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Diversity Is Strength Allegedly. It Is Also Devil's Night In Detroit ex VDare -
There are few ways to test the health of your community better then by seeing how well a holiday is celebrated by your neighbors. Last year, we asked if you if your city could pass the Trick-or-Treating test for Halloween, knowing that only parents living in an actual community—one replete with high social capital—would feel comfortable sending their children out into the night to ask neighbors for candy.
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Remember, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam found that the cities with the highest percentage of social capital/trust were those that were the least "diverse"—i.e. the most homogenous.
Now imagine you live in a city that, presumably, should have high social capital—90 percent of the inhabitants are of the same race. But instead, that city's government has to issue "emergency temporary ordinance that requires anyone attempting to buy gasoline in cans to provide identification, and a 6 p.m. curfew for youths younger than 18," from October 29- Hallowe'en night (Oct. 31). [Detroit Angels' Night patrols ready to go, UPI, 10-26-12]. The minors' parent or guardian will also be issued a parent responsibility violation ticket. [Detroit's Devil's Night curfew, gas ordinance to stay enforced during storm conditions, By Eric Lacy, Mlive.com , October 30, 2012]
Yes, we're taking about 90 percent black Detroit. On "Devil's Night" (October 30), the good citizens of Detroit have taken to torching abandoned buildings and long-idle commercial real estate.
Ze'ev Chafets wrote the still-definitive account of the terror that strikes the Motor City every Halloween eve in his 1991 book Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit:
I vaguely remembered Devil's Night. When I was a kid growing up in Pontiac, a grimy industrial clone of Detroit ten miles north of the city, it had been a time of harmless pranks—window soaping, doorbell ringing and rolls of toilet paper in the neighbor's trees. But it had been twenty years since I lived there, and a lot of things had changed. One of them was Devil's Night.
Three years earlier, in 1983, for reasons no-one understands, America's sixth largest city suddenly erupted into flame. Houses, abandoned buildings, even unused factories burned to the ground in an orgy of arson that lasted for seventy-two hours. When it was over the papers reported more than 800 fires. Smoke hung over the city for weeks.
Even my friend's dramatic description did not prepare me for what I saw that night. On the streets of Detroit I could sense the same rush of energy, the same sense of excitement that always accompanies nocturnal action. Police helicopters circled overhead and fire trucks, sirens blaring, raced form one conflagration to another. Cops guarded the firemen as they fought the flames. It was only when I saw the faces of the neighborhood people, mostly older blacks with long coats over their bathrobes, standing grimly on their porches, armed with shotguns and garden hoses, protecting their property, that I realized this was no homecoming rally; on Devil's Night, they use homes for kindling.
My friend's car was equipped with a police-band radio, and as he drove from fire to fire he gradually became the leader of a motorcade. At every stop, people gawked at the flames and passed around bottles of whiskey and thermos caps of steaming coffee. The suburbanites talked with bittersweet nostalgia about their old neighborhoods in Detroit, pointed to childhood sites now sunk into decrepitude and shook their heads. The message was tacit but unmistakable—Look at what they're doing to our city. "
In 1954, the city had been 76 percent white. Black population growth came courtesy of the "Great Migration" of blacks from the South. In 1940, before World War II defense plants led to the migration, Detroit was 90 percent white.
Perhaps in honor of the "great revolution"—disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term for the July 23, 1967 black riot in Detroit, which left 43 dead, 467 injured, 7,2000 arrested, more than 2,000 buildings torched and essentially ended white rule in Detroit—the children and grandchildren of the victors in effect reenact their triumph every Halloween eve.
Life Magazine headlined its typical liberal Main Stream Media cover story celebration of that year's riots Negro Revolt: The Flames Spread (August 4, 1967). That has proved unwittingly prescient.
In the 1994 movie The Crow, Hollywood took on the annual Devil's Night torching of Detroit, featuring one of its favorite casting tricks—rarely found in real life— the multi-racial gang. The central plot trope: a white drug lord controlling three white and one black arsonist directs the flow of organized crime in the city.
As usual, Hollywood did not quite capture the essence of this uniquely black celebration. Chafets put it best: "Look at what they're doing to our city."
In a city completely controlled by black politicians and totally reliant on tax revenue from a black population that seems to have trouble sustaining a First World economy (even when inherited, as in the case of Detroit) it could be only a matter of time before money to pay for public services like firemen, and the police necessary to protect them, dries up.
Just a few weeks ago, Detroit police held an "Enter at Your Own Risk" rally in front of Comerica Park before a Tigers baseball game [Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says 'War-Like' Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors, CBS Detroit, 10-6-2012]. Just a few months ago, an emergency Federal grant/infusion of $22.5 million was needed to 164 Detroit firefighters on the job [Detroit Firefighters Layoffs Curbed Due To Federal SAFER Grant, More Help On The Way, Huffington Post, 7-9-2012].
Were David Duke suddenly in control of Hollywood, it would be impossible to script a more devastating polemic against black-majority rule then what has actually transpired in Detroit since both the "great revolution of 1967" and the election of Mayor Coleman Young in 1973. Toss in the reality of this black-fueled Devil's Night, and you'd have the type of script that D.W. Griffith shot in The Birth of a Nation.
The sad reality is that Detroit' Devil's Night represent nothing more than a funeral pyre for Western Civilization.
Although Mitt Romney is a self-proclaimed "son of Detroit" he has evaded domestic issues like the descent of our major cities into urban misery. But we aren't far away from the Republican Party being forced to confront the unmentionable reasons Detroit burns every Devil's Night.
If it is to remain a viable national party, that is.
Is Mr. Kersey overstating the case? If only he were. Detroit has been taken over by blacks. |It is becoming like South Africa, like Zimbabwe, like Hell.
Devil's Night ex Wiki
Devil's Night, or Hell Night, is a name associated with October 30, the night before Halloween. It is related to the "Mischief night" practiced in other parts of the United States and the world, but is chiefly associated with the serious vandalism and arson seen in Detroit, Michigan from the 1970s to the 1990s,[1] finally prompting the "Angel's Night" community response.......
However, in the early 1970s, the vandalism escalated to more devastating acts, such as arson. This primarily took place in the inner city, but surrounding suburbs were often affected as well.
The crimes became more destructive in Detroit's inner-city neighborhoods, and included hundreds of acts of arson and vandalism every year. The destruction reached a peak in the mid- to late-1980s, with more than 800 fires set in 1984, and 500 to 800 fires in the three days and nights before Halloween in a typical year.[2]
[ Alleged ] Decline of Devil's Night arson
By the early 1990s, Detroit saw little decline in Devil's Night arson.[3] After a brutal Devil's Night in 1994, then-mayor Dennis Archer promised city residents arson would not be tolerated. In 1995, Detroit city officials organized and created Angel's Night on and around October 29–31. Each year as many as 50,000 volunteers gather to patrol neighborhoods.[4][5] In 2010, however, the number of reported fires climbed to 169, a 42 percent increase over the previous year.
The Wiki is indulging in the bare faced lie. A 42% increase is NOT a decline or a decrease.
This is more about our current Financial Crisis 2008 than Teufelnacht per se.
Detroit - After Blacks Had A Go At It [ 29 March 2011]
Dying Detroit: Haunting photos of crumbling neighbourhoods highlight the terrible decline of America's once-great Motor City
Population drops 25 per cent to 713,777 - the city's lowest since 1910
Largely African-American population moves away to escape the terrible effects of the recession [ White people are long gone - Editor ]
Buildings rot on deserted streets that were once bustling thoroughfares It was the centre of America's industrial muscle, but now it lies in ruins - a stark portrait of urban decay ravaged by the global recession
The population of devastated Detroit has dropped by 25 per cent in the past ten years and is now at its lowest since 1910. Empty factories, burnt-out homes, silent banks and even derelict police stations litter the place once known as the 'Motor City' - where Henry Ford built his first car.
The Daily Mail does not tell us who did the destroying. Not did the Guardian when it ran this one last month - Detroit After Devil's Night . By contrast Chinese cities are thriving.
Detroit After Devil's Night
In downtown Detroit, the streets are lined with abandoned hotels and swimming pools, ruined movie houses and schools, all evidence of the motor city's painful decline. The photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre capture what remains of a once-great city – and hint at the wider story of post-industrial America.
NB that the Grauniad does not hint at the cause of this evil, to wit black savages.
Devil's Night Suspects Arrested Before The Day [ 31 October 2014 ]
Putting the perpetrators in prison before the day makes sense. Keeping them there makes even more. No doubt they have track records & outstanding warrants to justify the fact. Fox News tells some of the truth about Devil's Night in Detroit albeit the name has been changed for Propaganda purposes. It is now Angels' Night. The rest of the Main Stream Media lie by omission.


