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The Fujita Scale Is Used to Rate the Intensity of a Tornado by Examining the Damage Caused by the Tornado After It Has Passed Over a Man-Made Structure
The Fujita Scale is used to rate the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado after it has passed over a man-made structure. The "Percentage of All Tornadoes 1950- 1994" pie chart reveals that the vast majority of tornadoes are either weak or do damage that can only be attributed to a weak tornado. Only a small percentage of tornadoes can be correctly classed as violent. Such a chart became possible only after the acceptance of the Fujita Scale as the official classification system for tornado damage. It is quite possible that an even higher percentage of all tornadoes are weak. Each year the National Weather Service documents about 1000 tornado touchdowns in the United States. There is evidence that 1000 or more additional weak tornadoes may occur each year and go completely undocumented. The "Percentage of Tornado-Related Deaths 1950-1994" pie chart shows that while violent tornadoes are few in number, they cause a very high percentage of tornado-related deaths. The Tornado Project has analyzed data prior to 1950, and found that the percentage of deaths from violent tornadoes was even greater in the past. This is because the death tolls prior to the introduction of the forecasting/awareness programs were enormous: 695 dead(Missouri-Illinois-Indiana, March 18, 1925); 317 dead(Natchez, Mississippi, May 7, 1840);.255 dead(St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois, May 27, 1896); 216 dead(Tupelo, Mississippi, April 5, 1936); 203 dead(Gainesville, GA, April 6, 1936). In more recent times, no single tornado has killed more than 50 people since 1971. -
Digital Commons@WOU Luminance
Western Oregon University Digital Commons@WOU Honors Senior Theses/Projects Student Scholarship 6-1-2018 Luminance Ella Young Western Oregon University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/honors_theses Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Young, Ella, "Luminance" (2018). Honors Senior Theses/Projects. 158. https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/honors_theses/158 This Undergraduate Honors Thesis/Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Digital Commons@WOU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Senior Theses/Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@WOU. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Luminance a novel By Ella Young An Honors Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation from the Western Oregon University Honors Program Dr Henry Hughes, Thesis Advisor Dr. Gavin Keulks, Honors Program Director June 2018 !1 Table of Contents Abstract 2 Plot Summary 3 Acknowledgements 50 Bibliography 51 Luminance Chapter One 4 Chapter Two 19 Artistic Reflection In the Beginning 35 Of Solar Flares and Shifting Poles 39 The Nitty Gritty 42 Fiction Becomes Reality 44 What the Future Holds 47 Only the first and second chapters have been included here. If you would like to read this work in its entirety, please visit Amazon.com to purchase the full novel. !2 Abstract For my thesis I decided to go the creative route and write a novel. There is a definite lack of LGBTQ+ genre fiction for young adults being written, and so I wanted to add to this slowly growing literary niche. -
Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in The
© 2014 Andrea Cipriano Barra ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BEYOND THE BODICE RIPPER: INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL INDUSTRY by ANDREA CIPRIANO BARRA A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School—New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in Sociology Written under the direction of Karen A. Cerulo And approved by _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ New Brunswick, New Jersey OCTOBER 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry By ANDREA CIPRIANO BARRA Dissertation Director: Karen A. Cerulo Romance novels have changed significantly since they first entered the public consciousness. Instead of seeking to understand the changes that have occurred in the industry, in readership, in authorship, and in the romance novel product itself, both academic and popular perception has remained firmly in the early 1980s when many of the surface criticisms were still valid."Using Wendy Griswold’s (2004) idea of a cultural diamond, I analyze the multiple and sometimes overlapping relationships within broader trends in the romance industry based on content analysis and interviews with romance readers and authors. Three major issues emerge from this study. First, content of romance novels sampled from the past fourteen years is more reflective of contemporary ideas of love, sex, and relationships. Second, romance has been a leader and innovator in the trend of electronic publishing, with major independent presses adding to the proliferation of subgenres and pushing the boundaries of what is considered romance. Finally, readers have a complicated relationship with the act of reading romance and what the books mean in their lives. -
