At first, the fake mustache was too big, and didn't look like a mustache should," said Ramona Jones, Grandpa's wife of 52 years and a renowned fiddler by the time she met Grandpa in the 1930s. Jones is 89 now, and remarried to Methodist pastor Gene Gober. She watched Grandpa's act develop through the decades.
"When he started calling him 'Grandpa,' Bradley Kincaid found him a pair of Civil War boots," she says. "He always wore those boots, but only going from backstage to the stage. He went on so many stages, he had to have soles put on those boots 13 different times."
Being a Grandpa in your 20s requires much in the way of outfitting and preparation. Jones spent most of his life trying to dress himself up to look older. He wasn't a natural looking grandpa until his 60s, and even then he lined his face with makeup to accentuate the wrinkles.
"One time (in the 1960s), Grandpa and I were sharing a dressing room at the old Ryman Auditorium," says Opry star Jeannie Seely. "It was so hot in there, you'd smear a little makeup on and by the time you reached for something else it was melting off. Grandpa was drawing the lines around his eyes, trying to make himself look old. I was trying to make myself look pretty. I looked at him and said, 'This is a (hassle), isn't it, Grandpa?' He said, 'Yes, it is. But I'm sorry to tell you that as time goes on, my job's gonna get easier, and yours is gonna get harder.' He was just so quick, and so right."
Throughout his career, Jones' songs harkened to times gone by. He sang songs with titles such as "15 Cents Is All I Got," "Bald Headed End of the Broom," "Tragic Romance," "My Little Nagging Wife" and "You Done Me Mean and Hateful." And he'd leap into the air, spin his banjo around and do most anything else he could to attract and maintain an audience in the days before giant video screens and arena-ready lighting.
Jones first came to Nashville in 1946, living at a boarding house frequented by musicians, run by Delia "Ma" Upchurch and located at 620 Boscobel St. in East Nashville. Webb Pierce, Roger Miller, Faron Young, Carl Smith, Stringbean and many others boarded at Upchurch's. Ramona Jones (then still Ramona Riggins) roomed next door, at a separate boarding house at 622 Boscobel, run by the Estes family.
"I used to hear a lot of music at night. Pee Wee King's group would be rehearsing, or Stringbean or somebody would be rehearsing at Ma's," Ramona says. "It was summertime, and they rehearsed out in the yard. That was kind of fun to hear all that music."
Though Grandpa Jones' act required makeup and costuming, he traded on sincerity and love of language.
"He could quote (poet) Robert Frost, verbatim, for hours," said Fred Foster, who recorded Jones' seasonal favorite, "The Christmas Guest," on Monument Records. "He was an amazing man, on many levels, and I think about him every day."
Foster hired a string section for the recording of "The Christmas Guest," a recitation based on the work of Russian poet Leo Tolstoy. Ramona Jones was shopping with a friend in a Madison, Tenn., card shop and the friend came upon Tolstoy's poem and asked Ramona to get it to Grandpa. He read it, loved it, changed a few parts to fit him, and went into the studio with Foster. At the studio, Jones was surprised to see an orchestra there.
"He said, 'Oh, am I late?'" Foster says. "I said, 'No.' He said, 'Am I early, then? Is it the wrong day?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Who are all these people?' I said, 'That's your orchestra.' He took two steps back and said, 'Well, I never been this outnumbered before.'"
Jones was concerned about how he'd know when to come in and out with his recitation, so Foster read the poem once with the orchestra, as a demonstration.
"Then we started it again, and he did it in one take," Foster says. "He said, 'Should we do it again?' I said, 'What for? There's enough magic in that to go around.'"
More than 40 years after its recording, "The Christmas Guest" is a regular feature on classic-minded country music radio stations at holiday time.
Jones' notoriety increased in 1969 with the debut of syndicated television show "Hee Haw," on which he was prominently featured. In addition to myriad musical performances on the show, he'd often answer as cast members asked, "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" On the show, he'd describe whatever he'd conjured for supper. Off camera, in Nashville restaurants, parking lots and grocery stores, fans would often shout to him, "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" His answers were seldom printable in a family newspaper.
Jones could be gruff, and suffering fools was not his forte. But, when annoyed, his rejoinders were often as funny as his prepared stage act. And he could be wry under the most trying of circumstances. On Jan. 3, 1998, he suffered a stroke just after performing his last set at the Grand Ole Opry.
"Some idiot stopped him in the hall, wanting an autograph," Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin told The Tennessean in 2010. "'It looks like I've hit a snag,' were the last words he said, trying to be funny."
According to friends and family members, those weren't his very last words. He was taken to a Nashville hospital, in his stage clothes and old boots, and stayed there for a month and a half before dying on Feb. 19, 1998. Days before his death, Foster visited him, after being told he was unresponsive.
"Ramona led me in and said, 'Pa, your buddy is here,'" Foster says. "He looked up and smiled and squeezed my hand. I sat and talked for quite awhile. I finally said, 'Pa, I gotta go, but I'll be back.' He squeezed harder, and whispered, 'I appreciate it,' and I'm told those were the last words he said."
Louis Marshall Jones' life involved hardship, turmoil, love and art. It began humbly, proceeded with musicality and hilarity, and ended in appreciation.
Rest in peace, Louis Marshall.
Happy birthday, Grandpa.
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I decided it reminded me too much of hoarders.
But that does NOT mean one needs to ... bury a steel box underground.
I just saw the term for the first time the other day, but we've had preppers her in the inland Northwest for decades. Most of them are racist bastards that think blacks and Mexicans are about to take over the world. I'd rather die than live like that.
Anybody been following these people? They seem to be in the news a lot and I think there is a TV program about them. Long ago we use to look at people like this and think they were batty. They apparently figured out how to multiply. I keep thinking about Jim Jones without the religious angle to it.