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>I would be interested in an online config file generator if it let me write
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By: Neil Ellis Orts
Joy does not come easily.
The day begins with the caller I.D. warning against picking up the ringing phone. The breakfast bowl sees measured portions - rations - of store brand cereal and milk. Miss the bus. Spend the day with unhappy customers. Ensure bus fare for the rest of the week by walking home. Lentils and rice for supper. Count pennies. Rations for the cat. Listen to phone messages from no one who will receive a return call.
Joy does not come easily.
Morning Edition reports the number dead from that day's car bombing. A couple in the bus seat ahead blame "organized religion." Statistics intrude throughout the day: the percentage of prisoners; the ratio of executive income to entry level wages; one in three women. Hear someone in a four hundred pair of shoes complain about a panhandler. Evening news reveals the powerful steadfastly staying true to their convictions, though the heavens cry.
Joy does not come easily.
Except that the alarm cat goes off with gentle snuggles under the covers. Except an email arrives with good news or warm wishes. Except that a crack in the sidewalk is blooming with the tiniest, most delicate petals ever to crack concrete. Except some silly wrens are clowning in the hedge. Except someone holds the door open. Except someone says a kind word. Except the crepe myrtle bark curls into fragile, miniature cathedrals. Except the sunset creates a new color. Except a fresh peach is sweet and flavorful. Except there's a rainbow on a pigeon's breast. Except a stranger's smile to her friend illuminates the bus. Except a water fountain splashes brightly. Except a book tells of human resiliency. Except cans of food are collected for the poor. Except a sick one gets well. Except mourning receives comforting. Except there are peacemakers.
Joy does not come easily except it comes so relentlessly.
How hard we make it work.
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Beyond the Grave (Harlequin Teen) (edition 2011)
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This will be a rather short review because I've already gushed enough about this series previously. When I slip into these books, I lose track of time and get fully immersed in the story.
Needless to say, I enjoyed Beyond the Grave, though not quite as much as the first two. Still, this is an excellent series and one I heartily recommend.
If what I heard is correct, this is the final book in the series. If I have any influence, I would say "Keep on keepin' on" with the series. I'm not nearly tired of reading about Charlotte and her family yet.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a review copy of the book.
*I received an ARC from NetGalley in return for an honest review*
I felt like this was a great ending to the Past Midnight series. I enjoyed the progression of the story that started in Past Midnight. I've heard it said that you could read this one as a stand-alone, and while that is technically true, I'd recommend reading the first two books in the series or there will be things that don't quite gel.
I enjoyed the added supernatural elements that show up here and I liked how the main characters responded (for the most part...at times, I wanted to shake Charlotte for not seeing what I was seeing! :P)
Go pick it up...it's a fun read and you won't be disappointed.
Oh my! How do I even start? When last we left Charlotte Silver, her mom was in a coma and the Watcher had been subdued.
As you dive into Beyond the Grave, there is immediate intrigue with the mysterious Michael and Noah's never healing bruise. As Charlotte starts her first semester at college, her mom is still in a coma and has until January before the doctors say they will need to discuss other "options".
Charlotte and Shane try to keep the family business together while her dad spends every waking moment by her mom's bedside. With a trip to an old prison to get some footage, weird things start to happen.
The first day of classes hold a few surprises for Charlotte. She runs into Bliss and meets Michael. As Charlotte and Bliss start a new friendly relationship, Charlotte learns that the Watcher is not entirely gone, and turns to bliss for help. Michael keeps showing up where Charlotte least expects it. Who is he?
Meanwhile Noah's mom and Shane announce that they are engaged, and Noah starts acting strange. First he's sleepwalking and having no memory of it, and then Charlotte finds out that he is lying to everyone about his whereabouts.
Charlotte must find a way to help her mom wake up, find a way to save Noah and stop the Watcher for good. All without having to worry her dad or Noah's mom.
Overall I loved how once again I was sucked up into the world of Charlotte Silver. I could not put this book down! I look forward to more from this Author.
I wish I can say that I liked this book more, but I didn't. I have been following this series from the very beginning. And while the first two books I enjoyed immensely, I felt like this book did nothing but repeat itself. Another haunting, more dealing with drama with friends, and boyfriend drama. I was hoping that I get more different element in this book. I still love the paranormal aspect to it but of course wanted something new added as well.
What I liked most about this book are the characters. The main character, Charlotte has come a long way from where she started. She is much more confident in herself and her abilities. She no longer hides in the shadow of her sister. I loved how strong she is and does not give up. She knows what she wants and goes for it. Though you do see her slide a bit, but it makes her characters much more approachable.
The plot of this book is my only gripe. I do like how the reader got to see more of the Watcher and great paranormal aspect. I was just tired of seeing the same fight. You know what I mean? I hoped for a bigger or better fight. Something different in it. I also enjoyed the great family dynamic in it. This family has been through it all. They manged to stick together and not give up.
A great paranormal book with great characters, you want to read this book! If have started this series or have followed it from the beginning, you see the growth of Charlotte and who she is meant to be. Ms. Purnhagen did a good job on closing all the lose ends, and giving the reader a very satisfying ending!
My thoughts:
I absolutely loved book 1 of this series and book 2 was equally awesome. Sorry to say, I was a little disappointed with Beyond the Grave, book 3. I still really enjoyed it but I didn't love it as much as books 1 and 2.
The main reason I didn't love Beyond the Grave was the fact that it wasn't really a ghost story anymore. Too much random paranormal elements for my tastes. The basics that made books 1 and 2 great were still there - the same characters and some of the same types of situations but yeah, there was a lot of 'other' paranormal stuff that just didn't seem to fit.
We met a new character, Michael and at first I was very skeptical because my 'oh no not another love triangle' radar was on full alert. But, thankfully, I was wrong. Michael isn't a love interest but there was a still a problem with him for me. I never got a firm grasp on exactly what he was. He plays this role - again - sort of just thrown into the story and I never saw the point of him being there.
Another issue I had was with the character Bliss. In books 1 and 2 she is the stereotypical bitchy snooty know it all and her and Charlotte never become friends. She isn't even really important to the stories. But in Beyond the Grave, all of a sudden, she is important. First as a confidant of Charlotte - which makes no sense at all and then as a player in the weird paranormal stuff going on - which again, didn't seem to fit - at least to me.
What did I like? Charlotte and her family and friends and everyone I grew to love in books 1 and 2. And even though I didn't like the paranormal elements throw in, I did like the overall story. I liked how everything played out and I liked the tidy ending.
Final verdict:
As the final book to the series, I think Mara did an excellent job tying up loose ends without tying things up too tightly. When I walk away from beloved characters, I want to feel as if they are continuing on without me watching over them and that's exactly how I felt reading the last page of Beyond the Grave.
Is this series worth the read? Defiantly. Especially if you like ghost stories with a few twists. I'm sad to say goodbye to Charlotte and her family and friends but overall, the entire series was a big win for me.
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"What?" I said incredulously.
"I don't have a brother." I looked him up and down and said, "Who the hell are you and what's your game?"
"Well, if you're Joe Crest, I'm sort of your half-brother."
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I was closing the door when I heard, "Do you remember Mary Benton?"
I hesitated, and then opened the door. "Okay. I know Mary Benton, but who are you and what's this all about?" Memories were flashing back. After my mother died, my father had married Mary Benton. I was just a teenager. A few years later he had lung cancer, and for a long time was bad off. Mary took care of him until he died.
I went into the Army after that.
"My name is Jimmy Morrow, Mary Benton was my mother."
"She died a few weeks ago."
"I'm sorry to hear that. She was a good woman."
He got choked up. Softly, I said, "Come in and sit down."
I offered a drink, but he waved it off. "Sorry about the brother thing. I was just hoping. I don't have any family now. I didn't even know about you until I was going through Ma's things. She had a scrapbook about you. She wrote notes like, 'That's my boy,' so I thought she was your mother, too."
"No, Mary wasn't my mother. She was my stepmother, but I really liked her. She was good to me and she took good care of my dad before he died. After I went into the Army I wrote to her, but never got an answer."
I had always been sorry we had lost touch. She was the last remnant of my family. Now Jimmy reminded me of the loneliness I had felt. I reached for his hand and shook it. "I'm glad to meet you, Jimmy. We're not blood related, but as far as I'm concerned, you're family." He immediately brightened up and Hobby, who had been standing off to the side taking it all in, suddenly seemed ecstatic. I should explain that, like me, Hobby is a virtual orphan, too.
"That's great!" Hobby said with genuine enthusiasm as he shook hands.
"We've got to celebrate. You're coming to dinner with us!"
"Thanks, but you guys are all dressed up and -" Jimmy motioned to his attire.
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Jimmy was a country bumpkin, but seemed to be a nice kid. He kept looking at me like a puppy dog. This is unnerving for a guy who enjoys his independence.
"So what's in your future?" I asked, half-hoping he was heading back to Kansas soon.
"Not sure. I might work here for a while and see if I like it."
"What do you do?" I asked.
"I'm a VW mechanic. A dealer in Santa Monica offered me a job. I'm staying at the Y there."
"Hey," Hobby said.
"I've got a VW dune buggy that needs work, maybe..."
That launched a halfhour discussion about VW engines, which bored me stiff. I finally broke in to ask Jimmy, "What do you do for fun?"
"I like to play poker."
"Really!" Hobby and I said in unison.
"I love it, but my friends stopped playing with me because I always win."
"Really!" we chorused again.
"After dinner, let's stop at the Bike," Hobby suggested. On the way to Bell Gardens we quizzed Jimmy about poker. He understood the game, but wasn't familiar with advanced concepts. My thought of finding a poker genius in the rough was fast evaporating. Likely he was only a small town whiz; hardly star potential, but I'd show him a good time for Mary's sake.
"What's your favorite game?" I asked.
"7-card stud."
"That's a good game," Hobby said, "Why do you like it?"
"I win more at seven, maybe because I have more time to think."
"7-card it is then. We'll see how you do against the local talent."
"I don't have much money to lose; we only play nickel and dime."
"Don't worry about it, we'll stake you. You're our guest tonight," Hobby said.
We gave him two trays of singles and got him a seat at a $3/$6 pot limit 7-card game we could watch from the sidelines.
He seemed uncomfortable for a while, but it wasn't long before he caught on to the play. He didn't play a lot of hands, and often dropped out after a card or two.
Jimmy was finally in his first big showdown; the betting had been heavy. He had a goodly portion of his chips in the pot. After the down card was dealt, a player bet about half the pot; two others still in folded. It was Jimmy's turn to call or fold. Our young friend was looking intently across the table at his older opponent. The up cards didn't make clear who had an advantage. There could be straights or flushes in contention. I was feeling sorry for Jimmy, hoping he knew what he was doing.
Then, darned if he didn't raise the bet and go all in! The old fellow said, "I hate to take all your chips, Sonny." He laid down a queen high straight; Jimmy showed a flush.
"Beginner's luck?" I asked Hobby.
"Let's watch and see." We did for about two hours. Jimmy played several big pots and only lost one. He spooked the table; players had been dropping off and after his last big win those remaining picked up their chips and left. Hobby and I walked over as the dealer was helping Jimmy put his chips into trays. He didn't know we had been watching.
He smiled broadly and said, "It's like I was telling you, even these guys don't want to play with me anymore."
"It's okay, Jimmy, that's enough for the night," I said.
When Jimmy cashed in the chips, he couldn't believe he had won over $4,000. "I never had so much money, except when I saved up for my truck," he said.
"Jimmy, Hobby and I are going to talk to you about playing poker. If tonight wasn't a fluke, you might want to think twice about taking that mechanic's job."
As we walked away from the cage one of the losers from Jimmy's table jostled him and said, "You were lucky tonight, farm boy, but don't ever get in my way again." Hobby was immediately on attack alert, but I put a restraining hand on him. "Forget it," I said loudly, "he's just a sore loser."
"It's okay, Joe," Hobby said, but he went to the bully and whispered into his ear. The guy turned red and took a vicious swing.
Not even close; Hobby ducked and with a couple swift moves subdued the man and turned him over to security.
Jimmy said, "What did you say to him?"
"I just asked if his mother had any legitimate children."
...to be continued


