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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT In the world of bailouts, stimulus packages, CEO's million dollar bonuses, comes more news to ponder and think about. More than thirty four percent of all Americans over the age of twenty-one are classified as being obese. These are not my thoughts or observations; they are statistics that can be viewed and found by anyone that wants to see! They are just facts! Waste Not, Want Not just brings to light some things that most people already know. Public knowledge and putting it together can be interesting and frightening at times, but can be also very informative. Knowledge is power??? To everyone that has read my first book, Pushing the Envelope, welcome back to part two. For all you first time readers I hope that you enjoy the read. The main goal is to inform and educate the readers. Who knows, maybe the right person will pick up this book, read it and decide to make a change.CHANGE!! Why does this sound so familiar??? ... Read more

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More than a century later, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is still the largest natural disaster in American history. Pounding most of the historic island city to rubble, and claiming perhaps as many as eight thousand lives, the storm stranded Galveston's stunned survivors without a bridge to the mainland. When the bridge was rebuilt, amazingly in eleven days, only the most stalwart--like fictive young diarist J. T. King--would choose to stay.
Before the storm, J. T. is a normal, active teenager, swimming, riding his bike, and getting into scrapes with his best friend, Ippy. Though J. T. sleeps on a rickety cot in the pantry of his grandmother's boardinghouse, life at the corner of Q1/2 and 25th Streets is as secure as the sturdy old house itself. But when the hurricane hits, brave and compassionate J. T. is poised to weather and record for all time the greatest storm any American has ever survived.
Extensive primary-source research forms the backbone of J. T.'s thrilling authentic and richly detailed diary. The historical appendix, complete with photos and map, is invaluable to young readers and teachers alike. ... Read more

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I LOVED this book!5 stars!!!
I LOVE this book!The story was well written and it had suspense and thrill; I felt like I was there alongside J.T., fighting out the Great Storm that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900.I couldn't stop reading!This fantasic story kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire book.Written in first person, the descriptions are wonderful, and the deatails are simply breathtaking.The author did a terrific job of describing the events that actually happened on that terrible day in 1900.The diary by J.T. is told with feeling and emotion, and J.T. is a wonderful character to include in the story.This book is one of my favorites, and I can't wait to read more books by Lisa Waller Rogers.I recommend this book to EVERYONE!!! ... Read more

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CIA spooks and spirits of the dead unite with a violent tropical storm to complicate the latest murder case of Quin St. James and Mike McCleary. 15,000 first printing. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Intensive field samplings followed by laboratory measurements were performed to characterize the particles collected at urban and rural sites in southern Taiwan during the Asian dust storm (ADS) periods in 2000 and 2001. These particles were size-resolvedly (cut sizes of eight-and ten-stages) sampled by two side-by-side micro-orifice uniform-deposited impactors (MOUDI). Results show that the concentrations of PM"2"."5, PM"2"."5"-"1"0 and PM"1"0 increased during the ADS periods and these PM"1"0 concentrations, >150@mgm^-^3, were roughly 2 to 3 times higher than the average PM"1"0 concentrations measured in non-ADS periods. The concentrations of particle-bearing water-soluble ions including four crust-related species (Ca^2^+, Mg^2^+, Na^+, and K^+), three secondary aerosol-associated species (SO"4^2^-, NO"3^-, and NH"4^+), and one sea-connected species (Cl^-) increased and their size distributions changed during the ADS periods in comparison with those during non-ADS periods, implying that they were partially from foreign sources. This supports the increasing health concerns for ADS. The SO"4^2^- had a major mode in fine size range (0.56-1.0@mm) while the Ca^2^+ obtained a major mode in coarse size (3.2-5.6@mm) at both sites. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4025 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) are utilized for the development of soil conservation strategies based on forecasts of annual soil erosion due to water. However, large severe storms are responsible for promoting a significant proportion of soil erosion. Therefore, other conservation methods that will deal with the soil-eroding effects of large storms should be developed based on RUSLE and a long-term low return frequency storm data.

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Title: The role of severe storms in soil erosion: a problem needing consideration.
Author: W.E. Larson
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v52Issue: n2Page: p90(6)