However, I see no reason why a family shouldn't keep extra supplies around for power outages, and other natural disaster/emergencies. But that does NOT mean one needs to learn how to make your own bullets, or bury a steel box underground.
Quote from: jetson on December 19, 2012, 03:51:16 PMHowever, I see no reason why a family shouldn't keep extra supplies around for power outages, and other natural disaster/emergencies. But that does NOT mean one needs to learn how to make your own bullets, or bury a steel box underground.This is how I feel about it. I started looking up prepper stuff recently after going through a massive power outage this summer and sandy in late october. Most of the prepper stuff seems to come down to people truly believing in total anarchy and the government taking over and we need to protect ourselves and survive. I'm playing the odds on that one and simply having some extra water and dried good. More like a boy scout than a "prepper." I will admit that it's the bullet hoarders that really scare me. Nothing wrong with shooting for fun or owning guns, but who really needs "10k bullets for each weapon when SHTF?"
Heads on sticks. Vlad the Impaler did that. Keep people away for a long time.
I have not seen the show. Is there any attempt at all to find rational 'preppers'? Or is it all the same kind of freakshow? I do find the idea of someone who is morbidly obese putting their energy into preparing for the end of the world fascinating; shouldn't a physical fitness regimen now be top of the list of practical and vital preparations for the end of civilization?
Quote from: ParkingPlaces on December 19, 2012, 05:04:48 PMI just saw the term for the first time the other day, but we've had preppers her in the inland Northwest for decades. Most of them are racist bastards that think blacks and Mexicans are about to take over the world. I'd rather die than live like that.Me too. I've lived through disasters, and I have seen the best of humanity in the aftermath.
One part of me thinks that preparing for the worst case scenario is understandable, within reason.
Except than then I wonder: when SHTF (just enough that social order disintegrates, but not quite enough for annihilation), how much preparation is being put into actually helping preserve or rebuild social order? Being able to protect yourself is good, okay; are they preparing for a role in directing recovery, rebuilding infrastructure, protecting others, contributing (as in the pictures cited below)? What, exactly, are they prepping for?
And is their prepping simply reactive, not proactive? Do they support NASA and investment in space technology (to detect and avoid that asteroid impact)? Science and research in general (to detect and avoid natural disasters)? When you're prepping for the end of the world, does that include taking steps to avert the end of the world itself?
@parkingplacesI can sort of understand that desire though. We live in a world where merit is second to every other factor when it comes to success, where people with connections will almost always beat you at whatever it is you try to do. A disaster, at the very least, make the world a bit more fair in a certain sense but that is pretty much where it sorta takes off and gets crazy to me. Isn't a disaster too high a price to achieve a meritocracy? What is the point of a fair world if there isn't enough resources to actually do something. My economics professor summed it quite nicely to me "I'd take an unfair system if it would mean everybody would be millionaires rather than have a meritocratic world where incompetent people are left off to die and successful people are billionaires, fairness isn't worth the deaths of so many people "
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Pupendo and Up and Down director Jan Hrebejk thoughtfully ponders the effect of contemporary events on traditional Czech culture with this engrossing tale of the unlikely romance shared between a desperate young mother and a kindly, but much older, Czech expatriate. Effectively rendered destitute by the floods that washed through Prague in 2002, struggling young father and husband Jarda (Roman Luknar) eventually resorts to stripping stolen cars as a means of supporting his impoverished family. Jarda's wife Marcela (Anna Geislerová) is having difficulty accepting her husband's nefarious new career, though, and before long she is packing her bags and rounding up the kids to seek shelter with her mother. Life at her mother's house isn't easy thanks to the constant presence of her mean-spirited stepfather Richard (Jiri Schmitzer), but it simply seems as if there is no place left to go and Marcela's options have run dry. Meanwhile, aging Czech émigré Benes (Josef Abrhám) is traveling to Prague from his home in Tuscany in order to reclaim a house that was previously seized by the communists. When Benes and Marcela meet in a chance encounter and the benevolent older man clearly takes a liking to the beautiful young woman, the prospect of securing a stable future for her young children soon prompts the confused Marcela to consider leaving her beloved husband behind in order to make a permanent home with the elegant but elderly foreigner.~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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hi all.. i have been thinking of getting a tig machine for a while now and both of these look like a good machine to me. i like the syncrowave 180 as it is cheaper than the dynasty 200, but the dynasty is so much lighter [and i could run it off 120v if i take it out of the shop]
what are some other good and bad points of these machines
most of my welding with it will be on mild steel from 20g to 1/4" and maybe some aluminum and stainless later on [i rarely work with either now]
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new tig for me: syncrowave 180sd? or dynasty 200 dx?Nick Leinonen
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If you are leaning toward a Syncrowave, I would wait until the 200 replaces the 180 shortly. Looks like it has some nice features.
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I got the Dynasty. It's a great machine. Great w/aluminum being able to wide range adjust the freq for each different work desired. Nice to be able to run on 120 for light duty jobs. Low amp requirement to run, so does not need a dedicated electrical outlet. Cons...Dig deep into your pocket. If space is a premium an inverter is the your answer...HTH somewhat...Wheat Stalker
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I bought the syncrowave 180 last year and I have been very happy with it. I am far from an expert, but I found it very easy to use, and I got great welds for a beginner. I don't have any experience with the other machine you mentioned. Keep in mind that if you want to weld thick aluminum, you may be pushing the limits of the 180. Aluminum sinks alot of heat. In the range you mentioned you will be fine. If you do weld thicker aluminum later once in a while you could just preheat to get by. If you can afford it I would go with the 250


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Earlier this week, actor Russell Crowe posted this tweet, describing UFOs he'd spotted outside his Woolloomooloo office:
UFO? Time Lapse Photos Outside RC's Woolloomooloo Office (THESE ARE REAL!): youtu.be/W63K—xUg6o via @youtube
— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) March 6, 2013
Above, you can see the video. The internet went wild, wondering WTF these weird UFO lights were, and what kind of intoxicants Crowe might be on.