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Im not happy with the boot time either and currently working on a new rom that strips out everything down to the bare bones. Its boot time is a lil faster than the stock rom. But the extra speed come at a cost. My R1 rom is a complete full rom with Android Market, Gmail, Google Maps, etc all included in it.
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Figure 1. Account from San Francisco Chronicle (December 3, 1992) describing debris lofted by a tornado near Florence, Mississippi on November 21, 1992. The debris was recovered approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers) downstream. The tornado was rated F3 at the time it went through Florence; later in its 128-mile (205-km) track, it was rated as F4.
Figure 2a. Mapping showing the tracks of the seven tornadoes produced in Wisconsin outbreak of 7/8 June 1984 (taken from Storm Data, June 1984, 26(6)).
Figure 2b. Debris fallout pattern resulting from the Barneveld tornado (from Anderson, 1985a).
Anderson classified fallout from this storm as follows:
"Paper debris was found throughout the contiguous area with a wider extent than the light debris. Paper debris was found in widely scattered locations north of the contiguous area reaching the town of Bonduel, some 20 miles northwest of the city of Green Bay. The maximum width of this scattered paper was 23 miles at 110 miles downstream of Barneveld."
"A bank pouch lettered 'Barneveld State Bank' was found in Mayville, 86 miles ENE of Barneveld." (This pouch is also notable since it was the one item of light material found outside the contiguous debris area.) "The lighter materials are not deposited symmetrically around the heavy debris path but lie more to the east, making the heavy debris path lie nearer the western edge of the contiguous deposit area."
In an attempt to answer such questions, we recently began a three-year effort to gather data on lofting, transport, and fallout from tornadic thunderstorms. The objective of this study is to collect several data sets containing detailed information on these phenomena and on the thunderstorms causing them. For this reason, while we seek reports of fallout occurring anywhere in the U.S. during all seasons of the year, we are focusing our efforts on storms occurring in the VORTEX region during the intensive observing periods of that program (described briefly in Section 3). Here we report on some preliminary work and our first year's efforts. Specifically, in Section 2 we discuss evidence gleaned from a survey of historical records. In Section 3 we present evidence from two events with F2 tornadoes that occurred in the spring of 1994.
Items reported to have been transported by tornadic thunderstorms range from paper products, such as canceled checks and photographs, to large, heavy objects, such as an airplane wing and a carton of deer hides [3]. In an account of the Tri-State tornado of 18 March 1925, Felknor (1992, pp. 73-74) cites the Murphysboro Daily Independent: "... a bond for a deed was blown to Lawrenceville [Illinois], 125 miles away." In a detailed discussion of the 9 June 1953 tornado in Worchester, Massachusetts, O'Toole (1993, p. 255), reports
"Emily McNutt of South Weymouth found a wedding gown in her backyard. It was dirty, as would have been expected, but was intact and in surprisingly good condition. A label sewn into the gown read 'McDonald, Worchester', indicating that the gown had been blown some fifty miles to its final landing place."As another example typical of many reports, in a discussion of the Jordan, Iowa tornadoes of 12/13 June 1976 , Stanford (1987, pp. 95-97) reports
"Several days after the tornadoes, a photograph was returned to Jordan by a couple who had found it in their cornfield near Ackley, Iowa, more than 50 miles northeast of Jordan. The couple wondered if the photograph, about 16 by 20 inches, had possibly come from Jordan. Neighbors recognized the children shown in the photograph and it was returned to its owners, a family whose home had been destroyed in Jordan. Prior to the storm, the photograph had been hanging on a wall in their home."
Figure 3. Annual number of tornado events with long-distance debris transport and fallout for the 120-year period 1871-1990. Tornado events for which more than one debris report were noted were counted only once. Total number of events: 93.
The year-by-year distribution of the 93 tornado events which yielded the 163 reports in Table A1 is plotted in Figure 3. This distribution shows that although tornadoes with reports of long-distance transport occur with regular frequency, more than half (50 events, 90 reports) occurred in the fifty years prior to 1920. In the period 1871 through 1990, the number of tornadoes reported annually has increased from less than 100 in the period 1871-1916 (Fujita, 1987, p. 36) to greater than 1100 in 1990. Therefore, the number of tornado events with reports of long-distance debris transport, per year, as a fraction of the total number of recorded tornadoes for that year, has decreased in recent years. We conjecture that this is due in part to a shift (beginning in the early 1950's and with increased emphasis since the mid-1970's) by the operational and research communities from detailed analyses of each year's relatively few significant events, to a risk-assessment approach that is focused on characterizing the intensities for all tornadoes that occur in a given year. In using the current F-scale for this characterization, only damage in the path of a tornado need be assessed to ascertain intensity. Entries in Storm Data, the official government publication containing these characterizations, tend to be short and limited to items that substantiate estimates of intensity. Further, this broader approach to documenting tornadoes has increased most notably the number of weak (F0 and F1) tornadoes reported each year, events for which debris lofting and long-distance transport seem less likely.
Figure 4. Plot of number of debris reports as a function of type and distance for the 120-year period 1871-1990. Debris categorized as paper, light (weighing less than one pound), heavy (weighing more than one pound) or unknown weight (not paper). Total number of reports plotted: 163. As a result of an arbitrarily selected cutoff used in screening the tornado data base, there are no reports in the interval 0 to 5 miles.
Figure 4 shows the number distribution of the 163 debris reports as a function of debris type and distance transported. Using the definitions discussed in Section 1.1, the transported items were categorized as "paper", "light", or "heavy". If the account of an event was unclear as to the size or weight of the debris, the item was classified as having "unknown" weight; such accounts typically included phrases like "pieces of..." or "...buildings were destroyed. Debris was carried ... miles away." (While it would be desirable to also characterize transported objects in terms of their aerodynamic shapes, this proved impractical due to the lack of information in most historical accounts. An important exception is "paper", especially personal bank checks, since such items are very often of standard size.)
The overall shape of the distribution in Figure 4 is roughly what one would anticipate. Most items fall out fairly close to their points of origin. Heavy items tend to come down closest to their source locations, followed by light items. Paper items, the lightest materials, are carried the farthest downstream as indicated by the long tail of the distribution. The secondary peak in the distribution which occurs at a distance of 85-90 miles (135-145 kilometers) in Figure 4 (and also in Figure 5) is due to multiple reports of debris found at the same location, all associated with the F4 Great Bend, Kansas tornado of 10 November 1915.