Temperature Change and Its Effects on the Great Lakes Climate
Temperature Change and its Effects on the Great Lake’s Climate. Ross Ellet Professor: Matthew Huber April 28, 2005 Temperature change and its effects on the Great Lakes climate. The Great Lakes create a very unique sub climate zone that is unlike most areas in the world. The Great Lakes act as a climate moderator. They contain some of the biggest fresh water lakes in the world. This allows temperature moderation to occur. Typically the lakes keep the eastward coastlines more humid. Since there is more humidity, clouds are more frequent. Thus the temperature fluctuation on a daily basis is a little less than areas not affected by the Great Lakes. This in turn affects the precipitation that falls, when it falls, and where it falls. In the winter time the cold air masses blow over the relatively warm water which creates lake-effect snowfall. This is a very important social and economical impact the climate has on the Great Lakes region. So what happens when a climate change occurs in this area? What types of impacts will it have on the Great Lakes region? Will it be any different than those areas directly west of the Great Lakes? Theory and Research Aral Sea In order to understand climate change in the Great Lakes, first one must understand the dynamics of what is already occurring. The Great Lakes is unlike most lakes in the world due to its size, power, and potential to affect climate. However, there is another body of water that is just as significant. The Aral Sea, which is located in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, is an important tool to see how much a large body of water affects climate. -
Defense Research Agency Seeks to Create Supersoldiers, by Bruce
The following is mirrored from its source at: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1103/111003nj1.htm Defense research agency seeks to create supersoldiers by Bruce Falconer National Journal / Government Executive Magazine 10 November 2003 Critics maligned the idea as "unbelievably stupid," "bizarre and morbid," and even "an incentive" for someone to actually "commit acts of terrorism." Once members of Congress and the media in July got wind of FutureMAP -- a plan by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create online futures markets where traders could speculate in the likelihood of terrorist attacks -- it was only a matter of hours before the project was sacrificed on the altar of political damage control. But even this, it seems, was too little, too late to appease an outraged Congress: House and Senate appropriations conferees working on the Defense budget have since voted to abolish large portions of the agency’s Terrorism Information Awareness program. The program -- of which FutureMAP was a small part -- was designed to mine private databases for information on terrorist suspects. DARPA, meanwhile, soldiers on with the kind of "blue-sky" thinking that is its charge. Indeed, the Pentagon agency that underwrote the development of some of the world’s most advanced technologies, such as the Internet, the Global Positioning System, and stealth aircraft, is now looking at technologies that will help U.S. troops soldier on, and on, and on. DARPA thinkers are saying that maybe humans themselves need an upgrade. "The human is becoming the weakest link," DARPA warned last year in an unclassified report. -
Ref. Accweather Weather History)
NOVEMBER WEATHER HISTORY FOR THE 1ST - 30TH AccuWeather Site Address- http://forums.accuweather.com/index.php?showtopic=7074 West Henrico Co. - Glen Allen VA. Site Address- (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AccuWeather.com Forums _ Your Weather Stories / Historical Storms _ Today in Weather History Posted by: BriSr Nov 1 2008, 02:21 PM November 1 MN History 1991 Classes were canceled across the state due to the Halloween Blizzard. Three foot drifts across I-94 from the Twin Cities to St. Cloud. 2000 A brief tornado touched down 2 miles east and southeast of Prinsburg in Kandiyohi county. U.S. History # 1861 - A hurricane near Cape Hatteras, NC, battered a Union fleet of ships attacking Carolina ports, and produced high tides and high winds in New York State and New England. (David Ludlum) # 1966 - Santa Anna winds fanned fires, and brought record November heat to parts of coastal California. November records included 86 degrees at San Francisco, 97 degrees at San Diego, and 101 degrees at the International airport in Los Angeles. Fires claimed the lives of at least sixteen firefighters. (The Weather Channel) # 1968 - A tornado touched down west of Winslow, AZ, but did little damage in an uninhabited area. (The Weather Channel) # 1987 - Early morning thunderstorms in central Arizona produced hail an inch in diameter at Williams and Gila Bend, and drenched Payson with 1.86 inches of rain. Hannagan Meadows AZ, meanwhile, was blanketed with three inches of snow. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Ohio Valley. Afternoon highs of 76 degrees at Beckley WV, 77 degrees at Bluefield WV, and 83 degrees at Lexington KY were records for the month of November. -
