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KSU Symphony Orchestra
Get PDFNathaniel F. Parker, Music Director and Conductor
featuring
Gabriel Harmon, Cello
Jacob Harrison, Guest Conductorhttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2859/thumbnail.jp
Catastrophic Michigan Tornadoes, 1950-1984
Get PDFDuring the 35-year period from 1950 through 1984, 520 tornadoes were reported and confirmed in Michigan. Slightly less than one quarter of them killed a total of 234 people, injured 3,102, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage.\u27 A violent tornado in Genesee County on June 8,1953, widely referred to since then as The Flint Tornado, was responsible for 116 deaths, the greatest number of deaths by a single tornado in the entire United States that year. The worst in Michigan\u27s history, the Flint Tornado death toll ranks fourth largest in the nation, by single tornadoes, for the 69 years from 1916 through 1984.2 It was exceeded only by the record-length Tri-State Tornado which devastated Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in 1925 (689 deaths), the Tupelo (Mississippi) Tornado in 1936 (216 deaths), and the Woodward (Oklahoma) Tornado in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 1947 (169 deaths). Because of the Flint Tornado and an outbreak of killer tornadoes in April 1965, Michigan ranks third in the country, after Texas and Mississippi, for total number of tornadocaused deaths from 1953 through 1984. Nevertheless, it is the authors\u27 contention that risk of injury or death by tornado in the state is not as high as the preceding might imply. Michigan\u27s tornado history shows that even the densely populated southern third of the Lower Peninsula is at the margin of the United States Tornado Alley, the major tornado region extending northeastward from Texa
Astronomical Geography: An Examination of the Early American Literature
Get PDFJudging from textbooks in geography, there must be educational value in starting with the general and proceeding to the specific, an application of the deductive approach. It is not uncommon today for introductory physical geography and earth science textbooks to precede the examination of the planet\u27s interior, land-water surface, and atmosphere with a brief survey of the fundamentals of astronomy. Not only is this true today, it has been true from the beginnings of American geography, as this study documents. Specifically, this paper examines the information on astronomy in geography school books published before 1850 for the purposes of determining the kinds of information presented and the degree to which teleology played a role in the presentation of that information
Maintaining an open mind: sustaining open-source digital collections
No full textAfter a slow and laborious migration process, the University of Louisville successfully migrated from proprietary digital collections software to an open-source Samvera Hyku solution. After our migration our over-enthusiastic customizations started to catch up with us and our users. Without sufficient funding and development support, even as an R1 institution, we are stuck unable to support our bespoke approach. Despite this we are persisting with Hyku, largely because of the supportive Samvera Community and its efforts to increase the sustainability of the system as a whole. From the perspectives of three mid-career librarians (serving as project manager, designer, and developer) and the early-career Metadata Librarian, we will discuss the importance of a) assessing resources before diving into an open-source project and b) cooperating with community partners in open-source software development and maintenance
A Mirror of Us
Get PDFThis is a project of empowerment. A Mirror of Us embraces patriarchal liberation, while celebrating divine femininity. Inspired by “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this multimodal project aims to shatter conformist ideologies that are all too common.