Figure 4 suggests that most heavy debris falls out within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of its source, while most light debris falls out within 90 miles (145 kilometers) from its source. Paper debris, on the other hand, can be deposited much farther. The farthest reported distance for any fallout is 210 miles (335 kilometers); this was a canceled check, found in Palmyra, Nebraska, transported by the thunderstorm that produced the 1915 Great Bend, Kansas tornado. This tornadic thunderstorm also transported light and heavy objects farther than any other storm on record. Clothing, shingles, and fragments of books were found in Glasco, 87 miles (140 kilometers) to the northeast of Great Bend. A sack of flour, categorized as heavy, was found about 110 miles (175 kilometers) to the northeast. (Grazulis, 1993, personal communication, noted this to be "perhaps the longest distance ever recorded for an object weighing more than one pound.") This particular report may be anomalous, since the second-farthest report of transport of a "heavy" item is only 50 miles (80 kilometers).
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Table 1. The distribution of 163 reports of paper, light, heavy or unknown weight debris as a function of tornado F-scale for the 120-year period 1871-1990. The number of tornadoes with debris reports for each F-scale value is listed in parentheses in the first column. Total number of tornado events with debris reports for the period is 93.
Table 1 displays the 163 debris reports as a function of F-scale. These and subsequent statistics using the F-scale must be interpreted with caution, especially if inferences are to be made about tornado dynamics and wind speeds, as the Fujita Intensity Scale is really a tornado damage rating scale -- see Doswell and Burgess (1988) for a discussion of this point. (Recall that the F-scale value assigned to an event characterizes the most severe damage observed; typically this will have occurred over only a small portion of the tornado's track.) While there is some correlation between damage rating and tornado strength, the correlation is not a perfect one. Further uncertainties enter in the assignment of F-scale values from anecdotal information. The net effect is that the F-scale value assigned to many events probably contains an uncertainty approaching +/- 1; there also appears to be a tendency to err on the high side in many events.
In Table 1, there are no data on fallout linked to F0 or F1 tornadoes since Grazulis focused on strong (F2 and F3) and violent (F4 and F5) tornadoes. The largest number of reports of long-distance debris transport (about 75% of the total) are associated with violent tornadoes, particularly those rated F4 in intensity. While the number of reports associated with F5 tornadoes appears small, this is a result of the fact that damage of this intensity is very rare (on the order of 0.1% of all tornadoes, based on tornado accounts 1953 through 1990). Similarly, F4 events are also a small fraction of all tornadoes (on the order of 1%). Hence, that 57 violent events appear here suggests that a relatively high percentage of violent tornadoes (roughly 4%) leads to long-distance debris fallout. In contrast, while there are some reports of long-distance debris transport by strong tornadoes, the number here is a relatively small percentage of all such events (roughly 0.4%). Since strong events account for roughly 28% of all tornadoes, this suggests debris transport by thunderstorms producing such events is rare.
Figure 5. Plot of number of debris reports as a function of F-scale and distance for the 120-year period 1871-1990. Overall distribution is the same as in Figure 4, but each bar is now differently proportioned.
Figure 5 shows the same number distribution as Figure 4, but with the bars now showing dependence on F-scale. The items which traveled the farthest distances, 205 and 210 miles, were both transported by thunderstorms producing F4 tornadoes. The greatest distance traveled by debris associated with an F2 tornado was 130 miles by a piece of copper plate from the 20 March 1888 tornado in Calhoun, Georgia (Grazulis, 1993).
Figure 6. Composite pattern of 68 debris reports associated with 31 tornadic storms, 1871-1990. The arrow indicates "storm direction", and has arbitrarily been oriented SW to NE. Debris items are plotted by azimuth and distance from their source.
Sixty-eight debris reports from 31 of the 93 tornado events represented in Table A1 -- ones in which the descriptions of the fallout were particularly detailed -- were combined to produce Figure 6, a composite plot of fallout locations with respect to estimated storm motion. Cases used in the plot were those in which the debris report was linked to a town name, or in which a direction and distance from the debris source was given. For example, on 25 April 1957 in southeastern Nebraska, Grazulis (1993, p. 1005) reports that an F4 tornado
"...moved ENE for 2 m N of Geneva, passing 1 m N of Friend, hitting the west half of Milford and ending 2 m N of Pleasant Dale...Milford debris was carried 40 miles to the NE, falling at Wahoo."Locations of fallout finds and source points were given in 48 reports. In the other 20 reports, a direction and distance from the source were provided. (Although there were actually 83 usable reports, only 68 are plotted in Figure 6; the other 15 overlap, i.e., same event, same type, same fallout location.)
Using latitude and longitude coordinates of the noted towns or other locations, an azimuth and distance from the source was computed for each fallout site. The direction of storm movement for each event was estimated very roughly (to within +/- 10 °, say) as the direction of the line tangent to the beginning portion of the tornado track; here this will be referred to as "storm direction". The tracks were then rotated to align along a common direction (here drawn aesthetically as 225 °, or from southwest to northeast) and relative debris locations plotted accordingly. Because of the limited number of reports, no effort was made to stratify these data by tornado intensity.
Figure 6 shows that, of the 68 debris items plotted, 53 items (78%) fell to the left [4] of the composite "storm direction". Of the 15 items which fell to the right, only two items (one "paper" and one "light") fell beyond -10 °. Therefore, 66 items of debris (97% of the reports) fell either approximately along (i.e., within 10 ° to the right or left) or to the left of "storm direction".
Relative to the "storm direction", the composite debris pattern shown in Figure 6 suggests the most concentrated area of debris is between 10 ° and 35 °, that is, to the left of the composite "storm direction"; fifty-four percent of the points fall in this area. Thirty-two percent fall along the "storm direction". Paper was scattered the farthest, for distances as great as 210 miles, between angles of -40 ° and 70 °. Light debris was found up to 87 miles downstream, between angles of -38 ° and 75 °. Heavy items, with the exception of the flour sack, were carried up to 50 miles, between angles of -10 ° and 75 °. Items of unknown weight were carried up to 130 miles, between angles of -5 ° and 80 ° with respect to "storm direction".
This pattern of long-distance debris transport and fallout has similarities to that found by Anderson for the Barneveld tornado. In constructing a fallout map, Anderson found that the "...contiguous area of debris [lay] mainly to the west and north of the Barneveld-Arlington-Markesan tornado path.", that is, most of the fallout was to the left of the storm's track. Similarly, Peterson (1993) has described three European events in which the debris was to the left of the tornado track. These events include the St. Claude, France tornado of 1890; the Woldegk, Germany tornado on 29 June 1764; and the 24 July 1930 tornado in the Treviso-Udine district of Italy.
In order to locate debris, assistance from the public is essential. Prior to the start of a VORTEX intensive observing period, contact letters are sent to law enforcement, emergency management, and news media personnel in the study area and also "downwind" in Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. These contact letters acquaint these individuals with the project, and indicate what will happen when a tornado strikes. When a tornado is reported to have caused significant damage within the study area, a press release is sent by facsimile to news media and emergency management personnel in counties downstream from where the tornado struck. The press release asks the public to be on the lookout for debris which may have been transported by the tornado. Debris reports are directed to the Tornado Debris Research Project via the Tornado Debris Hotline (1-800-3DEBRIS), by electronic mail to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by regular mail. Persons who discover debris are asked to note what the item is, the specific location where it was found, the time it was found, and if there are any identifying marks or writing that might indicate its origin. Most debris items are then sent to the Tornado Debris Research Project for further study and an attempt to return the items to their owners. Through this procedure we have identified small amounts of fallout associated with two tornadoes that occurred in the VORTEX study area in April 1994.