The best response to the video comes from ParaBreakdown, where the good skeptics explain that basically Crowe doesn't know the difference between time lapse video and timed exposure photographs.


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robertk wrote:I was reading something Sujin Boriharnwanaket says that makes a lot of sense to me.
She said that one can have subtle craving for kusala and that shifts one away from the present:
"If one thinks that one should rather have objects other than the present one, since these appear to be more wholesome, one will never study the object which appears now. And how can one know their true nature when there is no study, no awareness of them? So it must be the present object, only what appears now. This is more difficult because it is not the object of desire. If desire can move one away to another object, that object satisfies one's desire. Desire is there all the time. If there is no understanding of lobha as lobha, how can it be eradicated? One has to understand different degrees of realities, also lobha which is more subtle, otherwise one does not know when there is lobha. Seeing things as they are. Lobha is lobha. Usually one does not see the subtle lobha which moves one away from developing right understanding of the present object."
And, of course, no teacher I know of would disagree with that.
But what I have never understood is why the KS followers appear think that they are the only ones who have thought deeply about these issues, that they are the only ones whose choice of approach is less susceptible to these problems, and that the rest of the Theravada community has lost it's way.


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"A wonderful baked chicken recipe that's quick and easy! Using just a few handy ingredients, create a delicious main dish, that also makes great leftovers - if there are any! Serve with a salad and pasta or rice for a quick, scrumptious dinner."
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2 tablespoons
olive oil
1 clove
garlic, minced
1 cup
dry bread crumbs
2/3 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon
dried basil leaves
1/4 teaspoon
ground black pepper
skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
FANTASTIC! This was a great baked chicken. I changed some things to make it even more flavorful for us. For the breadcrumb mixture I substituted "pepperidge farm herb stuffing" instead of plain bread crumbs and also added 1 tsp oregano along with the basil. I used 4 large chicken breasts and used 4 tbsp olive oil and 2 cloves garlic. I also sprinkled a little salt and pepper on the chicken breasts before dipping them into the oil/garlic mixture. Oh to make this easier, use 2 pie pans for the dipping. It's so much easier than a bowl.. unless the chicken breasts are smaller or tenders. I did not think there was too much breadcrumb mixture as other reviewers said. I did have a little bit of each leftover (oil and breadcrumb), so I first drizzled what was left of the oil on the prepared chicken breasts in the pan, and then sprinkled what was left of the breadcrmb mixture over this. Then I sprinkled all of this with some garlic powder. It took about 40 minutes for the chicken to be done. It was SO MOIST and SO FLAVORFUL. Better and SO MUCH EASIER than my usual parmensan chicken recipe. WILL MAKE AGAIN AND AGAIN. Thanks!
I thought this was mediocre despite all the superlative reviews. I wish people would actually review the recipe as written, not their revisions. It makes the ratings very misleading. In any case, when actually following the recipe as written, the bread crumb coating was soggy and bland and there was not enough olive to dip six breasts in. I would not recommend this.
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With my modifications, it came out perfect! Used 6 chicken breasts. Was out of italian breadcrumbs so used chicken flavored stove top stuffing crushed well. Used 4 tbsps of olive oil and 2 tsps minced garlic. Put chicken breasts in a ziplock bag, added garlic, oil mixture, added 2 tsps adobo, 1 tsp each of salt & pepper, mixed well. Dipped the chicken pieces in the crumb/parmesan cheese mixture and baked for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. I've made similar recipes and they've lacked in flavor - this is the first time the flavor was perfect (in my opinion!) so I made sure to write it down this time!! This is one of those great recipes that is perfect for altering to your preference. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great recipe. Here's what I did with it. I added melted butter to the olive oil (about equal amounts), used Japanese style panko crumbs and FRESH parmesan. I pounded the breasts to ensure even and quick cooking and after they were baked (I cooked them at 375 degrees for 30 minutes)I put a little sun dried tomato pesto on top of each one and covered that with slices of mozza cheese. I then put the pan under a hot broiler for a minute. The only part that took any time was pounding the breasts. I whipped this up for unexpected dinner guests and served it on a bed of rice pilaf on a large platter. It tasted great and it looked impressive. Everyone loved it and there were no leftovers. Do try the panko crumbs if you can find them as they make a light crispy coating and the texture is more appealing than regular bread crumbs.
I'm going to make this tonight. I started reading the reviews and got very fusterated. If your not going to make a recipe how it is, don't write a review. Your not rating this recipe. Post your own recipe!!!! I don't get it. Had to get that off my chest.:)
Really great, pretty healthy, chicken dish. Cooked exactly 30 minutes and they were perfect. I used panko bread crumbs because I think they offer a better crunch. Also, I cooked the chicken on a cooling rack and flipped them half way through so that they wouldn't get soggy on the bottom. A trick I learned watching America's Test Kitchen.
The Chicken was beautiful, but the recipe doesnt call for the chicken to be seasoned, I suggest that you do if only with mrs dash or salt even. But otherwise it was superb! It went well with mashes patatoes (my creativity) and DONT cover the pan with foil when baking because it will come out soggy. So leave it as is and sprinkle enough of the excess breadcrumbs over the top of the chicken. And the recipe calls for way too much breadcrumbs and after you dip the chicken in the breadcrumbs you MUST throw them away (contamination etc..) and that is a massive waste, USE YOUR DISCRETION. OTHERWISE THE CHICKEN WAS SUPERB!