This poem was created as part of a multimodal project for an American Literature class using the following prompt:
You are responding to literature using creative techniques in two phases. In the first phase, you will compose a 2-4 page piece of creative writing that includes a theme we’ve studied in the class that has significance to you. That creative writing is “in conversation” with a literary text from any assigned reading in the course that has the theme you selected. The text you write is in a creative genre different than the genre of the literary text you selected. The second phase of the assignment is to transform your creative writing into a multi-modal text. The goal for this dialogic project is to draw on a practice of American writers responding to earlier generations’ work. Then, drawing on contemporary work with visual and auditory elements, we extend our thinking with a multimodal text to deepen our study of key themes in American Literature
Diffusion of the Decision to Drain Agricultural Land in Delaware County, Indiana
Get PDFThe amount and quality of land are vital production factors in agriculture. In some Indiana counties, the agricultural land resource base is limited by the presence of excess water. The decision to drain potential agricultural land in Delaware County, Indiana, and the subsequent diffusion of that innovation has increased the amount and quality of land available for agriculture. Draining agricultural land is a practice which began in the eastern United States and diffused rapidly across the country during the 1800\u27s. The practice was introduced into northern Indiana, which has a great deal of flat, marshy terrain as early as 1850. In Delaware County, it appears that the leading farmers had begun tile draining by 1870. The innovation has spread widely in Delaware County since its introduction. This study is an attempt to explain the rate of acceptance of this important practice in Delaware County
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Get PDFGamma Theta Upsilon prospers. This is written after the recent board meeting held at the Association of American Geographers\u27 convention in Salt Lake City. We had eleven in attendance at the board meeting . including two student representatives. It was a productive session. Among other things, plans are getting underway for the celebration of our 50th anniversary. It is a milestone year. It is always good to see students at our meetings, one of which is held in the spring at the time of the A.A.G. Annual meeting. The other is held in the fall at the time of the N.C.G.E. meeting. The latter will meet in St. Louis in November; the former in New Orleans in April, 1978. Why not plan to join us there for two N.C.G.E. celebrations? The A.A.G. meeting this past April was large, diverse, and worthwhile. Just understanding the diversity of geographers\u27 interests is a full time task. We all share that basic question of where? , but we certainly ask it in a variety of ways. That diversity is our real strength. Not long ago there were those who feared that the quantifiers would take over the discipline. They, of course, did not, but they did add a valuable dimension to our efforts of understanding. There have been other threatened take-overs. They all add and we all benefit. There are those who fear the over emphasis of planning and other applied aspects of the field. A view of the program and abstracts shows that diversity overwhelms any small sub·field
The Timing of the Baroclinicity Maximum Along the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States
Get PDFCertain mid-latitude coastal areas are zones of extreme baroclinicity during the coldest months of the year. Because midlatitude cyclones often tend to travel along these zones of coastal baroclinicity, the exact timing of the variations in the degree of baroclinicity along these coasts is important with regard to the forecasting of cyclonic storm tracks and their associated weather. This study examines the variations in the timing and magnitude of the baroclinicity along the east coast and the Gulf of Mexico of the United States. Near coastal land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures along both coasts are compared for the months of October through April. Along each coast baroclinicity is found to increase steadily throughout the fall into early winter, with January having the greatest baroclinicity. The January maximum is followed by a steady decrease throughout the remaining months of the study period
Changing Rural Settlement Patterns in New Pudong Development Area, Shanghai, People\u27s Republic of China
Get PDFThe delta region on the south bank of the Yangtze River displays a diversity of urban/rural settlement patterns. The area, referred to as the New Pudong Development Area, includes belt or linear settlement patterns parallel to artificial dikes and rivers, as well as clustered settlements which occur further inland. The more diverse settlements are most often associated with administrative centers within the town. To the west, extended urbanization related to the expansion of Shanghai is impacting the rural landscape. Urban land uses are replacing rural land uses. Settlement types are identified and a classification is proposed. These types are Belt, Point, Clustered and Transitional settlement patterns. It is anticipated that the agricultural/residential land ratio which now is 1 :0.56 will increase to 1: 0.70 by the end of the current decade
An Economic Location Model for Texas Wineries
Get PDFSunbelt migration and increased per capita wine consumption have stimulated the opening of 27 new wineries in Texas since 1976. Choosing the location of a winery is one of the vintner\u27s most important decisions. A survey of vintners provided a ranking of locational criteria that was used to develop an economic locational model of winery location. A preliminary model was tested and discarded in favor of a more narrowly defined model. Critical marketing locational criteria included proximity to tourist areas, access to grapes, distance from urban areas, access to an interstate highway, and severity of county alcohol laws