After receiving a post-storm survey report from the Meteorologist-in-Charge at the Fort Smith, Arkansas National Weather Service office, press releases were sent to newspapers in Poteau, Oklahoma and Clarksville, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Greenwood, Huntsville, Springdale and Van Buren, Arkansas in order to alert the public to watch for debris that may have been transported by the tornado.
Two residents of Fort Smith, Arkansas and a third from Alma, Arkansas, a suburban community about 10 miles (15 kilometers) to the northeast of Fort Smith, responded to the press releases, reporting that they had found canceled checks and a receipt which were likely transported by the thunderstorm. The items were from a defunct gas company formerly located in Clayton, Oklahoma. Subsequent interviews with the former owners of the gas company revealed that the items had been in a storage shed which was demolished by this storm. The shed was near Tuskahoma, nearly 70 miles (115 kilometers) from Fort Smith and 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Alma.
News releases informing the public of possible debris fallout from this storm were sent to newspapers in Gainesville, Texas; and Ardmore, Durant, Konawa, Madill, Seminole, Tishomingo, Wetumka, and Wewoka, Oklahoma. Six telephone calls or letters reporting debris finds were received in response to the news releases.
For four of the six reports, the source of the debris was determined. These four debris items, which landed at three separate locations, were all traced to a ranch site about four miles north-northeast of downtown Gainesville. A canceled check and a page from a bank statement were both found on property four miles northeast of the source location. A title deed from the sale of property was found near Lake Texoma in Bryan County, Oklahoma, a distance of nearly 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the source. A second canceled check was found in Caddo, Oklahoma, nearly 60 miles (95 kilometers) from the source.
In addition, three photographs were retrieved from a pasture approximately two miles north of the Gainesville city limit. The source of the photographs has not been determined. Part of another canceled check of unknown origin was also found in Gainesville. Further, siding and other building materials of unknown origin were found approximately one mile (1.2 kilometer) west of Gainesville; all nearby buildings were undamaged by the storm.
We close by noting that in addition to the interest inherent in these phenomena in their own right, lofting to high altitudes and long-distance debris transport by tornadic thunderstorms constitute challenges for numerical modelers to duplicate, and provide a unique means of testing certain types of cloud and mesoscale models. Replicating observed fallout patterns will require combining the dynamics of a cloud model with a model for the aerodynamic behavior of "typical" debris particles. It requires consideration of both in-storm winds and adjacent environmental flow. However, simulation of fallout does not require a cloud model coupled with an aerodynamic model for the debris. Rather, since debris should not significantly modify the wind field, one can run a cloud model through a storm's life cycle, then go back and use the resulting four-dimensional wind field to predict debris trajectories. Such a simulation could become a prediction model for use by emergency management personnel. Again, the high quality, temporally and spatially dense measurements of environmental conditions to be made during VORTEX should facilitate such research.
Anderson, C.E., 1985b: The Barneveld tornado: a new type of tornadic storm in the form a spiral mesolow. 14th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. 289-292.
Corliss, W.R., 1983: Tornados [sic], Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, And Related Weather Phenomena. The Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, MD, 196 pp.
Davies-Jones, R.P., 1981: Acquisition and analysis of severe storms and tornado field observations. Section 4 (pp. 21-66) of Summary of AEC-ERDA-NRC Supported Research At NSSL 1973-1979 (J.T. Lee, ed.), NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL NSSL-90, 93 pp.
Doswell, C.A. III, and D.W. Burgess, 1988: On some issues of United States tornado climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 495-501.
Felknor, P.S., 1992: The Tri-State Tornado. Iowa State University Press, 131 pp.
Fujita, T.T., 1971: Proposed characterization of tornadoes and hurricanes by area and intensity. Satellite and Mesometeorology Research Project Research Paper 91, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 44 pp.
Fujita, T.T., 1973: Experimental classification of tornadoes in FPP scale. Satellite and Mesometeorology Research Project Research Paper 98, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 15 pp.
Fujita, T.T., 1987: U.S. Tornadoes. Part One: 70-Year Statistics. Satellite and Mesometeorology Research Project Research Paper 218, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 122 pp.
Grazulis, T.P., 1980: Indiana Killer Tornadoes, poster.
_____, 1993: Significant Tornadoes 1680 - 1991. The Tornado Project of Environmental Films, 1326 pp.
Hayes, M.W., 1927: The St. Louis Tornado of September 29, 1927. Mon. Wea. Rev., 55, 405-407.
The Oklahoma Daily, 1994: Tornado victims rebuild, recall. The University of Oklahoma Publications Board, April 27.
O'Toole, J.M., 1993: Tornado! 84 Minutes, 94 Lives. Databooks, 284 pp.
Peterson, R.E, 1993: Far-field tornado debris patterns. 17th Conference on Severe Local Storms, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. pp. 319-322.
Smith, H.E., Jr., 1982: Killer Weather. Dodd, Mead & Company, 224 pp.
Stanford, J.L., 1987: Tornado: Accounts of Tornadoes in Iowa, 2nd Edition. Iowa State University Press, 143 pp.
Tanner, R.W. (Ed.), 1990: Southwestern Nebraska Tornado of June 15th. Storm Data, 32(6), 25-27.
Walz, F.J., 1917: Tornado of March 23, 1917, at New Albany, Ind. Mon. Wea. Rev., 45, 169-171.
* Corresponding author address: Dr. John T. Snow, College of Geosciences, The University of Oklahoma, Sarkeys Energy Center Suite 710, 100 East Boyd St., Norman, OK 73019-0628 [Return]
[1] Grazulis investigated accounts of tornadoes of F2 or greater intensity, and/or those which caused loss of life. Further, he notes that in collecting data for his study, his focus was not on recording debris reports, but on estimating damage intensity to determine F-scale values. He recalls "...I noted debris carried > 5 miles [but] my focus was never on long distance debris. I passed over many more examples. I focused on heavy debris > 500 lbs. carried > 1 mile in my searches." (T.P. Grazulis, 1993, personal communication) [Return]
[2] We note that Corliss (1983) documents many "falls" of anomalous materials -- such as frogs and fishes -- from showers and thundershowers. While many of these accounts are likely exaggerations or misinterpretations, there are enough reports to suggest such events to occur and that the underlying mechanism is related to that discussed here.[Return]
[3] It is probably safe to assert that most debris that is transported long distances lands in unpopulated areas or else is accepted as common litter. It is likely most fallout is detritus and blends into the landscape. Probably only a very few items, novel enough to excite curiosity with their appearance in the local environment, are reported.[Return]
[4] Here we denote positive angles as being drawn counterclockwise from the composite "storm direction", i.e., to the left of the "storm direction." Negative angles are drawn clockwise from this composite direction.[Return]


