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How do I make an App out of our Five Forks NC web site?
Posted on July 19, 2017 9:26 AM by Mark Conde
Categories: Computers
This is actually very easy. Here are the various ways to do it depending upon what computer operating system, tablet, or smart phone you are using.
 
Windows (PC) 
Move your cursor over to the Windows desktop and right click the screen to see a popup window. Find the “New” link and the “Short cut” submenu.
 
Click the “Short cut” entry and then enter the name of the web site.
 
Now click “Next” and It will ask for the name of the short cut. Enter FiveForksNC and hit “Finish”.
There you go! You now have an icon that goes directly to the site!
 
OSX (Apple)
There are a number of ways to “save” a web address to an icon on your Apple PC but the quickest way is to simply go to the www.fiveforksnc.com web site in one of your browsers, like Safari, and click the web address bar until you see a little icon next to the web address on the left. Then click, holding down the mouse key, just to the left of the web address on that little icon and drag it over to your desktop. There you have it! An icon that will go directly to the web site!
 
Apple iPad Tablet and iPhone
This also easy to do but you do need to look for a special function to create the app icon for you. Go to the www.fiveforksnc.com web site in the Safari browser on your iPad or iPhone.
 
Then look for the icon at the top that looks like a square with an arrow through it. In the popup box click on the “Add to Home Screen”
 
Then accept the default name of the new App Icon or change it to what you want. I would make it FiveForksNC and then click “Add”.
There you go! Now you have an app on your screen that goes right to the web site. In the example it’s a web site for nasty snakes in NC :)
 
 
Android tablets and phones
The Android based phones have a similar feature in their browsers to save an icon to the desktop.
Go here to see a video how to do it..
 
What does the Fox say?
Posted on July 16, 2017 9:52 PM by Mark Conde
Have you head the foxes calling to each other? T
his will help you know what they are saying. 
 
So what peak am I looking at???
Posted on July 16, 2017 9:50 PM by Mark Conde
Ever wonder what peaks you are looking at?
Use the app Peakfinder Pro Earth!
or go to the website and use the Peakfinder web page.

Here is what my view sees.
Giant computing facility going in around Murphy
Posted on July 16, 2017 9:46 PM by Mark Conde
Categories: Computers
Interesting technology development. It appears that the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians plans on building a data center in Murphy next to the casino. Now will this bring jobs to Murphy? Yes, but there will be a question about how many with modern data center design these days being very "lights out". However, what is more interesting, is who they have hired to design this, RTECH Group and Todd Richards. This company specializes in network and telco systems. Certainly the data center is an advantage of the casino business but it could also bring major network trunks into the Murphy area and we might finally get access to significant internet systems! We will see :)
Reference article:  https://theonefeather.com/2016/10/tribe-to-secure-financing-for-100-million-data-center/
Water Table Information
Posted on July 16, 2017 9:44 PM by Mark Conde
OK, so the scientist in me needed to see where we are with this water issue. I fully support conservation at this time and I do want us to realize we are going to hit historical lows if this drought goes to Feb as predicted. Here is useful data and some rough math to see where we are. Guessing that we are being served by the Regolith aquifer (which is measured in Marble and in Morganton and we are in the middle) I used the charts from the USGS site to see that the ground water level is around 1696 ft/above sea level in Marble right now. (Marble well is at 1710ft and their water level is currently at 13.97 ft below that to thats how I guessed the level at 1696)
 
In FF the well servicing me is at 2264 ft and the highest point in FF is approx at 2530 ft so a little math foolin would suggest we run out of water access for wells drilled at 600 ft at 1664ft and those at 800 around 1464ft for the well I am using. The top level wells would be at 1916ft/600ft and 1730/800ft and 1530/1000ft. 
 
The numbers dont have to be accurate since we are really looking at how fast things change to see when we will have the most severe issues. The charts indicate we are dropping around 1.5-2ft per month right now. So what does that mean? If we continue the drought till feb we could see 8ft or more (it can accelerate) drop from the aquifer. So if its at 1696 now then the danger level would be around 1688ft. Does that mean we are OK? Probably right on the edge because there are so many other factors involved.
 
Now, all of this was an academic exercise for me because I am assuming our wells are all 800-1000 ft down but I wanted to know how close we were and since we are now nearing the lowest value since 2007 its worth paying attention to.
 
So go have some math fun yourself at the USGS web sites.
Education on Well water seminars
Posted on July 16, 2017 9:42 PM by Mark Conde
Categories: General
Have you ever wanted to learn more about wells, how safe they are, and how to take care of them? Here are a couple free online seminars to sign up for an learn more on the topic.
http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/
and here for other docs on well water.
http://privatewellclass.org/resources
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