Romantic Reads
Contemporary Extra Spicy Sandra Brown Cherry Adair Meg Cabot Maya Banks Robyn Carr Sylvia Day Katherine Center Helen Hardt Samantha Chase E.L. James Jenny Colgan Regina Kyle Jackie Collins Jennifer Crusie Barbara Delinsky istorical Jude Deveraux (Edilean Series) Stephanie Evanovich Lenora Bell (Victorian) Emily Giffin Jude Deveraux (Montgomery-Taggert Shelley Shepard Gray Series/Medieval) Kristan Higgins Alyson McLayne (Medieval) Helen Hoang Joanna Shupe (Gilded Age) Abby Jimenez Lisa Kleypas (Friday Harbor Series) Literary Romance Kevin Kwan Christina Lauren Sarah Addison Allen Debbie Macomber Isabel Allende Susan Mallery Jane Austen Jill Mansell Charlotte Bronte Jenn McKinlay Emily Bronte Judith McNaught A.S. Byatt Jojo Moyes E.M. Forster Brenda Novak Diana Gabaldon Priscilla Oliveras Gabriel Garcia Marquez Susan Elizabeth Phillips Elizabeth Gaskell Nora Roberts Elizabeth George Sheila Roberts Thomas Hardy Jill Shalvis Alice Hoffman Nicholas Sparks Victoria Holt Anna Todd D.H. Lawrence Abbi Waxman Adriana Trigiani Jennifer Weiner Anne Tyler Susan Wiggs Edith Wharton Sherryl Woods Evelyn Waugh Regency Romantic Suspense Nancy Campbell Allen Sandra Brown Katharine Ashe Christina Dodd Jane Ashford Karen Harper Mary Balogh Linda Howard Lenora Bell Lisa Jackson Anna Bennett Jayne Ann Krentz Lisa Berne Kat Martin Jo Beverley Brenda Novak Kelly Bowen Erica Spindler Anna Bradley Grace Burrowes Christy Carlyle Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Marion Chesney Tessa Dare -
Midwest to Northeast U.S. Winter Storm 12-13 March, 2014 By: Kwan-Yin Kong, WPC Meteorologist
Midwest to Northeast U.S. Winter Storm 12-13 March, 2014 By: Kwan-yin Kong, WPC meteorologist Meteorological Overview: A fast-moving winter storm brought a swath of significant snowfall from the Midwest eastward through the lower Great Lakes and across northern New England during the second week of March 2014 (fig. 1 and 2). The storm was a consequence of baroclinic development as a progressive upper-level trough from the Pacific merged with a shortwave trough dropping southeastward from central Canada. The surface low pressure center of the storm can be tracked back to the foothills in northern Wyoming on 10 March when the Pacific upper trough began to move off the Rockies into the High Plains (fig. 1). At this time, the upper-level shortwave trough was beginning to head southward from central Canada but was still quite far away from the surface low center. With a lack of upper-level support, the surface low deepened very slowly along a nearly stationary front while moving east-southeastward across the central plains. By 11 March, the shortwave trough and the associated cold air mass was moving into the Upper Midwest and approached the low pressure system in the central plains (fig. 3a, b). As the two systems merged over the Midwest early on 12 March, a new low pressure center formed near the Illinois-Indiana border and began to intensify rapidly under a favorable baroclinic environment (fig. 3c, d). Precipitation with embedded thunderstorms formed north of the surface low and became heavy at times as the coverage expanded rapidly to the east-northeast into the lower Great Lakes and New England during the day on 12 March (fig. -
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Archons (Commanders) [NOTICE: They Are NOT Anlien Parasites], and Then, in a Mirror Image of the Great Emanations of the Pleroma, Hundreds of Lesser Angels
A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES WATCH THIS IMPORTANT VIDEO UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact MUST-SEE THE OCCULT REASON FOR PSYCHOPATHY Organic Portals: Aliens and Psychopaths KNOWLEDGE THROUGH GNOSIS Boris Mouravieff - GNOSIS IN THE BEGINNING ...1 The Gnostic core belief was a strong dualism: that the world of matter was deadening and inferior to a remote nonphysical home, to which an interior divine spark in most humans aspired to return after death. This led them to an absorption with the Jewish creation myths in Genesis, which they obsessively reinterpreted to formulate allegorical explanations of how humans ended up trapped in the world of matter. The basic Gnostic story, which varied in details from teacher to teacher, was this: In the beginning there was an unknowable, immaterial, and invisible God, sometimes called the Father of All and sometimes by other names. “He” was neither male nor female, and was composed of an implicitly finite amount of a living nonphysical substance. Surrounding this God was a great empty region called the Pleroma (the fullness). Beyond the Pleroma lay empty space. The God acted to fill the Pleroma through a series of emanations, a squeezing off of small portions of his/its nonphysical energetic divine material. In most accounts there are thirty emanations in fifteen complementary pairs, each getting slightly less of the divine material and therefore being slightly weaker. The emanations are called Aeons (eternities) and are mostly named personifications in Greek of abstract ideas. -
Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway
The Lady Most Willing...: A Novel in Three Parts; Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway 0062107402, 9780062107404; 384 pages; Harper Collins, 2012; 2012; The Lady Most Willing...: A Novel in Three Parts; Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway; After the success of The Lady Most Likely, New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway have joined together once again, but this time to ask the question, who is The Lady Most Willing?When Laird Taran Ferguson’s nephews refuse to wed and secure his birthright, he takes matters into his own hands, raiding a ball and kidnapping four likely brides—a bonny lass, an heiress with a slight reputation problem, a rich English beauty, and a maiden without a name or a fortune. But which one is ready to fall in love with the Scottish lord? Add a very angry duke, a decrepit castle, and a fierce Highland storm that is holding all of Taran’s “guests― captive to the mix, and readers will find themselves transported to a world of temptation, passion, and new and unexpected love. This historical romance novel in three parts—a single story with three compelling voices—is one that will not soon be forgotten. file download mari.pdf ISBN:9781416506812; 384 pages; Connie Brockway; Fiction; My Surrender; CONNIE BROCKWAY sweeps readers into the ballrooms and boudoirs of Regency-era London and on to the Scottish Highlands in a sizzling tale of scandal, deception, and breathtaking; May 27, 2005 In the third chapter of Connie Brockways exquisite Highland trilogy, a notorious temptress discovers that nothing settles an old score like true love. -
April 3, 1974 Super Outbreak Poster
Overview Across Indiana The Super Tornado Outbreak on April 3-4, 1974 was Twenty-one tornadoes affected 46 counties causing the worst tornado outbreak in United States history. one of Indiana’s worst tornado outbreak. Many of these Within a 16-hour period, 148 tornadoes touched down tornadoes traveled at nearly a mile a minute, and across 13 states from the Great Lakes to the Southeast. several were visually observed to have multiple When the storms finally dissipated, 330 people were funnels. killed, over 6,000 were injured, and thousands more The tornado devastation started in Boone county were left homeless. The damage path created by this when a brief F2 tornado touched down around 9:30 am tragic event covered 2,500 miles across the Midwest EST on April 3, 1974. The main event, however, with damage costs totaling around 600 million dollars. commenced in Indiana later that day at 2:20 pm EST Tornado damage at the Monticello court house (left) and throughout and lasted until 8:00 pm EST as 20 additional tornadoes the town of Monticello, IN (right). ripped through the state. Courtesy of the Monticello Herald Journal IN Counties Affected by Tornadoes Among the most destructive Indiana tornados was (Storm Prediction Center, Significant Tornadoes by T.P. Grazulis & the Monticello tornado. This half mile wide F4 tornado Superoutbreak 1974 map by T.T. Fujita) Summary tracked from just northwest of Lafayette through The Super Tornado Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974 Monticello to north of Fort Wayne killing 19 people. It will always be remembered by those who Tornado Strength had a path length of 121 miles which was the longest F0 – Blue witnessed and survived the event. -
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel A
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Jayashree Kamble IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Dr. Timothy Brennan December 2008 © Jayashree Sambhaji Kamble, December 2008 Acknowledgements I thank the members of my dissertation committee, particularly my adviser, Dr. Tim Brennan. Your faith and guidance have been invaluable gifts, your work an inspiration. My thanks also go to other members of the faculty and staff in the English Department at the University of Minnesota, who have helped me negotiate the path to this moment. My graduate career has been supported by fellowships and grants from the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School, the University of Minnesota’s Department of English, the University of Minnesota’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, and the Romance Writers of America, and I convey my thanks to all of them. Most of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my long-suffering family and friends, who have been patient, generous, understanding, and supportive. Sunil, Teresa, Kristin, Madhurima, Kris, Katie, Kirsten, Anne, and the many others who have encouraged me— I consider myself very lucky to have your affection. Shukriya. Merci. Dhanyavad. i Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, Shashikala Kamble and Sambhaji Kamble. ii Abstract Popular romance novels are a twentieth- and twenty-first century literary form defined by a material association with pulp publishing, a conceptual one with courtship narrative, and a brand association with particular author-publisher combinations.