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Let me start by saying that I hate breaded chicken. I decided to give this a try because I was pressed for time. We only eat chicken/ fish/veggies/grains and sometimes it gets boring. I was completely amazed that this was so good! I used a little more garlic, seasoned bread crumbs, and a dash of italian seasoning and season salt. I also used a softer parmesan cheese that made all the difference. Chicken was juicy and full of flavor. By the way, organic chicken will always taste better! Those in doubt..it is a keeper!
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But Monday night at the Belcourt Theatre, the Desert Rose Band's reunion concert was much more about renewal than replication. Enlivened by guest visits from Emmylou Harris and Brad Paisley, the Desert Rose Band's original lineup presented a reunion show that existed fully in the moment, bolstered, not shackled, by memory.
The clumsy moments may have been the dearest. Harris and bandleader Chris Hillman fumbled the opening of "Sin City," a song Hillman wrote with Harris' mentor, the late Gram Parsons. But the awkward start gave way to a harmonious, waltz-time wonder as the band got in sync.
Later, Hillman was so enamored of guitarist John Jorgenson's warp-speed solo on "The Price I Pay" that he forgot to reenter for the final chorus. He returned to the microphone with an astonished look on his face, as if he'd been jerked from the audience onto the stage.
Then again, some of the night's finer moments were far from clumsy. Paisley, a child of 14 when the Desert Rose Band first hit the charts in 1987 with "Ashes of Love," played the searing "Hello Trouble" solo with Jorgenson, in harmony. Steel player Jay Dee Maness delivered a lovely, perfectly executed solo on "Together Again," a song originally recorded by Buck Owens in a version that featured a legendary solo from another ex-Desert Rose Band member, Tom Brumley.
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1-cup mayonnaise
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Combine all ingredients. Chill a few hours or overnight.
Ingredients for Smashburger
Use high quality kosher ground Angus beef – with an 80/20 meat-fat ratio if possible
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LOOSELY Shape ground beef into balls. Each should be 1/3 or 1/2 lb.
Heat an outdoor grill to 400 degrees; Place a flat metal pan over the grill or use optionally, use a cast iron stovetop grill pan.
We thank http://lajollamom.com/2011/06/smashburger-burger-recipe/ and Smashburger for inspiring these recipes.
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St. Mary's sheriff's deputies report that they arrested a teenager Monday after a nearly five-hour standoff that morning at a Hollywood area home, where they responded to a reported disturbance allegedly involving someone having marijuana and a handgun.
Andrew R. Maier, 19, of California's Wildewood community, was released on personal recognizance by a court commissioner by midday Monday to await a court hearing on misdemeanor charges including the possession of marijuana, the possession of drug paraphernalia and illegally having a handgun.
Police arriving at the Hollywood home at 2:48 a.m. that day observed an attempt to barricade a garage door and prevent entry to the residence, St. Mary's detectives report, and three people coming out of the house through another door were detained but not charged.
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BEFORE WE BEGIN... Reasons you might want to do this include the following:
- You need to scan something, fast, but it doesn't scan easily.
- You don't want to build an entire DIY Book Scanner.
- You don't want to waste your time with a flatbed scanner.
- You have only one camera.
- You might not have a lot of tools or experience.
- You want digital copies of your books or notebooks.
ALSO... We've done this book scanning Instructable thing before. And answered many questions in the comments! And we love you guys completely, but sometimes (well, actually, all the time) we get the same questions over and over! So we've compiled a Fairly Annoying Questions (FAQ) Here are some answers before we get started!
1. Why not just take a picture with the book on the table.
- Why don't you. ;)
- Your camera doesn't have enough resolution for two pages.
- The distorted pages are not fun to read onscreen.
- Lighting is inconsistent.
- Cameras cast shadows. You cast shadows.
2. Why use a camera instead of a flatbed scanner?
- Pressing a book on the scanner breaks the binding.
- Flatbed scanners are slow.
- You need to reposition the book for every page.
- Flatbed scanners are slooooooow.
- Sloooooooowwwwwnesssssss.
3. Why not use a sheet-feed scanner like the ScanSnap?
- I don't like sawing the bindings off my books.
- A small part of me dies when I destroy a book.
- I don't have a tablesaw.
- I'm not willing to spend ~$500 just to destroy a book.
4. Can't I use a webcam?
- No.
This looked very nice, but the OCR quality turned out to be terrible. For ebooking purposes this is probably useless. If you just want a PDF image, on the other hand, this should work.
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I constructed the box base scan bed as instructed and it works as described. I have an issue I'd like advice about if possible. I've been scanning my grandmothers sewing publications for archiving. As the example shows, I've have a reflection on the bottom edge of the picture (it's been rotated) that I haven't been able to eliminate. I've repositioned the light source and also tried putting spacers under the center of the box's hinge point to change the angle from about 90 degrees to something larger. These changes haven't eliminated the reflection. Moving the book higher on the box to avoid the hinge point does work, but that takes away the efficiency in this design when scanning multiple pages.
Just made one of these and am currently using it to scan some awesome antique science books. Thanks for the ible!
Also, ScanTailor is very neat, though I have trouble with it always running out of memory on certain pictures. The dewarping facility was useful because I didn't get a proper straight-ahead shot of the pages.
But it seems that some company came out with XCANEX.
Checked its video and it look cheaper.
ANyone tried it??
Thank You!
I would recommend to my friends.
The recommendation of a friend professional Graphic Converter! really good and I like it very much, I save a lot of time. To try his
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Get 2 lamps instead of one (With the bendy arm just like in your example)
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Michigan Sails By VCU 78-53
Mitch McGary scored a game high 21 points and 13 rebounds and the Michigan Wolverines beat the Virginia Commonwealth Rams 78-53 during the third round of the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at The Palace of Auburn Hills Saturday.