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Warning: this blog post will be quite very long. A Christian friend of mine sent me this. I've seen things like it before, lots of emails get sent around Christian circles and I'm privy to precious few. I suppose they help with the persecution complex. Anyway so it's a piece written by Ben "science leads you to killing people" Stein in 2005, with a bit added on by someone else, apparently. I'm going to see if I can take it apart.
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
That's fine, I agree with him completely here, I have no problem with people saying Merry Christmas to me. Even if I did consider Christmas an explicitly Christian holiday (and I don't), it's the sentiment that counts. Similarly I have a friend who almost always says "goodnight and God bless" when he leaves, and most of the time he corrects himself and apologises to me. I don't mind it at all and he doesn't have to apologise, it's the sentiment that counts.
But this is interesting. Here we have a Jew saying he doesn't mind the season being called Christmas, a tolerant image. Presumably, since he then goes on to wonder when America became an atheist nation, he's accusing atheists of being intolerant and waging a war on Christmas. The kind of people who do this usually have an issue with Christmas trees being referred to as 'Holiday Trees' and people saying 'Happy Holidays'. There are countless videos of Bill O'Rly? bemoaning the fact that Christmas has now become secular in name as well as in substance. So it's almost like Stein is saying he doesn't mind it when it's called something from a different religion, whilst presumably at the same time he's siding with the Christians who do mind when it's called something from a different religion.
But what is it that's intolerant about the term holiday as opposed to Christmas? It's not like atheists are going around forcing other people to replace the term Christmas with 'holiday'. In reality all they're doing is recognising that there are other holidays, religious and non-religious, happening at the same time, and that Christmas is no more important than any other. That's no more offensive to Christians than recognising that Muslims exist. They really do whinge a lot more than they should when you think about it.
It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Erm, big straw man… noone claims that American is an explicitly atheist country. What they do say is that it is a secular country, where people are free to express their religious beliefs or lack thereof, without the government advocating any one of them. I also have no problem with people having a nativity scene or a Menorah, that's their choice and it's an expression of their beliefs, go ahead. I know very few atheists who would have a problem with such a private display.
I do know some atheists who have a problem with public nativity scenes (as in nativity scenes put up by the government), and I think they're perfectly within their rights! The government is spending their money on explicitly religious displays. That is a clear violation of the separation of church and state, so they definitely have a case, especially in the States. Personally I'm not all that arsed about that either, they're going to spend the money on some kind of decoration, I don't care what it's like, and I'd rather concentrate on infringements that actually matter, but I certainly understand why these people care.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
Woah woah, who said you're not allowed to worship God? Noone who advocates a secular state (which includes many religious people) says that. Stop making stuff up to get offended about! And noone really says you should worship celebrities (if you're wondering where the idea of celebrities came from, it's at the start of the original version broadcast on CBS, which got edited out of this emailed version). I also think the celebrity culture that exists now is terrible. People get admired for things that aren't all that admirable at all, and earn millions in the process, purely by luck of the draw rather than anything you could call work.
So, bear in mind that from here on, this isn't Ben Stein writing as the piece that gets emailed around claims it to be, someone's added it in. But I'll treat it as it was when it was sent to me. I'm also going to miss a few bits out that aren't at all that relevant or interesting, you can read the full version here (the part at the top and the part at the bottom together).
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
First of all, if the Bible is anything to go by, God is not a gent. If you believe that God created everything, then you can't say that he just 'let' this happen, as if Katrina was somehow an act of negligence. People certainly didn't do it, he did, if he is responsible for the creation of the world. It was a natural disaster. I also question whether an all-loving God would leave the Katrina victims to the hurricane, even by their own wish. If someone told me they wanted me to leave them alone, and then I saw a car coming their way, there's no way I'd just turn away and leave them to it. So it's hardly 'extremely profound', seems to me like she's barely thought about this at all.
In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare [sic] (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Actually, you didn't say OK, you bitched about it for years and continue to do so. But I don't think bad things suddenly started happening the day Maddy Murray O'Hair won the case (yes, it was a court case according to the Constitution, not that you'd know it from the way it's described here) to have obligatory prayers banned. The history of bad stuff happening goes a lot further back than that. I'm not sure why they mention her murder here. Maybe they're implying that God did it to her. That's not true, a crazed lunatic did. I also think the way they cherry-pick what the Bible says, and then awkwardly shoe-horn it into this paragraph, is a bit pathetic. There are very few good moral teachings in the Bible, and they represent a very small proportion of its total content.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
How the hell did we get onto corporal punishment? Is this just a collection of right-wing agenda issues? Are we going to turn to gun ownership and the death penalty next? Whoever added this bit needs to wipe their mouth, they're foaming a bit. Oh and, by the way, Dr B Spock's children are both alive. One of his grandchildren did commit suicide, but he was apparently schizofrenic. Ironically that same article mentions how a psychologist who advocated corporal punishment had a son, who actually did commit suicide, not that it matters.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Bloody hell, scaremongering much? Does this guy (I'm presuming it's a guy, I don't think the feminists will mind considering who it is) think nutters didn't exist in the past or something? Get him a job at the Mail!
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
I believe certain newspapers more than the Bible because those newspapers and its writers have a history of being factually correct. They are also scrutinised and we can check what they say for ourselves, unlike the Bible. And there are plenty of stories of people being suspended or fired for sending obscene material whilst at work. Back in the real world where Christians aren't being persecuted, people are often afraid of pulling their employees up on evangelising, in case the Christian Institute get on their backs.
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Oh here we go, the defining feature of all spam email. "Send this to 59 people in your contacts list in 43 seconds or a creepy swamp monster will crawl into your bed at night and shit on your face before slitting your throat!!!one!!"
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
Right, that makes sense. Accept my batshit crazy argument that bad things happen because we told an invisible sky-fairy to fuck off, or you can't comment on why bad things happen.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Honestly? Respectfully? Ben Stein? None of thats true!
So a bit of a mix on the fictional War on Christmas, the problem of evil and lying for Jesus. Not bad for one email.