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This digital document is a journal article from Global and Planetary Change, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study has used a numerical model (RAMS) at 1 km horizontal grid intervals over the Sydney Basin to assess the impact of land cover change on storms. Multiple storms using the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis data were simulated with pre-European settlement land cover then re-simulated with land cover representing Sydney's current land use pattern. While all simulated storms did not respond to the change in land cover consistently, storms of similar types responded in comparable ways. All simulated synoptically forced storms (e.g. those triggered by cold fronts) were unresponsive to a changed land surface, while local convective storms were highly sensitive to the triggering mechanism associated with land surface influences. Storms travelling over the smoother agricultural land in the south-west of the Sydney Basin experienced an increase in velocity, and in a special case, the dense urban surface of Sydney's city core appears to trigger an intense convective storm. It is shown that the dynamical setting predominantly triggers storm outbreaks. This is seen most clearly in the isolated convective storm category where the sea breeze front often dictates the location of storm cell initiation. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Chemosphere, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A two stage anaerobic/aerobic bacterial process was used to decolorize and partially mineralize a reactive vinyl sulfone diazo dye C.I. Reactive Black 5 (RB5) in a synthetic wastewater. Since the anchor group of reactive dyes reacts during the dyeing process, the effect the degree of hydrolysis of the vinyl sulfone dye had on decolorization, mineralization and toxicity in each stage was investigated. An overall color removal of ~65% was found for both the fully and partially hydrolyzed dye. Partial mineralization of the fully hydrolyzed RB5 was achieved in the two stage rotating disc reactors. While the anchor group metabolite p-aminobenzene-2-hydroxyethylsulfonic acid (p-ABHES) was mineralized, an oxidized form of the center metabolite (1,2-ketimino-7-amino-8-hydroxynaphthalene-3,6-disulfonic acid) remained in the aerobic stage effluent, causing the effluent to be colored although no RB5 was present. Partially hydrolyzed dye in the influent with vinyl forms of the anchor group caused cessation of biogas production and a reduction in decolorization efficiency in the anaerobic stage. No evidence for mineralization of the partially hydrolyzed dye or its metabolites was found. A method for evaluating dye mineralization using lumped parameters is presented. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Long-lived animals are expected to reduce reproductive effort when breeding conditions are unfavorable, therefore seabirds may be especially sensitive to investigator disturbance. In a non-threatened procellariiform, Leach's storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa, we examined whether the frequency and the time of day of investigator disturbance influenced hatching success, and if disturbance affected hatching success and nest-site fidelity in the subsequent breeding season. Birds used in this study had received little or no investigator disturbance during the prior decade. Hatching success was significantly influenced by the frequency, but not the time of day, of disturbance. Weekly and daily handling of parents reduced hatching success by 50 and 56% compared to the control group. Most failures (91%) were caused by egg desertion, and all the deserted eggs belonged to pairs in the weekly and daily groups. During the subsequent breeding season, the hatching success of disturbed pairs that continued to breed together returned to normal levels. However, 37% more disturbed pairs than control pairs deserted the nesting burrows they had used in the previous year. Since most changes in nest site also result in mate change, investigator disturbance may have had long-term negative effects on reproductive success as well. Our results demonstrate that both weekly and daily investigator disturbance during incubation greatly reduced the hatching success and subsequent nest-site fidelity of nai@?ve Leach's storm-petrels. ... Read more

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Torrents Storm is one of the best in a long line of agents working for a mysterious and secretive classified government agency known as B.O.O. The Black Operations Organization has the authority and manpower to eliminate any crime or criminal in the world quickly, silently, and without a civilian soul knowing who or how, giving the world a sense that it is truly sane, safe, and only moderately out of control. This series contains the troubled accounts of Agent Storm as he fights to discover his hidden past and save his brighter future. In Deadly Storm, Torrents goes up against the corrupt and evil Axel Industry as its leader and C.E.O., Lord Alexander, plots to seize control of the new secret weapon of mass destruction—the ton grenade launcher—a massive, death-dealing machine capable of dropping innumerous undetectable explosives anywhere, at anytime. As the truth is revealed along the way, the veteran spy begins to reconsider life, only to come to an ultimate conclusion in the end, one that will haunt him in times to come. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper presents an approach that integrates a legacy component into a software system for storm sewer simulation. The legacy component employed here is the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). The Extended Transport (EXTRAN) block of the SWMM that applies the finite difference method (FDM) with explicit numerical schemes, solving the de Saint-Venant equations, is used to route the storm sewer flow. A storm sewer simulation system, named S4, that integrates SWMM-EXTRAN and implements a visualization model, has been developed to demonstrate the proposed approach. The approach makes use of the multi-thread technology to alternate the execution between SWMM-EXTRAN for flow simulation on one thread and the program controller that updates simulation state variables and displays the computed temporal water-stages at the junctions on the other thread at every time step of the FDM process. Two test examples are used to verify and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The results show that the multi-thread technology is applied successfully for integrating legacy components, such as SWMM-EXTRAN, into a software system (in this case, S4). In addition, the proposed approach is generally applicable for integrating legacy models or components developed using FDM with explicit numerical schemes. ... Read more

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An anthology of psychological horror. Twenty short stories by new and established authors from around the world. ... Read more

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London: The Bodley Head. Hardcover 1983. 284pp. ISBN 037030568X Red boards lettered in gilt on the spine. - The intention of this anthology is partly historical, but partly too to introduce an English-speaking audience to some Continental writers of detective stories who have been unfairly neglected in this country since the Second World War. ... Read more

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In the distant future, our hubris brings about the Reaping, a cataclysm tearing the world asunder. This next installment of Resonics follows the sisters, Matilda and Angel. Two Untuned Resonators on the run, hidden by the Aural Underground from the Paladins. Can they stay ahead of the coming storm? ... Read more

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I read this book a few years back, and it was an amazing read.This book truly tells just what it's like to survive a major tornado.Anyone interested in first-hand stories of tornado survival should pick this one up.Just about everybody in this small town wrote their own piece to contribute to this journal.Pick it up while you still can find it! ... Read more