Temple Holds On, Beats NC State 76-72
Temple, led by Khalif Wyatt, beats NC State 76-72.
La Salle Upsets No. 4 Kansas St. 63-61
The Explorers found a way to win, 63-61, to advance to the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament against No. 12 seed Mississippi on Sunday.
Villanova Eliminated From Tournament After 78-71 Loss To UNC
North Carolina unleashed a flurry of 3-pointers to subdue gritty Villanova 78-71 in the NCAA tournament Friday night.
Floria Gulf Coast Upsets No. 2 Seed Georgetown 78-68
Sherwood Brown scored 24 points and Bernard Thompson had 23 to lead Florida Gulf Coast to an incredible NCAA tournament debut, a 78-68 win over second-seeded Georgetown on Friday night in the second round of the South Regional.
Memphis Tops St. Mary's; Takes On MSU Saturday
When D.J. Stephens is dunking and blocking shots, Memphis looks like a team that could make an extended run in this NCAA tournament.
VCU Smashes Akron; Michigan Next
VCU was at its best, pressing, running — and winning with ease.
Gonzaga Pulls Out 64-58 Win Over Southern
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Russ Smith scored 23 points and set a Louisville NCAA tournament record with a career-high eight steals, and Peyton Siva had eight assists as the Cardinals demolished North Carolina A&T 79-48 on Thursday night.
Michigan Beats South Dakota State 71-56
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Every day ( except 25 December and 1 January ) Directly dall'Hotel Lirico , a journey to discover one of the most evocative of Italian art, history , folklore and archeology . During the trip you can admire the Abbey of Montecassino .
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Of all the television shows that have come and gone, few had the personal fashion impact of Miami Vice. Its influence was unmatched up until the day all those girls started getting the "Friends haircut." While I may like to labor under the delusion that I've always been a wildly diverse, counter-culture fringe dweller for all my life and started fighting The Man the minutes I was cut out of my mother's belly (or even before, since I insisted The Man drag me into his world by force), the sad fact of the matter is that in seventh grade, I was still a year away from my revelation. Though hardly a "business as usual" kind of kid, Lord knows I owned a few audaciously colored Polo shirts, a pair of Duck Head khakis, and a pair of those weird tan, soft leather Bass shoes. Not the boat shoes, but those other ones. At least I wasn't one of the guys who wore Tretorns. I owned a copy of Thriller, and yes, I owned a Miami Vice soundtrack cassette. So sue me. It was the 1980s, and it wouldn't be until a year later that I would discover skateboarding and begin my evolution.
When reviewing Sword and the Sorcerer, I remarked on the hesitation I feel any time I chose to revisit things from my past, especially from the period of my past falling roughly between 1982 to 1985, a period in which I knew all the words to "Easy Lover." What disturbs me even more, as eBay makes revisiting my favorite films of that era an easy to afford reality, is that I keep discovering that I still like those movies. By all accounts, The Beastmaster and Gymkata should not be good movies once you cross the threshold into adulthood, doubly so for an adult who spent much of his college career writing papers on "the influence of expressionism in early German silent films" or "the influence of World War One on cinematic art design, 1919-1936." After watching and dissecting films consider by popular consensus to be among the very best ever made, I should not be sitting down with giddy anticipation to watch The Perils of Pauline, having gained nary an ounce of sophistication since the day I first watched it at a friend's house on cable television decades ago.
Yet here I sit, constructing a website about the world of film in which Citizen Kane is little more than the punch line to a variety of jokes, where religiously-themed masterpiece movies like Beckett are known but Devil Nuns of Monza is more likely to be given an in-depth analysis.
Michael Mann, the producer who gave the world Miami Vice and helped rocket Phillip Michael Thomas into a lucrative career as a phone psychic spokesman, has come a long way since the days when the interior of police stations were all done up in neon, Edward James Olmos was a police chief with ninja training, and Don Johnson was looking for a heartbeat. Since those days, he's given the world the critically acclaimed feature films Manhunter (the first movie to introduce the world to the character of Hannibal Lecter), and Heat starring Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and a weird but unmentioned bulbous knob on Val Kilmer's elbow. In 2001, Mann shook things up again with a highly anticipated biopic about Muhammad Ali with the controversial casting of Will Smith as Kentucky's own and Mario Van Peebles as Malcom X.
So it is with no great surprise that we'll be ignoring completely the respectable body of work Mann has given us in the past ten or fifteen years, and concentrating instead on the 1986 film Band of the Hand. Produced by Mann and directed by former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser (also a Miami Vice alumnus, though unlike Mann, he actually got less credible as his career progressed – if you call Kazaam progress), everything about Band of the Hand screams outdated 1980s chic. From the "cool" clothes to the frequent pink and blue neon, there's certainly no mistaking the era in which this movie was produced. With all that dating going against it, not to mention the inevitable fate of being dismissed as "cheesy" by any feeble-minded simp who can't get a grip on anything older than The Matrix, I was shocked upon viewing this film some fifteen years after I first thought it was pretty cool to find that it's actually still pretty cool.
Not that it's a forgotten classic or anything. There's no real crime being committed by the bulk of humanity for not remembering this movie was ever made, but it's still pretty fun, if not more than a little outlandish in its premise. We begin with a series of juvenile delinquents being rounded up for various crimes. To be honest, some of these juveniles look pretty old. I mean, is "international coke trafficker in a slick pastel blazer and sportscar" really something juvenile delinquents do? I figure, you know, knifing someone or stealing porno mags is what juvenile delinquents do, not setting up vast international drug rings. But that's just what Ruben seems to be doing. He's on the fast-track to success as a Cuban drug dealer until he gets busted.