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Big Sean, "Tenacious D" (Originally Published December/January 2013)
It's now inching toward midnight in L.A. As a Key Wane-produced beat for a song, tentatively titled "Dreams," plays on a loop, Big Sean vibes and mouths potential lyrics to himself. It's about half finished. The first verse recounts that now-famous day in 2006 when he first rapped for Kanye. The one he's working on will tell the tale of student becoming a teacher—as a younger, eager MC approaches Sean, busts a rhyme, and hopes for a shot. Sean hopes to one day be able to give it.
It's that kind of duty to give back, to pay it forward, to lead, that he feels for his city, too.
"I was sitting talking to Jay after his Barclays show at the Brooklyn arena," he says, recalling the huge opening-night ceremony that took place in October—a homecoming that served as a coronation. "And it was like, 'That's what I wanna be for Detroit.'" He pauses, as if to consider the hits, the trends, the impending second album, the clothing line, the foundation—and thinks about something like bringing a stadium and pro sports franchise to your city, all those jobs, all that money, all that pride. The mission remains.
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It's 5:00 am. I have to pee very badly. And I'd like to go meditate.
Someone else would simply get out of bed, pee, and blithely head off to their cushion.
Not me.
To do this, I must pull off a CIA operation.
I must remove the covers, inch by inch — in the dead of night our comforter sounds like a crinkly bag of potato chips. I must crawl to the edge of the bed (our bed is pinned against the wall to make room for Benji's changing table). I must step off, and in the pitch-black, follow the border of the bed frame.
I must round the corner of the bed, where someone who designed our bed has very cruelly placed a jutting protuberance at exactly shin height. At five in the morning I forget this every time. I must stifle my cries. Power through the pain. Eyes tearing, I round the corner and toe the balance-beam width between Benji's changing table and our bed, ever careful, ninjalike, to step lightly.
I am almost out. But now, I face my greatest challenge. The small distance between me and the door, maybe five feet, is a minefield of creaky floorboards. Gwen has them memorized. For some reason I do not. At first I pause to consider my options, and then I panic, sprinting the short distance to the door. My feet land extra heavy, and the floorboards creak like mad… yet no one awakens. #grateful
On the way out, I shut the door in one motion, careful that it does not squeak, promising to myself that today is the day I will remember to oil the hinges.
Failure in this operation is not an option. Benji is not sleeping more than two hours at a stretch. Neither, therefore, is Gwen. She is grumpy. I must not wake her or Benji.
If stage one of OPERATION MEDITATION goes well, I can leave the room with Benji and Gwen still asleep. Now I'm in the hallway. I must pass Noah's doorway without him stirring. He can sense me. I must cloak my scent, my very energy signature. Any stirring, and he will roll over and groggily say something like, "Dad, lie with me." Which is lovely. Truly. But it's not why I am out of bed. I am heading to my cushion to meditate. Plus, Noah's bed is two inches too short for me. So I cannot stretch out my legs and I won't fall asleep. I will lie there listening to him sleep. Content, but wishing I were meditating or asleep in my own bed.
Alternately, he could wake up and be alert for the day. Unacceptable. Waking at five to cuddle or meditate is one thing. But art projects and Monopoly are another.
Before I can meditate I must pee. Meditation cannot happen otherwise. The bathroom is opposite Noah's room. I shut his door. Do I also shut the bathroom door and risk a squeak? This one is a judgment call. More art than science. Today I leave it open.
I lift the toilet seat. I pee. To minimize noise, I aim just above the border of the water and the porcelain. Thirty-eight years of standing pees have trained me for this moment. I execute it flawlessly and lower the seat without a clank.
At this point I consider heading back to the lion's den, back to my cozy flannel sheets. This is madness. Gwen and Benji are certain to stir.
Don't do it, I thought-scream at myself as I turn left out of the bathroom. Past Noah's room. Down the hallway. Into my bedroom. Over the creaky floorboards. Around the bed frame. Climb in. Under the crinkly comforter. Ahh. I close my eyes.
Benji stirs.
I am in big trouble.
About Brian Leaf
Brian Leaf is author of the forthcoming parenting memoir, Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi: Cloth Diapers, Cosleeping, and My (Sometimes Successful) Quest for Conscious Parenting. You can find him online at www.misadventures-of-a-yogi.com.