Then there's Moss and Carlos, the leaders of rival black and Puerto Rican street gangs. They get nabbed when a rumble between their respective posses turns into an all-out riot. Generic "pretty boy" Dorsey gets busted trying to sell drugs. Future cross-dressing sex symbol and Hedwig and the Angry Inch director/star John Cameron Mitchell rounds out our band of misfits as JL, a disturbed young punk rocker in the truest 1980s movie sense of the word, meaning they slap spikey orange hair, a pair of Oakleys, and some neon colored paint-splattered clothes on him. He gets arrested when he catches his abusive stepfather beating the shit out of his mom and decides that the old man deserves a little fatal justice for his actions.
But a funny thing happens on the way to jail.
Our five young trouble makers find themselves dropped off not at juvie, but instead in the middle of the swampy Everglades. The only other person around is a gruff dude named Joe who showcases early 1980s "mercenary" fashion by wearing nothing but black tank tops, black cargo pants tucked into his combat boots, and of course, accessorizing with the black bandana tied around his head. Joe informs them that he is about to use up the greater portion of the film's "suspension of disbelief" allotment. The five rakehells have been drafted into a special rehabilitation program in which they are dropped into the middle of the swamp and forced to fend for themselves while Joe dispenses half-baked zen warrior wisdom, thus teaching them all the value of self-respect and team work, which will eventually prepare them to return to the means streets of Miami where they will defend the locals from a young Laurence Fishburne as a pimp and Ruben's old drug kingpin boss.
Okay, sure.
There are, of course a couple problems with the plot. First of all, I don't think, even in the Reagan era, you were allowed to shanghai young criminals and drop them in the swamp with Billy Jack. Sure, you could put a telephone book on their chest and hit it with a hammer, but dropping them in the swamp to eat bugs and slog through the murky, snake- and gator-invested waters of south Florida's beautiful ecosystem was right out. Luckily, none of these guys seems to have any family, at least not any family that objects to their ne'r-do-well offspring being sent to the swamp to build bivouacs.
The second problem is that Joe doesn't really seem to teach them very much, and their revelation about the value of sticking together and becoming friends is rushed through with very little development. I'm guessing they were out in the swamp for weeks, but the way the film is put together, it feels like a couple days. It becomes obvious very early on that the film treasures style over substance – not surprising with Michael Mann in the producer's seat. The end result, also not surprising given Mann and Glaser were both primarily television guys at this point, is a movie that feels like a television show. Each of the boys plays a stereotyped character – -the two gang leaders, the suave drug dealer, the dumb pretty boy, and the quiet crazy guy, all of whom eventually discover the value of good. The story relies on you being familiar with those archetypes (and honestly, who isn't at this point?), and never really does much to develop the characters beyond that.
Ruben is the one exception to the rule, as he's the only character the movie spends any real time on. After he and the gang – the Band, if you will – successfully complete their program of Joe going off to eat hot wings while they wallow in the muck, Ruben's first instinct is to bail on the ghetto squat they adopt as their home and headquarters and return to his posh life and position of power. Part of his motivation is his girlfriend, Nikki, played by a young Lauren Holly. She's still caught up in "the life," though she's starting to fear for hers. When Ruben's old boss declares war on "that bunch of young punks" who are cleaning up his most profitable ghetto, Ruben has to chose between the high life or street war alongside his new friends. Which way he goes is no big surprise, of course.
What is a big surprise, especially for a movie like this, is how good most of the young actors are. John Cameron Mitchell was years away from becoming a counter-culture darling, but he brings a quiet and believable intensity to the character of JL and actually softens the "smart, crazy dude" stereotype by playing it a little more subtle where most people would have hooted and hollered way over the top. The late Michael Carmine does a great job as Ruben, and the rest of the cast performs with workhorse-like competency within the limited roles assigned to them. Carlos is protrayed by Anthony Quinn's son, though from the looks of him, he could just as easily be related to Antonio Sabata, Sr. James Remar, known in b-movie fandom as one of the greatest sleazy villains of all time (or alternately as "that guy who reminds me of Willem Dafoe"), turns in exactly the performance you expect: delightfulyl slimy. Lawrence Fishburne is mostly there to tool around in a pimpmobile and do that thing where you talk big and threaten some dude with a gun, then that guy disarms you in the blink of an eye and kicks your ass.
Where the movie fails the talents of the cast is in the writing, which as I said, suffers from shallowness and a certain degree of far-fetchedness, if there is such a word. It was the 1980s, though, and if Arnold could walk slowly across a lawn while three dozen guys with M-16s fail to shoot him, then a quintet of wacky young punks can train in the swamp to fight Miami drug dealers. At nearly two hours, though, they should have had time to do more with characters other than Ruben. Instead, it's up to us to fill in the blanks. Joe spouts off idiotic "way of the peaceful warrior" philosophies that we have to accept as profound and deep because the movie calls for it. He's wise, or so we're told, but in reality, his wisdom comes off like the dime-store nonsense your finer high school football coaches spout off.
The scenario itself is rushed and undeveloped as well. It's like we're watching them bicker and fight with one another, then in the next scene there should be a bit of text saying, "And they fought long into the night, but by dawn, had learned to respect one another." There's no real sense of character development from the guys. We're asked to simply accept at face value that somewhere out there in the swamp, they discover their humanity.
Where the first half of the film is a so-so Dirty Dozen type "misfits train to be the best of the best" type film, the second half sees the movie dive into a 1980s interpretation of all those "let's clean up the ghetto" type films from the 1970s, with Joe being a link to the many "vets clean up the ghetto" type movies that became popular in the 1980s. You know the ones. A Vietnam vet returns to "The World" only to discover that the madness of war is nothing compared to the madness that has seized the streets of America. Where as the cats in the 1970s generally fought back with kungfu and various wacky schemes, in the Reagan Era, they decided to dispense with the shenanigans and simply start blowing people away and shooting them with flamethrowers.
The action is poured on pretty heavily in the second half of the film, and while it's certainly not on par with what was going on in Hong Kong at the time, there were certainly worse atrocities committed in the name of American action choreography, many of them conveniently located in Ninja III: The Domination. With Mann's guiding hand, and no neophyte to the world of action himself, Glaser directs the action sequences with style, energy, and a quick pace. The finale sees the Band unite to take out a major drug manufacturing plant in South Florida, disappointing hundreds if not thousands of Bret Easton Ellis characters and fans alike.
Stylewise, the movie is Miami Vice. Mann spared no Vice idiosyncrasy or element in this big-screen adaptation of his pastel, neon-drenched Miami. Had it been legally possible, they could have actually set this movie in the Miami Vice universe as a spin-off with Crockett and Tubbs cameos. No such cross-over, however, though the film looks exactly like its small-screen counterpart. Everyone dresses like a rock star. Everyone has cool cars. And of course, every light in Miami is neon pink. That last one actually isn't so far from the truth. While it would have been nice to see Mann and Glaser concoct something a little different, you can't really blame them for drawing from the Miami Vice well. That sort of style is inevitable for Mann. Even Heat, produced years later and set in Miami's kindred spirit of a city, Los Angeles, still has certain scenes that are heavy on the Vice style. I wonder if Mann will apply the same glowing pink neon to the seedy world of boxing in Ali.
While the style of the film certainly dates it as a product of the 1980s, it doesn't torpedo the film the way you might think. This could be because everyone these days apes John Woo, and some of Woo's films, while certainly not mimicking Miami Vice possess that same "ultra suave" sense of style. Thus the Band of the Hand fashion isn't as outlandish now as it probably should be.
The direction itself is solid if unspectacular. Like the plot, the direction relies primarily on the popularity of the Miami Vice sheen to carry the film, rising to the task only when the action scenes erupt and everyone starts jumping around with uzis, the gun of choice in pretty much every 1980s urban action film. Glaser keeps a solid pace throughout the film, even during the requisite dramatics between Ruben and Nikki. Plus, this sort of film always gets away with a false sense of tension since you know at least one character is going to die. As long as they aren't all total jackasses, you'll at least care somewhat about who it is. Once again, the charisma of the individual actors outshines the limitations of the script, making it easier to become more emotionally invested in everyone than the writing deserves. Not that we're on the same level of Jimmy Cagney or Chow Yun-fat here, but considering the bulk of the characters populating the action films of the 1980s, the Band is certainly worth more of your time than the collected characters of Michael Dudikoff.
Music is important to the movie as well, and if you know a thing or two about Michael Mann, you know that he was one of the first people to really emphasize rock (or what passed for rock at the time), and if nothing else, he was very good at it. In fact, he's better at using music to convey mood and emotion than the script is. While I won't be searching eBay for copies of the Band of the Hand LP or cassette (CD? Whatever. Those things will never catch on), within the context of the film, it works remarkably well, though it also makes it feel even more like a Miami Vice spin-off than before.
So yeah, it's not a great film, but it also doesn't deserve to be dismissed as off-handedly as some people do. I regard any criticism that can't get beyond, "Dude, it was so cheesy" and thus disregarding a film simply because it was made in a time and fashion period different from their own. I don't think I give Band of the Hand the benefit of the doubt simply because it came from the 1980s, a time when I was, you know, discovering girls and growing hair on parts of my body where there hadn't been any hair before (like the soles of my feet and my tongue). That's not valid because, frankly, I hate the 1980s. Not as much as I hate the disco era, but if you want to get a groan out of me, simply force me to endure any number of "Retro Eighties" forms of entertainment. So it's not like I have a soft spot for things that are distinctly 1980s.
What it boils down to, then, is the simple fact that I don't think Band of the Hand is a particularly bad movie. Sure, it has some pretty obvious flaws, and in the end, it's pretty silly. In the end, however, it does for Michael Mann what The Last Dragon did for Barry Gordy. Actually, "not much" would be what it did for them. But both, in my opinion, manage to rise above their obvious short-comings and deliver movies that are, if not perfect, at least fun. Compared to most of the action films from the 1980s, Band of the Hand is a damn work of art, but removed from those low standards, it remains a decent if not entirely successful action film with a goofy moral, lots of energy, and style to spare. I went into it expecting to laugh, and I discovered that despite the 1980s trappings, it was still an alright b-grade action film. It may not be The Killer, but at least it isn't Panther Squad.


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Before I get started, I just want to say that Im not a gun owner. I abhor violence and think that spreading knowledge is the best way to combat evil. With that said, let me take a second to put my tin foil hat on.
Bloody revolutions are the most common way dictators come to power; but every so often a dictator takes control from within. If a dictator ever takes control of the U.S., it will likely be from within. In order for this to happen, certain conditions must be met. The most common element present in the rise of tyranny is economic turmoil. Fear is also a useful tool, as it helps establish control. As for traits to look for in a dictator, charisma is a must. One doesn't necessarily need to display passion in his or her speeches, so long as the targeted audience can get worked up. Look up any 20th century dictator, and they all had very devoted (if not cult-like) followings.
Hitler promised Germans a wide array of things. "Change we can believe in", so to speak. "He skillfully played on the emotions of the audience bringing the level of excitement higher and higher until the people wound up a wide-eyed, screaming, frenzied mass that surrendered to his will and looked upon him with pseudo-religious adoration." [www.historyplace.com] Sound familiar? Hitler, however, was able to keep some of his promises to the people. Germany went from having a broken economy with a weakened army, to having a strong enough economy to fund an army that almost conquered the world.