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38-year-old Denise Keesee turned herself into the Washington County Jail. She was charged with six counts of Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree.
Keesee is a former teacher at Sherwood High School. She is being charged for having sexual relationships with two of her former male students, while they were still attending the school. The relationships occurred at separate times between 2006 and 2012. Detectives suspect there are more victims who were involved with Keesee.
The Sheriff's Office was asked to conduct the investigation by the Sherwood Police Department, because Keesee's husband is a Sherwood Police Officer. He has not been charged and is not under investigation. Any inquires about Officer Keesee should be directed to the Sherwood Police Department.
The investigation has been complicated and is still ongoing. Sheriff's detectives are asking the public to report any information that may help their investigation into Keesee.


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I just came across this method for embedding Flash in a way that supports web standards (via RedSplash). It looks like it may be a good alternative to the Flash Satay method. It validates as HTML 4.0 Strict, but not as XHTML.
Embedding Flash with Web Standards
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The method should validate as XHTML if you self close the param tags.


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|Grand jury clears HCSO deputy in November shooting death
|Faith Huffman | News-Telegram News Editor
Feb. 2, 2007 - All officers involved in the incident which lead to the shooting death of Terri Hill Minty in November were cleared by a Hopkins County grand jury of any wrongdoing, including Hopkins County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Fenimore, who fired the fatal shot.
The Hopkins County grand jury during its recent session, decided no further action was needed following Texas Ranger Phillip Kemp's presentation of his extensive investigation, according to District Attorney Martin Braddy.
"It's hard to say we're happy, taking into consideration the family," Hopkins County Sheriff Butch Adams said Friday morning. "As far as the investigation, we feel glad the way that turned out. We treat every weapon as loaded. His actions, in our opinion, were to protect not only the police but also to protect any citizens that might be there as well, including the homeowner. Deputy Paul Fenimore is a good officer."
Fenimore and three other officers had responded to a report of a burglary on County Road 2307 on Nov. 28. Minty walked out of the house holding a shotgun, and was shot once after pointing the weapon at the officers at least two times, Chief Sheriff's Investigator Andy Chester said following the shooting. Chester was at the scene with Lt. Dan Mitchell and deputies Dennis Findley and Fenimore when the incident occurred.
Braddy said the Ranger, rather than the DA's office, prepared the findings as to what occurred on Nov. 28. Kemp was the lead investigator).
The information presented included evidence that Minty had left a telephone message for the homeowner indicating she planned to force officers to shoot her. The sheriff's officers responded to the call at the location and reacted according to her actions at the scene, which included pointing the weapon at officers in what was described as a threatening manner.
"We always present the information to the grand jury," Braddy said. "They gave it appropriate consideration. They asked questions, and I asked questions, and Philip answered them as best he could. It was clear that there was no wrongdoing. We didn't believe there was a crime involved."
Adams said Fenimore, whose name was not released until a week after the shooting, was taken off patrol for a number of days after the incident.
"The Ranger waited to release his name until after he saw a counselor," Adams said. "The [Texas Department of Public Safety] counselors saw him and checked him. He then returned to patrol."
Braddy said his one hope following the incident is that anyone who might possibly be considering suicide or prompting a situation which would require an officer to use deadly force will think of all of the people it affect. In addition to the person forcing the action, such instances impact the person's family, the officers involved, and anyone who witnesses what occurs or the immediate results, as well as the community.
"If someone wants to have the police kill them, I hope they'll remember that officers are just real people with lives and families, too," Braddy said. "They get in their line of work not to kill people, but to protect other folks, their families, each other and people's property, and uphold the law. Most officers go their entire career and never have to kill anyone. I've seen police officers, good officers, who have had to kill. It ended their career. They couldn't do it anymore. They couldn't live with it."
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In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped detection for half a century. Because the dark secret of Hobb's End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman even though the town that bred then has died—and long after its former residents have been scattered to far places . . . or themselves to the grave.
From an acknowledged master writing at the peak of his storytelling powers comes a powerful, insightful, evocative, and searingly suspenseful novel of past crimes and present evil.


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Culpeper Farmers' Cooperative Inc.dba CFC Farm & Home Center - Close Out Letter 2/12/13
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314 Scans_Daily Bringing the crack since December 2003 Scans Daily 2010-12-16T02:08:17Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:2627548 schmevil 30 Days of Winter: Non-Fiction Comics *MAIN POST* 2010-12-16T02:03:29Z 2010-12-16T02:08:17Z public 31 Posted by: schmevil

[Late post is late! I wish I had a more interesting excuse, but I've been writing a paper.]

Non-fiction comics, there are more than you think. In most discussions of Important, Serious and Non-Fiction Comics, the first work trotted out is Maus. Then maybe a few biographies, some graphic journalism, perhaps Scott McCloud. Maus is wonderful of course, and deserves all the praise and attention it gets, but there's more to non-fiction comics (hey look, there's a Wikipedia entry for you to explore at your leisure). I read a lot of non-fiction comics, everything from bios, to memoirs, to literary criticism, to political stuff--because hello, two great tastes that go great together.

Today I'm going to share a few pages, and link to some reviews and interviews with some of the better known creators doing graphic non-fiction.

Art Spiegelman

Maus

It won the Pulitzer. It's taught in innumerable courses, in innumerable schools. More than likely, you have already read it--I don't know what else to say about this most famous work of graphic non-fiction. Here's an interview with Spiegelman from Irish radio program Invisible Threads.

Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation, After 9/11  & Che: A Graphic Biography

I love Ernie Colon's art and I unabashedly love Sid Jacobson's narrative skills. In 9/11 Report he adapted a bone dry government document to something readable. With After 9/11 they move into graphic journalism proper, looking at changing US policy and journalistic trends post 9/11. Here's a 2006 NPR interview with the creators.
( 2 pages from The 9/11 Report (triggering) and more non-fiction comics )

Ok, so that's my non-fiction comics plug. What are your favourite non-fiction comics? (Seriously, any recs?)

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Scans from Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The summary from the back cover: "Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the 'Fun Home.' It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve."

In Chapter 4, "In the Shadow if Young Girls in Flower," Alison discovers some incriminating photos.

( is THAT what you want to look like? )

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