Germany's political setting was advantageous for his political aspirations, but even he failed several times along the way. The checks meant to keep Hitler (some of the checks near the end were meant specifically for Hitler) from attaining too much power eventually failed. The sad thing is this: there were people at the time (prior to Hitler becoming dictator) that were saying many of the same things the "paranoid" are now saying about President Obama. ". . . sure Hitler took advantage of the economic turmoil, is charismatic, and has a cult following . . . so what? It was Chancellor Bruening that first worked his way around the Constitution. And they were right to a certain extent. Those things alone didn't make Hitler the man history remembers him as.
Before I continue, let me address the gun control issue. Hitler didn't disarm his citizens; per se. Germany was already disarmed thanks to The Treaty of Versailles. As a matter of fact, Hitler's '38 gun law helped put guns back into the hands of ordinary citizens (so long as they weren't "undesirable"). If anything, the '38 gun law gave the illusion of liberty to most of its citizens, while ensuring the number of guns in circulation was still very low. Keeping the number of firearms amongst the civilian populace at a low number is important for maintaining power, but not as important as security or the ability to gather intelligence on one's citizens. Without the means to assemble, even a well-armed resistance is no guarantee to succeed. Needless to say, fewer firearms further reduce the odds of a successful resistance. (All this, of course, is assuming that peaceful means of resolution have failed.)
Now, let's take a look at the things that further helped Hitler's rise to power:
A. Hitler vilified his political opposition, specifically his predecessor and the communist party. I mean, after all, it was the opposition's fault so many were living in poverty. It was this thought process that many German citizens used to justify Hitler murdering his opposition. Hitler's enemies were in the way of progress.
B. Hitler incited fear and encouraged citizens to spy on one another. The Gestapo was formed in 1934. The Gestapo, by the way, was considered a sister organization to the Sicherheitsdienst (the first Nazi Party intelligence organization).
C. Hitler had a private army.
D. Hitler dissolved the Reichstag. "Hitler's plan was to establish a majority of elected Nazis in the Reichstag which would become a rubber stamp, passing whatever laws he desired while making it all perfectly legal." [www.historyplace.com]
E. After the Reichstag fire (orchestrated by Hitler), The Reichstag Fire Decree became law. "[T]he regulations suspended important provisions of the German constitution, especially those safeguarding individual rights and due process of law. The decree permitted the restriction of the right to assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, among other rights, and it removed all restraints on police investigations. With the decree in place, the regime was free to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and suppress publications. It also gave the central government the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments. This law became a permanent feature of the Nazi police state."
How is this relevant to where we stand today?
A. Obama is in his 2nd term and he's still blaming others for his administration's lack of progress. Though, to his credit, he hasn't murdered any of his political opposition. Then again, this administration is targeting whistleblowers and "hactivists" like no administration has ever done.
B. http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/...a-warns-204734 DHS had made similar warnings a few days prior to this article. Lo and behold this happens: (The term "WarHeads" is used as a metaphor, meaning information)
Here's a video that explains the context of "the line that was crossed."
Anonymous, by the way, is a movement that focuses on raising public awareness. Their message is this: Your civil liberties are being stripped away, and the longer you ignore this fact, the easier it is for those in power to keep on abusing their powers. For the record, I'm not "anti-government".
I believe central government is essential to keeping order, among other things. But we've reached the point where individual rights mean little, and when it comes to the "protection" of U.S. citizens, the cost doesn't matter, because the end will always justify the means.
As if U.S. surveillance wasn't already out of control, there are supposed to be 30,000 drones over U.S. skies by 2020. Oh. And it just so happens that it is legal to target (and kill) U.S. citizens (even if they're with their children). But wait, it gets better! There are fools like Jesse Jackson pushing for armed TSA agents in larger cities like Chicago. Brilliant! So Martial Law is enforced, without the declaration of Martial Law.
Using fear as a means to push one's agenda is nothing new. George W. Bush stood on the corpses of 9/11 victims to push The PATRIOT Act forward, just like Obama is using children as human shields to push for gun control. As Rahm Emanuel would say, "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
As for this administration sewing seeds of distrust, check out the DHS website. There's a video made in 2010 that originally started playing at airports. It's now playing in hotels. The message is this, 'watch out for terrorists, they could be anyone and everyone.' The video seems reasonable until one pairs it with videos like this:


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- Sault Ste. Marie, MI (Chippewa County)
- St. Marys River AOC
- Status: Cleanup Completed
Marc Tuchman
Great Lakes Legacy Act Program Manager
St. Marys River Legacy Act Cleanup
St. Marys River Area of Concern
May 4, 2010 — The Great Lakes Legacy Act cleanup of a section of the St. Marys River near the MCM Marine facility is now under way. On Feb. 1, 2010, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Consumers Energy Co. signed a project agreement to begin the cleanup of a section of the river. With $2.4 million provided by the Legacy Act and $1.6 million from Consumers Energy, EPA and the utility will remove approximately 26,000 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, from the river adjacent to the property currently operated by MCM Marine. The site was formerly a manufactured gas plant.
The project will be undertaken in two stages with dredging in the inner boat slip now under way and cleanup in the adjacent river area to be completed either this fall or spring 2011. The goal of the $4 million project is to reduce impacts to human health and the environment and improve water quality in the St. Marys River.
The Great Lakes Legacy Act (GLLA) is a federal program targeted at cleaning up contaminated sediment around the U.S. shores of the Great Lakes. The GLLA is now part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a $475 million effort to begin restoring and protecting the Great Lakes.
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